Nuclear Dawn is a modification for Valve’s Source engine that combines visceral and violent First Person Shooter action with fast-paced Real Time Strategy in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war. You can choose the mission or lead the attack as a commander, marshalling resources and deploying weapons and equipment for your team to use. You can storm a building as an assault trooper, cling to the shadows and rely on your active camouflage as a stealth, or unleash terrible firepower from a powered suit of exo-armor. You have the responsibility and the power to decide the outcome of every engagement. If your opponents are lucky there will be enough of them left to bury.

Report this article New media and Level Designer recruitment

Nuclear Dawn is looking for new level designers to produce maps for the initial release of the modification.

Posted by Forceflow on Mar 27th, 2008 digg this super bookmark


It's been a bit quiet lately, but once again we're ready to stir it up a notch with new media and a call for development talent!

Media

The middle render is a new structure, the Resource Station, modeled and skinned by our ever-talented SquirrelyJones. Yes, those are robot arms.


The Grenade Launcher we revealed in a previous newspost is in-game and
working, along with most of the other Nuclear Dawn weaponry.

Recruitment

The Nuclear Dawn team is looking for 1-2 level designers to produce maps for the initial release of the mod.

  • Examples of previous work required
  • Experience with the Source Engine and game modifications is required
  • Expert knowledge of Valve Hammer Editor required
  • Ability to create own textures and props is a plus. We've got quite a library of excellent ND assets to choose from as well.
  • Experience with SVN and TRAC is a plus.

For more information and position applications, see this thread in our Recruitment board.

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FJS
FJS Mar 27 2008, 5:25pm says:

Hey, you are alive! :D

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Caspar
Caspar Mar 27 2008, 5:59pm says:

Thank god this mod is still going :D

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Mar 27 2008, 6:05pm says:

Looking good.

Strange that they took screens in a hl2 map, while they have fantastic maps of their own.

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Forceflow
Forceflow Mar 27 2008, 6:21pm replied:

Betelgeuze: it is a test map, I just wanted the focus on the weapons.

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Mar 27 2008, 7:41pm replied:

Oh I see :)

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Snarboo
Snarboo Mar 27 2008, 6:09pm says:

Glad to see an update. :)

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Totally_tonedef
Totally_tonedef Mar 27 2008, 8:14pm says:

Nice to see the mod is still going...been a long one :)

As for the guns, those textures look odd...almost as if the guns are made of iron. Too rough, light, and foggy of a texture to look like a material used for a gun. Love the designs though :)

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Corncobster
Corncobster Mar 27 2008, 8:36pm says:

praise gordon

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CaptainSource
CaptainSource Mar 27 2008, 8:53pm says:

A good update and I have to agree that the textures on the weapons look either too low res or something. I would suggest doubling either the length or height of the main file to allow more detail. Also, try using the phong shader and exponent maps as it is amazing how much it brings the models to life. Love the robotic manipulator case, nice work.

"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "models/weapons/VulcanPhaser_UV"
"$bumpmap" "models/weapons/VulcanPhaser_normal"
"$phong" "1"

"$phongboost" "1"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[1 3 8]"
"$model" 1
"$phongexponenttexture" "models/weapons/VulcanPhaser_ex"
"$phongalbedotint" "1"

"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$envmapcontrast" 1
"$envmapsaturation" 1
"$envmaptint" "[ .40 .40 .40 ]"

}

And am sure you don't need my suggestions as you have an amazing mod there guys.

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Varsity
Varsity Mar 28 2008, 4:18am replied:

From the look of the map, the screens were taken with low-end video settings.

(Also, because this annoys me: you don't need all those quote marks unless the key or value has a space in it! Just a pet hate. :-) )

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Harimau
Harimau Mar 27 2008, 9:25pm says:

nice.

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Forceflow
Forceflow Mar 28 2008, 6:20am says:

Low res screens are mea culpa - sorry. :)

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Smokee_svk
Smokee_svk Mar 28 2008, 7:22am says:

The Resource Station is looking very good!

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oWn4g3
oWn4g3 Mar 28 2008, 8:54am says:

Looks good, especially the resource station
The atmosphere that comes with all those ingame scenes is great.
I hope the gameplay will rock too.

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STPDeveloping
STPDeveloping Mar 28 2008, 9:13am says:

Your lack of anti-aliasing disturbs me... But otherwise, very cool weapons :D

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Phoenix85
Phoenix85 Mar 28 2008, 12:27pm says:

looks awesome, its great to see you guys are still kicking

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Masterhobbes
Masterhobbes Mar 29 2008, 12:05am says:

We are still alive, we shall never die, LONG LIVE NUCLEAR DAWN.

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SinKing
SinKing Mar 29 2008, 3:13am says:

Doing it slow hopefully means doing it right. man, Nuclear Dawn was already in production, when I joined ModdB...and that was almost two years ago. Time passed without big updates.

Any idea when you'll finish this beast?

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mesen
mesen Mar 29 2008, 5:12am says:

yaay! the mod is not dead! i love it! this looks awesome!
nice work!

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AniCator
AniCator May 25 2008, 12:01pm says:

I'm tracking this one!

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|KILroy|
|KILroy| Jun 22 2008, 9:23pm says:

Hope you guys level designer, keep up the fantastic progress doods!

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