DM-Mariane Beta 1

stevelois · ...

DM-Mariane Beta 1

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

DM-Mariane WIP

darksonny · Unreal Old Friend

****ing sexy map steve!

it does remind a lot in some manner to inferno and another map dont recall exactly... anyway! me likes!

stevelois · ...

@Blitz

Glad you like it so far bro biggrin

It already have distortion but you can't see it from the pics. I made one indeed & it look nice, been putting a good amount of time on that actually.

THX for the compliment about the visuals, but it will be lower than my standard this time, just want to make it look "ok". Not as awesome looking as Glacial, Cipe or Magma aww

A beta will be available asap my friend but I intent to post progress once in a while smile

@Dark

THX m8 biggrin

Stay tune for the updates wink

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

+1 to the others comments!

The Necris assets work very nicely in this enviroment.
Lava based maps always catch my attention due to the strong contrast in lighting schemes!

Thrallala done a beautiful job on his lava/garden themed Legacy map so I look forward to playing another lava themed map!

Winter Dragon · Unreal Old Friend

Looks awesome! I've been looking at a lot of maps here and I like what people are coming up with. Did it take you long to make?

stevelois · ...

@LPS

THX m8 biggrin

In fact, I look at Thrallala lava material to get started & I maded my own funky lava-like material. My first use of the lava theme & I quite enjoy it. Ther map use 4 terrains (never use them that much in such a small map lol). Hope you like it m8 ! aww

@Winter

THX biggrin

Happy you like it. I work on it mostly the weekends since I released DM-Mégane. I didn't put to much time on it but now I'm in vacation so I work on it more. The layout was the longest part. The deco in the other hand is a bit complicated because I don't want to put to much time on the visuals but I'm seeking for something that look good & with a minimum of assets / materials smile Quite chalenging !

Thrallala · Level Designer

Very nice Steve, can't wait to play it!

DarK · Checkmate mate.

Looking great bro. Keep it up.

Coming from the pictures, the map looks kind of small?
Could it be a 1v1 map perhaps?

Haha cant wait to shoot some novice bots down that lava (6)

-- Edited by Darkn3sSx on Saturday 11th of August 2012 02:48:03 AM

Private Tux · Unreal Old Friend

Nice planning on the new UT3 map mate; love the visuals and lava. Looking forward to see this soon. biggrin

-- Edited by Tux Android on Sunday 12th of August 2012 06:56:08 AM

Sly. · Unreal Old Friend

Nice and sexy looking! Reminds me a bit of a mix of Unreal and Diablo in style, perhaps with a touch of DM-Inferno from UT2004.

I have a suggestion regarding lighting on the rocks of the map complex:
As you can see, the cliffwalls in the background of the castle-structure are way more lit than the rocks of the castle, I suggest to turn up the brightness of the lighting the lava emits and increase radius so the rock is covered in blood red and orange lighting from the lava up to the floor! Also, some of the castle structure could be affected by the lava lighting through "bounce light" (rocks and rock pillars that are lit reflect the light after all if you get what I mean

).

Just an idea, do as you please and see if it's worth it, but given the surroundings, I guess it would be a better approach to increase lighting there too.

Looking forward to a playable version (and this time I'll try to get to test it in time lol)..

stevelois · ...

@Darkn3sSx

THX bro.

It can welcome at least 10 adept players to 16 without problem. It look maybe small but apart Citius, it's my biggest DM so far, bigger than Nano I think ! It's a pleasure to throw players out in the lava hihihi LD

@Tux Android

THX m8 & I hope NOT to work to much on it AND release it soon too héhé :)

@Sly.

THX bro :)

I do plan to add a bit more brightness on the play area but the lighting on the surrounding isn't the same as the play area. I know it's not logical but I like this "not realistic" approach for a first time. A bit of Unreal lol. But in the end, I presume it will look nice because I'm a very "touchy" mapper lol

stevelois · ...

Beta 1 available in first post

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

RE: DM-Mariane Beta 1

Achernar · Amateur UT mapper

Such a delight to play.

Some ideas I had I put into a pdf

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?0upo0okixr7t0fz

Suggestion for emitter see CTF-Immulsion

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Hey Steve, I gave this a quik shot last friday but my PC was stuffing around so my play time was cut short. I intend to have a much longer run on this over the next day or two!
From what I saw it's looking and playing very nicely so far M8!

Theme is turning out superbly!

Winter Dragon · Unreal Old Friend

I like the area where the shield belt is with planks overhead. The standalone tower is a nice touch too, it's cool jumping out over the lava thinking for a split second "am I going to make it?". (I'm happy to say I did. :))

I only had one notable issue with collision, after getting the shield belt if I go up the wooden plank and try to take a hard left next to the pillar I get stuck there quite easily. I also find the teleporter exit a distraction, often mistaking it as a pickup because it's near a health. All in all, excellent imo!

stevelois · ...

I did a quick look at your comments but won't work on this map until few weeks. Will comments back in due time.

But I wanted to say THX so far for the feedback everyone :D

Sly. · Unreal Old Friend

Things I enjoyed:

- The layout. At first sight it looks pretty unorganized and thus natural for such an environment, however, once you make your first steps you know what paths to take and within the first match I was able to navigate trough the entire map - and I enjoyed it!

- Nice atmosphere and surroundings, the skydome material is neat, however, it could need a bit more as it looks a bit bland, maybe the milkyway?

- Personally, I like the floating kickers, we need more surrealism in maps like it was in the good old days of arena shooters. Quake did have such too and this style reminds me a bit of a Quake III map I liked a lot.

- The fact that you used kickers once again makes me smile - I love them! They add a lot of speed to maps!

Things to improve:
- I suggest to add a bit more light/shadow contrasting via post process.

- The planks need a better texture, last plank leading to tiled floor/Bio Rifle passes a static mesh with stretched texture, you might want to do something against that.

- Bots seem to have a tendency to camp the Link Gun on the platform, no idea why, they tend to do this at every difficulty, not 24/7 though, but when I fought one I just stood still and the bot shoot at the spot where I was before, ignoring my new location, after some seconds he started to move. You should check this place.

- The round place with the Udamage needs another cylinder to create a step, it's a bit nasty if you can get stuck on it.

- Talking about getting stuck and planks, I suggest to deactivate the player-collision of the planks and replace it with a blocking volume that sticks into the ground at the ends of the planks because I got stuck at some places when attempting to walk on them.

- The lift seems a bit slow to me for the pace of the map. Just an idea what you could do with the lift: If you increase the speed, you could remove the roof of the construction, replace it by a broken one or something of that kind and make it possible to do liftjumps, I can imagine this can be fun combined with the Sniper Rifle.

- As the entire place is surrounded by lava, why not add a cylindric static mesh with a distortion material applied to it? The heat would be clearly visible due to this and the atmosphere can only profit from that!

stevelois · ...

THX for the feedback m8 biggrin

Will look into all that asap aww