A while back I did a project for school where I recreated the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. I did almost the entire thing in a single weekend, that’s the modelling, texturing, and logic. Needless to say I didn’t sleep much that weekend at all, and was dead tired when it was time to present it.
Recently I’ve been releasing quite a bit of stuff I’ve done in the past, so I thought I’d add this too and help people learn a few things. Also, keep in mind that this was created for a presentation, so a few things are ommitted. For example, I neglected to include a history of the entire Acropolis but you’ll be able to piece much of it together since I include the history of each building, and two of the architectural styles. Also, keep in mind that because I created this in a compressed time-frame, the meshes are sloppy and the textures are mediocre. Like all my projects, I created everything from scratch, with the exception of what I included in the credits. Because of the time I had, I couldn’t do certain things like bake the lighting. I’d go back, clean it up and make it look nicer, but I’m so damned sick of it since I spent so much time on it, I don’t think I want to touch it with a ten foot pole. Anyways, tell me waht you think. Note that it’s not supposed to be a game, but educational software.
To extract it, you’ll need 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
To run a certain section, you’ll need a card with Shader Model 2.0
Judging from the shots I’d recommend trying to lightmap that thing from the newer Blender builds, with the right lighting it could look 10 times better.
He said he didn’t have much time to bake lighting so he didn’t.
There is very little lighting in your screen shots which makes it look bad to us fellow blender users but to a normal class it will look very good considering they probably know nothing about blender. I haven’t downloaded it but it looks like a job well done for just one weekend.
Yeah, I know lighting would make it look a lot better, but like I said, I dodn’t have the time, and even though it’s been a few months since I’ve done it, I’m still sick of it and don’t think I’m going to go back to edit it.
Can you or someone who downloaded this succesfully please make a mirror. For example at Fileho.com or mihd.net. Download from this server gets interrupted every time, apart from that its awfully slow. Thanks.
-maybe you can turn it into a first person shooter or something using Socials template… might bring the fun into it again… especially if you can blow it up maybe? lol
Please keep this in mind when you run the file, “Fun” was not it’s objective. It is a piece of educational software, so getting the user to learn stuff was my main goal.
@Tarkata: you’re right, it would be pretty fun to mess around with. If you’re interested in baking some lighting and adding some physics objects and the fps template, be my guest. I’m just so sick of it, I’m not really interested in continuing it. And I didn’t mean to come off as lecturing, I was just explaining it. Sorry again.
