More East Side Stands

So, as I figure out a way to texture the sides of the stands, I come bearing some shots of the East Side Stands in afternoon and evening conditions.

It was all well and good to model individual pieces and texture them as a part of the larger picture on the front of the stands as these sections are identical in almost every regard.

However, the side "triangular" sections are a little more difficult. While they include pieces from the front side, they don't line up the same. Therefore the textures don't line up the same. And when it comes to bricks and lining up, yeah, that's kind of important.

And then throw in the gradient I am trying to apply to the whole of the wall, and things start to look a little dicey, to say the least.

So while I figure out the best way to texture and line everything up, I leave you with a few shots of the area I've already completed.

One is of the sun at about 15:30 and the other is about two hours later. I just really like how the lights from the concourse plays with the gates.

East Side Stands

More on Cazibahar University's Football Stadium. I'm feeling good about this right now, don't want to lose it.

(Of course I probably did just jinx myself right there.)

I did a lot of work finishing up the West Entrance today, as well as completing the bleachers for the entire western half of the seating (3/4) bowl.

I am almost ready to mirror it to the correct side and get to work on the press box and other extra goodies that are present on the East Side. I just want to sleep on it to make sure I'm not forgetting anything in my rush to get done.

Although, now that I think about it, I should really texture it before I mirror it. *sigh*

I'm just happy I don't have to work on anymore bleachers. Getting them to fit and align around the corners while also expanding as the stadium bowl went higher was so time consuming. There has to be a better way than moving vertices of each and every individual one, but I couldn't find it. I experimented with the array tool, but it was a lot of guess and check to get it close, but in the end I still had to do a lot of vert moving.

Anyway, three pictures to end the day. One Z4 day, one Z4 night and a shot of the West Entrance all lit up.

(Click for full size.)
All of these shots were taken at 800X500 which is my monitors native ratio (1.6) in an attempt to minimize the interference pattern generated by the stands.

Apparently it didn't work.

Something A Little Different

I know this isn't OPaCY, but there is a good reason for that. I can't work on one thing for too long lest I lose patience with it. It's a problem I know. I like to think it's ADD, but then I realize I don't believe in ADD. I just have a wandering mind.

But that's just me.

So anyway, what we have here is the football stadium for Cazibahar University. What does it have to do with OPaCY? Well, walls on the outside of Cazibahar Stadium are eerily similar to the ones adorning OPaCY.

Like so awesomely similar that modeled them modularly so I can merge one section of the wall from CaziStadi into the scene for OPaCY and copy that around the stadium. It's an awesome plan, I think.

So while I have "wasted" my time from OPaCY, this could mean the actual modeling of OPaCY could go quicker. When, you know, I get around to it.

The thumbnail on the left shows what I had made prior to doing my first Zoom 4 (Z4) preview. The one on the right shows what the stands look like now, after making them 33% larger. I'm not good on judging scale, especially on something like stadiums which are so large. That set me back half a day, but I worked through it and I think it looks much, much better now. Certainly looks the part of a large stadium.

And the bleachers fit better too.

This second group of pictures shows how things have advanced so far. The one on the left is a Z4 shot of the stadium when the last of the Sun's rays peek over the west stands before it sets for the night. (Did I mention I like playing with the sunlight system? No, well I do. It's fun to track the sun throughout the day over my model.) The picture to the right is the front plaza as is completed now (during the day). This is where all the lights are coming from on the other picture.