Hello! I am still building my Japanese-Autumn-themed showcase. Yet, I’ve been looking for some things to place into my build. The map is only an island with a mini river cutting it in half, connected by a bridge. I thought that since this is a showcase with things yet to improve, I should reach professional showcase creators right here.
Well if you are going with the Japanese theme you will definitely need a shrine, maybe a wishing-well and bamboo trees would look nice. Also change the trees’ placement cuz right now it feels too artificial, make them more randomly placed to achieve a better natural aesthetic. Lastly I also noticed you got a boat there, how about adding a wharf for it and maybe some props for fishing?
Noted! I’ll work on this, also I did make them more natural since I only have a few assets, I tried this. I’ll surely add the wharf, shrine, and bamboo idea. Thank you!
I would say add a visual effect of steam clouds at the bottom of waterfall and water splashes on the rocks, so it looks like waterfall stream is bouncing off the rocks, that would for sure make it feel more alive
Real world example of waterfall steam clouds:
You can also visit the game if you’d like to take a closer look. I’ll add the other ideas into the showcase too!
I made the bamboo trees by finding free models (I know it’s lousy) and took 3 models, I also used pictures to base on the look of it. I can’t dig bent bamboo trees, so I got a straight bamboo mesh and some leaf decals from other bamboo models, even though it was lousy, I still did an edit to make it more clean but natural. I combined them together and position them to a much more natural position and grouped them as a model.
I think using free models is fine as long as your entire creation isnt mainly based on them and of course you need to be careful incase they have any hidden viruses in them cause people tend to hide a lot in them. I’ll check out the showcase every now and then to see your progress.
I do use free models for the meshes and complicated parts such as for realistic items, I don’t do blender yet or mesh making but I do make original ones that are less complicated. Also, I do keep an eye out for viruses hiding in models and I always change some properties in the model before using them.
