Outpost

This area was designed to be a portable outpost which had been built on the spot. It will contain computers, tables,chairs, etc. It will be powered by the substation generator opposite. This area will be the first place the player goes to after they leave the start section. The will then go up the stairs afterwards and over the path. The section in the open will overlook the dam, river and powerhouse.

Powerhouse

The powerhouse is where the dam creates its power, the power is use for other parts in the level, i don't think I'll be open for the player. The outflow will go into the river.

Dam Start Concepts

The dam entrance is the player start, it is fenced off with a control room which opens and closes the door, it leads down to the outpost.

Dam Concepts

The dam is the main building in the first section of the level and it's quite large. The player can't enter it.

Blockout progress

I've started to add more assets into the level now, all the textures so far are placeholders, the rock assets are also unfinished. I'm just laying things so i when i export the finished assets the will already be in the correct place.

3D Blockout

I used the heightmap to produce the terrain in cryengine. I edited it using the terrain tools until I had the right scale and layout I wanted. This didn't take too long and allowed me to jump into the map at any time to check things. I also created a few solids in CryEngine, which are basically just primitives used to block out the geometry.

Because my level was based in a gorge, the players view was limited, and there was a lot of unused terrain which the player would never see. So i decided to export the terrain and solids into 3ds Max and retopologize. This also didn't take too long, and as everything would eventually be replaced by rock assets anyway, this wasn't a problem.

Final Layout

I've decided on the layout now and will start creating things in 3D. I haven't completely finished my base/compound concepts, but want to start getting things into CryEngine so i can make sure every thing is working and get a better idea of the space.

I'm going to paint over this map to create a hightmap, which i will use to generate the terrain in CryEngine.