Scans of 1870s Victorian Details

[Digital Nightfall]

Hi Team, I have something for you, if you're interested. Here's a quick sample:

 

http://www.digital-nightfall.com/vicdetaildemo.jpg

 

I have a book which is a reproduction of a 1870s catalogue of Victorian architectural detailing. It's about 60 pages or so of stuff ... well, about like that. It's everything from banisters to doors to window frames to storefronts. I am sure that your artists and modelers could have a field day with this stuff. As you can see the level of detail in these old schematics leaves very little up for interpretation.

 

The only thing I ask is that you please make as much as possible of this stuff available to dromed FM authors as well. I know that it will be very tempting to turn these into very intricate high detailed models, but all of it could also be turned into very usable dark engine objects with a little more work on the texture-artist side of things.

 

And I'd really like to use alot of it in cosas myself which, by the way, is actually coming along again these days.

 

I am not sure when I'll get a chance to scan it all: my home scanner isn't really big enough to easily do the job, but the one at school should do, but if there's a high level of interest in this, I will try to get it all to you as soon as I can.

[Baddcog]

That's awesome, thanks for the offer. I'd deffinately like to see more of that stuff, even just the seperate trim designs could be beveled up in 3d and make nice wood carving, ect... normal maps. Those curly designs can be hard to make smooth with a pen tool, tracing them in photoshop and importing the .ai files is easy

[sparhawk]

Hi Team, I have something for you, if you're interested. Here's a quick sample:

 

http://www.digital-nightfall.com/vicdetaildemo.jpg

 

I have a book which is a reproduction of a 1870s catalogue of Victorian architectural detailing. It's about 60 pages or so of stuff ... well, about like that. It's everything from banisters to doors to window frames to storefronts. I am sure that your artists and modelers could have a field day with this stuff. As you can see the level of detail in these old schematics leaves very little up for interpretation.

 

That's pretty cool. I was looking for such references, because I'm not a good artist myself, and the more specific it is, the easier I can do it. I hope I have some time to work on such stuff, when the mod is done, because I would really like to do this kind of thing as well.

[bob_arctor]

I'd love some models with those details. With patches I think I could only suggest that level of detail.

Dram might be able to do it though.