UT3 Converter2 Readme file

UT3 Converter is now longer being developped and maintained. Use UT4X converter instead

Version: 0.26 - Final

Author: XtremeXp
Release Date: 03/01/2020
Status: Discontinued
Web page: https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/past-unreal-tournament-games/unreal-tournament-3/407842
Forum : https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/past-unreal-tournament-games/unreal-tournament-3/407842

Description

UT3 Converter 2 hels level designers saving a lot of time while converting/porting UT maps. This tool automates some task for conversion which means conversion of level ressources like textures,staticmeshes and actors.

UTx conversions supported

UT3 Converter 2 supports these conversions:

Unreal Tournament -> Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament -> Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 2004-> Unreal Tournament 3

Requirements

You need:

Two of the following UT games:
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Unreal Tournament 3
Java technology installed (see www.java.com)
Some skills with UnrealEd software

Installation and first start

Decompress the ZIP archive to any folder of your choice.
Double-click on UT3Converter2.jar.
If not working install java (https://www.java.com/) or create some "run.bat" file with notepad that you will save in the root program folder with this in it

java -jar ut3converter2.jar

this will force launching this file associating it as java program

What this program converts

Textures
Brushes
Staticmeshes
Weapons
Pickups
Most of main actors

What this program DOES NOT converts

Custom scripts
Special textures (shaders,pantex,...)

Limitation/Issues/Known bugs

All - Do not work with folders with spaces (e.g.: "C:\Program Files\UnrealTournament")
UT and DeusEx Games - Will not convert custom textures in external packages (not in myLevel/e.g: ../Textures/myPackage.utx) for
UT2004->UT3 - Some staticmeshes can't be converted. ("ucc batchexport mypackage.usx StaticMesh t3d" cmd bug)
Can't convert maps using UTF16-LE or UTF16-BE t3d file encoding. Check that mapname doesn't have exotic chars such as {%^,.. but only alphanumeric values (a->z,0->9) then save your map.

Origin of the project

As a mapper with mainly UT2004 level editor (UnrealEd) and as UT3 was released i wanted to port some of my maps to UT3 but didn't suceed, that's why i started digging into Unreal Technology concept

Additional Credits

Tools:

* Nvconvert - Pierre-E Gougelet - dds to psd conversion http://www.xnview.com/
* UED Texture Toolkit - Alex Stewart - Terrain HeightMap 16-bit greyscale texture conversion (.bmp->.tiff) - http://www.foogod.com/UEdTexKit/
* Sox - Chris Bagwell -Wav conversion - http://sox.sourceforge.net
* UT Packages Delphi unit - Antonio Cordero Balcázar - http://www.acordero.org

Librairies:

* JAI - Java Advanced Imaging - .tiff image reader - https://jai.dev.java.net/ -jai_codec.jar,jai_core.jar
* Java 3D Vecmath - For handling brushes - https://vecmath.dev.java.net/ -vecmath.jar
* JOGL - Java OpenGL - DDS Reader - https://jogl.dev.java.net/ -jogl.jar
* SwingX - Java Advanced Interface https://swingx.dev.java.net/ - swingx-2008_09_13.jar
* NimROD Look and Feel -Theme Interface http://personales.ya.com/nimrod/index-en.html -nimrodlf-1.0e.jar

Users at Epic forums for reporting bugs and supporting this project
.:..: for helping me with UT to UT2004 basic conversion concepts

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