Quote Originally Posted by William Antrim View Post
I see. Perhaps it is my ignorance/lack of knowledge that stops me from seeing the level of authenticity youre aiming for but it just seems with no answer after almost 2 years I would be inclined to improvise in your shoes.
Well, I appreciate your view, it would indeed be a logical choice. However, I am in no real rush, as I have a lot of pay work ahead of messing with this full-time, so I am ultra patient. Not to mention I have had this idea since Neocron started on it's downward spiral many years ago. I have always loved the atmosphere of this game and its concept, and want to recreate a visual representation of it as true to the original as possible.

I am not trying to create the same game, I am looking to make something 'slightly' different in terms of game-play and purpose. An obsession perhaps? A longing life goal (or at least a minor pleasure based one), but a concrete goal none the less. As a very last resort, I will indeed just improvise the terrain, but I will keep trying to get a response from someone who has access to the original height-map/s, and who is willing to help me in that regard. Until then, I can keep quite busy developing the structure of the cities; NC, TH, MB, TG, and DoY.

Currently I decided to bite the bullet and just use my current laptop with a GTX 960, for the Unreal Engine development, and continue my work on the cities, because I miss doing it. Also because GPU prices are going up due to this damn RAM manufacturing crisis currently plaguing the PC world. So I see no sense in buying a new PC for at least another 6 to 8 months, and I don't want to wait that long to work on this!

I may also have a breakthrough, that I am actually working on right this minute. I am going to use this tool I found "watto game extractor", to look into the files and see if there is anything that can help me speed up the process. Setting it up on an old laptop now (as it got 2 virus results in a virustotal scan, and I'm very careful with things I run on my more important computers).

Alongside re-installing the Unreal Engine onto this laptop and starting to work again, I will be grabbing some images and video from my saved project. Hopefully some people will be interested in it and follow my development, but I figured it is a long time past due, since I like to keep to my word. I don't like coming off as some blowhard with no work behind them. Even it the audience is like 3 people, lol!