Gothic architecture in Blender - Full tutorial
In this video we will talk about how to model some of the basic elements of gothic architecture, such as the pointed arch, clustered columns and the ribbed vault.
Moreover, we will see how to build compound structures using modular pieces while still keeping an efficient polycount.
Timestamps
00:00 - The gothic vault
05:13 - Clustered columns
06:50 - Side panel
08:39 - Quaterfoil
09:39 - Pointed trefoil
10:47 - Real world scale
11:09 - Array & Istances
12:30 - Texturing tips
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Oh my gosh this is AMAZING! Thank you so much! Can't wait till this channel blows up. There is so little advanced blender tutorials like these out there.
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I really appreciate it :)
A few years ago, someone called Vyusur published a tutorial called "Gothic Arch modelling". In your tutorial, you used your own, original approach to geometric modeling. That's very interesting. I will definitely try to repeat your construction. 👍
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
It's alway good to try something different, isn't it? :) Let me know what your thoughts are on this process, I would appreciate it 👍
@haudtalis5036
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject I totally agree with you. I won't be able to report back on this lesson any time soon, because I'm very slowly making progress on your Corinthian capital. The construction of the volute has always stumped me. ☹
@haudtalis5036
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject So, I repeated this work of yours. It was interesting. You juggle the instances very cleverly, I am delighted. I noticed that you made a few simplifications, which, however, do not affect the theme of the tutorial. The right (outer) side of the right wing of cathedral is of course not identical to the left (inner) side. The right side always has mosaic windows, and the left arches are transitions to the central aisle of the cathedral, which has more than one storey. Once again, I will say that this has no bearing on the task of constructing the vault of a Gothic cathedral. I also found the thickness of the wall excessive, but that's just my impression. I must say that working with ancient architecture makes me feel inferior. Have you seen Glocester Cathedral, its fan vaults? Shock and astonishment! It's not very nice to feel a hundred times stupider than people who lived 1000 to 600 years ago. ☹ Same with people who lived more than 2,000 years ago, because I haven’t been able to build a Corinthian capital yet. 🤦♂ Tell me, signor, would you have been able, once you were in Ancient Greece, to build the Antikythera mechanism? I couldn't, although before I retired I was a skilled craftsman in making gears and reducers. And as a teenager I was interested in astronomy. 😃
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
You got it right my friend, this is simply a base study to be used as a foundation for more complex structures. There's a reason why we take the past as a valuable teacher, but I agree it can be daunting at times! 😄
@haudtalis5036
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject 👍
It's hard to believe you put all this content out there for free. You're a legend!
Excellent tutorial as usual! Please keep sharing architecture tutorials. Thank you!!!
Omg, the excitement of finding this channel was simply palatable. Thank you so much for making it and these wonderful tutorials.
thank you for taking the time to make a tutorial for us! very well explained for someone at my skill level. deserves more recognition!!
I loved the continuous use of modifiers and reuse of preexisting geometry to convert to and from curves! 10/10!
Wow you have no idea how much this has helped me out....amazing teaching skills and content, you will do very well with this channel....cheers again
I just stumbled on your channel and I am in awe! Amazing complex modelling explained very simply and clearly. Liked and subbed.
I learned a lot with this tutorial. Definetely one of the best tutorials I did. Essential, I say.
Llevo años con Blender, pero aun asi en tus videos he aprendido un monton de cosas nuevas. Muchas gracias por compartir tu trabajo.
Thank you so much. I'm modeling the churches and castel of my city and your tuto is really very helpful for me. Thanks from France
Amazing tutorial. Thanks for sharing and for your hard work. Greetings from Spain
Holy shit, this tutorial changed the way I do ANYTHING in Blender. I keep coming back to this because it's just THAT good. Thank you so much! I'm using so many of these techniques for my portfolio pieces!
Wow, I was waiting for this. Good job!
This is totally amazing and totally helpful. It's exactly what I was looking to find. Thank you very much!
i learnt so much more in this video.. your tips and tricks are amazing!
One of the best tutorials out there, quality material, quick yet informative, this channel deserves way more recognition! thank you for such gems!
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! 😊
OMG. I need this! Thank you so much!❤️I hope you will have the tutorials about the texture!
