Hi,
I am making a Spanish sytle cathedral, as with most catherdrals like that,
it has two towers. The towers themselves will have more polys than the main strucutre.....

Would it be best to have the towers seperately or all as one mesh? Which would work best in GS and other engines/
I also want tangent space normal maps on all....

Thanks,
James.

i have made an Italian cathedral myself. I found that things worked out easiest if i did it in pieces in seperate levels and saved the pieces as prefabs, then assembled all the prefabs together to make the final result. Compile times were about 100 times faster doing them a piece at a time as opposed to all in one level.

I would suggest doing one tower by itself, then break the main building up into sections (Nave, Asp, etc etc). That way you get faster compile times and you only have to make one tower, Nave, etc. instead of two. (Make one tower as a prefab then import that tower twice into the main level.)

caermundh seams to be the voice of experience with constructing them, so i won't try to add more to that

but if you want normal maps on it then the pieces should be models. level geometry is apparently really slow with shaders.

julz

Hi there, yes Im making it in 3D Studio,
I dont use level geometry where I can, only mdls.
I might put some shots up when Ive done the cathedral.
Thanks,
James.