VDK Bats

[Simcoug]

Loving these historical buildings - great work Arne!   

[romualdillo]

Great work Arne!!! I love the wall ads... 

[c.p.]

Nice corner building.  The brick texture/wall ads are great

[vester]

Thank you all.

Good to hear you like it.
The Arena Fjernsyn add (Arena Televisions) is taken from a wall here in Copenhagen.
The bricks on back wall and the TONI KOLA add is a modifed version of that.

Here is the poster that I started of with:


Change the model a bit:

Added a few more details to the basement and the 1st floor, like an extra entrance on the side, stairs, doors and move the basement stairs 2 window rows.

Have now started on the dormers on the roof:

Still a work in progress. Not sure what is going on with the roof texture, bad UV map, mad setting for the rendering..... 

[art128]

Model looks much better now with all the doors.

[vortext]

Another fine corner building! Dormers are a really nice detail. 

[vester]

Thank you both.

A quick update:

The modeling of dormers are done. Time for texturing them.

[deora]

Love your historic W2W`s.
The Details are all at their Place and the Textures are wisely chosen.

[art128]

Certainly feels less empty with the windows in place.

[vester]

Thank you.


Been working a dormer on top roof level:

Still just the one.
A few other changes around, nothing mayor.

Here is a another bat in the same style:


Its even got some timber work at the back:


When walking around Copenhagen, you do see a few timer timber work, most is hiden from the generally public, you have to go sneak into the back yards around the city:

[romualdillo]

Great work Arne!!! I like the stairs and doors leading to the basement, and I love the red colour (I know it's a risky option in game, but without it it wouldn't be a Nordic set  ). I think it was common in all the big cities to hide everything that looked medieval and "poor".

[manga rivotra]

Very beautiful set, it had been a long time since we had seen some timbered building. 

[vester]

I think it was common in all the big cities to hide everything that looked medieval and "poor".

Well around Roskilde and in the countryside west of the city, the timbered houses got whitewash all over. Think the thing about painting the timber another color in some area is something quite new.

A house from the country side, now found in the open air museum at Brede north of Copenhagen:


From an old fishing village (now part of Roskilde):

I was batisted in Sankt Jørgensbjerg church that can be seen at the end of street. (Sankt Jørgen = Saint Georg).

[romualdillo]

Well, I don't know much about Denmark's vernacular architecture. Perhaps they painted the timber frames because it was easier to maintain them or because they wanted to hide them as much as possible trying to imitate the cities' architecture according to their possibilities. I think showing the wood structure depends on the cultural moment, perhaps 100 or 200 years ago it was seen as something poor and old-fashioned, so in Copenhagen or Roskilde all the main facades were plastered and the others were left a they were, or built with cheaper materials. It just was about being modern and more "classic". Now we see the timbered facades as something interesting and we try to give them more importance. Perhaps I'm wrong, and in the Danish case it was different, but in Spain it was that way, people hid all the older structures and the roof tiles during the XVIII and XIX century, because they were uncool for their point of view. (For instance, that's why all the houses I've done have a ledge hiding the roof)
(Beautiful pictures, by the way)

[JP Schriefer]

Lovely buildings you're doing

[reddonquixote]

Lovely little BATs, the architectural style is adorable. I see what you mean about the roof texture, have you considered modeling the roof tiles? It would look so much better.

[vortext]

Wouldn't mind seeing more timberframe houses! The house in the last picture (this one) has an interesting structure to it . .    And it looks to be a corner building as well! 

At any rate, great work so far. The 'stand alone' version is great. 

[c.p.]

The rounded dormers turned out great   The variety of entryways (especially in the corner building) gives the building a lot of character.

[vester]

Red: Haven't thought of modeling the roof. Maybe at one point will model one roof, do some displacement, normal and ambient occlusion maps.

Thank c.p.

Vortex: That house is in fact inside a back yard / narrow alley:

The blue circle marks the spot, where the pictures was taken from.
... and a street view from the alley.

Here is a bit timber frames, one in the same style:






Well at a later point move the different members a bit, add some more diagonals and some more on the gables at the back.

BTW: As with the last two, very few objects. This one has just 3 objects.
The house, the gate door and the floor in the gateway.


PS: Found this illustration showing the tradition for colors in the country side, as they were 100 years or more ago:

As you can see, on Sjælland, Lolland and Falster the major part of the houses had the timber covered with white lime-wash.
Source: Center for Bygningsbevaring i Raadvad

BTW: This is dodenkop(f).

[vester]

Reworked the timber work at the gables, to match the level in the house :s

Added some timber to the back of the main house:


... and change the timber work at the gables to match it and the level in the house toward the street:


Still looking into Copenhagen timber works.

Got 3 different books from the library:

• one on general timber work houses,
• one on ildebrandshuse (types of houses after the great fire of 1728) 
• one on Copenhagen timber work houses.