Dubai, World Trade Center / Burj Dubai / Nakheel Tower Crysis
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Here's the third test-modeling video with yet another tower! Just this week during Dubai's "Cityscape" developer / architectural / real estate conference, Emaar's chief competitor Nakheel showcased their ambitious plans for "Nakheel Tower" - a skyscraper community of 200+ floors reaching at least 1,000 meters (1KM or 3,280 feet) high. The particular forum thread for the tower on Skyscrapercity's forums shows a height of 1,170 meters and a width of 100 meters so that is what I modeled here in this video (the width of the bulk of the tower is about the same as the base of the Burj Dubai for reference). 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 - updated even further with Nakheel's "Nakheel Tower". 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. Nakheel Tower estimated from various renderings released by the company on SSC and the official nakheelharbour.com project website. The floorplan extrusions were created in CAD, and a rough 3d model created in 3ds Max was then imported into the Sandbox CryEngine. THANKS to Fury, Culwulla, and others for contributing the floorplan designs, tier heights, and other statistical data over at Skyscrapercity - one of the the largest skyscraper forums on the Web! Due to difficulties getting textures to work, you'll have to forgive the bleakness of the buildings. From the original video, at least a simple steel material was used to eliminate some bleakness. Due to the shear complexity of the BD 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). Also, simply due to strugging to even import a somewhat complex model through two different 3d design programs, the modeling for Nakheel Tower is NOT perfect by any means but should suffice for the general shape. The CryEngine for whatever reason did NOT like cones from Max so the top of the spire / pinnacle is a cylinder instead ;) Music is a composure of Arabian themes used by Nakheel for presentation of the tower online. I cut out most of the voice for effect. Both sets of "String" and "Grand" types of music are created by Nakheel. The second track is "Divinity II" by Nobuo Uematsu for Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.... During the tower scene ^_^. Comments welcome. Stupid, accusative, or argumentative comments will be deleted, thanks. Be sure to watch it in High Quality for the altimeter.
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So verry nice,i like nekheel tower
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Hell yea!!! Japan wins
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Why don't the us do something like this. We do have the gulf of Mexico.
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LOL DUBAI IS CRAZY
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@XMandelbrot Tower has ben canceled!!!!???? Stupidd!!
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That would be real something! Unfortunately, I read in my free time that the plans for the tower were cancelled!
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@toontownrox50 Who doesn't want their own skyscraper in the middle of a stranded island?! ;)
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@MrLaboy85 Crysis for PC.
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@Zeitproduction Hi Zeit, sorry but I have chosen to not make the map available at this time.
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is there a download link ???
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why are there 3 awesome scyscrapers in the middle of a stranded island... lol
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@CosplayerTheRealLink (Ran out of characters)... cont. The size I feel is right on though along with the height. It may be a few feet off but again it was more the hassle of trying to have the Sandbox accept varying complexities of model (or lack thereof) rather than not knowing the facts. Thanks for pointing them out though.
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@bungiebobawsome Thanks for pointing out some pretty detailed facts there. The answer is while I wanted to model the structure more accourately, I found that particularly small and tightly spaced objects would mess up with importing to the Sandbox so I had to reduce the # of columns. Oh yes again, I did try to chamfer the corners but the engine had problems accepting the design. The roof I kept flat for simplicity but yes, there were again the decks on top ;). The size though I feel is right
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@KingWilliamMB Hi King. Nope sorry I've not released the map at this time. I simply modeled the buildings with 3ds Max though and you can always get a free trial of that online. Simply look for the Crysis plugin and you can probably do this yourself ^^. The engine had a particularly difficult time importing the buildings though which explains the faceting of some parts. Scale also had to be increased by 300% usually to obtain real heights for some reason.
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@KingWilliamMB Hi King. They're listed right as the video opens... At the time of doing this video though, the Burj wasn't completed yet so I over-estimated the height of it slightly by about 40 meters. Nakheel Tower - if it ever gets built - may be 1,200 meters or higher... or lower. Hard to say. Only the WTC Tower is accurate to it's height. 415 meters for Tower 1. Hope that helps.
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cool what game is that?
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@Connah23995 i dont believe i said its in dubai .. i didnt say its location -_-"
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@q8sauod The Burj Mubarak is in Kuwait :S
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what game is this?
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@robloxkingvids Hey I know I'm slightly off - this video was made before tower heights were official. Now that Burj Khalifa is 830 meters / 2,715 feet and with Nakheel Tower possibly being delayed or cancelled due to the economy (thus no final height released yet), I can admit that I'm slightly off on my numbers. NHT is far far beyond 2,000 feet though! Burj Khalifa is already over 2,700 so... yeah.
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