COLLAB2021 – WIP – AndyBegg

First roof wood parts are done,

I’ve made 3 plank sizes long med short. I have 3 of each that can be copied where needed.
Means I’ll only have 9 planks to sculpt. Small amounts of scaling should be okay to get them to fit in the other areas.

The other parts such as the ridge beams and trim will mostly have to be unique, although I may be able to get away with mirroring or reusing a couple.

Homework Submission – Week 1 – Roof

Hey @theluthier

I got a little carried away with blocking out the scene this week.

For the roof, I’ve made a set of parts that can be reused to keep the word down to a minimum.
I have 3 of each beam that can be rotated, flipped, or mirrored to give a different look.
I have 9 tiles and have been using Geo Nodes to randomize them with an array modifier.

I’ll stick the up-to-date file on the Gdrive so you can have a look.

I’m looking forward to doing some sculpting. 🙂

Midweek  Update – Week 2 – Sculpting

Tile sculps are coming along nicely. I’ve been using the Zbrush stylized brushes for Blender https://gumroad.com/l/zMJlJ which has stencils that really speed up the workflow.

I’ve used both Multires and Remesh on these. but I find with multires the topology bunches up around the bevels or holding lines on the edges which were giving me issues on the sides or with any tiles that have cuts. So for the second last one, I’ve used remesh.

The downside to remesh is that tight cracks can merge and get muddy and sharp edges can be lost when remeshing.

For the last tile I’ve ditched the bevel and holing lines and did a multires with simple subdivide. this gave a more even topology but left some evidence of the hard edges of the lower mesh.

I may just use remesh for the final 4 tiles.

 I’ve dabbled in some texturing, but it’s just a dirty vertex paint mask powering some colour changes and roughness, and a noise texture for some extra roughness and bump.

I haven’t decided if I’ll use substance painter yet for the texturing, but it would be nice to keep everything Blender.

I’ve sculpted one plank, for now, came out okay, in not sure about the swirly knots but it does look very stylised.

Texturing on the plank is very similar to the tiles

I also tested out a bake, on 1024 texture. came out pretty well I think.

Homework Submission – Week 2 – Roof 

Hey @theluthier

I’m still running a little bit behind on this one.

I still have the roof-trim pieces to complete and get everything replaced on the roof.

 I’m not overall that pleased with the consistency of my sculps, some parts I’m very happy with, other bits not so much.

Textures from the sculpt, I’m pretty much good with.

Here are some shots of the completed parts, some examples of the textures, and the tiles in place on the roof. 🙂

I’ll tag you in any further updates getting all the wood on the roof.