Thread: WIP: Lyund

So, Torstan's tutorial is awesome for generating buildings. One thing I wanted to do with this map, however, is get some more variation into the building layout by iterating on the basic premise of the tutorial.

The idea is to do a couple of mosaics - starting with big buidings, and working down to smaller ones to fit into the remaining pieces.

Attached is the progress so far - the first iteration used the Octagons & Squares Mosaic with a tile size ~90. The goal there was to make a very few large buildings, so the threshold was adjusted till few of the buildings were still showing.

The second iteration used the Squares pattern with tile size ~50, to fill in more of the spaces with buildings. Some finagling with the Shrink/Grow selection was used to make sure the second set of buildings didn't overlap and make the first look weird.

2 iterations later. I think this might be the end of the building placement phase -- I like the effect of multiple iterations, but it gets expensive in terms of time, since the nth iteration requires n cleanups (1 for the roads and n-1 for each previous layer).

Roofs and color to follow next.

Bump maps and Grass added -- roads to follow!

So here it is after the rest of the recommendations from the tutorial for roads and building shadows.

I think it looks okay -- I think some of the smaller buildings look too pebbly, perhaps. Any ideas on how to fix?

I can't really offer any help but my thought is that the buildings look rather angular and not really "building-like". I haven't done the tut so it might be from the tut itself. In any case I would use the tut as a base template for where to put stuff and go back and put in more "building-like" shapes on top of those places. Sorry I can't be of more help with the tut, though.

Call it Orcs with no tape measures and I think it works pretty well.

I don't think you can get the squares dead on using the mosaic. It gives more of a rough, from a distance, view. Up close it is pretty but looses some of it's city-ness.

Still for slapping out the idea of a city quickly it might be useful.