VCTF-RT-TrainCrossing v2

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I have a question about zones: should i place zone portals in open areas too or only inside buildings?

Also needs brighter sky and sunlight. For the whole tropical flair, like JB/ONS-SavosIsland or ONS-ChainsIsle does it.

i like the skybox i used because it creates some dramatic shadows but yeah, a brighter one would be more appropriate for a map like this

[jefe]

Zone portals don't work in open areas.

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they work as long as you isolate an area from other areas...

[jefe]

Which would mean the areas would no longer be open. If you can see any part of one zone from another zone, they don't occlude anything. In a truly open map, you can't completely "hide" a zone, unless it's a building, underground area, or similar thing enclosed in BSP. You can use fog to occlude distant areas, and use antiportals.

[Crusha K. Rool]

And CullDistance settings for smaller objects (my CullDistanceVolume helps a bit with that) so that you don't have to use too aggressive fog distances.

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[meowcat]

Looks nice!
You may want to use a texscaler to play with the texture's scales on the rocks. When I converted all the rock meshes from UT3 I kept the same UV maps, but used a default rock texture from UT2k4. In the test maps I have I've typically used a texscaler between 1.25x -> 2x for the larger boulder models.

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how do you scale textures on meshes?
edit: nevermind, found it
edit2: wait a second, should i upscale it or downscale? if i upscale it to 1.25-2 it looks worse, i guess i'll go with 0.75 then...

[meowcat]

You have to give the texscaler Uscale and Vscale values lower than 1 to have the texture appear more than once across the mesh.... although generally ust adjust it to whatever looks good in the map

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finished adding rocks and building the bridge.
now i need to add pickups and bot paths and i'll probably upload half of the map for testing purposes

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VCTF-RT-TrainCrossing v0.470 (Alpha)
What's in it:
-Half of the map
-Second flag is on the middle of the bridge
-Working botpaths
-Most of the pickups are put
Weapons:
- Weaponlockers - link gun, shock rifle, flak cannon, minigun, avril
- Additional - mine layer, grenade launcher, RL, lightning gun,
- Superweapons - Redeemer, Ion Painter, Nuclear Strike Painter
Vehicles:
-Two scorpions, Paladin, Cicada, Manta, laser turret, two motorboats and a raft (+2 hellbenders on blue "base" as a placeholder)
Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56263088/Re...28alpha%29.zip
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Oh, and if somebody can answer me these two questions that'd be great:
Paths rebuilding takes absurdly long time. Am i doing something wrong or is it supposed to be this way?
How do i make bots use vehicles if they don't have a wide (white) road path to the flag?

[Crusha K. Rool]

Build time for paths depends a lot on your CPU and the number of PathNodes (and ForcedPaths increase the build time too) in the map. But yeah, it generally takes quite a long time. When I rebuild paths in ONS-Rail, I am looking at roughly 30-45 minutes that I can spend on something else.

As for vehicles: There should be a VehiclePathName in the GameObjective where you can enter the name of the closest PathNode to the objective that can be reached by vehicles. Or use ForcedPaths with bVehicleDestination = True, but make sure that the vehicle can really fit in the place then.

Or just read Steve Polge's comment on the topic: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Legacy:...Toonces_T._Cat

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thanks!
managed to make both teams use vehicles

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[maxdamage]

Looking good!