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And man, it is cool.
Before that,you’re able to tour the low-poly Lands Between for yourself here.
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“I thought it would be cool if I made this for the whole map,” they add.
They use it for a Geoguesser-like game of Elden Ring.
I also used a program called DSMapStudio which lets me inspect the whole map in 3D."
Where did those 500 hours go?
The most time was spent on making models that can’t be reused.
Generally those were legacy dungeons, forts, castles etc.
The single most time-consuming area was the capital city Leyndell, which took about a week."
No generative tools were used.
“I worked on it pretty much whenever I could,” they continue.
“Especially on weekends and at the start of summer break, since I am still in university.
I usually watched videos or movies on the second monitor.”
“I have the controls of Blender pretty much burned into my brain now.”
The elaborate city of Leyndell was, unsurprisingly, among the most difficult areas to build.
“Azula is the most unique out of the locations so my usual methods didn’t really work.
Caelid has so much stuff and is also kinda bumpy, which made it hard to make.”
