How hard will mapping be in RO? Will it be like hammer for source sdk? or will it require much more in depth "coding" and less visual?
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Will it be hard?
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Cargoslug said:
Mostly visual stuff exept for the gameplay actors, those will need setting up properly by adding them to your map and setting booleans and variables. Sounds harder then it is though
I started with Hammer and changed to UnrealEd.
Beside the random crashes in UEd i found the WYSIWYG editor beter then Hammer.
There are some mayor differences in both and I try to give a quick summery
- Working with substraction and Addition brushes (unlinke hammer that has only addition brushes in which you can do boolean calculations like cut)
- Much more easier adding of custom textures or static meshes
- real time lighting (no need to go into lvl to see the lighting)
- Real terrain with heightmaps for easy manupilation of terrains
- Real water level with highly customable settings.
- possibility to add scripts or stuff like bones to your lvl so you can make scripted sequences (although you dont need it to make a lvl)
- not too difficult shader support (although you need some knowledge how these work)
- Real good support in tutorials through 3Dbuzz or epic website (beside the howto's from RO)
There are many advantages from UEd compared to Hammer but only 1 thing i really missed from Hammer <ctrl>E
There is an irc channel devoted to the community leveldesigners ... #RO-Leveldesign on gamesurge so if you have questions we hope to help you out there (realtime )
Beside the random crashes in UEd i found the WYSIWYG editor beter then Hammer.
There are some mayor differences in both and I try to give a quick summery
- Working with substraction and Addition brushes (unlinke hammer that has only addition brushes in which you can do boolean calculations like cut)
- Much more easier adding of custom textures or static meshes
- real time lighting (no need to go into lvl to see the lighting)
- Real terrain with heightmaps for easy manupilation of terrains
- Real water level with highly customable settings.
- possibility to add scripts or stuff like bones to your lvl so you can make scripted sequences (although you dont need it to make a lvl)
- not too difficult shader support (although you need some knowledge how these work)
- Real good support in tutorials through 3Dbuzz or epic website (beside the howto's from RO)
There are many advantages from UEd compared to Hammer but only 1 thing i really missed from Hammer <ctrl>E
There is an irc channel devoted to the community leveldesigners ... #RO-Leveldesign on gamesurge so if you have questions we hope to help you out there (realtime
)Euuh, I really want ot start making more pretty maps with all the pretty new static meshes! Sexy indoor furniture meshes for the mothaf***in win!
Won't ever release one though.
Won't ever release one though.
They should be... Dont know y notCargoslug said:
? But Sinces it mostly visual.. Like.. Click on a Sandbag and place it on the map? Sweet.... cant wait!
What would you imagine UnrealEd would be like for someone transitioning from the GTK Radiant tools (COD/COD:UO)? I know they're both different engines, but what, if any, similarities are there in the development process?
EvilHobo said:
Switching is usually a bit frustrating. The biggest differences are terrain editing and the way you handle and reshape your BSP.
I hated UED compared to Hammer. Still do. =) But I like RO more than any Hammer based games...so I guess to each his own. But anyhow, to answer your question yes it is hard...and no its not programming based so much. Almost all of mapping is graphical other than setting up some basic parts of maps unless you want to get crazy and do some interesting stuff.
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