Crysis Map ~ Vulcano [WIP]

Maybe you could just do part of the island?

There was a project ages ago to make part of Plunder Island (pictured above) as a UT2004 map, where basically you were kept to a fairly linear area (eg: a single path through forest) but the illusion of being on the full island and being able to go all over it.

Alternatively, you could make it so you can see the more detailed parts of the island (eg: the town in the island pictured above) but not actually go into them, unless you really want to produce all that custom content.

It'd be an epic accomplishment, but it'd be damned fun. Monkey Island itself would probably be the easiest as it's mostly vegetation, beach, cliffs, etc.

It'd really get your name out there anyway, which is good for a budding pro. I reckon you'd get some amazing publicity from it.

Nice start, look forward to the progression

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I think one problem Crysis mappers are always going to face is making something that stands out. After all, I look at those screenshots above and have a hard time working out whether or not it's just something from the original game (Though that at least says your quality standard is good!).

I think it'd be interesting to see what people can do with Crysis's engine that isn't a tropical island, or one that doesn't look like everything we've seen already in Far Cry or Crysis (haven't played the latter myself)

Yeah. The reason I suggested Monkey Island stuff is they have quite a lot of architecture and stuff which is pretty pleasant on the eyes and non-Crysis, but still fits into the tropical feel. It'd be a good stepping stone between a seriously non-Crysis look and the classic Crysis look.

Not sure how well it'd cope with full-blown urban type stuff, though. The engine can handle a lot of polies, but how many of those aren't generated on the fly with the foliage painters and stuff? Can you stick really high-poly buildings and architecture in there and it not look like ass?

A sweet, an urban environment

[edit]lol cgtextures!

wow that urban thing is looking great, what is it? The engine would be fantastic for it with a good art team.

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This one looks like concept art

This definitely looks cool so far, and that terrain tool you posted is really sweet; I'll have to check it out.

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I think one problem Crysis mappers are always going to face is making something that stands out. After all, I look at those screenshots above and have a hard time working out whether or not it's just something from the original game (Though that at least says your quality standard is good!).

As far as what Thrik's saying, though, I think the biggest single thing you can focus on to make this map stand out will be overall scene composition.

The first two shots look fantastic, but a lot of that is the Crysis content and rendering. In general it's still a little bit on the jumbled mess of foliage side. The palm trees are all sort of spaced out in a larger number of smaller clusters, which is especially apparent in the third shot. It does sometimes work out this way (see here: http://flickr.com/photos/zimrilim/669726766/http://flickr.com/photos/rps/23373041/ or here: http://flickr.com/photos/kevineschmidt/1351690659/ ). You also could try non-standard foliage placement peppered on the beach to more gradually transition points into the full-on jungly bits, akin to this: http://flickr.com/photos/zachlaben/123439327/

Thought it's just a jungle, it does look really nice. Good work there. Cool terrain tool, I'd love to check it out, but I'm sure I'd never get around to it D:

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*cums*

Heh, I mean just look at that last screenshot. What a fucking amazing engine.

It's such a generally detailed engine/game you kind of don't notice just how much detail there is, until you break it down in shots like that.

Hey HP, good stuff, but before I comment any further - is this going to be a singleplayer or multiplayer level?

Now that's some scene composition

the art is that game is just mind boggling.

holy shit man