Ocean House Resort and Spa

mwm5053

A little history here to begin.
Ocean House is a large, Victorian-style waterfront hotel originally constructed in 1868 on Bluff Avenue in the Watch Hill historic district of Westerly, Rhode Island.
The original 1868 hotel closed in 2003, and was demolished in 2005 and rebuilt from the ground up.The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission as well as the National Trust began a campaign to save the building and preserve the site's public oceanfront access and beach. Several of the building's structure were cataloged and preseved for the reconstruction according to the now President & Group Managing Director Daniel Hostettler,

A video done by Ocean House can be seen on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjQOQ_hdC_Y%26amp;list=WL%26amp;index=2 And their beautiful website can be seen here http://www.oceanhouseri.com

I, like a lot of Sketchup modelers see something and say to themselves "I can model that", so that's where this began.
After finding as many photos that I could I began the modeling, this was 3 years ago and after a few days, put it aside for work and other SU projects. Well I was sort of forced into early retirement and now devote much of my time in SU and modeling Ocean House.These are a few photos of the beautiful hotel.

Front 2.JPG

mwm5053

So what I have so far. with much detail to do not to mention vegetation and entourage. The antialiasing is horrible in these shots because some of the profiles of SU is not that great so I am doing some renderings with Twilight here.
https://www.twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16%26amp;t=5592%26amp;p=39251#p39251

Front left .jpg

Side and back.jpg

Rich O Brien

Export a larger image from SU with AA off then resize it down for better AA.

DaveR's method.

Mammoth project you're tackling. Should be interesting to follow.

liam887

@rich o brien said:

Export a larger image from SU with AA off then resize it down for better AA.

DaveR's method.

Mammoth project you're tackling. Should be interesting to follow.

You can also turn off profiles and just keep 'edges'. Export at double the resolution you want and then scale back down as Rich said. That's the method I also use.

mwm5053

Yes that's better thanks for that

Ocean House copy 4a.jpg

mwm5053

I spent some time adding more detail and texture changes. I linked SU with my photo editor and once edited wasn't sure how to finish the change, I ended up exporting the texture as a .jpg and importing that texture the way you import a new texture but I thought there was a quicker short cut to do that.

Ocean House SU Front View.jpg

pbacot

wow beautiful modeling! Great project!

mwm5053

Thanks pbacot

Bryan K

Excellent model!

tadema

Great subject and modelling.
"I linked SU with my photo editor and once edited wasn't sure how to finish the change" the textures in your model should update automatic as you save it in PS.
John