With the UnrealED Dungeon Maker you can create maps in *.t3d format ( 3D text ), using a 2D map designer.
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With it you can create complete dungeons without any mapping experience and play them inside Unreal.
The editor exists out of a two dimensional grid and alot of tiles, you are probably guessing it already:
Draw a hallway, add some corners or curves at the endings, go to the actor list, paste some lights in and a playerstart and there you have it, your first Unreal map!
The tiles are fully customizable, but more important you can add your own tiles too! ( You will need mapping experience though )
The editor gets alot of updates and the tiles, actors, plugins and you name it are all updatable on a single click, this means you can get the latest tiles that others made and you can use them for your own maps right away.
Including not only help files ( wich are updated for every new release automaticly ) there is also an optional chat so you can ask live questions or talk to other developers currently inside the program!
I hope you all enjoy this new tool and I hope to get more people see how much fun Unreal can be if you do it yourself.
i HAVE TESTED THIS, works amazingly, even allows you to automatically put path nodes/lights/pawns-weapons into your map. This is great tool and easy as all get out
Herm even easy for you, all you do is drag the shapes onto the grid and boom you have yourself a basic map and Layers, then export the file in unrealEd and CLICK the Build button and you'll see the creation.
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