After being rescued from the Blood Harvest you find the driver of your rescue vehicle has become infected, and has crashed behind a massive asylum. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
I spent today making the greenhouse. This was a fun and challenging building.
First modeling, the building is made up of brush work for all the stone, and glass. All the beams are made up of a model. It really helps to have SketchUp able to export both brush and model files. Once in-game they match up seamlessly. Carefull attention was made to keep the complexity down while still looking good. In all less then 3000 faces.
Next, each an every pain of glass is breakable. It was hard to strike a balance between glass that was too fragile, causing infected to fall though almost instantly and glass that is tough enough to take a few bullets.
The interior props and lighting is all temporary, more to get a feel of how the area will feel. Further detailing will take place later.
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