Advice on creating an environment

LoneHunter

I'm creating an environment for a side scrolling game in UDK and am looking for some advice about the best way to go about it. Basically, it 's a platformer and for this level the player jumps over rooftops of a sci-fi shanty town on the outskirts of a city.

The issue that I am having is the best way to create the assets, eg; create whole buildings as one mesh and unwrap it,

OR create the basic structures of buildings and use tilable textures for them, then create things like roof sections and balconies etc as separate models and use them to create interesting bits throughout the scene

OR split the buildings up into kits and join them into buildings in UDK

OR any other way that you can suggest...


Thanks

Jeff Parrott

I would look at the polycount challenge that was 6 months ago or so.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76168

For great ideas and how other people handled it.

LoneHunter

Thanks for the link. I've been looking through some of the entries and they have given me some ideas on how to go forward.

cholden

Wanted to add, if you missed it, LoneHunter, several of those UDK maps can be downloading on Epic's site: http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=753280

So, you can get a really good look at them if you want.

LoneHunter

Thanks cholden I'll have a look at them, seeing how they have been done and the way that they are put together will really help me understand the process better.