Skyscrapers

Armanguy

Hey guys im making some skyscrapers for the mod im working on Talon 1-5 i havent really done a huge ingame model in the past so i was hoping you guys could help me with a few things:

first how big should the texture map be ofcourse ill try to have shared uv space. the mod uses the crysis engine im not worried about poly counts but the texture mostly any help would be awesome.

oobersli

you might want to try and use a bunch of small textures. a brick, window, trim etc... that tile of course. I'd say nothing larger than 512x512, prolly could get away with 256 or 128 for some stuff. be easier to give pointers if you had an example of the style of building your going for too.

pliang

What's been said would be the easier way for most buildings but again some refs and say location of where those references are based off on will help us help you better.

When I did a few high rise buildings back then I used 3 or so textures mostly and one if say the building had a dome on top...of course how its gonna be shown will affect it.

Armanguy

10 second mock-up somthing like this.

pliang

At this stage perhaps you can try doing a mock up of the skyline in general and for this type...try looking up metropolitan centers like the ones in NYC, Dubai etc where there are new sky rises in development

almighty_gir

don't forget to model a boewing and some taliban to go with it =]


...sorry

Armanguy

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too soon :S

DarthRevanII

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don't forget to model a boewing and some taliban to go with it =]


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too soon :S

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agreed

Smirnoffka

Boewing?

Boeing maybe.

And also, too soon.

Uly

It's never to soon for lulz.
4Chan told me it was ok!

pliang

Hows the sky dome coming along?

Armanguy

i was thinking of sing this image as a ref as its one of our concepts for the mod:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6942/bslacga7.jpg

Pedro Amorim

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its 7chan now. lulz

Illusions

Well the other question is where is it being seen from? If you're mostly going to see it from the ground looking up, you can probably get away with a lower texture res at the top (depending on how tall it is). Plus a lot of the floors on skyscrapers look the same, or are built in repetitive chunks. So all you're really doing is texturing maybe the base, and the top differently, than treating the inbetween like you would any normal building you'd make.

pliang

Well he did make a mock up and all...anyways from the looks of it it seems like you can use similar window textures and just reorganize them with new tiled textures when you do the actual buildings.

Some of the more complex buildings with more unique appearance I'd use a separate texture for it.

And from the complexity of it prolly no more than 3 textures as you can fit a lot of details on those.

Ben Mathis has a texture tutorial on how to break up pieces in a texture so that you can use parts of it on the same texture if you need to.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/tips/thirding.jpg

Armanguy

Hey guys I was looking at the skyscrapers in bionic Commando and had a really hard time seeing how they made them if anyone could enlighten me it would be much appreciated heres a screen of there buildings:

http://www.bioniccommando.com/img/site/screenshots/gs_17_l.jpg

anyways i stared work on my skyscraper but instead of making a long box :P i went the modular rout ill be making a modular lobby and roof also and different textures.what does everyone think?

Thegodzero

To be honest looks like you made some window textures and put it on a box. Buildings have design elements your is just windows.

Find a building that fits what you need to make and make everything you would need to make that building. Then from those parts try and make different ones.

Armanguy

true that i already deleted this buuildin and started a new one.

Thegodzero

Post up the building your going to make, and i'll show you what i mean.

Armanguy

the building on the left to the bottom.

pliang

In that case, I'd built the sides and duplicate it as it seems you can reuse it modular wise...and build the top floor separately with its own texture...

The one before doesn't really qualify as a building either...it resembled more of a column of some sort with the repeated textures and all.