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Unreal Development Kit Stuff

So I've been getting back into using UDK along with a friend of mine who says he wants to make some sort of RPG or something. Have no idea what exactly I'm going to do, but I've been messing around with some basic level design stuff like how the landscape editor works, importing textures, etc.


Hidden stuff:

[Image: udk1rw.png]

First test using the landscape editor, along with setting up a multiple-layered material file which holds all the textures that can be painted on the landscape. I took the textures from CGTextures.com, messed around with them in photoshop a little, gave them quick normal-maps in Crazybump, and finally imported them into UDK. Nothing very fancy yet.

Hidden stuff:
[Image: udk2.png]

Another shot of the landscape textures.


Hidden stuff:
[Image: udk3.png]

I also took a picture of my kitchen's floor with my crappy 3MB cell-phone camera and tiled it in Photoshop so the texture would be seamless. Gave it a normal-map, and messed around with lighting to see what kind of effects I could give it.


I'll probably gonna dump stuff I'm doing in UDK here every now and then when I get the time to work on it. I'll shoot for at least one new pic a week of something I'm working on.
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RE: Unreal Development Kit Stuff

I'm using UDK too. I also have the CryEngine and they're both amazing.
I'm going to design a simple FPS game first. Have you used CryEngine before?
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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RE: Unreal Development Kit Stuff

I've briefly messed around in Cryengine 2 and 3. Cryengine 2 was really unstable for me, I was getting crashes way too often. Cryengine 3 seems alright, haven't really tried using it all that much but maybe I'll give it a closer look.
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RE: Unreal Development Kit Stuff

Damnit, my pc lags when I'm using UDK, but I use Unity and Source. Also, Wingless, nice maps.
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