The True Scale of Blackreach: Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5!
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- I made Blackreach in Unreal Engine 5 - at a more realistic and lore-accurate scale! Part of an ongoing project to visualise a more realistic and lore accurate scale to Tamriel’s cities - so here’s Blackreach - now with sixteen times the detail!
Blackreach was always super interesting, both visually and lore-wise. A massive Dwemer cave system that was said to stretch underneath most of Skyrim itself. Elder Scrolls Online expanded on it a bit with the vampire stuff, but I thought I’d scale up the original cavern we got to explore in Skyrim. Ironically enough, this is probably the only city so far that I've done that actually should look like no-one lives there...
Again, when operating at these scales, it’s not really the point to do a one-to-one recreation. Instead, it becomes more of a spiritual upgrade - to get the feeling and vibe of Blackreach, and give an impression for what a more realistic size would be...
This was technically quite difficult to light, given that it was pretty much only lit by bioluminescent fungi, aetherium veins and the glow-worms, so Lumen certainly got a workout with this one…
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I actually did start this several months ago, but the sheer scale and density made my 3060ti cry, so I kind of kept it in the back-burner for a while until I upgraded my gpu. If you were wondering what it takes to max out the 24GB vram of a 3090 at 1440p - well, this’ll do it (although do keep in mind that running on editor has a higher performance overhead that a stand-alone game).
Rendered out in Unreal Engine 5.3.2 on an RTX 3090. Using a mix of third party models and custom assets modelled in Blender. Nanite was used for all models and foliage; Hardware Lumen for global illumination and reflections.
Please NOTE: This is a fanmade cinematic lore visualisation for Skyrim. It is NOT a mod!
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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
Soundtrack: ‘Age of Men’ - Jo Wandrini.
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Make sure to watch in 1440p if you can! RUclips compression for dark scenes like these is pretty gnarly at 1080p and below!
I actually did start this several months ago, but the sheer scale and density made my 3060ti cry, so I kind of kept it in the back-burner for a while until I upgraded my gpu. If you were wondering what it takes to max out the 24GB vram of a 3090 at 1440p - well, this’ll do it…
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please do markarth someday!
Please do imperial city 🙏
Starting to see why they didn't make the real size in game... lol
This is incredible though, definitely watching every one you make
I would love to see the city of D'ni from the Myst series get this treatment.
When I used to play skyrim, moving into blackreach, closing my eyes, always dreamt of this wonderland. But due to engine limitations, skyrim couldn't imagine it. Now, imagining the un-imaginable.
>engine limitations
hardware limitations you mean
Tbh, I wouldn't think a place full of blind slavers, giant man-eating bugs, and hostile automatons is considered wonderland.
I think it's more BGS laziness than engine limitations.
if u play the old original skyrim (2011) blackreach looks better than in Special Edition one, it looks washed out cause off lazy "Special Edition" unecessary lighting edits
@@hallucy2215 there is no lighting edits in SSE
This is actually lore accurate. Elder Scrolls Online expanded on Blackreach significantly, having it span under the entirety of Skyrim and with many more entrances, including entrances from caves and Nordic tombs. Blackreach in ESO is also essentially its own unique ecosystem with unique plants and animals that can only be found there and nowhere else.
I had a mod that included a bunch of extra map markers, including for Skyrim. Even in vanilla, it's a good third of the way both vertical and horizontal across skyrim. Since it's considered outdoors, I don't think it's an engine limitation that restricted it.
I love ESO in a lot of ways but I also can't get over the absolutely absurd requirement that you purchase the monthly subscription. It just feels so scummy to me.
The first 30 hours of gameplay you have to play Tetris with your inventory for 30 minutes after every single dungeon, and the next 30 hours of gameplay you have to do it all over again with the outfit system because they couldn't just let fashion be the endgame without forcing that to be a subscription, too.
Like ESO is *so close* to being the best Elder Scrolls game by a significant margin and all they'd have to do is remove ESO+ as a concept.
Like why can a live service MMO not exist without being trapped by arbitrary limitations constructed by corporate greed? The only MMOs I know of that don't have this problem are Warframe, which has garbage combat and is eternally stuck only adding horizontal progression, and Division 2 which is unfortunately a Ubisoft game so for ethical reason must be boycotted.
