Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
We have worked in both the Oblivion and Crysis Engines and the movies below represents an interesting crossing of worlds – Oblivion running in Crysis: The work was only a proof on concept but still fell foul of copyright – see here for full details. As a proof of concept…
Scanning our old hard drive we came across our final movie detailing the results of a tutorial for importing Google SketchUp models into the Oblivion gaming engine. We thought it was lost to a previous hard drive crash but having found it we thought it was worthy of uploading to…
Over the last few months we have taken a couple of looks at the forthcoming game Crysis using the CryEngine 2 for architectural visualisation. The movie below provides a quick recap on the quality and realtime lighting: Of interest for urban visualisation is the level editor which is detailed in…
Following our two part tutorial on importing objects into Oblivion with a few finishing touches we can go from the original model in Google SketchUp to various weather and lighting effects in Oblivion: The 4 minute YouTube movie above details the model in Oblivion captured in real-time. We will be…
Welcome to the second part of the tutorial aimed at providing a step by step guide to importing models into the Oblivion Engine. Part 1 detailed the setting up of your first environment, leaving you with an empty flat plain of land on which to import models as we illustrate…
While writing the second part of the tutorial on Oblivion a reader known as Uwe posted a comment with regards the a plugin for the free version of Google SketchUp which allows model export to the .stl format. The main drawback of the free version is its inability to export…
A reader of the blog going by the name of digitdaily has sent us in some great instructions on how to create full 360×180 degree panoramas from Oblivion. Digit decided to give the process a try while waiting for our part 2 of the Importing SketchUp/3D Max into the Oblivion…
While working on the second stage of the Importing SketchUp/3D Max into Oblivion tutorial we got thinking about our panoramic spheres in 3D space. Too date we have used the spheres to produce a sample high definition concept movie featuring 360 x 180 degree views of The Chapel of Peter…
This tutorial is aimed at providing a clear and easy to follow path through the often confusing route of using the Oblivion Game Engine for visualistion. Oblivion is an impressive engine and once you have completed the tutorial it should become second nature to go from SketchUp/3D Max to real-time…
Edit *The tutorial is now online* A quick temporary post to provide an update on the forthcoming SketchUp/3D Max importing into Oblivion tutorial. Importing into game engines is a notoriously difficult process for the first time user, in light of this our aim is to make a simple to follow…
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