My LowPoly Medieval Houses

PolyDjent · May 2016

Hey guys!

I've been working on some realtime models of medieval/fantasy houses. Gonna post here my results and some breakdowns as I go. Hope you will find something usefull here. Cheers!

Here's a small simple fantasy house i made for fun and sale recently. Hope you like it!

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Elrinion · Jun 2016

That's some nice-ass texturing in there dude. Good Job.

Joopson · Jun 2016

I absolutely love the texture. Not too clean, not too dirty. Really feels just right. Very inspiring to look at.

And of course, really nice wireframe.

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

Thanks gyus! I'm really glad you liked it!

PyrZern · Jun 2016

I agree. The texture makes it look really nice there. Any chance you will expand this into a small village ? 2-3 different looking houses, with windmill or lumberyard, blacksmith and a well ? That would be really dope.

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

Here are some village houses inspired by slavic/viking culture.

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PolyDjent · Jun 2016

And a small texture breakdown:

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PolyDjent · Jun 2016

PyrZern said:

I agree. The texture makes it look really nice there. Any chance you will expand this into a small village ? 2-3 different looking houses, with windmill or lumberyard, blacksmith and a well ? That would be really dope.

Thanks, man!
In fact, this is actually what I'm gonna do. Will post my progress here as I go.

Bumblebee · Jun 2016

You use plain photoshop for your textures?

KaiserJohannes · Jun 2016

Agreed - some amazing texturing! I'd love a breakdown/tutorial on how u did them!

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

Bumblebee said:

You use plain photoshop for your textures?
for now - yes. This is all made using photoshop with some ndo magic. From now on i think ill start using substance designer where it is possible.

.KaiserJohannes said:

Agreed - some amazing texturing! I'd love a breakdown/tutorial on how u did them!

Thanks a lot! I'll try to make a tutorial on these asap.

Dagon · Jun 2016

Very impressive the ornamental designs really make a difference especially on the first house.

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

Dagon said:

Very impressive the ornamental designs really make a difference especially on the first house.

To be honest, i didn't design them. i found some ornaments with flowers on the internet, picked the ones that suited the most and used them to create normal maps.

aquila · Jun 2016

Loving these! The Normals really turned out very well. Are these houses part of a game? Or just for practice?

Gazu · Jun 2016

So in Love, awesome houses man!

Gazu · Jun 2016

Would love to see a fully walkable Village in UE4

Where the Player can find awesome things ^^

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

aquila said:

Loving these! The Normals really turned out very well. Are these houses part of a game? Or just for practice?

Thanks, Aquila!
Well, the general idea behind all this was creating a pack of assets for sale. And ofcourse it is a good practice and a way to improve skills. I'm also planning to study substance designer to create textures for new houses.

Gazu said:

Would love to see a fully walkable Village in UE4
Where the Player can find awesome things ^^

Thanks a lot, Gazu.
In fact, i've already imported that in unreal and made a few shots. Didn't have time to create a full scene and decided to create more assets before taking it further. Here are the those simple

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shots if u're interested

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The Rizzler · Jun 2016

Maydream3d said:
To be honest, i didn't design them. i found some ornaments with flowers on the internet, picked the ones that suited the most and used them to create normal maps.

Nothing wrong with that! If anything using real designs is more authentic. I'm interested in your normal maps, was there some sculpting plus an overlayed normal generated from the albedo or did you use another technique? You probably used nDo for the ornametal planks right?
Also FYI your artstation link in your sig is broken

KaiserJohannes · Jun 2016

Those shots are awesome! I am really in love with your work tbh, thats some lovely foliage... looks nice.
I think it needs some live though - farm equipment and maybe small gardens.

Zi0 · Jun 2016

Wow very nice houses, textures look really nice. You should consider making a whole village with this quality!

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

Hey guys! Found some time to create a more in-depth breakdown on trim textures. I hope someone will find it somewhat usefull. Cheers!

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PolyDjent · Jun 2016

The Rizzler said:

Maydream3d said:
To be honest, i didn't design them. i found some ornaments with flowers on the internet, picked the ones that suited the most and used them to create normal maps.

Nothing wrong with that! If anything using real designs is more authentic. I'm interested in your normal maps, was there some sculpting plus an overlayed normal generated from the albedo or did you use another technique? You probably used nDo for the ornametal planks right?
Also FYI your artstation link in your sig is broken

Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed it. It's a link to an account I created to help me sale things. Not yet working well though

Here's the link to my portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/artist/polydjent
It's empty ATM as I'am planning on rebuilding it, preparing better presentations, polishing older works, etc.

KaiserJohannes said:

Those shots are awesome! I am really in love with your work tbh, thats some lovely foliage... looks nice.
I think it needs some live though - farm equipment and maybe small gardens.

Thanks, mate. I'll definately work this through!

Zi0 said:

Wow very nice houses, textures look really nice. You should consider making a whole village with this quality!

Thanks! Stay tuned, I'm working on it!

KurtR · Jun 2016

Love your buildings and thanks a bunch for that breakdown!

PolyDjent · Jun 2016

KurtR said:

Love your buildings and thanks a bunch for that breakdown!

Thanks! Glad you like it!

KaiserJohannes · Jul 2016

Thanks for the breakdown!
i hope u are still working on this, id really like to see the progression.
one more question: ur grass looks so dense yet really thin... mid showing the single clusters on their own?

PolyDjent · Nov 2016

Hey guys! I know it's been a while since the last update. Had a lot of freelance work to do, so I got really tired and gave up all this.
However, i made a bunch of renders to test new marmoset GI. Here they are.