wip - lighthouse

IronHawk

Here is progress so far. Im wondering if I am getting to detailed early on for a building. Mostly with some of the smaller details in the trim. My aim is to keep the count around current engine such as source guidlines.

currently at 1646 triangles 957 polys.



Thanks in advance for any advice.

- Jesse

Psionic

I guess that 3rd lip up from the base looks to have a lot of edges/bevels on it and could be achieved with much less polys and good use of the texture?? I guess it also depends on how close up you will be get to the building in-game though

nice job so far, looking foward to seeing some textures on there!!

rooster

is the building meant to be hexagonal aye? if its meant to be round, I'd pull some polys from the bevels and put them into the main shape

IronHawk

yeah hexagon up to the top piece.

Here is a link to a reference shot.

http://events.mnhs.org/media/Images/Sites/srl/SRL_300.jpg

rooster

ah cool. it looks a bit like its 7 sided in the photo

IronHawk

damn...

found a top down view and its 8 sided

on the bright side. I can remake it twice as fast.

LOL

IronHawk

So after a embarrasing mistake I rebuilt the lighthouse and started the side building. The lighthouse came out better so I'm happy with the rebuild so far.

I do have a question though about the scene and enviromental modeling in general.

How do you guys go about breaking up the elements of a scene? What are some basic guidlines to use when determining what will be part of a single object.

In the case of the lighthouse my approach is going to be to have the base of the lighthouse , top of lighthouse, side building, side building roof, and chimney as seperate objects each with there own texture.

I had considered multisubing this one but I want to use some ambient occlusion and hand paint the grime so it doesnt repeat.

Still considering to double up some of the side though the octagon is broken into 4 sections that repeat.

- Jesse

IronHawk

making progress.



- Jesse

JO420

looking good so far