Viking Village: (Working Title) - Linnea Hallenbom

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Name: Linnea Hallenbom
Country: Sweden
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I felt very inspired to try making an ice material so I decided to make my viking village in winter by a frozen lake.

I started by blocking out my modular house pieces and played around with what kinda houses I can create from them and made a first iteration ice material.

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Last week I started sculpting my background cliffs. I wanted them done early since it is my first time actually trying to sculpt rocks/cliffs. It felt like good idea to start with what I am most uncomfortable with. Due to time constraints I am not super happy with the sculpts end result but it is good enough for this project.

I then went on to make my master material for the rocks. I used a rgb mask for different details. Then I blended moss/snow on top, I generated a mask by combining the baked normal map with a detail normal map, and taking the world-space Z component of that normal.

I was very inspired by god of war especially kratos house for my wood/modular house pieces. I want the viking houses to feel very rustic and homemade. I have currently sculpted 2 planks of varying size. I hope to make one more to then construct the modular wall with them. I thought it would be cool to not have the planks tile but instead the ends of the planks being visible next to each column, as in my mind that is how a viking house would be constructed.

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After getting pretty sick post wisdom tooth surgery I have not been able to work on this project for quite a bit now. I will still do my best to have something to present in the end of the challenge but will continue working on it afterwards to better fit the vision I had in the start.

I sculpted a few more planks and have started assembling the modular kit for the house. Still have quite a few more parts left to sculpt to get the base of the house complete. I started playing around with a wood smart material to texture everything quicker. I was not sure what roof material I wanted so I made a straw alpha and layered it to test how a straw roof would look. I ended up liking how it breaks up the house from all the wood so I will continue working on it.

In the next two weeks I hope to finish the base modular kit, a few props, some vegetation and some terrain materials