DM-AverageCityMap...this time with lights...

[KingJosh]

DM-AverageCityMap. Author=KingJosh aka MiniMe. Its a city at night time. Medium sized urban map.

Sorry for big DL. Many textures used. Fly around and Gameplay video below:

Minutes 1-3 are a fly around.. Minutes 3-9 are gameplay.

Below is a DL Link and has a few screenshots.

http://www.unrealplayground.com/forums/ ... le&id=7880

ps this time i added lights

[Creavion]

This looks a hell better than your last map but
1. Since it is night, take care of (more) contrast in your map. Its completly unrealistic that the street lamps can light out the environment that perfect, that everything will be spotlighted. Place some lights with a weak brightness, dark blue or something similar, make the street lamps brighter if requiered with a smaller light radius. Cylinder lights maybe. Well at least on the screenshots the lighting looks really rather boring. Check DOM-Condemned. Stock map but really not that bad. Or what about other light sources, like those barrels with the flames, typicial for UT, or neon light from lighted signs.
2. Please fix the square corners of the street. Uhm and the guard railing looks a little bit thick, try it with main scale 0.5 or 0.75 (after that transform -> transform permanently, I dont think you will loss much alignment there?).

But its a progress!

[KingJosh]

for those of you who prefer mapraider here you go-

http://mapraider.com/maps/?fileid=5422

[Sergeant Todd]

KingJosh,
I'd love to see a version 2 of this map, cleaned up like Creavion said, and eye-candied up...love the music

Edit Dec 15
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ARGH! The map crashed the game with a D3D oversized texture error Help.......

[[did]Madis]

ARGH! The map crashed the game with a D3D oversized texture error Help.......

Same thing, the map keeps crashing, I just walk around a bit, turn around random corners and it crashes. Something's really weird in your map, bro.

[Creavion]

ARGH! The map crashed the game with a D3D oversized texture error Help.......

Same thing, the map keeps crashing, I just walk around a bit, turn around random corners and it crashes. Something's really weird in your map, bro.

Have seen that in an other map. Most likely because of the lighting. Add to many lights - with a small radius - in a small area and the engine screws around. Although this happens in the editor from time to time (dynamic light, textured modes turn black, editor does not respond to any commands including mouse moving anymore, forced close of the editor produces a criticial error message), but ingame from my personal expierence rarely (ingame ut "just" seem to crash). It does not have to be the mappers fault at all costs.

[KingJosh]

are you using d3d9?

it seems my DM-SaintzRow and DM-AverageCityMap give eveyone errors

i noticed both of my maps use the fuhrpark vehicle packs and both use alot of 512x512 textures, maybe thats the problem that causes d3d errors?

i wonder if i resize 512x512 into 256x256 if maybe the errors will leave ??

so far ive been pretty lucky with d3d9 and havent had any errors with my maps, ill look into it some more

[zacman]

I had a look in the editor at your map (I didn't change anything, I hope you don't mind, I just looked to find out about ppls errors before I played) And found something strange... In that city texture pack, JapanMiniMe1.utx, if I set the Variable Size in the texture browser to 100% and then drag the scrollbar down, as soona s I reach the area where those Skybox city skyline textures are, it goes blank and the scroller jumps back up to the top, so perhaps it's an error relevant to these particular textures?