Welcome! Welcome!
This here be Los Habanero House. Put on your sorting hat and be assigned to your seat.
Our Mission, should you choose to have any choice since you have already accepted it, is to make the interior of the Spice Vendor House.
It's a passion thing, for us who want to keep making cool stuff and get this project to the next level and get your skills to the next next next level or continue perfecting your skills if they already are in the next next level. We are just a bunch of guys and gals wanting to see those doors open and reveal an interior that feels like someone really lives in it.
So the official story is grounded in reality. The Spice Vendor goes out on adventures and comes back with rare spices which he prepares in his house. It is set in the real world. Yet we in the forums continuously joked around and kept making a ridiculous background story which people grew attached to. Sadly that story is not the focus of the Spice Vendor project.
But that doesn't mean we have to discard them, our crazy talks can appear on the house as easter eggs. For example statues or lamps on a counter can take the form of some of the things we've been creating through conversation. So it all goes as follows....
Melvin lives in this house or at least the house is his responsibility.
It's not his house, he has no money to own such a big place and money and ownership is for earthly people anyways. The house is the spice vendor's house, things inside are made for regular people, plus you look at Melvin and he looks more like he likes living in a cave.
The name of the busyness is Vadimspice Merchantile Homestead “Delights in Spice”
He is to the spice vendor what Alfred is to Bruce Wayne, a loyal faithful helper that very much likes to keep things tidy up. He is a master of spices and keeps the property functioning to its fullest potential, makes all sorts of arrangements, knows all and has immense talents in spices and its mixtures, everyone in town knows him and likes him, the owner of the house trusts him very much, he travels a lot so Melvin is the primary caretaker of the property.
Legend has it that the spice vendor ordered a package on Amazon and when it arrived they charged him a fortune in shipping weight, and he was like what is this heavy box? this isn't what I ordered, and when he opened it Melvin was inside and that's how he came to live in the house. How did he ended up in there? no one knows.
We kinda know where he comes from since somewhere in the house there is secret entrance that goes to his world, you exit the same house but in a different place for sure..
Turns out Melvin is secretly is a Wizard, with his wizard robes and everything, when he feels like wearing them. Kinda of like Batman, when its called for.
In his world he can grow the most exotics of spices, that is where he gets them and baffles his spice vendor master.
Melvin has a pet whale is his world...
The whale lives free and swims up river to the house when called for. Its name is Willem Alfred Whalfred DaWhale. Melvin sets up all his bags on the back and off they go, traveling to all towns, trading in spice. The whale may or may not have her own room in the spice vendor's house.
In the woods not far from the house there lives an owl.
The owl rolls around in an unicycle and carries a cement umbrella. He rides the unicycle because he can't fly and he doesn't realize he can't fly because the cement umbrella is too heavy. The cement umbrella was given to him by someone very dear to him and he doesn't want to let it go not even for a second. Plus he doesn't understand the physics of mass and gravity and you know he gets confuse, it happens to the best of us. He tries to fly but he can't do it anymore, "what in the world is happening?" he thinks to himself. His past is hindering his future.
So Melvin has a life here, he likes it. Though his noble heart sometimes gets him in trouble.
Melvin has a record for "Illegal Potions and Spells Lab Underground Operation".
But it was not his fault, he was tricked by No Mouth, All Action Red Nelb.
Melvin had no idea Red Nelb wasn't just ordering potions for his dying grandmother, Melvin thought he was saving a life, Mr. Nelb here was re-selling them and making a huge profit, cornering the market and Nelb blamed it all on poor Melvin. And now Melvin is trying to put his life back together, using his potions for the betterment of all creatures. But since people have two grandma's, Nelb tricked using his other grandma as an excuse and Melvin fell for it again. Luckily people don't have more than two grandma's.
But that is not the only life challenge.
Melvin has a bunch of merry friends, they are all good, each with their own personalities, except for the blue last one, he is totally a bully. Every protagonist has an antagonist, he even has the W, like Mario and Wario, Melvin and Welvin. More there of, blue is even the opposite of orange in the color wheel, destined to turn to the darkside.
