W.I.P. #4 - Nancy

Hello helloo! I’m back with some updates on the Nancy set!

This week was a bit slower and came with a few struggles, both personal and CC-wise, so I was only able to create three items. I finally tackled the piece I was most intimidated by: the stairs aaaghh! I quickly realized they weren’t necessarily complicated, just a bit tricky. The texturing and UV mapping were definitely the hardest parts, but I think I managed to get some pretty solid results.

There are three swatch variations in total: wood with blue marble, wood with red/brown marble and full wood, so you can use these stairs in almost any build. I also made them compatible with the newest stairs update, so they should stretch correctly. For those of you interested in the more technical side, I included a few extra images: one shows the vertex paint needed to create the steps. The black and red areas represent the parts that never move and always stay as the edge of the stair, while the gradient from green to yellow indicates the sections that stretch or repeat when you make the stairs larger, pretty cool, right? The other image shows my first attempt at creating highlights through texture painting in Blender instead of doing them by hand. It worked surprisingly well, I just had to export it with a an alpha layer!

Next up was a handrail! I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do this before, so I wanted to create one that could be placed on any wall to elevate the look of a stairway. Of course, I underestimated how many variations would be needed and ended up having a bit of a breakdown halfway through 😅 I thought it would be easy, but then realized I needed different angles, stackable pieces, mirrored versions for opposite walls and additional parts for landings. It honestly felt like a never-ending task but it’s finally done! There are both metal and wood swatches. It’s not perfect, but the stacking works nicely for each half tile.

Finally, after those complex and brain-draining objects, I needed a creative break, so I made a few coffee table books! In the images, I included some of my favorite swatches. The model itself is quite simple with low poly count, but the fun part was searching for beautiful artwork and designing all the covers from scratch. I felt like an editor-in-chief for a moment and although it took a ton of time, I’m really proud of how they turned out!

And that’s pretty much it for this week! Don’t forget that the Beauty Set is now available to the public, and I’ll see you in the next update ✨