VG Remix - Mirror's City

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Hey there,
I'm planning to do the scenery of the first level of Mirror's Edge
in the style of Sim City.

Here's my ref:

adam

Very cool idea! You could, if you're feeling adventurous, bake your lightmaps in to your diffuse to get some of that sexy GI lighting that is simulated in Mirrors Edge.

a3sthesia

can't wait to see how this works out. Love the Mirror's Edge AND Sim City style ^_^ Good luck!

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Started doing the blockout.

robert.nally

I've done some test city stuff before and I found that just placing blocks, even slightly modeled, didn't really give me the effect that I was going for or that you would be going for here. My advice would be to pick a real city like Pittsburgh or Paris or whatever and go to Google maps and take a top down screenshot of the city. Pick a section of the city or expand your building size to account for multiple real buildings and then make the city that way using the real life one as your guide. I find it helps a lot because you start giving space for streets and you fit buildings into city blocks which may be in odd shapes because of water or highways. Hope that helps!

Endzeit

Thanks for the input!

Endzeit

Update: I made a new blockout based on a american city with a checkerboard layout (The city from Mirrors Edge is aligned similiar).



Also, i made a perspective shot which will later show the whole city scenery.

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Quick test with sketchfab

building_01_test (click to view in 3D)

Endzeit

Hey you guys, unfortunately i have to drop out of the challenge due to lack of time.
You have seen there were no more updates and there won't be any.
I guess i just chose the wrong time to do a challenge^^.
Well maybe the next.