# Mountain Fortress

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757>\
**Category:** Finished Projects\
**Tags:** modeling, lighting, texturing\
**Created:** [May 22, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757 "2023-05-22T23:44:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/1 "2023-05-22T23:44:02Z")

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This is one of those personal projects with bigger aspirations than what I am able to do at the moment. It was an on again off again project between other work over the past few months. In the end I had to strip it of all the really cool stuff and just make a somewhat interesting castle.

You may be able to see a rider with an urgent message racing across the bridge toward the guards.

As usual everything was modeled, textured, lit, composited, and and rendered in Blender. Vegetation is from Botaniq.

 ![01_Mountain_Fortress](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/7/9/8/7980a7be3cc31893da1f7b3f8e36fc663dea7e39.jpeg)  
 ![03_Mountain_Fortress](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/f/d/8/fd817038eb1babaa3e32e5ace6c6a599a1d91e59.jpeg)  
 ![02_Mountain_Fortress](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/1/7/e/17e477149c40bfede3294a6e54fb5839e60ddff8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Engie](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/engie/32/1006525_2.png) [@Engie](https://blenderartists.org/u/Engie)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/2 "2023-05-23T09:48:02Z")

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nice job. Good use of normal maps on the castles rock textures give it real depth 🙂

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/3 "2023-05-23T10:52:25Z")

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Thank you! 🙂

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**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/4 "2023-05-26T10:37:45Z")

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/5 "2023-05-26T11:41:42Z")

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Thanks Bart!

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/6 "2023-06-27T23:40:22Z")

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I’ve re-used that same material on [a new castle](https://blenderartists.org/t/desert-fortress/1470626) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/7 "2023-06-28T00:21:18Z")

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I have created another castle too. [Find it here!](https://blenderartists.org/t/desert-fortress/1470626/5)

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**Author:** ![Engie](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/engie/32/1006525_2.png) [@Engie](https://blenderartists.org/u/Engie)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/8 "2023-06-28T08:49:35Z")

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really nice work on this one, looks even more detailed 🙂

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/mountain-fortress/1465757/9 "2023-06-28T09:19:30Z")

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Woohoo! It’s good to know I’m actually improving. Thanks!