DM-Giero

[legacy-thnatic]

Name: DM-Giero

Version: 1.0
UT2004

Description: An aging fuel processing facility sitting on the edge of a desert. Cold, isolated, remote... the perfect place for a raging tournament battle.








When I started this I was looking to design something a little different, unlike a regular deathmatch layout, and so the gameplay is pretty unusual. Mainly I just wanted something to have fun with. There is also quite a bit of custom stuff done for Giero, tons of new meshes in particular which gives everything a very different feel from the typical map.

Download it. Have fun. The first five people to find the magic number hidden in the map get a free copy utk7 (a theoretical copy at least :P)

Download:

Beyondunreal

Filefront

Hopefully more links soon. (Uploading stuff on dial up is not an exercise in fun )

[legacy-fftunes]

...ugh... colours... :bulb: i get a funny feeling when looking at the shots :up:

Not that it's bad, just think i gotta get some sleep before playing this map, so I can stand the euphoric feelings caused by it...

[Slainchild]

Yeah, looks way too busy and colourful...

[legacy-pospi]

The detail you've put into this is amazing. I'd play it

[legacy-raziel31]

Really cool to see that some people :

- try different kind of mapping
- try to create some NEW things
- are creative
- the worl would be sad without creativity

...i gonna have a look this evening...i like this busy look, looks very promising imo...

PS: i've just tested it: wonderful modeling and texturing, a real pleasure to see this new environnement ! The lighting is too bright, not enough contrast imo (perhaps its wanted ?). I really enjoyed the layout. A very good point to mention is the moving environnement ( emitters, movers, moving textures), some very good ideas for the movers Its clear that this kind of map is created for the visuals, i found more than 260000 tris in a FOV ! LOL !!! Thats incredible for the engine but it can handle it !!! Of course DM with a total of 4 players is a maximum imo due to the FPS...lack of gameplay (thats normal with this kind of map i repeat) but what a f.u.c.k.i.n.g nice map, i really enjoyed it ( 5 stars imo) ! vgj

The next Uengine will handle this kind of map better than never with NM, i hope u'll keep ur skills for it

Last minute:

Just noticed this bad alignment at this place, its a shame !! lol...


Ok i --->[door]

[legacy-Burnal]

Looks cool

[legacy-Skorbut]

Finally released!

Gets 5 stars

[Hazel.H]

Nice to see something new and interesting for a change!

Skorbut is that you? (or someone with the same name I don't know)

[legacy-Add_x101]

Hell ya.

Love the style and feel of Giero, its not plain and boring, but bright and colourful with good use of height. Its on a par with Gralada. The only thing I would say is that it needed its own music to boot...

Good job.

:10sur10:

[legacy-Terror_Force]

http://www.ut-x.net/component/option...etails/gid,80/
ut-X.net DL Link

[Desp#2]

Just wanted to say I tip my hat to you for making a nice map! Great work and I see loads of damn hard work here. Some things are not my bag like lighting and other stuff but hey when you reach this skill level no sense in a crit imo since it is your vision.

[legacy-thnatic]

Thanks for the comments, always fun to read , criticism too.

I was playing the map today actually, on a friends computer, and it was much brighter than on any of my PC’s (on mine Giero looks fairly bright, but still with contrast). It’s a shame that monitor/ game brightness setting can have such a big impact on the way a map looks for people. If the brightness is too high compared to the author’s settings everything looks washed out, if it is too dark then you can’t see anything. Could be something for Epic to look into for Utk7, some kind of simple tool that could tell people exactly how bright their settings are compared to the map’s best brightness level, and let you adjust it in game rather than having to mess around with your normal settings (just be able to change it on a per map basis).

In terms of the visuals, yes Giero does have a very full and busy look. When I first started laying it out I wanted to create a map with a big feel to it (ie: Redkin or Gralanda) and I wanted it to be very detailed. But when you start filling a large room in a level with small / medium size meshes it does create a very busy look. You might notice a fair number of the custom meshes have fairly simple textures, by the time I was finishing the map I was trying to keep everything pretty simple.

