Urban Terror Forums: What are you working on? - Urban Terror Forums

zietsh, on 05 June 2015 - 07:01 PM, said:

Aside from what Frankie said, I would suggest that the safest route at this point would be to just focus on the general layout and build of the map, and then plug in behaviours later when it's clear how they are being implemented. Even with things like doors I would wait, until there is a defined standard behaviour (it would be pretty silly if some doors open to the touch, others on button press, some others can be shot open, etc).

I'm sure there will be some kind of mapping toolkit eventually, although I think that everyone (including Epic themselves) is still trying to figure out how this will work exactly. The UE4 ecosystem is super exciting, but also still in constant flux. It changes a lot of what we used to take for granted about mods and custom maps.

Nice stuff ti6 and until HD is what it is I would say what you have so far would be a fit.

Most of the environment designs have always been 3rd party driven and up to the server operators to put the popular maps into their own server rotation so my guess it will become first come first severed (pun intended)

Yeah if you ask me the style doesn't fit Urban Terror very much, but the out-of-place environments have always been part of the charm of the game so it's great to have them (as custom maps in any case). It's looking very nice so far!

@KroniK: The layout of Dust2 is nothing like the original Dust. :) The same is true for Village -> Village2, Urban -> Urban2 -> Urban3 (AQ2), etc. I think it's a pretty common convention that successor maps follow the same theme but have a new layout. Of course sequels should only be made either by the author of the original map or with their permission.

As far as maps go, it really hasn't had any specific style (we've had everything from war zones over haunted houses to... space stations), but as far as the overall style of Urban Terror is concerned, I would say that urban parkour is where it's at. Perhaps we can make the theme stand out a bit more in HD. :) It is very flexible already, as practically any type of urban environment can make sense, real or imagined.

I would still encourage "whacky" custom maps though, it's just nice to play the game in a completely different world from time to time.

DrPink comes from a community request by Driller. DrBlue was also his request.

Frankie wrote some fun stories about Urban Terror HD based on our theme. They are his first draft but I really enjoyed them and hope he writes more of them. They are in his blog if you haven't read them.