MapMixer is a modification for the game Unreal Tournament 3 (a game by Epic Games).
It's designed to give you more control over the way you launch and manage your game session in UT3. At its core it works as a Mutator that hooks into the game, providing its unique management operations, however, it does much more. It replaces the UT3 Main Menu and provides direct links to the MapMixer Menus as well as the standard Settings Menus. MapMixer has been specifically designed from the ground up for both standalone and server environments.
The core philosophy of MapMixer is that each match you play in a game session should not be confined by one set of parameters. In other words, each match in a game session should be allowed its own individual settings, such as Game Type, Map, Rules, Mutators, Player Counts and Bots.
MapMixer provides two methods to launch a game session. The Quick Session allows you to get into the action quickly, whereas the Advanced Session gives you much greater depth in terms of customisation and randomisation. For example, in the Advanced Session, you may like to make each match a little unpredictable by randomising the setup of each match. Perhaps you’d like the Goal Score for Deathmatch to be a random value between 30 and 50, or you’d like a 5% chance that the Big Head Mutator is enabled.
In an Advanced Session, maps can have their own individual default options, either globally or for a specific Gametype. For example, you may like a particular Map to always appear with a certain Mutator or perhaps you’d like to alter the recommended Player Counts for a specific Map across different Gametypes.
MapMixer allows you to customise common settings and easily switch between configurations. With the Advanced Session Menu, you can create Lists of Settings for Rules and Mutators etc. Use the Map List Editor to create a single list of maps combined from various gametypes, individually customising them, or alternatively let MapMixer create your Session Map List by telling it what Map Sources to use and how to select from them.
MapMixer also contains its own independent Faction Management system where you can easily create and manage your own Factions, all in a graphical user interface, with the ability directly customise the look and attributes of each character, or create your own.
Each player in a MapMixer hosted session has access to an in-game Client Menu, that lets them individualise parts of their in-game experience, per user login.
Great care has been taken to support any possible gametype in a generic manner, where no dependancies are created on additonal downloadable content. To support a gametype, all you need do is modify a configuration file, and MapMixer comes pre-configured for use with a number of community gametypes.
MapMixer keeps all its settings completely separate from the game and will not overwrite or harm any original setting.
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You know, a lot changes as time goes by - and that's a good thing. One thing that hasn't changed but is still a good thing is the fact the UT3 is simply a great game. It has it's shortcoming but nevertheless I thought that much of the game that I invested a huge amount of my time to bring MapMixer to UT3. Never regretted it for a second!
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I'd made a 3.02 version quite some time ago now and never got around to releasing it. It has some important bug fixes. I just got slack and it never saw the light of day. If you're interested in me digging this version out for public release, let me know.
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MapMixer 3.03
Full Version 13 commentsThis is a minor full release version containing some bug fixes from the 3.01 release. I've had this version kicking around for a few years. The announcement...
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Full Version 7 commentsThis is a minor full release version containing some small improvements and bug fixes from the original 3.00 release.
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I do quite like the new character editor, but does anyone have any idea how to create a custom character for your own character using this? It seems as though you can only edit the other characters but not your character, as in, the player character.
and this is compatible with foxmod?
i dont know why, but i cant find the utgame.ini, what i have to do?
After following installation instructions i'm still seeing vanilla UI for some reason. Could someone help me out here?
that is still happening to me too
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Documentation link is down Mapmixer.oceaniaut.com
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Fantastic! A must-have modification.
Hi sinx, do you still happen to have that 3.02 version? Could you please upload it? That would be great! Thanks.
Version 3.03 should be available shortly (awaiting moddb).