Beta Map KF-OldCity

[Deleted member 24443]

Ok... here we go. KF-OldCity beta 1...
Took me long enough and now I'm really feeling exhausted because I pushed myself so much to finally get it out the door and off my desk. Everything should be working though not everything is finalized. Will do that in the coming days. During my runs gameplay felt slightly slow though there shouldn't be many places to hold, especially in a six man game the narrow passages should prove frantic as enemies drop around you.

Spoiler!

Download Beta 3

Beta 2 changelog:
- myleveled all external files
- minor changes to lighting to prevent greenings
- minor changes to fogging (hopefully also clearing up a few fps drops)
- some ZED spawnings changed / added
- some textures were changed and some detail textures were added
- improved pathing

Beta 3 changelog:
- fully playable
- added another foggy layer to skybox
- fiddled around with some of the visuals
- added a heckload of cull distances for fps otimization
- added some additional spawns and tweaked the reast
- changed some of the railing so ZEDs can jump over
- added jumppads so ZEDs are more nimble this time around
- removed the small hut close to the starting point
- removed some of the blocking volumes so you can vault over certain railings (usually when there's a bench)
- a couple of other changes related to player blocking

 

[Swift-Brutal-Death]

This looks amazing. Love the architecture : ). Lighting looks stellar and overall looks very professional.

 

[Left 4 Dinner]

yeah buddy!

 

[Deleted member 24443]

Thanks guys. The map is now authorised, meaning you can download and play AAAAaand more importantly, give me feedback about what exactly I need to change in order to make the map even more kick-***.

 

[krispyk]

I'm getting a few errors. I don't know if it's isolated to my server.

Warning: Failed to load 'CubeMaps': Can't find file for package 'CubeMaps'
Warning: Failed to load 'HourPitores_UT2004': Can't find file for package 'CubeMaps'
Warning: Failed to load 'KF-OldCity': Can't find file for package 'CubeMaps'
Warning: Failed to load 'LevelSummary KF-OldCity.LevelSummary': Can't find file for package 'CubeMaps'
Warning: Error loading KF-OldCity !

 

[Deleted member 24443]

It is not. The problem is located within Hour_Pitores.utx as the package uses some cube maps from the original UT2k4 game that are not present in KF. It is basically a missing texture problem, but I can't edit neither Hourences' nor Epic's texture packages. I could (cough, cough), with a lot of work (cough, cough, cough), edit each single texture and blend and other thing out of the original Hourences package and include it into mylevel. Problem is that I'd need to redo A LOT of Static meshes. Well I'll look into the problem later.

 

[krispyk]

I see. What can we do to make this work?

 

[Deleted member 24443]

As I said, I need to isolate each texture I used from the Hourences Package and import it to mylevel. At best I also add in each layer to it as well, then redo the meshes that use these textures. The last step is the one that worries me most as many meshes could get split, giving me lighting fragment errors (can already see some at the large building lefthand of starting point for example).

 

[Murphy]

Changing materials in the StaticMesh Browser shouldn't split anything. Don't worry.

 

[FluX]

This is why I personally like to make sure it all runs fully stand alone. I hate problems like this pop up and due to KF being from UT2004, it makes it that much more annoying having to not double, but tripple check it all. Lesson well learnt I say

 

[Deleted member 24443]

I'll have it hopefully sorted out by Friday, otherwise it'll take until next week. Didn't know servers make such a problem out of a few missing textures... But well, should have known after (close to) a decade of unreal mapping experience...

 

[PiX]

Look great in every aspect. The smoke mixed with fire in shot #3 impressed me a lot.

Edit: A suggestion is to perhaps pump up the detail of certain textures. The brick floor for example.

 

[krispyk]

I'll have it hopefully sorted out by Friday, otherwise it'll take until next week. Didn't know servers make such a problem out of a few missing textures... But well, should have known after (close to) a decade of unreal mapping experience...

I'm looking forward to testing out your map Swanky. :IS2:

 

[Deleted member 24443]

Ya but it'll take until next week... :/

 

[The_Sorrow]

awesome work on the map Sir.Wanky

 

[Blockbot]

the rom goes into maps and utx goes to textures?

I tried installing this map for the 7th time now. and I can't get this one to work. I have no idea what to do....... :::::::(((((((( really wanna try this map out

 

[Deleted member 24443]

I am working on the problem. Hopefully the map will be running as stand alone when I'm done. Which should be in about 3 or 4 hours (+ upload time on moddb).

€
Beta 2 is now uploaded and awaiting clearance. See changelog in post #1.
€2
Beta 2 is now downloadable.

 

[FluX]

Erm I just checked the credits/thanks section and found this:

Flux (for being a fanboy?)

I rofl'ed so hard

 

[Deleted member 24443]

Good thing, isn't it?
Does this map work now?

 

[FluX]

Good thing, isn't it?
Does this map work now?

I'll give feedback soon when I hear some from the other players as I didn't get to test it last night.