Article
The Metro Station
Unlike the office interiors the metro station had no lighting at all in the version I received. That was both bad and good. Bad because I would have to do all the lighting from scratch but good in that it basically gave me free reign to put it together how I would like.
The metro station in turnpike isn't that interesting architecturally. It's basically a big box with a wall in the middle. I was fairly constrained in altering that so I went with a simple solution and added supporting struts along the wall. That worked well in a couple of ways though.
It was fairly believable. There is a railway above the building, and the walls are quite thin, so extra support makes sense.
It worked well when I added uplighting along the wall. The lighting accentuated the supports.
From there I made a second copy of the tile texture that was already used. I lightened it a bit, and used that for the floors and top half of the walls.
The only other changes I made were to add models and move the ticket both to one end of the station.
The Garden
I wasn't exactly sure what to do with the garden. To be honest I probably could have left it exactly as it was. Maybe I should have, but it was on my list and wanted to see what I could do with it. One thing I didn't want to do was replace it with an abbey style garden. That style may have worked ok, but this was Wu's map, not mine, so I wanted to try and do something that would match the style of turnpike.
I tried a number of different things. I extended the existing garden further but that felt entirely wrong. The fact that people would have to walk through or around the garden to get the the station seemed strange enough in the original. Making it worse was, well; worse.
In the end I went with a garden that would give patrons good access to the station, and also fit in with the office feel of the building next to it. Gameplay wise it should offer some interesting combat without getting in the way too much. It's not the greatest looking thing in the world. I think it fits the map well though.
Next: Lighting the rest.
Turnpike: End Week 1
· 4.0 & Turnpike
Unlike the office interiors the metro station had no lighting at all in the version I received. That was both bad and good. Bad because I would have to do all the lighting from scratch but good in that it basically gave me free reign to put it together how I would like.
The metro station in turnpike isn't that interesting architecturally. It's basically a big box with a wall in the middle. I was fairly constrained in altering that so I went with a simple solution and added supporting struts along the wall. That worked well in a couple of ways though.
I wasn't exactly sure what to do with the garden. To be honest I probably could have left it exactly as it was. Maybe I should have, but it was on my list and wanted to see what I could do with it. One thing I didn't want to do was replace it with an abbey style garden. That style may have worked ok, but this was Wu's map, not mine, so I wanted to try and do something that would match the style of turnpike.
I tried a number of different things. I extended the existing garden further but that felt entirely wrong. The fact that people would have to walk through or around the garden to get the the station seemed strange enough in the original. Making it worse was, well; worse.
In the end I went with a garden that would give patrons good access to the station, and also fit in with the office feel of the building next to it. Gameplay wise it should offer some interesting combat without getting in the way too much. It's not the greatest looking thing in the world. I think it fits the map well though.
Next: Lighting the rest.
Just a quick question…probably a really stupid one, but anyways. the “Planter Boxes” the trees/plants are in. Is that a light of just a different color strip on the bottom. If it’s a light, cool. If its not, it seems to look a little out of place.
Just my opinion i guess.
Cheers
Scott