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It will be definetly great. Please make it possible to get down to the streets.

Greate start! really greate

i believe in you!


and.. observe progress
good luck

I tested the streets, and unfortunatly, the pieces of street that are made for the levels aren't fully touchable/playable (I think they have been made mostly for the eyes)... I could rearrange them by putting pieces with "collisions" but it would takes me a daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn looooooooooooooooong time...

So I think that this first part of the city will only be a "in the air" playground. Then after I will make another part, piece by piece, wich will be totally touchable/playable. With real pieces of ground !

PS : Actually most of the roads are touchable but the stairs for example, aren't fully touchable, as well as the flowerbeds and some bottom's building.

Last edited by The_XXI (2010-02-27 02:16:33)

Yep for the blocking volume. I will need to cover some rooftops with this.

...For the pieces of "precreated" roads which don't have collisions, I will have to put one by one the small "collision models" to recreate the road network. It will be hard, but I understand that players want to have great freedom !

...There is one thing that I don't really understand with my map :

The f*cking shadows ! When I build the map nothing happens with the objects, there is only the buildings shadows that come out !

Do you know something about shadows of objects ? (I tested the lighting properties but I found nothing.)

Last edited by The_XXI (2010-02-27 04:39:06)

I really don't know, I touched a map for the first time tuesday ^^ ! I don't understand much in mapping... But I don't think it's this thing of too small shadow resolution, I tested with "max 1024".

I searched everywhere for a solution, I didn't find any tuto which explained how to do what I wanna do, put shadows.

I surely missed something, dunno.

Hey you know what, if you have time to see what I did with my map : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M39H1IY1 !

...Also, I don't understand why I have bad graphics when I play on my map, that's pretty weird, for me anyway.

When I play in-editor, the graphics are great, totally different that the picture I put in my last message.

From where do you think the problem comes ?
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EDIT :

In editor :

Last edited by The_XXI (2010-02-27 07:11:53)

About bad graphix:
bForceMipStreaming must be set on the static meshes. it's under staticmesh/rendering in the properties window. After that the quality will look as set in the game.

About shadows:
There is a flag next to where you set the shadow (or is it lighmap?) resolution on the mesh, something with the word 'override' in it. i'm not sure if it must be ticked or unticked, but you should give that a try.

Last edited by taplonaplo (2010-02-27 08:16:34)

Berthenk : It doesn't comes from a card or configuration problem, I'm prertty sure of it...

Intel i7 in Quad with 2.66 Ghz, 2 Go video on a HD 4870, and 6 Go of RAM ^^ ! Are you always sure on what you said ^^ ?!

Taplonaplo : I will look like a noob but, wow, I'm lost ^^ ! I found many stuff in the properties ect, but, I don't understand how I can apply something to the full level, and not only on some or one object.

I'm reading "Learning Unreal Engine 3", a usefull tuto, but I don't even see some of the stuff I have to see, I mean, they talk about options I don't even find !

Am I a damn noob ?

Can someone help me with this ^^ ?

...I don't know what to search, I don't know what to select...

Do you see how am I lost ^^ ?

Np !

I'm very happy to read that : "This will be propably the first custom map that looks so similiar to the original Mirror's Edge maps!" thx !

Yep !

Raah, I'm so sad of being lost, well it's not too late, I maybe will be able to make my map perfect one day ! Dunno.

I have to search solutions to my problem, cause this map, without good texturing and good shadows, will be somehow a bit tasteless/fade etc.

EDIT :

I have only one card. For now. ...Cause this year, BAM ! Two Nvidia GTX 295 (or higher if there will be one new) !

Last edited by The_XXI (2010-02-27 12:24:30)

Ok, I deleted my old post because I was all wrong. I tried things and now it's all clear. And @snow is right.

So The_XXI,
no, it's not because of your card.

For all static meshes, DynamicSMActor, KActor, InterpActor and maybe DecalActor, you must:
- Check the property "bForceMipStreaming" -> Tab StaticMesh -> Rendering
- Eventually change property DetailMode to High (few properties below). But that takes resources.
That's all you need, but something funny:
When you change these properties in one static mesh (a car for example), you don't have to change the other cars in your level. But if you put a van, you must change it also. That's true for all type of meshes.
For me it's a bug of the engine.

PM me if you want explanations in your tongue, I'm French too.

Teto.

About shadows, no idea. I didn't check that yet. Anyway, shadowing in Unreal Engine is painful, you waste time to have good shadows.

Last edited by Teto (2010-02-27 13:49:13)

here's a pic for reference