C&C on odd perspective BG

[mouthuvmine]

OKay, this one has me stumped. The main viewing area will be at the bottom, below the railing. I want to be able to click above everything and have him look up. My problem is I want the perspective to sort of change at the top, like YOUR looking up at it. I tried to tilt the "walkway" up there, but nothing really looked right. (yep, that's supposed to be a walkway.) I'm hesitent to put anymore into the top half of this BG with the perspective possiblty changing drasticly. Other than that, I 'm reletively happy with the bottom.



Conversely, if I decided to kill the odd perspective idea, asuming the topmost walkway ascends (it does), it the perspective okay?

I hate posting something I consider unfinished up here, but I am so stumped.

Thanks in advance.

[Khris]

YOUR = YOU'RE?
And YOU=camera? or YOU=player character?

Do you intend to make it look like the camera was rotating (like in the Full Throttle intro or in MI2 when Guybrush looks down the cliff)?

I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for, maybe something like this:




The computer monitor looks really small, is that intentional?

[frission]

I don't know how to help you on the perspective, but I do want to say that the perspective and color choice on the, err, trash can, makes it look remarkably like, err, something else. You might want to make it a different color! 

[mouthuvmine]

KrisMUC : I meant you're. And yeah, like that cliff on MI2. I couldn't think of a good example. I'd like it to go from looking at him in the 3rd person, to looking up there in ther first person. Maybe I can pick a starting point just above the viewable area then draw the line in to a new vanishing point. I'll update later.

Oh, and the comp was supposed to look small. I was thinking about how they always had those tiny little junky monochromatic screen in schools when I was a kid. But I made the comp itself too small too. I may need to change it though.

Frission : No no no. It's supposed to look like a hoozawatzit. Kidding. I noticed that after uploading. I'll fix the wanker can with the perspective.

Haha

[mouthuvmine]

Sorry for the huge bump in a fairly unimportant thread, but I've been away for a while=].

So this is it, with the perspective I wanted and everything. Looks great to me, but I've been staring at it for a month or so, off and on, and it think it could be an image of a kitten by now and I'd still see it as okay.



There's some small details I'm deciding on to spruce it up some, but I'm most concerned about the perspective...will it trick the eye?

[Uhfgood]

Perspective doesn't look bad for what you're trying to do, however the very top of the building (where you're seeing the sky ala a sky light) is a little too small and rounded to make me think it's the top of the building, rather than just some little small pointed section.  Make that top part larger, and more square (rectangular?) since you're not really caring to distort perspective up there, it's only supposed to be small.  You want forced perspective for the top, not distorted perspective.

[OneDollar]

I can't see anything jarringly wrong from just scrolling the screen up and down, but its hard to tell until someone animates it.

As a side note if you feel the background needs it, or you want to anyway, you could enhance the idea that the perspective has changed by adding one or two people (obviously viewed from underneath) on a walkway, to help the player see the rest of the background from that angle.