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Depth

Unreal Tournament 3 mod | TBD

Depth is being planned as a stealth-centric team-game for the Unreal Engine 3.0 In Depth , two teams of adversaries square off in an underwater world, with very different objectives. The Ocean Predators are a group of notoriously ill tempered sharks who's stomping ground always seems to be closeby sunken wrecks. They hunt in packs, and woe to anyone who gets too close to the valuables they are protecting. The Fortune Divers are a group of greed-driven men and women who have decided that the possibility of sunken treasures at the bottom of the ocean is motivation enough to put aside their fears and take the plunge. They operate in teams, and are mostly defenseless, but for a small collection of gadgets which can ward off predators - temporarily. The premise is straightforward - As a diver you must explore a series of cavernous wrecks ranging from Sunken 18th Century Galleys and Second World War battleships to submerged ruins of long lost cities in an effort to recover valuable artifacts...

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I am slowly building a library of assets that will be ready for importing into the Unreal Engine 3.0 when the proper tools become available with the release of Unreal Tournament 3. I am aware that "Roboblitz" offers some rudimentary access to the workings of the engine, but I am going to hold

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Below I've included some renders of a variety of characters and environmental props I have been designing. At this time I am the only visual artist working on this project - and unless the need becomes exceptionally dire, I am planning for it to remain this way all the way through to Depth's release.

that having been said...

I am definitely in the market for talented Musicians , Audio Effects Artists ,Unrealscript Programmers , and Web Designers who would be interested in working on an ambitious multi player project.

If you are indeed curious about the project - drop a line to me through email
jesusrocko@hotmail.com

Comments

SSnake Jul 16 2007, 2:09am says:

What particular aspects are you talking about directly then? I don't think UT3 will release the header files so you won't have access to the engine anyways (The last time Epic did that was for Unreal Tournament).

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ambershee Jul 16 2007, 1:22am says:

Well you would do, Unrealscript hasn't really changed. Unrealscript isn't the engine though.

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OmeVince Jul 15 2007, 5:08pm says:

This mod idea sounds so awesome, and the visuals look great so far! Keep up the great work :D
*watching

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Aeneas2020 Jul 15 2007, 5:28pm says:

looking nice congrats mate and enjoy working on the visuals alone but dnt bite off more than u can chew :) (im sure u know what ur doing)g

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SSnake Jul 15 2007, 9:24pm says:

Quote:rudimentary access to the workings of the engine

I'd disagree with that. I haven't come across many things that I couldn't do in UT2004 that I can in RoboBlitz.

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ambershee Jul 15 2007, 9:31pm says:

Rudimentary access to the workings of Unreal Tournament 3.

Not 2004.

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TKAzA Jul 16 2007, 12:07am says:

Nice work mr kadish :)

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SSnake Jul 16 2007, 12:25am says:

Quote:Rudimentary access to the workings of Unreal Tournament 3.

Read me post a little more carefully. What I meant was, I am able to do almost everything in RoboBlitz that I could do in Unreal Tournament 2004. This means pretty much everything including multiplayer. I was able to recreate the pawn + movement, weapons, vehicles, AI, etc etc...

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Capital88 Jul 16 2007, 10:41am says:

Gorgeous stuff for a great mod idea! Good to see some action coming out of the other UT3 mods lately!

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ambershee Jul 16 2007, 2:05pm says:

Graphical capabilities for a start. UT2004 doesn't have normal maps as an example, amongst many other things ;)

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Ging Jul 16 2007, 7:04pm says:

But RoboBlitz does - so your point is moot...

Roboblitz does do something things oddly, like not supporting materials with only an alpha channel (one of our artists when he was playing with it used the emissive channel instead and he's got prior experience with the toolset), but there's certainly no real reason not to start working on the basics of your mod code now. (though it may require more experience with Uscript than if you were working with UT3)

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Capital88 Jul 16 2007, 7:18pm says:

...and full kismet functionality and full uscript functionality are vastly limited compared to what the ut3 sdk will offer...really what RB is good for is starting on level design, because bsp will be compatible over to ut3

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SSnake Jul 16 2007, 8:13pm says:

Quote:...and full kismet functionality and full uscript functionality are vastly limited compared to what the ut3 sdk will offer...really what RB is good for is starting on level design, because bsp will be compatible over to ut3

Uhh, like I said, I have come across so little in RoboBlitz that I could not do in UT2004 code wise.

I think what people mean is, there isn't any base code in RoboBlitz that people are able to use. Such as the fact that there isn't any real weapon code, or pawn code, or gametype code etc. That wasn't a problem for me, as I just wrote all of those things.

Kismet is a subset of Unrealscript, in that Unrealscript can interface directly with Kismet. In fact you can build new Kismet nodes within Unrealscript, which is what I did with my mathematical functions for Kismet.

Quote:though it may require more experience with Uscript than if you were working with UT3

I would agree with that comment. The question isn't the fact that RoboBlitz can't do some things, its the question that there isn't any code available already or examples to base off from.

Ging has the right idea :)

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