Springheel's Stuff

[Springheel]

Can I just say how much I love skins? A simple skin swap of one texture, and the modules I posted above take on an entirely different look. I highly doubt anyone would even notice they're the same models.

 

 

[grayman]

Nice!

[demagogue]

So cool!

[Bikerdude]

Looks like a build ing down by the docks :-)

[SteveL]

Fantastic! 2 for the price of one!

[New Horizon]

Yes, it's amazing how much extra mileage you can get by swapping skins. They tried to do it in TDS and were somewhat successful, but they had compressed the original textures so badly most of the differentiating details were lost.

[Springheel]

Work continues on the timber01 set, with some direct influence from those unity modules....

 

 

[nbohr1more]

Looks far better than the Unity version to me (other then where it touches the street).

 

Might be a good idea to include a tiny "grime sidewalk" around the base of these to make street

to building transition less clean and stark looking?

 

It's becoming a visual peeve of mine now since I noticed the stark street to building contrast in

Lord Edgar's Bathhouse then again whilst playing The Alchemist.

[Springheel]

Thanks.

Yeah, I plan to have transition pieces for things like that; just haven't gotten to them yet. And I'll probably make some street modules eventually so they're not so flat.

[Gestas]

White stones aren't good for street though. The building is really nice. But too much detail per piece could become monotonous pretty quickly. Better to have small sections that can be cobbled together many ways.

Like the main building, without the window segments. And separate window segments that can be added or not, lit or unlit?

 

That could be three buildings. The right side tunnel segment. The middle without windowoverhang segment, and the left segment. Then they can all be rearranged differently. (and the window overhang segment)

 

I don't think sidewalks make much sense, how many horse pulled carts are there?

Edited January 28, 2015 by Gestas

[Goldwell]

White stones aren't good for street though. The building is really nice. But too much detail per piece could become monotonous pretty quickly. Better to have small sections that can be cobbled together many ways.

 

I don't think sidewalks make much sense, how many horse pulled carts are there?

 

 

That's all placeholder, the main focus is on the building... I wouldn't pay much attention to anything else in the shot

[demagogue]

And his screenshots are showing all the variety in one shot.

In a real scene, a mapper could tone down the detail with more windowless walls, etc., whatever is best for the scene.

[Melan]

Thy look good! I see these are all (or mostly) standard-sized modules. Add them to regular brushwork, and the possibilities will be much broader.

 

I don't think they necessarily need modelled bases.Those are fairly easy to make from brushes.

[Bikerdude]

And I see Sliptip's and Melan's textures finally coming into thier own :-)

 

Cant wait to see these in-game, very impressive as always Springs.

[Gestas]

 

 

That's all placeholder, the main focus is on the building... I wouldn't pay much attention to anything else in the shot

 

I know, I was commenting towards nbohr1more about the street grime.

[Springheel]

I don't think sidewalks make much sense, how many horse pulled carts are there?

 

 

He's not talking about an actual sidewalk, just something where the base of the building meets the street so it's not a perfect 90 degree angle.

 

Better to have small sections that can be cobbled together many ways.

 

 

You may have missed earlier discussions on this topic, but it's not one big building. All the pieces are modular.

[Bikerdude]

@Springs, a couple of questions now spring to mind -

• are they just shells? so the mapper can build brushwork inside them etc.
• are or have you made version of the above with open doors and windows..?

[Springheel]

They're basically single faces, just like the interior pieces I was showing earlier, with the exception of a few things like the roof pieces and extension pieces. I'll also be including pieces that have holes for windows/doors for mappers to insert their own (possibly enterable) ones. I'll post another couple images to make it clearer when I get home.

 

In the meantime, maybe this will help. The blue and green sections are examples of individual wall facades that only face forward. The red portions are fully modeled "add ons" that are meant to back onto an existing piece. Pieces like the archway and the roof include both the forward face and the top roof/ceiling portions (although there are also pieces that are just the front). By mixing and matching the various pieces you can achieve all kinds of different building constructions, not to mention the skin options.

[Bikerdude]

Sweet!

[Springheel]

Here's the list of individual models in the exterior/timber01 set thus far. Most of them are single-sided facades like the one in the image.

 

 

[Obsttorte]

That's a long list.

[Amadeus]

These assets look excellent! I'm excited to see them in action.

[Obsttorte]

I'm excited to build with them

[Melan]

With retextured variants, that's multiple times as long as we first see . Well done!

[Springheel]

Spent some time playing around with the modules to experiment with other building configurations. By actually starting to map with them I'll get a much better sense of what else might be needed.