Hi mate,

welcome aboard & thx for the presentation, i m sure u ll find ur way around here, it s a good place to share ur work, to get feedback and to give feedback and comments back to others.
we re trying to keep UT3 alive and as we all still enjoy the engine (even if we re all waiting for an upgrade to udk or ut4...) we re putting our work together : it have drive to two mappacks for now
we re more PC oriented but i think we re all open to the PS3 (our mappacks have been converted for the PS3)
ugh!

Hi & welcome on UOF :)

About a possible pack, well, we're working on some stuff but I can't provide you more details at the moment ;)

Hi Darkn3sSx, welcome to UOF

Always interested to see a beta, are you still working of CTF-Seraph or have you move on to a different project?

Greetings

I'm a bit late to the party....Welcome M8!

Ya screenies are looking quite interesting! If you have download links for them can ya post'em so we can check'em out and give feedback etc...!

Also if ya have any media links on ya band I'd be interested in hearing some of ya music.  I listen to pretty much any type of music but I very much prefer Death and Black Metal! 

-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Tuesday 22nd of November 2011 05:52:52 AM

Sorry a bit late as well, but guess that's not bad. Real life...

Welcome aboard.
Hope you will feel welcome and I hope you will stick to mapping. It's addicting and if you can get over yourself, the meshing won't be that bad anymore, more of a routine and the more you do it, the faster it will go (especially if you start to know all packages better than your own room which starts to be my case in UE3 as well, haha)!

It's a shame CTF is pretty much dead online, isn't it? If I'm playing a bit, I'm usually playing on vCTF servers. They have at least some players.

lol, yeah why not!
Hm... Death metal remixes of original Unreal themes... Dunno why, just had this thought in my head all of the sudden.

Thanks for the welcome Sly :) haha :P Im getting more familiar with the editor every day :P I think i'm so focused sometimes I really lose any dimensional sight of my room haha.

I seem to have a few problems though. one of the biggest are with Geometry. Im really fond of brushes full of geometry and HOLP'ish style maps.
I see that the Geometry mode is much simpeler in UDK. Problem is, I cannot upgrade to a new Graphics card until next month. I need to do it with an Nvidia Geforce 8400 and 4GB DDR3, so my UDK runs slow, regardless of the lowest settings and disableing DIRX11=FALSE in the .ini . So I'm still using UE3 right now.

Cannot find any tutorials though. Has anyone found a good UE3 Geometry tutorial?

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lol, yeah why not!
Hm... Death metal remixes of original Unreal themes... Dunno why, just had this thought in my head all of the sudden.

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 CTF-Facing Worlds death metal theme remix :O?
 

More among the lines of

and

Classic!

lol

Tutorials? Here you go:
Unreal Development Network, Using BSP-Brushes.

A basic (and official) tutorial about the usage of BSP in Unreal Engine 3. Just make sure you work on grid 16 as much as possible (higher recommended if possible), otherwise the UEd/BSP-Goblin will haunt your map, break some holes into your BSP and eat it, put its invisible, undestroyable tent somewhere to block paths, projectiles, hitscan shots and players and make you fall into nasty traps in walls, floors and whatever - even though they look solid - just to taunt you!

If you literally want to be a Hardcore Oldskool Low Poly-mapper (which is a lot of fun since you do not depend on static meshes and can create your very own style, I know what I am talking about, Unreal Engine 1 ftw!), you should stick very strictly to the golden rules of BSP mapping:

Stay on the grid!

Use the exponential function y=2^x (which is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc.) for your brush values.

Never make brushes too complex (that is what static meshes are for these days)!

Pay attention to your level's BSP-cuts (especially in UE3 this is very important since you cannot access any build options or make manual zoning due to the lack of zones)!

Use trimming for edges with a sudden texture change!

Never overlap two vertices as this can lead to BSP-errors or even critical errors (in the older engine generations)!

The less brushes, the better. Be a smart mapper!

Use semi-solid brushes for small details (mostly small stuff), pillars (depending on their architecture, you cannot subtract from semi-solids!), simple boxes and similar things to keep your cuts low and avoid unnecessary cuts.

and

The min. grid size for the overall architecture should be 16! For details you can lower it but you should also make a greater usage of semi-solid brushes to keep your BSP-cuts small!

