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Stonehaus - Homelyby ~eRe4s3r

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Exteriors

Staggering 1h 29m 25s rendertime
Staggering 976526 Polygons
Staggering boring

Beware, the dreamhouse-medieval-stone deluxe MK1, now for sale at your local feudal lord

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~ionutnicolaescu Dec 8, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

heh, u could have used normal maps you know and the poly would have dropped at a few thousands polys. Anyway, it looks nice

~eRe4s3r Dec 8, 2008

True enough, but wheres the fun in that?

The time it would take to get the normal (or rather a displacement map) to work properly for the entire house would be twice the time i needed to just clone with linear directions and arrays ,p

Also even a good normal map will allways break at the edges of a column or around an arch unless you take alot of time to fix it. Or model the entire thing with that allready in mind ,( Since i really hate to fix those kind of "non-mesh" problems i try to avoid them alltogether, since i can afford 1 2 or 5 million polygons (doesnt really matter to a hobby renderer

) if i have to choose, normal maps or more polygons, i allways go for more polygons ,p And normal maps for smaller details (like bumps or such)

Ok alot of text.. As i wrote beneath, i really enjoy making solid meshes (like the stairs) where each stone is placed to "fit"

If i wanted i could make normal maps from the geometry, sure.. and apply it to a low poly mesh. i know

But why would i ever want to render a low poly mesh? Its not like it does matter wether it takes 20 or 120 minutes to render a frame ,p

~ionutnicolaescu Dec 9, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

you almost convinced me

) but as someone who used to model hipoly meshes and now works in the gaming industry normal maps save a lot of time even on a not so low poly mesh, it gives realism to the scene.It's fun, true, but boring after a while, for me at least. In your scene the stone blocks individually look darn good but overall they look the same. As i once heard in a video tut, it doesn't matter how it's done it's important that the viewer doesn't know the difference, the final render looks modeled. Us "3d-ers" are the best liars out there

))) . AAAAnyway ... after writing the first post i took a look at your gallery and , well , niiiiiiiiice

Best wishes

~eRe4s3r Dec 9, 2008

Yeah, that is a good point. But you gotta know im only now learning proper normal map creation (via mudbox) so that is a good point you have. Of course the scene is only adhoc textured aswell. It could look alot better if i could pump weeks or a month of work into one scene ;/

~stormfrog Nov 26, 2008

ZOmg, thats just darn impressive. Ever played Diablo 2? It looks just like a house from the town in the second episode

That bump map is put to real good use mon. Im impressed. Would you mind posting the bump map or any other maps you might use (diffuse/specular/normal...). I would REALLY appreciate to look at them for educational purposes.

Nice job

~eRe4s3r Nov 26, 2008

That issnt a bump map

Those bumps are physical modelled. Stones are instances with nurbs with a random deformer applied. Hence the high polycount

~Vegas-Underground May 17, 2008

Damn man, finally finished it eh? Looks freaking impressive.

~kaiser-br May 14, 2008 Digital Artist

awesome!!

~bryanxander May 14, 2008

Beautiful render, very nice work

~blindsyte May 13, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

i officially 'cool' this

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