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Published: 2010-04-04 04:44:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2038; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 119
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Here is the preliminary material for the town scene I just posted. The first image is a screenshot of the map of this town I made with RPGMaker 2003, several years ago. I sketched the buildings on the train a few months ago, and when I got back set about building them up using Google Sketchup. So, there's a bird's eye view of the whole town, plus a random really tall wall I just put there to cast a shadow, and the final view I ended up choosing.Related content
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it looks like you can achieve really good results with googlesketchup!
I can make basic shapes in it, but really want to try using it more
did you just build the shapes floating in space? or do you need to create some sorta flat panel to build it on?
(I hope that makes sense)
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Sketchup seems to have a built in ground plane, so I just built these on that. The ground plane is invisible, though, so essentially these are just floating in space.
Thanks, Jeff!
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As an artist who hates perspective with a passion, this approach I think has solved some issues with it. Now if only I can apply the same thing on my own..
I love the look of RPGmaker for your topograph map there. Looks like fun.
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I don't mind a bit of perspective--I did some perspective by hand to calculate the size of the figures--but yes, if I had to draw every perspective line by hand in some complicated architecture scene, that would get old fast. Especially if the vanishing point was way outside of the picture plane.
RPGmaker is very fun! I've spent hundreds of hours on that program, probably.
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Dude, this is so win! Gonna make it an assignment, I think
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Thanks! An assignment, huh? I'm curious about how you're going to go about that.
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I love all the nice curves to the buildings and the shape of that arch. I remember once I tried to use google sketchup and I epic-failed, but this town looks really pretty!
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Thanks! Sketchup has many shortcomings, and its most versatile features seem to be the hardest to learn and understand. It's not very good at making arcs and ellipses, either. But, if you're making just a simple block thing for perspective, it's actually pretty easy, I think.
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