I’m not a very good scene setup person, so I’ll just give you the blend and u can see if you like it 
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im soso at trees ^.^;; my experience with trees comes from either sprite based trees or using ngplant/gen3, so at the min i couldnt bring any unique experience yet. nya!
well if your interested i need all the help i can get lol. i even have my little brother learning to use blender and making simple misc objects so anything can help
sure thing, i’ll start making up some trees if i can and post up blend files for them here for anyone to use, but specifically for tar valon ^^ i’ll use free textures for them from the net, and ill try make 2 versions of each tree, a high res version and a lowres version for lod.
that would be very much appreciated, if you can you could make an account at dropbox.com and then give me your e-mail. then you would be able to upload directly to the project file and be able to see all the other .blends as well.
also today i think i’m gonna start putting together a design for the fish market and the other oddly shaped structures
EDIT: holly i found a list of the trees in the ogrier grove here:
- Contains oaks, Elms, leather leaves, firs, and great trees
good luck guys!!!
hmm worked on the ogrier wall with some help from daworm and started dinking around with the fish market
not much just foolin around
fixed my duplivert problems and re-laid out the city, i have a lot of manual tweaking and detailing to do in the city and building layout placement.
also i’m trying to set up a checklist of whats still needed atm in the modeling area(materials and textures are a completly different story)
more detail and an ogrier gate
more buildings coming up…need to add some height difference with towers and such…but i’ll get the main layout with simple buildings first.
Checklist of immediate things to do:)
- City Square
- Grove Trees
- City streets
- Surrounding landscape
- Dragon mount
- Fish market area
- Wagons
- Boats
- Dock objects
- White tower Observation Hatch
- City Towers
warder, your stuff is coming along brilliantly. ive shown the images to a few friends and they are in awe of the scale of things so far. i havent gotten around to making the trees yet, ive been busy with a few other blender files recently >.<
it’s all good… tell them thanks…as much as i want crits i’ll take compliments :p…a few on cgsociety want this to become an animation or fly through atleast…would be pretty epic 
i am working on towers right now trying to add some height. anyway thanks and as much as i want the trees in soon don’t worry too much lol.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2976929/TOWER.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2976929/TOWER%202.png
Looks like a big project. I do have one question.
Why did you pick the building style you did for the citizens buildings?
If I remember right the city of Tar Valon get large amounts of snow in the winter.
This would necessitate that the citizenry build houses with a sloped roof.
I also don’t recall the Aes Sedai building anyone’s houses for them.
Did I miss something in the books?
aes sedai building houses? o.0…idk buildings though…some of them anyway
i didn’t really think about sloped roofs to be honest. i was just looking for a style that fit the description…smooth wavy and scattered wave like style…presents a problem though…thanks for bringing it up:)
btw…favorite shot so far http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2976929/pretty.png
They only built important things, like the walls, the tower (duh), the gate-houses, the chain-houses. Basically where it wasn’t possible to be as strong as necessary (or even possible to build at all) without using the power, they helped.
um yes…we know thats what they built…as well as special structures…such as the bank and fish market…as well as atleast one inn…though i’m not sure if the aes saidi helped with those or just the ogrier made them…either way it’s an ogrier(magical) built city
more tower updates…main city towers…supposed to be so close they are connected with bridges…my take anyway 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2976929/tower_tar.jpg
