[pwnie.saint]

Well, that's good to hear. Here are some questions that appeared on Urban Terror France, maybe you'll be allowed to respond (no problem if you cannot) :

- Which engine is it ?
- What are the benefits of this new engine ?
- What timeframe estimated ?
- Which direction FS shall take ? A more competitive game ? A mainstream game ? What are the objectives set to reach this direction ?

[=jF=docDude]

Just don't use UE3 (or 4.. or anything Unreal-related xd) 8)

[FS HappyDay]

rayne2, on 09 March 2014 - 01:09 PM, said:

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.

Here's a screenshot from inside blender:
and the final render:
The texture is not perfect, and it certainly doesn't fit uptown. I don't think I'll be using this particular one but since I have now set up the scene in blender it's fairly simple and quick for me to render all kinds of high resolution textures. I very much like this workflow. Sculpting is a lot of fun and it seems to be state of the art for current level artists to use very high poly models to render textures for their low poly models.
I've also done a quick test today to see how many polys I can work with on my pc. 50 million tris runs without problems, at 200 million the viewport gets laggy but drawing the brush strokes is still smooth. I don't think I will ever go that high but it's nice to know I could :P. At that many poly's the file sizes get huge. That brick wall file is 100 MB, the test scene with 200 million tris took a few minutes to save and is 1.5 GB. Sculpting seems to be very heavy on RAM and has almost no effect on GPU or CPU load. I guess if I ever want to go even higher I'll just double my RAM to 32 GB. Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting :). I guess I could start my own thread and post stuff like this from time to time if people are interested.

[Drizzt]

A few months ago, BladeKiller said this about moving to a new engine. Not know if from one of these two engines is you chosen to continue with the UrT HD, but maybe. ...

BladeKiller, on 04 July 2013 - 09:23 PM, said:

Rayne, the first answer in the UrT HD section explains that after over 2 years of promises from Steve Nix at id Software we did not get the things he promised like Linux and Mac support. The original contract was supposed to be a one time fee with no royalties but Zenimax added royalties and fees that we could not afford plus time restrictions and limits. We have lost all the work done on FStech1 and are now working on a new engine. We might use Ogre3d or Urho3d. We don't know for sure which yet but they are pretty similar for the artists to work with; both use mesh based geometry.

http://www.urbanterr...post__p__345230

Ogre3D game list: http://www.ogre3d.or...sing+OGRE#Games

I have not found any game list about Urho3d

This post has been edited by Drizzt: 10 March 2014 - 02:18 PM

[rayne2]

Looks great IMO.

Have you tried using sculptris for sculpting walls? It's free and might work better with higher poly counts than blender, being software created with sculpting in mind.

[FS HappyDay]

No I haven't. Blender has all the features that are advertised on the official skulptris website and more. I don't see any reason to use sculptris. Zbrush on the other hand has some very nice features I would like to see in blender but it's definitely not worth the $800 for me.

[Muffie]

You guys should contact |NV|S (Joe Mauke) he created ut_crenshaw and other assets previously for urbanterror, but he left due to the limitation of the engine. I think he would be a nice addition to the team if he's got the free time!

http://www.josephmau...olio/index.html

This post has been edited by Muffie: 11 March 2014 - 01:02 AM

[lyurh]

Happyday, on 10 March 2014 - 01:30 PM, said:

Here's a screenshot from inside blender:
and the final render:
The texture is not perfect, and it certainly doesn't fit uptown. I don't think I'll be using this particular one but since I have now set up the scene in blender it's fairly simple and quick for me to render all kinds of high resolution textures. I very much like this workflow. Sculpting is a lot of fun and it seems to be state of the art for current level artists to use very high poly models to render textures for their low poly models.
I've also done a quick test today to see how many polys I can work with on my pc. 50 million tris runs without problems, at 200 million the viewport gets laggy but drawing the brush strokes is still smooth. I don't think I will ever go that high but it's nice to know I could :P. At that many poly's the file sizes get huge. That brick wall file is 100 MB, the test scene with 200 million tris took a few minutes to save and is 1.5 GB. Sculpting seems to be very heavy on RAM and has almost no effect on GPU or CPU load. I guess if I ever want to go even higher I'll just double my RAM to 32 GB. Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting :). I guess I could start my own thread and post stuff like this from time to time if people are interested.

Very Good.

I'm so excited for HD :p :p:p More, more, more ^^ Thanks You ^^

[itx]

so you guys are working on exporting the work you had done in the old engine to the new engine, while others are dedicated to creating new things?

or simply you're still experimenting with the possibilities of the new engine?


I guess either way it will take many months to see something like a beta, so we must be patients and leave you work in peace.

This post has been edited by itx: 11 March 2014 - 12:10 PM

[Fragtag]

The game wont even be released until 2017 or so, so keep waiting guys its not coming any time soon....