Jeronij's Urban Residential Canals

[Badsim]

The blue ... with the same comment than Gaston ...

[rooker1]

The blue one looks best by far.  Although I will agree with Badsim on Gaston's comment.

[Naryanna]

Hm, I must say that I like blue one more than other two, but green one looks good also.

[jplumbley]

Awesome work Jeronij... Now I see why you tell me you cant do everything... LOL

I like the green and blue textures personally, the brown one isnt the best IMO.

[Fred_Ginger]

I like the more green one   (don't listen to anybody else!  )

[Archangel]

Actually, i like the original canals, the first picture...it had a very Hanging Gardens of Babylon feel.  I think you should release all three canals though, as i could find uses for each (i like the brown one, i would use that in my ruined area of the city)

[goin2chicago]

el agua azul es muy bonito! lol. felt like putting some of my spanish 1 skills to the test.

i like the blue one. i think it would be cool to have two different variations, one with a low water level like the originals and one with a high water level like the new ones you've shown us. great work as always jeronij!

[Cali]

i like them all!

[Zaphod]

I want to second everyone's ideas about making them match SG's or PEG's kits

[jeronij]

OK, I think the blue will be the first colour to use. For the moment, I am still trying to make a definitive water texture, and looking for a way to let the player see some transparency across the water. Trying to make it more realistic at the end 

Some work in progress..

 

Instead 1x3 lot pieces, I will cut it into 1x1 pieces, like the other existing canals. Btw, connection with other canal sets is under study at the moment  ,

[jeronij]

After some precious BSC feedback, the water texture went into this....

Ok, I have to admit that I learnt quite a lot today about the materials in the GMAX. I found sound nice tutorials via Google, and after some hours I went to this.

Unfortunately, the game point of view does not allow to see most of the details, and the clouds look repetitive, it does not matter what I do. I have even created a custom seamless texture for them, but they look repetitive anyway.

Here is the thing with advanced transparency (  ) and clouds reflections, from the SC4 points of view.





And now, for your astonishment, how the thing looks like in the GMAX.



Now the same only with transparency.







So, I think the water is quite realistic now, but the BAT render will loose all that detail. I am sure the same will happen to simfox.

Also the more detail we add ( clouds), the more repetitive the water looks like.

Your feedback please .... 

[vester]

In the SC view, I like the canals with the clouds reflecting in the water, but in love the way the light is reflecting in the water on the last picture.

[jplumbley]

That is awesome work there Jeronij!!  I love it....  Keep up the awesome work and this will definately be in plugins folder wehn it is released!

[bat]

Wonderful textures and great progress!

[Badsim]

Perfect water texture . ...

[rooker1]

That looks 100 times better.  I love it.  Great work here.

[Cali]

great progress, the water textures are really good

[sc4portugal]

great work it's very nice

[jeronij]

Thanks to all for the nice comments 

Unfortunatly all this nice water detail is lost in the final game render....

Anyway some progress...

OK, I have changed the fence's concrete to a darker one. I hope this is better.

I rendered the"clouds" version.It looks like this.



I dont like it. The clouds reflection looks like anything but clouds.

I rendered the "no clouds" version. I look like this.



Neither I like it. Too dark.

I made the material a bit lighter, and I think this can be the final water texture for this set.








I have started to make some additional pieces.

I hope you like the final decision 

[Naryanna]

I like the final decision.  And that curve looks perfect!