Without a clear layout and structure, cities have a tendency to become aesthetically busy and overcrowded, with an abundance of tall skyscrapers but lacking space for facilities that citizens would use regularly, such as homes, shopping areas and green land like parks and gardens.įor the build of City Living, spearheaded by head builder Markus, the planning of the city went through various stages, but started with planning the city’s location and environment.Įnvironmental planning is the layout of the natural area of the city’s location. In this behind the scenes glimpse at City Living, I want to use this map as an example and take you through the process of creating a city, from initial planning to building to making it feel alive, in the hopes of teaching you how to approach creating your very own supercity.Īs with many big builds, the most important step is planning. While we were developing City Living we took everything we had learnt from these builds, as well as our previous creative endeavours and real-world influences, and brought it all into one place, combining all of our technical skills with our drive for world-building, to create the most realist city we could from the tallest skyscraper to the smallest piece of garbage.
Each time we built a city, we always learnt something new and, over time, we developed new ways to give our cities realistic layouts as well as a unique sense of atmosphere, as if they were places where people lived and worked, not just an interesting set of structures all bunched together. However, these past builds were not a waste. In fact, over the years, Noxcrew has built 5 or 6 different cities, some for machinima projects, others for maps now lost to history as the projects were scrapped in favour of other projects. Of course, City Living is not the first city that Noxcrew has ever created. And where better to set this humongous amount of excitement than in one huge city?! With this being our fifth and final Creative Toolbox (at least for the time being), we wanted City Living to be the biggest toolbox ever, fit to bursting with super speedy vehicles, interesting props and more exciting adventures and activities than ever before.
In March 2019, after many months of work and refinement, we released our latest creative toolbox map - City Living!
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