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After the Rain

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I started this project out with the idea of building an old style coastal village at sunset. I live a few hours' drive from the Oregon/Washington coast, a place where it is not particularly warm or dry. This forms a lot of my ideas of the "beach", being a cool and wet place. One of the better times in the cold weather though, is right after a rain storm when you get a break in the clouds. Everything is wet, and will probably go back to being even more wet in a short time. But for a while, the clouds break up just a little bit. And you get some very cool lighting when this happens near the end of the day. So this project eventually just started drifting in that direction.

I'm also continuing my work to not suck so much at texturing. Made a lot more painted textures for this project than I have for past projects. I think things mostly came out well, except for the street. Realistic cobblestone is evidently a massive pain in the ass to do in CG. The damn thing went through 3 completely different versions, and then a lot of tweaking after that. The final polygon count is absurd, and I'm still not terribly happy with the result. IMO, it still looks way too fake, like some sort of weird stone biscuit (the AMURICAN kind). (yes, it has textures. Several layers of diffuse textures, and a bump map, and a spec map. I swear it does. >:( )

2k version at the download link! Enjoy! :)
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