Habsburg Castle

Plastered castle wall created with Photoshop and Substance Alchemist

Plastered castle wall texture set

The castle, distant terrain, and sky were rendered in Unreal Engine. The foliage and footpath are a matte painting.

Low-poly quoins for the corners of buildings. The height map was created in ZBrush, then taken into Substance Designer for texturing.

The low-poly geo for the quoins. It's nothing more than an L-shaped sheet with a bevel and a few horizontal slices to assist the tessellation algorithm; the shader's displacement does all the heavy lifting.

Quoins texture set

Trim sheet for stone walls and certain other features, like the chapel windows. The blocks were sculpted in ZBrush, then the height map was taken to Substance Designer to make the other maps.

Wooden roof shingles that were painted orange. Created entirely in Substance Designer.

Wood shingles procedural texture set

Alternate shingles height map to go with a weathered version of the material

Wider shingles for the hips of the roofs. Like with the quoins, these are mapped to flat polygons and displaced.

One of the primary wall materials. The albedo is intentionally left somewhat bland and uniform so that I can multiply grunge over it in the Unreal material editor. Heightmap generated in Zbrush.

"Disco ball" version of that last material.

Another wall material, this time of stones of mixed sizes. Shown here is an alternative version of the albedo, which has more color to it than the primary version. Using masks, I mix between the two versions in-engine for medium-scale variation.

A wood plank texture used on walkways around the castle's curtain walls. Quickly created using B2M and Photoshop.

Wood planks texture set

A basic plaster material created rapidly in Photoshop and Knald.

Basic plaster texture set

Top view of the castle, sans colors

Wireframe over shaded model, captured in the Modo viewport. All of the extra, "unnecessary" edges are for vertex coloring and slight warping.