City With elevations

Hi,

i am trying to make a city in unity, but i do not want the terrain to be all one level i want the roads to go up and down. while still having buildings along side them below are pictures of what i was thinking if anyone can direct me to a tutorial or advice would be great. i started making the buildings in probuilder already.

 

Not sure what exactly you're asking for, but generally, you're looking at terrain elevation differences in these shots. How you make the models match up with terrain depends a lot on what you're going for. What's the goal here?

 

i'm not really sure how else to explain it i do want terrain with elevation ( not exactly like a forest or something).

But, here is a video tutorial and as you can see at the end the city is just flat i seen a lot of these none exactly differnt elevations

 

I think I know what you are looking for, but I have no answers for you. I'm thinking about something similar and all I'm ever getting back to is "maybe it's not worth it", because it increases the complexity of the task so much for possibly not too much benefit. What I would suggest is to look at reference photos of real buildings that have visible foundations that compensate for sloped terrain. And then model your buildings with such foundation blocks that you can just stick in the ground. Also stairs or ramps on all entries, or else you might have doors floating too high above walkable ground. If you have more specific questions, then screenshots of your problem areas will help others make better suggestions. In any case I have doubts that there are any tutorials for this, because I'd consider it a more advanced and special topic.

 

It's the same as modelling anything else, surely? You build your map in a 3D editor like any other mesh, split it up into placeable pieces- I don't see the issue.

 

Look at the bottom of the buildings in this picture. The terrain goes up, but the bottom of the buildings is flat. You could do this effect just using a regular cube building and sinking it into the ground.

That's essentially all that happens in real life. Buildings are always built on flat ground, either by digging in the side of the building, or by putting the building on piles.

 

I am working on a project like this too, but more so like Age of Empires or Stronghold, where I can't use foundations for buildings... I'm thinking of just flattening the land underneath buildings since most of them wont be too big anyways. I've noticed Spore did that as well, I'll have to go back and see how AoE did it

 

Check out how real builders make cities on crazy hills! It helps to have good staircases and ramps, plus good 'foundation' models that look good when sticking out of the ground.

There are great assets out there for making roads and sculpting terrain as well, so it's worth checking the asset store.

Goodluck!

 

Yes, EasyRoads3D has some cool options. I haven't tried it yet, but I will use it in my next game.

 

are these procedurally generated at runtime? if so, i would create smaller city sections with an elevation variable, and make up a bunch of stretchable 'utility' models to make connections

 

i believe they just put em there lol, its all 2d so they just cover the 2d ground with a 2d image of a building.. right?

but yeah you just make it like this
check out these buildings they have almost another whole story of the building that is hidden under the terrain mesh (seen this kinda meshes modding morrowind/oblivion/skyrim, hence the medieval buildings... all their building meshes had this kinda thing)