Residental Houses> Speed modeling, any suggestions?

[Zdravko Barisic]

Hi,

What workflow would you pick up for plenty of residental houses?

Nothing special about geometry, simple northamerican west/prairie style, with flat walls, no wood boards over it...

 

1. 3DS MAX with AEC walls, etc...?

2. 3DS MAX with some plugin like FutureArch?

3. ArchiCAD with 3DS export, with basic-medium level skills?

....

I would really appreciate every suggestion!

Thanx in advance!

[Justin Hunt]

simple poly modelling, with detail where detail is needed.

 

jhv

[Ciro Sannino]

In case you need to model some roof this plugin is very fast and simple!

I wrote something about here: http://www.cg-blog.com/index.php/2011/10/10/3d-roof-script.htm

 

hope this helps

[Scott Schroeder]

What Justin said.

 

Just re-use items as well. You probably have the same windows and doors so only make one and copy it around.

[John Dollus]

archicad would be a good choice as you can create your basic elements there (doors, windows, trim profiles etc) and use the procedural modeling tools in archicad to knock those out in seconds.

for repetitive modeling with slight variations in dimensions only between house models, any bim tool like Archicad is going to be much more efficient than a poly based program like Max

[Corey Beaulieu]

You can also just model one or two houses and then get creative with the symmetry modifier.

 

Also, if you model using a certain dimensional standard, you could just create a "kit-of-parts" and mix and match to your hearts content.

[heni30]

I don't know what your hourly rate is but there are a lot of autocad people out there looking for

work that you can sub it out to for a very reasonable rate; epecially if it's a biggish job.

 

Us artists have better things to do.

[Zdravko Barisic]

Thanx to everyone!