The Real Size of Solitude: Skyrim in UNREAL ENGINE 5! 

You must make lvl design tutorials, not for free of corse. this is brilliant, everything hare is amazing water, Mountains, fog, sun lightning. architecture.

Just here to say this is magnificent, and the shot of Solitude in the rain with the waterfalls is one of the most amazing I've seen. If you ever want to make a walkthrough of the city, it would be spetacular.

My man, you did not have to make me start drooling!

man i would KILL for you to even just make a full render of the true size of skyrim and than even more so i would love if you let some mod team like skyblivion take that and than turn it into a ACTUAL skyrim remastered..... honestly ashes of creation being a mmorpg made in the unreal 5 engine and being a world which will have a total world space of 1200km sq AND 10000 people on a server at once AND all the systems like world bosses, dungeons, world events, seasons, and nodes all taking their piece of performance but still seeming like it running on less buff pcs is still a possibility makes me SO fucking wanna see and playthrough skyrim AS IT SHOULDA BEEN with also maybe even a fun removal of all the bs dragon cult stuff and turning the badass thu' um into just the dragons language with the civil war being the one and only main focus....

What’s the best way to learn how to do what you’re creating here? How did you learn, and do you have recommendations for someone learning?

Exactly, I mean Solitude is supposed to be the capital but Whiterun is way bigger and more beautiful. Whiterun is the symbol of Skyrim.

Indeed. You can mod the game to look like a 2020 AAA title, but the engine definitely shows its age. Also archaic is the loading screens between "Skyrim" and each location. These limitations are pretty much gone in contemporary engines.

Hence the name, they live in Solitude :)

@@julianfull280 In Switzerland Bern is the offical capital, yet Zürich is bigger.

Like almost every other "city"?

nolvus is pretty damn good

It would put me in a coma and I wouldn't be able to play it!!

Sure. First you would cry at 2fps. Then you'd cry turning in another fetch quest.

id drop 120 for it ps5

if this is a remaster then I'm the Queen

no this is what the next elder scrolls should look like.

@@teleportingpotatoe Well, we've all seen Starfield...don't get your hopes up xD

keep your eyes peeled for skyblivion, it looks amazing

in 2043?@@Opachki69420

Of course you would, hence why they keep releasing instead of making good games or even finished games

Just as long as its an original story set in skyrim/tamriel and not another poor adaptation of the game's plot.

@@monkaeyes3417 Honestly, there's so much lore around Skyrim that it shouldn't be hard to do that.

@@samhouston1288 Tell that to the writers of The Witcher tv show.

​@@samhouston1288 Modern "writers" don't care about lore. They actively disregard it because they feel it constrains their storytelling ability to crossdress and gender swap.

The first thing I thought was “this looks like a movie” you could definitely blue screen people into that scene... it looks better than most CG for movies tbh. First thing that came to mind was Harry Potter.

Exactly the same thing with me, that was the spot! perfect.

Something straight out of Game of Thrones - just impossibly large medieval fantasy landscapes and structures that took thousands of years to inhabit.

That was the only part that gave the true sense of scale.

yeah, and this is interesting creative angle of bird flight, unlike to any UE5 video that have fetish moment when birds are flying from left to right, like everybody just drag and drop standard asset/preset. And question to UE5 users: where are single and coupled birds flying like real birds above sea or city? Is it too hard to create?

the birds do that too in the real game right?

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my favorite part! I got chills watching those birds.

@@gremlinchet Thanks!

I got a primal sense of awe in that scene

I agree, until we saw those birds, just could not really judge the scale of what we were seeing.

REMEMBER THAT THE DEVELOPERS WOULD HAVE TO CODE ALL OF THIS SHIT AND FILL THE CITY WITH A TON OF NPCS.

the game was sold in 2009 and was a project of about 6 years work, following on what was built up from Oblivion and Morrowind before it. The era came with restraints which limited things. In that era you either had big empty cities which were just essentially scenery, or a small city with more NPCS. Solitude was bigger in Arena, the original game... But... When you examine THAT game despite it being older, theres more city and less resources dedicated to each used asset in the cities. Arena could afford to be what it was because it was all show and no substances. One of the issues I have with this video is that Solitude... Looks bigger, but more "empty". A lot of the buildings are so similar that they haven't much uniqueness to them. You cannot tell from the first glance of the aerial shot what building "Sid the Imperial Baker" is living in from "Her Lady Sparsehead the High Elf"'s luxury mansion. They all "look" the same. Whereas in the actual game the lack of buildings means you can easily find locations such as the Bard's guild and even houses. If I were to go into deeper... Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption has a perfectly good example of the problem with displaying size of cities. Both in Prague and in London you are surrounded by buildings. But. You cannot enter most because their off limits. The original Thief game, you can wonder empty streets and walk past doors to buildings that are just fronts. Even modern games, they have issues like this. Dragon Quest Games, they either have small cities you can enter every building of or big ones that only have a few entered. Bethesda put a lot of effort into the original Skyrim... BUT... To say its not showing its age is an understatement. I think the only time Besthesda is disappointing with their city building from about that era is Fallout 3 and 4, lots of buildings you can't enter. For example, Concord is full of these buildings you just cannot enter. On the one hand, it does make their worlds larger but having them.

