Hi all, I’m new at this modeling thing, and have a few questions if someone wouldn’t mind answering.

I’m wondering what the best way to model a stone tower like in this image

(this is not my image, but it shows what I’m talking about)

If you notice you can make out each brick easily - when you model, do you just model with a lot of little squares (the same as if you were laying the brick?) I would *THINK* you could just do a base cube for the main image, and maybe with some sort of mapping or texture added you could accomplish this effect - am I thinking correctly?  If it is some sort of texture/map/UV layout thingie, does anyone have any listing to any ‘noob friendly’ tutorials on getting started with it?

If there is no poly limit I would make each stone brick and layout exactly like it is in the picture.

As far as detail on the brick you can fake that with a normal map or take the model into zbrush or mudbox and add details in there.

Actually if the tower is to be seen just from certain distance you can try playing with the settings of the tile map. (See Attachment.) Otherwise; close-up camera, precise stills and so on, you need to model it as mentioned above, or unwrap the coordinates and paint the map you need for the texturing.

ivan

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So - if I wanted a still shot of a good looking stone building/room/tower - I would make a block(brick) bring it over to zbrush to detail it (Why would I do this in zbrush? is it superior than what can be done with a uvmap and photoshop?) then take that brick and manually add them in one at a time?

I guess I could have a base plane, or cylinder that could show between the bricks to make it look like a morter layer?

(sorry im new =) )