Hi! I love the game I would like to make maps for it. An have some experience making maps for other games but not any game that uses the Unreal engine. Are there any good KF 2 mapping tutorials?
Level Design Any good mapping tutorials out there?
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My best suggestions is to go to the wiki, dive into the SDK files they have and the official map files as well and just start messing around and learning their system!
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Thanks that was very useful. Just completed my first successful test map! Granted that it was just a few corridors and nothing else, but hey!
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Look at the "New SDK Tutorial Series" thread, it has links to a forum member's SDK tutorial series. It is really well done & can fill you in on some more advanced topics before they become a pain.
Or forum search ""KF-Nuked" - it also has a link to the user's YouTube video(s).
Or forum search ""KF-Nuked" - it also has a link to the user's YouTube video(s).
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I'm new to mapping myself (started about a month ago with zero prior experience). I went through Kuebic's excellent 9-part tutorial to get started, and from there on I just began building my own map slowly.
The best advice I can give you, is whenever you've created something in your map (a room, corridor, floor, ceiling or whatever), open up one of the official Tripwire maps and then find a room that is similar to what you've just done, and then study in detail how they decorated it.
My first room just had linear walls with uniform textures. It worked, but it looked awfully boring, flat and completely lacked dynamics. So I thought how did Tripwire do this? Then openend Biotics lab and was overwhelmed with how much detail their walls had, realizing that they did not just slap textures on a flat surface and then forget about it. They gave it shape and form by using rotated pillars, inverted gratings, pipes and all sorts off other creative things.
Basically by studying the official maps you will very quickly learn and understand how you can use things in creative ways that they were not originally intended, to create really interesting effects that makes your map come to life. It eats up a ton of time adding all these decorative elements to your map, but in the end it really is worth it.
Oh and also study how they use blocking volumes, because many custom maps I've played you get stuck everywhere you go because people don't create proper blocking. Nearly everything that has edges should be wrapped in a blocking volume that prevents players from getting stuck. It can be crazy boring work to do but it pays off in the end
The best advice I can give you, is whenever you've created something in your map (a room, corridor, floor, ceiling or whatever), open up one of the official Tripwire maps and then find a room that is similar to what you've just done, and then study in detail how they decorated it.
My first room just had linear walls with uniform textures. It worked, but it looked awfully boring, flat and completely lacked dynamics. So I thought how did Tripwire do this? Then openend Biotics lab and was overwhelmed with how much detail their walls had, realizing that they did not just slap textures on a flat surface and then forget about it. They gave it shape and form by using rotated pillars, inverted gratings, pipes and all sorts off other creative things.
Basically by studying the official maps you will very quickly learn and understand how you can use things in creative ways that they were not originally intended, to create really interesting effects that makes your map come to life. It eats up a ton of time adding all these decorative elements to your map, but in the end it really is worth it.
Oh and also study how they use blocking volumes, because many custom maps I've played you get stuck everywhere you go because people don't create proper blocking. Nearly everything that has edges should be wrapped in a blocking volume that prevents players from getting stuck. It can be crazy boring work to do but it pays off in the end
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What I want to know is how you can play your map online with others like I have seen some other people do.
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once you build the map you then click the publish button, this will copy your may into the published folder in your documents/mygames/kf2 etc..
You then move this to your online server and add the map to you game.ini
NB once published it will also show in your maplist for single player so you can test it ingame
You then move this to your online server and add the map to you game.ini
NB once published it will also show in your maplist for single player so you can test it ingame
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