As an architect, and professional sketchup modeler, I'm absolutely impressed by all of this. Your attention to craft and detail is top notch. Really well done.
Shad, would you consider sharing the sketchup file with us? I think some of your fans might be able to import the geometry into other 3D software, such as Blender, and make photorealistic renders of it. I think we’d all enjoy taking a tour of those gorgeous castle interiors.
Me (looks at time stamp) «WHAT?! How could Shad posibly manege to make a video thats only 5 mins long?!» (Watches video) «Oh» «There is no comentary» (hahaha ;) )
Please make a longer version where you talk about everything in it, and give some details for those of us that haven't been able to watch all your many videos on castles and don't understand or know all the terms.
@@shadiversity I know it’s been five years and all but I would like to know how many soldiers it takes to man all this 24/7. I was looking at it and I feel like the barracks and mess room just aren’t of a size to support that many soldiers.
This shows that you can design a castle that is functional, but still looks good. It proves my point: we must get Bethesda to hire Shad as an adviser for the next Elder Scrolls game.
I've wanted Shad to design a custom castle for a long, long, time now. And I am not disappointed. I suppose it's only a matter of time until this get's replicated in Minecraft. I can hardly wait...
I would love, and totally watch and re-watch, an absurdly long breakdown of every part of the castle going through the design process and considerations. I assume that's coming at some point. For the thrones, my guess would be the king, queen, and the head of the king's council or some such similar role (think GoT's "Hand of the King").
Elevation, effective layers of defenses, proper MACHICULATIONS!!! Is that the perfect castle? Oh and a sneaky back door as well, sweet! Can I move there?
RokuroCarisu Of course there are. I tried to look out for them. But my point was that I was disappointed he didn't point them out in huge capital letters at every single opportunity.
As an artist, history enthusiast, and a lover of architecture and functionality. All I can say is that this design is absolutely gorgeous! I know that it takes a lot of time and dedication to do this sort of work but I would love to see more stuff like this, I am sure others would as well.
germanvisitor2 - It doesn't encircle it several times, it just doubles back on itself once. Also, on the breakdown, it's show that they're only three exterior gatehouses.
The attention to detail is beautiful! It's so good to see a fully planned out fantasy castle that still has proper historical architecture. Great work, Shad!
Because a) videogame studios have as target group young people who focus on gameplay and don't care much about historical details or practical functions of castles b) TV /Hollywood script writers and producers SUCK ,they generaly do whatever they want killing any actuals historical facts and realism just to please the audience.Unfortunately military /historical advisors for movies are made redundant.
Really good you modeled not just the shell, but the internals and some furniture. Perhaps you could do the interiors of the gatehouses and courtyard buildings next ? Look at 3D printing, see how practical it would be to have this made.
Soldier :We cant take this castle the machicolation are slaughtering the men, the dragon is massacring the troops, we need reinforcements. Commander :Then storm the outer gatehouse!. Soldier :But we could never breach it. Commander :Yes we can, BRING THE POMMEL OF MASS DESTRUCTION! Soldier : But sir WHAT ABOUT THE DRAGON! Commander :Leave that to me. will our heroes finally breach this castle or be doomed to fail and let the dark lord shad rule supremely in terror unchallenged? found out next week, until then stay tuned and stay groove.
Although, there should be another video of what it actually looked like after the King ran out of money halfway through building it, and just said "Alright lads, just put a roof on what we've got and call it a day."
It's a great castle with lots of attention to detail and everything. But one problem I have with it is that the Chapel is right under the dining room. If I'm not mistaken, than the medieval modus operandi was to have the chapel having no other building or quaters on top, at least for the choir/altar part. Sadly can't give you any sources as these informations are from conversations I had with staff at Burg Eltz.
This is amazing. It's almost as if it was designed by someone who knows medieval castles inside and out, rather than just having a vague idea of how a castle is supposed to look like! It would be really nice if game, film, and television executives went through the trouble of reaching out to knowledgeable people for consultation when designing stuff like this. The details, small and large both, really make the castle seem like a place that was built and developed organically, making the best use of the environment to build up its defenses. I would not want to try to take this castle. Draw bridge, gatehouse, narrow path to next gatehouse, even smaller space and a draw bridge until the next gatehouse, outer bailey, YET ANOTHER draw bridge to the main gatehouse, inner bailey, and then again a draw bridge until you can reach the keep... I think I would rather invade Russia in the summer, at least then I would have the chance to end the war by Christmas!
