Warhammer Building

bounchfx

Hey guys, it's about time I finally have another thread up here for my w.i.p. stuff, and I could definitely use some tips and suggestions. Been meaning to get some stuff up here!

It's based off this concept my friend found on the Warhammer Online website.


I'm still in the process of determining how detailed I want to make it in terms of polys - I think I'm going to head towards the mid/high end and do a low version as well. The bricks were the first thing I did if you can't tell, and I plan on redoing them (way too high poly for something that's not very detailed). Also not happy with the proportions of the stone windows so I plan on changing that.

A long ways to go yet but I wanted to get this out there

oobersli

So whats the purpose of this? For game rez practice or high poly practice? Seems like making high poly bricks would be a tad overboard since most of the elements in this could be faked with just texturing.

bounchfx

ah, yes. the original purpose was to be high poly practice and a portfolio piece, which is why I started with so much uh, 'detail'. however I plan on cutting most of that out now.

and yeah, a lot of it can be done with just texturing, which is exactly why I plan on doing a lower poly version as well.

whats_true

There are a lot of perfect lines in the piece. When your finished modeling, go back into it and bend them a little. Nothing is perfect.

Keep it up.

bounchfx

you betcha Thanks.

bounchfx

got to work on it a tad bit, not as much time as I've wanted the past few days. so here's a symmetrical skylight render for lawls sake.



I mainly worked on cutting down the poly's on all the stones since they were way too high as you can tell by the previous pictures, unfortunately with this shot you can't really tell XD. also did some little pieces like in the ramp and the top middle boards holding up the rope thing.

MoP

Looks cool, although I notice you still have all the rivets modelled - that stuff should be texture detail, especially so high up when nobody will notice. Normal maps (or a good diffuse if normals aren't allowed) will look no different to modelled rivets.
Same goes for the diamond-pattern grids on the higher windows, those should be texture detail too.

bounchfx

nono, absolutely, I totally agree. I'm going to do that.

however, I want a high poly version as well with everything modeled in. Then I will be going back and making a game res version.

bounchfx

another small update.. cleaned up some stuff, added a little more. still a bunch to change, and then I'm going to 'personalize it up' by making everything not-so-perfect.



next update after this should be fairly big since I'm going to work on it all weekend.

bounchfx

another update:


tomorrow I'm hoping to finish up the high poly and start the low poly (possibly finish it as well), we'll see.

Thanks guys.

Joshua Stubbles

Lookin slick, bounch. Can't wait to see it more deformed and organic - should look relly damn nice. Great work so far.

bounchfx

hey thanks vassago.

here's another update, I'm getting close to finishing the hp. for some reason I couldn't open my latest file... it crashed whenever I tried to open it! the iteration before it works fine..:( I had to rename it to make it work. Anyone have that problem before?




thanks!

Joseph Silverman

Looking really cool, bounch. Right now the rocky wall looks too uniform, though. Maybe add some density to the mortar plane and the rocks and throw a subtle noise filter over all of it?

Saidin311

Looks pretty sweet, What kind of setup did you use to light that last image?

Mark Dygert

Thats looking awesome, nice work!

pliang

Yeah I do agree parts of it can be more unique but its mirrored and all...

Nice points of interest here and there...

bounchfx

SupRore: I think I know what you mean, I'll give it a shot for sure.

Saidin: it's just a MR Spotlight and a skylight.

Vig: Thanks!

pliang: I'm planning on getting more uniqueness before I call it done, still many places to touch up, but my overall goal is to match the concept as close as possible.

Thanks guys!