[UE4] Venezia - Overwatch inspired Environment

TOBSn08 · Jun 2016

Hi. Been a while

As so many people around here, I have really fallen in love with the art style of Overwatch. I think I am more busy looking at the environment than shooting people, so I thought I'd create my own take on an environment.

I immediately thought of Venice and how it would work as a payload payboat map. I am not going to create a whole map but wanted to focus on a hot spot area where a lot of action is going to occur and will finish that part trying to stay close to the overwatch feeling as possible while keeping the possible gameplay in mind.

Here is some of my progress so far:

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I'm mainly still working on the blockout and replacing the building blocks by blockout architecture.

TOBSn08 · Jun 2016

Done some more work to the environment. A lot of small pieces added and some First architecture attempts. I am still working on a way to easily create a variety of buildings using a modular system and then adding windows, arches, and other decoration to make them look unique. The very square buildings are still very blockout and I will probably break up some walls too. I imagine the water path to be the payload path and try to imagine what the battles around that area could look like and build the environment around that. Kinda trying to find a balance between imagined gameplay and presentation.

I also still want to add some scifi pieces to the scene to get a little closer to the style. I was thinking about roof installations (solar panel, satellite dishes, power lines) and futuristic gondolas.

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FreneticPonies · Jun 2016

Solid job, keep it up!

Benvox2 · Jun 2016

Yep, awesome work, fits perfectly with the Overwatch art-style.

JamesMeader · Jun 2016

Excited to see the progress of this, very inspiring.

Ged · Jun 2016

really cool work so far, arts great. In terms of making it feel like a playable overwatch map then some parts feel a little narrow and those poles all over the waterways would make it hard to jump between them if I was playing overwatch there.

Savannakhet · Jun 2016

Yeah. Starting to look quite nice, this.

macoll · Jun 2016

Nice work so far! I will keep an eye for updates, gg

TOBSn08 · Jun 2016

Thanks for the comments. I agree that some places are still a bit narrow and I am going to find a balance with this. The whole water idea wouldn't really work with the game but then this will never be playable anyways. I am mainly trying to get a similar feeling to the environment and create some spaces you could imagine your character to be going.

Here's an update:

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Opened up an area for a big science/university building with a big satellite dish installation. Generally adding some more scifi elements into the scene. Broke up another border of the environment with a water alley with some parallax effects. My goal for the end is to be able to stand in the middle and rotate 360 degrees and always have something interesting to look at without seeing the end of the world.

amirabd2130 · Jun 2016

awesome. looking forward to see more

TOBSn08 · Jun 2016

I started to add some more flat colors to the architecture to get a better idea of the color scheme. Currently settled on red/yellow.

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Also started to work on a back alley area. I thought a little more about the story behind the environment. In my version of Venice an evil corporation it trying to pump away the water. I am going to try to make that clear with hints in the environment the player can find. An obvious one is those pipes

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(ground texture is UE4 standard material and will be replaced by one of my own)

[UE4] Venezia - Overwatch inspired Environment

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