scene 2+ starts

ok so i know nothing of victorian architecture so i went on a little photo taking mission around st helens and found some old buildings from that era the 1st is a detatched building that i really liked and will become the building to the left of my feature building. ive put together a bit of a collage of the pic i took from that building and i've also started to work out the sizes of the building blocks that it will be made of.




ive got more photos of other buildings that i need to do this with but atleast now the other scenes have started production bit of a weight lifted

its raining its pouring

so done my rain variant of the map and changed the fountain for a well, the victorian scene will be the 1st to have the fountain now. i do need to rework the actual rain texture and the planes that its on but thats the easy bit now and can wait until i have the rest of the scenes done. starting tomorrow i start work on the modern day version of the map.

its snowing

so my 1st attempt at rain looked like snow so i knocked up a quick snow tile and changed the grass in the scene and made an icicle alpha and there we have it a snow variant of my scene.

getting close to final

So I've started working on the lighting and effects for this scene. The end of the time drag is starting as its almost time to start working on the next scene (yay). I still have to create my night time version of the scene but for now a day and sunset will have to do you.

do ya need anything down the market?

added a few market stalls to give some life to the foreground in one of my angles, dont mind the car in the background i got bored and put it in so i could crash into things, it will be removed.

on the wagon

made a lil wagon something that would be pulled by a horse, just trying to bring the scene to life.

nearly at the end of the 1st scene only 3 more :S

ok so now i've started to decorate the scene a bit more instead of just buildings its actually starting to look like it could be part or a dragon age/fable esque styled game.

i'm thinking that it looks like a slightly well off town not full of paupers but at the same time its too far away from the cities to be built up to a great extent.