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Skyrim was released in 2011. I don't think they had the technology to develop a full city.

Skyrim had more cities though. I wish at least Whiterun was a lot larger.

​​@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300the technology was there. Bethesda just makes crappy games. And I don't mean that in the way that probably reads. TES games are legendary and massive games with infinite replayability because of their A-tier exploration and roleplay potential. But they are all objectively crap tier in virtually every other category like graphics, voice acting, writing, performance and stability etc. Bethesda as a developer is very low to middle tier for their size and scope.

@@christianrobloxserver7282 Bro I love Bethesda.

@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300It was 2011 not 1989

that's the funny thing about UE5, it is much less demanding than you would expect due to the new technology of processing those polygons

@@Morfalath You're kidding

@@Morfalath what are you smoking bro

True, my gpu worked the hardest ever when playing Hellblade 2 on ultra.

@@Morfalath You're really stretching the use of "less demanding".

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I would also add cranes for unloading the ships below

they forgat the blue palace

Ну да, жди))

Imagine what it smells like. That's a lot of people, all crammed together in a tight space. A lot of butts producing a lot of poop, and no indoor plumbing.

@@adamb89I- why are you thinking about that?? Lol

@ElmaXC Background in civil engineering. Nobody ever thinks about toilets. I guarantee in the real world, these towns and cities would REEK! I mean in the real world people would shit in a bucket and toss it out the window. Skyrim wouldn't be much different! How many toilets you recall seeing? Any outhouses? None. But buckets to shit in, those are all over even in the game.

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Just imagine the hardware requirement jump they would have to do this in a game when really nothing is optimized. When optimized it seems to use all the features in UE5 for it to look good requires a 4060 16GB or better. So a mid end card but the part of 16GB is the important part as lots of unoptimized parts take up a lot in VRAM. Lots of UE5 games do not do by hand optimization and use the optimization tool that don't really understand what it does.

@@yumri4 It doesn't even necessarily need to be so high of fidelity. Just the scale in general is something that would enhance the experience ten fold in terms of immersion.

@@yumri4 I figure that you need way more to keep this level of detail on top of endless animations of countless characters (assuming they have they have the same level). This would not be a pre-render, but games need to be rendered on the fly.

The video showcases an environment and that alone needs a beefy PC to make it look like how it does. Also, it's pre-rendered. Add in scripts, NPCs, AI, a multitude of other systems a game like Skyrim is running in the background, all in real time, and you have a mess on your hand. I do wish we could have world spaces like this in games but unless there comes a massive leap in computing power for consumers, I think it's still just wishful thinking.

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Amusingly I think it's The Imperial City that needs an upgrade now.

In Vanilla Skyrim Solitude is actually just the size of a relatively large castle, as fellow RU-vidr Shadiversity has pointed out. The capital of Skyrim is...a castle. It's a joke. Now don't tell me it wasn't possible for games to create somewhat believable cities. Ofc they will always be downsized, but they can still feel like cities. Novigrad in the Witcher 3 actually felt like a city.

@@kooroshrostami27 Witcher 3 came out 4 years after Skyrim. And Skyrim was also very rushed just to get to the neat 11/11/11 date.

​@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 wow you're right it was released November 11 2011

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you would need fast travel points even from the gate to the shops as it would be too far away to just walk there everytime :)

Even with that graphics, you can't escape "I heard they're reforming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters or something-"

​@@spdzodzonever. Fash travel ruins immersion. And, when the world is that beautiful, I want to forget which world is the real one.

​@@spdzodzothats why you have a horse

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unfortunately in elder scrolls 6 we'll just get starfield with a fantasy setting

​@numberonedad dude the games not out yet

@@FrankWest2006 yes it's a prediction in the future tense buddy lmk if you figure it out

@@numberonedad your from the future then

it only gets worse as you age. it takes a whole goddamn lot to tickle my fancy nowadays. even so called "goty" aren't doing it.

