Can we not just do a poll to make a desition if it will be a FPS a open world game and more. i totaly want to contribute to this.
I just read the GitHub terms and it requires you to use less than 1GB, so it’s not doable there.
We have other alternatives, we could use free hosting like mega.co.nz, you can have 50GB of free storage on there. I know it’s not the best solution but everyone would make something and post it for the community, then we would have some level designers that would take the assets and put them together in a big map that would make the city, they would share this map with us the same way, maybe not daily but weekly?
Another solution would be the support of Epic, they have storage and they like helping the community, also this would benefit them as a huge asset like this would benefit many many developers, so more revenue for them, some might even switch to UE4 just because they already have a city ready to use and just build gameplay and a story around it. They’re hosting the ARK survival evolved dev kit which is 42GB, so maybe they’d help us aswell if they saw a big part of the community dedicated to the project
In the end when the project is gonna be finished it’s gonna be on the marketplace
One thing we will have to be mindful of. we cant asign specific tasks to individuals because as a community we have no idea of what talents and skills any have to offer Never burden the community with obligations. Then it will not be enjoyable. Many cant spend alot of time on it, many can. Many will make the same materials as well as with objects. Which objects gets pick for what scene or even at all. The scale of the objects will play a huge role of will the connections of others models fit propperly. So many factors to view
Look at Bitbucket
This would not be a full game just an asset/massive template for developers to use.
We would build the city with the most amount of details possible, making it future proof and usable in many games, since it would be modular the developers will be able to take it apart, remove or add stuff to their liking, since we should cover most gameplay types we would make it as open world, so in case someone wants to climb on the roof or go inside the building they can.
If someone wants to use it for an FPS game, great, they might not need access to the rooftop or some interiors, they can simply leave them out.
Remember that not everything is fixed, the city map would be just an example, everyone can and will modify it or just start from scratch just inserting the buildings wherever they want them, of course they can also use the city that comes out of the box
Like Kevindt123 said lets do a poll to see who would most likely participate in this type of community project. Clearly it isnt available now in the forums so. WHo would vote. Need to clearify this so others will not mistake that epic already has it under the guise of their community section. Double I think it should be you who does this poll vote since it was your idea
No one is obligating anyone to do anything, this is a community project, whoever wants to do it can do it.
We’ll have a list of tasks, maybe in the form of trello board, and whoever wants to work on something they’ll assign themselves to that part of the project.
So for example the list will have:
- model bridge
- model fire hydrant
- model building facade
Then when someone check out the available tasks above they’ll chose which one to do based on their skills and time, when someone chooses to work on something the task will be marked with their name so people will know that someone is already working on it
You are all getting me wrong, this is not the thread to make a community built city map, this is a generic mega community project, in here we decide on **what **to work, the mega city is just my idea, if you guys think that something else has a higher priority then we decide and then we’ll start working on that particular project.
If the community decides to make a huge spaceship with interiors instead and more people think it would benefit more the community then kudos, we can work on that.
It just has to be something massive, something not accomplishable by one person or a small team but many of us.
So for example a collection of weapons would not suit this topic as each weapon can be used as standalone asset, and if someone has a pistol doesn’t mean they need an rpg with it.
A city is a mega project because one building or one fire hydrant is almost useless, you need the whole package
So if you guys think that the city project will be our project of choice I’ll create a new threat for it and we’ll go in that particular direction there.
Start a vote first to see how many are likely to participate in this type of endeavor. So that epic will see how many actual vote in favor of this type of idea or not. Then we can decide what should be undertaking for the project. Make a time in which gives all to decide or place vote or come up with idea. Give the idea a 2 day time limit so that many will have time to decide cause many are at work. But do the actual vote of idea of the community pfoject 1st so epic will start to see how many of us it is that would participate in free assets to all and from many.
UT is not made by the community, it’s made by Epic, if they didn’t open it up to the community it would still be getting made, they’re just making it available during development and taking user comments/contributions.
With projects like this it’s incredibly difficult to keep people working on it, there’s little incentive to work on it as much as it needs and if you start out with a bunch of inexperienced people that makes it even more difficult. Just look through the threads in the recruitment section and see how many projects went nowhere.
Seeing how quick this tread is gowing a lot of people but why not. can some one start a pole?
Edit: And also add what is you specaltiy Like : programmer, Moddeler or Animator. And such so we can see if there is a shortage
I have created a separate thread for the City itself, you can find it here https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?86070-Community-Project-Mega-City, we can keep this one for other big community project ideas, you can find a poll there so you can vote if you want to start this project or not.
Darthviper I think we can accomplish something here, there’s nothing wrong in trying, worst case scenario it will go nowhere, best case scenario you’ll have a beautiful asset on the marketplace which will help many people, even if it’s gonna be unfinished and people loose interest in it, even if we do half of what I’m planning, it would still be a good asset, maybe without so much variation to it
I was thinking we do a whole project. not just a map.
You mean a whole game?
I’m trying to make an asset for developers as main focus, this will have a fully functional city map like GTA V, which later on can be used to make an open world game which also could be made by the community, the asset pack will include some AI like for pedestrians and vehicles so they would follow the road, stop on lights etc.
Even if not a full game it would still be very much playable, when finished you can just open the map and it would be the same as a GTA game just without missions, without custom vehicles and custom pedestrians, it will include placeholder vehicles and pedestrians
To be onist it sound like you trying to make GTA 5. Make a pole and let the comunity Diside what thay want to do. let the comunity choose.
agreed. Was why we voted. Need to place the vote for a 30 day period to let a proper read time for all peoples. Many are outa town due to end of vacation periods etc. Like that 1st vote was to see how many like it. The next vote needs to be on what specifically and that needs to be seen after the 30 days of proper evaluation. Patient is a key in game design. Is why not many finish projecys. Trust me I do have ADHD but Im old and learn the value of it.
Storage right now is not important, if no one joins the project there will be nothing to store, so first things first and let’s build a community around this project, you don’t even need to store everything in one place, people will have their creations on their hard drives, and they can simply upload their creation to a hosting website, many are free and a single asset won’t be so huge anyway, then one person will be in charge of putting it all together, since the links to the individual assets will be shared with the community everyone can have access to them, the whole city doesn’t need to be available immediately anyway, we can share the whole thing every week or every month, those who want to access it before can just download the individual assets we make and build their own city
i want to create one but i dont like the other poll that is just if you want that map or not.
the average website only offers 25gb of stoage so it isnt a good idea. Like you and many said 1st things 1st. Lets see how many like the idea. I have to go for now. Need time for this to reach people appropriatly instead of rushing. this topic has already derailed from main idea already. So Im patient and we will see where this idea goes.
What do you want instead of a map? A full game? A full open world game is not a bad idea, but you will need a city for that (it’s much easier to focus on that first) to make a game you need much more organisation, also it would be quite difficult to make it with no budget, you’ll need to pay for stuff like voice actors (which I doubt you’ll find here).