Four gatehouses, four drawbridges, and at least three layers of stone wall. The madman actually did it. Woe be to the attacker that has to storm through all four of those heavily fortified positions, just to reach the keep. You'd need a small army of dragons to take that place.
Ya salting my under bit? best way to attack this castle is to not bother with it and wait until who ever lucky bastard is the lord of the place to come out of the castle out of temptation and paranoia with the entire garrison and then ambush his flanks with knights and dragon's.
This is simply amazing! So much effort invested and such a glorious outcome! I appreciate it good work mate! Also, those are some nice little MACHICOLATIOOOOOOONSSAH!
Suggestion 1: video about realistic armor-weapon interactions. For example, how much a sword can damage padded armor, and how powerful an arrow really is. Suggestion 2: Tabaxi of Volo's Guide would be an interesting choice for Fantasy Rearmed(since the archetypes of the other races of the book have already been covered, I think). And Turtle People maybe. Suggestion 3: more writing videos, they were awesome and extremely useful. Thanks for the attention, have a merry day
This is a really great model of a proper castle! I've watched quite a few videos/tutorials on how to model castles or castle elements in 3D software and I noticed that most people did not even have a fundamental understanding of how castles/castle elements work, what their purpose is and so on. Therefore, I really apperciate this model.
SHAD PLS MAKE A VIDEO WHERE YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TING! THE CASTLE, THE EVERYTHING!!! And would be awesome if you could put furniture and just a bunch of stuff around. Decorate the ballroom, throne room, other rooms, stables etc. And then talk abouy why, how, and what etc.
Not gonna lie this amazing project you've made will probably teach me as much about castles as I've learned from your other videos, and that is saying a lot as you've been a primary source for my quest to learn about medieval fortifications. Kudos to you old chum!
If I was a billionaire the first thing I´d do would be to A : Build this Beauty B : Equip certain rooms with modern technology ( Living quarters with Pcs, Wifi, Kitchen with a few things like a modern oven, obviously a modern toilet connected to a sewer system etc. ) C : Hire a ton of personel D : Move there and hold annual Medieval fairs, conventions and tournaments. E : Live like a litteral King F : Think about what I will do about dragon attacks
If I was a billionaire the first thing I´d do would be to A: Build either a giant mechanical flying dragon or generically engineer one B: Lay siege to your castle C: Have giant castle and dragon D: Move there and hold annual Medieval fairs, conventions and tournaments. E : Live like a litteral King F : Think about what I will do when 2 dragons attack
I think you should swap the Granary and the Blacksmith around. I've seen this on castles here in Denmark. The rather large castle of Hammershus on the Island Bornholm had a huge ganary built up to the inner bailey wall. This was used to collect grain as taxes from the farmers on the island. The castle ruins of Kalø north of the city of AArhus, had a rather small blacksmith, as a freestanding structure right past the outer gatehouse in the outer bailey. This was of course due to the inherent fire danger of the blacksmith, that you absolutely don't want to spread to nearby buildings. Other than this, it's a nice castle :)
Since you've been getting more and more popular there's more and more pressure to make my castles in my story more and more functional and realistic... and I love it.
We shall protect honorguard with the best defences Maaaaaaaaaaachiiiiiiiiiiiicuuuuuuuuuulllllllllaaaaaaaaatiiiiiiiioooooooooonnnnnnnssssssssssssss ahhhhhh
This way the kitchen heats up the main hall. Unless the cook is terrible, I don't see why the guests might hate the smell from the kitchen. Though I would place a kitchen under the dining room and connect them with a chute, so I could move the dishes between them with a small elevator, like it's done in Malbork Castle.
Honorguard is an awesome castle, no doubt about that. But it's also an ideal castle built in a vacuum. In real life medieval lords each had their own unique situation that they had to adapt their castle to. I think you should accept viewer submitted scenarios with which to challenge yourself in castle design. They would give you a 3D model of the landscape in which the castle must be built, along with a rundown of the resources available to the lord, the political & tactical situation he finds himself in, how many soldiers he's likely to have defending, etc.
