Cityscape lights

HAWK12HT

Hi all, wondering if there are scripts for Photoshop that make those night time city lights with much more control.

Usually what I do is use noise> blur > filter > patch work and play with levels and curves till I get a nice variation.

Photo source works too but I want to explore more advance methods used in industry for something like this.

(custom checker map and seed variation on plane in 3ds max would be another method)

Trying to do Splinter Cell double agent style environment

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71TA7mM026S._SL1280_.jpg

Eric Chadwick

That looks a lot like an aerial photo, mixed with some upright geometry for specific buildings. All with emissive textures. A bloom shader for the camera, though the lights across the Huangpu river look like they may have custom alpha cards for their stronger blooms.

Eric Chadwick

Looking at the game closer, the river and the far city look like they're just painted into a static texture, on a model (probably a cylinder). It looks a lot like photo source.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dg4S1sVKxs&t=281[/ame]


To make this from scratch, you could just paint it in Photoshop (if you're confident in your painting skills) or you could model/texture/light a 3d city scene and bake that to a texture. I would use a procedural city tool, and add a few custom buildings in front. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=city+generator+-minecraft