Joo Son Rustic Alley Environment

Sonjool

Hi polycount! I'm currently in a class and we're creating a modular 3D environment so I decided to make a rustic village that hopefully evokes stuff on this reference/inspiration picture.


Oh and here's some of the other stuff I made for the class before this.




Now going back to the environment, here's what I got so far.



It was my first time doing tiling textures in Zbrush and had a lot of frustrating times trying to figure out how to do it. Still not 100% sure on how to make it tile perfectly using the 2.5D tool (I've been just taking a plane and roughly making it little larger than the canvas size of 2048x2048 ) and not sure why it doesn't fill out the canvas when I frame the plane. Any advice and hot tips would be very much appreciated :-)

Monophobe

Just a thought, have you turned perspective off when framing the plane?

Sonjool

Yea I just checked that at your suggestion and it was turned off and grayed out

To show what I meant is, I make a plane on a 2048x2048 canvas, go into edit mode (because it won't let me frame it otherwise) and press the frame button.

Then I try to see if it tiles by using tilde key to move it horizontal/vertically and it gives me a gap like this

sltrOlsson

You need to see your entire canvas to be able to frame it to the borders. There's a zoom button in the right corner of your UI above the canvas. You'll find scroll, zoom, actual and AAHalf there..

Skinpop

Myazaki took a lot of inspiration from Visby, Gotland in Sweden when making Kiki, but it also shows in a lot of his other work. Might find some decent reference for a rustic town:
https://www.google.se/search?q=gotland+visby&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TtVPU7HtLsf8ygPjpYC4Aw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1042&bih=843



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Visby_panorama_fr%C3%A5n_klinten.jpg
http://www.lindebilder.se/data/media/751/gotland_visby_flygfoto_140612_800.jpg
http://www.best-of-european-union.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Colours-of-Visby-Gotland-Sweden.jpg

Sonjool

@sltrOlsson - I clicked the AAHalf to see the entire canvas before I framed it but it still comes out like that.

@Skinpop - Oh man I love those reference pictures! Thanks for the heads-up.

Here's some update - layout changed a bit haha.

sltrOlsson

Well, try to read what I wrote one more time. You need to zoom further then AAhalf.. Zoom until you see your whole cavas, the part that's a square gradient.

Sonjool

Ohhhh got it! Thanks man, I didn't even realize the framed space wasn't the entire canvas

Sonjool

Not dead yet~

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Really nice progression dude!

The scene will change quite a lot once there's some window variation in place.

I look forward to seeing it develop

curzed

This shot had a better effect on me, specifically how smooth the buildings were and the shade of them.

Sonjool

@LANKUS MAXIMUS - Thanks dude!

@Curzed - Yea hopefully I can reign in the normals and materials/colors in the UDK

The pieces I am using for this scene






Material editor

Cheathem

Hey Sonjool, Nice work! Love the design and layout so far. The only thing hurting it for me is the lack of variety in your buildings. Their all the same color and material. A couple of unique buildings could definitely help out.

Looking good though, ill be waiting for more

Sonjool

@Cheathem - thanks man! I tried doing the variations in color and adding a bit more props to break up the repetition.

limeforce

Do all of the houses have to be yellow/orange? Looking at pictures of Visby I noticed that there are white and light brown buildings in the mix as well. That orange-ish tone feels a bit out of place IMO.

Cheathem

Looking better sonjool, really coming together. I still think some wooden, or white houses like limeforce said, would help further the scene. Also, the contrast looks off, but it may be my screen. Here's what i had in mind. Hope you don't mind me editing it a bit.

Sonjool

I ended up going very orange and yellow
I tried having the wooden walled places but to me it felt out of place a bit.

Here's my progress.

sushi

Wow, big improvement. Is your lighting baked or realtime?

Greg DAlessandro

you should give the ao a hint of color instead of using stark black. (its more natural and less harsh on the eyes)