maybe another day before I can get started on texturing
btw:
targets were:
100k polys
256-384mb texture mem usage
So far it's 27k polys and no textures.
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That looks really good- and oddly realistic without the textures. Reminds me of the beach. Really good lighting, I think.
that looks really great!
Awesome work 
Oh, in the first picture the left house flyes^^
It's really nice spicy tanuki but i think your modelisation looks way too much regular, especially on the vertical axis; try breaking a bit the straight lines of the walls. Even really subtly, it will be visually much more interesting and realistic i think
Quote from borgkingthat looks really great!Awesome work
Oh, in the first picture the left house flyes^^
heheh thanks for pointing that out 
Quote from KoKo5oVaRIt's really nice spicy tanuki but i think your modelisation looks way too much regular, especially on the vertical axis; try breaking a bit the straight lines of the walls. Even really subtly, it will be visually much more interesting and realistic i think
So to clarify you mean like if I had a straight pole or beam I should add an edge and slightly move it so it doesnt look to flat/perfect?
Thanks for the advice. I noticed you're from France, I used to speak french fluently, but I haven't practiced in a while 
Yeah that could be a solution, i made a quick edit to explain you my point :
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For almost the entire environment you have only one vanishing point, everything looks soo aligned and regular. If you want to break those lines, you could do like the building in the background : try to make elements facing a different direction. Try to also make the vertical lines not going on the same vanishing point either, cut the faces with an edge, or make them look in another direction.
I know this is a street , everything is aligned and all. But it looks like your regular old chinatown, so try to make it old and with more life (more organic) !
This is little details like this that will make your environment stand out from regular 3D works (even if it looks great)
wow thanks very much for taking the time to make those edits and explanations
I definitely see what you mean now. I'll definitely try to break so it's not too aligned. I've honestly never done design considerations like that before so I may fail at first. I'll do my best to break up the alignment and make it look more natural.
I also probably made the street too straight, in real life it's on a curve. Here's a photo from the area I'm using as inspiration. I can't wait to do the sun-blocking paper, I'm hoping I can maybe get the translucency look and feel using an SSS shader.
Yeah the sun blocking paper is indeed a very interesting element!
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I've made another edit to try to point out the interesting elements that could help you breaking those straight lines ! Those flag thing on the side of the street could be really useful, notice also how the snack distributor isn't aligned with the street, it's really subtle but it makes all the difference, try to make little details like this 
Reorganizing the street in a curve will help a lot too, if it's not too much work.
I just did a slight curve and it looked much more appealing right away. I'm not that good at describing things but I would say the scene felt like it had more character than before.
I dont want to image flood so I'll finish up the modeling before putting up anymore shots.
Thanks for doing the edits on the reference too! This helps me very much
Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail --
Assent -- and you are sane --
Demur -- you're straightway dangerous --
And handled with a Chain --
Going for kind of a "dirty untextured" look with emphasis on shapes and silhouettes. I had to throw some specular on the walls to make the material read as metal... I hope it's interesting enough visually. I'm trying to stay away from traditional realism with my work now because (a) I can't compete with titans like warby / hessi / other people who make my e-penis even smaller, and (b) it's less work for me and I can claim laziness as style.
(Also, I'm not using any contrasting yellow / orange on purpose.)
Campaignjunkie: With some nicer looking textures (the beams in the foreground looks pretty low res) and a few more details like little bits of trash floating in the water and graffiti on the walls i think that map/scene could look reall quite nice. Also, try adding an env_sprite to the light sources, looks a little lacking withot them.
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Listen to the man in the previous post. Also, if its just a scene and not an actual map, give those arches like 32 sides each and go pretty crazy with some more brushwork 
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Awesome stuff but I honestly hate water in quake 3 maps its soo annoying
You got something sexy here Hipshot, pretty unusual.
Looks like we'll have some nice frying parties in the water.
Quote from CampaignjunkieI can't compete with titans like warby / hessi / other people who make my e-penis even smaller
lol good luck then, because i won't make any new maps, so you or someone else can have my place next thing will hopefully be an iphone app at least that's what i will be supposed to work on starting on 1st april. best part about it: i will earn more money than my former girlfriend 
+ i work only part time while she is working full + over time life can be good and to be honest: it feels good to be an asshole and shit all over those people that recently pissed me off 
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some new stuff is in
hehehe very nice, do you have a webpage for the game?
nope, not yet
What are you making it in?
The programmer wrote his own engine, its using deferred rendering, supports physics, next-gen materials and we have an ingame editor
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