Roman basilica - WIP
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Gai, What really blows me away is the scale of these early buildings. Some of the rendered chandeliers(?) images from front to back are done in a way that I am not accustom to seeing. Is the image out of SU. or your choice of renderer?
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Well, I did "tune up" field of view in a bit unnatural amount for the interiors just to see as much as possible. Certainly the exteriors do not need this dramatic FOV but indeed the size of the building is impressive. And the one in trier is even bigger (much taller and longer - the width is only about 3 metres wider).
Here are some exterior views (the "surroundings" will be modelled later within a much bigger project). For these, render settings were first started in Twilight then exported to Kerkythea (it can handle big amount of geometry easier while Twilight is limited to SU poly count handling and I am planning to use Kerkythea's instancing brush for some entourage later).
Maybe the specularity of the walls is a bit strong in this shot:
And finally a shot in Parallel projection (this is pure Twilight output) for some architects we are writing an article for on a Hungarian site:
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Wow, those doors are something else. Door seems limited to humans, do you know what they were labeled in Latin? Thanks for the preview.
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I'd love to be working on reconstructing old buildings like this.
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@honoluludesktop said:
...do you know what they were labeled in Latin?
Door (or rather a gate) is porta in Latin. For smaller doors/entrances they also used ostium or ianua (I guess this is where the name of the god "Ianus" comes from).
@thomthom said:
I'd love to be working on reconstructing old buildings like this.
I also love it, Thom, you can imagine!
But I do not wish such a "picky" client as this archaeologist I am currently working with to anyone.
I cannot tell details yet but it seems that the Museum want a reconstruction of all the Roman, all the Medieval and all the Ottoman eras of the town. Also the Roman cemetery will be done and it seems that I will have work (and income of course) for about a whole year from now.
I cannot even undertake the rendering part so am planning to get the models (exteriors) rendered in Vue (guess who I would like to do this part).
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Do archaeologists often to the modelling and viz work themselves? Or is it sent of to "hired hit-men"?
Whenever I change jobs I will have to look for archaeology related work.
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Will you be posting the progress of this big project then?
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@thomthom said:
Do archaeologists often to the modelling and viz work themselves?
Not really. I know a couple of them but generally they hire somebody. This is where I come into the picture as I am also an archaeologist and they tend to "trust" me much better than a "lay" outsider. Eventually I certainly model what they want (when there are alternatives) but at least I can come up with different solutions and ideas.
@thomthom said:
Will you be posting the progress of this big project then?
I guess... Maybe it would be boring however...
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That last render is amazing!
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At this moment is just an hypothesis, but I link you a new (in spanish) about a possible roman building used now as a church that reminds me your basilica.
Google translation to english:
Perhaps is just a coincidence, and it's just a recent building. I'll try to bring you future news about this.
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