Darkmod: Inspiration thread

[Taquito]

I know these are unrelated to architectural design but just couln't resist in case someone would like to make these models for the game:

 

 

 

 

 

[Bikerdude]

Thewy are all doable, but we would create the first and second last ones with a flame.

[Airship Ballet]

We need more of these: they're super tense.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UERTGPtSz8Q&feature=youtu.be

[Melan]

St. Pancras Hotel, London:

 

 

 

 

[Goldwell]

@Melan those stairs are damn perfect!

 

I was browsing on reddit and saw this picture which I found very inspiring

 

[Taquito]

The ceiling

[Goldwell]

The ceiling

 

Now that's an office I could work in!

Edited September 1, 2015 by Goldwell

[Bikerdude]

I wonder how they attched the TV to the wall without damaging it....

[Taquito]

Old Factory Exterior:

 

 

[Taquito]

Old Factory Interior:

 

 

[Gestas]

[Bikerdude]

Wow, where is that..?

[Goldwell]

Wow, where is that..?

 

http://lushpin.com/works/3

[Petike the Taffer]

I never thought anything Tolkienian could be usable as visual reference for TDM, but some of the illustrations and designs people have used for Bree often look fittingly close to TDM's preferred styles of rural and town architecture:

 

 

Darek Zabrocki - Morning

 

 

Darek Zabrocki - Bree

 

 

(Bree as depicted in The War in the North RPG)

 

 

(Bree in the undeveloped RPG The White Council)

 

 

(concept art of Bree made for the LOTR adaptations)

Edited September 3, 2015 by Petike the Taffer

[Melan]

Interestingly, none of them look anything close to Bree as I have imagined it.

[Goldwell]

I never thought anything Tolkienian could be usable as visual reference for TDM, but some of the illustrations and designs people have used for Bree often look fittingly close to TDM's preferred styles of rural and town architecture:

 

Those drawings are beautiful however I don't know if you've seen The Hobbit movies but they have a beautiful town called Lake Town in it which when I first saw it I thought was great inspiration for TDM

 

Heres the town if you haven't seen it.

 

[Petike the Taffer]

Oh, I very much enjoyed their rendition of Lake Town (and virtually all the other production design too). They were spot-on with the architecture.

[Destined]

I (of course) saw the movie, which is why I haven't watched the video posted until now. But I noticed hat starting from 0:38 you see a nice palette of structures, that would be great prefabs for a city like laketown, if someone was inclined to make a city map inspired by it. I myself would love to do it, but I hardly find time to work on my WIP at the moment

Edited September 4, 2015 by Destined

[Bikerdude]

Saw this and thought how cool would it be to have a working clock like this in TDM, each cog is turning at just the right speed as per it would in RL -

 

 

[Petike the Taffer]

Though we want to avoid making TDM too Thief-like, I wouldn't object to the presence of the mighty Bridgeport Clocktower.

 

Incidentally, here are some photos I once posted to ttlg.com, showing the old bell tower in Košice's old town:

 

 

 

(Older photo, there was some construction work on the square at the time.)

 

I think she would fit right in as a humbler, less stylized city clocktower or bell tower. The one introduced in TDS was perhaps a bit too grandiose in appearance.

 

 

And here's a little scene from a marketplace in that same old town quarter:

 

 

It's always reminded me of that one mission in Thief II, with the marketplace by the canals.

[Springheel]

Saw this and thought how cool would it be to have a working clock like this in TDM, each cog is turning at just the right speed as per it would in RL -

 

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2015-09-07_00002.jpg

 

I wonder which came first.

 

[Taquito]

Some exterior maps from a Robin Hood game:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2015 by Taquito

[Petike the Taffer]

Yeah, I remember that older Robin Hood game. The controls were in the vein of the Commandos or Desperados series.

[Taquito]

Some inspirational pics from a few Amnesia mods: Interior Lighting decoration and fog effects.

 

Amadeus:

 

 

 

Final Revelations

 

 

Regression

Edited September 12, 2015 by Taquito

[Taquito]

A few tabletop models:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can check more here for images of more details of the desings and pics of each side: http://www.tabletop-world.com/index.php