I love the castle but what is a bit odd for me is the hill it sits on. It fits the castle perfectly rather than the opposite. What I mean is that you will be hard-pressed to find such a perfectly symmetrical hill in the middle of an otherwise flat land (also you need to take into account other things like access to fresh water etc.). I guess you could create an artifical hill but that would be really expensive with the technology of the time and the castle itself looks pretty dear already. It could be really neat if Shad could randomize the hill a bit and then use the now only almost perfect hill to build a castle on top of it which has to accomodate those imperfections. As for the other requirements you list, most large castles (Shad's castle is definitely not a small one - there are castles which are much bigger by land area alone but usually most of their area consits of a very large bailey) were not build in one generation or even century, they started fairly modest (e.g. Carcassone was originally basically a fortified house surrounded by old walls that survived from a former Roman military installation) and were built up over time. This also contributed to them usually not being as perfect and symmetrical as Shad's castle. So to summarize - Shad's castle is more or less ideal and i believe that that was the point. But it would be fun to break that ideal a bit now, create suboptimal conditions and still try to make the best castle possible given those conditions.
For bonus points, they should include what if any fantasy elements should be accounted for. A castle on the coast isn't such a great idea if you're defending against merfolk...
William Webb If they had the time, manpower, and resources, sure. But those things are never in limitless supply. Could it physically be done? Absolutely! Could it always be done? Often, but not always.
For a motte and bailey castle, sure. For something as large as this, I don't know. I guess it might have happened sometimes. But it was probably not nearly as common. Also, judging by the texture, Honorguard actually sits on a rock. You cannot make artificial rocks. And I am not sure how easy it is to build an artificial hill which will be stable enough to support a massive stone castle.I imagine this might be difficult and expensive to do even with modern technology, but I'm no construction engineer.
Great! I especially like the pseudo double gatehouse, you have to go through it one way and then back the other way through what's almost the same structure. Presumably there would be internal staircases and walkways connecting them? How about roof access?
As an architect, and professional sketchup modeler, I'm absolutely impressed by all of this. Your attention to craft and detail is top notch. Really well done.
That means a lot mate, thanks heaps ^_^
The best thing about it is that he modeled a functional interior which is the most difficult thing.
Shad, would you consider sharing the sketchup file with us? I think some of your fans might be able to import the geometry into other 3D software, such as Blender, and make photorealistic renders of it. I think we’d all enjoy taking a tour of those gorgeous castle interiors.
yes i would like to have this in vrchat and put the spawn at the first gatehouse XD
TheJaredtheJaredlong okay... can we build the castle?
I'm sorry, but where exactly do I park my dragon?
Hi Gopher, great so see you here mate! The dragon's perch is atop the Donjon, best view in the kingdom there, and he can sleep in the bailey.
shadiversity, but what if theres three dragons?
Show, you have a problem..
+Daenerys Brilliant xD
Dragons are like tanks: you can park them wherever you want.
I really hope games devs approach you to help them with castles. You are the perfect person for the job as a gamer and man of history.
This brings tears to my eyes.
Work of art you Aussie wizard, well done.
Me (looks at time stamp) «WHAT?! How could Shad posibly manege to make a video thats only 5 mins long?!»
(Watches video) «Oh» «There is no comentary» (hahaha ;) )
Please make a longer version where you talk about everything in it, and give some details for those of us that haven't been able to watch all your many videos on castles and don't understand or know all the terms.
Absolutely, so stay tuned ^_^
@@shadiversity I know it’s been five years and all but I would like to know how many soldiers it takes to man all this 24/7. I was looking at it and I feel like the barracks and mess room just aren’t of a size to support that many soldiers.
This shows that you can design a castle that is functional, but still looks good. It proves my point: we must get Bethesda to hire Shad as an adviser for the next Elder Scrolls game.
“But” still looks good? No, there’s a bit of engineer in our sense of aesthetics-it looks good _because_ it looks functional.
Tell that to Hollywood and video game designers. Maybe they'll listen if it comes from you.
Bethesda is going to crumble. The last fallout game is their doom.
There will never be another elder scrolls game lol. Only Skyrim remasters.
This is one of the most beautiful castles I have ever seen. Now I have a new goal for my P&P-RPG characters: One of them has to build this beauty.
I've wanted Shad to design a custom castle for a long, long, time now. And I am not disappointed.
I suppose it's only a matter of time until this get's replicated in Minecraft. I can hardly wait...
Anyone want a hour long version of this with Shad explaining every little detail to us? I'm completely up for that.
Dumb question: Why are there three thrones in the great hall?
I would love, and totally watch and re-watch, an absurdly long breakdown of every part of the castle going through the design process and considerations. I assume that's coming at some point.
For the thrones, my guess would be the king, queen, and the head of the king's council or some such similar role (think GoT's "Hand of the King").
The lord, his lady and the heir, maybe.
I'M ALREADY AHEAD OF YOU!!! BY ABOUT A MONTH!!!
