UE4 looks like it’s a great tool for visualisation. I’m working on various projects to show the history of the development of my home town of Lodz, Poland and so far I’ve rendered a few things in Blender, but I wanted something in which I can create some interactive stuff. And UE4 is quite powerful and, most importantly, absolutely free for this!
Working on the history of Plac Wolności (Freedom Square), I live just next to it, here you can see how it looks now, I’m trying to recreate the architecture of how the place looked in various stages of its history since its founding in 1823.
Here’s how it looked about 1849. Basic geometry only, almost no textures yet.
If you’re interested, here’s the video project I made last year about a fragment of my town a bit north of here (has English subtitles – not my own translation):
Amazing, Brite. I remain impressed by the level of talent and creativity among my intarweb friends. Extremely cool idea using UE4. Looking forward to more about Lodz (wish more Americans would do things on their home towns, especially the historic ones in the east — sadly, it takes something like Fallout 4 to get people interested in the history of a town like Boston). Also, Polish is a really interesting language (which I would not be able to learn in a million years).
Yeah, I’m highly inspired by the Boston Tourism Bureau presentation a.k.a. Fallout 4.
Neat! I wish I weren’t so afraid of 3D engines. I’m working on a 2D game/interactive fiction thing that would look great in 3D, but 3D intimidates me. It probably wouldn’t even be significantly more work because I could use voxels. 3D is just scary.
Looking good, Brite.