Poor House(s)

iniside

My first house. Medieval/Assassin's Creed/Middle East inspired.

Hopefully it will turn into entire city scene, or at least village







Building is completly unoptimzed so far. Using like 5 or more textures. I know it. I'm just making textures, uv's and models at the same time.



But I have few questions, before i start going further.

1) How to make nice looking wood texture ? The That I have by now look really bad. I know it. I just don't really know how fix it.
2) An other pro-tips are also welcome. although excpet wood I'm persoanlly pretty happy with this.

aajohnny

Show your unwrap , maybe it looks bad cause of the uv. Its pretty nice, you should consider maybe having it in a grassy field.

ayoub44

your work look great .. just keep it up

and about wood here some link can help

http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/woodrough/woodrough.html
http://vimeo.com/4976913

BenStrasser

Keep at it, one thing you should add is a door handle,

Segreto

I think maybe the wood needs a bit more variation, some lighter/different colors and such to help with the contrast, right now its mostly one shade of brown.

Those links the ayoub44 posted should help a lot,

Also, I agree with the grass and the door handle. Maybe even through in some cobblestone around it. If you put some more props around the building, like crates or some tools, it will help sell it better.

Overall though, looking good! Just gotta keep going with it

polygonfreak

Looks good, I do have a little cc for you, the corners look off, maybe put a chamfer on the stones around the door and windows. Also the windows look a little too high in comparison to the doors height. Other then that, looks game ready to me.

polygonfreak

ayoub44, I have been trying to learn mudbox, but I have noticed a lot of people use zbrush. Do you think It's worth it to switch?

ayoub44 wrote: »

your work look great .. just keep it up

and about wood here some link can help

http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/woodrough/woodrough.html
http://vimeo.com/4976913

iniside

Ok thanks for adivces, and comments. I'm gonna fix it, make more and start working on texture sheets for that.

ayoub44

ayoub44, I have been trying to learn mudbox, but I have noticed a lot of people use zbrush. Do you think It's worth it to switch?

hi , zbrush and mudbox like the same .. and i can't compare them , i think mudbox have a simple and easy interface to work with , but don't waste your time just pick one and start working , and if you could work with zbrush you could work with mudbox too

Mark Dygert

Looking pretty good. If I had to crit something I would say there are a lot of straight lines and tight right angles. Nothing says poor and ramshackle like a little FFD and fudged up lines.

If you're going to build a city, start thinking about working modular...

http://wiki.polycount.com/ModularMountAndBlade?highlight=%28\bCategoryEnvironmentModeling\b%29

P442

I think at the moment, it looks more like a prison cell and less like a house. Perhaps some more research.

1. I don't think those wooden beams would be cutting through the stone like that.

2. I think your windows are too high, thus prison cell look



quick paintover to break it up, but still too boxy looking

NathanA

Nice paintover P442, +10 forum cred :poly121:
Definitely looks like a house that could be jammed around a bunch of similar houses of different colors for a nice favela effect.