Working toward a more believable abandoned district — Aftercurrent

The next pass is about making one connected district feel like it belongs in a city abandoned for decades. A first residential block now has buildings fitted to graded sites, a workshop yard, and an outdoor ruin-and-dirt riding loop.

The visual result is not there yet. The ground still reads too much like painted geometry, and the buildings need more convincing decay. I am working on the workshop lot and its surroundings before repeating that approach across the city.

The playable 0.3.0 prototype remains the baseline. This district is a separate development preview, and the environment milestone is still in progress.

Riding-camera view beside the early Ashvale Motor Works workshop and dirt route — Early district development preview: riding past the workshop during the September 5 loop check. This is the unfinished environment discussed in this update.

Riding-camera view of the early dirt loop beside ruined brick walls — The same early district preview: the dirt riding line beside the collapsed property, before the later visual passes.