Screen shots from Hibernia Shrouded Isles

Examples from Hibernia Shrouded Isles, also contains pre-fixes for next version for Conversion tool.
This is direct output from conversion, nothing extra added.

DAoC terrain to Crysis converter

First version of DAOC to Crysis conversion tool for Windows now released.
http://code.google.com/p/daoctocrysis/downloads/list
Note, this is only usable when you have DAoC installed and Crysis Sandbox.
Also requires tree models to Crysis from Exodus Pine Tree Pack and European Nature Set.

Free-to-use CryEngine plans emerge

Long time no see.
Interesting news as this is for new CryEngine. I was waiting to get SDK to new Crysis, but this is even better. Let's hope this happens.

10000 unique visitors ...

Wow, almost 10000 unique visitors and 16000 page views from last 3 months.
Let's see if I manage to create something new this week :)

Blog background image

Got few requests to get this image as wallpaper.
Sadly I didn't have the original one anymore, so I quickly created new one.
It's free to use and modify :) Link

New Thidranki comparison screen shot

New Frontier screens

Basic scenery imported, no extra candy added or models.

Trials of Atlantis video

Trials of Atlantis Images

Images from Atlantis. Video coming in few hours.
Volcanus "water" effect missing, as I didn't find any good lava type of texture for this.

Blog updates now in Twitter

Added feedburner to update http://twitter.com/silakka_fin when posting new stuff in blog.

Enhanced Thidranki Scenery

Albion Shrouded Isles Video

Albion Shrouded Isles - Avalon City screen shots

First test screen shots, video maybe tomorrow if I have time.

Tool for daoc terrain conversion to crysis

Basic things like creating height map works, same as extracting files from mpk.
And it's fast compared to current PHP script.
Currently I'm building basic GUI and creating better way to get positions for zone maps.

Few more images from Hibernia

Few more images from Hibernia, Border Keep is old model as there is some limitations of polygon count and I didn't have time to split this model to multiple parts.


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Hibernia - Mag Mell images

Hibernia Under Attack

Something big :)
Eve models have bump maps, I just didn't import those, so it looks bit dull.

Shrouded Isles - Aegir & Knarr Video

Aegir & Knarr Video

Shrouded Isles - Knarr Midgard

After few hours of converting models ...

Shrouded Isles - Midgard

First screen shots from import

10,000 page views

Wow, counter hit almost 10.000 total page views.
Also big thanks about all comments and ideas so far.
I try to create few new videos in this week. Maybe even trying to build SI zones, but let's see ..

Ideas for screen shots and videos

If someone have ideas what you like to see in videos/screen shots, please send email to
List what I can't do/won't do currently.
- Models with animation (no skill/no tools)
- New character models (no skill/no tools)
- Cities/dungeons (too many models to convert)
- New Frontier

Also mail of any Crysis tricks to use, Crysis assets to use or just comments are welcome.

Behind The Scenes

It's quite interesting that I didn't get any reply or any comments from Mythic like I hoped about this conversion, tough I got contact from Crytek.

Currently, I'm building tool with C++ and QT toolkit to fix material settings for imported models, so I don't need to manually fix those material files.
I also have real tool (instead of PHP script) to create terrain height-maps, but it is broken in Windows and I didn't have time to debug this yet.

Thidranki Morning & Night video

Rerun in Thidranki after Crysis Wars update.
Thidranki Morning & Night

Moved to Crysis Wars

Just moved stuff to Crysis Wars and new sandbox editor.

Performance testing

Performance testing with 200 character models.
From those I think 30-40 are unique models, rest are just different textures with same models and about half of models have at least one extra weapon model.
FPS is 10-13 when all those are visible at same time and still have full shadows from each model.

Material tuning for 3D models

Mythic old keeps only have single texture in place, so I quickly modified Crysis material to have basic bump-map (same as texture) and added detail texture as "concrete". Basically this makes even low detail textures look much better, no miracles though :)

What if ...

New Thidranki video

Added textures, extra vegetation and different water.
Remember to use HD version of video. (one typo also slipped to video) :D

Texturing Thidranki part 2

Quickly tested different water and this looks much better :)