Forgotten Grand Victorian Mansion

sketchfab

This house once belonged to a timber baron in a small Northern California city, but after the logging industry collapsed, its owner abandoned it to the elements. While not a complete ruin, this house requires a lot of TLC to restore it to its former glory. The house was an experiment for me, pushing the limits of tileable materials and seeing how far I could go using nothing but Photoshop for texture creation instead of my usual Substance Painter. Most of these materials started with a diffuse texture that I either photographed myself or found on CGTextures.com. I then created the normal, spec, emissive, etc in Photoshop. I believe this technique works well when putting models into an engine like Unity or Unreal. The textures hold up at very close distances and can be used across many different buildings or props you may have in your game. Additionally, being able to add secondary textures allows for more variations like grunge. Modeled in Maya 2019