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Looks nice. In fact, better than even I can do!
(I consider myself somewhere between beginner to intermediate with regards to mapping)

Nice

Looking nice ferali.

Personal Objective: Get to work as a professional Level Designer
First Step in that Objective: Get on FeraliDragon's level

*kicks dead thread*

Any new news on this map, Ferali?

I am working on the tunnels now.
And I am starting to get other kinds of crashes (similar to the previous ones due to lighting issues), but this time due to the sheer complexity of the BSP.
But I have been able to get around them by simply building more stuff which end up modifying the BSP cuts enough to stabilize it again, so... it has been fun...

The map is sitting now at around a little over 50MB, and with all the detail, inside the bases it lags a little bit (not at powerpoint levels, but enough to be noticeable), but mostly because of all the glowing stuff.

Looks great Ferali. Looking forward to playing this map.

Feralidragon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:59 pmI am working on the tunnels now.

Think you'll finish it in time for the mapping contest?

He has time until the 28th of November... I think he'll finish it.

EvilGrins wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:16 am

Feralidragon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:59 pmI am working on the tunnels now.

Think you'll finish it in time for the mapping contest?

I intend to, but not for the contest itself, as it's not eligible, but rather as a bonus map for the final pack.

But right now it mostly depends on how much the editor will want to troll me in the process, and make me waste hours in fixing rather than creating the map (I was on the verge of quitting this map a fair amount of times, but I managed to keep my sanity and eventually turn it around and make it work).

This was meant to be a very simple map at first for the AMC contest, but it ended up becoming what you're seeing.

Go for it. If i can finish my map, then you too.

Normal contest runs till 22.November.2019 ...then voting
Bonus maps are due on the 28.November.2019

On the 30th We'l release the Map-pack.

papercoffee wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:50 pm Normal contest runs till 22.November.2019 ...then voting
Bonus maps are due on the 28.November.2019

That works, my birthday is November 24th.

Just sayin...

Map officially canceled.

Despite the rendering crashing, and getting near the node limit, I still had everything under control and plenty of workarounds to apply to make it work.
But there are just hard limits that cannot be beaten, starting with the editor being a rather shitty piece of software as is.

I just found out, through experimentation, that regardless of the optimization settings applied when you hit Build All, and regardless of the real number of nodes at the end of the BSP build, it doesn't really matter since what matters is the number that you would get if the BSP was built in the most unoptimized fashion (when you hit Build BSP instead of Build All).

Therefore, with a fair number of things still missing in the map, and which I expected to have enough leeway with the optimization settings at least, the progress on the map was cut short as during the build it appears the editor will first build the BSP always in the same way, and only then it will do a second processing to optimize it to bring the number of nodes down, merging coplanar polys, and etc.

So, I cannot really finish this map at all, and it's therefore canceled.

Maybe if v469 fixes these issues around the BSP builder and the editor altogether, I may get back to it later on, but for the time being I am not going to waste any more time on this.
It wouldn't be really a very playable map as it was anyway.

What about you use the Unreal UEd2.2 ?
You can link your UT install in the ini of the Editor.