WWF No Mercy Arena Revival in Unreal 4(SLX) Discussion Topic

[SLX]

Unreal is a pretty demanding engine for most machines and will beat sub-par hardware into the ground. It's not used for console games without optimizations because the engine was technically built for PC's. I've seen virtually no ue4 engine use in the industry but rather an appropriation of UE4 features into UE3 codepath.
Maybe we will start to see some soon, but the engine was built on perceived new console specs that were severely gimped in the final hardware. Might be part of it. Anywho, my PC is pretty medium-high end for 2 years ago and it's easy to tax your system working in the editor.

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I'm kinda in a toss-up at the moment. The 2000 Royal Rumble is a challenge. Not only is it small, and surrounded by audience members, but its mostly concrete and graffiti. Sure, it would be cool to see it remade but it wouldn't even be done justice in the final product due to the angle of stage from the in-ring view. Would basically be a 1:1 high res version of No Mercy's.

My verdict? Not really worth the trouble. I'd be spending DAYS working on a 3d model to show off where only the front view is actually visible in the game. 2/10

HOWEVER...

The 2001 Royal Rumble had an absolutely BEAUTIFUL set that made it into 2k16. Anyone want me to take a crack at a No Mercy version?

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King of the Ring completed

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Smackdown 2001 Complete

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Two new shots of Smackdown added. Note the addition of the WCW/ECW vs WWF minitrons (fully animated), the improved lighting, and optimized glass.

For every arena so far, every titantron is fully animated. However, I have yet to find proper No Mercy animation, and may continue to improvise.

I will be capturing some footage for my demo reel, so stay tuned. I would hope you guys would get involved and throw in some support guys, it's hard to keep motivated with a lack of interest! Anyone care to promote this topic or help me and Wolfpac_69 bring it to life?

 

[Wolfpac_69]

Holy fuck man dude seriously it beautiful why the fuck am i way from my pc like i said before pure art mate

 

[SLX]

Update: RAW 2001 Invasion Era RAW
I had to rebuild the set from scratch due to accidentally overwriting it with Smackdown 2001, so the dimensions are a little more accurate this time

 

[NMCM]

Amazing work as always, I can't say enough about these previews.

 

[Tyler Black]

Fucking incredible dude. I wish I had your type of talent to recreate this

 

[Wolfpac_69]

So yeah we are looking for some people to help get this off the ground the era as you can see is self explanitory what/who would you like to see in the project?

 

[dafamily]

Damn well seeing the invasion arena there, pretty much everyone who was suppose to be in the invasion but wasn't lol, all the heavy players, Hogan, Goldberg, etc.

I don't know if you guys can change the models in the game then put them back in the game that would be something lol!!!

Just remembered this:

http://s1.zetaboards.com/WCExhibit?topic=3900941/1/

Don't know if that would be any help to you guys here, but worth a check!!

 

[Tyler Black]

I was really looking forward to the rumble 2000 since it's a personal favorite of mine. Little dissapointed it won't be made but i totally get why. Is this just limited to WWF 2000/2001? Wcw had some sick sets like Halloween havoc and starrcade 97. The ECW arena has never been done justice either. Back on topic, I think the invasion PPV stage would be perfect for this

 

[SLX]

All WCW related stuff will be reaserved for WCW Mayhem, which is not cancelled, simply postponed.

 

[Monarch]

WWE Raw 2016, WWE Smackdown 2016, something from an era ghat hasn't been done to death would be fantastic. If you could replicate the complicated and HD stuff going on now that'd be awesome.

 

[Chuckiepk]

I didn't think that you could top the No Way Out arena that you previewed earlier, but I think that the SmackDown fist arena just passed it as my new favorite arena that you have made.

By the way, did you ever finish that Raw 2002 arena that you were working on a few years ago or have you ever considered trying to remake it with the Unreal engine?

 

[The NekoMancer]

This is seriously fucking amazing.

 

[SLX]

WWE Raw 2016, WWE Smackdown 2016, something from an era ghat hasn't been done to death would be fantastic. If you could replicate the complicated and HD stuff going on now that'd be awesome.

I personally don't have too much of an interest in the modern era, and find myself drawn to the retro eras much more. The new stages for the most part really aren't that fun, they're just rearrangements and videos. The point of this project is to bring to life old sets that haven't been made on today's technology. Now, granted, we're going to walk into "been there, done that" territory once in a while, but most of the planned stages have never been in a WWE game, ever.

We may revisit doing modern stages in the future, but for now, I have little interest in keeping up with daily WWE. I play 2k16 a lot, but for me I just don't see the point.

Total respect for your preference for the modern product though. i tune in occasionally, but can't personally find a lasting interest.

 

[bluntfello]

I'd really like to see Survivor Series 97 I think with the big skull if possible.

 

[SLX]

I did kinda neglect to say i'm not doing anything that's been done recently in WWE2K. At least not for now.

 

[Tyler Black]

how about ecw in the hammierstein?

 

[kingkanyon]

This is Truly phenomenal Works of Art. Mad Respect.

 

[SLX]

Awesome requests guys, right in the alley of where we thought you guys would want us to go.

P.S. Don't ask for the hammerstein. I've already tried it a few years ago. Bad reference resources and impossible to get the needed textures. Too much grand detail. My photoshop attempt was the best i could really do.

 

[SpearRipper]

awesome for real

 

[Wolfpac_69]

That video was sick man people are gunna love this