Comments on: Real Time Architectual Visualisation in Oblivion

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:45:00 +0000

Paul,

We found it easy (ish).. I'll do a post with a step by step guide. Their a few hoops to jump through but its no where near as difficult as Half Life 2.

In terms of license, the game is meant to be modified so i guess it depends what you using it for. If its for in house demonstrations it might be ok - after all thats what 'mods' are..

Andy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:28:00 +0000

Andy

Thanks for the help, is it easy to import objects from Max into Oblivion?

Do you know if you would ahve to licence it to use professionaly and if so how much would it be and how could i go about inquiring about this?

Thanks

Paul

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:12:00 +0000

Hi Anon..

You can order it from our Reading/Hardware link in the top right on the blog..

If you order it – it comes with the Elder Scrolls Construction Set.. Drop us a email if you need any help – asmith@geog.ucl.ac.uk

All the best,

Andy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:00 +0000

I have tried to find how to purchase the Oblivion engine, but cannot find any details. Does anyone know how this can be done?

Please let me know if you have any deatils and for $20 surely this cannot be correct.

Paul

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:09:00 +0000

you talk about the 20pounds game engine. But if used commercially I think the costs will be a lot higher. Don’t know what is in the license agreement of oblivion? But it will only be interesting for architects to use it in house, that’s why the quest for an easy path to the game engine is so important. I see good use for it in early design stages, not so in presentation to clients (costs!)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:40:00 +0000

Hello, you can use the
TM (Toggle Menus)
command to switch off the HUD and, if you're looking for effects like playing with the time scale, you can use
set timescale to X
Where X is an integer value : 1 is realtime at greater values, the time will switch from day to night very fast :)

Jérémie

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:52:00 +0000

I suggest dropping an eye onto the Armed Assault engine (armedassault.com). It seems quite potent, with a huge territory size (400 km2), real time day-night & weather cycle, and data streaming capability, not to mention it will be highly modable, just like its predecessor, Operation Flashpoint.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:59:00 +0000

this is really fantastic, have you tried creating interactive environments with the engine… let say openning doors or activating actions that occur within the environment?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:56:00 +0000

Thanks for the post, I'll take a look at the other mods, esp to turn off the HUD.

At the moment we are going from Sketchup to Max and then to Oblivion. As soon as we find a route direct from SketchUp we will put up a post :)

Andy

By: Richard Gatti

Richard Gatti — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:40:00 +0000

nice sample. you might want to look at some of the available mods for oblivion – immersive interface for example enables you to turn off the HUD completely, making it look slightly less incongorous in London…
is there a recognised path from sketch up to oblivio yet?