COLLAB 2021 WIP hadiczech

Excellent blockout for week 1 @hadiczech! I really don’t have any constructive criticism to add. You’ve earned full points from me week 1 👍

You’re on track for gorgeous sculpted accents in week 2. I’ll give you the same recommendation I’m giving the others even though it looks like you’re already doing it: I recommend you treat each accent “area” as a separate model that can be mirrored for easy population on the rear of the house:

Each color represents a separate model that can be mirrored to the backside. This way you won’t have to model + sculpt + texture the rear side individually. And I think all 4 of these models can share a texture map if their UVs are laid out in the same texture space. But more on that for week 3.

Fantastic rock sculpting @hadiczech! I’ve only got a couple minor notes:

1.  The rocks are kinda thin and feel like a veneer rather than structural to the building. The corner rocks will probably be fine the way they are, but I recommend thickening the arch rocks and door rocks. Which I did simply in edit mode with proportional editing enabled. You can see this in latest WIP file that I saved.
2.  It looks like you’ll need to retopologize a LO-poly for baking. To expedite this process and avoid retopoing each rock 😵‍💫 I recommend you remove the gap between each rock. It’s pretty simple to do in sculpt mode if you enable auto masking by topology:

   
   I think this still serves the art and it means you can retopo a whole row of rocks together as one mesh rather than individual rocks.

@hadiczech  We have different definitions of “complete disaster” 😅

I don’t think this looks back at all! I’d like to take a closer look at your .blend. But the latest version I see is from 5 days ago. Can you make sure your latest WIP is up to date and add your textures to the TEXTURES directory?

I’ve got your .blend and textures and It looks good! Some food for thought: The corner masonry is a little too flat / straight in the lo-poly. It will work out OK but a better option would be to go with the more irregular shapes like your arch stones. These kinds of old-world stones are hand-carved and look better when imperfect.

With regards to the arch stones they’re a bit hi-poly. I think the decimate modifier will take care of that well enough.

Lastly it would be more optimal for all the masonry objects to share a single texture, even a larger one like 2048 px. More numerous smaller textures is less optimal than fewer large textures. I will plan to combine UVs into a single 2048 texture at some point in the future.

You don’t need to make these  changes but like I said, more food for thought in case you run into this kind of project in the future. Thanks for contributing to Collab2021! You’ve been a pleasure to work with 🤝