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FTWGL Competition Map Making Contest

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in Maps & mapping - posted Friday, 02 September 2011 by Frozen Sand


This is a great opportunity to have some fun, contribute to Urban Terror, the competition scene, and to the community both as a whole and individually.

Send x8` a PM on the FTWGL forums to sign up!

Signups end on Sept 4th!

Visit FTWGL for more information

Feel free to comment in our forum.

Painting with Lights

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in Maps & mapping - posted Wednesday, 10 August 2011 by Frozen Sand

Attention all Mapmakers.

We have been getting a fair amount of inquiries from the mapping community as to some of the new technology we are putting into the engine as it relates to making maps that we would consider to be of Urban Terror HD quality.

To get as much information out there in one go Frankie V has done a behind the scenes video lecture as to the most current research with the focus on getting the best performance possible out of the addition of both the specular as well as the bump and normal maps.

Please note that this is an ongoing process and the lecture should not be taken as the way maps need to be done, but rather raw information of how some of the current techniques used for lighting a map can degrade the performance of the S&N texture maps from doing the job that they were designed to do.

However the current results, excuse the pun, have been spectacular and as far as theory goes the information is sound and we feel comfortable that the information is worthy to let the map making community figure out the plus and minus that always comes with change.

Note: Two Towers is being developed totally free from sun, map lighting, surface lighting or any type of procedural or parametric assist and done using only textures, light entities and Spec/normal maps.


Please feel free to comment here

C.M.M.'s first Mapping Contest

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in Maps & mapping - posted Thursday, 30 June 2011 by Frozen Sand

Custom Map Makers (C.M.M.) has started a custom mapping contest !

Theme: Police Station


Visit the C.M.M. website where you will find all the information you need to enter the mapping competition.

You are also welcome to comment here

Preview - Suburbs Updated

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in Maps & mapping - posted Thursday, 01 July 2010 by Frozen Sand

The upcoming update to Suburbs provides quite a few improvements to the gameplay and overall look of the level, with Team Survivor and Bomb mode seeing substantial changes to overall playability.



New compiler modifications by Twentyseven provide radiosity bumpmapping and specular lighting goodness which stays crunchy, even in milk!

more screenshots:


Please feel free to comment here

Cambridge is Reborn!

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in Maps & mapping - posted Wednesday, 28 October 2009 by BladeKiller

Cambridge has been, for the veterans of Urban Terror, a very memorable map. Not too long ago Delirium got in contact with the original author (raunchy) to seek permission to re-do the map, which came out as a success. Here are some preview shots to show off, there is more work to do yet but please feel free to comment on this thread in the forum. Delirium would love any feedback you give him.

Speed Mapping Contest

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in Maps & mapping - posted Tuesday, 23 June 2009 by Frozen Sand

There is another Speed Mapping Contest underway. The maps are in and the voting has started. Check http://forums.urbanterror.net/index.php/topic,16411.0.html to see screenshots of the works in progress and go to http://forums.urbanterror.net/index.php/topic,16515.0.html  to download the maps.  Once you are ready to vote for your favourite visit http://forums.urbanterror.net/index.php/topic,16557.0.html  and cast your ballot. Good luck to all of the entries.

Vote on the Speed Map Competition!

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in Maps & mapping - posted Tuesday, 11 November 2008 by Frozen Sand

Urban Terror has just finished their first annual 9-day speed-map-a-thon. Level designers had to create a map from scratch in a very short time frame. This years theme was "super villain lairs" and a giant death ray model that none of them knew about until the competition started had to be included in their creation.



Now it's time for all of you to vote on your favourite map.

The submissions can all be found on the submissions thread. Please head on over to this forum thread and vote for your favourite map from the speed mapping competition.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered the competition!

Level Design Contest Update

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in Maps & mapping - posted Wednesday, 20 April 2005 by Frozen Sand

Wolfseye keeping busy over at Act of War as he has posted the first indepth Level Design Contest update that gives gamers a chance to see what is in the running. Of the 10 level designers who took to the task of signing up, there still six remaining in the contest. The themes that are still being developed are a monestary (EL PRESEDENTE), shopping promenade (Mad Harver), a harbor, (SquadLeader), a military facility (Luniaq), castle (MidgetKiller), and Venice (Shminky Boy). You can read up on all the individual reports at the Map Contest 2005 Update page. There are screenshots and layouts included to provide discussion and feedback to those in the contest. Best of luck to all and we'll plan on seeing some of these levels in the near future.