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Melan
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I found this picture more or less randomly, which lead me to this blog. Check out the artist's other pieces of artwork, too.

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Check out this post on Kraków and Lviv/Lemberg (in fact, if you have time, check out the entire blog...); a lot of great pictures for inspiration. Here are some standouts:         And the crown j

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Check out this post on Kraków and Lviv/Lemberg (in fact, if you have time, check out the entire blog...); a lot of great pictures for inspiration. Here are some standouts:

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And the crown jewel:

 

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Sheer beauty. (And imagine the street in this last pic going on two or three stories downwards... if that doesn't get you going, nothing will.)

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

own3r

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A stain glass window I took earlier with a bit of persistance, its really quite tough to get a shot which is niether over exposed or underexposed here and not blurred without a tripod... I think I managed it!

 

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11010.JPG

Public domain any use, cut it out and make a texture. :P

 

Some addtional pics:

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC10999.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11002.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11014.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11015.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11016.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC10960.JPG

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Mortem Desino

Mortem Desino

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A stain glass window I took earlier with a bit of persistance, its really quite tough to get a shot which is niether over exposed or underexposed here and not blurred without a tripod... I think I managed it!

 

http://dl.dropbox.co...es/SDC11010.JPG

Public domain any use, cut it out and make a texture. :P

 

*ogles*

 

I love it. :wub:

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Melan

Melan

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Wooooo! :laugh:

 

And it is actually something you might see in a Builder chapel, so...

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

Tels

Tels

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BINGO! :)

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Now I can shove it into my FM.

 

Very nice, but the light pattern on the floor should be not as blurry (real glass windows look like you can make out the details almost).

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

Tels

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...but ...but performance? :unsure:

 

(Although I do recall some old tech demos where fully detailed stained-glass projected lights ran very well on a Geforce 2...)

 

The "projected light" is just a texture, anyway. It can be as detailed as you want ;)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

Mortem Desino

Mortem Desino

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Very nice, but the light pattern on the floor should be not as blurry (real glass windows look like you can make out the details almost).

Quite right -- My church's stained glass no longer faces the sun due to building expansion. I just had to visit my local Basilica for reference.

 

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And the grand total size of these textures is still comparatively small. The self-lit glass needs no hi-res normal map or spec map. Nor does the light texture.

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Tels

Tels

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Quite right -- My church's stained glass no longer faces the sun due to building expansion. I just had to visit my local Basilica for reference.

 

post-2515-127802358443_thumb.jpg

 

And the grand total size of these textures is still comparatively small. The self-lit glass needs no hi-res normal map or spec map. Nor does the light texture.

 

Looks much better! Does the glass have a normal map, tho? It should, as the "lead" frames around the glass are considerable "higher" than the glass surface.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

Mortem Desino

Mortem Desino

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The solder joints are negligable, but the butts between panes in large pieces can protrude up to 3/8 inch. I'm yet doubtful that self-lit textures can render a normal map.

 

I'm painting a transparent texture w/normals to frame each triadibus, So it won't necessarily look totally flat+black.

 

(prehaps a moderator can clean up these last 9 posts into a new thread)

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own3r

own3r

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The solder joints are negligable, but the butts between panes in large pieces can protrude up to 3/8 inch. I'm yet doubtful that self-lit textures can render a normal map.

 

I'm painting a transparent texture w/normals to frame each triadibus, So it won't necessarily look totally flat+black.

 

(prehaps a moderator can clean up these last 9 posts into a new thread)

 

I thought I would have a go at making a model of it and here it is:

 

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Its ~500 tris which is perhaps too much so I think i will just make a normal map using the high poly mapped to a plane and then use that instead. If you could link me the diffuse and normal texture you would like on the wall that would be good I can use them to bake AO onto and add some texture specific detail to the normals.

own3r

own3r

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Quite nice. I'm still learning creating meshes like that; would you be willing to show the wireframe?

 

Here are the source files, that should help you a lot more than that.

( a high polygon version is hidden on layer 1, reveal it with ALT H to bake normals.)

 

I was just having fun, I hope someone finds it useful. You have complete freedom to use it however you wish.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7244043/darkrad.zip

 

The low polygon version could do with a clean up I did it quite quickly.

Mortem Desino

Mortem Desino

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Actually, for large decorative models, 500 tris should be acceptable. Due to of the stained glass casting light in, it doesn't necessarily have to be shadowcasting anyway.

 

I sent you a PM, if you'd like to collab with me on getting this in-game.

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SneaksieDave

SneaksieDave

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Interesting, that doesn't look too tough... I think. I guess it was the connection of the recessed areas to the main plane of the front that had me confused. Looks like it's just straightforward connecting of verts to verts, which I assumed was too laborious, but apparently isn't.

 

Thanks own3r!

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demagogue

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Arteria is a 3D-CG shop that appears to concentrate heavily in medieval architecture. If you read the "About Us" page, the founder is on some kind of mission to CGize all the medieval architecture in Britain.

 

Too bad it's all so expensive, but fortunately inspiration is free:

 

http://www.arteria3d.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=Medieval+WorldBuilder+Pack

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

Melan

Melan

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After Trogir (featured in a previous post), here are three more reference images from Croatia. All depict the town of Split, and come from Splitinfo.hu

 

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(Someone must have wasted a TDM vine arrow on that third image...)

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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