The City Watch HQ

Murphy's Law, the minute I announce my game deadlines hit the fan at work and I'm working tons of overtime for most of a month. Figures, doesn't it? Ah well, such is life.

So in the spirit of getting back into things I thought I'd post what I've been working on over the last few days : modelling the headquarters of the city watch (guards).

Right, a bit of background. Korrinport is a cold, wet, run down, miserable place, and the law enforcement reflects that. They're underpaid and under equipped, corruption is rampant, and they're vaguelly apathetic.

I decided to start with a concept sketch. I usually don't do this (I often work off a reference photo), but since this building is a bit different, I wanted to get down a concept of what I was aiming for. So I came up with this (brace yourself for eye bleeds) :



Yes, I know, Best Concept Sketch Evar.

I'm not sure anyone else can really make out what it is, so I'll describe it. It actually shows a compound, a building surrounded by a stone wall with a fancy gate. To the left is the main stone building, with a tower built into it. Right of that is the "new wing", a barracks built onto the main section to house the guards. The scene is dark and raining, which reflects general weather conditions in Korrinport.

Next, an equally rough floorplan :


From this I then proceed to model the building in Constructor :


And finally we see the (sorta) finished product in the engine. Note I still have "detail models" to do, like the decorative iron gate :

Through the gate :

The training yard, where recruits practice. Will have training dummies when I get round to modelling them.

Inside (bare of props and NPCs as yet)

On the roof, looking at the tower :

In the tower going up the stairs (needs wall mounted torches) :

And thats pretty much that. One Watch Headquarters.

Now, despite the overtime, that's not all I've been up to recently. But I will save that for another post, it's past midnight here in SA and I'm tired ;)