Another Landmark

I went for nelsons column this time, as in it had been moved around as the water started to wreck places so i may have it held up with chains or something at a later point but first i needed to build it in ketchup!



Things ive learnt from Big Ben - theres no point texturing it in sketchup unless im going to be submitting it seperately i dont know yet, and size seems to get ignored as by the time its gone through 3ds max and into unreal it ends up about the size of a human, which means the texture needs to be really high detail as scale x20 just makes it look rubbish

Anyway as you can see i havent made the actual statue at the top and i hve no intention of, that alone would probably be half a FMP you wouldnt even see the top in the fog and it could be that the bandits stole him and melted it down for resources theres plently of ways round that

so i made my uv wrap in 3ds



I only used a photo of the plinth bit at the bottom and for the actual pillar, the rest of it i needed to make myself as there wasnt many good photos so i had to play around for ages with texturing and making everything all the same colour, the pillar needed to be aligned quite well also due to being round and possibly looking badly tiled

In game:


doesnt look too bad, since its unlit and not in the correct size/spot but when its in position its more like:




Which im quite pleased with, its quite obvious what it is i think which was the aim