Let's Make a Cave?

onyichi

Hey Guys!
I wanted to know how you would go about modeling a cave? Inside and out!?
For class we have to model a temple and I wanted mine to be based in a cave. I have a few good references to look at.
I was planning on starting with a box or a prism and working my way from there!
What do you think?

Eric Chadwick

Go modular.
Good article here about Skyrim's dungeons.
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments

Eric Chadwick

The exterior will depend on which game engine you intend to use, since they all handle terrains differently. Also it will depend on the design of the level, how much you can see outside the cave opening. Do you have any concepts or layout sketches yet?

Michael Knubben

What you end up going with depends entirely on platform, engine and time-constraints.

Not knowing any of those, here's my polar opposite wild-guess-opinion to Eric's:
Don't go modular. You can either sculpt or use sub-d modeling, polycrunch (reduce it in polycount) to the desired polycount, unwrap it and blend a few tiling textures.

onyichi

Thanks I think I will sculpt it and see how it turns out!