I made it to the end ! Thank you so much for this amazing video ❤🔥
You make it look so easy, thanks for your videos, they are amazing!
This video is 13minutes, but its like 2 hours deep. Great process. I might share mine thank you.
wow, super. I hope you continue to do similar tutorials, my friend.
Amazing job and thank you so much for sharing the knowledge. Greetings from México.
Recently found your channel. It’s an absolute gem bro. Keep it up
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Thank you mate! 🙏 🙂
Amazing tutorial man!! Keep up the amazing work, this really helped me.
Your Blender skill is far beyond :0
Been looking for this! Thank you!
that curve trick is super clever.
Good tutorial , very well explained!
can't get enough of these videos, good job!
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad you appreciate them 🙂
Very interesting and efficient modelling.
Beautiful, this will be very helpful, you have my gratitude.
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing.
This is truly the best video of gothic architecture modelling. You're doing a real lesson of architecture here as you take your time to detail every step, a massive thank you for this masterpiece 👏
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words 😊🙏
@Vassily_Andrzejczak
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject you are welcome ! :D
wow this is amazing what did I just stumble upon haha
Excellent! Now for the fan vault...
all your tutos are high value tutos thank you so much
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
It's nice to hear you found them helpful!
what a wonderful tutorial ...
excellent skill , really helpful, thanks a lot
Subbed bro you are amazing keep going !!
Inredible video. even tho it took me 3 days to create it myselfe. . Thanks alot
Quality tutorial! I learned a lot! One tip that might help: You can let the bevel of the curve follow an object outline. This is the same as extruding the profiling you do at the last step, but here you don't need to convert the mesh. This makes it a bit more of a non-destructive workflow :)
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello and thank you! That's absolutely true, I'll try to implement that kind of workflow in one of my next videos 👍
Wow, I love this so much.
Brilliant!!!! Thank you.
❤有意义而且伟大的工作🎉
Such a pleasure watching your videos
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Grazie caro! 🙂
@PixelForgeLab
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject prego ;)
Thank you king!!
Many thanks for sharing the file!!
Just great.
Очень хорошая работа, мэн!
Wish I could like this 100 times
13:33 how did you create a render of a wireframe view of your cathedral?
amazing video
😮You are a monster of Blender. Could you make some more especific vídeos explaining each of this technics you used on this vídeo? I'm a beginner and don't even knew that this could be made that way.
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello and thank you! A video on workflows/modeling tips is definitely on my to-do list 👍
7:40 - Why when I do this does it created warpness with shadow.. etc, in your one its creating a flat surface no?
You are so amazing
how do you came up with the number 24 for the vertex count on circle? never mind, you subtracted from the original circle, nice guid for this kind off suff, thank you!
11/10🤩
Thank you for your efforts, very useful content. Please, I really, really ask you to make a tutorial about texturing🙏
@hbitproject
6 ай бұрын
I have something like that in my backlog 👍
Great video Could you a rose window video ?
ty, its a good tutorial! but a little bit need to use my creativiti :D
you are Monster !
Hi, During the mirror part, may I ask why when I delete the empty reference, the object got deleted too?
@hbitproject
10 ай бұрын
Hello, I'm not sure I got it. You mean the entire object or just the mirrored part?
Havent you consider to use the boolean at 7:56 or something why not
i would be nice to have also compositing ... but great vid
niiice!
if any one comes across the issue of F key not working, first thing try checking if F2 pluggin is enabled at Top Menu > Edit > Preferences > Add On > (search F2 and check if enabled). Another issue I came across is that the F hotkey (fill face from edge) works if elements are of the same object, would would have to try and "join" the archs into one object before you try to use the F hot key i.e select all the archs > Top Menu > object > join and then retry to use the F hotkey to fill the faces
So good, would love if you make it abit slower and more friendly to follow
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
A tad fast, I admit it :). I'm planning a series of more in depth (and slower paced) videos to be released perhaps as a course. Would love to hear what you and other think about it 👍
@Fyat69
Жыл бұрын
You can always change the speed of the video to something more fitting for you!
Whenever I try to shade and subdiv at 2:00 it always comes out weird. Any reason why?
