Miskatonic University Library Genealogy Reading Room

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Hi all. This is my first post / Blender project.

I took this project as an opportunity to learn blender and substance designer a bit more in depth. Until 2.8 came out I had only “tinkered” around in Blender. The last few versions showed me how powerful it could be so I tried to do almost everything locally in blender (modelling, rendering, composite, etc…).
With the exception of one radial array (which I just quickly did in Modo) everything was done in Blender. I used Substance designer to make procedural wood textures for the floors, stained glass design, upper staircase railing, and sculpted details on the wooden columns.

I had been reading The Dunwich Horror and thought I could make my own version of the Miskatonic University Library (before the “Incident”). I also wanted to keep it Isometric, and pushed for an RPG game feel… Like a game level that you would want to explore and walk around. I rendered a perspective camera for fun, but it was always meant to be finished as Isometric. I am a big fan of the isometric renders of @joseolmedo on these forums, and looking at his work was my main inspiration.
Its not perfect but a great learning experience!

finalIso_01
finalIso_012470×1922 3.11 MB

rendertest_white_015
rendertest_white_0152470×1922 4.06 MB
rendertest_CU_04
rendertest_CU_041852×1441 2.64 MB

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thanks!!!

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Yeah, that’s pretty rad.

Have a heart. You earned it.

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That close up shot is killer.

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Would love to play a RPG with isometric graphics like this! I’m having a strong Baldur’s Gate nostalgia right now :smiley: Beautiful work!

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So you rendered this in substance designer ? Or you made the textures or “images” that are procedural or copied ? And plugged them into nodes in blender ? I looked at substance designer’s website and it did not show anything about working with blender. I see on substance designers website that it uses nodes. Was this rendered in Cycles ?

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Did you give Pillars of Eternity a go?

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Fantastic Baldur’s Gaty-looking!

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I didn’t but heard only good things about it. Would You recommend it?

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I’m not Otowa, but I’ll recommend Pillars of Eternity just the same. It’s good stuff.

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You can drop your models into Designer, whip up some textures, then export them back out as images to be used in Blender.

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I loved the first one. It’s of a dark tone fantasy and is really the successor of Baldur’s Gate in terms of Gameplay. I recommend it 100%.

The sequel though has quite a lot of problems in terms of rythm (even though it pushes isometric art even further)

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I did! I love both Baldurs Gate and Pillars. You should check out some of the awesome environments from Sean Dunny on Artstation. Its very inspirational!

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Hi Brontobyte. Yes, the maps were procedurally generated in Substance Designer, then imported into blender for final rendering. And yes, this is rendered with Cycles in blender 2.81.