[FS HappyDay]

rayne2, on 08 March 2014 - 09:48 PM, said:

And again you're doing it wrong.

Instead of sharing a drop of info, teasing the players and making them want more, you hide the development and work in secrecy.

Like Frankie said, it's not like we're trying to hide something, We're just careful not to violate the non-disclosure agreement we signed. At some point there will be official announcements that answer your quesions. I don't think there's much I'm allowed to tell about the HD development but I can tell you what I've been up to the few months since I joined FS if that interests you:
First I've finished my map ut4_prominence that will be added to 4.2. That took me longer than I excpected. Aftwerwards I spend a lot of time learning the new tools needed to create urt HD maps and basically getting better at modeling and sculpting. For about 1-2 weeks now I've started creating high quality assets for the uptown version of HD. Yesterday I've sculpted a 12 million tris wall in blender to render a brick wall texture including diffuse, height and bump maps.

Is that the kind of thing you'd like to hear?

[rayne2]

Exactly Frankie, there's absolutely no bottom line to hide.


And yes Happy that is exactly what i wanted to hear. What I'd personally love to see is the finished sculpt of that wall.

Some update, no matter how small or irrelevant it may seem to you, is a nice thing to see.

[KarlMariaSeeberg]

Happyday, on 09 March 2014 - 09:52 AM, said:

For about 1-2 weeks now I've started creating high quality assets for the uptown version of HD.

this basically saved the day ..

[p5yc0runn3r]

I can tell you that I'm still drooling on stuff I've seen

[pwnie.saint]

Happyday, on 09 March 2014 - 09:52 AM, said:

Like Frankie said, it's not like we're trying to hide something, We're just careful not to violate the non-disclosure agreement we signed. At some point there will be official announcements that answer your quesions. I don't think there's much I'm allowed to tell about the HD development but I can tell you what I've been up to the few months since I joined FS if that interests you:
First I've finished my map ut4_prominence that will be added to 4.2. That took me longer than I excpected. Aftwerwards I spend a lot of time learning the new tools needed to create urt HD maps and basically getting better at modeling and sculpting. For about 1-2 weeks now I've started creating high quality assets for the uptown version of HD. Yesterday I've sculpted a 12 million tris wall in blender to render a brick wall texture including diffuse, height and bump maps.

Is that the kind of thing you'd like to hear?

Yup. That could be kinda weird for you but this is exactly (well, on my personal opinion) what I want to read. I wanna see you guys communicating on what's going on regarding to your different projects. It seems a bit useless for you guys, and I can understand it, but it's really what people need. I don't really care if you are having difficulties on the new tools you use for Urban Terror HD, but at least, I know you're working on it, and it's comforting.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like I wanna force you guys. But if everyone of you was communicating, at least once per week, it would entertain each player reading these forums. Barbatos did it quite well with his Twitter account. He doesn't have to respond to every tweet he receives, but at least, he gave informations on what he was working on.

[FS Barbatos]

It took us a lot of time to find an engine that suits everyone's needs in the team but we found one and we are - since a few months - in a process of discovering our new tools. It takes a lot of time to learn but we can do so great things with this engine that - for the first time in years - we all enjoy (a lot) working on HD.

We are not ready to start showing off our work yet but the time will come and be sure that you won't regret the long wait.

[sneakers]

I'm concerned about how the physics and the 'feel' of the game will change when moving to a new engine. I'm used to the Quake 3 style physics and the feel of moving around, jumping, bunny hopping, etc. Will all of this change once a new engine is used?

[FS Barbatos]

Physics have been our biggest concern when doing the choice of the engine and we're pretty sure to be able to get Urban Terror physics back on this engine - and even more.

[FS Frankie V]

The physics of how it “feels” is more of a design choice than a factor that's inherent by engine choice. There are cornerstone requirements as to feel but the nature of change = different and once and for all we can now focus more on the fun over realism by choices that were not available under idtech3.

As for whats going on there is a lot of busy work as far as taking inventory, building better quality assets all round, and 100% of the content team is on to HD.

[Fredrik]

What is important is that a good player now should still be in HD. If Markinho suddenly suck at jumping or i beat hemp in 1v1 than something is wrong.