Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
The CityEngine is a unique professional tool for creating, visualisating and exporting cityscapes. As such it is of notable use to the games industry with a quick and easy route into either 3D Max or the Unity Engine. Unity supports a number of input formats, allowing for direct integration with…
Project double zero is a FPS running in the Unity game engine, the project is being developed collaboratively by several interested parties. The driving force behind the project is Thomas P who is documenting progress via YouTube and their blog. The first movie below provides an insight into developing a…
In the clip above the Sauerbraten game engine is used to render a game map in real time onto a video feed. The game is run in multiplayer mode and one of the characters can be seen walking around. We especially like the concept of holding a multi-player game map…
Venetica is a game for Windows and the XBox 360, currently being developed by Deck13 and published by DTP Entertainment. Due for release later this year the developer has published an insightful video into the making of the game, including building and modelling the environment: The official trailer is embedded…
Call of Duty: World at War is a first-person video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. While using war based games for geographic, urban or architectural visualization can be controversial the principle is the same…
Suddenly all the architectural animations we have featured here on digital urban seem rather dull. The movie below is a remix Mirror’s Edge Music Video 2 by Enhaton, music Madonna – Jump Remix with Mirror’s Edge running on a PC and additional remixing using Adobe Premiere CS4 : Mirror’s Edge…
Simulations in social science often ignore the use of any physics engine yet is it can be invaluable for modelling real world situations. Games such as Grand Theft Auto have a built in physics and dymanics simulation to provide variables such as mass, velocity, friction to the in game objects…
Our trial version of Unity has annoyingly timed out (see here for work to date and demo) so while we wait to sort out a license the beta of Left 4 Dead Authoring Tools caught our eye. Currently in beta the tools are available as a free download for all…
We have spent the day giving the Unity Game Engine a spin and to be honest we are really impressed. The interface is simple to use and the ability to drag and drop files direct from 3D Max/Maya/Blender etc is refreshing. We have been able to import various simulations into…
This is our first look at Unity – an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. The editor runs on Windows and Mac OS X and can produce games for Windows, Mac, Wii, or iPhone platforms. It…
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