I decided to get back to my roots and start helping total noobs in coding like me. This means very basic stuf in small
mini workshops step by step.

Many things look so simple for a noob it's hard to figure out basics as jumping or a working healthbar
I know i find it hard and so will all noob people There now 3 workshops and more are in the making.




Little clip

Just follow my link.

Some progress with my Blender level.

Added street signs and grass. Non-brackground trees still missing. It`s sometimes a bit complicated because of the big area. I`m working preferably true to original. Many textures (street signs, facades and windows) are taken on the spot.

Next step is the other side of the river. And trees, of course.

please add some dirt! Your City is sooooo clean ^^

Yes, I know. The street texture is still ugly. I`ll see what I can do, but for now I`m working on finishing the mesh (architecture).

Do you have some tipps for nice street textures? What is the best method to add some dirt? Decals and alpha textures?

@Rodidon :
For street , search on CG Textures, or other photos on google
and if needed make them tileable !
Yours have too much noise, thet looks too much agressive to the eye ! you should blurr them to try, but yes you should target photo textures, and you don't need a thousand, only some of great quality !

I finally found how to colorize a baked normal map :
Just use Multiply in the selection of the tool option panel.
That's good, now i can keep this method to make 3D characters and just
paint highlights or shadows :

• Updated the Property Window. Position/Rotation and Scaling is ready and WORKING
• Added a Bulldozer Block to remove Objects faster

Screen

@rondidon:
how did you add the white marks on the street texture? Is it all just one huge texture? Or did you model them out?

I modeled them out. Everything else would be senseless according to video memory and performance. Street texture is 256x256. The marks will be 50% transparent in realtime to look better.

@Rondidon :
If you would use textures instead of polygons you will gain lot more power (less polygons to process ), and the less 3D independent objects the engine have to treat indivdualy the better he likes !

In some games like Gear of Wars , you can find 3D artist trics; like some 4 or 5 big squarre floor surface joined , that are one mesh in fact , and in game they look like they were separated :
optimisation !

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3D coat is incredibly complete, even for 3D painting you can use layers ,and there are lot of different types like in 2D programs
so i jsut adde a multiply layer to paint color above the normal map for some color test !

The whole city consits of five meshes: Ground (including streetmarks), street props, buildings, water, vegetation. So there`re just five models to handle individually. The street marks are ~200-300 Polys for the whole level, so I don`t think there`s a big performance issue . If I would use textures for that, I needed to create various (big) image files. I don`t think this would be the better solution. Is it?