I don't particularly care for brush editing in the UDK.  It's slow and cumbersome to drag around and re-size a builder brush.  Want swim-able water? You have to not only make the level geometry, but also water volumes, and post-process volumes for the underwater effects.

In the old days things were so much simpler. Just extrude and cleave your geometry, assign sector flags and you are done.

Then I found out the editor can import text based level files.  I set out to write a level converter, which would allow me to make level geometry in an older,  easier to use level editor.  Here is the result!

It works perfectly!  The converter does a few things:

• Imports all of the level geometry
• Scales the geometry to equivalent UDK units.
• Creates water volumes from water sectors.
• Creates post process volumes for underwater effects, and sector tint effects.
  

Finished up the high detail rocket launcher model which I will use to generate normal maps.

The design is based off of a low poly model and concept art I made in 2007!