Here is a new model that I'm currently making. It is called the Abbey of Stratha. It belongs to the Kingdom of Stratham, and is apart of the Fate of Lysian Lore.

Woh, it's huge ! It will be a lot of fun to unwrap and texture !
Nice job

Man...I am putting it off. You just don't know. I really hate texturing stuff this big. Thanks for encouraging words.

Wow! I'm just imagining the finished article with all the matching terrain around it too. Are you doing internal structure too?

yes. Not every house will have an interior, but every Castle, Abbey, Tudor-Manor, Tavern and buyable house will have an interior.

Would it be feasible to make it in smaller parts-like each one of those bridge sections-so that you can texture it easier as well as use the individual pieces to create a new object?

Awesome Job!! looks great! I wish I had your modeling skill.

(06-05-2013 11:16 PM)Rubeus Wrote:  Would it be feasible to make it in smaller parts-like each one of those bridge sections-so that you can texture it easier as well as use the individual pieces to create a new object?

If I were making a MMO I would do that, but I am making a PC only game. I don't have to worry as much to make this game for low end computers. I do not rely on the esenthel's ambient occlusion to make a model look good. That means more textures, and more drawcalls to call up those textures. If I was making an MMORPG I would make game pieces, (which I am currently doing for an MMO project with a friend of mine on here) And I would have a game piece library. and I would keep my textures as little number as I could per scene. I do these models in its complete full form all joined so that my Ambient Occlusion maps map better and more accurate. When you have Ambient Occlusion turned on, on my models, it only helps a little, because the AO is already there, but every little bit helps.

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(06-05-2013 11:54 PM)Ozmodian Wrote:  Awesome Job!! looks great! I wish I had your modeling skill.

Thank you for the compliment. when people say things like that, it really motivates me to do more and do better.

I love the model cant wait to see the finished product....keep it up.

And you can get away with a little bit more in a single player game but everything has it's limits.

When adding AO to your models consider throwing them on a 2nd uv set that’s mapped per face, you can get away with a lot smaller AO sized texture and still make use of tileing textures and combine them in your shader.

This would make a great model to approach as a modular building set.

It reminds me Aden from Lineage 2

Yes looks like Aden

I'm going to have to google this place. ok..I just did. That place rocks! man, I wish I would have played that game. You won't say that once it's textured though.

I thought I would update my progress.

wow that looks awesome with the textures