Hello everybody! I've been a lurker on these forums and a frequent visitor to this website but finally registered because I love Unreal and wish to be more active in the old Unreal community. Anyways, as the subject title mentioned, I thought a good way to introduce myself is by showing some pics of a level I've been working on with the UT3 engine and I feel like this is the right forum section to show it. It is my first serious attempt at building a level (rather than standard cubical rooms ) and I built it quite awhile ago but had to stop to focus at my University. I have also been working on the interior levels of the ISV-Kran but I still a bit more work to do before I release some pics. Feel free to provide feedback and criticism because I'm always seeking to improve


Gazing up at the ISV-Kran wreckage


The Nali Village


Looking over the village


The Gate to the Sunspire

I look forward to getting to know you all and hopefully play some Unreal with ya!

Indeed, not bad. There were a few tries to make an Unreal remake in UT3, although in the end it didn't work out... I tried something myself, too, but in the end UT3 just doesn't have the static meshes to represent Unreal properly, unfortunately.

Thanks for the feedback guys! I don't really have any intention of remaking all of Unreal but going off of the classic levels does provide good practice. It is rather unfortunate that UT3 doesn't provide an ample supply of textures and static meshes but I'm gonna try my best to make do with what I have because I'm not very experienced in creating static meshes and nice textures at the moment, but I plan to learn that stuff sometime. Although I will definitely make the changes you recommended 

Also, thanks for the welcoming!

It's hard to recognize shapes due to low quality of screenshots, may be it should look good in game.
Anyway, great work!

Nice concept there, although what some people already mentioned its a bit hard to recognize the original map in here, the staticmeshes are a bit too foreign for unreal, besides that i think some work on the general atmosphere can work like a charm. I'd seriously reduce the annoying ut3 bloom and make more use of the original colors and multi colored sky.

Other then that, custom meshes would greatly, and i mean greatly enhance it.
GreatEmerald wrote on 01/25/12 at 22:21:43:


i disagree there, i've heard this comment a lot from UE1 mappers who didn't want to make the move to staticmesh based UE2/3, but honestly with any dedicated modelling software, creating staticmeshes is a hundred times easier then doing anything BSP based in UE1, it doesn't require a group either, most created staticmeshes can be recycled in many ways.

Well, it would be possible to take some extreme end s3tc textures use crazy bump to give them bumpmaps, and make a few other edits to them and sue that as a material, since that would be much easier than hand drawing a bumpmap and making a complex material since my material editing experience is minimal. However I did do something like that before in ut3 with a decent result, Ill see what I can do.

Looks horrible from the screenshot.

Hyzoran, even if it's not UT3 quality I still totally dig it! I downloaded it and I will give it a shot once I get a chance to boot up UE3. Thanks for the feedback and for putting in the work on the texture!

Sly. from the Epic Games forums is doing a remake of Unreal with UT3. He's currently doing the Vortex Rikers and he'd like others to join the project. Any consideration to do so?

Hello there!
I saw your screenshots at the Epic Games forum some months ago and liked it.
However, if you want it to look more faithful to the original, you should make the skylight more purple and create a new rock material - for this you only need stock assets, that's how I did most "custom materials" in my Vortex Rikers remake to give them this little "touch of Unreal" with all the dirt and rust, the warning stripes and other stuff like that.

Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to your ISV-Kran remake!