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello, have you checked your normals?
@6:02 i cant scale along any axis, can someone help me with this problem?
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello, can you send a picture/.blend file?
❤Your tutorials are really amazing! I learned so much from your channel. I am interest in Gothic architecture and trying to build them in Blender, but I had some trouble in modeling the pointed arch with tracery, I tried to build them with moulding and curves, but I found there was a connecting problem with 3 vertex of the crossing member, they always separate to 2 parts and couldn't connect like a branch, those curves seem like they can't work while I using the moulding. I really wanna know how can you create a tracery in Blender, thanks a lot!
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello and thank you! Do you have a .blend file I can check? I'm not really sure I understood your issue 👍
@dormancycui410
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject Yes I have one, but how can i show it to you?
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Send it to me via email 👍
@dormancycui410
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject Thank you so much, I had sent the file with email to you!👍
When adding the mirror, sub d, bevel modifers at 2:10, I ended up with 2 meshes.
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hello, could you share a picture?
Thank you so much! For free? For poor artists like me? You're my hero lol
8:14 there is obvious mistake in the structure ("roof" profile misaligned with gable profile), it was there already in 4:38.
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
That's interesting. I looked into it and there is a simple solution: at 1:54 select each vertex of the diagonal rib and (with global space orientation and snap enabled on vertex) align them (on the Z axis) to the vertices belonging to the frontal curve. Good catch!
@kling_sor6038
8 ай бұрын
No, that's just the way gothic vaults work. The diagonal ribs were following either a half-circle or a pointed arch. They wouldn't have followed the gable profiles because that would have led to far too complicated geometry, i. e. parabolas, which they weren't able to compute. So the version in the video is actually more historically accurate.
For some reason 8:30 isn't working for me properly can i get the blend file please?
@hbitproject
10 ай бұрын
Hello, there should be a link to a shared folder somewhere in the comment section 👍
@LousyCake
10 ай бұрын
maybe it got deleted but thank you so much for reaching out. can you create a new link? thank you :)@@hbitproject
@hbitproject
10 ай бұрын
@LousyCake here it is --> drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UiOFRfH51Y5YpJrpRwLVPSSdoCiorP0E
Piu Lento 😆
I'm having issues with the side panel. At 08:29 he's doing something with those borders, but it seems like he skipped some steps. To me it looks like it's extruded out, but then he extrudes it back the other way??? I'm not getting the same results for those edges and it's frustrating. Any help is appriciated!
@Domi6994
Жыл бұрын
Everything has been super clear until up to this point. I'm probably just still a noob, but I'd love to understand what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it. Awesome tutorials!
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
Hi Dominique! I simply separated the outlines and extruded them back into the panel. If you are having problems figuring it out I could share the .blend file. Let me know!
@Domi6994
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject Thanks for the quick reply! Some people never answer these questions or it takes weeks haha. So that's cool! And I really want to understand, so for now I'll try on my own. But if I keep failing, your blend file would be really cool to take a look at! But to be clear, what do you mean with seperated the outlines? It's something else instead of duplicating outlines and separating them like in the previous steps? And you did extrude those parts out first, right?
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
I simply took the contours, separated them from the rest, moved them a bit away from the panel and then extruded the outer outlines back into the panel. Let me know if this is giving you issues 👍
@Domi6994
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject I still don't get it, and I'd love to finish this piece. so by separated you mean you duplicated them and seperated that selection? So it's a different object from the entire sidepanel? Or is it still one mesh? To me it seems like it's still part of the mesh, and I can't wrap my head around it.
Wish you explained step by step
What is this music?
@hbitproject
Жыл бұрын
It's from an Italian composer (Mattia Vlad Morleo) 👍
@CheyBarrett
Жыл бұрын
@@hbitproject thanks man! Btw kudos and thank you very much for these amazing tuts 🙌
How to do it? 8:29 - 8:30
@hbitproject
11 ай бұрын
You mean the extrusion or the creasing?
excelent as usual
Noob mistake and I should know better, but make sure you apply your transforms to the arches before applying the mirror modifier at 2:00 or it will come out backwards and wrong.
@elwiwi2840
2 ай бұрын
ty man
I do all this in sketcup in one minute
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