Building modular interiors question!

jordank95

Im working on making a modular interior kit for a warehouse that has corridors, hallways, different rooms branching from hallways etc. I can't seem to figure out the best workflow for my situation. 

If I have an interior room wall that shares a wall with a hallway, should those be two separate meshes or should those be one modular mesh that has room interior on one side and hallway on the other?

Should it be using a plane or a cube with a backside? How do you determine thickness of a modular wall mesh piece? 

How do you determine the spacing? Is it fine if things snap to 10cm rather than half a meter or a full meter?

I have my walls as 4x3 pieces currently since my walls are 3 meters high. Should I make these just 4x4 to make it easier or does height not matter? Is 4x4 better than 3x3m?

Thanks in advance!

poopipe

Are you getting any benefit at all from making the walls modular or would you be better off making the warehouse as a single mesh and covering it in modular details? 

(Spoiler.  Probably the latter)

Benjammin

jordank95 said:

Im working on making a modular interior kit for a warehouse that has corridors, hallways, different rooms branching from hallways etc. I can't seem to figure out the best workflow for my situation. 

If I have an interior room wall that shares a wall with a hallway, should those be two separate meshes or should those be one modular mesh that has room interior on one side and hallway on the other?

Should it be using a plane or a cube with a backside? How do you determine thickness of a modular wall mesh piece? 

How do you determine the spacing? Is it fine if things snap to 10cm rather than half a meter or a full meter?

I have my walls as 4x3 pieces currently since my walls are 3 meters high. Should I make these just 4x4 to make it easier or does height not matter? Is 4x4 better than 3x3m?

Thanks in advance!

Often times a modular kit gets made by one artist and used by another, so IMO you want them as robust and simple as possible.
0.5m is probably the minimum snap distance, but I would keep it to 1m if possible. The smaller your snap distance, the easier it is to misalign things and not notice.
Closed meshes are generally better than open ones for light and shadow bleed reasons.
The thickness of wall pieces will be noticeable with doorways, so you probably want that to be realistic to whatever material its supposed to be made out of, ie: cinderblocks are 20cm wide. 
What you probably need to do is build block out modules of the dimensions you think you need and start working with them so you can test out snapping distances and pivot locations.