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100% agree with Koden. Good work mate.

Things are looking good:



I'm starting to gather together the quirks and things that need fixing. As long as I have some time set aside, I can get a couple of maps ready for a beta.

*EDIT*
For those wondering, I'm not getting 4 FPS on the map, that's just how many times the window was refreshed. With live preview turned on. FPS goes to 13-14 which is quite good considering there's no optimization in the map yet and it's rendering everything as a whole.

There is a way... Original texture + LightMap + Combiner = High-Quality Static Shadow on SM. Sometimes, people use Projector - more expensive...

I'd love to see an example sometime if you could whip one up.

I'm sure someone could make a mod for it. I saw a cell shading demo script for UT2004.

I don't think that feature is available for our version of UE2. We can't even do bump mapping...

One thing that was done that was somewhat interesting is that when we had a 3d modeler, he took a mesh he made and loaded the texture onto it and added light in the same direction the map had it and baked a shadow into the texture itself so only 1 texture was needed. This isn't bad but texture quality could degrade it and if you change/move light sources, it obviously won't update.

True: it's not about the HD space - it's about the performance. AA3 maps are more complex (static meshes are more detailed, textures with higher resolution, sounds with higher quality etc.) and this will have direct impact on......those people.
I not worried about me, my PC is one level up than Hi-End, but for most people even the middle-high end pc is beyond the reach.

Your computer is largely irrelevant as long as it's dual-core or higher. 2.5 only makes use of 1 core. The stuff in newer games isn't exponentially more detailed. AA3 performance hit was more on the engine's features than the map content. There might have been things like fog and weather effects that are much better looking but they come at a higher CPU price. My point is, I've played some of the AA3 maps and the performance is low but that's largely due to them not being optimized. Once Zones, Anti-Portals and perhaps even cull distances are setup, the maps should be very close to 2.5's maps. More staticmeshes is a good thing, they're faster to render than BSP which a lot of 2.5 maps are made out of (Pipeline...).

Yea, I heard BF3 had a shit single player. I enjoy that more than multiplayer sometimes because you have to spend quite a few hours leveling up and getting to the level of experience where you can actually compete with others and not die every 20 seconds. I loved the hell out of BFBC2 (over 1000 hours) and honestly look forward to BF4.

I don't think people like these games due to the realism (or lack thereof) but rather to the immersive features, large maps and cinematic effects. It's more of a Hollywood game rather than a realistic shooter.

I'm with ya Froster but as you can see, others don't feel the same way so that's why the poll was made. Let the community decide. Course, it will get voted in and then people will come here and rage because they didn't bother to come here and know what was going on with this game.