So to wrap up my Throne Room posts from a little bit ago, the contest wrapped up and I managed to squeak into 10th place! Only the 9th loser, not bad!

But I got the prize I was shooting for so I'm happy!

Now, back to Qonquer jamming ...

http://www.polycount.com/2015/04/07/the-throne-room-10th-4th-place-winners/ 

Grats and well deserved! 

cool warren. probably only 10th because, well, it wasn't really a throne (if that's what the contest required), but it still looked cool. 

On noticing you're using Modo to UE4, what's your pipeline? I had some trouble exporting FBXes that UE4 would accept, and I'm just wondering if it might be that my Modo version is too old or if there is something special you have to do to make it work. 

I use the FBX 2010 exporter inside of MODO, if that helps. I use MODO 801 as well.

Does that help? 

Kona - It's funny because a bunch of people messaged me saying how much they liked my scene and it should have ranked higher. I even had a few judges tell me I was in their top 3 - yet, 10th place. :)

I don't mind tho, as the prize for 4th-10th was exactly the same so other than ego there's no difference.

Was a fun contest tho, and I had a blast making all those props... 

It helps in that now I know it's just supposed to work, and I don't have to do any conversion steps inbetween.
I'm still using Modo 501, so I guess my problem is it doesn't support the right format? Time to try to upgrade I suppose!
I did get it to correctly import geometry, but the UVs were missing. 

501 might be the problem, yeah ... I don't know how that version handled FBX files. :) 

It does output something that identifies itself as FBX 2010, but probably not the right FBX 2010.

Thanks for the info! 

If it helps, this is my FBX export settings in MODO ... and it's a screenshot so it's on topic!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/2015-04-08%2006_27_38-Preferences.jpg 

this thread called screenshots & betas for purpose. 

 

 

 

 

so it's a beta of a tool, get over it 

Didn't mean to get in the way of the flood of screenshots pouring into the thread. 

This doesn't work for the modified .map files in COD: WAW :( 

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/k1.jpg

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/k2.jpg 

I think the candles in shot 2 should create a brighter hot spot around them, it seems very flat atm.

Shot 1 looks really cool. Again maybe a little dark though. Nice atmosphere however! 

I took out all the lights and replaced it with the new sunlight stuff and also added dirt mapping. I loved his map but the lighting seemed like fullbright. I also added WarrenM's skybox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ueyhc3a7bn33efa/hypnos.png?dl=0 

Feels like a domish start of Quake4.
skybox greys me out and wrench my tornados! 

this time tronyn :) 

is hypnos ok to release that version? 

http://scampie.net/privfiles/QuickerQonquer.zip

Not a full release or anything, no bug fixes or anything... but if anyone wants to try this out, I've tweaked Qonquer a little to make the early rounds faster.

There are more enemies at a time, a little less delay between spawns, and time between waves is shortened. The effects of difficulty are much more pronounced now too.

I tried not to go too crazy so all the jam maps wouldn't become unbalanced (items still respawn at the same rate, so I can't make it too fast!), but I think this will help get to that later fun rounds faster