Custom Level Design, Updated

[jarheadkiller4755]

i dont know who you are or if you work for a company or school i dont care i have to say if you really made this... i dont know what to say fuing awsome bro gratz

[DarkBunnyLord]

@jarheadkiller4755 A few hours work in a custom level editor really. It was a project for a very basic level design class, I didn't make the 3D models or textures (I could easily now but not when I did this seeing how old it is). It looks more impressive than it is though haha, if you pick up a copy of morrowind and play with the level editor it's pretty easy to do stuff like this once you learn all the commands and where to find stuff. The hardest part is just shaping the land.

[ClanBasedGaming]

looks like endor... just waiting for an ewok to scream at me =]

[ZackMapenus]

nice, but not EPIC enough to use that piece of music ;)

[DarkBunnyLord]

@ZackMapenus Hey hey hey, I was one guy doing a three man project in a span of about a month, I'll use whatever music I damn well please haha.

[Scarlov87]

MR thats a nice work you have :D well done :D

[osmosys808]

Lol not the requiem for a dream song AGAIN! It's in every damn video on youtube.

Awesome level though!

[DarkBunnyLord]

@osmosys808 Haha, I know I know. This was years ago though and to be fair it was 3 person project on which I had to do all the work (yay for getting stuck with people that produce nothing).

[bgpivoter]

Use the Source engine, man! It's awesome!

[cezar40]

trully great map

[10daystilldawn]

enemy threat would be massive as you walk along the rope bridges, pretty sweet!

[doublesob]

very awesome work

[BriansBreak]

And then i ... jizzed in my pants!!!!!...... OHH and what song is this ? i had it a while ago but then i forgot it D:

[robloxaddict]

the only thing i find bad about it is the draw distance (distance you can see) is horrible...

[DarkBunnyLord]

@robloxaddict It was do to the engine, I wasn't able to get it to draw any further. The engine it used was built far back when PC's didn't have nearly close to the processing power they did now, thus the draw distance was capped at the range you see.

[warzix]

congratulations man, that is looking good

[TheLangers500]

looks like star wars battlefront on the 2nd clip

[BmCNinJa]

what college you go to....?

[DarkBunnyLord]

Yes, like I've had to say to a few others, please read the description on the side.

[LazarRedDevil95]

name of the song? and good job mate!

[DarkBunnyLord]

Requiem for a Dream, it's at the end credits bit and thank you very much. Made this a long while back so I'm currently doing all my own models and texturing (though it takes much longer than just assembling mostly pre-made stuff).

[LazarRedDevil95]

Yeah ,programming is pretty hard but texturing is i think harder, btw i make programs in visual basic 08. And i hope you make more great games like this!

[DarkBunnyLord]

For some perhaps, I'm an artistically minded individual though. Started on 2d work before I ever got into 3d, and to be honest it's still where my pashion lies.

I don't hate 3d artwork, don't get me wrong, but like many artists I have a lot of idea's and don't like spending to much time on just one of them, which with 3d modeling / level design is a bit of a tough thing to get over since you need to spend so much more time on them.

[LazarRedDevil95]

Ok , and what program do you use for texturing?

[DarkBunnyLord]

Photoshop for creating textures and maya for wrapping / unwrapping. I got mudbox a while back but haven't had the time to learn it. From what I understand it's fantastic at doing textures.

[DarkBunnyLord]

Thanks, I think I played Myst once, a long long time ago at my grandparents house (cousins that visited often left they're PS1 there). Though only a very short bit of it.

[vennikene]

Oh ok, but its still awesome :D

[vennikene]

This is so awesome! Is this program free to download?

[DarkBunnyLord]

Unfortunately no, it's "the elder scrolls 3, morrowind" it's an old game 2001ish I want to say but not sure. I know it came out for the original x-box and pc though I'm not sure if the x-box version had an editor. You might find it in an old used bin at a gamestop maybe, but most likely you'd have to special order it or find a torrent download (illegal for the 2nd technically) if you wanted to get your hands on it.

