Hello, I’m making a Roman camp (4th century) on a hill which will be used as a lobby for team 1. The area outside the fort will be able to be reached as well.
The problem is that I feel like something is missing but what I do not know.
Do you have any tips to make the lobby look more realistic and appealing?
Thank you!
I can’t really judge the architecture present, though the terrain looks pretty nice.
When building something historical, it is always important to remember what people, in this case the Romans, had at that time. I doubt soldiers would have time to use stone bricks to build a camp. In addition, it honestly looks more similar to a fort.
Back then everything would’ve been hand made. Despite Roman soldiers being capable builders, I doubt they could do something like that, especially considering the strife the Roman Empire would’ve been suffering in their conquests.
P.S. I will go over stuff in more detail when I have the time.
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During war, the Roman Empire would, of course, need infantry to fight for the war effort. However, as you should know, Roman Soldiers would’ve had to march towards their destinations. These marches would usually be twenty-five kilometres, if the territory was inside the Roman Empire itself, or hundreds of kilometres if these were borderline battles.
Then imagine the weight each soldier has to carry. A Roman soldier’s armour and weapons, including their gladius, scutum and two pilla all weigh over twenty kilograms and that’s not even including their backpack carries everything they need, including food and all the tools ,spade, saw, pick-axe and basket, they need to build a temporary camp, as camps are usually temporary. Roman Camps were usually just some tents with a makeshift stable for the horses carrying heavier supplies.
Roman soldier’s also usually had to build the path they walked on, for future legions. Each legion has close to 5,000 men, divided into cohorts of about 500, further subdivided into centuries of around 80-100 men. Now imagine the size of the camp if Roman forces usually moved in groups from 3 to 10 legions of soldiers.
So we have a camp that is needed to be built to fit from 15,000 to 50,000 men who have marched across Europe wearing extremely heavy equipment and needing to literally build the road they’re travelling on (including bridges if they came across vast lakes).
First of all, use a paint brush plugin to make the trees. Second, add more hills. Third, add grass. Also, add things like fallen logs, flowers, and stuff with the paint brush tool. Add a river if you want. Add mountains in the distance.
Edit. Make the fort more detailed, use different materials.
The terrain is good.
However, that is more of a castle/stronghold than a camp.
I also would suggest you add more detail to it as it looks a bit bland.
I suggest you change the trees.
Agh man. The build is plane and simple but I agree I can’t find things that should be added to improve it. I do suggest maybe using a more darker shade of gray because rome is quiet a dark empire. I feel like slate would look could on this building so I would probably add a touch of slate to it. Other than that man the only other thing I could really suggest to you is to get some torches and put them around the castle. I think that would look good. Other that that, great work pal you’ve done good.
Did you use a reference image to base it off the actual build in order for it to come together? Plus, what you added what I’m assuming is a castle - fort it’s usually other props and buildings surrounding the entire area so i would assume if you place more smaller buildings it would look more realistic and not bland.
If you look at (Roman camps) you’ll see there is a protected wall surrounding the buildings keeping it come danger place tents and smaller buildings cottage and shacks to have that resemblance of a camp i know these types of areas don’t feature a fort they more have a wall surrounding the buildings, I would recommend adding detail. An idea could be using reference images as guide and layout your props.
By the way, if your wanting a realistic approach its good to use textures and meshes to produce that feel. Not sure if that’s already planned out.
I based it on the picture below:
I will make use of all the tips above and might make the fort a bit larger with more towers on the sides to make it look better.
I also made use of a mesh as background but it didn’t look that good, using terrain will be way better for me. So I’m going to use it as background instead.
EDIT:
Just found these 2 4th-5th century forts:
Definitely adding more towers 