Welvin liked to put some magical extra something something on the spices and got in trouble. Melvin was like "We are not that kind of store Welvin! No Mouth, All Action Red Nelb tricked me with his grandma, twice!" A fight like in the tower with Gandalf and Saruman broke between them on the third floor of the house. It was not pretty.
Just what we already have been doing on the collab. It's the chance to make your own stuff with the skills we already learned. For now we don't have a direction of how the interior is going to be. Kent is working with Vadim to give is a north to follow. We'll wait for that but in the mean time we can start working on generic things that will be in a house no matter what. Pick an asset and say you want to do it and have a go at it.
The shelf looks great. Maybe some surface details and some beveling will do nice.
Don't worry about overwhelm, it's probably a sign you are pushing your boundaries and growing.
I bet it would look sweet. Melvin is rich, working for CG Cookie has it's advantages.
So......
I've been absent for awhile.....
I've caught up on the thread, but .....
I notice we have gone from a Spice Vendors House to an illegal potions and spells lab with Melvin as the kingpin of this underground racket.
I done some investigating....
and found something about Melvin...
Turns out our mate Melvin has previous....
We are all now accomplices to Melvin's illegal activities.
I hope that you all now understand why this is classified TOP SECRET.....
I assume you all know No Mouth, All Action Red Nelb, the muscle behind the operation.
Okay so instancing on a vertex and using arrays is the way to go in repeating the texture without repeating the pattern.
I think that making use of an object offset might come in handy as well if Kent wants us modeling the geometry in rather than "shading" the bump. I'll share my video about your video and taking it to the next step over in the non-top-secret forum.
Adrian, that was supposed be a secret. Lucky for you you posted it in a TOP SECRET Thread.
And now Melvin is trying to put his life back together, using his potions for the betterment of all creatures. He just made an honest mistake, how was he supposed to know Red Nelb wasn't just ordering potions for his dying grandmother. Melvin thought he was saving a life, Mr. Nelb here was selling them and making a profit and blamed it all on poor Melvin.
So we help Melvin build his new home. He's been straight since Wes gave him a chance.
https://cgcookie.com/questions/13975-collab2021-hq-stylized-fantasy-environment?page=2#answer-49397
Looking for posts is getting harder. Here's the link to the non-top-secret reply.
They are in Google Drive. We share the files there. You have to download Google Drive for your PC or Mac and sync the folders.
Blanch with his buttery voice made this video on how to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajnMQWTakVw
Nah, could be too much of a fire hazard, what - with all those naked flames and all 😃
In seriousness, I think that would look cool - and I'm sure that'll be really interesting to model
Are you overwhelmed by the project do you mean, or by the shelf you are making? I also think that the shelf looks great, as Omar mentioned if you added some bevels and then 'beat it up' a bit, it should look even better!
I get overwhelmed all the time when I'm modelling something. What helps me is just concentrate on smaller pieces at a time, and move on if something is a bit hard - then come back to it later with fresh eyes.
The same thing happens to me. As soon as I start a project I feel overwhelmed. And even more so being surrounded by professionals and having to use a translator to find out things halfway well.
Let's grow
Ok, we have the skeleton of the house to start placing stuff and getting a better idea of what we're dealing with in the inside.
I started linking our assets, but ran into a small quirk; the are not centered to the world and their origin points are all out of whack. For example Keith's candle holder or barrels, they are hard to place because the object is far away from it's origin. All models should be in global center relative to the world, so (0,0,0) in all axis.
yyukinoh1989 , your chair is huge.
We are using Google Drive to sync our files. You have to download Google Drive for your PC or Mac and sync the folders.
Blanch tutorial here:
Huh, well, my laptop decided it didn't like the internet and shut off all connections. I am limited to what I can transfer to my phone. Is the google drive file also going to work just from the Google Drive app?
Well I think that could work. If you can sync to the folder Kent created from your phone and put your files in there, I would assume I can link your assets like I've been doing the others.
In page 1 is the path to the folder. I think this link will take you there? Maybe? Spikey is the one who knows how to do it.
https://cgcookie.com/questions/14072-top-secret-fantasy-house-interior?page=1#answer-49022
He got charged in America for that one. Mutton munching in large quantities is highly illegal. Notice how the height markers are in inches.
