Modular Austrian House Update | Weekly Update #29

This week I show you something neat and artsy I have been up to recently, a new modular house setup!

I have learned the basics from a GameDev.tv course about how to go about setting up a modular building; however, that version was without any interior setup and the walls having no thickness, which sadly doesn’t work for my use case.

So I went to work and made a new version – with wall thickness and interior walls. The first fun challenge is that now you have to worry way more about intersecting wall sections and z-fighting… yay, so much fun 😉

To get around this, I decided to have different modules: some where the interior walls will be the same length as the outside wall and some where the interior wall is shorter. This avoids any kind of z-fighting on corners as the interior wall won’t reach the outside wall of the other module.

Once I had all my modules in place, it was time to create the first rooms to eventually make up a whole house in the end.

To have some idea what I am doing (I already have 5-in-1 jobs as an indie dev, I don’t also need to become an architect 😄), I create a pureRef reference board to get the proper Austrian-style house right.

So following my reference and utilizing my modules, I kept going until I had a decent enough house together. There was a lot of back and forth and adjusting along the way to make it feel ‘right’.

Things that are really important to me for that are:
> The ground floor being made out of stone/brick.
> Upper floors made out of wood
> Balconies on at least one floor (for rainy day coffee breaks and flower pots 😁)
> Wooden roof decorations (ideally cute ones 😉)
> Cute window shutters

One of the adjustments I made at a later point was adding a more finished and less rustic railing for the balcony. It also gave me the opportunity to add some more subtle heart decorations that go perfectly with the roof decorations ☺️.

And the final step was then to add it into the game and add interactive items and finishing touches i.e. doors and flowers.

I think I have come very far from my first house model to this latest one, and it only took a couple of weeks and a good tutorial. 😁

Thank you for reading and have an awesome week out there 🌈👋