Parallax noir adventure (featuring steam cars and lizards!)

[Biverix 15]

I wanted to give parallax mapping and Kahs' truly awesome dynamic lights system a try yesterday. So, I threw together this noir-looking urban map in a couple hours. I used mostly various common licence textures found throughout the internet, and I combined them with materials from the High Fantasy and Horror bundles, some with minor edits.

 

Here's the map! It's a part of the filthy, sprawling city (albeit without any objects at this point). The rich and poor live divided - the poor inhabit the valley where they bunk somewhere in the slums, or sleep in the city park. All the while, the upper middle class lives in relative luxury and their gated quarters are serviced by shops, cafes, communal buildings. Also, note - steam cars! Woo!

However, it all looks better during the night.

 

 

Hanging out with bums!

 

Kittens! Also, all the objects such as lights, doors, etc. are just placeholders and are really ill-fitting.
 

 

Never mind that, I think somebody's being driven off by the ambulance.

 

 

Must be heart-warming to see such a protective older brother in a den of iniquity such as this! ... What?

 

 

Climbing up the stairs to the Upper City, you could hear the girl at the news stand yelling: "Extra, extra, read all about it!"

 

If you think poor people are asshats wait til you meet someone rich.

 

 

I promised lizards, and a lizard I deliver!


Hope you have fun looking at this little gallery of nonse, 'cause I had fun toying around with it.

[Kanonelsebas 7]

WOW!! That Map looks Just Amazing!! Good Job man!

[Biverix 15]

Thank you! ^^

I've decided to ditch the lighting system and go all-parallax lights. For maximum atmosphere

[Kanonelsebas 7]

I think that's better, so the characters don't stick out from the background. Also, you could try some filter on photoshop in the map itself, like focus or something (I have the spanish version so don't know how it's called in english lol), so the background graphic don't looks a little blurred.

 

But Anyway, awesome job!