MechOverride mod for Unreal Tournament 3

Shader removes to much light try to tweak some more or you wont be able to see anything :P

BTW posting a vid of the shader ingame and use would be cool.

First map is almost finished. Female and Male character model have been imported and tested with the rotoscope shader. Images will be in our first official release, end of May.

Hopefully we'll be able to show some early wip with the shader in live action.

Progress is slow, as we are lacking environmental artists. We have setup the first team of environmental artists and they are working on the first scene we are creating.
The scene will feature a short encounter with one Mech and will most likely end up being in the trailer, too. So WIP work of that is sure to come, yet I can't exactly say, when.

You can join our forums on www.Gaiamedia.de and I'll keep you posted on updates. A first batch of concept art should be released before the map (and scene) in mid May.

any progress?

Well, the script is in its fourth and final draft now, so the plot has changed a little in time. The main events are still in it, but the script is taking up a whole lot of action lately, where it had lots of dialogue before.

I don't much like the comparison to the Matrix, although I see why so many are making it. Yet, the matrix was a universe split in a real and a forged world, while there is only one world in MechOverride and different ideas about how to maintain human life in the dawn of civilisation. Three philosophies clash with each other in struggle of leadership over humanity and MechOverride is the story of who wins this struggle and leads humanity into the future: artificial AI/robots, the military, or civil persons.

It's a story about power and about taking the power from somebody's hands. Each of the three fractions have different ways of preserving power. And the ones who are rather powerless at the start will have to fight by other means, than by using force. They are too weak for a direct attack, so they have to play the two other parties against each other.

In the Matrix, Neo would grow in powers. He learns and changes and becomes victorious of his own doubts, by becoming the "one". It's a completely different setup here. The hero of the story gets built while it is progressing - a robot of course. The human protagonist is weak compared to everyone around him, yet he wants to win the battle for himself. All parties have strong ideas about this final strike and they all believe they will be winning in the end. Yet only one person holds all the strings in his hands - in a remembrance of great pulp stories written by Paul Cain - and will be the Con-Man to the others. He will betray them all and win the war. For himself and for the future.

The Matrix story was a much simpler story, with characters being either good or bad. In my script there are characters, which can be both. All want the power, some want it for good, others for bad, others for what they believe is good, but isn't. I'm still wondering how I will put it all into a 30min reel. We'll see!
Stay tuned!
SinKing

not quite sure what the plot is ... it almost sounds like the terminator movie series and HL2 series mixed together ...

Sounds very much like the matrix story to me.
:)

Just like with Halo 2 Vista. A mod was in work waaaaay before it was ready. And with results.