Elevation, effective layers of defenses, proper MACHICULATIONS!!! Is that the perfect castle? Oh and a sneaky back door as well, sweet! Can I move there?
Machiculations with a botched talus is just .... worse than no machiculations at all
Well i wouldnt recommend to use that "Door"....
Thing of beauty. With a modest garrison, that could hold off any force as long as the food lasted.
Well... assuming that the attackers don't have modern artillery.
Or dragons, of course.
Or just a lot of gunpowder in the right places. (It would probably be cheaper to just starve the castle out.)
Is that a *custom* soundtrack. How awesome. Needs more machicolations though.
Disappointed when you were describing the outside of the castle you didn't just write MACHICOLATIONS for every angle.
Real nice work though.
Xentillus I fully support your opinion!!
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Lol! I actually yelled it out a couple of times and confused the hell out of my wife.
This is Shad we're talking about. Of course there are machicolations everywhere!
RokuroCarisu Of course there are. I tried to look out for them. But my point was that I was disappointed he didn't point them out in huge capital letters at every single opportunity.
As an artist, history enthusiast, and a lover of architecture and functionality. All I can say is that this design is absolutely gorgeous! I know that it takes a lot of time and dedication to do this sort of work but I would love to see more stuff like this, I am sure others would as well.
Well just look at all of those beautiful MACHICOLATIOOOOOOOOONS!!!
Shad this is incredible! I’m positively flabbergasted at the level of detail you managed to pour into this. This is awesome. I love it! Go you!
Well,this thing is so grand,that it can only be ended rightly using the pommel of mass destruction!!!
EDIT:thanks shad.
Ok... now build the darn thing! XD
I see you love the comments almost as much as I love this beauty. Great work.
All that's left to complete the picture is for the Lord of the Castle standing on the topmost turret and yelling "MAAAACHIIIICOOOOLAAAATIOOOONS".
Amazing detail on the castle! Serviceable AND beautiful! Great job as always, Shad!
Needs more gatehouses. At least seventeen are required.
I see a road that goes circling around the mound several times.
germanvisitor2 - It doesn't encircle it several times, it just doubles back on itself once. Also, on the breakdown, it's show that they're only three exterior gatehouses.
Sorry, let me rephrase my words: Now, I see in my mind a road that goes circling around the mound several times.
Ah, I see. Apologies, misunderstood.
It happens.
The attention to detail is beautiful! It's so good to see a fully planned out fantasy castle that still has proper historical architecture. Great work, Shad!
Fantastic work!!!
Why Videogame studios or makers of TV/Movies do not hire someone dedicated and knowledgeable like you is beyond my comprehension.
Because they themselves are not as dedicated and knowledgeable, so they do not value such dedication and knowledge.
Pricey maybe?
Because a) videogame studios have as target group young people who focus on gameplay and don't care much about historical details or practical functions of castles b) TV /Hollywood script writers and producers SUCK ,they generaly do whatever they want killing any actuals historical facts and realism just to please the audience.Unfortunately military /historical advisors for movies are made redundant.
oh dang, Kevin Macleod made a custom track for you? that's pretty cool
Well if I ever get the money. I found the proper building plans for my home.
Now you go crowdfunding it?
Cool castle now it's just needs the city surrounding it to really make it look like a awesome castle town/city
Bloody fantastic! Top job mate.
Viewing that makes me want to see the lives of people there getting on with their day to day tasks.
Really good you modeled not just the shell, but the internals and some furniture. Perhaps you could do the interiors of the gatehouses and courtyard buildings next ?
Look at 3D printing, see how practical it would be to have this made.
Soldier :We cant take this castle the machicolation are slaughtering the men, the dragon is massacring the troops, we need reinforcements.
Commander :Then storm the outer gatehouse!.
Soldier :But we could never breach it.
Commander :Yes we can, BRING THE POMMEL OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
Soldier : But sir WHAT ABOUT THE DRAGON!
Commander :Leave that to me.
will our heroes finally breach this castle or be doomed to fail and let the dark lord shad rule supremely in terror unchallenged?
found out next week, until then stay tuned and stay groove.
This is the ideal castle, you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
Although, there should be another video of what it actually looked like after the King ran out of money halfway through building it, and just said "Alright lads, just put a roof on what we've got and call it a day."
And my friends say my castle projects are ambitious...
They need to see this, I'm sharing it to them.
It's a great castle with lots of attention to detail and everything.
But one problem I have with it is that the Chapel is right under the dining room. If I'm not mistaken, than the medieval modus operandi was to have the chapel having no other building or quaters on top, at least for the choir/altar part. Sadly can't give you any sources as these informations are from conversations I had with staff at Burg Eltz.
