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**Hook** · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: BLOG – Hook – 1/11/07

BLOG – Hook – 1/11/07

Well, it is a New Year Again! - HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone!
Wow and UT99 is Still GOING STRONG! Seven plus years now!
The time has gone so fast. It seems like just a few months ago I received UT99 for Christmas of 1999!

I had played it before on someone else’s computer. I thought it was great!
I then found out that there was also included with the game a 3D editor called UnrealED2.
Oh boy, I had to check this thing out. I already loved doing graphics on the computer.

The thing (UnrealED2) was confusing and a bit scary the first few times I looked at it.
It wouldn't do much of anything no matter what I tried to do.
I put UnrealED2 away for awhile then took another look at it months later.
Time to hit the internet to find out about UnrealED2!
Well, in no time I was soaking up anything & everything I could find on UnrealED2.
In those days there was not a whole lot out there yet about UnrealED2.
Epic Games didn't give any clue as to how to use UnrealED2. I started out doing a 2-room tutorial.
I finished it but kept right on building on to it.

This "Gem" ended up being my first map I published for UT99 called DM-FragginsteinCastle.
It became very popular in those days and is still on the online servers today.
In fact, it is still one of the top ten downloaded UT99 DM maps on File Planet. (Last I Looked LOL)

And to think it started out as a tutorial map! LOL
The tutorial part of the map is way down in the lowest part of the underground dungeons.
If you want to find out where this is, download the map from either of my sites, or from many sites on the net.
Look where the mirror is on the wall in the corridor between two rooms.
These two rooms & the corridor between them made up the tutorial that I started from - with a few decorations of course.
In a "nut shell", I was "Hooked" on mapping - Big Time!
I still have several "Beta" maps that I shelved some time ago. I hope to finish these soon.
I may post these Beta maps in my Beta Download section on the Map Download page on both of my sites soon.
A couple of these beta maps are becoming very fun to play.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that if the UnrealEd2 looks hard but you would like to map, try it.
It is not that bad once you know how to use UnrealEd2, really. Let me (Hook) know!

I have some excellent material & tutorials to get you going! It is actually fairly easy to map! New maps for UT99 keep it going! - UT99 forever!

Next Up??? – Stay Tuned!
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