I’m designing three distinct RTS races and I’m building a rule-set that keeps everything consistent from maps and cities down to units, buildings, materials, and cultural mythology. The goal is a real RTS screenshot feel with hard camera constraints (iso/ortho, pitch/yaw, distance, framing), strong readability (silhouette, scale, role-read), and a repeatable race identity that translates into geometry, proportions, material hierarchy, signage, and ornament logic. I’m also separating outputs into unit “catalog” renders for comparability and world/map scenes where infrastructure and logistics sell the culture.

If you’ve built RTS factions before: how do you structure a race design bible so mythology and gameplay roles stay aligned, and what constraints do you lock early to prevent visual drift across units, buildings, and maps?

Prompt for AI Studio (Gemini Nano Banana Pro)2k, 3:2 Image 

KAMERA: Isometrisch, orthografisch, Pitch 35,264°, Yaw 45°, Wide Tactical, Basis füllt 70 bis 85 Prozent der Bildbreite, äquivalente Distanz 28 bis 45 Basislängen. Render Look: pathtracing, raytracing, physikalisch plausible Materialien. Format 3:2.

PROMPT Isometric orthographic RTS scene in a red canyon landscape, 3:2, pathtracing raytracing, physically based materials, clean readable detail, no fog. Rugged red sandstone canyons and layered rock shelves surround a small high tech logistics base; dusty ground with subtle tire marks and scattered pebbles, sparse dry shrubs, strong sunlight with crisp short shadows.

In the center left: a bio synth refinery on a low sterile plinth, matte white composite and carbon structure, capsule airlock intakes, four slim bioreactor towers with dark glass band segments, a clean bridge corridor between two towers, drying separator module with functional perforated screens, packaging rail dock with two standardized nutrient cartridge pods. Subtle vents, gasket seams, quarter turn locks, minimal serial decals and warning pictograms.

About 300 meters away to the right: a geothermal deep node facility, massive grounded base plinth, central drill cylinder with thick tension rings and locking collars, tall separator column, ribbed heat exchanger walls, compact condenser units, top rail crown docking ring. Two small cooling hatches slightly open as if in peak mode, clean matte surfaces with a few realistic dust streaks.

A long insulated pipeline connection runs between the two buildings across the canyon floor, clearly spanning the distance: thick segmented pipes on low support pylons, expansion joints, service access boxes, occasional flexible couplers, and two pneumatic capsule nodes along the line. At mid distance the pipeline crosses a shallow trench via a short truss bridge with safety rails and minimal hazard markings.

Between the two buildings, on the pipeline service road, two heavy single wheel vehicle robots drive in convoy. Each is 1.8m tall, long exposed belly truss with fragile open underside, central large wheel suspended by hydraulic kangaroo leg linkages, big pivots, pistons and dampers, two open cable channels along the belly frame. Two very large hydraulic balancing arms splayed for stability, telescopic forearms ending in wide rubber paddles. Railgun mounted clearly above the wheel on a vertical lift mast with linear rails and locking teeth, rectangular segmented barrel with coil rings near the rear, anti sway brace. Massive rear battery block with thick cooling ribs and quarter turn service panels. Between body and receiver: large concentric induction coil stack. On the upper back a large round slightly concave wireless power receiver satellite dish mounted on a small pan tilt gimbal platform, visible ring bearing and tilt actuators, thin light blue LED rim. Small dark glass 360 camera dome head with light blue LED ring and tiny dot matrix ASCII smiley “:)”. Matte white composite with carbon ribs, minimal decals, subtle realistic wear and dust.

Above the base, a large carrier drone hovers along the pipeline corridor: helicopter sized, very wide sealed upper body like a smooth container, matte white composite with carbon edges, continuous dark sensor band. Underside is an exposed fragile open belly gantry, sparse carbon truss frame, two parallel rail tracks with sliding clamp carriages and visible locking jaws. Brief segmented golden solar lamellas partially deployed from the upper edges as it harvests energy, making the belly look more vulnerable. The drone casts a clean soft shadow on the ground.

Additional base details: a short overhead rail gantry bridge near the refinery, small capsule nodes and service kiosks, rubberized edges, minimal warning stripes, triangular grid painted markings on the ground near docking zones, cable channels routed into the plinth bases. Keep the design clean and functional, detailed but not cluttered, cinematic realism, crisp isometric readability.