70's - Future Gentlemen's Club {WIP}

aston91

Hi everyone

I have decided to create this thread early in my development of the chosen environment so i can have a lot of critique and information for my university FYP. The purpose of this dissertation is to find out whether it is possible to create an environment in different generational periods, whilst keeping the exact structure only altering the textures. This is a very texture heavy project, this means changing every different type of map for each environment. The two time periods the environment will be placed in will be the 1970's (Past Scene) and 2040 (Future Scene) and the selected environment will be a Night/Gentlemens club. I have loosley based it on the vixen club in Hitman Absolution.

Here is some early progress:









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aston91

More Progress with basic Lighting

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tweekedgirl

Hey Aston, really nice start to this and also interesting idea for your project. One thing that stands out to me is that the stools/table aren't the right size when compared to the railings (looking at the 4th pic in your latest post). Kinda get the feeling that if someone was stood up next to those railings they would only be knee high. Would also look nice with some variation in the textures with vertex painting/decals ect. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with this.

DWalker

The floor seems barren at the moment - the owners like to pack as many tables as possible to increase the cash flow.

Herr-Maestro

I'm getting a "Duke Nuke'em" theme feeling when I'm looking at these screenshots. Wouldn't a Crushed red velvet texture for the hallways and portions of the club be more to the style of the late 20th century Disco/Gentlemen's Club? Also, maybe a few Booth table/seats in the corners and a variety of couchs for patrons and their lapdancing hostesses as well? The ceiling would look good with a few chandaliers in a sequences set of 4 in each room and maybe 2 in the hallways. Just my veiws and feedback suggestions.

Parralax

On the second image you cannot really see the stairs (health and safety inspector won't be happy) also the walls in the main area are quite bare I suggest adding some posters or curtains to simulate private rooms.

aston91

Awesome feedback guys! really appreciate it. Having to do two scenes has took a lot of time doing all the textures twice so i will eventually get round to these changes, i just needed to make the future scene first so i could have a look at both in full and see what drastically needs changing and so fourth. Here is some Progress on my future scene.

Parralax

The change in styles works well and the future scene has a lot of potential once it has been lit and the specular maps have been done for it.

I would say that the stools look a little too small for people to sit on but I understand that you want to get the textures created before you optimize the scene.

I would be aware of how much grey you are using in the future scene because it could end up looking like a factory/warehouse, unless that is the look you are going for.

aston91

Hey parralax, yeah i know what you mean its just hard to get an insight to what it would look like in 40 years time. Here are some updates with better lighting and emmisive maps added, looks a lot more futuristic.

aston91

Also more of the 70's scene updates, tables bottles lights and speakers added to fill the scene.

Vertrucio

The design suffers too much from game proportions. By this, I mean early on in game development, the geometry engines and movement code wasn't that sophisticated, so all the environments had these areas that were bigger and more open than reality. It also worked because game models tended by be big and chunky.

The same still happens today with AAA games, but they hide it better.

Go look at actual pictures of night clubs and you'll see that they tend to pack a lot of stuff in there. Places like that want a lot more tables and places to sit. More tables and chairs means more potential money.

aston91

Hey Vertrucio, yeah defiantly agree see it in so many games. I've added booths around the club so the place has more seated areas. In progress of making more assets now will update later today with some screens.

aston91

Progress - Into the Final stages of my 70's environment, added advanced lighting and filled out the scene just like the feedback suggested.

Mr.Ninjin

Looks really interesting so far!
I think it would look really great with some post processing and specular maps when you get further into the project!
Good luck!