Flood museum environment project [CryEngine]

NOlhovskis

For the past couple of months I have been working on an environment project in CryEngine. It is inspired by the fact that due to the global warming a lot of coastal cities will be submerged in 50-80 years. I would imagine there will be an attempt to save some of the historical buildings. I've seen proposals for dam system construction in Venice and parts of Netherlands, so there's that.
This project consists of two main areas - old district, surrounded by the dam, and a futuristic entrance area. Old buildings were mainly inspired by late XIX, early XX century jugendstil buildings in Riga, while the futuristic area has influences from many modern architects, mainly Zaha Hadid.
Old buildings and streets consist of interchangeable modular parts, allowing to build them in any shape or size you might want. Futuristic bit is deliberately more unique.

























Also, here's a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SICRRpd8GMM

Any kind of critique or advice is welcome. I think I've learned a lot from making this, but I'm sure there's stuff that I've missed.

RobeOmega

I would say you would need to make your textures less clean
It sort of feels like Bioshock infinite but maybe that's just me
Keep on going!

Melonman

Disgusting man really nice so far keep up the work and I'm looking forward to seeing the updates.

Shrike

there seems to be a rather big issue with the color palette. There is too much mixed and many things just dont fit.
Maybe you can save it by using a good LUT, limiting the range and the colors, but right now its pretty problematic imo

Its kinda hard to tell what is the problem, but I would start with cutting out the yellow probably and go for a more red-green contrast

NomadSoul2501

Great project!

I agree with Shrike on the color palette, also all your materials seem to have the same properties and come across as very flat. There's no gradients, no separation in anything. Wood looks like stucco looks like concrete looks like brick etc.
I see that a lot of it is in shadows but some light should still bounce around and make those surfaces pop.

Also, is it still possible to add some height variation to your buildings?
They all seem to have the same height and it kinda reminds me of Traverse Town from Kingdom Hearts.

Keep at it, it'll turn out great

Odow

Hum, if you take the first picture, the cool white structure would look better with a glossy plastic finish.

NOlhovskis

I see, thanks you for the critique, it's very spot on. I definitely need to work on the material definition as it indeed seems to be a huge problem of mine.