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The last jump was a bit tricky but nice little miniature on top:)
Awesome map, especially considering it only took 24hrs.

I could reach one of the red blocks... but the jump would have killed me if it wasn't for god mode

Shame that the map imported as a static mesh not as BSP primitive... the textures would look way better on them

Glad y'all liked it. It seemed to go over well when I took it into the lab yesterday. A bunch of people gravitated to it and wanted to try it out.

Now I have a more general question. Would you like this type of map (more puzzle based?) or a flow based map (like what you see in Mirrors Edge 1) in the future.....say for Mirrors Edge 2?

I heard there's currently a debate going on about which path to take in ME2 - and since y'all have a pretty vested interest in this I wanted to know your opinions on it.

@taplonaplo yeah I wish the textures looked better. It's really an issue of bad (or really no) UV mapping. I could probably generate UVs for them and get something half decent. I'll check that out in the future. Sadly, doing generative BSP might be an impossibility. I'd have to look into how deep I can get into the scripting/how fast the scripting is. MEL is decent in speed (though by no means amazing) and itll take 15 seconds to generate a level this size (400 primitives).

The game engine though can handle at least 2000 primitives generated this way (as one solid static mesh) - and that's something I hope to take advantage of in the future. If I were to do it with BSP that would make it slower.

However, being able to script in UnrealEd to instance a static mesh of a cube across the scene would make the level MUCH faster. I'll look into it. It also might let me instance a set of lights along with each instance of geometry (say....6 spotlights per face....the color of the material?). This would (drumroll please!) let you imitate BEAST lighting fairly simply. We shall see!

I haven't downloaded it yet, so forgive my ignorant question, but have you (or will you) update your download zip to include taplonaplo's textures?  And are there install instructions?  I want to make sure before I link people to this as free DLC, and then find they need additional stuff. 

Side note, distastee, have you seen the map ("block party" maybe?) someone made here that has randomly generated blocks each time you start?  I think they did some sort of random generation each time you loaded it, but I never looked into how it worked.

Thanks, Blueberry_pie!  That was what I meant.

The map is quite challenging. I needed some time until I was able to find my way through. However I enjoyed it a lot. Great job. However the last jump is quite challenging.