anyone making maps? i can make 3dmodels

Covid_A_Swab

people here making maps? i learned myself 3d modeling and i can import into unreal editor.
problem is i do not have ideas and imagination. i know unreal editor basics but i have no idea what map would be nice idea to make.

X-Cellerator

What program you use to make the mods

Covid_A_Swab

X-Cellerator Autodesk Maya and 3dsMax

X-Cellerator

Thinking of making a skateboard ramp map.
I would need ramps, slide rails, pop machines skateboards of a few sizes, and so on.
I can build all the buildings and stuff. But would look better with props and more than lily frame better with 3d mods.

Covid_A_Swab

X-Cellerator sounds cool, but do you know you can make most of those stuff easely with the 2d shape-editor inside UnrealEditor? this picture for example could be entirely made with the 2d shape editor. https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/skate-park-warehouse-interior-3d-max/882143

X-Cellerator

Covid_A_Swab

Thats a 3D Model isnt it?
That seems al,ot cleaner than I could do in 2d

X-Cellerator

Well so far I think I am getting it. Any thoughts?

X-Cellerator

You now can slide around while you crouch. To give you the feeling your skating lol.

Covid_A_Swab

Very cool men. Can i test it?

X-Cellerator

Covid_A_Swab

Having a small problem. When I make all the handrails my FSP tanks. I have a ton of rails to make and pipes to slide on. Like on the corners of the ramps. Plus, walkway handrails.

It just takes the fps way down. On my pc its fine but on lower end rigs it will be horrible fps.

I have made a ton of progress; however, this rail thing is holding me up.

I can't remember how to merge mutable brushes to make one. That might help. Because the railings have so many to create it. I am going to try to make them square tonight instead of round.

Ooper

Instead of bsp for the rails, couldn't you use a translucent texture sheet to emulate the look of the rails, and just use bsp for the top bit and ends?

-edit--
Didn't notice you used cylinders, the slight improvement in visuals is just not worth the massive downgrade in performance, you'll probably get the same look with rectangles.

X-Cellerator

Ooper

Tried making some out of *(probably get the same look with rectangles)
Did not work. This is my test map for making things. I may not be able to have rails. And that sucks because it really needs them. Maybe when covid is ready he could make me a few sizes and I can try that. I will get some sizes for you tonight. Or maybe try to learn how to make them with your video. I am a pretty quick learner.

Here is a few images of the tanking FPS
These are on my work PC with a Nvidia 2080 and a i7-8700 CPU

Covid_A_Swab

Maybe performance is not an issue if you had the rails imported as meshes? Im very sick now but maybe i can make some simple cylinder in 3dsmax for you, ( i geuss you only need 1 shape that you can scale duplicate and rotate for your use? )

Let me know if you want it and how many sided cylinder.

If you are interested this is the video i used to learn making meshes for unreal
you can use any other 3d software to make your model and export it to 3dsMax in OBJ format (3dsMax is pretty difficult to master)

Maybe you already know this but here are some meshes you could use for decoration http://ut-files.com/index.php?dir=3DEditing/PreFabBrushes/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070515224146/http://www.silveribex.com/mt/archives/000038.html

Nicefu

I kept thinking what this graffiti on the walls reminds me of. I remembered, Jet Set Radio on Dreamcast 🙂

X-Cellerator

Nicefu
Just snatching images off the net and creating textures

Ooper

The posts do look a bit close together, you could probably get away with at least twice the distance reducing the amount by a lot.

X-Cellerator

Ooper
Yeah, however there will be a ton of rails in this.
All platforms will have them even the walkways on the side buildings. I will play with this again tonight on my home rig. I will post a few pics tonight.

Ooper

Just an example of what I'm talking about

Covid_A_Swab

i did not make cylinder yet but maybe you can test if my previous model/actor works, its a simple cube.
maybe i will finish a cylinder today also. ( i included some files as example and a tiny program 3ds2unr that you might want)
you only need the box.u and place it in your system folder, then after restarting unrealEditor it should appear with its name in the actor class browser and you can place it in your map.

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/205e86f98b7f4a8f5cb74822c769abaf20231114162342/68c823e2aa3b79d094f783523d3373a420231114162408/b7ce87?trk=TRN_TDL_01&utm_campaign=TRN_TDL_01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid

--edit--
finished 1 basic pipe in 3dsmax i will try to do the rest tomorrow making it into UnrealTournament .u package.

temporary texture

X-Cellerator

May have figured something out. I went down to 6-sided rail then combined all the brushes as one. It seems it is working on my work PC. I will try this trick on the map on my home rig and let you know if I solved it.

Covid_A_Swab

X-Cellerator

i think you can also use a program/utility called Meshmaker, it makes meshes from t3d exported brushes or something.
this https://we.tl/t-Gl7aDeshVp is the 3ds file from Max, i will try to make a .u package now.

---edit--- it worked, got a pipe textures is compressed inside the .u file i think because i instantly saw it textured when i added the model/actor inside my test map. https://wetransfer.com/downloads/48b492d9ba4c2046fde18656fcc464b920231115161145/9b095d347d405f8c9c164dd62c9012fe20231115161327/89e4ee

you need to adjust the blocking volume in the properties under collision and the size you need to adjust with drawscale under display.

im not very happy with how light reacts, if i place 2 pipes next to eachother to make it longer it is very noticable.

i geuss collision you need to add seperately with special brush.