@@glowerworm Why can't a live service MMO can't exist without being trapped in making a profit? Really? Maybe it's not "greed" but actual "need to raise enough money to keep up the development"?
@@darrennew8211 it's wholly possible to make money off an MMO without creating 17 problems and selling the solution as a subscription service.
Warframe and Division 2 both avoid exactly that problem (although they again aren't ideal for separate reasons).
Hell, even Minecraft servers are capable of avoiding this.
If you believe that the only way ESO can continue to have these large expansions every year is by locking the crafting bag and outfits behind ESO+, you've been tricked. I know you've been tricked because I myself was tricked by the same greedy tactics when I still played Destiny.
Ask anyone who was once addicted to WoW and they'd tell you the same thing.
@@glowerworm I feel you. I played ESO for a few years but eventually quit for different reasons. Inventory management becomes much easier in the late game even without plus but IMO the devs couldn't care less about their customers and treat them like they're idiots so I left and I'm in no hurry to return.
This is sick! If you are willing to do anymore Sovngarde or Cyrodiil's Imperial City would be sick as hell! Good work.
Thanks! And yeah, I'll probably get to the Imperial City at some point - bit daunting!
@@lion_towers3d Yeah I dont blame you for being a little worried about that
@@lion_towers3dPerhaps you could recreate the eldenglean sanctuary or the ancestor glade, it's my favorite places on Skyrim. Thanks again for your work, it's really beautiful !
@@lion_towers3d Take your time with the Imperial City, and read up on the lore. ;) Its implementation in Oblivion was nice enough, but it really doesn't hold a candle to the sheer scope displayed in the lore books.
@@Drack_Le_Borgne Thanks!
"Started: A Return To Your Roots"
I shudder at the thought of
Find 1000 crimson nirnroot
@@thenoodle_man WHY THO?
Why do people hate this quest so much? For me it took like 20 minutes at most, and it got me to actually explore all of that place.
@@dogman3362 because the reward for your random wandering is crap
no
Watching this reminds me of a passage from LOTR. How Gimli spoke to Legolas of the Glittering Caves:
‘‘Strange are the ways of Men, Legolas! Here they have one of the marvels of the Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Holes to fly to in time of war, to store fodder in! My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of Helm’s Deep are vast and beautiful? There would be an endless pilgrimage of Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. Aye indeed, they would pay pure gold for a brief glance!’
‘And I would give gold to be excused,’ said Legolas; ‘and double to be let out, if I strayed in!’
‘You have not seen, so I forgive your jest,’ said Gimli. ‘But you speak like a fool. Do you think those halls are fair, where your King dwells under the hill in Mirkwood, and Dwarves helped in their making long ago? They are but hovels compared with the caverns I have seen here: immeasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools, as fair as Kheled-zâram in the starlight. ‘And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities, such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can come. "
"And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea. Then evening comes: they fade and twinkle out; the torches pass on into another chamber and another dream. There is chamber after chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stair beyond stair; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains’ heart. Caves! The Caverns of Helm’s Deep! Happy was the chance that drove me there! It makes me weep to leave them.’
It does indeed remind of the description of the Glittering caves, but so it does also remind of of the mines of Moria, not Khazad-Dum in it's splender but after it's fall at the hands of the Balrog. The ancient halls and ruins mixed with aging fauna and decay.
This whole channel is insanely quality stuff, i can hardly imagine what it would be like to have all of these pieces together, it would be a dream come true to walk the breadth of a city that has more populace and buildings than the hamlets we get in Skyrim 😢
Thank you!
At this rate, you'll have all of Skyrim in the Unreal Engine before the next elder scrolls is released.
Awesome work! This looks truly stunning.
Haha - thanks!
Elder Scrolls' version of the Underdark and I'm all for it! ♥
Thanks!
Elder Scrolls version of the Nether
The crazy part is, this is a really good representation of black reach, but there is a much more massive section we didn’t explore in Skyrim due to it caving in. This is just a medium sized portion of black reach
Fantastic! I still clearly remember the first time I entered Blackreach. Must have spent 2 or 3 days in there before I started thinking, "I really need to find my way out of here now, I need to see some daylight again." It became really overwhelming. I guess that shows how good the game is.
