Urban River - my new WIP

TangoAlpha

Ah, building is so much more fun than rendering! :cheese:

Just thought I'd post a few early WIP screens of my new project, Urban River. Loosely based on the canyonised rivers that flow through the heart of Tokyo, each turn reveals a different environment - leisure and fishing, with a small boat dock, wildlife, with reed beds, rocks and a weir, and adventure, a playground for the daring.

Or something like that! ;)

Dartanbeck

I love it, Tim! Looks very, very cool! Nice modeling job!

TangoAlpha

Thanks Dartan :) Long way to go yet, though! (I should try something "quick and simple", but I'd only keep expanding it...)

TangoAlpha

The roof still needs a bit of work, but the first house is more or less complete. :)

Three Wishes

Tim_A said:

The roof still needs a bit of work, but the first house is more or less complete. :)

I am really liking that house. Are you planning to do interiors for a couple of your buildings too?

TangoAlpha

Probably not - it's going to be pretty big just with exteriors!

PhilW

Looking great so far!

TangoAlpha

Thanks Phil - much of it is down to your tutorials (and once I've mastered trees...) :-)

I've had a small change of direction. Okay, quite a big one - 180 degrees! Now instead of an "S" shape, the river goes through a "u" shape, or possibly a "P" It doesn't do a lot to the square footage, but makes for a more compact scene, and better "ends" to the river.

TangoAlpha

Gosh it's been a few days since I posted an update (been a bit fraught, what with this database malarky and so on), anyhow, things are progressing onwards and upwards... :)

Nothing really's textured at the moment - the bridge and the torii just have colours assigned, and the grass at back is Dartan's shader as a tempo. There's one more big building to add on the infill, and of course the buildings around the edge. Then trees, plants and detailing!

nDelphi

Tim_A said:

Nothing really's textured at the moment - the bridge and the torii just have colours assigned, and the grass at back is Dartan's shader as a tempo. There's one more big building to add on the infill, and of course the buildings around the edge. Then trees, plants and detailing!

Interesting architecture you got there. You have skills. :-)

TangoAlpha

It's kind of a mash-up of bits of modern Tokyo, historic Kyoto and one or two other places! But certainly very Japanese influenced :)

TangoAlpha

As you might have seen from my other thread,I've been looking at textures and shaders the past few days. So here'a a wip of some early efforts in that direction. :)

Diomede

Excellent progress. Beautiful set.

ringo monfort

Wow!! This is Excellent WIP.. can't wait to see the final

Dartanbeck

Yeah... you go, Tim!
I think you're getting a good handle on texturing. Keep up the excellent work!

TangoAlpha

Thanks guys :) Dartan, it's still got your procedural grass shader, which I'm trying to wrap my head around - that's why it loos so good! lol

EddyMI3D

Looks already great. Cant wait for the final.

TangoAlpha

More shaders, and some detailing...

I've now got my own water shader rather than one of the built in ones. A slight brown tint made it look a lot better, although a mud texture on the river bed does most of the work. A simple two-tone grass terrain shader was the result of re-watching one of Phil's vids.

Oh, and that back lot behind the angle building - I decided to make it a bit run down! Gonna be lots of people "walking the girder" I reckon... ;)

TangoAlpha

Still tempo shaders, but an interesting view through the torii :)

TangoAlpha

Haven't looked at this angle for a while. :) Starting to add some of the outlying buildings now around the edges. There's no new buildings to put in the middle - it's just adding detail & texturing now (i.e. the other 90%!), & then onto the greenery...

Dartanbeck

Kick Ankle!
Really looking good, Tim!