Urban ultimatum - remake progress

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

Hello guys.
A Little beyond my target, but everything takes longer than you plan. The first five pictures are the latest i have on the map. still got a ways to go.

Might have a playable alpha at the end of the day.
its coming along great (:


Latest renders
Getting pretty far! (:










Whats left to do
-finish tunnel
-populate map with objects such as crates
-minor modeling inside the map
-model the LOD
-create mcdcx boxes for every object
-create all the textures
-port the objects to the map editor
-finishing touches

There will be 2 sniper towers, tunnels, a ground level, walls dividing section with their own cover, vents you can only go through prone, and garbage bins and such that you can hide in.

Thinking of adding cardboard boxes that you can hide in, but not sure about that.
Anxious to hear opinions.

Old Renders








Should be done within a week
Pictures have been updated every day and sometimes every few hours.

If anyone is free to help finish this with me, get at me!

(Beer_me)lobo

aapg runs on unreal 3 , before you get to far in 4 ,

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

[beer_me]lobo when importing some objects after i go to save, it says that some objects have a collision radius of zero and it wont let it save that way. even when no objects have collisions.

Any idea how to fix that?

(Beer_me)lobo

not sure try giving it collision before saveing ,s it something you made or found ?

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

i didnt put any collision on it i just made the mesh no collision. i was exporting static mesh as an fbx from cinema 4D then into AAPG editor. the content browser still says it has no collision.

I plan on adding collision completely seperately in 3ds max, i have a ucx tool for it.

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

If anyone feels like they want to take the time to unwrap all the objects and uv wrap them back up, bake ambient occlusion, bake radiosity maps, etc. let me know. im not doing all that, that would just take way too much time for me. so im doing my best to make everything look good with tiled textures.

Its already time consuming as it is to just make the textures to begin with, let alone uv wrap, bake light, and photoshop the wrapped textures for scraped edges and stuff like that,

i will literally send you the whole project.

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

Devs is there a chance this could end up on an official server at any point in time, once i am finished???

-VI-ImaHustler

Kamjam21xx wrote: »

Devs is there a chance this could end up on an official server at any point in time, once i am finished???

Usually they have a map creators contest and the winners get they're map added to the game

frankof

Kamjam21xx wrote: »

Devs is there a chance this could end up on an official server at any point in time, once i am finished???

Im not a dev, but i think the chance is zero due to it being a copy of map from a different game.

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

Ah well yeah this is taking way longer than it should, im getting all the angles, heights, and distances right so it plays the same.

However once this is done, im going to make a high detail/poly upper middle class neighborhood with houses you can enter. Maybe that will fly.

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

Anyone with a server to Beta test this in a few days?

SeVn.Max

Hi, publish your project to the workshop, you'll see that it will be tested by some umm servers

Keebler750

High poly isn't going to perform as a game in this engine. Sure you can render out images and stuff, but hardware requirements for players will kill a high poly-based map. Go look at Dev maps to see what they've managed to do as a happy medium. The only reasonably high poly stuff we have is the 1P weapons and player models, for exactly this reason.

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

all of the models are at about 60,000 polygons combined right now. so i dont think its too high. i tried to keep it relatively low.

-=}WoLvErInE{=-

At the end of the day, it's all about optimizing your map. Polys are not a bad thing as long as you can render properly in your map. Done right, you can have million polygons.

Keebler750

Comes down to visible/drawn polys at any one time, doesn't it, Wolvy?

-=}WoLvErInE{=-

Correct. The engine calculates what it sees. And you can have 10 SM of the same it will render them once. So once it calculate and it's in the memory bank it will not be a hit anymore once it's sees another one. That's if none of it's original material properties have been changed.

Keebler750

THAT's why AllTerrain 'kinda' worked? Because it was tons of the same tree?

What part do light/shadowmaps play in performance vs just map size?

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

I know my computer can handle a few million polygons at once from doing 3D scans. but i have no idea what to aim for for other peoples computers now days. 8 years ago it was a clear line to me.

Keebler750

You need to understand how it works IN GAME, not in a 3d program. The difference? - the requirement for movement and aiming in a multiplayer environment with data passing back and forth between clients.

You can't just make it pretty and expect it to work.

What video hardware are you running?

[FOX]Kamjam21xx

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1178259393 BETA is out