Full Title: Game 3004 Final Major Project - Adding Storage Room + Acting on Feedback (Week 14) (10/04/2023)
Acting on Feedback) Unifying the Values and Adding Storage Room
A time and true issue my diner has suffered is noise. I realise that there's a good reason most of my classic diner references are all one colour; red. And it's due to the association, brand and even tones that red exudes. Red is a part of America and is simple and easy to clean. It's also light on the eye but has aged like a fine classic diner wine. By having a lot of my neon, seats and sofas blue and pink it was highly noisy but also threw off the original style of a diner.
All my colours were luckily made on instances and after reverting it back to red the diner looked heaps better. Moving onto my walls I also ended up changing the ceiling material to fit a simpler panelling by cutting out the needle geometry. Since much of the ceiling had horrendous geometry to account for the tiling issues caused by the original material. By making a purely seamless tile and cutting out the geometry (geometry is cheaper than fancy textures) it began to finally take shape in a more orderly fashion. My final large-scale change during this time was my re-exploration of the counter, since now the entire diner grew to become red. 
Its strange bricked neon/pink design no longer fits. And so I tried 2 different styles. The first being a simple white with a metallic strip running up. I figured a bit of metal would distinguish the front side and with the white being contrasted from the checker floor it could look quite nice. Unfortunately in the engine it proved to be a harsh dip of values from white to grey when looking past the bar into the metallic backing. And so I went back and obtained more references of a more traditional red style, and white stripes (very american) counters. The primary difference also obeys the topper being a lighter tone of metal.
This worked a treat since its worn edges and almost fabric quality of it fit well with the red theme. And the stripes aligned well on a long stretch causing natural lines of focal points to be seen. Directing up and down the diner.
