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[Allfex]

Hello mechwarriors,

in this thread i want to show you some stuff that i do in Epic's unrealengine.

In the next week's, maybe month's i want to try rebuild the map "Caustic Valley" from scratch.

I started with an huge Terrain and layerd this pic from here http://mwo.cc/media/...sticvalley.html above. Like an reference.

Can some mod tell me if something like that is allowed? For trainings-purpose only! Dont wont to use meshes / textures from the game. Want to build all from scratch.



Hope you like it..so far...

Cheers
Allfex

Edit: If someone see me ingame, driving headless around than i propably grab some references

Edited by Allfex, 27 January 2013 - 09:26 AM.

[Heffay]

If you want permission, your best bet is to open a ticket to support@mwomercs.com.

Looks like a great idea though!

[Adridos]

We can do pretty much whatever we want with in-game assets right now as long as we don't steal them.

I think you're fairly good to go.

[Allfex]

Heffay, on 27 January 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

If you want permission, your best bet is to open a ticket to support@mwomercs.com.

Looks like a great idea though!

Yeah... this is maybe the best way to get the permission.

The best on this project is the point that i use only free programs like Blender, Gimp (+some plugins), xnormal and so on.
The only one i have buyed is Worldmaschine 2 (but you can get this also for free... but only for 512 heightmaps). The buyed one exports 4k
Hope this shows some interessted of you that it is possible to get nice results without high-price-programms.

Maybe i will do some tutorials too.

Edit: Next step ist to repaint the pic in the screen above to get a rough heightmap for worldmaschine. Its faster and maybe easyer as sculpting such an huge terrain.

Edited by Allfex, 27 January 2013 - 10:40 AM.

[Allfex]

As first little example in heightmap-painting for you

input:


output in worldmaschine 2:


Ask if you have questions

[Allfex]

Hey,

atm i still not be sure in using painted heightmap's for the terrain. Heightmaps are great but without the original heightmap i can't achive the same result without ton's of work.
I can do a lot of detail in worldmaschine but the map still looks not the same.

I think i try sculpting the terrain in udk or in Blender and bake the heightmap out.

Rought overpaint and output from worldmaschine.

[parman01]

Can't you sculpt terrain directly in UDK? Like in Cryengine SDK?

[Heffay]

There should be some sort of smoothing and scaling function. Not familiar with the program so can't say for sure, but those are pretty standard.

[Allfex]

parman01, on 28 January 2013 - 01:00 PM, said:

Can't you sculpt terrain directly in UDK? Like in Cryengine SDK?

Yes

I mean yes, i can sculpt in udk.

Edited by Allfex, 28 January 2013 - 01:55 PM.

[Allfex]

Hi,

after sculpting terrain for 2 hours i looked for references in the web. I found a pic and tryed a first little graphic-comparison.

Atm i have simple material, lightning and sculping-work done. Round 3 hours of work.

What do you think so far ?

Ingamescreen: MWO


Ingame: Unrealengine (udk)

[Allfex]

After a short "think-about" i started an second caustic map but for this with different technic's. So i set up a landscape a fast layermaterial for landscape-painting using the same textures with normalmaps as the first map.

If someone is interessted in this, i can post a detailed materialexpression for you