Getting Started

By: Blacksway 

www.unreality.org/blacksway 

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Where do I get UnrealEd 2.0
It it found within patch 420 or later for Unreal Tournament. For some download places check http://unreal.epicgames.com and http://www.unrealtournament.com
 
What are the system requirements
They are pretty much the same as the system requirements of UT. I've got it running on a AMD K2-400 with 128MB RAM (although I've upgraded to 256MB recently and the memory does help!)

 
What are the file formats UnrealEd uses

There are a lot of file formats that UnrealEd uses for different things. Most are dedicated Unreal file formats for music, maps (unr), textures (utx) etc. Below are some of the different external formats that you can use with UnrealEd:

  1. WAV
    Used for sound files
  2. S3M
    Used for music files
  3. PCX
    Used for textures, remember that for Unreal the PCX files must be 256 colors, PCX can be higher than this so check! They must also have sides based on powers of 2, so a side must be 2 pixels, 4, 8, 32, 1024 etc. Direct3D doesn't handle textures bigger than 512x512 well.
  4. DXF
    Autocad drawing exchange format. You can use this format to import brush shapes to complex to create in UnrealEd. I haven't played with this much but some programs don't appear to create 'nice' dxf files