--- title: Recreating Nostalgic Alley of Peace Set in Italy | daily.dev description: Environment artist Alex K. Arabi shares his process for creating a 3D recreation of Vicolo della Pace, a late 1800s Italian alley, as a student project. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/recreating-nostalgic-alley-of-peace-set-in-italy-ctlzkjyzu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Recreating Nostalgic Alley of Peace Set in Italy | daily.dev og:description: Environment artist Alex K. Arabi shares his process for creating a 3D recreation of Vicolo della Pace, a late 1800s Italian alley, as a student project. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/recreating-nostalgic-alley-of-peace-set-in-italy-ctlzkjyzu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CtLzkJYZu.png og:image:alt: Recreating Nostalgic Alley of Peace Set in Italy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Recreating Nostalgic Alley of Peace Set in Italy **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 11 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Environment artist Alex K. Arabi shares his process for creating a 3D recreation of Vicolo della Pace, a late 1800s Italian alley, as a student project. He covers his 6-week workflow from blockout in Blender to final assembly in Unreal Engine, including modular kit construction, tileable material creation in Substance 3D Designer, ZBrush high-poly sculpting, and custom shaders for world-position color tinting and vertex paint wear. Key techniques include trim sheets with RGB masking for window variation, decal-based storytelling, manual cobblestone height variation, and a LUT created in Photoshop for final color grading with warm highlights and cool shadows to achieve a nostalgic tone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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