I've been doing some research on modular level design in order to start working on the game idea I have. Since there are going to be 3 large castles, I needed to figure out a way to actually model those and make them different.
I was forwarded to this link, which is a 6 page article by Epic Games on how they do their modular levels, so I thought I'd share it with the forums.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/rsrc/Thr ... Design.pdf
Also, if anyone else is interested, there are two really good tutorials for next-gen settings and next-gen texture at this link:
http://www.amc.ro/
Click "shares" at the bottom, and those are the first two tutorials.
Modular level design by Epic Games
Modular level design by Epic Games
Last edited by D3luxe on Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Modular level design by Epic Games
I just realized I forgot to add the Epic Games link..just updated the first post with it, lol.


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Re: Modular level design by Epic Games
There goes my next-gen tutorial for the contestD3luxe wrote:Also, if anyone else is interested, there are two really good tutorials for next-gen settings and next-gen texture at this link:
http://www.amc.ro/
Click "shares" at the bottom, and those are the first two tutorials.



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Re: Modular level design by Epic Games
Awww!!Last Known Hero wrote:There goes my next-gen tutorial for the contestD3luxe wrote:Also, if anyone else is interested, there are two really good tutorials for next-gen settings and next-gen texture at this link:
http://www.amc.ro/
Click "shares" at the bottom, and those are the first two tutorials.![]()
Re: Modular level design by Epic Games
Hehe, sorry man!
Hey, the more tutorials the better imo. Everyone has different approaches, so I'm surethat this isn't exactly the same pipeline as your tut?
Hey, the more tutorials the better imo. Everyone has different approaches, so I'm surethat this isn't exactly the same pipeline as your tut?

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