Alley Scene
Here is an alley scene I am working on. I started a week ago. The setting is supposed to be in New York City. 
Any crits would be much appreciated.
Any crits would be much appreciated. Any crits would be much appreciated.
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More dirt of course (especially old newspapers and fast food cartons). You can never have too much dirt. Is this a modular setting where dirt and lighting would be added separately?
By and large it looks pretty good for what it is, but it's hard to critique without knowing what requirements it's built under. The parking area looks good, even close up, I havn't noticed anything nasty like texture seams. It looks like it could be a place, though there only looks like there's a diffuse layer and 100% ambient all over.
What are your texture and poly limits?
The scene is missing the shadows.
Make the textures more various - I mean , it needs some dirt and some part of them You can desaturate, maybe somme graffiti on the wall and rubbish ,oil on the road , broken bottle ... CAUSE IT' STILL TOO CLEAN
I would love to see a wireframe of the truck, because I can't for the life of me figure out how you used up 4500 triangles in that thing. . . It looks like it shouldn't be more than 1500.
Keep going, add more dirt. Keep in mind that dirt isn't just an even coating on everything, it likes corners, nooks & crannies, etc.
As for the dirt suggestions, would you say to make a seperate dirty brick texture for the bottom or just a dirt alpha to place over top.
Also, here is the wireframe for the truck. I think pretty much 90% of the poly usage is in the tires. If anyones got some tips on how to slim down the polycount on these, that would be rad:
you might let the texture devide the tires in stead of the actual polys. the rims could be shown by the texture also.
An occlusion pass would help a great deal to ground the scene and add some depth. Right now it looks very flat and as if everything's floating about, and I'm not sure if lighting will help much with it. This will depend on your constraints, of course, so if you're just tiling the textures it might not work, unless you are aiming for engine that supports multiple UV sets and additional passes beside diffuse. Otherwise, you could just add some occlusion to your color map (or as much as tiling allows, e.g. darken the bottom of the walls that tile only horizontally).
I agree with scale issues. Truck is way too large, and the dumpster as well - its lid if opened would hit the fire escape stairs and is almost as tall as a door. And also in the second image from your first post, look at the doors on the buildings on the left and compare the size to the blue door - the blue door seems very tiny compared to those doors. I'd suggest making a dummy human model or importing an existing one and scale it appropriately, then using it as a measure for everything in your scene. That way you'll know if doors, windows and objects are too large or too small, especially if you haven't established a unit system or use real world units.