Very early days on a possible Blender city style

[Jerry'sGoldfish]

though kyriakos made a huge progress in attempting to represent a city, i would suggest him to make a small castle - as a sort of citadel - just use the buildings you have - a citadel in the corner of the city - and right to it the cathedral....that would do

ps kyriakos, keep the good work going on, i have followed your way for years now, and each time you changed your style i was impressed by the amount of new approaches you could bring in

[nick0515]

It's looking very good, Kyriakos! Very glad to here you are going to vary the style for different civilizations. I think the gate in the wall is a bit big. The walls are a bit too white too perhaps?

[Kyriakos]

Well the lighting in Blender cycles is hard to figure out. This is what i managed to produce by now:

[Kyriakos]

Also it would be great if anyone could tell me how to increase sharpness of the render

[stico]

add more samples to path tracing

The best what you can do is link here a print screen with settings from Cycles. I can't look at mine because I have no graphic card which support OpenGl and this cause Blender crash.

[Kyriakos]

Ok, i will do so at one point

What do you think of this as the size #2?

[ShiroKobbure]

Visually it looks very good, although I dont know about the authenticity of some of the features, like the gate.
Will non-walled cities also be on a hill?

[Kyriakos]

I think so. For the time being i just aim to finish this set though, will think of other cultures later

What about the colors/textures, the lighting and the overall texture of the pixels? (in Bryce the render was always more contrasted)

[ShiroKobbure]

I dont know about the lighting, I think I would have to see it in game next to units and everything.
The texture is good, not noisy.

[Jerry'sGoldfish]

if one would ask me i would create the whole castle cocnsisting of only 4 tower and a large square keep somewhere in a corner of the city....next to it the cathedral and than a sea of houses surrounded be walls.....the present castle is to big, smaller walls and towers, somwhere in a corner

here you are two examples
aigues mortes

Spoiler:

and carcassone

Spoiler:

both are examples from the middle ages where one can see - at aigues mortes a keep somewhere at a corner of the city walls and then carcassone with the citadel in a corner of the city fortification, the church location varies but one might add the church near the citadel or a square somewhere in the city, i think those images should help

similar ways are found in the middle east at damascus, jerusalem etc....

[nick0515]

Originally Posted by Jerry'sGoldfish

if one would ask me i would create the whole castle cocnsisting of only 4 tower and a large square keep somewhere in a corner of the city....next to it the cathedral and than a sea of houses surrounded be walls.....the present castle is to big, smaller walls and towers, somwhere in a corner

here you are two examples
aigues mortes

Spoiler:

and carcassone

Spoiler:

both are examples from the middle ages where one can see - at aigues mortes a keep somewhere at a corner of the city walls and then carcassone with the citadel in a corner of the city fortification, the church location varies but one might add the church near the citadel or a square somewhere in the city, i think those images should help

similar ways are found in the middle east at damascus, jerusalem etc....

I agree with Jerry here. At present it looks very nice but not terribly historically accurate.

Having said that I'll use it either way and cities in civ 3 are usually more symbolic of a city than historically realistic.

[Kyriakos]

This is more like a game-card/diorama approach. A possible early version of an english medieval size #1:

[themanuneed]

Very nice preview, the new sets should be like nothing else before

[Kyriakos]

Easy to make tech icons, wonder splashes and buildings, and era change gfx

[ShiroKobbure]

It would be nice to have all of those

[Kyriakos]

Changed the trees to a better (although really low-poly, but possibly has a retro 3d feel?) model i found online for free:

[Kyriakos]

I might be tempted to make a terrain set to go with them

[AvalancheMaster]

Don't like the borders on this one.

[ShiroKobbure]

I dont think they blend as well as your older set did.

[Kyriakos]

Don't bring gloom

It is just that they are better renders of the existant graphics, so they need better terrain too