Near the beginning of the course we began a modular building project. Unfortunately, due to certain circumstances we never finished this project because are work plan changed. However, I did like the idea of creating a modular building so I decided to redo this project and create a urban/city style building out of modular pieces which I have 3D modelled in Autodesk Maya.
Below is my final renders of the building. I have aimed to make the building look as realistic as possible but also low poly to be used in games. To achieve this I have modelled with very little tris, but used very good quality textures to make the 3D model come alive. I have included three renders in this post; a beauty render of the final product (when the modular pieces are combined), a wire frame of the entire, combined model, and the main modular pieces used.
The entire building (with all four sides, roof, etc.) comes to just over 10,000 tris. This may seem a lot, but it is a four story building. If this was required to created a small city scene you would be able to get more variety by the way you arrange the pieces in the scene. Below, is only one example of how these pieces can form a building.
Bailey Brian 