[brandonhud60]

i got it at my local game shop today ^_^ it came with both disks which was a result :P

[NSOnos]

Did you make the static models yourself? If so, those were really good and just needed animations for a real good model. And then a little tip I've learned over a while, is to take it slow when running around the map, don't snap the camera around so much. When you do that, it makes the runthrough seemed rushed, or like you were trying to hide something. It also doesn't let you take a good look at a lot of things.

[DarkBunnyLord]

In addition to my last post, we had a total of 3 minutes to show off what we had so I was a bit pressed for time, also the editor was very sensative to mouse movements so alas a slow flying camera was a bit of a no-go without being able to port this all into max and use a camera fly through that way, none the less many thanks for the crit. I've not had the chance to follow up in doing much level design sense but am interning with a studio doing character artwork concepts.

[marineskabar]

o thought this looked fimiliar

[DarkBunnyLord]

As stated in the info section on the side, I used the Elder Scrolls 3 game for modeling. The class only gave us a few weeks to really get our project done after initial planning so making everything from scratch wasn't at all feasable.

You may have seen the elder scrolls before as 90% of the objects I used in this fly through are from that game (just re-arranged, resized, etc. I could actually imported the entire land mass into the game and walked around after teleporting there to film the vid)

[alecg97]

what kind of software and where can i buy it if i can is it easy to navigate how much dose it cost an for what system meaning mac pc linx

[DarkBunnyLord]

This was made off the game "The Elder Scrolls 3, Morrowind"

It's got a fantastic level editor but it's a much older game so it's going to be a bit though to find in stores.

It requires windows 98 or better I believe (been a long time).

[1dpgbadboy]

whats the name of the soundtrack tell me pls

thx

[alexaltea123]

Look minute 2:45 ;-)

--Requiem For A Dream

[DarkBunnyLord]

It comes with the original morrowind install disk for PC. There is a level designer which is what I used.

The class was basic, I'd much rather of had used 3ds max or something else to allow my own idea's and models to flow freely, alas the teacher wanted a full level done in a short period of time using pre-ready software.

[MrVecheater]

that would be perfect as a game in third person view

[TurboZombieSC]

kinda reminds me of endor from star wars lol.

looks cool though man. i have a level design class in like 4 months and i cant wait. what school did you go to if you dont mind me asking?

[DarkBunnyLord]

Many thanks, rather old but it was fun.

I actually did this at a community college, "RCC" in Norco California.

[TurboZombieSC]

thats cool. are you working in the industry now? Or are you doing something else?

[DarkBunnyLord]

I've worked one internship and have been attempting to get into the industry, alas yet I have not made it in (mind you I don't have my diploma yet).

However, I am about to attend (late may) an event at my college that has game developers present.... where I plan on trying to slide my demo reel in a few pockets and network some friends lol.

[TurboZombieSC]

Thats cool man, good luck. Thats my biggest fear right now, is just getting a job once i graduate school. Im going to Full Sail University in Orlando Florida, and I'm 9 months into the program. I love it so far though. As of right now, i either want to be do animation, or shading and lighting. I like it all though haha.

[echoven]

you should make your owen deadra shrine oblivion style realy nice though

[Gh3masterofrock]

do you get level design classes in collage or highschool? i am going to be freshmen next school year wich is this september and i want to be a level designer for video games

[DarkBunnyLord]

That really depends one what highschool or college you go to.

I was in college when I did this though, our highschool was to cheap to fund enjoyable classes XP

[masterkungfupanda1]

add sum enemies

[danman94125]

You need to smooth the terrain to get rid of the spiky edges

[cathalk]

Where is this Level Design class?

[atatyrknumber1]

have u made this?

[DarkBunnyLord]

Whats in the video has been expanded by about double. I still have 1 week and 1 day left to work on it.