If you stick to these rules, there is nothing that can go wrong, believe me (well, Bl!tz is an exception, he seems to ignore them in his maps and has somehow flawless BSP, don't ask me how! Probably some kind of weird spell he doesn't want to share with anybody or did he find a way to trick the goblin? lol).

 

Have fun and good luck with your maps!

-- Edited by Sly on Thursday 24th of November 2011 06:48:53 PM

Sly wrote:

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Tutorials? Here you go:
Unreal Development Network, Using BSP-Brushes.

A basic (and official) tutorial about the usage of BSP in Unreal Engine 3. Just make sure you work on grid 16 as much as possible (higher recommended if possible), otherwise the UEd/BSP-Goblin will haunt your map, break some holes into your BSP and eat it, put its invisible, undestroyable tent somewhere to block paths, projectiles, hitscan shots and players and make you fall into nasty traps in walls, floors and whatever - even though they look solid - just to taunt you!

If you literally want to be a Hardcore Oldskool Low Poly-mapper (which is a lot of fun since you do not depend on static meshes and can create your very own style, I know what I am talking about, Unreal Engine 1 ftw!), you should stick very strictly to the golden rules of BSP mapping:

Stay on the grid!

Use the exponential function y=2^x (which is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc.) for your brush values.

Never make brushes too complex (that is what static meshes are for these days)!

Pay attention to your level's BSP-cuts (especially in UE3 this is very important since you cannot access any build options or make manual zoning due to the lack of zones)!

Use trimming for edges with a sudden texture change!

Never overlap two vertices as this can lead to BSP-errors or even critical errors (in the older engine generations)!

The less brushes, the better. Be a smart mapper!

Use semi-solid brushes for small details (mostly small stuff), pillars (depending on their architecture, you cannot subtract from semi-solids!), simple boxes and similar things to keep your cuts low and avoid unnecessary cuts.

and

The min. grid size for the overall architecture should be 16! For details you can lower it but you should also make a greater usage of semi-solid brushes to keep your BSP-cuts small!

If you stick to these rules, there is nothing that can go wrong, believe me (well, Bl!tz is an exception, he seems to ignore them in his maps and has somehow flawless BSP, don't ask me how! Probably some kind of weird spell he doesn't want to share with anybody or did he find a way to trick the goblin? lol).

 

Have fun and good luck with your maps!

-- Edited by Sly on Thursday 24th of November 2011 06:48:53 PM

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 Thanks for this Sly :)

@Sly:lol^^ me ? feeding the BSP trolls?....arrrrgh yeah...i was young and innocent when i did thoses mistakes...now i m....hm...still young but no more innocent....

agree with you @ 200%: keep ur bsp on the grid! :p

lol....happy BDay mate (lil outdated too though )

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My bio is outdated :D I'm 20 since 11 days now.

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OH CRAP! I missed it! Happy birthday!

@Blitz: You and outdated? Look at me

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Oh and don't mind my picture, I was reeeeeaaaally drunk at work hahaha.

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holy smokes .... I thought this was you at first....  

 (I was gonna say if it is you better cut back on grandpa's old cough medicine or something) -

Hey Jonathan, I cannot find you on Steam with using the search with Darkn3ss_is_QnL ??

Welcome aboard!

Netherlands you say?! managed to reverse the photoshopping you did on your portrait picture!



j/k :D

Lol'd at that! Priceless!

Good thing I didn't post a picture of me in my thread or Thrallala would have unphotoshopped it and caught my trrrue Gerrrman self! Haha!

ROFL!

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What a wonderfull contry...

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 Weed, whores, a messed up economy, windmills and cows.

 What can I say? Holland >

LOL

What a hilarious pic, good job Thrallala LOL

This youngster is now 21 years for about 2 hours so far :D

happy birthday!!!

If you where from Sweden you'd be going to "Systembolaget" now to buy booze! :D

Thanks friends!

@Thrallala: Haha I'll remember that when I'll go to Sweden!