Saint Denis in Red Dead Redemption 2
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One day I was doing an image search for "old french market" and found this black-n-white photo (see below).
When I saw it, I thought to myself, "Wait, I've seen this before!"
I pulled up Red Dead Redemption 2, which is one of my favorite games, and took a screenshot.
I understood that Saint Denis was loosely based on New Orleans, but I've never been to New Orleans myself and so when I was doing the search I had no idea that New Orleans has a French Market.
In comparing the two images, I see some similarity in a building in the background with a triangular roof and short chimneys.
Anyway, the point is that I just found it cool to come across a photo which an environment artist may have used as a reference photo when modeling the city.
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Wow nice find!
This is classic rockstar, of course fidelity in their recreations is off the charts nowadays. I live in miami and those leaked shots of gta6 where driving me insane, you have no idea.... i recognized entire blocks and streets not just buildings. They are shufling them around like a deck of cards... but the feeling is unmistakable thats miami.
If there is already somethink in the world which was developed/planned by man or evolved by nature and it looks good.. why to reinvent the wheel.. ;-)