I decided to take a break from the Titanic model as i said in my previous post so that i culd look further into my research and reference and also to work on more concept ideas as the model evolves. with this in mind i have decided to tackle working on the saloon which will be in one of the main towns of the game which will be shown on the map when i upload it. i thought this would be a interesting peice to begine work on as it leaves multiple directions open for me when i come to do high res renders. a saloon is a perfect peice to use for social observation in art and i felt it would be rich in helping me tell the stories of individual characters without the viewer ever actually seeing the character at all.
so i started this model first by using the unreal tournemant 3 characters as scale as UDK will be the engine me and a fellow student will be using to bring this game into a fully playable end peice rather than just cinematics and high res screen shots. using these reference models i could scale the heights of the ceilings and such and get a general blocked out shape using a box. i then used the shamfer tool on the corner of the saloon to give a area where the door could be to give it some of the period stylisation. i added a boardwalk giving it the tiered steps that are also common of the architectual style of this period and as you can see in the picture i added a balcony and a roof facia which is also used for the signage for the saloon.
as you can see i have taken multiple screenshots of the work so far from different angling this helps to demonstrate the work but also give me the creator a deifferent perspective on the building one which you as the player would see whilst walking around in the environment, this is important to get right before putting the building into the engine. also when rendering any issues with lighting or ahdows can be detected and the probvlem solved befor eht issue becomes any worse.
after closing inspection of the scaling of the model as i began the early stage of the interior i realised the width and lengthe of the saloon where not substancial enough for the interior i had intended for this building so before going any further with the interrior i adjusted these factors as you can see in the picture im now happy with these changes are happy to now start again with installing the interrior.
