Here's a tool I made that helps port maps from The Wheel of Time to Unreal (227, of course). The way it works is that when you export a map from WoT in T3D format, this program parses the file, replaces WoT-specific actors with Unreal ones (and domes some modifications to DrawScale and such in order to have the alternative resources fit into place of the originals) and outputs a new T3D file, which you can then import and have most of the features of the map in Unreal without any effort. Some things will still be missing, as not everything has alternatives to begin with, and some other things (like emitters) you need to tweak first to get the original effect.

Alpha 1 has complete support only for the Arena maps. Other maps will also benefit from using this tool, but I didn't go through the actors in other maps and convert those, so they will still be missing. I will improve that in later alphas of the tool, however.

And here's a preview video:

Download it here:
http://greatemerald.xmpcommunity.com/index.php/unreal/unreal-maps/279-the-wheel-...

Is is good, though I'm pretty bad at it. Its method of switching through ter'angreal (essentially weapons) is a bit wonky, the game expects you to use number keys, and you need to think fast to survive. But the atmosphere in the game is superb, and the architecture is probably the best I have ever seen in an UE1 game. Some parts, like the beginning of Shadar Logoth and the boss there, are also extremely scary, which is something I never knew was possible to legitimately achieve in an UE1 game.

The story is pretty good, too. It's a prequel to the Wheel of Time books. I'm actually reading through the third one right now, and it's very interesting. The game, being a prequel, does not spoil anything important, but it's very nice when reading the books to remember how the areas in the books were portrayed in the game.

Though it's a bit difficult to set up, as it relies on QuickTime 4 to play videos, so it won't work on anything newer than Windows NT 5.2 correctly. Same thing with the editor, WoTEd (it's UnrealEd 1.0, in essence). It's possible to play it through VirtualBox, though. Its editor works nicely on VirtualBox as well.

There are some guides to set up the editor correctly, as well as links to the patches, here:
http://linux.wot.free.fr/

I dont have wot and i wouldnt even know where to find it short of amazon legally,

why dont you use the tool you made and convert the maps and upload them here for us to see. a simple wot mapppack would be great.

Great. I might try it in the future then. Thanks for your advice

Is this tool still available somewhere? The site does not seem to be live any more.

I recently re-player WoT and felt like playing around with its cool architecture in UnrealEd. This tool would sure come in handy.

BobIsUnreal wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2015 at 3:49pm:


Thanks a lot for this.

Your project also sounds interesting - a shame it hasn't been completed. I would be happy to have a look at what's available if you are willing to share.

Hellkeeper wrote on Dec 28^th, 2012 at 2:21pm:


Hellkeeper, why don't you try the Demo to see if you like it?

Hi There,

I've looked a couple months ago to this and installed the game then converted some maps, result is not very satisfied to me , the story and textures looks okay and special too, say great but the geometry is a disaster, the ones who will work on this I wish them good luck....
did tried mission1 and 2 then did stop to many BSP problems even if you only use all the subtracts or the main one and build map there are big holes in the subtracts so definitely not to fix this imo , sry I'm saying this it my opinion about conversion from this game.

Greets,

Rubie