Dayshot: Pictured above: six kilometres by six kilometres of pure magnificence, in Minecraft map form.
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Dayshot: Retro tech, abandoned coffee cups, unmade beds, monitors saying "LOST CONTACT" in all caps. Yep, that's a deserted Alien space station, alright.
Dayshot: BioShock came out nearly nine years ago and used Unreal Engine 2.5, so it's no wonder the Unreal Engine 4 project it inspired looks so sharp.
Dayshot: Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It's so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game's visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft).
Dayshot: This Baal is more like the Baal I'd imagine after dying over ten times in Diablo II Act V's Worldstone Chamber.
Dayshot: Apparently, a card game session went wrong in the Lion's Pride Inn's basement and someone bled all over the place. Thankfully that doesn't tarnish the beauty of this Unreal Engine 4-World of Warcraft map too much.
Hey, have you finished Undertale? If you haven't, there's massive spoilers within. But if you have, get ready for an extremely cool Minecraft build: a playable version of Undertale's final boss fight.
Dayshot: Link first passed the Death Mountain Crater on his way to the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time, but it was a lot more blocky and a lot less particle effect-y back then.
Dayshot: This is a voxel-style Minecraft model, created by redditor samasaurus6 for a dungeon crawler map and shared on r/minecraft here. It's a clever build based on custom block models, with the smoke particles being generated by a pressure plate-activated Command Block hidden under the bellows.
Dayshot: What we've got here is a "Minecraft-Like Infinite Voxel World" built in Unreal Engine 4. In layman's terms, it's a very pretty but limited Minecraft demo running in a triple-A game engine.
Dayshot: In this particular piece of 3D fan art, Sylvanas, leader of World of Warcraft's Forsaken, poses in her new set of armour, which appears to lack somewhat in the pants department. Yes, the model's a bit NSFW, but that doesn't take away from its overall quality, mind you.
Dayshot: Duriel, with his tiny-arse lair, slow-down aura and incredibly dangerous attacks, is an annoying Diablo II boss to fight. Now, thanks to this piece of fanart, he's also terrifying to look at. Yay!
Dayshot: Skywind, part of the Elder Scrolls Renewal project, aims to recreate Morrowind in Skyrim's engine. It has been in development since 2012 and probably won't be ready for a while. To help cope with that fact, I look at the team's progress videos as mere instances of 3D Morrowind fan art. So let's look at some fan art!
Dayshot: It's one thing to draw or paint a character you like, and another to model them in high definition -- as Nimlot26's version of Éomer (his version of the Karl Urban version of Éomer) shows.
Dayshot: Mini nukes sure look a lot more high-tech on the inside.
The Emirates Stadium in Holloway, London was opened eight years ago. It's England's third largest stadium and home to the Arsenal Football Club. And now it's also the subject of an awesome CryEngine map.
Provided, some of the games showcased here already are (or in the case of, for example, Skyrim, can be) in glorious HD. Still, it's a new perspective on something old and familiar, and that's always welcome.
Dayshot: I haven't seen an asian-style temple so beautiful since I played the Shadow Warrior reboot last year. The map was done in CryEngine3 by Minsk-based 3D artist Censored_ID, who recently shared his work at the Polycount forums after finishing the project in July. Check below for a video and some gorgeous screenshots.
Rocks are everywhere in video games. They sit by roads, roll around as debris, make up whole rooms, or even sometimes star in their own games -- they're pretty important! So really, it's no wonder there's a whole, pages-long forum thread dedicated to crafting and sharing the prettiest 3D rocks.
