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The Techniques of the Dev Team !

We have added a totally new Tutorial area to the website !



NulL has shared some of his extensive knowledge of level design with several tutorials from simple spawn creation to more complex entities like spawn doors.

We have also included 3D modeling tutorials to show how we create content like player models and weapons due to popular request. Some of these will aid the creators of map objects.

Expect more tutorials to follow.

If you are new to level design or interested in making maps for Urban Terror (4.x) you may also want to visit our Map Design & Modeling forum.

Frozen Sand expects you to be responsible and respect copyrights !

Please feel free to comment and or ask questions here.

FTW League is about to start Season 5 !

What you need to know:

Map voting for team captains will begin soon and some rule updates are also planned. So keep an eye on them. In the meantime, rosters are unlocked and you can begin updating your teams.

For more information, also in Spanish, visit the FTW League here.



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We are very happy to announce yet another addition to the Frozen Sand development team; monsieur Barbatos !

Barbatos has been playing Urban Terror for many years. He is a web developer and admin of the Urban Terror France website.

For Urban Terror HD, Barbatos will be helping our coders with development of the game code. Specifically he will first focus on Urban Terror Match mode.

Please feel free to welcome Barbatos here !

Frozen Sand is happy to announce that both 659 and 817 have agreed to join the team !



Frozen Sand is always on the look out for talented coders and level designers with the right attitude towards the game and we feel that with Holblin and Asche we got lucky again.

Asche (mapper) and Holblin (coder) have been strong supporters of Urban Terror for years. Among other things they have together developed their own game type, Assault Mode, to be played with Urban Terror.

It's fun ! Check it out :)

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It is a great pleasure to announce that FrozenSand has added a new mapper to the development team, please all welcome 1931 !

In the passed two years Clatoo created five maps for Urban Terror; CrystalPower, Heroic, Maximus, Metropolis, and Paris.

You can find them via our map depots list

Professionally Clatoo is a experienced publisher, and he works with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Xpress, Indesign, Flash, Director, etc.

When he added MacRadiant 1.4, a few years ago, he had very little experience with 3D software and had just discovered the Urban Terror game. Which is lucky for us !

At first, Clatoo will try to add special effects to the Urban Terror HD version of the maps Paris & Heroic, before starting new maps optimised for the engine.

Please feel free to comment here, maybe you can guess what inspired him to choose Clatoo as nick.

Old Favourites for 4.1

We are releasing all the maps that were updated for Urban Terror 4.1 including Docks, Swim, Ricochet, Uptown, and more.

These maps do not meet our quality standards that we have planned for Urban Terror HD, so we thought it was best to release them in an update pack for Urban Terror 4.1 !

We have also included the updated player skins that were tested months ago in 4.1. We hope you enjoy playing some of your old favourites in 4.1 while we work on.



WARNING This update can break compatibility with 4.1 servers. Request the admins to update their servers.

Frozen Sand has asked Unifiedtone to join the team to create music and sound compositions for Urban Terror.

Unifiedtone is a composer and audio engineer with years of experience using Logic Pro for composing music, creating sound effects and mixing audio.

Here is a short sample of some current work in progress pieces that Unifiedtone is working on for Urban Terror:



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After creating successful maps as ut4_kingdom and ut4_kingpin, Papyruny has now made the ultimate jungle adventure with ut4_raiders!



You may recognise Papyruny's talent in above pictures, Frozen Sand certainly did, and so we are very happy to announce that he accepted our invitation to join the development team!

Please feel free to commment and welcome Papyruny in our forum!

We have found a new concept artist for our beloved game Urban Terror!



Frozen Sand's newest team member; la 25806 is a very talented illustrator, designs maps, and of course loves to play (with) Urban Terror. Employed by well know French cartoon productions as a cartoon artist.



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Frozen Sand is proud to announce that two more coders have joined the team to work on the next release of Urban Terror.



Please welcome mister 25379 and monsieur 14041 !

Amanieu is an engine coder and has spent a lot of time programming for various Quake 3 related projects, such as XreaL and Tremulous. AbsolutelyNoOne has been in software development for over 20 years under Linux/Windows, and has done a couple of mods of Q3 so he is familiar with Q3 game code. They will be working on engine code and game code respectively.

With the acquisition of these two excellent programmers Frozen Sand has effectively doubled the number of coders on the team.
Obviously they have been put to work straight away! :D

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