Badly Needed Help on Texturing/Creating a Terrain with a Castle

#1

The thing is I don’t have a proper training or background with 3D (I’m currently using C4D) so I don’t know how to proceed with this project.

The idea is that I needed to build a terrain and a castle. I can’t use camera mapping because the camera will be spinning around the castle. So I attempted to create/rebuild the scene in 3D.

The problem are the following.

Creating/Texturing the Terrain?

  • I have attempted to use some material, but the result is lacking depth. It’s not really that terrain like. I just used a landscape.

So, I heard about VUE. Does it work well with Cinema4D in creating Terrain, and the related Trees/Plants assets. Or can you offer some alternative? Are there any other plug ins that I need?

Texturing the Castle

I have used the built in shader from the Castle, and it seems to look good, and I’m planning to put some vines through the a Vine generator. However, the castle seems so generic, in terms of texture. Just wondering how could I put some variation?

Also applied the texture as a whole. Should I apply to it individually? Also how do I create some dirts in some parts of the castle for an old worn out look?

Lighting the Scene

One of my main problems. I searched for tutorials however, all the lighting examples only shows small scene or one object. I’m going for slightly fantasy look. How do I lit the scene, given the reference below? Should I use Vray (although I haven’t really used it? or does the normal lighting will work?

Finally is it still doable given my inadequate background within 2 weeks?

Thank you sir!

I am already down with one week, and I’m still not going anywere. I have only two weeks to go. I don’t know any one around who can help me with this so any opinions are really appreciated.

What I have so far

What I want to achieve, more or less

#2

Nobody will help you if you don’t know basics. In the context of criticism we should write down here all of texturing aspects. Before we’ll start a conversation about your project it would be perfect if you could watch these videotutorials and tried to train a little with it.

Current progress is looking more as concept than initial stage. There is a lot, a lot and a lot of work in front of you.

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#3

Thank for the links sir.

For the UV Mapping, you posted. I don’t I think I’ll be able to use it. I think I’ll go for a single texture and set it to seamless.

And sir, may next problem is how do I create a realistic landscape, SurfaceSpread, VUE or Terragen? And I also want to populate them with grass and plants, but doing them manually seems so laborious. Is there any convenient way to do this?

#4

I know only Terragen and I know that it have a great opportunities. I’ve heard also about VUE and I know that it’s very good but I don’t know details. Maybe someone else can recommend it and if you ask me I recommend you Terragen.

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