==[TASK]== Etruscan temple

[Micket]

Here is a WIP.

1173 triangles so far.

Should have a couple of small statues on the roof as well.

[Lion.Kanzen]

The roof looks some heavy. You have any reference?

[Micket]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fp1TvPT3pZg/TBR9FrVgoiI/AAAAAAAAA2k/L6v08wULOvk/s1600/etruscanTempleModel.jpg

Its supposed to be these log (or log-like) things lying across the roof, but I figured there would be to much detail to model them invidually.

Still, you're right, I should thin the roof a bit.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Have more sense,I mean the texture and prop are miss the texture, and the perspective in this last the columns can be more big sorry.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Lion.Kanzen

[Micket]

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand that sentence. Do you think I should make the pillar thinner? I reduced the diameter at the bottom now at least.

Experimenting with a more detailed roof. Quite neat.

1599 triangles with the very detailed roof

and if you bump up the subsurf it looks veeery smooth (for baking the normal map)

[Mythos_Ruler]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fp1TvPT3pZg/TBR9FrVgoiI/AAAAAAAAA2k/L6v08wULOvk/s1600/etruscanTempleModel.jpg

Its supposed to be these log (or log-like) things lying across the roof, but I figured there would be to much detail to model them invidually.

Still, you're right, I should thin the roof a bit.

They aren't "logs" on the roof. It's clay tiles, surely. The edge of the roofline has antefixes.

Like the Athenian Wonder.

[Micket]

Thanks for the correction!

I threw away the roof and made a double sided square for the antefixes (doing it with alpha maps). Modeling them will certainly be to much detail (there is about a hundred of them)

Back to 1183 triangles now.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Micket

[Micket]

Hrrrm.. that's not the right image.

[Micket]

Last WIP for tonight

Cube should be some sort of statue.. though I can't really tell what is going on in the reference:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/user_upload/ckeditor/EtruscanTempleReconstruc.jpg

Some sort of.. boat? With 3-4 people on top, one of them waving his hand.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Sorry I forget put a word XD. Needs be more thicker, but how I the perspective of screen is no the better to see it.

http://i.imgur.com/5LVbgcp.jpg

[LordGood]

It looks to me like it's a chariot Micket, a winged one at that.

those 'people' in the front are the horsies!

[Mythos_Ruler]

LordGood is right. A winged chariot.

[Micket]

Ok I can see the horses.. but the wings?

From the side it looks very odd. It's sort of squeezed together

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fp1TvPT3pZg/TBR9FrVgoiI/AAAAAAAAA2k/L6v08wULOvk/s400/etruscanTempleModel.jpg

[Micket]

So far I got this.. and it should have 3 half-horses in front. That is the best interpretation of the references I could manage.

[LordGood]

Hollow terracotta would seem ill suited to protrude at an angle that wings would flare out at, it looks like they had them straight up to reduce stress on the material.

Whatever the case may be, it's just a reconstruction. What you've got so far looks fantastic

whup, hang on, they do flare out

those reference images do look a bit confusing, almost like the two statues are slightly different :/

maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me

Edited October 29, 2013 by LordGood

[Mythos_Ruler]

[Micket]

Thank you for the big references.

If you want me to make the statue some other way just let me know and I'll try it out (but please find me some good reference picture so it stays historically accurate).

[Ludo38]

Cool task, keep it up Micket. Thank you.

[Enrique]

Nice work Micket. Looking good so far.

[Micket]

I dunno about the decoration.

Edit: Small update

Edited November 6, 2013 by Micket

[WhiteTreePaladin]

On first look, the horse heads appear to be fingers on a giant hand that is about to grab something. lol

[LordGood]

that looks perfect Micket, dont want to throw too many polygons at it, and it looks like the reference image as well. I say its good for mapping

[Micket]

3600 triangles.

2500 of them are in the statues on the roof.. ouch.

I welcome critique, otherwise I'm pretty much done at this point.

[Enrique]

You could try using the existing roman sculptures set for the statues in the roof. You should try to texture it with the roman struct textures or choose some of the existing textures in the game. IIt also looks a little bit empty for a wonder maybe you can add some props around.

[Micket]

I can't import DAE files in the version of Blender in Debian (I suspect you mean to import them? Or should I model something specific?)

I don't know what kind of stuff is historically accurate for this temple (i don't even know who the etruscans were, i just picked a random object in the art dev tasks)

As usual, I didn't really plan on texturing it (sorry!). I'm not sure what kind of workflow you guys have, but if you have convenient ways of inserting a bit of props, I'd happily leave that to you guys!

Because.. I'm really lazy. I just can't get motivated to get to involved and learn about the different groups in the game.. same goes for texturing/colorschemes etc, so I prefer to avoid it.

Feel free to throw away any of the statues and replace them with some other existing stuff, I certainly don't mind.

If you want me to model anything in specific for this temple, let me know (otherwise I'll probably go back to animals or something.. less worries about historical accuracy and such there)

etruscan_temple.zip