WIP buildings for crysis

Ville Pakarinen

I've started modeling some buildings for Crysis, just for fun and practice. Maybe I'll make a whole city if I manage to make enough buildings.

Here's the first one. Still a WIP.

Reference:

torontoanimator

it looks pretty spot on so far im just curious, are you only doing the building?you may wanna try adding some assets around the building if thats the case. If youre just looking at the building, the scene may feel a bit empty, but still looking very good right now

Ville Pakarinen

I'm going to add assets later on in Sandbox. At the moment it's all about the buildings

I accidentally made gutters hidden before grabbing the wireframe pic. So here's the same pic with the gutters:

LEViATHAN

Will you also make the roof modular?

Tumerboy

good start.

Ville Pakarinen

LEViATHAN wrote: »

Will you also make the roof modular?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Tumerboy wrote: »

good start.

Thanks!

pliang

Any plans to make this building more "asymmetrical"?

Ville Pakarinen

pliang wrote: »

Any plans to make this building more "asymmetrical"?

Yes, to some degree. It has chimneys scattered quite randomly on the roof. And there are stairs and doors on the other side of the building. But I'm not going to alter the overall shape of the building.

Shot at 2009-01-07

Tumerboy

damn! Looks great! You've made a lot of progress since yesterday!

Ville Pakarinen

Tumerboy wrote: »

damn! Looks great! You've made a lot of progress since yesterday!

LOL...you must be joking

Here's some REAL progress

Ville Pakarinen

Started another building.

Matroskin

roof element's mesh looks cool to me. That ref is really nice, makes me wanna do that building, good choice man

However, I would first do modules of the main part of the building (walls, windows etc.) because right now it would look like doing a character by doing this hat first.
Check this thread, it may give some ideas about the workflow: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=39&t=444791

Ville Pakarinen

I'm very familiar with that thread you posted. It has been a great source of inspiration for me.

I decided to draw a little plan before modeling the wall. What do you guys think about it?

SomberResplendence

I'm not an environment artist at all, but why can't C and D be the same modular design?

EmAr

I think it would be better if you can manage to use a single tiling brick texture for most of the bricks. At least, I would put a quad between A and E parts which will hold lots of bricks so both A and E parts can become smaller. A smaller quad may be useful between A and C parts which uses the same texture as the former quad.

Keep it up, nice works

Harry

SomberResplendence wrote: »

I'm not an environment artist at all, but why can't C and D be the same modular design?

I'd wager he intends to model it and mirror it. (the caps are slightly different sizes but maybe he feels there isnt much point making them different, idk)

looks a bit sick, good way to tackle making a facade.

Matroskin

i agree with the module plan.

Looks correct to me, except that C and D can be the same. I mean, they can use the same texture but can be different mesh pieces if you don't wan tto deal with mirror.

"B" module I suggest not to be cut in the geometry but to be placed slightly over the wall surface. This way "A" modules can have their top/bottom edges being nicely welded.

Ville Pakarinen

Matroskin wrote: »

"B" module I suggest not to be cut in the geometry but to be placed slightly over the wall surface. This way "A" modules can have their top/bottom edges being nicely welded.

I'm not totally sure but I have a feeling that could cause problems with shadows. B could cast unwanted shadows on A.

Here's another version. Not a complete one but you get the picture



This time I reused much more the same texture space on the windows. I'm not sure which plan is better. Any suggestions?

Tumerboy

I like that one better.

Ville Pakarinen

Here goes!

Matroskin

I suggest that outer edges' vertexes of every module fit together so that they can be nicely welded.

Here's an image showing edges that don't match each other:

Ville Pakarinen

Yes, those connections need to be fixed.

For some reason I didn't realize to take picture of the whole building, but fortunately I found one from the internet.
http://www.mybesthelsinki.com/HelsinkiArchitecture/Stockmann_Argos_building_Helsinki.jpg

I started modeling that cool corner facade:

Ville Pakarinen

Ville Pakarinen

Long time no post

Shot at 2009-03-09

Jeremy Lindstrom

Matroskin wrote: »

I suggest that outer edges' vertexes of every module fit together so that they can be nicely welded.

Here's an image showing edges that don't match each other:

Yeah, you'll need to fix those T junctions or they will render funny, leaves like a little space between them if you don't match them up correctly in some engines.