Aqui br. Dwemers faziam isso no tanto tempo do que Morrowind! Eles eram os ateistas, mas faz muita diferença no Blackreach, eles admiram muito nas luzes de cogumelos no teto da grande caverna, por isso que eles nunca veem um luz do Sol.
To think that this was once a bustling Dwemer metropolis.... must've been a sight back int the day. If it weren't such a dangerous place I'd want to live here xD
Wonder if the mushrooms grew long after they were gone or if the Dwemer coexisted with them from the start
I'm pretty sure a bit of both, although I've read that the Dwemer cultivated the mushrooms, then when they all disappeared, they kind of grew wild...
Telvanni love giant mushrooms as well. Dwemer and Telvanni lived in close proximity and both are elves. In fact one might say the Telvanni are probably the closest remaining elves to the Dwemer in their way of life: worshippers of magic research and stubbornly sticking to their own ways.
Спасибо автор! Жду еще!!!!
Даже кот здесь.
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This is beautiful and grand.
Also, imagine having to search for 30 Crimson Nirnroot in this place...
Thanks! And yeah, might take a minute haha
It would be the coolest field trip ever.
After seeing this, I immediately went and watched all the other Tamriel related videos you had and I gotta say, you have lit up my writer's soul. The work you are doing is amazing and just having these places visualized like this makes me want to write something related to Skyrim. You have definitely earned a subscriber in me.
Btw, any plans to do similar work for city's in Oblivion and Morrowind, or any other provinces for that matter? Oblivion was the first game from Elder Scrolls series that I played and its cities have a special place in my heart. I'd imagine that a lot of people would be excited to see the Imperial City imagined by you.
Super excited to see what you will come up with next. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you! And yeah - the Imperial City is definitely on the list!
This was absolutely beautiful, and the music choice just made it seem so magnificent
This was by far my most mind blowing part of Skyrim when I came into the Blackreach, my jaw dropped, it looked just like this in my mind back then. 😊😊😊
I've been going through your videos and liking them... but the amount of time I was lost in Blackreach, thinking I was never going to see the sky again... imagining it *even bigger* is just my worst nightmare :D
Wow this is incredible. nice work. Id love to see riften next. it will look so good with the forest around it
This is genuinely incredible! I love seeing all these cities brought to life, there’s so much character in every inch of your designs! I’m really curious if you have any plans for what city to tackle next? I’d love to see a city like Markarth or Windhelm, or even a city like Bruma would feel amazing with all the amazing Scandinavian influences you showed off in the other cities!
Thank you!
Well, time to mine all the geode veins.
Blackreach is such a magnificent place itself, you did stunning work to show it's true beauty. Thank you.
Thank you!
I could imagine the pain when searching for dem nirn roots in this version of blackreach
You've outdone yourself, sir. I hope that one day they make a series on Skyrim and use your videos for concept.
For the love of god, someone please hire this man
What an actual "16 times the details" looks like: amazing !
Thanks!
Would love to see regions of Morrowind as well as tour around fort Dawnguard. This is amazing!
Thank you!
Finally! 16x the detail!!!
I would play this for decades
I love how this is unfamiliar but also familiar at the same time, it's like back to your hometown after living in the city for years.
I love when I’m exploring an ancient Dwemer ruin and find that it connects directly to blackreach! Such a cool feeling. Whenever I go down there, it feels eerie and etherial, but I imagine it was vibrant and bustling when the Dwemer were actually there.
I'd pay serious money to experience lore accurate, to scale Tamriel. Like mountains of money
its always amazing to see work like this! great work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, that is beautiful! I've always loved Blackreach.
Thank you!
Absolutely incredible.
Thank you so much!
Skyrim felt so huge and still very small back in the day, I could spend hours walking, exploring and already knowing my way. Huge and tiny at the same time. ESO dwarves Skyrim region negatively… but still gave better build out cities.
Double feelings and this video finally honored what is should’ve been.❤
This is beautiful dude! your the entire reason I got into unreal engine and once I upgrade my pc I hope to do stuff like this. keep it up man!
Thanks so much!
Ive always had a problem with skyrims lack of size,and it made skyrim look so small,both the hamlets in the over world,and the insane magical blackreach underground,ive always imagined it like this
Thank you for making my imagination flourish after this long
Cheers!
Gives me vibes from the depths in tears of the kingdom and the night time fona glow of avatar frontiers of pandora.
