Lighting the environment

Following the previous blog entry I have decided to go with a subtle peachy tone for the environment, I think this works really nicely, Here are are two shots of the lights positioned and turned on.

Lighting Units

Today I worked on a lighting unit model, heres what I came up with:

Another old texture from my texture library, originally taken from a scanned sheet of metal with various duplication overlays, opacity changes and brushes applied.

A simple but effective phong material with a peachy tone, set to glow in the materials properties

The final result gives a very warm looking light, I plan to light the entire store with this colour.

Pallet Model

Tonight I worked on a pallet model for my shop environment, Since the scene is set at night time I figured there would be plenty of pallets throughout the store to replenish stock sold during the day time, I thought it was important to model a pallet model, heres what I come up with:

I re-used the previous texture for the item props as I felt it worked pretty well for a pallet texture.

Basic props and Building Externals

Today too add further variation I modelled up some basic props to be placed on the previously modelled item stands, to keep things quick and save time (since these models wont be seen much) I simply applied an automatic UV map to these models and placed a simple wood texture from my texture library over the full UV map, simply acting as a 'skin' texture.

I also started work on the exterior of the building (please see fourth and fifth images).

Source texture from my own texture library, I simply tiled the texture with my tiling technique so the texture could act as a skin for the models.

Models with the  final texture applied.

The Exterior of the store with some basic lighting

Wall Model Texture

Today I threw a texture onto my wall model. heres how it looks!

My original texture taken from my texture library, Picture taken from inside b&q.

The textured UV map for the wall model.

The final textured wall model

Item cages

This week amongst other work I worked on a item cage for the store environment Throughout an ikea store there are many cages that stock gets placed in, I modelled one of these to be duplicated throughout the environment.
To achieve the model I simply started off with a basic cube, inserted another cube inside the first cube and 'cut out' the middle section of the first cube with the second cube using an intersection boolean, I repeated this step for the holes in the side of the cage, I simply placed 5x5 cubes on each side of the main cube and subtracted giving the final model.

The current scene

This is the scene with all the current models placed in and the lamp model inserted, Im pretty happy with it!