Hikone Castle & Samurai Yoroi by nDelphi
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Description
I needed a castle for a graphic novel and came upon just a few, this one was the cheapest (here anyway, as I saw the same exact mesh for 3D Max at $75.00).
There were a few materials I needed to figure out and fix as the model is for Poser 5 and up. The biggest problem were the Cusped window frames, they have a reflection map only, I am not sure what the intent was here, though I suspect it was to bring them out more in Poser 5, they don't even look right in the latest Poser.
I, also, re-textured the foundation and added Chinese colors to this Japanese castle. Black and white only is not as exciting.
I am not even going into what I had to do with the Yoroi Samurai armor, it too was modeled for an earlier version of Poser and had way too much reflection maps to retouch and bum maps to convert.
Update on 11/24/2012: I decided to render this one again, but this time place the castle on a hilltop as Hikone Castle is classified as a hilltop castle.
Comments (3)
GrandmaT
Excellent work on the castle! The contrails are a little distracting, but they are way down in the noise on this image.
nDelphi
Thanks. To tell you the truth, I didn't realize those could be contrails. A modern thing in an ancient land. LOL!
ragouc
Very good light and scene.