Sanxian Powerplant - Squad

In 2023 I was responsible for the Powerplant on the Squad map Sanxian Islands. This was the hero POI on the map. Along with my team mate Will Busby we followed the level design whitebox, split the huge area into sections and artboxed the powerplant and the surrounding area. I was responsible for the two towers, the entrance building, the coal elevators, the Silos and some other tertiary items like the modular tetrapods and HVAC units. I also completely redesigned the areas around the buildings to make it considerably cheaper and closer to the reference, like adding realistic entrances and car parks. One challenge we had was with the powerplant needing to take up a significantly smaller footprint than one would in real life so it made following reference more difficult than it should have been. The powerplant is fully enterable and we had a very strict primitives budget which restricted what we could achieve in the short time we had to complete it. Regardless I was happy with what we were able to do and it was my first time taking on such a large asset.