[Muffie]

ti6, on 28 June 2015 - 05:55 PM, said:

Hi there,

pre-alpha work in progress. Would love to see another great map like orbital for urt hd. Still pretty unsure if this style would fit to urt, but time will show. I will work on it anyway. Sry for the sound, its pretty spooky.(:

http://youtu.be/VoGHFf4VBmk

Edit:

Well you dont see much of the map itself yet cauz i just focused on graphic and materials. If anybody is interested or want to give some advice... you are welcome. <3

This looks fantastic, some of the textures look too shiny imo, but i'd have to play it to get a full idea.

[<PWC>ti6]

Thank you guys for your response. I apologise for being late. It feels great to have a small discussion about the stylistic direction within urt hd.

KroniK, on 29 June 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

Are you planning on keeping the same layout or making a completely new map?

Thought about that, but actually i dont want to. What i want is to create a new level experience (nonetheless i hope there will be an orbital remake). I love the theme that orbital provides, so the question for me will be: What experience do i want the player to have and how can i capture that essence within the level. We will see (:

Some guys may remember my last unfinished map Monastery... never made it but i will give it another try some day. :D

Frankie V, on 29 June 2015 - 06:49 PM, said:

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)

Zenity, on 29 June 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

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).

I love this too. Diversity. Personally i played hundreds of hours on the simpsons server and other custom maps. For me it is importand, that the map is a well-designed and that it just feels right. Sometimes a map brings a story to life. Question is: will players be interested in a story? I just can image how urt hd will feel like gameplay-wise with those amazing 3d enviroments and those particle n' light-effects etc... I very much look forward to the outcome.

Muffie, on 08 July 2015 - 06:58 PM, said:

This looks fantastic, some of the textures look too shiny imo, but i'd have to play it to get a full idea.

Yea you are right, some textures look kinda wet. Will fix that.

There will be a huge update in the next 2 month, depending on how things are going.

Cheers,
ti

This post has been edited by ti6: 12 July 2015 - 01:35 AM

[thelionroars]

ti6, on 11 July 2015 - 10:22 PM, said:

Some guys may remember my last unfinished map Monastery... never made it but i will give it another try some day. :D

I remember, it was looking really good.

[wG*Swiiitan]

Yo ti6 did you Ever get my version of monastery? Im currious of how you liked it :)

[[dswp]zietsh]

I was just playing around with some map designs and settings and wondered:
Could it be made possible to give us a/the skeleton that you are working with and giving a skin/body/gear with a map?
Or in general you would not chose the skin/gear all together only the color set. And the skin/gear itself would be forced upon the character, this could give mappers the possibility for a better immersion. When mapping you could set the flag somewhere for the skin/gear (if they are part of a official release) or deliver a custom skin with it.

The idea just popped into my head when I was working on a weird blade runner styled car design and thought wouldn't it be cool if we had a map stylized somewhat that way and the blues would be styled like police in minority report.

Or for that cool orbital preview: What if the two teams were dressed astronaut like?

[FS Zenity]

zietsh, on 20 July 2015 - 01:35 PM, said:

I was just playing around with some map designs and settings and wondered:
Could it be made possible to give us a/the skeleton that you are working with and giving a skin/body/gear with a map?
Or in general you would not chose the skin/gear all together only the color set. And the skin/gear itself would be forced upon the character, this could give mappers the possibility for a better immersion. When mapping you could set the flag somewhere for the skin/gear (if they are part of a official release) or deliver a custom skin with it.

The idea just popped into my head when I was working on a weird blade runner styled car design and thought wouldn't it be cool if we had a map stylized somewhat that way and the blues would be styled like police in minority report.

Or for that cool orbital preview: What if the two teams were dressed astronaut like?

Speaking about HD, I don't think that is likely to happen in general. Because there will be multiple characters per team and the players will have a lot of choice to customise their (favourite) characters. Essentially you'd have to disable all of that to provide custom player skins for maps, so if anything I could imagine that as an option for custom servers.

That said, I do think that a Blade Runner style map should fit pretty well with our theme anyway. :) We could also probably give mappers the option to set an overall colour grading, which would affect the colour of the skins as well. Check the screenshots here to see examples of what can be done with colour grading: https://www.unrealen...9f21d25c09aee17

[FS BladeKiller]

Find some Zbrush experts who want to work for free and we can make lots of player models. This is what RabidCow and I are working with to make the player models.

[[dswp]zietsh]

BladeKiller, on 20 July 2015 - 08:24 PM, said:

Find some Zbrush experts who want to work for free and we can make lots of player models. This is what RabidCow and I are working with to make the player models.

I did not mean that you create 1000 different models for mappers. I meant that you give mappers the possibility to add custom models/skins/gear what ever you want to call it, to their map for immersion. And looking at 4.2s choosable skins I assumed there would be a similar number of skins and you could add a flag to your map somewhere forcing a certain skin to the players to fit the mood OR add your own, as said before.
And I don't think one would need Zbrush experts to add skins/models/gear to a map. I think people would do just fine with blender, I would not see myself spending 700€ just to make a model for a custom map. But given a skeleton and/or base models to work with I can see people making custom models/skins/gear for their map.
Jumpmaps could just put some fancy shoes onto the models on their maps.

(To clarify with gear I mean things like helmet/kevlar/clothing design anything on the body, where you could easily give us dimensions to work with I assume.)



From what I understand from Zenity you already have some kind of new customization ability coming - so yeah ok. Then this might be uncalled for.
Giving the mapper the ability to set gradients would be a somewhat good alternative. This does add allot of atmosphere/immersion.

[FS BladeKiller]

I'm talking about complete player models not just skins for the same 2 models like in 4.x. We are not doing it the old Q3 way anymore. After 15 years we're moving to the modern method of character modeling. The helmet/kevlar/clothing are all models being made in Zbrush. We have no intention of allowing mappers to make character models or their equipment/gear. Mappers will have enough to do making all the props for their maps which they can make in any 3d modeling program they choose. Not only will they be busy making all the props they will also be making their maps in a 3d modeling program instead of out of brushes like the old GTK Radiant method.

[FS BladeKiller]

I should add that I like the idea of a mapper being able to set or recommend a character style eg; snow clothing for a snow map or lighter clothing for a map set in a warm climate, etc. It would be nice to have that kind of customizability which is why I'd love to get more Zbrush users on the team.