{"id":572,"date":"2010-11-02T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T04:02:10","slug":"crytek-engine-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Crytek engine exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The point of this project was to see what kind of fidelity was possible in the Crytek engine while shooting for a reasonable frame rate on a min spec machine of: 3.20 Ghz P4, 1G RAM, GeForce 6800.<\/p>\n<p>The initial village took about a week to build then the tower in the last few shots took three days because once I\u2019d finished it I decided that I wasn\u2019t happy having all the UV\u2019s be 1 to 1 as a walking player would never get close enough to the tower\u2019s upper levels to see the lower fidelity maps. This way I could get a higher resolution down around the base of the tower where a player would be standing.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-576\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=576\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-576\" title=\"Village01\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village01-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village01-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-578\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=578\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-578\" title=\"Village03\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village03-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village03-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village03.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-579\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=579\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-579\" title=\"Village04\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village04-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village04-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village04.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-573\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=573\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-573\" title=\"Tower01\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower01-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower01-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-574\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=574\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-574\" title=\"Tower02\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower02-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower02-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-575\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=575\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-575\" title=\"Tower03\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower03-500x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower03-500x317.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tower03.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this final shot you can see how I set up my occluders and audio volumes.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-581\" href=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/?attachment_id=581\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-581\" title=\"Village06_helpers\" src=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village06_helpers-500x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village06_helpers-500x318.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sxross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Village06_helpers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the course of this project I delved into almost all aspects of level creation in the Crytek engine; modifying terrain and voxel volumes, adding terrain materials, creating VFX, adding SFX volumes, creating linked animations, playing with Cryteks wonderful (to me at least) system for defining which items show up at different system spec settings, visibility culling (occluders, cells, and portals), LOD\u2019s (the tower has three), vegetation creation and painting, Time of Day, materials set-up, adding first and third person weapons (huge pain, but it always is), rivers and roads, editing some of the system spec cfg files, and lastly playing with the track view to set up in-game events.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this was pretty damn fun, and I\u2019m now a big fan of this engine. I just wish lights weren\u2019t such a big frame rate hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point of this project was to see what kind of fidelity was possible in the Crytek engine while shooting for a reasonable frame rate on a min spec machine of: 3.20 Ghz P4, 1G RAM, GeForce 6800. 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