This looks nice! Reminds me of old UT99 CTF maps and a bit of Nucleus by Inoxx!

THX bro's :D

In fact, it's a UT2004 level which I remade the layout & put the same pickups at the same place.

Still the theme, style, meshing, all the rest is completely different from the UT2004 (same thing as my DM-Amissa which is inspired from DM-Albatros) :D I try to make something different, as always hihi :)

THX bro

PP is mostly the same as DM-Aly, the underwater part. I just tweaked the settings a tad. It's great to have previous maps so you don't need to redo every thing from scratch

Therefore, many parts of the map are "squarish". But many things can change since meshing hasn't been started yet on the upper level. Dunno what I'll end up with tbh Time will tell...

GnrlSpecific wrote:

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Looks great, cant wait to play.

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THX

THX for the kind words, I appreciate

Will do my best

stevelois wrote:

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I use stock meshes but with 100% customs materials (from Nobiax textures).

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 Maybe 1% from me no? (the warning material looks like mine)

More seriously, looks nice cousin !

stevelois wrote:

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@Nova

Your right, the caution bar texture is from you my couzin (my first use in Citius)  I was thinking about the "new" textures set

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 Of course no offense, I was kidding ;)

Looks very interesting, and 1on1 CTF, never played that before

stevelois wrote:

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Since I'm to limited with the stock assets, I'll rely more on BSP than meshes to obtain my goal. Will upload pics tonight :)

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 It's a good thing !

Can't wait the pic ;)

Love the upper level. It doesnt have the hint of green in the lighting, which is not to say the green is a bad look but it does look like a clean and sterile environment. A lot like UT2004. Nice work, I look forward to the finished map.

I have to agree, even the lighting is similar to the lighting of some meshes from the HumanHardware package! One could probably remake this in UT2004!

Sly. wrote:

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You misunderstood me. That is a static mesh package from UT2004, some of its meshes are lit like those pipes in your third screenshot in your post above, that's why it reminded me of it. Added a certain UT2004 touch to your map.

PS: My bad, it's called HumanoidHardware.usx lol.

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 Ah, ok, I understand now

I've decided to change the name of this map.

After many playtest it's a blast on 1on1 but also on 2on2. So since it's not a 1on1 mandatory level to have fun, it's now change from CTF-1on1-Misery to CTF-Mako :)

If you have 50 materials you should really make use of instances... I guess many of those materials have a similar shading anyway.

The shield belt area looks cool ;)
Keep up !

PS: Kami released a few years ago a DM-Mako for UT2004, did you know it?

Raziel31 wrote:

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The shield belt area looks cool ;)
Keep up !

PS: Kami released a few years ago a DM-Mako for UT2004, did you know it?

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THX

Yep, I have the UT2004 map (didn't remember it was made by Kami). Still, this one as nothing to do with the older one. I was inspired by one of my favourite UT2004 CTF-1on1 map for the layout & some pickup placement but that's about it. Everything else is Stevie's vision

Well first thought is to simple increase the number of pixels ie use a higher resolution image.

other thoughts are:

-when importing use the "Defer Compression" setting
-put the image in the alpha channel (as the alpha are not compressed)

Hope this helps.

Smart move to move on and come back to it later, i've been doing alot of that as well which really helps production and is much better than grinding the wheels for too long on something that isn't flowing well.

 

I'm excited about this map; small action fight maps are a blast in UT3 - did you say its going to be reverse flags? (if so great!)

@1xTrEmE

Yeah, when I'm stuck on something, I continue to work on other aspect or else it doesn't go forward. It is reverse CTF indeed, a small map, maybe a bit bigger than AndAction! You've made but not by much. I'm also relying on BSP for most of the map so adding deco isn't easy, it take me some time to design appealing shapes. The good news is that, dev is going relatively fast héhé.

@Raziel31

THX for the help. I do not use any apps for editing, I do not have PS or equivalent knowledge in photo apps. In fact the Mako texture is 512 x 256. I thought to make it in 1024 x 512 at first but I thought it was to big for nothing & then reduce it to 512 x 256. It get this stair effect in the material editor only because the texture itself is very clean (sharp lines) when I import it into the map.

Maybe I'll remake it in higher rez if it's the only way or there is a trick I can use directly in the material editor ??? I understand a bit what your suggesting but since my apps knowledge is limited, I can't make happen in the material editor yet.

THX for the help!

LOL

THX but nope bud, it's a WIP. Indeed about M-E, I use Crazy's textures package which is inspired by M-E.

But since you know that I'm mister details, I must add "a bit of details"... to be satisfied

stevelois wrote:

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@1xTrEmE

Yeah, when I'm stuck on something, I continue to work on other aspect or else it doesn't go forward. It is reverse CTF indeed, a small map, maybe a bit bigger than AndAction! You've made but not by much. I'm also relying on BSP for most of the map so adding deco isn't easy, it take me some time to design appealing shapes. The good news is that, dev is going relatively fast héhé.

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 Aight .. good deal then' - we need a few more action maps, I still play with real players on my lan sometimes 3 of us vs bots, sometimes 5 vs bots. These tight fast action play maps are a rush and some of the most fun for us believe it or not. Reverse = even more action.

So, since my last post, I've made lot's of progress which as turn to look very nice & I'm happy with the result so far but some things need to be done to make it look the way I want for the final. So, as an archive this is how the blue flag room was looking like :

24 oct. (rough BSP / early lighting / very early meshing)

Nov. (almost finished BSP / lighting mostly done / finished meshing / Bio weapon added + other pickup changes / flag base position moved with added geometry)

Hope you followers like it

+1! Very clean look which I very much like!

Reminds me of a more coloured version of the interiours of the game Chrome! Like that!!