in practice castle: modeling - textures - render

[Jelmer]

This tutorial is now finished, it's about modeling a medieval castle, during the first part you'll learn some simple polymodelling techniques, we'll create a castle wall and tower. More details will be added throughout the tutorial, every aspect of this scene is covered in great detail!

Once the modeling is finished i'll continue with textures & shaders, finally there will be a part on rendering it all, i hope you will enjoy the tutorial , comments are welcome!

Due to bandwidth limitations this tutorials is now only available to registered members, first register and activate your account (free), thendownload the tutorial here, you can have a lower quality preview of the tutorial by watching part 1 in .wmv format.



filesize: varies per part
complete duration: 180 minutes
filetype: RAR--> AVI

download required files
includes starting textures, tileable textures and displacement maps.

[CU441ES]

yayz me go checky!

[Jelmer]

here's a render of the tutorial progress so far, an up-to date part 2 of the tutorial will be online tonight!

[Bertie]

The video is goes black in places and only has audio (well on my system anyway) - it also hangs sometimes as if the screen recording is trying to catch up. You should try something other than WMV - it's a fairly bad codec!

I'm not trying to sound overly critical, but can I suggest you watch the videos before posting them instead of trying to get them out quickly.

One more thing - I don't know about anyone else but I prefer it when Max in grey with black text as it makes the video far easier on the eyes. Not sure if other people have an opinion.

[Jelmer]

I'm sorry, i could try avi but it has a much higher filesize, i'll upload that tomorrow, thanks for the comment.

[CU441ES]

i prefer max gray aswell, its easier too read

[Jelmer]

well i use the dark interface because it's easier on your eyes, when modeling for a while, it's less bright so that's why.
I'm working on a AVI version at the moment but i need to find an acceptable balance between filesize & quality first.

[CU441ES]

maybe use the divx codec, thats always reliable

[Jelmer]

well i've got the right codec for the job, it's one designed to capture software /tutorials, now i just need to find the right settings.

[Bertie]

I notice the video is fairly smooth - you could reduce it down to 5fps - lots of sites use this and it works fine. Also when you're recording change your colour settings to 16-bit - this tends to drastically reduce the filesize. If you can post the settings you use then maybe we can help you out a bit.