Most of the time floaters are fine and even really helpful if you build a set of floating trim pieces to work with. Just a few pieces made to the right lengths can detail the entire building. Think of them kind of like a trash can prop but you stick them on a building to cover the seams in your modular pieces. Some engines…
Incomitatum - Thanks. I wouldn't look at 'The Forts' as a way of learning to model. It was something I did w/out real-time constraints. Every panel is just part of a modular set, with about 10 unique unwraps (thus, 10 textures). There were no repeating textures (re: world textures) used. The AO was a comp done during the…
I started this thing quite some time ago. As such, there was a lot I didn't know, and many things I was pigheaded and naive about. You can see from -this- picture, from some time back (nearly 2 years?), how I planned all this out. I knew -those- would be my modular parts and once I textured them with large, box projected,…