World Trade Center / Burj Dubai Crysis

Here's the second test-modeling video with another tower...

Being a skyscraper fan I thought it'd be interesting to put one of the former World Trade towers in a random island modeling of the game world - now coupled with the newest soon-to-be Earth's Tallest Structure, the Burj Dubai Tower in Dubai, UAE. Again, the goal of the mod wasn't meant for testing the physics of the game but moreso accurately portraying the towers to help myself and others understand the scale where tall buildings once were and where they're going. WTC Model designed in 3ds Max and imported into the CryEngine. BD Model drafted tier by tier in AutoCAD, then imported into 3ds Max and exported into the CryEngine. THANKS to Fury, Culwulla, and others for contributing the floorplan designs, tier heights, and other statistical data over at Skyscrapercity - the largest Burj Dubai forum thread on the Web!

Due to difficulties getting textures to work, you'll have to forgive the bleakness of the building.

Due to the shear complexity of the tower, not all tiers look perfect, and the higher ones are most certainly mis-scaled in terms of their width (though the height of each tier is correct).

There are several times I pull the console down to denote noteworthy heights of skyscrapers but I doubt they're readable with YouTube's compession. In case you can't read them they are:

Console dropdown #1 "381 meters"
Console dropdown #2 "415 meters"
Console dropdown #3 "509 meters"
Console dropdown #4 "Have to use acceleration boosts beyond ~585 meters as the game engine restricting chopper's climb..."
Console dropdown #5 "700 meters!"
Console dropdown #6 "800 meters!"
Console dropdown #7 "Final rough height [approximate] of BD = 875 meters! A little high but accurate enough to get the point :)"

Music is the Main Theme to the film "The Towering Inferno" and is composed by John Williams.

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• Crysis
• Crytek
• CryEngine
• BD
• Burj
• Dubai
• UAE
• Tower
• Mod
• Modding
• Modeling
• Architecture
• World
• Trade
• Center
• WTC
• 9-11
• 911
• 9/11

[Britishdude1]

put some textures on those buildings!!! it'd really make em pop then!

[CosplayerTheRealLink]

@Britishdude1 I'd like to, trust me, but they're glitched somehow and I don't think it allowed me to at the time.

[ruhtraeel]

Model the inside of the building so it's an actual stage, and then I'll be impressed.

[CosplayerTheRealLink]

@ruhtraeel I would but very little art and renderings have even been shown to show what the inside will look like aside from the mechanical / structural transition floors. I'd love to do this but it would take... quite a bit of time :). Maybe I'll do something once the Sandbox for CryEngine 2 hits.

[schwarzengerman]

I own a 360 and i agree pc is way more capable of handling these types of graphics, but it still will be nice to get crysis 2 there's really no need to bash other consoles play your way we'll play ours :)

[CosplayerTheRealLink]

@schwarzengerman Yeah Crysis 2 is looking to be sweet. I wonder how flexible the Sandbox / modding options will be for it.

[illmagnified]

LOL Crysis on 360? LOLOLOL!

[xStashHousex]

So the Burj Dubai is like putting the Empire state building on top of the world trade center towers.

nice o_o

[nuclearfallout217]

did he died?

[compdude47]

@hasselett I like how people watch awesome self-construction videos like this, then troll about how it's not absolutely perfect.

[hasselett]

@ruhtraeel You're not impressed by this, you unthankful snob??? Goddamn.

[Theanimatedcow]

i know you took along time building it but i reeeeeaaaallly wish it would go boom....with a missile...

[BSG062]

i own a 360 but this will be one of the games i get for the PC so i can blow shit up in the new editor

[crazymonkey334]

@Wanderon1 yes

[Crysis1211]

@illmagnified lol ye... 5 secs in game ur xbox blows up..