London cable car station
polycounter lvl 10
I've picked up a lot of tips and tricks from lurking here so i figured it was about time I actually started posting stuff. This is hopefully going to be a modular building design for a Victorian styled London cable car station. Here's where I'm at so far...
I'm pretty much self taught so any comments or crits are most welcome, no matter how obvious :poly142:!
I'm pretty much self taught so any comments or crits are most welcome, no matter how obvious :poly142:!
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welcome to Polycount. Thank you for posting your WIP. It looks like a very nice start, and I'm excited to see where you take this. I have a few comments which I hope will help you with the piece.
The attached image outlines the sections I mention below
1) Any player will interact most directly with the lowest level, so make sure to give that section a good bit of detail. Consider flower pots, slightly varied objects hanging from walls, and so on.
2) Your rail car could use some more "LIFE!", make it's shape more extravagant, embelish the details a bit, give it some nice wear and tear in the textures. Pay special attention to the "connective tissue" of this, what part gets used the most; damage that part slightly more.
3) You can do some nice things on the corner using Decals. I recommend you create a decal sheet (basically a new texture with detail items and alpha maps). You can use decal sheets to great effect to break up tiling sections. Don't be afraid to do decal brickwork surrounded by some mortar, I've always gotten great effects when doing that. The corner is a great place for decal chips/breaks. You can put the decal on a plane, and then cut vertical sections so you can bent the plane around the corner.
I hope to see this textured, and rendered in an engine with some nice lighting soon.
hi poly stuffs:
block out smoosh:
Thanks mkandersson & Barnstable for the positive comments, helps keep me chuggin' on!
Note how the arm holds the cable and bends outward, and the little wheel type system passes over the pulley wheel(which is grooved to accommodate the gondola arm):
In doing this, you really can't use the archways you have now. You'd have to construct a central tower, and have the car pass over 1 side. Something like this:
Essentially, the way the system works is the cart is latched to the cable and doesn't move, the cable is then pulled along the system and cycled around a turn-about to be sent back the other direction.