Downtown Toronto

A replica of downtown Toronto made for the environment of my undergraduate thesis (VR driving simulation). Some parts are photo-realistic and some use PBR textures.

To create the photo-realistic buildings I used this workflow (inspired by Ian Hubert):

• Take a picture of the bulding using my phone
• Remove people and cars from the image using stable diffusion in Krita
• Generate the 3D building blockout using OpenStreetMap data (Blosm add-on)
• UV project the building image onto the 3D building
• Make loop cuts matching the building image
• Extrude faces and fix distortion
• Lower the roughness of the window faces
• Add a low strength concrete texture normal map

This results in a real looking building that doesn’t take too much time to make! Also it’s very performant in game engines since it’s low poly.