I totally relate to this man :( @@GraveUypo

Life was simple as a kid

The Witcher 3 is good for bringing back the magic … I have recently played both final fantasy 7&9 and got a great feeling of accomplishment from completing them as it really felt like an adventure whilst playing those games. I’m currently playing Disco Elysium and it’s enjoyable so far… I have found the older I get the less I am interested in fast pace shooters and need a more relaxed approach to gaming.

i haven’t played it yet, but i hope baldur’s gate 3 will bring back this feeling for me. none of the modern games feel as magical anymore

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Agreed

sounds like a job for a 100+ dev team minimum

@@axlfrhalotry 1000+

Yes but… would still prefer elder scrolls 6 or an entire revamp of skyrim with bunch of new DLC for the story

Oh heck yeah.

Thank you! Working on Riften at the moment!

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I mean you technically can.....If you're like me who runs like 2500 mods, Its always an experience. One thing i love about modding is that it always enhances your experience week after week. The only is for me just getting them mods to work. Is why i am appreciative of Vortex mod manager

Any mods you would suggest for skyrim vr? For reference i have a rift s, i know i am a boomer, and a 4070​@@colonelace2901

Imagine walking to Riften from Solitude. Or even just from Whiterun, as that's where the story puts you first. The run from Riverwood to Whiterun would already take you longer than crossing the entire map as it is now in game. I mean I wouldn't mind it but Skyrim would still be in development if they had scaled it like this.

@@khymaaren nay, with all of their remakes it would have been out by now.

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Vivec city would be awesome

@@nathanielpitts2788 It needs to be done now. Bonus points if it's ALL of Vvardenfel

@@nathanielpitts2788sotha sils city too

Indeed, the swamps would be alive with life. You'd hear buzzing and birds and all types of strange sounds not allowed with Bethesda's engine. With UnReal animals would grow silent when you approached them, but in the distance, you be hearing life being what it is, life.

just play tamriel rebuilt

Thanks! And yeah! Wouldn't that be something?

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Thanks! And yeah - Blackreach would be wicked!

Slow down bro, we need to see even one actual game using UE5 first. This thing has been vaporware for most of my natural life 🤣

​@@MiltonRoe..everyone wants their game ran through it..i want DayZ

mgs3 remake looking good on UE5.. @@MiltonRoe

@@atrocious_pr0xy this is the correct response to this video. well done

It wouldn't be this enormous, I can basically promise that. Once you have to make NPCs who live in those houses, each with their own personalities and stories, their own faces, outfits, relationships, inventories, many with quests that interweave with other NPCs and places, daily schedules for each and every one of them, complete house interiors detailed down to the nick-knacks in their cupboards, keep it playable at a good framerate, and then do the entire rest of the game at that level, too... It just becomes impractical. About the only way to do it would be to have most of it AI auto-generated, and then we get into debates about how much of our games do we want to just be AI-automated or procedurally generated just to have more stuff, vs. pairing it down so it can be hand-made and help ensure everything that's there is meaningful. . I love these videos, but I'm concerned that they'll set unrealistic (heh) expectations for the next TES game, because people don't understand the difference between a visual art piece and a complete, playable game.

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It's never too late to play skyrim again

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Life goes by fast doesn't it?

personally I could care less about graphics and more about performance. It would never run good at that level of detail and it just blocks off low end gaming setups.

@@spikedpigeon5740 Then play it on lower setting. Wow, you are not very bright are you? You want all games to look bad so you can play them and to hell with the people that actually saved money and bought a good computer.

@@spikedpigeon5740 So are you're trying to tell us that you're sad about your computer sucking or that you prefer retro gaming? How much less could you care exactly?

@@spikedpigeon5740 On console you're absolutely right but on PC UE5 is very much possible to run. It's actually very well optimized for what it brings to the table, one of the biggest steps in modern gaming if you ask me. What constitutes a "low end gaming setup'' in 2023 for you? I'm fairly certain most adult PC gamers have 1070s/1080s and up (I've had my 1080 for nearly 10 years now) and as long as you have an i5/i7 from the past 5 years you're definitely capable of running a UE5 game. With many countries entering the market recently (china, south america, etc.) if we have to wait for everyone to have top gear, technology is gonna stagnate like it did for the past 10+ years.

@@monalisa5390 I spent $1300 on my PC a couple years ago, and I have no intentions of spending more on it. Maybe get some bitches loser.

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World of TES:Daggerfall was orders of magnitude bigger. Graphics is a little bit outdated, though.

TES V is about 5000 times smaller than TES II, when really the territories are about the same size. Source: other internet comments

It’s called real life bro

@@masonicperkins >real life Immersion ruined

Less than 5 years I guarantee you

act 3 of baldurs gate 3 almost feels like this, it fakes the size of the city really well

Skyblivion dropping next year

No way is that you!! I love your videos and never knew you were a skyrim fan!

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