Small stylized village

Spoon

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Hi PC,

I started by doing the "post office", which is the center building in this shot. Then wanted to do an environment for it.
The original building is a concept by Sidxartxa. Rest is just stuff I made up.
It's still WIP, vegetation is just a gradient except leaves, which also has an alpha and normal.

Next step is to create a building for the lower left corner, perhaps a tavern, as a friend suggested, and blocking out some other views as well. Then filling in stuff that it looks a bit more lived in.

I wanted to start this thread for keeping track of my progress, and for you guys to be able to tip in with feedback early, as it has always been very valuable in other cases

I'm going for something simple, where most textures are a flat or a gradient, with subtle details - at least as it is now

Any and all suggestions and feedback are very welcome.

Mr Significant

Add more variation to road. I know its moslty flat color, cause its stylised, but you need to build up contrast.

Overall i really like it.

Fenyce

I really like the overall look so far and can't wait to see an update and maybe some different angles! sub'd
Lovely stye.

Spoon

Yes, another road texture is on my list, perhaps along with small puddles.

Thanks a lot, both of you. It's very motivating for me to hear!

Spoon

Tried expanding a bit. The other shots arent as good at all, I feel.

How create do you guys go with lighting outdoors? I SHOULD be sticking to just the sun, but many areas are so dark, im thinking of cheating - just afraid it will be too visible
Or maybe it will help when I do a lightbake that isnt very low settings.

Now the sexy tree trunk texture is also visible
It's just a wip/test texture, for the people wondering

Looking at it now, it actually became worse since my last update..

Spoon

It's not done yet, but need a break from it.

Carabiner

I absolutely love the mood you've gotten here. The birch trunk textures are looking super nice too. Not sure I'm sold on the curly bits of the grass? I feel like they are adding unnecessary noise/busy-ness in a place that's already fairly busy, but I'd be curious to hear what other people think about that because I also think they're really unique.

amirabd2130

nice mood :thumbup:

St4lis

lovely

floon

No construtive feedback from me sorry
I just really enjoy looking at it, as others already have stated "great mood"!

Ged

I like it a lot, I feel like the main building could use a little more colour and the foliage less contrast. Right now the brownish foliage and trees are really popping off the screen but thats not what you want the player to look at is it?

BradMyers82

Looks very cool! I think the cards on the tree to the right of the building could use some tweaks with placement. The other trees however are reading a lot better.

clinington

BradMyers82 wrote: »

I think the cards on the tree to the right of the building could use some tweaks with placement.

Agree. Also, if I'm super picky I think the fan of the windmill could be rotated to a bit of an angle. Other than that it is looking great! There really is a lovely 'mood'.

defragger

lovely. I like the moood with the nice lighting and fog.
Only the trees look at bit billboardy.

Spoon

Carabiner wrote: »

I absolutely love the mood you've gotten here. The birch trunk textures are looking super nice too. Not sure I'm sold on the curly bits of the grass? I feel like they are adding unnecessary noise/busy-ness in a place that's already fairly busy, but I'd be curious to hear what other people think about that because I also think they're really unique.

Thanks a lot, Carabiner. I also wasnt sure of them, but felt I needed to add some blue to the grass. Perhaps a simple flower would have been better

amirabd2130
nice mood

Thanks!

St4lis
lovely

Thanks!

floon
No construtive feedback from me sorry
I just really enjoy looking at it, as others already have stated "great mood"!

Thanks a lot, Floon, thats great to hear

Ged
I like it a lot, I feel like the main building could use a little more colour and the foliage less contrast. Right now the brownish foliage and trees are really popping off the screen but thats not what you want the player to look at is it?

I absolutely agree. It looked better on lower bake settings But my computer isnt exceptionally strong, so baking this environment took me 2,5d on production setting, even with production size lightmaps, so I simply dont have the patience to tweak it. Ideally the trees would have much much less of a shadow gradient, and the grass would blend more together, to create more of a soft sheet of color, just like you say

BradMyers82
Looks very cool! I think the cards on the tree to the right of the building could use some tweaks with placement. The other trees however are reading a lot better.

Yeah you are right, that one specifically pops out. Thanks!

clinington
Agree. Also, if I'm super picky I think the fan of the windmill could be rotated to a bit of an angle. Other than that it is looking great! There really is a lovely 'mood'.

Thanks a lot, clinington. Oh yeah, think it still is in "t-pose" :P

defragger
lovely. I like the moood with the nice lighting and fog.
Only the trees look at bit billboardy.

Thanks a lot! Do you have any tips on how to make them less so?
I struggle to keep a fluffy silhouette while reducing billboardsness.

jsargent

I rally like this, personally though I preferred what you were doing with the lighting and colours earlier. I liked having more saturation in the foreground and going to that more desaturated/blue colour in the distance. Maybe you could push it a littler more in that direction again? For the trees you could try the normal thief plugin, it will help with the normals on your tree cards. I'm also not a fan of the curly blue grass. Lovely so far though

jsargent

check this out:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/VertexNormal

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/normal-thief

aaronmwolford

Nice job. The birch trees may be my favorite part. Definitely has a calming mood.

Spoon

Jsargent - Thanks, I actually also preferred those colors more, but didnt even noticed they gradually changed when I worked on it, until I posted it here, seeing them side by side.
And thanks for the vertex normal links. I am using it on the trees (unless it broke somewhere) but I think my main problem with it is the ambient occlusion effect on them, when the lighting is baked. Perhaps I can reduce ao in the shader? Or how would you suggest I do?

aaronmwolford Thanks a lot, Aaron, that exactly the mood I want to convey

All these comments gives motivation to work on it again, hopefully I can get time in the coming weeks to apply all your valuable feedback

Spoon

After a break doing a few other assets, I returned to just fix a few minor things that were bothering me. Will most likely leave it here.


Incredibly shitty textures

Cactus on Fire

That looks pretty cute. The fog fits pretty nicely as well.

Joopson

I like it! Very unique.

Spoon

Thanks a lot, guys!

Kel-Shaded

Beautiful work spoon