Author Topic: Sir Dooble's Greco-Roman Themebuild - Rome wasn't built in a day  (Read 3386 times)

Hello!

Currently I am hosting a Greek/Roman themed themebuild.
The idea behind it isn't solely to let people build random things forever, but to get a collection of authentic-esque Greek/Roman buildings and structures and then put them together to form our own Roman city.

So far I have a couple of buildings with plans for more, but would love some people to give me company and provide some inspiration and support. The more people here the better.
For the most part going by your own inclination and ideas is good, but to get bonus points you should be looking at any reference images or text on buildings to get accurate ideas. While obviously limited by the Blockland gridbase and the inability to get perfect blueprints for such buildings it'd be great if we could have some really accurate representations of the Ancient world.
But that doesn't mean you can't be creative or consider the mystical.


So, if you're interested in building anything Greek/Roman, whether it's Temples, houses, theatres, stadiums, aqueducts or even landscapes/trees, then please do pop on down.
Anything built that does eventually get put into a town will be given full credit for, and it'd be nice to have a cool community project set in a solid theme.

Requests for helping the Server

Unfortunately I've not played Blockland in some time and am currently quite out of date with a number of resources.
That's why I would greatly benefit for any recommendations for Add-Ons to help the server and replace some of my antiquated items.


I gravely need a new colorset, having been using Yuki-tastic for over 3 years. It's a nice colorset, but it's very limited in it's Greys/Browns and it's soft colours (which are excellent for making decorated marble!).
If there are any good colorsets you can recommend they'd be greatly appreciated.

I also need some replacement files for some brick Add-Ons.
I happen to have an old copy of some Round-Brick-Corners, which include 4x4f circles and 6x6f circles, which have an awkward glitch where part of their texture is shiny and broken, as shown here.

Any packs that could replace such bricks would be very helpful.


And finally I'm also looking for any Print-Brick decals that could look like Roman/Greek Friezes/carvings, namely for a vertical 2x2f print brick. This one's a bit of a long-shot and I might be able to make some of my own, but they'd be helpful in places.


Pictures

Here's what I have so far. Hopefully this will be updated with some later examples.

Greek Tholos Temple - The Temple of Hercules (Rome)





Greek Temple - The Parthenon (Athens)






Egyptian seized Obelisk - Solarium Augusti (Rome)





Obviously there's room to improve on this, which I want to do.
With a better colorset I can make it a lot less monotonous, and with more people around I'm likely to pick up my own pace a bit more.

The biggest thing to hopefully build will be our own Colloseum, for which I definitely think I'll need some help.

So, please, feel free to visit whenever the servers up (which I will announce here).
I look forward to working with people on this.

Server Status
The server is currently up!
« Last Edit: April 29, 2014, 01:38:06 PM by sir dooble »


I like it very much.  :)


Rome wasn't built in a day but this village was


Those are all really nice builds :) I love Greek culture, if I could find a reasonable career path around old greek culture I would.


Those are all really nice builds :) I love Greek culture, if I could find a reasonable career path around old greek culture I would.
Have you ever considered studying Classical Civilisations?
I'm enrolled to study Ancient History (Classics) and Medieval Studies at the University of Wales.

I'm really looking forward to it.
And the career outcomes for it are plentiful, whether they're staying on with Universities to research, or working for museums as curators, or going into education. If you go into education at a university then you get ample resources to study what you want yourself and write on the topics, which you can then publish as an additional income.

I personally am interested in heritage, but also education too.
I think my rockstar dream though is that I somehow become a TV historian. :P


You should send me a message some time and we can chat about things. I don't know enough people interested in Classics to have any meaningful conversations about it.

Ooh that build looks nice! Too bad I can't build :(

Server is down for now.

Built a section of duplicatable Aqueduct, a nice Roman Fountain with help, and started a Chariot Racing stadium.

Will be back later. Hope to see some more people next time. Was nice having company.

I think my rockstar dream though is that I somehow become a TV historian. :P


But really I love Roman stuff specifically and this is really awesome looking! I'd love to see someone make someone make some Legionary Roman armor for blockheads with these

I think One Random Brick Pack has circular plates that aren't broken

I'm currently hosting the server for a couple of hours!

I'm composing a shopping list of Add-Ons and will soon start to grab all that I need, but am still after recommendations!
I need a good colourset with a number of good soft colours for marble, and greys for stone.
And some nice lights would be beneficial, to light up interiors without it being so harsh.


Please feel free to join. I'd love some company and would appreciate people joining and building their own things. It really helps for inspiration!

Let's see, here's some colorsets you may want to check out:
Awesome Colorset - Faded
Rainy Day
Natura Colorset
« Last Edit: April 22, 2014, 06:47:36 PM by TristanLuigi »


Dooble, i'd be honored to help. I can help build the Colosseum.

Also Truenos coloursets are pretty neat. Check em out.