Final layout of all the meshes. Still fiddling with the lighting because I think I can get more out of them. Then it's some decals, some small VFX, and the part I'm most excited to get to: getting stuff to animate on the screens!
The layout looks a lot better! I think someone suggested this up top, but you could make more presentation shots of the assets you made for the scenes that are dark and then people looking at the portfolio can see the detail of what you've done.
I have not entirely ruled out adding some plant life to break it up but at the moment I'm using the reference more for basic layout and feel, And attempting to create a more interesting architectural style and color palette than that of the initial reference.
Can you export these in other formats, like OBJ? It'd be great to design and test layouts in this, and then export them and fancy them up for other engines after you know it works. Also, wish we had something like this for Source.
Xnormal is a good way to go. To be clear, you don't transfer UVs from highpoly to lowpoly. Instead you use the UV layout on the lowpoly to capture the normals (via a normal map) and the colors (via a diffuse map) from the highpoly model.
Hey man, so I aplogize for the dreadful paintover, its late here, but I thought the major problem with the current scene is its compositioon is lacking, now my paintover still lacks quite a lot, but hopefully the layout works better.
Check out Arkham City or Origins, that has crime alley in it hidden around the city. It's a great way to workout a layout for the blockout. Plus get an idea of how the developers did the area itself. Try to give it your own spin ofcourse.
Thank you for the source, I'll give blender a try and see how I go, BMax tools looks interesting, am going to get familiar with the basic layout before I try the BMax tools Once again Thank you.
Starting with colors to get a better overall grasp of what needs more work. For now I am still tweaking the base layout before adding the figures. The dress is still a placeholder as I want to make some more sketches for that first.
I decided to get my final design and layout for the bridge down before making any more alterations, so I decided to do a rough painting to play with some light. Sometimes, it's nice to just put on some music and draw!