Amazing work. Would love to play it and explore. OG blackreach still awesome. Would also like it VR both versions.
I'm watching your videos and getting real aesthetic pleasure.
This is how real Skyrim should be!
Would love to see a lore-accurate Vivec City. Where it's said that each Canton is the size of a whole town.
If Blackreach was this size, I'd never make it out. The place is absolute hell on lower levels.
even after 10 years and thousands of hours, i still sometimes get lost in Blackreach now imagine in this damn scale lol
yeah it'd probably take a minute to get around...
What the 🤯
Blackreach is my favourite place in vanilla Skyrim. At my 1st playthrough I didn't really like it that much and blazed through it as fast as possible ( mainly due to Dwemer Ruins Fatigue ) but on my 2nd playthrough I really appreciate the beauty of it, dark and glowy atmosphere it is just ♥
Again amazing. What I wouldn't give to play a version of Skyrim like this
Cheers!
Just keep in mind that this is all that is accessible after 4000 years (engine limitations) blackreach spans from just under windhelm south towards the rift, east under markarth, north under solitude and finally back west to windhelm
This is amazing!! Hope I get to see more amazing projects of my all time favorite video game like this!!
Thanks!
@@lion_towers3d your welcome. I’ve seen a few different Skyrim Unreal Engine videos and yours are the best!! Hope this doesn’t intimidate you, but my wishlist is Misty Grove, Sovngarde, Raven Rock from Solstheim, Soul Cairn, Apocrypha, the Skaal Village of Solstheim, Tel Mithryn from Solstheim, and the decimated forest around Tel Mithryn (obviously from the Dragonborn DLC) that includes all those lava pockets bubbling up from the ground. That latter area I find both fascinating and scary because it must have been an extremely beautiful place before it was leveled by the Red Mountain eruption that caused the Red Year and just running around that area every time I visit Solstheim causes my heart to sink a little EVERY TIME!!
@@TCWRebelsResistanceWords Thank you! And that's quite a list! I'll see what I can do!
@@lion_towers3d no rush. I understand these videos can be quite challenging with a program as complex as Unreal Engine. I’m patient
It’s always a sunny day when a new video gets posted here.
What might have been. Even by the day's standard, Skyrim could have been built at a much greater scale, if it had been built for PCs and not the shitty consoles. Consistently building TES to last generation consoles has been holding the series back since Oblivion. Built it for the PC and by the time the next generation of consoles come around they get the game they deserve. Like it or not the PC is the gold standard for gaming.
Stunning. Great music choice as well!
Thanks!
holy shit he's done it again. marvelous work.
this is what it felt like going in there as a kid.
definitely the best so far. 9.7/10!
Great work !
Cheers!
This is absolutely surreal, and I wonder if future Elder Scrolls games' mods will recreate this, as is the case with Skywind and Skyblivion today.
by the gods! wonderful
Thanks!
The saddest thing for me is that not even the next elder scrolls will look this good 😭
It will, but you will have microtransactions for every ingame item, and every significant NPC will be BIPOC or LGBTQ
@@dogman3362 touch grass my friend.
I am so completely infatuated by your work. Hope to see you keep it up as you can. Wish I had the skills you do. My dream city to see: Windhelm
Thank you!
Finally, it's everything it wanted to be! This is gorgeous!!
Thanks!
Omg I can smell how musty and dank it would be through the screen lol. Beautiful work as always
haha - thanks!
OK, now I'm wondering how you're releasing these videos so quickly. Haha! Even straight kit bashing seems like it would take longer to create a scene like this than the time since your last video. We certainly appreciate the content, I just hope you're sleeping every now and then!
Haha thanks! I do have a bunch of these going at any given time - I just switch to another one when I get bored - and they all get done eventually!
why are doing this to me??? I've always loved skyrim like it was a place I was really into it, like I was born in it and I've seen the videos and my heart ache as I was missing something... like my soul, so I just wanna say thank you. I needed it.
And *that* is fallen Dwemer metropolis. Even in Skyrim, even without graphic mods this place was spectacular, but this? This is another tier entirely.
Bro you're about to recreate the whole skyrim like that before bethesda finish elder scrolls VI. Breathtaking, good job
haha - thanks!
this is the best location in tamriel imo i would live there. except dwemer and falmer maybe vampire but still it's a beautiful location and the UE5 render is incredible!
