Isabella's House tutorial

OBlastradiusO

I have a question about this tutorial http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/content/view/36/2/lang,en/

I've figured out how this artist went about most of the texturing (tiling,channels,etc). The one techinque I couldnt figure out was the normal mapping process. How did he know where to properly place those HP objects like the door frame to match the exact placement of his diffuse map. Or did he do the diffuse map later as a template? Im confused with that section.

MoP

I imagine he did the diffuse map AFTER he baked the highpoly objects.

Then again his whole workflow looks pretty weird...

OBlastradiusO

I guess your right. The workflow is not only strange but i does have enough info.

Michael Knubben

I'm fascinated by the fact that this guy modelled out the bottom-floor windows, which are never really in sight all that much (if the angles he's shown are indicative of the game), but he mapped those poles around the terrace onto a single plane.

Joshua Stubbles

"High poly sourse object"

^_^

Eric Chadwick

To figure out where to put the "high poly sourse objects" on the plane, render out a wireframe of the UVs and place that on the plane.

almighty_gir

lols...

Kawe

sauce?

Eric Chadwick

To be fair, English is probably not his first language.

Cool time-lapse video here, showing modular building creation. All photo-source, but cool nonetheless.
http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/content/view/1/32/lang,en/
I like that it's time-lapse, doesn't waste my time. Funny that many commenters thought it was real-time.

OBlastradiusO

So what do you call his texture sheet? Multiple, single, or tiled? Excuse my ignorance of this just need a better understanding of these various techinques.

OBlastradiusO

EricChadwick wrote: »

To be fair, English is probably not his first language.

Cool time-lapse video here, showing modular building creation. All photo-source, but cool nonetheless.
http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/content/view/1/32/lang,en/
I like that it's time-lapse, doesn't waste my time. Funny that many commenters thought it was real-time.

Excellent checking it out now. Thanks

Eric Chadwick

OBlastradiusO wrote: »

So what do you call his texture sheet? Multiple, single, or tiled? Excuse my ignorance of this just need a better understanding of these various techinques.

Texture atlas, or packed texture, same thing. The modeling style is called modular, ala the Mod Facade Challenge. More modularity info here: http://wiki.polycount.net/CategoryEnvironment

OBlastradiusO

Thanks. Also i know this is a bit off topic but are there any references on the net on how to create tech greebles? Tech Indents for like doors and hallway like in Quake 4?

Eric Chadwick

See wiki link above.