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2. First Town

by Michael Chew · 12/27/2008 (10:03 pm) · 9 comments

OK, continuing from my last post, I will need a location where new players can hang about, commerce, do some simple quests, stuff like that. I envision a town or a small city with the usual medieval buildings, streets, market place etc. To set the mood, it will be in bright daylight and i'll throw in some relax, cheerful background music later.

Some shots:
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As stated previously, Im no artist, so what you are seeing are all from content packs. All Im capable of doing is to use ctor and to make minor alterations or fix some bad brushes. Some of the dts buildings also had to be uv-remapped because they were using multiple maps per model, not performance-friendly.

The place resembles a ghost town, so Im gonna add more props etc, but not too much eye candy for performance sake. And of course NPCs, next.

Later.

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#1
12/28/2008 (12:55 am)
nice consistency of artwork blending into each other there. Good work.
#2
12/28/2008 (1:36 am)
Good level design, if you need any help just send me an email! :)

Can't wait to see more and keep up the good work.
#3
12/28/2008 (2:33 am)
Very nice reminds me of one of the towns in WoW alittle. Only things that look outta place are the last 2 buildings on the right in the last screen shot, and it may just be because they are side by side. If you through one of them somewhere else or the textures anyhow I think it'd fit better, but just my opinion.
#4
12/28/2008 (6:24 am)
Looking good
#5
12/28/2008 (8:35 am)
Nice job Michael. I recommend adding sound, it will bring the place alive.
#6
12/28/2008 (3:14 pm)
imho, looks good, but too clean, you need apply different decals... like dirt, cracks & etc
#7
12/28/2008 (6:49 pm)
Thanks everyone for the comments.

@Keith
sure thing

@Scott
I agree with you, i'll see what I can do about it.

@Todd
Definitely in due course.

@Maxim
Yeah i know, I'll add those stuff later, right now I have just managed to get the general building placement done.
#8
12/29/2008 (12:11 am)
Just a quick comment.
It looks really good. You have nicely used the resources that were available to you.

A middle-age town should have narrower streets though.
Maybe for the next one? ;)
#9
02/12/2009 (8:40 am)
Good pt abt the narrow streets Stephan.