Don't know where to begin with making this...

baccene

How would you go about creating the ground? It's a big square with each corner having a little circle taken out for foliage. I want to use Designer for the bricks and the granite strips and granite ring in the center. I'm confused though. You see each bricked section? The bricks have their own pattern, but they all have a border laid with bricks on the edges butting up against the granite. How would you texture this? I know how to make a seamless brick pattern... but then you throw in the border bricks following the granite parts... I'm not sure how to go about doing this with designer and painter. Also, would you just make one big piece of geometry with like an 8k map? Or would separate meshes be easier?

Thanks for taking a look. I hope all is going well!

Alex_J

Here's a great place to begin: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Tutorials and http//wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Environment

It will take a few months of learning to develop all the knowledge and skill's to build a scene like this. 

ZacD

In my opinion.

Use 2 or 3 different tiling brick patterns for the middle of each section. Use a trim sheet for the borders. 

For the granite you could just use a tiling 3x1 brick pattern and use different rows for each stretch.  

baccene

Zac, I've never heard the term trim sheet, and I'm a few months from graduating with a B.S in game art... What exactly is a trim sheet? Also, you would make each brick section its own geometry and the granite strips separate geo as well? 

ZacD

Trim sheets are textures that are meant to be cut up and reused for modular environments. Usually at least a few parts title horizontally, sometimes they are kind of a blend between a texture atlas and and tiling textures, just depends on what you need it for. They are really commonly used for the tiling trim detail you see on that white building in your reference image. 

You could use separate geometry or use one piece of geometry with multiple materials. 

baccene

Would this be an example of a trim sheet? Add the tiling brick to the geometry in Painter. Then have a separate tiling brick for the trim.. and add a black mask then white out the edges and scale correctly? 

So basically just make a brick texture that's the appropriate pattern and add that with masks? 

Or is it something completely different? 
Thanks for your help man. 

ZacD

Here's 4 random examples, you can google "trim sheet textures" for more, some better breakdowns, and tutorials. 

The only thing I'd use painter for, regarding trim sheets, is working on a flat plane with the trim texture applied. Any masking or blending you'd want to do in the game engine or modeling application. 

Eric Chadwick

Step by step instructions here on the wiki
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments