Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver World Map Evolution

[@PaKePo]

The 90's were truly a golden age I'm not sure of what, but they were

[@Federelli1]

I'd love if you could remake this video with more flybys and less spinning of the map. Also lower the music volume as it was mentioned The idea is great, but the execution can be improved!! Great content!!

[@casedistorted]

He def should, doubt he did it though.

[@MCMortus]

Nice Video very intersting. The only problem i need to sleep for work but need to see the videos

[@rocket_lawnchair]

This is fascinating, but the music is really loud in places and makes it difficult to hear what is being said. I'd recommend tweaking the audio a bit and reuploading.

[@casedistorted]

Yes please!

[@ayoubmorjane7722]

the more I look at it the more I remember dark souls 1 map, the soul reaver is just ahead of time, you can visit all these areas both spectral and physical realms with one single loading screen amazing!! and more this was built on ps1 hardware and each and every area is connected to the lake of the dead and you have the abyss at the centers like all the rivers meet at this point truly magnificent thank you so much for the cut content and all the mazing work you've done

[@DonGeritch]

would be interesting to compile maps from each game in the series somehow, ignoring some level-design inconsistencies, to get the full picture of the world and how it changed through the story and timelines

[@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916]

That's something we're planning to do, once the tools we have handle the later games.

[@DonGeritch]

@@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916 Awesome!

[@SpecShadow]

Josh Strife send me here, quite amazing work here. I do some things in Blender but this is far way beyond anything I could do with my current skill...

[@SystemCrasher113]

It's amazing how open world it feels to me!........ Games of today could still LEARN from this early MASTERPIECE

[@xproflipscarab]

This video is amazing and i think you guys are the best but i dont know if it was just me but i had a really hard time focusing on what your was showing us because of how fast you was rotating the map, i had to go back and play it at half speed just to stop my eyes from tripping out. but amazing work non the less you lot are truly heroes we do not deserve

[@PaKePo]

Man, I can't help getting flashbacks from the second renaissance when I listen to your voice. I swear that at some point I'm gonna hear *"and for a time, it was good..."*

[@ukaszgoacki2953]

Your work is truly impressive

[@cantool]

That’s cool that you were able to have Rahab narrate this video

[@nightfallalicorn4246]

I love the overall model of the world. Although it feels strange from how big the Silenced Cathedral is covering the map

[@Glaiceana]

Great video Ben! People often forget the scale of this game! Its crazy how big it could have been with the cut content included!

[@wareforcoin5780]

Fascinating material, and well put together. I'm 99% praise for this video, but my 1% is the volume mixing. Sometimes the music gets louder than your voice, making it a little hard to understand, but it's really not that bad.

[@johnny_eth]

How about putting the location of all glyphs and health tokens? Excellent work btw

[@TarantulaDanMedia]

It was spinning too fast, it kinda made me feel sick trying to look at it. Would you do a tour of the map in freecam?

[@rucmerybaresco3555]

Nice work! What's the music playing in the background?

[@zonilo1]

Looking at this video now which at this point it now only makes me even more infuriated that Crystal Dynamics is only remastering the Final Version of the game and it seems we're never going to play the version that was originally intended in the prototypes.

[@Marty_Destroyer_of_Worlds]

just came over to leave a like and comment ;)

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

Feels loke they were very close to creating a heavily interconnected world.

[@NemXX2]

After watching that video i am seeing my monitor slightly rotate anti-clockwise. I think the rotation on the video was too fast. But, a cool watch nonetheless. I am sure my brain will get used to the fact that the world is not rotating anti-clockwise soon. 😆

[@aideleticiacastrollanes9692]

Awesome! :o

[@cyklonus1]

One thing I've NEVER understood, how do the pillars end up in various locations? Are they not just shooting straight up from the center of the land or world? And as such, any areas with the pillars should just be stacked on each other?

[@UltimateBargains]

Music too loud; spinning too fast.

[@regularguy3879]

you sound like Solid Snake's bastard brother xd But thank you for the detailed content anyway, it's pretty good :)

[@casedistorted]

No music credit in the description? Argh..

[@sanji_senpai69]

how can we have access to the alpha map but with troncate part like in your website please? i wana use them for a campagne for my roleplay as GM

[@Zeithri]

Towards 3:10'ish, your voice gets really hard to hear due to the music. Though when will this tool be released? I believe the last time there was anything was... 4-5 months ago? I just really wanna look at the maps myself without having to boot up the game.

[@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916]

I released the first public version of the toolchain yesterday, at the same time as these videos. www.thelostworlds.net/Software/Soul_Reaver_to_Blender_Conversion_Toolchain.html

[@Zeithri]

@@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916 Wonderful! I just checked up on this today so I'll definitely download this. Wonderful!

[@Zeithri]

@@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916 You know I tried it, and I tried it again, and I just can't make heads or tails of it because I am not a Programmer. All I ended up with was an empty Level Generations Command bat files that did nada ;-;

[@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916]

@@Zeithri You're running the commands from a Windows command prompt, right? *Not* a PowerShell prompt? You want to run cmd.exe to start it.

[@Zeithri]

@@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916 Yeah. After a hell a lot of typing and ending up with empty files, I was simply at a loss. " _Did I have to have python running in the background while typing in CMD? It does nothing in either case. Why are there only a bunch of empty txt files and an empty bat file? There's nothing here._ " To say I was frustrated would be an understatement. For clarification; > Examine the contents of the Level_Generation_Commands.bat file, which will contain a large number of possible commands to run, depending on what collection of areas you want to convert into Blender. That bat file contained zero commands.

[@PaKePo]

1:05 ... Deleted ending of the game...? BRO

[@legacyofkainthelostworlds-4916]

Yes. If Raziel was supposed to use the smokestack to fly to the Retreat (www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/The_Final_Battle_with_Kain.html), and then fly from the Retreat to the top of the Cathedral (www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/Opening_the_Sounding_Pipes.html), the Retreat must have been at least sort of in-between those two locations.

[@sadderthanyou7793]

Why they deleted all those devilish colors from the spectral plane? It looks absurdly bland with everything being green. Seriously, I don't get this decision.