Castle Howard

olishea

amazing work!! congratulations!

MartinPh

Remus, the statues are 3d, but I must adnmit I didn't model them myself. I found them on the internet and only simplified them a bit for use in this model. The bas reliefs on the facade are textures.

Yeah, Charly, I prefer historical buildings too for modeling. But it is indeed rare to find such good reference material as in Vitruvius Brittanicus. It was the Dover reissue of that book which got me going on this project. Actually, VB will allow you to model almost any 18th century English country house; but I think I'll lay off for a while and do something completely different...

MartinPh

Oh, and did I say thank you yet to Fredo for his brilliant plugins, without which this would have taken another year at least?

numbthumb

Size does matter after all...Congratulations!

Daniel

That is F@!/*#- awsome!

artysmedia

I ever envy those guys that make so great effort to make so beautiful buildings!

Stinkie

That's some model!

urgen

...good work))) thanks!

KXI System

@daniel said:

That is F@!/*#- awsome!

Double over here man

10 wow, your the second person I gave this too!

jopsa2

very very impressive!! what a huge project to undertake, but definitely worth it! I would definitely recommend texturing it, would turn it into a killer project!

Can i ask about the stats? hoy many edges etc, did Sketchup handle it ok?

PS. nice touch with the sketchup fog

pmolson

Add me to the list of awed viewers.
Amazing!

dale

You have my absolute respect. Wow!!

MartinPh

Thanks all! Jopsa, I'd love to texture it, but I would need a renderer that does procedurals (actually I have one, Vray, but it is unable to render models this large ). I think I'll be experimenting in Photoshop instead. Best of all would be to export this to Vue, as someone else suggested, but on my system that is definitely out of the question... (and like SU, Vue is very good at handling its own native format, but not so good at handling imported geometry).

As for stats:
3,446,304 edges
1,527,138 faces
6,682 component instances
3,832 groups

I am on a P4, 2,13 Ghz dual core Vista PC, with 4 GB of RAM and a 'Loser Edition' nVidia card that I will be replacing one of these days... (it messes up shadows completely). The model was finished in SU 7, and SU can handle it without any problem at all; only, when orbiting, components and groups go into box mode. I had several crashes, however, when trying to export large bitmaps.

PS, Jopsa: I found your Pantheon greatly inspiring, it seems to me that operates at an even higher level of detail!

MartinPh

Here's another render. I love this feature of iRender, it actually does true orthogonal renders.

Paul Russam

Well done! I'm truly impressed. That's a lot of work you've done there.
Do you have an example of the drawings you worked from?, I'd love to see what type of info you had.

3eighty

Fantastic work...Reminds me of a castle out of "The Tudors"...If you want a render done in Vue I'd be happy to do one for you...

Al Hart

Nice stuff.

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Keep up the good work!

linea

Martin
This is phenomenal work. I live about an hour from Castle Howard so have visited a few times. Wish I'd thought about doing an SU model!

jon

studio1

I am truely amazed - I'd like to say this is a stunning piece of work but it simply wouldn't do justice to the care and the sheer dedication gone into this.

Unbeleivable....

d12dozr

Phenomenal modeling! Thanks for posting here for us all to enjoy