"Mod Facade" Challenge - Pseudo
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Sounds like fun, I'll have a go at it.
Here is my reference, and on the right I broke the shot down into the modular pieces (in red) and the unique pieces (in green).
I still need to sort out the UVs and how I will break the maps up.
Here is my reference, and on the right I broke the shot down into the modular pieces (in red) and the unique pieces (in green).
I still need to sort out the UVs and how I will break the maps up.
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Overall Layout:
And the individual pieces:
I wonder if it's really necessary to have those little circles in the top trim modelled in? That stuff seems like it'd be ideal for a normal-map.
MoP - Thanks, and good point about the circles, I will include those in the normal map.
And thanks to you and the other guys for putting together this challenge, I haven't worked on realtime environments in awhile, it's refreshing to get into it.
Will you be doing the sides of the facade? You make me want to go back and cut in more geometry to my stuff now!
Lotekk - Thank you. I thought the same thing with the shutters and I'm still not sure which way I want to go with them. Its an expensive piece of geometry at 175 tris per shutter, especially for something on the second and third floors (assuming this would be a GTA-esque building where the player is walking at street level).
I am going to keep the geometry there for now, so that I can open or close them on different windows to add some uniqueness, and it gives me the option of breaking some off or bending them at different angles.
Though if I need to optimize the scene I will definitely try a normal map on them and see how it holds up.
17k tris, so I can afford to add a lot more detail to the ground level. I plan on going through and beveling some of the edges that would be close to the player, like the four pillars for example.
Gonna plan out the texture layouts and start UVing now.
j/k looks schwwwweeeet
just...
WOW
Considering what's left of your poly budget, some corner bevelling and a few decals would finish the building itself off nicely.
With the extra 3,000 triangles I'd much rather see some new details added rather than bumping up the resolution of your mesh here and there by way of bevels and extrusions.
What I mean is.. add something interesting.
Not that your piece isn't interesting, but lets face it, its a facade. (Zzz.) You can obviously model and comprehend modular design so why not push this piece further? Get in there and tell us something.
Perhaps this home was used as a small HQ during a zombie infestation? You know - boarded walls, barbed wire, slots for rifles to poke through, trip mines on the front yard - that sort of thing.
It's a great piece as it is but it's rather depressing to only see a small number of people thinking outside of the box for this competition.