SuperAlgae

SuperAlgae · Unreal Old Friend

SuperAlgae

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Good ta see ya here on UoF M8!

My son and I checked that map out a few months back and it was a hell of a lotta fun!

I don't check the BU forums regularly, so I was glad I did notice ya map there!
You captured the feeling of being on a rooftop garden perfectly and I can't think of any map that is similar to yours so good job on that!
Visuals are superb and I don't think I had bot issues from what I remember.
I'll have to checkout the latest version sometime soon!

stevelois · ...

Welcome on UOF Jesse biggrin

I'm happy you register here & I hope you'll have some fun around here & that others will give ya a hand on your maps wink

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

hi mate

nice to see you round here; and glad to see that awesome map going final..ly final :p

rulaman · Unreal Old Friend

Hi and welcome on UOF! biggrin

BTW: DM-Hardfall looks great! smile

Thrallala · Level Designer

Hi there and welcome to UOF, always glad to see new members smile

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

yooo....hardfall RC3 is installed on our server for online testing
make sure to have it on yer HD before joining the server because i m not gonna build redirect on a RC...(will do for final if required though ;)...)

~THUND3RL4ND~ IP: 77.111.254.236:27015

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

Bl!tz wrote:

yooo....hardfall RC3 is installed on our server for online testing
make sure to have it on yer HD before joining the server because i m not gonna build redirect on a RC...(will do for final if required though ;)...)

~THUND3RL4ND~ IP: 77.111.254.236:27015 location:FR

SuperAlgae · Unreal Old Friend

Bl!tz wrote:

yooo....hardfall RC3 is installed on our server for online testing
make sure to have it on yer HD before joining the server because i m not gonna build redirect on a RC...(will do for final if required though ;)...)

~THUND3RL4ND~ IP: 77.111.254.236:27015 location:FR

Thanks Bl!tz! I connected to that server and found out that some of my Kismet is not working. In particular, the powerup indicator lights are making the switching sound as expected, but they are not lighting up (via a kismet material vector parameter). Also, the traffic (on the street below) is not moving. I'll have to look into it. Aside from that, some of the kismet that depends on player speed is glitchy due overseas lag, but that's to be expected.

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

i ll try to connect and to have some games on it bro but i have only one valid arm since 2 weeks and for one week more , haha not easy to test ( but at least i ll tell ya if i have the traffic freezed too on the bottom level with a normal ping)
my children played a couple of games on it today offline; pure kill map ....we can feel the sun on oua skins so it looks reallistic :p

SuperAlgae · Unreal Old Friend

Thanks. I hope your arm feels better soon.

My guess is that the stopped traffic is not due to lag. It might be because I made that kismet client-only (since it is not related to gameplay). The more surprising issue is that the powerup indicators are not lighting up even though they are making sound.

The main issue I saw that seems related to lag is the big jump from the radio building that goes all the way across the level and lands in the pool on the far side of the garden building. I have kismet that detects when a player enters the water at high speed, and it plays a louder splash sound when that happens. With lag, it sometimes works and sometimes does not, which most people would probably never notice anyway.

Thrallala · Level Designer

Played your map, SuperAlgae. Found some minor things I would have done differently, probably mostly personal.

1. The music, for me. Music in UT3 maps is supposed to like get me going, to motivate me to kill some bots! the track you're using feels pretty boring and slow imo :P

2. Elevator, why does the elevator first go down a bit before going up?

3. I found the wind sounds to be a bit loud, it's kinda distracting.

4. The layout feels rather flat to me and there could be a little more variation to the color of the map (it's pretty much all gray, while the outdoor parts probably has to be grayish. The indoor parts doesn't)

Other than that, I like it. The clean look of the map makes it feel very unique. I can only imagine how much time it took to align the textures and to add all those trims aww

stevelois · ...

Hey Jesse, it would be a good idea to make a new thread in the UT3 beta section for the map testing aww

Just a suggestion wink

Thrallala · Level Designer

Woops, forgot 1 thing. Could use a lens flare for the sun, atm the sun is about as bright as the rest of the skydome.

SuperAlgae · Unreal Old Friend

stevelois wrote:

Hey Jesse, it would be a good idea to make a new thread in the UT3 beta section for the map testing

Just a suggestion

Done. aww

I put my reply to Thrallala's comments in the new thread.

SuperAlgae · Unreal Old Friend

BTW, thanks to Lord PorkSword and Rulaman for your comments as well. It's always good to know that the style and gameplay of the map are working as planned.