When I look at Giero I see it as similar to some movies with a lot of CGI going on in them (ie: Star Wars Ep 3, King Kong), there’s so much stuff happening on the screen at once that you sort of stop focusing on individual objects and just see everything as one whole image, rather than separate objects on the screen (hopefully that makes some kind of sense). Some people don’t like those kind of visuals, personally I enjoy them because there’s so many different things to see at once. It’s just a question of taste really.

Anyway, keep posting. Anything you think about the map is good to know.

[Luv_Studd]

Nice attention to detail; plenty to look at and admire. Gameplay and lighting are the weak spots here though.

[legacy-raziel31]

But....wheres zoro ???

[legacy-zoro]

i've been busy
http://www.unreal.ie/dl/maps/dm/dm-giero.zip

[legacy-LayZee]

Nice map. A fresh change from the usual stock textured/meshed maps.

I found a bunch of areas that really needed blocking with blocking volumes. Theres really a lot of places/objects that need it. Here are a few:
(I got to these areas by using the shield gun)



Basically you can get right onto the outside roof of the facility by using the shield gun as most windows don't have blocking volumes. Don't get me started on where you can go if the tranny is active.

There are a lot of objects such as this next one, that don't have player collision. You can hide in these and fire out at players and they will never see you.

Another example of this were the vents, which you can go right through.



Do I get a prize for finding the secret room of screams?
Thoughest part is not getting in this room... but out of it. :bulb:

[cUnNiNg_StUnTs]

Where did you BETA test this?

I watch these forums and like 3 others and never saw a BETA. It could have used a little more BETA testing. This week was the first I'd seen or heard of this map.


At least one of the player starts is too far from a weapon base, a map this size will have SPAWN raping and item wh*ring/camping on line so having to go a far for a wespon is bad. For a map of this size it can afford more than one of the same weapon. It's huge and only seems to have one of each weapon. The flow and layout is good and solid, I like it, but the items are what take people to the remote corners of the map and that movement is what makes for more skirmishes breaking out all over the place not in one central location.

I can see what went into it's creation and the thought that went into the theme. Dump some of that effort into game play next time and you'll be solid gold. The theme is very Sci-Fi looking and cool. The jump pad emitters are awesome, where'd you get'em?

[legacy-fftunes]

If you'd re-release this map, I think in level properties there's a general "level brightness", maybe make it a bit darker if it works that way... ?

[legacy-LittleMOM]

Really nice work,but i had some Problems with that Colors:alien:

[legacy-LittleMOM]

I was playing the map today actually, on a friends computer, and it was much brighter than on any of my PC’s (on mine Giero looks fairly bright, but still with contrast). It’s a shame that monitor/ game brightness setting can have such a big impact on the way a map looks for people. If the brightness is too high compared to the author’s settings everything looks washed out, if it is too dark then you can’t see anything. Could be something for Epic to look into for Utk7, some kind of simple tool that could tell people exactly how bright their settings are compared to the map’s best brightness level, and let you adjust it in game rather than having to mess around with your normal settings (just be able to change it on a per map basis).

That`s a really good Idea:up: I had offten the same Problem

[legacy-Kinetik]

Please, please, please! retest this map. shame all this work went into it and it has too many bugs :up:

[SkaarjMaster]

OMG, it's (dare I say it) Scimitar! Just kidding, but that was the first thing I thought of looking at the screens (the colors, my eyes, the colors). I'll be testing this map sometime in the future (if I haven't already and forgot), but in the meantime here are some working links:

http://ut2004.ut-files.com/index.php...e=dm-giero.zip

http://www.mapraider.com/maps/?fileid=3646

http://www.ut-x.net/Download-document/80-dm-giero.html

[Private Tux]

What a nice desert-styled "laboratory" setting for this map. It has some custom textures and static meshes; in addition of good scaling, grandeur atmosphere and visuals. Like the custom jump pads, computers, steams, ramps, fans, pipes, ceilings, and also have a desert view outside + the skybox. I love the sounds that includes humming, hissing and machine noises. This map has frantic z-axis play and has a great place for dodging. The bots are tough with this one, so fill them at your own hands.

[SkaarjMaster]

I like the outside red scene, what seems to be an underground area and the moving parts inside, colors are all over the place and it “almost” looks good (actually, I don’t even notice it after playing a couple times and it is different and it does actually look pretty good now that I looked again); there is some serious z-axis and it’s fun (tough bots too) and everything Tux said.