Medieval Town

[torbjorn]

Hey, nice work...Maybe the whitecolor is a little bit too much...maybe add some dirt to the walls ( on the white houses)


Other than that, great work...how will you navigate in this game?

[MCGrund]

Looking pretty good, Lots of detail on these buildings. But like torbjorn mentioned some dirt would be nice.

[baddog]

well, theres a heap of brown streaks on the white houses.. maybe it shows more on some monitors than others?

the game will be 'navigated' by starting with a small bunch of primitive houses, and spending your towns money on buildings, resources etc. the town will grow as you get richer. Its a little 'static' (Im just doing the visuals not the game design!) in my mind as the buildings have fixed locations, but the game designers wanted a non-isometric view, and its a 2d engine, so there we go!

Shaun

[torbjorn]

Nah, on my monitor i can see the brown stuff, but that's not enough...people have been living here for the past hundred years or so? rain and wind would have made the walls more dirty...maybe add some cracksin the painting on some of the buildings...AND make some green stuff growing up the walls (those green plants you can see here and there, that grows widely, and people climbs down them in movies ;-) Just an effect, so it wont all look the same

[Chupa]

Looks nice m8, some dirt on the walls would improve the look ;)


one thing tho, is it me or are the houses i pointed in the pic a bit tilted??? Gl ;)
http://www.squad-clan.com/temp/cgtalk01.jpg

[baddog]

ah right.. yeah id like to do some more 'naturalising' if I have a time budget left for it!

Shaun

[baddog]

no , those two are actually perfectly straight, the ground being slopes there, and the camera lens have a slight effect though

a few of the other buildings ARE tilted a touch to look right on the ground, but the two that look it arent

Shaun

[Chupa]

okie :)

[baddog]

Just a couple of shots to show what sort of detail level the buildings are given.. Id seriously like to think about doing baked low poly versions of these in a 3d engine, could be very nice...

Shaun

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~funkfurr/shaun/bank.jpg

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~funkfurr/shaun/fortress.jpg

[Snakeman]

i love this scene....maybe make some of the grass look worn from walkiing or something....looks too much like a model...maybe some trails throught the grass or erosion or something

[Awesome Possum]

Wow, very nice. I tried making some towns for online games but yours came out much much better. I was just wondering if you could post a poly count and maybe a wireframe.
Great job

:applause:

[baddog]

here is a wireframe segment.. really too many lines to see much, the whole scene is just a blur of lines

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~funkfurr/shaun/wireshow.jpg

As for polys. I had no idea I had so many, I counted and I get 1,249,000 polygons. wow. Is there like a million polygon club? ;)

Shaun

[Flaggmeister]

What did ya use fer the trees:bounce:

[baddog]

Tree druid. no point at all in making trees by hand in my opinion (unless the tree is the main item in a scene of course!)

Shaun

[MikeRhone]

I must say, I really like this. I do agree that the buildings, while you can see dirt, really need to be dirtier overall. Tone down the white if you can with yellowy mildew-ish green and brown tones. I also highly suggest ivy on some of you're buildings. In europe you can see quite a few buildings around that are ALL ivy. You can't see a single brick anywhere.

It would be nice if you can deeped the paths with high horse and carriage traffic. Wear them in deep with 2 tire ruts running the lenght of the paths if you're poly counts can handle it. Some rocks and road debris would be nice, and street name signs on corner buildings could be a nice touch if you want to go crazy.

My only final nit picky thing would be the church. Medival churches ALWAYS have very visible graveyards.

Other than the overall "too clean" look, I think this is a really cool looking project. Be sure to post the links to the final. Sim city never had witchhunts!

Mike R

[baddog]

thanks.

definitely see all the points on dirtiness on the 'stucco' buildings.

the graveyard is on the list, but actually had been forgotten! good call.

Shaun

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