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Make Something Unreal Contest for UT3 4 April 2008 10:34 am
Epic, along with Intel, have announced a new Make Something Unreal Competition for UT3 MapMixer won first place in the Tools Category of Phase 2 in the last competition, along with fourth place in the 3rd Phase.
Assuming it is possible to complete MapMixer for UT3, which is looking highly probably at the moment, I will be entering the competition. The first Phase closes on 27th June, so I'm going to have to work pretty hard to get MapMixer out of Alpha and Beta stages by then. I've had enormous challenges this time with MapMixer, and I've had to spend a great deal of time working around things that I never had to deal with in previous version of the mod.
I'm not too bothered though if I don't make the deadline for the first phase, as the competition is not my primary motivation for MapMixer and it's an awful lot for just one person to accomplish.
Assuming it is possible to complete MapMixer for UT3, which is looking highly probably at the moment, I will be entering the competition. The first Phase closes on 27th June, so I'm going to have to work pretty hard to get MapMixer out of Alpha and Beta stages by then. I've had enormous challenges this time with MapMixer, and I've had to spend a great deal of time working around things that I never had to deal with in previous version of the mod.
I'm not too bothered though if I don't make the deadline for the first phase, as the competition is not my primary motivation for MapMixer and it's an awful lot for just one person to accomplish.
What's up Epic? 29 March 2008 11:44 am
A little off the topic of MapMixer, but I'm a bit perplexed. Ever since I got hold of UT3, I've been trawling through the source code for the game and pondering over the many anomalies I see both in the game environment and out. From my point of view, it seems somewhat apparent that UT3 lacks a great deal of polish for a game that took so long to develop. I see a lot of things seem unfinished or just outright bizarre. Take the small example of the lack of Team Preference option - so easy to implement that I still can't come to terms with why it isn't there - even now.
Now with the first small bonus pack released I find myself facing more strange oddities. If we leave aside the fact that there are obvious bugs in these maps - why were they released without Map Preview Pictures, or in fact any sort of real Map Information. A glaring peculiarity is that the maps don't show up as Official maps - because they aren't marked as such. Neither do they show up as "Epic" Authored maps. Perhaps it's the mod community's job to fix. :\
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make enemies at Epic, I love the core of UT3 but I'm so perplexed at this lack of finesse that continues to this present day.
Now with the first small bonus pack released I find myself facing more strange oddities. If we leave aside the fact that there are obvious bugs in these maps - why were they released without Map Preview Pictures, or in fact any sort of real Map Information. A glaring peculiarity is that the maps don't show up as Official maps - because they aren't marked as such. Neither do they show up as "Epic" Authored maps. Perhaps it's the mod community's job to fix. :\
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make enemies at Epic, I love the core of UT3 but I'm so perplexed at this lack of finesse that continues to this present day.
The Map List Editor 18 March 2008 12:28 am
I've been quite busy with MapMixer of late and have produced some screenshots of the Map List Editor, which I am quite happy with.
You can check them out in the Progress Thread. Or here to go straight to the post
You can check them out in the Progress Thread. Or here to go straight to the post
More Screenshots 29 February 2008 12:45 pm
I've added more screenshots, showing the progress of MapMixer v3 for UT3.
Check the progress topic here.
Check the progress topic here.