Alex' Belgian BAT Thread

supremec · September 30, 2011, 10:00:17 AM

I love your town hall Alex

and with a beautifull lot

And I love the castle you're making, it's a good start!

alex_bervoets · October 28, 2011, 06:58:19 AM

Done some work on the North-side... had some troubles with the roof at the both ends, but it seems OK now:

Still to do: 4 large round towers, inside and lights

Orange_o_ · October 28, 2011, 07:49:08 AM

You do really good work.

If I had one criticism it would be the color of the walls that I find too orange compared to the actual building. Can you try to get this?

Yours

Mine

DerChrischi · October 28, 2011, 08:02:52 AM

Wow, it´s look very great!

peter007 · October 28, 2011, 08:54:29 AM

Oh yes it sure looks fine.
However I think the front needs a red and a orange texture.

Girafe · October 28, 2011, 10:48:34 AM

it looks correct, keep going on this way

alex_bervoets · October 28, 2011, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Orange_o_ on October 28, 2011, 07:49:08 AM
You do really good work.

If I had one criticism it would be the color of the walls that I find too orange compared to the actual building. Can you try to get this?

Yours

Mine

Here's a close pic from the entrance building... it has the same bricks as the castle:

So it seems you're about right... my colors are too orange. I'll adjust the textures!

mattb325 · October 28, 2011, 02:43:13 PM

This model is lovely!

I can see that you have used the mirror function in GMAX.

This function has a bug and I would recommend avoiding it: the tell tale give away is the texture on the left-most small tower has become distorted. I would just clone the roof from the right-hand tower and rotate it 90 degrees to overcome that issue.

alex_bervoets · October 29, 2011, 08:13:39 AM

Well... actually, I didn't use mirror. I've had some problems with it when I was building the Belfry of Ghent so I stopped using mirror...

That roof is a rotation of the other... but I had to use "edit mesh" to make ik fit with the other roof. I guess that caused the distorted texture... I'll see if I can fix it

alex_bervoets · October 30, 2011, 05:52:50 AM

New texture:

north side (back):

too red?

And I've added the shapes of the large round towers to have a complete idea of how it's gonna look:
South side (front):

FrankU · October 31, 2011, 01:30:03 AM

Ahhhh! The color is much better now.
Otherwise the model is becoming very convincing. It's improving!

kelis · October 31, 2011, 01:49:10 AM

It is a stunning job ! The New texture looks so good and very realistic, I can't wait to use it !

Orange_o_ · October 31, 2011, 02:30:47 AM

Ah! Here are some nice textures. Go on, that's fine.

nbvc · October 31, 2011, 02:35:48 AM

Looks great.

Maybe a bit older wood for the drawbridge in front?

alex_bervoets · October 31, 2011, 09:35:00 AM

Here is the new update:

towers are finished
roof is fixed
Drawbridge has new texture
concrete base added
(water is just for showing how it would look, will be removed in export)

mave94 · October 31, 2011, 09:58:44 AM

I like the concrete base texture. The roof looks much better now. Is it possible you forgot the middle tower?
In the two main towers there is a 'line' going thru the windows.
Besides that, it's a great building

alex_bervoets · October 31, 2011, 11:04:53 AM

Quote from: MrMAvE94 on October 31, 2011, 09:58:44 AM
Is it possible you forgot the middle tower?

Ah yes... and the two smaller ones beside it too...

Quote from: MrMAvE94 on October 31, 2011, 09:58:44 AM
In the two main towers there is a 'line' going thru the windows.

The line has to be there, it's the same line as in the main building, I have to make it less "eyecathing"

Thanks for the comments!

supremec · October 31, 2011, 11:34:04 AM

That is beautifull!!

I will use it!

FrankU · November 01, 2011, 04:44:41 AM

Ahem... cough cough.... Concrete base?
It could be the result of a bad restoration, or the whole complex is younger than I thought, but usually these kind of castles is older than the use of concrete.
Although the Romans used a kind of concrete for their constructions, in Northern Europe the real use of concrete begun in the 19th century. I guessed that the castle was older.

But it looks real good! And maybe I shluldn't be so picky?

alex_bervoets · November 01, 2011, 02:00:06 PM

Quote from: FrankU on November 01, 2011, 04:44:41 AM
Ahem... cough cough.... Concrete base?
It could be the result of a bad restoration, or the whole complex is younger than I thought, but usually these kind of castles is older than the use of concrete.

It's not really concrete, it's actually large gray stones (see pic below)

But those small lines won't be visible in the game so I used a concrete texture because of the look (with the algae...). I do think they added a small layer of concrete on top of those stones at some places when they restored the castle some 10 years ago...

So to sum it up: from an aerial view, the base looks like concrete

But I'll try to use photoshop to merge a texture with rocks and algae. And see how that will look...