All Ancient Rome models from 3DWarehouse together

Gaieus

Also, if you cannot already load the model in SU, you can always load it in parts, export it and then import it in parts to Kerky. This may be a bit cumbersome at the beginning but if you are careful with what to add and what to override in Kerky, there shouldn't be much problem.

Kerkythea can handle billions of polygons.

@olishea said:

gaieus don't worry about the brick scale it looks perfect..

I'll need to make closeups, too. And where the stripes and the brick texture of the columns meet, it will be obvious that the thickness of the bricksin the stripes are about 1.5 of those in the columns.

I am not very satisfied with the stonework anyway (tiling too much, the construction holes are too close to each other, the brick stripe is placed on top rather unnaturally etc...) so I will definitely need to rework it. Here it is "live" (a bit downsampled/compressed for forum use) so you can see it is really a quick patchwork only to experiment with.

Update - in this parallel/ortho shot of the Eastern façade you can see how badly this stone texture is tiling (resampled from 2048 pixels - the original png file is almost 4 Mb )

Anyway, maybe two more additions modelling wise - the round window would also allow some light in under the roof which would look cool I think.

And I am just realizing that this thread has gone way off-topic. Sorry Pichuneke, I think I'd better split it somewhere and only leave the relevant things (like material images) in place (although as I am thinking of this, they should go to the Components-materials-styles foruum instead)

L.VII.C

Hi all

Many thanks to pichuneke that has exposed here my models
Also many thanks to Gaieus for excellent textures. I have already changed a tile on all models

Danik

My greetings to all!
Thanks to Pichuneke too!
About a month ago I also tried to combine models of the ancient Rome made by L.VII.C, Saikindi and me. Here are some pictires:

Also I've constructed models of basilica of Maxentius, Pantheon and temple of Divine Claudius, which are absent here
Now I'm modelling baths of Caracalla

pichuneke

@gaieus said:

And I am just realizing that this thread has gone way off-topic. Sorry Pichuneke, I think I'd better split it somewhere and only leave the relevant things (like material images) in place (although as I am thinking of this, they should go to the Components-materials-styles foruum instead)

I am the king of offtopics, in fact I love them What you say is very interesting

And finally... a Kerkythea Render.

Danik, an idea for you, L.VII.C and Saikindi (I didn't know about Saikindi... ). I believe you must talk and agree to locate them in Google Earth, the models are too heavy and won't be uploaded to 3D Warehouse, but if you download them, you only have to copy and paste, and the models will be placed in the right place.

Also, a terrain that joins all the models would be fine.

I really enjoy your work. Thanks

Aerilius

I think there are some 'official' rome models that are often shown in television, but of course free models are much more useful for humanity...
I think especially for interior renders (where the scene is more complete then the exterior) they are great. I will also try some renders.
Now we should maybe decide to do something with the models. A comic or an animation (if we have enough computing power) or inventing a "photo" story which takes place in roman times. There are so many historic movies where we could cut out the protagonists and make the scene more realistic.

By the way, here is a better tiling verion of the texture:

Gaieus

To make it really short - thanks a lot for the image.
(I am so shamefully bad at image editing that I would rather not reveal the details)

rev3rse

Some people interested in 3D roman affairs!! I've noticed my unfinished Capitoline Hill (unfinished because the model grew exponentially). The temple of Castors is heavy too, and yes I've tried to loading all models in Kerkythea (a bit difficult) with poor results.. The Trajan's Forum includes my model of Column. If L.VII.C is interested, I can edit the texture in polychromy, and send it with UV projection (the column isn't rectilinear and the texture in the model of Forum lost the elicoidal alignment)...

L.VII.C

Greetings to all

I have finished and put a model of Forum Romanum http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=456438acf00cb5ad6c4e174b0cf70299&hl=en&ct=lc
I gathered all my models, related to the Roman Forum and made a complete model of the entire forum. Also made and added 20 new building, which was lacking. Model has size 18 MB, because it must be a separate download link http://www.filefront.com/14913083/Forum%20Romanum.rar And in the preview window placed only a screen. I also spread screens here:

Aerilius

really, really GREAT!
I can imagine scenes from films or Cicero holding a speech on the rostra. I'm looking forward for rendering it when I have time.

By the way, in this context I want to mention a great photorealistic (!!!) work (not 3d). Yadegar Asisi is an iranian architect living in Berlin who reconstructed a panorama painting from 1889 of ancient Rome (in the 19th century, panoramas were modern because there was no TV). The new panorama is 106x31m and was shown in a former gasometer.

L.VII.C

Aerilius

Thank you

Great pictures!

notareal

Looks great but I have some serious issues with filefront, it wont work for me. Perhaps some other download site, like megaupload.

L.VII.C

notareal

@unknownuser said:

Looks great but I have some serious issues with filefront, it wont work for me. Perhaps some other download site, like megaupload.

I have uploaded Forum again, on this time on megaupload too
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=940VF7UR

notareal

Great! Thanks for sharing this.

rev3rse

A fast rendering from interior of Curia Iulia.. I removed the door for some reflection inside

For entire forum, it's a big file, so we have to wait

L.VII.C

rev3rse

@unknownuser said:

A fast rendering from interior of Curia Iulia.. I removed the door for some reflection inside

Excellent! It came out very realistically

To all

I have edited all previous models of temples and basilicas, and placed the statues http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=13768710844291476073&scoring=d&hl=en&ct=lc

Gaieus

Hi L.VII.C,

Very nice, thanks!
I might try a render or two myself, too.

rev3rse

@aerilius said:

really, really GREAT!
I can imagine scenes from films or Cicero holding a speech on the rostra. I'm looking forward for rendering it when I have time.

By the way, in this context I want to mention a great photorealistic (!!!) work (not 3d). Yadegar Asisi is an iranian architect living in Berlin who reconstructed a panorama painting from 1889 of ancient Rome (in the 19th century, panoramas were modern because there was no TV). The new panorama is 106x31m and was shown in a former gasometer...

I know Asisi's Work "Rom 312". Where did you find the pictures? I was interested in some big images taken from that Pano..
I have another point of view from Temple of Castors, even a work of Asisi, so he had already produced another panos of ancient Rome...

L.VII.C

I have exhibited separately model of the arch of Septimius Severus, a fragment of the model "Forum Romanum"
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=84dc3be848c96bd16c4e174b0cf70299&hl=en&ct=lc
And this is my first attempt at rendering in Kerkythea

rev3rse

OMG!! That apse was wonderful.. a little challenge to modeling in SU..
@L.VII.C. Good rendering, pay attention with Kerkythea for light settings, and material editor..
Now I'm trying with the cell of the temple of Venus and Rome. The goal is a realistic rendering: a dark room with the only light of candles and "fog" produced by incense, and it's very, very, very hard...

Aerilius

@rev3rse said:

Where did you find the pictures?
I've never been in Leipzig, but I saw the exhibition about emperor Constantine the Great in Trier (oldest town in my country). Yadegar Asisi made a panorama (3d) of the colossus of Constantine, that showed the magnitude of the 12 m high statue, although this panorama was in a quite small room.

At this exhibition, I read about the panorama "Rom 312", the images above are scanned from a poster (I would like to have it as wallpaper).

@ L.VII.C:
It looks amazing!!! Very clean, as if it was newly built! Maybe you can play a bit with soft shadows (settings -> scene -> lights, select sun and choose shadow radius ca. = 300). Also in some cases, it can be useful to use Sketchup circles with more than 24 edges. When you select the circle tool, type the number of edges and hit enter. (or less edges for smaller details)