METROPOLIS - City Biome Generator - Substance Script
Turntable Pop-up of different Seeds: Water - Canyon - Lava. Extrusion is being generated purely by the height map via tessellation!
Samples of different seeds! Each one has a different set of parameters and scales to generate the city within.
Every unique building that appears in the seeds, minus the "Mega" buildings such as the stadium and airport
Bird's Eye View of a City generated
Lava Towers
Canyon City
Orbs of the Three Primary Biomes
Early Concept Sketch of a city from an illustration that lended itself to this idea.
Water Tile with River
Lava Tile with River
Canyon Tile with Airport
Lava Tile with Airport
Isolated Canyon Tile
Very Large Blossom City Tile
Canyon Night View
Sky View of Canyon
Canyon Tile Details
Lava City
Lava City from Bat's Eye View
Lava Tile Details
Water City Skyline
Night View
Water Tile Details
INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS: Every building has its own complete PBR channel set: Albedo, Normal, Height, Roughness, Emission, Metallic, Ambient Occlusion
It is easy to start constructing scenes using various seeds to build up an entire city!
The primary function that ultimately created just about everything was max-blending alphas in Substance to create the different heights. From there filters happened to parse out different sections of the buildings
Low Rise Blocks
Typical Height Blocks
High Rise Blocks
Channels of one typical city block
Channels of one sky scraper
This is the script in its entirety: It starts with constructing individual buildings of low, typical, and high elevations, then assembles them into blocks, then placed into a grid. One the grid is in place the rest of the roads, "water", etc are generated
Albedo, Occlusion, Normal, Height, Roughness, Metallic, Emission
Albedo, Occlusion, Normal, Height, Roughness, Metallic, Emission
Albedo, Occlusion, Normal, Height, Roughness, Metallic, Emission
WIP: Close to the beginning, the early stages of creating buildings and placing them on a grid
WIP: Occlusion test
WIP: At some point more sophisticated blocks began to emerge along with the introduction of emission channels
WIP: Screenshot of working on the water and bridges interaction
WIP: Test rendering, one of many
WIP: Test rendering + pure emission channel checking of city lights
WIP: Water / River Development
WIP: Early canyon testing
WIP: Lava Scene building
Introducing the monster of a personal Substance Designer project: THE METROPOLIS GENERATOR
This is a both a project for personal and illustration use. I came across a few examples of what one could push Substance Designer to create and felt the need to challenge myself and create my own! This has been an extremely rewarding self issued project that my Wife and I developed. Fundamentally I wanted to be able to create a script to generate primary and secondary environments for comics, games, real time, and random projects!
I started with creating individual buildings, and arraying them as chunks and blocks, preserving as much parameters as I could possible, then adding a new layer of information such as roads, or "water", and airports. It was a non-linear process that ultimately lended itself to adding 2 different biomes than a regular city / trees / water. I created a toggle for generating a Lava Biome and a Canyon Biome.
There will most likely be a follow up break down of the entire script!
The script is 100% Generated using Substance Designer, rendered in Marmoset Toolbag, with some post-production in Affinity.
Thanks for looking!
