Thanks guys for your comments.

To celebrate the new year, I reworked my old model of a medieval room. It is now much more detailed, though the polycount has been divided by three. The mesh and textures were entirely reworked. Textures and bumps come in high resloution - but at a price : the overall file is size is 20 mb, and might take some time to download.

Thanks all for your comments.

Well thanks. As a matter of facts, I have a great passion for historical architecture, but I'm no good at rendering any kind of good still with what I model, so I prefer others to do that in my place. ;-)

BTW, I have a few other projects right now. A bavarian house in the next two weeks (eg next time I come home and update my  website !), a complete rework of some of my previous models that are not good at all for the end of december...
After that I will have to slow down a bit if I want to go on with my current animation project.
But modelling architecture with Lightwave is so much fun, and I have so many other castles to model...

I'm about to finish a complete 12' animation with Poser 6 and Vue5 Infinite. All rendering was made in V5I. So it is possible ! You can have an idea of the result in the animation/historical section. It's a movie about the battle of Tannenberg. It was a great fun to make (and should be finished in a week or so). Hope it helps.

OK, so I'll try, but without any guarantee ! Well, at least, I've one year left !

@Francemi : thanks for the tip. ;-) @sirrick : glad you like it ! :)

Hello again. I've also added a free medieval room in the Vue section. This object is for Vue, only, due to procedural textures. Hope you'll like it. Marl.

Hello again. Not exactly a castle, but I updated my gothic vault in the free stuff/misc/obj section. It is now textured and comes in three versions : LWO, VOB and OBJ. OBJ file has been tested successfully to load in Poser 6 and Bryce 5.5. Hope you'll like it.

Well, hollidays will be only in three weeks, but thanks anyway ! :)

Unfortunately, I've never been to Canada yet, it's kind of far from France, and my job takes so many time that I don't have much left for travels. Hope to go there, though, for my wife absolutely wants to go there.

Well your propositions are quite challenging. :-D
I believe I'll have to practice LWCAD a little before tackling these ones !
But who knows ?
There is an abbey I want to make first (the abbey of Evaux-les Bains), but afterwards, I'll try Château-Frontenac, just for fun (but it will definitely take some time !!!)
And one day, when I really have some time and skills, I will try my biggest challenge in modelling :
The castle of haut-Koenigsbourg...

I'm very glad to know that import works well in Bryce also. Thanks for the feedback ;-)
I will be on holliday in a few weeks, and, besides continuing (and hopefully finishing !) my animation project on Tannenberg, I intend to improve some other models, especially the castles of Crest and Dourdan.
As I now have Bryce 5.5, I will most certainly convert the models directly for Bryce, Vue, and Lightwave. For Poser and other apps, I'll stick to the obj format, because it's boring to create piles of folders to create props or figures :)
As you might have noticed, my very passion is the modelling of existing medieval buildings. I will certainly try to go for churches and abbeys next.
So if someone wants some specific building, don't hesitate to ask. (but I don't guarantee a) that I will do it; b) that I will be able to model it ; c) how long it would take :-) )

Yep, welcome in Vue.

Shifting from Bryce to Vue (4, at the  time) was for me more than a shock : it was a revelation...

I'm working with Vue 4.2 at the time. I switched from Bryce a few months ago, and I definitely enjoyed that switch. Now, I really look forward purchasing V5I : the ecosystem technology seems to open such a range of opportunities !!!

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