Fantasy house

lovingsaskia

Recently signed up to Pinterest and found a concept that I liked, so I thought I'd give it a go. However there are a ton of errors in the drawing, so work is slow going as I attempt to bring it all together.
Doing about an hour a day over the last week. Once complete it will go in unreal engine.

http://drawcrowd.com/projects/mja5ntiyltexltezltq3

lovingsaskia

Todays work. Going to start on the tower and attic part next so I can finalise the roof and top part of the house. Looking forward to working on the props for shop

lovingsaskia

More work done, but errors starting to build up and I need to take a step back and think about how I'm going to deal with them. I'm not sure how much of my problems are down to errors in the concept ( unless I'm reading it wrong?) and how much are down to me

lovingsaskia

Yesterdays fun. I really need to become better organised in how I approach these things(naming conventions, better block outs and use layers more)

lovingsaskia

Starting to focus down into individual areas and trying to fix various errors that crept in. Once done I'll move on to optimise and polish stage.

lovingsaskia

More done, enough for today, time for some dead rising.

Cheeky_Pickle

This is looking great! Really cute little house

teaandcigarettes

This looks really promising. Will be looking forward to seeing more. :thumbup:

pixelpatron

Loving this!

The concept shows thicker support beams on the railings in general. The way your handling the transition from the stairs to railings on the third story shows some laziness on your part (the railings for the stairs align with the top railings of the balcony); go back and execute on the concept. Rework it, I know it's a pain in the ass cause all the angles....and it probably means redoing your stairs and possibly retouching the porch so the stair scales are even, but it'll make all the difference in the world to revisit it.

Good luck.

lovingsaskia

Thanks guys glad you like it, its been fun
Pixelpatron, good spot with the stairs, I hadn't done any work on them at that point apart from throw them in quickly when I was blocking out. Done work on them now and yeah they were a bit of a pain and had to lower the top railing to get them to fit.

lovingsaskia

Need to start thinking about what I'm going to do in the areas outside the concept. Started roughing out some of the props for the shop area too.
Also got myself better organised now with everything in layers at last.

foreverlost

I'm enjoying watching this come along. I really love the front door

Kyle KR

Love the looks of it so far!

lovingsaskia

Thanks guys. Here is where I am at the moment, started looking at colours, only basic materials in place at the moment with base colour and normal map only. A lot of the beams aren't unwrapped yet hence why they don't look right. I'm more looking at the colours to see if they work. What do people think? Does the roof look ok, or does it need more supporting geometry to make it look more interesting?

Grusti

Really promising lovely house) keep it up!

lovingsaskia

Started bringing this into Unreal, but hit a problem when after building the lighting. Here's 2 pics, one which is what it should look like, and another well, with what I'm getting.

mjeruzal

Have you made any lightmap UVs? Cause it looks like you don't. Try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=164&v=joKnmShAdJE

lovingsaskia

Thanks for the link I'll watch that and see if I've missed anything. It does have auto generated lightmap uvs though and resolution is at 512, its almost like its ignoring them though?

lovingsaskia

So I think I solved the problem, or at least improved it. I exported my asset out of unreal with the auto generated lightmap uvs and re packed them in max. Re imported my asset back into unreal with my newly packed lightmap and rebuilt lighting.
Problem is still there, but reduced, which makes me believe that, I'm hitting a resolution problem because of the size of the asset.
Problems, but I'm still learning a great deal from doing this, looks like I need to break the model down when importing into unreal to give me more uv space.

lovingsaskia

Fixed my lightmap woes at last, had to break my model down more and built my lightmap uv's inside 3dmax.