Beautiful stuff, while I wouldn't mind seeing a little more separation between elements. The shots where the flowers are a little more spaced out and placed in clusters are more successful. When the whole scene is over taken by them it starts to get a little too busy. Examples.... TOO MUCH Could be a case of less is more.…
@pixelpatron, You bring up some good points. Looking at it now, some of the shots are kind of busy. I guess I did go a little over-board with the flower placement in some areas, ha ha. I'm not sure I want to move around anything in the scene at this point, but I'll keep your advice in mind for future projects. Thanks :)
@"Eric Chadwick", I went to change the sky light color today but found that it was already set to grey-ish blue. I remember now that I chose the color by sampling the sky dome, so I have no idea where that magenta hue is coming from. Maybe the bounce light is going crazy from the magenta flowers? Ha ha, so weird. Luckily,…
Hi everyone, I'm back. I took some time off of this project to participate in the Artstation challenge from this summer. Then spent all of fall and most of winter finishing and polishing that scene. (I probably should have picked a simpler concept to start with, but oh well.) https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1nyZN8 Now…
Yah, Bigtimemaster, that last image you posted is the kind of thing I am going for. I love the green and flowers contrasting the stone and stucco. You're right about making the street more uneven. I will definitely need to do that. I like the statue fountain idea, but I already have a lot of work ahead of me for everything…
@SopheeJay , Thanks I went over my process of making foliage a little bit in my 80 Level article/interview: https://80.lv/articles/creating-a-festive-italian-village-in-ue4/ but I guess I focused more on the texturing part of the process, and skimmed the process of modeling the low-polys. I can try to go into a little more…
Quick update today. I have been working my way through the scene on a decoration pass. The the main street is almost finished, and I have the town square half way done. I wanted to know what you all think about the design I've come up with for the town square decorations. Does it look good, or weird? (I'm not sure how I…
Hey everyone, I'm back again. I've forgotten to post for a while again, and this time I've also forgotten some of the things I've created updated and learned since last time. But lets see what I can remember. -I built some new areas of the map loosely basses on a couple of my favorite reference images. -I learned how to…
Ok I am finally finished. . . At least I hope I'm done (I really don't want to have to do another light bake). So. . . since last time, I created signs and sandwich boards to make all of the little shops feel more like shops. I took screenshots of all of the shop-looking buildings and even did a couple of paint overs to…