the piece of inspiration

The decorations in the corners of the upper and lower squares are simple extruded splines. Be creative yourself or find reference on Google.

Model a wall and bolean a hole for the window out of it. In general it is better to put the holes into the wall like they were made on the shutters, because I don't completely trust Bolean Operations ;), especially because Boleans mess up the geometry and senselessly increase the poly-count. This time however, I was too lazy!
Build a windowframe and a windowsill and to round it off, shuffle around the small parts of the shutter. Make it look eroded.

Pay attnention to the detail: create as many as possible, really many! Have I mentioned details yet? ;)
Of course you can polish up your scene with good textures, but it a very important aspect to make the models as detailed as you can. If you are stuck, get a digi-cam or a sheat of paper and go outside. Nature features the most details!

M o d e l l i n g

The modelling is kept quite simple, because I wanted to concentrate on textures.

So, let's begin. The windowshutter (I will only go into those here) are but boxes with some extruded faces, that were moved into the desired position.

So, fangen wir an. Die Fensterläden (ich werde hier nur auf die Fensterläden näher eingehen) sind einfache Quader mit einigen extrudierten Flächen, die ich dann einfach zurecht gerückt habe.

The large polygons in the center are deleted and the vertices in between are welded, so that you are left with a nice hole right in the middle of the shutter. Then create one of the small boxes and copy them along the shutter to fill up the hole.

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L i g h t i n g

So, let's move on to the lighting. Many will only think about lighting, when the scene is completely down, ie. when it is ready textured. Myself, I prefer to light my scene as soon as the modelling is complete, before it is textured, because I like to see where I'm going as early as possible.

I used a shadowmap for this scene. That way it just looks more realistic. Look around outside. There're few houses that don't have some tree's shadow cast on them. I also placed a simple box in front of the light, that represents the shadow of a roof on the other side of the road.

There's not much else to say about the lighting. Since I used Global Illumination, I managed to setup the lights quite quickly. Naturally you can create the same or a similar lighting without a GI-Renderer - but it will indeed take a bit longer.

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T e x t u r i n g

Ok, comming to the fun part of this turoial, the textures! ;)

W i n d o w s h u t t e r s

I allowed myself some time to browse the 3D Total Texture CD's, and struck gold: a great texture for windowshutters. I intened to have the wood look a tad older even, so I picked some other texture- and dirtmaps, played around with layers in Photoshop and ended up with this: