Leadwerks Blog Post 10: A Grave Sign of the Times
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Please excuse the rather horrifying pun in the title, but today’s update will highlight quite a few new assets and more level design, focusing in on the new grave sites and Zone signs specifically.
Let’s dive in!
First up, here are the new overview images. I’ve been working on the level design quite a lot, so you’ll notice lots of changes, along with a new skybox and afternoon lighting.
I’ll be showing more detailed images of some of these areas later.
The new skybox:
Overview images:
I have created 8 different grave sites for this project, primarily to populate a small hillside graveyard at the edge of the map and playable area.
This graveyard began as a community graveyard for this remote area of the Chernobyl region (especially seeing that there was no local church). After the Chernobyl disaster it became a grave site for the military defenders and explorers of this area of the Exclusion Zone, as many met untimely ends here.
Next up, I have new Zone signs. These will help add interest to parts of the playable areas as well as help add borders to the map, especially where there may be invisible walls (such as out in the river).
To close out this blog update, I have new images of the swamp and military base. I’ve completed a “B” version of the military barracks where it seems that unknown forces once barricaded themselves in against some horror of the Zone. Many of the windows are boarded, and there are barricades over some doors and scattered around the inside of building. What happened to those who defended this building is unknown…
I have also added a few additional debris props like tires and concrete slabs, some of which you can see here:
And finally, a few more screenshots of the rest of the military base. You may notice a new structure in the side of the mountain at the back of the base. This underground entrance is where the player will begin, but that's all I'm telling for now. 
Enjoy!
I still have much more to show (including the last full building), so expect another blog post in the near future as the project reaches completion.
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