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Need help in Modeling big cities

Postby langthasa » 17 Jun 2010, 14:01

Hi , am currently pursuing Bsc animation from AAG , Noida and have been using Maya for the past 6 months , and am planning to model a city in maya and was wondering how i should be starting .should i just start modeling like any other object or is there any other useful way to model a city ??????
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Re: Need help in Modeling big cities

Postby marco » 17 Jun 2010, 17:02

for 3ds max there is a plugin called greeble but dont know anything about maya.

You like to show city from top view or in long shot?
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Re: Need help in Modeling big cities

Postby langthasa » 17 Jun 2010, 17:19

marco wrote:for 3ds max there is a plugin called greeble but dont know anything about maya.

You like to show city from top view or in long shot?

well , am planning to model a low poly city and i want to show a top view ........
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Re: Need help in Modeling big cities

Postby subrat » 18 Jun 2010, 11:14

try to model it in low poly...use as much polygon u actually need for shaping....looks and the depth u can get by using normal map of its high res models....just transfer the map to low poly...your work will be done....and it will not be heavy...any more help...can ask me..personally :D
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Re: Need help in Modeling big cities

Postby sheko » 18 Jun 2011, 19:46

you can use city engine
you can search for software source ,
this is link for city engine tutorial
http://cgpersia.com/2011/02/cityengine- ... 13662.html
download it and watch , it is amazing in creating city with low poly
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