Orc Barracks (WC1)

[loktar]

As always, will add purist version and icons later =)

 

[General Frank]

A small nit pick here: The shield and axe thing clips shortly through the bones.

 

[loktar]

Ah, thanks. Fixed, attached it to the bones bone
Also lowered the base a little bit, it was clipping through the ground on flat terrain.

edit: and a tiny tweak to the birth animation

 

[Urain]

love it, but the textures seem a bit stretched

 

[TemmaHatt]

good model

 

[Misha]

hm.. can't figure out any baked goods comparison with that roof xD

but the structure is looking neat

 

[loktar]

A cupcake? xD

love it, but the textures seem a bit stretched

Rewrapped the texture, what do you think? I can't decide if it's better or worse
I left the old screenshot up for now for comparison.

@deepstrasz any suggestions to make it more like the original? (still gonna add a "purist" version later, rotated and without the axe/shield things)
I was thinking of replacing the entrance texture with something lighter, but decided not to. What do you think?

 

[jintlox]

Try making the horn-things a bit darker or the entrances a bit lighter? Looking good otherwise
Those looked almost like candy canes at first glance

 

[Urain]

 

[deepstrasz]

@deepstrasz any suggestions to make it more like the original? (still gonna add a "purist" version later, rotated and without the axe/shield things)
I was thinking of replacing the entrance texture with something lighter, but decided not to. What do you think?

Well, the original is rotated with its exit to the left, diagonally. It looks more like a sort of Stonehenge and has some red markings (which could be some sort of windows?).
Warcraft original lore | HIVE
There you have the manual to see the buildings bigger although in black and white.

 

[loktar]

Yeah I will rotate it more like that for the purist version. The red markings are there already though, maybe they're too small?
Thanks for those pdfs! It has a drawbridge in there ^^
I may tweak the bones things a bit, I'll see.

 

[Misha]

hm.. i feel that in wrapping that roof, you're not really thinking of the proper shapes that the building is having. for an example, the roof in the icon clearly shows that its made out of many curved triangle-like pieces that are sewn together. with details put on top. so.. if you start wrapping the biggest piece of that texture to a triangle-ish cut of the roof, and then multiplying that piece, you might have more luck in making it much nicer than this

it is always good to split pieces, because you can always snap them together later. just don't weld them xD that never turns out good.

 

[loktar]

I'm actually working on improving the wrapping considerably. It's almost done, just the TC triangle areas left:

Probably gonna rewrap the farm too.

 

[deepstrasz]

I'm actually working on improving the wrapping considerably.

 

[loktar]

^ lol

Alright, uploaded the new version. Massive improvement imo. Final edit, so I'm gonna do the purist version and icons asap now.

 

[tillinghast]

maybe also rotate the wrap on those bone-tooth-pillar-things so it'd look like they all get lighted from the same angle

 

[stein123]

Lookin nice, but i agree, the texture looks bad, i'm pretty sure i've seen a remake of that building some years ago with ingame textures with a better wrapping, but yours is a purist version so i think that model couldnt be of any help

 

[loktar]

maybe also rotate the wrap on those bone-tooth-pillar-things so it'd look like they all get lighted from the same angle

You're right, done.

Lookin nice, but i agree, the texture looks bad, i'm pretty sure i've seen a remake of that building some years ago with ingame textures with a better wrapping, but yours is a purist version so i think that model couldnt be of any help

I have an edited version of the DoC model in my resources thread (link in sig), maybe you'll like that one better?

 

[stein123]

Yeah thats the one! i think you should upload it too! it's pretty good

 

[General Frank]

A creative and well made recreation of a wc1 building.
Great details and excellent use of in-game textures.
A bit too high on polygons though.
Works in-game and performs well.
Good job.

 

[loktar]

Yeah thats the one! i think you should upload it too! it's pretty good

I didn't make that model though, just edited it a bit and gave it ingame textures, so I would need permission from the original authors

A creative and well made recreation of a wc1 building.
Great details and excellent use of in-game textures.
A bit too high on polygons though.
Works in-game and performs well.
Good job.

Thanks!

 

[Orc Smash!]

For some reason it won't work with me

 

[Mortimm]

I really can't imagine how long this stuff takes. Thanks for sharing this!