Preview: Han Dynasty / Wuxia Fantasy Buildings

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I've temporarily given up on trying to figure out better UV texture mapping methods (for now) and focused a bit more on making the actual building models. I think I'll use procedural textures for these before I can delve a bit more into the finer points of UV mapping. Anyway, the first building for an updated Han Dynasty building pack is previewed below. Not sure what building it would represent.

 

[nick0515]

Very nice work mate!

 

[Kyriakos]

UV-mapping is too much trouble (imo) if you don't aim to present the models in a larger scale (even in civ3 buildings it likely is overkill).

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Experimenting with basic procedural textures.

 

[Delta_Strife]

works for me looks great!

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Another building.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Bare bones of a market place. Need to make it look more lively.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

looking good as a start

 

[ramandys]

Maybe you can add sun light to your scene or increase strength of background color in World's setting? It's hard to see anything.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Took me a while to figure out how to do the lightning and shadows, but I think I may end up simply exporting this and rendering it all in Bryce as I normally would.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Nice

You should rather just use Blender for the render scenes, it is clearly superior in that as well (it just has a lot more main options there too).

 

[register]

Try my setups for Blender Internal and Blender Cycles. Sun light is important for outdoor renders but world settings are even more important. In BI if you think that light is too strong or you need more light just increase a sun strength or in world settings play with ambient occlusion, environment lighting, indirect lighting and falloff. In Blender Cycles, the same with sun just just increase its strength or in world settings play with turbidity, ground albedo, strength and ambient occlusion.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I'll try that. I've been relying too much on outdated tutorials - there are so many of them, but all of them are somewhat inconsistent with the changes to the latest Blender versions.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I haven't forgotten the Ki-no-jo fortress I put together a long long while back.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

looks beautiful

 

[Kyriakos]

^I remember that, a Bryce creation

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

A magistrate with guard towers.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

looking good

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I wasn't satisfied with the walls.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Question - how do I adjust render and camera settings to get the Civ3-level isometric view?