This last week, there was a change I decided to change my original plans, so as to make the Asylum complex more authentic as a estate in the country side which was later transformed.
So the first step I did was look on google to try and find what estates in Peru look like, and found one very interesting one called the Hacienda San Jose, an old hacienda from the 16th century.
Using that as a starting point, I drew up some new plans. The idea now was to make a single large building complex, that would encompass and close off the south part of the map so as to create a proper courtyard in the middle. I decided there should also be a patio in the center of the building itself, and that the building should have two floors, with open balconies on both floor. I even raised the church up to be on the same level as the estate, to add some height and make the layout of the scene more interesting.
So this estate essentially became a merger of the previous estate building, and the theater house. But by removing the theater house, all of a sudden there was no longer the large room with the high ceiling. So as many old houses formerly owned by a noble family, I added in a ballroom which would span both floors of the building.
With these new plans, i decided to experiment some more with how I actually was creating the buildings. As this building was going to have a lot of useable rooms inside, the idea came up to emulate how a building would actually be constructed.
So first, a shape was created which would in real life have been the foundations of the building. From there, lines of the walls were traced out, and the walls extruded up on the ground. At the same time as this was being done, i was also already creating the textures for the various rooms and applying them, as without a ceiling it was much easier to work on the rooms at this stage.
Then, the places where the doors and windows were to be were carved out. For the doors and windows themselves, I went all the way and made actual door frames to be installed with them. The frames and the doors and window were then fitted into the alcoves carved out from them.
Then came the job of adding the second floor. Check the next few posts to see the progress on that.
So the first step I did was look on google to try and find what estates in Peru look like, and found one very interesting one called the Hacienda San Jose, an old hacienda from the 16th century.
Using that as a starting point, I drew up some new plans. The idea now was to make a single large building complex, that would encompass and close off the south part of the map so as to create a proper courtyard in the middle. I decided there should also be a patio in the center of the building itself, and that the building should have two floors, with open balconies on both floor. I even raised the church up to be on the same level as the estate, to add some height and make the layout of the scene more interesting.
So this estate essentially became a merger of the previous estate building, and the theater house. But by removing the theater house, all of a sudden there was no longer the large room with the high ceiling. So as many old houses formerly owned by a noble family, I added in a ballroom which would span both floors of the building.
With these new plans, i decided to experiment some more with how I actually was creating the buildings. As this building was going to have a lot of useable rooms inside, the idea came up to emulate how a building would actually be constructed.
So first, a shape was created which would in real life have been the foundations of the building. From there, lines of the walls were traced out, and the walls extruded up on the ground. At the same time as this was being done, i was also already creating the textures for the various rooms and applying them, as without a ceiling it was much easier to work on the rooms at this stage.
Then, the places where the doors and windows were to be were carved out. For the doors and windows themselves, I went all the way and made actual door frames to be installed with them. The frames and the doors and window were then fitted into the alcoves carved out from them.
Then came the job of adding the second floor. Check the next few posts to see the progress on that.
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