My first cityset (not ready yet!)...

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OK, I'm finally trying to make a whole new cityset, in 3D. I'm not sure yet whether it's going to be 1 era or 4 era, but I'll see later. I'm doing it in Bryce.

Well, for the general "house" in the city, I want to use this:
l66.jpg


I made it, but unfortunately all the details in the big version are lost, when resized to fit with the other buildings in the space given. So the general model I built looks like this:
micdarkol8.png


But in close-up, a lot of the details are lost, and from what I've seen it looks better with a lighter roof.

Thus, I've came up with 4 different small house ideas, different mainly in shadows and (sometimes) roof size:
mic1wh1.png
mic2rz9.png
mic3et1.png
mic4iq5.png


Which one of those do you think would work best? And, as you can see, there is an entrance in the original building. However, I don't know how it would look when it's going to be smaller, and I'm afraid it might get a little too complicated or take too much space... should I make the entrance too? And the texture you see in the original building on the roof is just a "reconstruction". We don't know what kind of wood was used for the roofs, so my assumption is as good as theirs, here.

The central part of the cityset is going to be one of those three buildings:
l64.jpg


l63.jpg


l65.jpg


Probably the first one for the standard cityset, but I might do a variant with the second or third one instead. However I don't want it to look too Roman (I'll have a Roman version to make, too).

I'll post updates on this as I work more...

What do you think? Any general suggestions, ideas? :)
 
Looking good!

Are these going to be Dacian cities? We need some of them! And then some kind of hac erm... something to let each civ have its own city set!
 
Looks pretty. And flamable :evil:

Thanks!
The centerpiece and the (possible) temples will be made of stone. Actually, they had stone houses, but only for the very rich/noble. Stone houses might be in the metropolis or even in "city", I don't know.

Centerpiece roof finished, now working on entrance! :D
 
Oh crap, Bryce crashed!! :wallbash: I lost half of the roof!

Edit: I've redone it. And the lower part of the entrance too (everything besides the roof...). The entrance is much more difficult than I would have thought. I wanted to finish it today, but now I'm not sure.
 
Good God, Mirc, you're going to put the rest of us city makers out of business! ;)
 
Very nice texturing there. It looks like you've substituted the building materials with terrain textures. :)

By the way, where'd you get the eight-sided pyramid shape from? I don't have that shape in Bryce 6. :crazyeye:
 
Edit: Crosspost.....

I finished modeling the centerpiece, but the textures might change, as I think the base was built from stone, and I'm not sure about the roof... Also the current roof looks silly, but at small size it looks just right.

There is one strange thing with Bryce however. It looks like it has an exaggerated perspective... the entrance, being in the front, looks too big. If I put it in the back, it looks a little too small. :dunno:

centerpiecenw7.png


The entrance was incredibly harder than I expected... :(
 
Very nice texturing there. It looks like you've substituted the building materials with terrain textures. :)

By the way, where'd you get the eight-sided pyramid shape from? I don't have that shape in Bryce 6. :crazyeye:

I was hoping someone was going to ask me.

I MADE IT. It was extremely, extremely hard. And as you can see, the textures act like on a rectangle, not like on a cone from which you cut rectangles...

Look how it actually looks like:
roofwireswg8.png


:lol:
 
:eek: That's brilliant. I haven't thought of doing something like that.
 
:eek: That's brilliant. I haven't thought of doing something like that.

Thanks. And I actually I had to ungroup them, and space the objects a little, because they might look good on close up, but when small, it just looks like a round roof, and I didn't work so much just to get a cone on top of a building. But I finished the general house and the centerpiece and that's the important thing now. :D
 
The exagerated perspective is nullified once you get the correct angles set up- the same as unit angles. Just ignore it till the time comes.
 
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