korengal [WIP] Korengal Valley [Vanilla]

[CodeRedFox]

8 hours ago, Romby said:

Is this the general modding discord or do you have a discord for this map?

Its the squad general modding discord. I try to keep this thread updated when ever I can.

[smo0ths]

convoy threw the mountains anyone? lookin good @CodeRedFox

Edited June 28, 2018 by smo0ths

[CodeRedFox]

Alpha walk around up on steam. Check the first page for DL link.

Edited July 6, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[CodeRedFox]

Working on greeble pass here and there. 

 

My splat map guides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 13, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[fatalsushi]

Looking great!

[CodeRedFox]

BIG UPDATE:

After some game play consideration I've expanded the maps road system. The reasoning was that while the US team would be able to get around in helo's to every part of the map and INS was going to have a hard time setting up FOB's with out a road system. This also allow the map to be played a lot more than just the valley. 

Blue = Previous roads
Red =New road network

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[WarEagle751]

Looking great! With the new roads, we can have alternate layouts on the map we can play now. 

[wingman9]

Even the best game in the world is nothing without good maps! I really look forward to this.

[Gatzby]

Whoa, that is a heck of an update. Looks like there are going to be some fantastic ambush points, bwaha.

[CodeRedFox]

With the new roads system that was show I've also decided to expand...or stretch out the lower valley. This give more room for the village of Kandagal, COP Michigan and the future helicopter base to the East. Its still super WIP as I haven't flushed out the new landscape, houses and roads but with some fresh references of the area I can now build it out a lot better. 

 

Old Lower Valley

 

New Lower Valley

 

For the technical people:

• I outputting my landscape as a 16bit PNG.
• Opening it in Photoshop and moving the hills (on the left of the images).
• Then re-importing the 16bit PNG file.

It surprisingly imported exactly as it exported with no odd changes. Woo Hoo! 

 

 

[CodeRedFox]

Hey guys,

 

So I did a full drive all the way arrrrrround Korengal. Took about 38 minutes to go from COP Michigan and back .

 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298766570

[beginna]

I was watching a few minutes of your stream.

the map looks, although WIP, very promising.

 

Do you have any concern regarding steepness of the roads or the lack of torque of some (heavier) vehicles? - From hat I saw, the techie had no problems.
 

[CodeRedFox]

When buiding the road I took a MATV up as my "must be less steep" indicator. I haven't tried all the roads with a logi truck tho.

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[CodeRedFox]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Disco]

WOW! OUTSTANDING WORK!

 

That water effect!!! Well done! It really gives impression of mountain stream!

[koschilein]

Really like how you have real pictures and map/editor side by side to get that authentic look. I cant wait to play this map on a full server, some of my best (an thanks to those freaking holes worst) experiences in PR where on this very map.

 

I loved ambushing as a Taliban, the map really felt so amazing for unconventional forces. And when playing USA you always had to be careful where to step because the enemy was everywhere around you on those damn hills.

 

Good times...

 

 

 

[fatalsushi]

Looks amazing but how do you think performance will be?

[CodeRedFox]

And one more just for environment feels.

 

 

The water currently had a costly displacement on it. I'll look into ways of making that cheaper.

[CHRIS//]

Jesus Christ. It looks amazing.

[CodeRedFox]

Hey everyone a small but sucky update. My video cards been taking a poop randomly with everything (other games, 3dmax, Nuke, Unreal).

 

The dreaded 

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

I'm not sure if its just a coincident but its happen only a few days after installing another version of Unreal, 4.20, for a different project. And I've done all the thing you can think of besides reinstalling the OS.

 

So for now Korengal is on hold until I can get a new card...But I'm weighting that against just getting a new computer. I'm rocking an older i7 with a GTX 770 and its starting to show its age.

 

Anyways, hope to get back into it soon :-\

 

Edited October 2, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[beginna]

4 hours ago, CodeRedFox said:

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

I'm not sure if its just a coincident but its happen only a few days after installing another version of Unreal, 4.20, for a different project. And I've done all the thing you can think of besides reinstalling the OS.

did you try to:

• downgrade nvidia driver
• down-clock the gpu a few 100 mhz, this is almost always guaranteed to work. (tested it on multiple occasions, and suggested it to multiple people)
  https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/545292/unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-l-3.html

tool to down-clock gpu:

http://download.msi.com/uti_exe//vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip

[CodeRedFox]

Yeah I tried all of those. The down-clock sorta worked but not where I would bet a save file on.

 

PLUS, how I'm I suppose to convince the wife I "need" a new computer when the old one still sorta works!

[CodeRedFox]

Alright new GPU. Its been stressed tested with Star Citizen and a few VFX projects. I just got the new SDK and will be looking over to see what changed and what needs to be fixed.

 

Super excited with the new Squads Next Phase update. I'm hoping to get Korengal working at a better FPS...and A-10 strikes!

Edited December 4, 2018 by CodeRedFox

[WarEagle751]

I look forward to it.

[pump_action_facial]

yeah looking forward to this. this needs to be an official map!