Sci-fi Garage Update - August 1st

Time for another sci-fi garage update! I've made a fair bit of progress since my last update, here's a list of what I've been up to:

• Created a final model and texture for the building's structural supports. I added emmisive textures and a black-and-yellow warning stripe pattern to the support, and gave it an angular shape to give it a sci-fi feel.
• I've also created a window piece for the windows in the ceiling. It's a pretty simple window with 4 panes but I think its pretty effective. It casts a stereotypical cross shadow onto the ground which I think helps add familiarity and believability to the scene.
• I've created two more simple props for the scene: a barrel and a crate. These have futuristic, angular geometry. At the moment the just have placeholder textures, but I plan to texture them soon. I'll going to add subtle emmisive textures to small areas of the models to achieve a sci-fi look.
• Done more lighting work, including adding the appropriate lighting for the emmisive textures on the support beams and editing lighting to make the windows look right, e.g putting a point light near the window piece to give the impression of outside lighting subtly bleeding in.
• I've also added point lights to the ceiling which are placeholders for when I model and import some sci-fi strip lights.
• Finally, I've also changed the colour of the lighting a bit, from yellow to a subtle blue. This also applies to the APC's headlights to give them a blue-ish look like modern-day xenon lights.

Here's some pictures of how the scene looks now.

My next moves are to texture the crate and barrel and continue to make props. I also need to keep making continual changes to the lighting to I can get it looking as good as possible. I've got a couple of issues I need to sort (such as the spotlights on the APC headlights not appearing to work) so I'll be working on that too. Watch this space for more regular updates.