The dreaded Maya set

[Kyriakos]

In the end there was no utterly viable other option :/

I made the houses, a (crap) towncenter, and a rather good secondary monumental building. I would need some ideas for the other three monuments...

 

[Kyriakos]

Saved:

and:

 

[Kyriakos]

Better or worse?

 

[Kyriakos]

And the final version:

 

[Kyriakos]

Finished and uploaded

 

[nick0515]

Speedy work my friend! Not sure I like it as much as some of the others, but none-the-less a nice little set.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thanks

What in it can be improved in your view?

 

[RickFGS]

Humm, shouldn´t the roofs, stairway case be red?

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

Are there realy any remaining red maya pyramids around? Most of what i found was built with grey stone, which is part of the reason i used that texture.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

After more than 1000 years of no maintenance, especially in the wet and humid tropics, most of the paint has fainted or chipped away. This is true for Greek and Egyptian monuments too, the outsides of which are now all brown or grey but the insides sometimes preserved the colors. I believe archeologists have also recently found some evidence of painting on the Parthenon.

If you look here you can still see some of the paint:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Copán_Stela_63.jpg/220px-Copán_Stela_63.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Copan_sculpture.jpg/800px-Copan_sculpture.jpg
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/13998/copan1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0bFZcfTuq...GlCOlxpUcpY/s400/granada+masaya+copan+092.jpg
http://www.buriedmirror.com/images/golden-mean--Pc260008.jpg
http://images.nationalgeographic.co...de-mayan-tomb-palenque-wall_37126_600x450.jpg

Reconstructions often include greens and yellows.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vhBzu4WmuMg/TSR9UQjPwFI/AAAAAAAAJEk/omUUQqDY6yY/s1600/F1070001.JPG
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/4/6057716-Rosalila_replica_in_Copan_Museum_Cop225n.jpg
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/f/2011/347/3/f/red_piramid_sacrifice_by_almanegra-d4j0r98.jpg

 

[Kyriakos]

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Uploaded...

 

[nick0515]

That looks much better. I think before the gray just made it look a bit like it was made of concrete.