Ancient Rome 3D Model | Environmental/Prop Design

Xero3D

Heres something that I thought I would kind of start out with since I'm doing some environmental/prop work. Tell me what you guys think. I may create a full temple eventually.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Looks solid. Wonder what it looks like under different lighting conditions.

Xero3D

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Looks solid. Wonder what it looks like under different lighting conditions.

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DWalker

The black marble? really isn't working. It looks very artificial, and has some obvious mirroring about at least two axes. The same is also true of the white material, which is made more obvious by the flipped & inverted text.

Large columns were rarely straight; they curved or tapered towards the top to present a more uniform appearance when viewed from the ground. The base & capital were not the same size for the same reason, and tended to be more ornate. I'm guessing that you're going for a Roman Tuscan column, similar to the one below:

Most temples, however, tended to go with the fancier capitals like the Ionic or Corinthian.

Xero3D

DWalker wrote: »

The black marble? really isn't working. It looks very artificial, and has some obvious mirroring about at least two axes. The same is also true of the white material, which is made more obvious by the flipped & inverted text.

Large columns were rarely straight; they curved or tapered towards the top to present a more uniform appearance when viewed from the ground. The base & capital were not the same size for the same reason, and tended to be more ornate. I'm guessing that you're going for a Roman Tuscan column, similar to the one below:

Most temples, however, tended to go with the fancier capitals like the Ionic or Corinthian.

This was kind of the rough reference that I had

LMP

Try throwing some greens and blues into your dark marble, lighten it up slightly. Also... your letters seem to be backwards...

iconoplast

Are you intending this to be a modern view of ancient ruins, or a contemporary view of Rome as it was? That makes a really big difference. There's been some fairly recent research that's shown that what we think of as plain marble statues were actually painted in quite garish colors. I can't remember if that includes most/all of the columns as well or just some, but I'll see if I can find one of the studies on it.

As LMP noted, dark marble has subtle amounts of other colors (like most other things we think of as being wholly black or dark grey).

Also, if you want accuracy, be careful of instancing statues and remember that before the days of factories and mass production nothing would ever match other similar objects that well.

Leto

+1 gotta fix the mirroring

Xero3D

iconoplast wrote: »

Are you intending this to be a modern view of ancient ruins, or a contemporary view of Rome as it was? That makes a really big difference. There's been some fairly recent research that's shown that what we think of as plain marble statues were actually painted in quite garish colors. I can't remember if that includes most/all of the columns as well or just some, but I'll see if I can find one of the studies on it.

As LMP noted, dark marble has subtle amounts of other colors (like most other things we think of as being wholly black or dark grey).

Also, if you want accuracy, be careful of instancing statues and remember that before the days of factories and mass production nothing would ever match other similar objects that well.

This is the concept that I had. I would say that it would be closer to how it would've looked when it was first done.