A wise loresman once said "All roads in Skyrim lead to Blackreach."
This is so pretty 😊lease remake the entire game and let us play it like this
You're an extraordinary human being, I hope you know that. Oh I would give a lot to explore that Black Reach.
I have a love hate relationship with Blackreach. It's one of the most magical places, both in the way it looks and ambiance and also the whole mystery and journey surrounding it (the quests and stuff). It's somewhere I'd love to walk around every nook and cranny because there's always something new. However, you can easily get lost which isn't a huge deal but an annoyance and then there's the crimson plants, oh boy lol
Haha yeah - part of why scaling up to this size for gameplay would be terrible - it would take forever to get anywhere lol...
Loved how huge this place is
IMPERIAL CITY WHEN?
This is stunning. Awesome work.
Thank you!
I don't know what it is about Skyrim that keeps me coming back to it. I know it's not particularly well written as far as RPG's are concerned, I know the graphics are pretty dated, and there are other fantasy games that are bigger and more immersive. But there is something about Skyrim that just lights my imagination of fire. I've already spent 2000-3000 hours of my life playing this fucking thing but I still find myself, every now and then, wanting to make a new character and do it all again. I think there is a little part of me that genuinely wishes I lived in this world, even yearns for it.
🥺it's the Underdark! i mean Blackreach! ;) Great work Leo you are a MASTER at environments!
Thank you! Cheers!
"Behold - the great realm and Dwarf city of Dwarrodelf!"
Fantastic! I desperately want to traverse that landscape and explore the ruins.
Thanks!
Playing skyrim and getting used to it and seeing this actially felt a bit UNREAL to me
Another awesome one. Love these vids!
Thank you!
Looks fantastic although one thing i think is missing is Blackreach's bloom, as well as any glow on the Sun.
I still remember the first time I entered Blackreach. These UE5 works are so beautiful.
Cheers!
I wish The Elder Scrolls 6 had come out with these graphics
This makes me want either an Elder Scrolls movie or a Skyrim Reimagined (even though Skyrim has aged well)
blackreach in the skyrim we got is impressive but this goes beyond impressive
I've always thought Bethesda took some inspiration from Final Fantasy X's "Macalania Woods" when creating Blackreach.
thank you so much for this pure work of art ! i only wish to create something like this
The word gets thrown around a lot - but truly, this is EPIC.
Hey, actually: will you ever un-private the other video you did?
Subbed my guy! Holy shit.. honestly. You've done a perfect job on these skyrim remakes. I wonder if you have them all pieced together in one project or if you can do that?
Would it ever be possible to run your illustrious, marvellous, truly masterful reimaginations of Skyrim's places as demo games?
Always a little bit iffy on that - ideally, sure. But someone will inevitably try to sell them on steam or something like that...
Glory and gold, my friend. Glory and gold.
God I remember entering Blackreach and then leaving it through the other side. Could not understand how I traveled so far underground.
yeah it was a head trip and a half
You guys ever noticed that the glowing ball hanging there releaces dust if you shout at it? Try it!
Dude, as far as I understand, you can do such things with unreal engine 5. I want to ask you something. Do you think it's possible to remaster Skyrim or Oblivion with unreal engine 5? Also, you are very talented.
We need the modding community now more than ever. Let’s get this UE5 Skyrim going lol.
Ah god dammit even in a youtube playlist I ended up in Blackreach.
I really wish it was possible for someone to mod something like this into skyrim, but id love it even more if skyrim was fully remade from the ground up with a new engine while taking into account many loved mods like skyui to enhance many of its outdated aspects.
Looking at this was like a mix of lotr and avatar and it truly hits that fantasy feel
Nostalgia hit me like Tyson
If you want an idea, you could make a underwater world. This already kinda of looks under water with those little bubbles. Atlantis or something similar to Subnautica Bellow Zero either crystal caves or beginning area, those look good.
I think this is what they had to show grrm to get him to sign to eldersfr9lluls)l)llcljlm... or whatever. And it's the moment of... there still a hole word above you. That still gives me chilles.
Dude you need to release this as a game so people can download and roam around it
Awesome as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
damn that tonal architecture really works wonders don't it
Your work is amazing.
Thank you!