New Blog for my FMP

Here's the link to my other blog all about my shiny new FMP:- The odyssey Plaza

http://theplazafmp.blogspot.com/

p.s. This blog is still active! I'm just running the FMP blog for course reasons and plus helps me keep an eye what i'm posting so the projects don't get jumbled up.

enjoy! :)

More work updates

Here is some print screens of developments I have been making over the last few days, did more today but will post that stuff tomorrow when I remember to print screen!? I made some tiling textures and started  following my ideas of making a lot of stuff modular so I can save the small texture budget I have and also allow for variations to be made quickly and efficiently by working to a grid snapping system in UDK and 3Ds Max.

The Grid...

A little behind on my blogs so here is the work from last friday till today well sort of as I still need to screenshot some w.i.p's!

I've used UDK before a little bit but I still think of TRON when I create a new blank map!

Final Blockout

Here is the final blockout as it stands. I might tweak it later if I feel it isn't playing right in UDK, but I'm happy with it so far.

Final ideas

Really liked the U-shape idea with different levels of verticality. Expanded on it slightly to to try and give it more function and purpose. I sort of imagined it as some sort of hotel rooftop in Hell's kitchen downtown New York. A bit rough and ready, more function than aesthetics. Also thinking of putting some shiny clean buildings around it for contrast perhaps? Might try and throw some nice primary colours in there to stop the whole thing becoming next-gen brown / grey/ swamp colour ;) Might toy with idea of making it maybe a bit cleaner than originally planned but i'll see when I put some textures on it in Unreal and see how it goes!

Blockouts

Made some blockouts after looking at those images so here they are! This is first batch I made last week. enjoy.....

A minute to gather my thoughts...

So I've managed to grab a spare moment to upload my thoughts and stuff for the Rooftop project. New York style is the brief so I just started out grabbing a load of ref from New York rooftops and games that tackled rooftops to. I compiled some of the images into quick mood boards just represent some of the stuff I really liked and helped me come up with some ideas.