More Textures...

I thought I would run out of textures so I brought more of them. Of course some are not seamless so I had to spend a little more extra time in Photoshop to make them tileable. I want to make sure I have all the resources to try out and iterate as many ideas as possible because from now on I will spend the majority of the timeframe texturing and UV Unwrap accordingly. 

Here are some textures and atlases I made to keep everything tidy.

All of these textures were added while constantly getting out as many ideas and iterations as quickly as possible. Also as I mentioned earlier I had to bring them in Photoshop in order to make them match closer in terms of colours and colour pallet. Some atlases are still in work. Art will never be finished, so hopefully this deadline will help me bring this project to an end.



References

Cubasch, S., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0111. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0111/24429
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Pinto, H., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0289. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0289/80629
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Ro, J. D., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0175. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0175/38337
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Ro, J. D., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0205. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0205/55814
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0014. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0014/13283
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0090. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0090/22524
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0178. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0178/38437
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0251. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0251/72820
[Accessed 22 March 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - OrnateCeiling0035. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornateceiling0035/100244
[Accessed 22 March 2017]. 

Textures

These weeks I began searching some more textures to ornate the borders around the stage and the prisons as well as some of the arches and plinths. I tried to pick some that quite matched the Roman symbols and borders from the architectural orders such as Corinthian and Ionic. Some of them here:

I build a small library with the ones that were already seamless to save some hassle at the beginning and see what I can come up with after a little bit of tidying and some minor UV changes according to the textures. I organised some of them in trim texture sheets and here are some previews:

I think I would need more, but for now they suffice. I will have a following post of how it went.

References

Anon., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0069. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0069/18704
[Accessed 18 March 2017].

Anon., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0091. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0091/22531
[Accessed 18 March 2017].

Anon., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0115. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0115/25454
[Accessed 18 March 2017].

Ro, J. D., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0196. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0196/55772
[Accessed 18 March 2017].

Tuor, K., 2017. Textures.com - OrnamentBorder0073. [Online]
Available at: http://www.textures.com/download/ornamentborder0073/19221
[Accessed 18 March 2017].

Banners

To add a bit more visual flare to the overall circus I decided to also try and create some banners and hopefully I will manage to implement them by the end of  the project. All the designs are original and I was inspired by some of the scenes in the Ben Hur film. This will also help guiding the player to the most important landmarks in the circus premises. I built just one to start with adn then used the same template, just changed some colours and replaced the signs here and there. I jsut finished them:


These banners are supposed to be hanged underneath the arches at the starting gates. The Circus could hold up to 12 chariots racing at the same time according to references. After I created these banners I thought that the emperor box and the triumph arch need some as well and then I created these ones based on the same template trying to bring out the greatness and fortune of the Roman Empire:


References

2020 Other, 2017. 2020 Other | Images: Roman Empire Spqr. [Online]
Available at: http://www.2020iscoming.info/else/roman-empire-spqr.coming
[Accessed 18 April 2017].

Anon., 2016. SPQR. [Online]
Available at: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR
[Accessed 18 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - WrinklesHanging0033. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/wrinkleshanging0033/27550
[Accessed 18 April 2017].

UV Unwrapping

Taking a look over what I have done so far I need to do some serious UV arrangement so all the edges and faces are aligned correctly and outlining the silhouette of the shapes more. Considering I am currently a little bit over the poly budget I need to make the most with what I already have. Throughout all this time, I was going back and forth with the client to make sure the progress is significant.

Only then I started I realized that I also need to get rid of the old textures and get some proper Marble tiles, so here is what I found. Originally I started with just 2-3, but then I wanted to add some variety and started to search again. I made some adjustments to the floor marble tiles to match my color scheme and I had to tile the red marble. I will put them all here just to have them in one place. All of them were from Textures.com:



I also started thinking about the roof tiles and some decorations for the arches and some other pieces with reliefs, I again matched them to my colours so that my 3d models look consistent, here are the textures:

References

Fleau, P., 2017. Textures.com - Substance0001. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/substance0001/125717
[Accessed 18 April 2017].

Texturer.com, 2017. Free Ornate \ Relief \ Narrative textures. [Online]
Available at: http://texturer.com/set2670/
[Accessed 20 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - FloorsMarble0010. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/floorsmarble0010/9701
[Accessed 14 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - FloorsMarble0034. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/floorsmarble0034/99792
[Accessed 16 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - MarbleBeige0028. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/marblebeige0028/9691
[Accessed 16 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - MarbleRed0015. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/marblered0015/9715
[Accessed 16 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - MarbleTiles0003. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/marbletiles0003/9688
[Accessed 14 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - MarbleTiles0028. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/marbletiles0028/44341
[Accessed 16 April 2017].

Textures.com, 2017. Textures.com - RooftilesCeramic0036. [Online]
Available at: https://www.textures.com/download/rooftilesceramic0036/9122
[Accessed 17 April 2017].

Temple of the Sun

After having a closer look on some reference images of the Circus, I felt like something was missing. Then I have seen that there is another structure aside from the imperial box and that is the Temple of Sun.

I duplicated the stage section and started cutting in the shape of the temple. There are so many interpretations of how it looked like, so again, I had to use what I had and improvise something that would make sense.

In the end I finished this custom stage section containing the Temple of the Sun. I know, I haven't really done to much about textures yet, but I will begin to work on them some day, I promise!

Next time I am planning to work on actually creating some texture trim sheets to be used on the trims in the stage areas, the tower, plinths and arches.

Tower

I promised last time that I will update the blog with the tower and here I am. No problems raised so far, I already got used to fix the issues as I am progressing and they are diminishing as I am modelling. Here is the tower, nothing really fancy.

The roof was tricky as I barely managed to get the curving surface and also keep as little distortion as possible. Although some face were skewed really bad. I will let that as it is for the moment as I have to make sure I am not caught in the little details and always have the big picture in mind, it's so easy to lose focus as an artist, it still happens to me from time to time.

I took the windows from the stage, same as I did last time with the prisons. I used a bend modifier on the middle front section to make it curved and used a symmetry modifier for the other half. I made sure the trims are at the same height as the ones from the stage to create a nice continuous visual flow.

Starting Gates ( Prisons)

Hey everyone, here is another update about the Circus Maximus. I had worked on the bottom section lately and here are some previews of how it turned out so far. I used the modular arch pieces I have created for the stage section and made them a little taller to match with the reference. I also constructed the trims starting with a square to keep the texel density then duplicated it along to create the overall shape, I also took the windows from the stages.

The pillar came in handy as it was already done and I used that in combination with the arches to emphasize the aesthetics and bring it a unique, different than the stage arches, but keeping it simple. I used the bend modifier to achieve the curved appearance. I am planning to make some doors as the area was used as stables for housing the horses before chariot races started.  

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I am creating voussoirs through the same technique, as floating shapes acting more like a decal on the arches. The prisons have the appropriate silhouette and shape, and they are already unwrapped as I was working with the same face duplicated across. Apart from the door I started working on the side tower that connects the stage to the stables, but that should be pretty easy. I will see you soon, hopefully with the tower finished.