Good show old chap! I've been watching this thing come together for months (I've only ween watching for months) and it is LOVELY.
A realistic castle,animated..brings tears to my eyes.
Suddenly I have the urge to play Minecraft
Yea I also got realy inspired by this. I think I'm going to build a castle based on this with the conquest reforged mod.
Same...
conquest is the best resource pack
Glad to see I'm not alone in that feeling.
The Sims 3 for me.
Ok, is there a millionaire here? We need someone to fund the building of this beauty. Enough people here who want to help buulding it.
menno graafmans Well maybe not build it full scale, but a smaller 3D printed model would be nice
This is brilliant! Both functionally and aesthetically!
This is amazing. It's almost as if it was designed by someone who knows medieval castles inside and out, rather than just having a vague idea of how a castle is supposed to look like!
It would be really nice if game, film, and television executives went through the trouble of reaching out to knowledgeable people for consultation when designing stuff like this. The details, small and large both, really make the castle seem like a place that was built and developed organically, making the best use of the environment to build up its defenses.
I would not want to try to take this castle. Draw bridge, gatehouse, narrow path to next gatehouse, even smaller space and a draw bridge until the next gatehouse, outer bailey, YET ANOTHER draw bridge to the main gatehouse, inner bailey, and then again a draw bridge until you can reach the keep...
I think I would rather invade Russia in the summer, at least then I would have the chance to end the war by Christmas!
Very well done. One of the few castles designes that I have seen on youtube that I legitimately like.
Absolutely GORGEOUS work! Well done!
This is cool because it gives a detailed visual breakdown of what a basically ideal castle would be.
A marvel of mo-....ancient engineering!!! Nice work Shad!!
Absolutely wonderful!
Well there's only one thing for it now. Turn it into a navigable environment and wander around it in VR ;-)
Shad! It would be my greatest Pleasure to build this castle In America! At least one that is similar to it.
Sir Shad of Honorguard, GREAT WORK!
Oooh it's finally done, I remember when you first showed this!
That thing looks secure!
This is a true work of beauty!
Thanks heaps, it certainly took a lot of work.
As someone who's into both castles and sketchup, I must say, you have some sweet skills
Thanks heaps mate!
This is exactly the video I have been searching for! Thank you so much!
Even chimneys for all the fireplaces. This is incredible!
That's a beast of a castle
Awsome and sophisticated design. Keep it up, Shad!
Now to kickstarter to get funding to build it!
I can only imagine the amount of time and effort that would have to go into making a model like this Jesus man that's beautiful!
Four gatehouses, four drawbridges, and at least three layers of stone wall. The madman actually did it. Woe be to the attacker that has to storm through all four of those heavily fortified positions, just to reach the keep. You'd need a small army of dragons to take that place.
I sense a game of one-upmanship coming on. Hold my beer.
Give me 10 men and a couple of climbing spikes and I'll impregnate the bitch.
Or Giants with slings.
why is every body going over land, give me a team of dwarves and i will come in through their own treasure vault.
Ya salting my under bit? best way to attack this castle is to not bother with it and wait until who ever lucky bastard is the lord of the place to come out of the castle out of temptation and paranoia with the entire garrison and then ambush his flanks with knights and dragon's.
This is simply amazing! So much effort invested and such a glorious outcome! I appreciate it good work mate!
Also, those are some nice little MACHICOLATIOOOOOOONSSAH!
This simply is... i don't even have the words, it's more than amazing... thee is stupendous!!!
Thanks so much mate, that means a lot ^_^
Shad's dream castle!
Love It, looks really good well done Shad :)
Nice mix of retaining and free standing walls. Never would have thought of that on my own.
The Servant's Entrance is a nice touch. Can't have the nobility mixing with the common rabble now can we?
Magnificent. Great work.
Suggestion 1: video about realistic armor-weapon interactions. For example, how much a sword can damage padded armor, and how powerful an arrow really is.
Suggestion 2: Tabaxi of Volo's Guide would be an interesting choice for Fantasy Rearmed(since the archetypes of the other races of the book have already been covered, I think). And Turtle People maybe.
Suggestion 3: more writing videos, they were awesome and extremely useful.
Thanks for the attention, have a merry day
This is a really great model of a proper castle! I've watched quite a few videos/tutorials on how to model castles or castle elements in 3D software and I noticed that most people did not even have a fundamental understanding of how castles/castle elements work, what their purpose is and so on. Therefore, I really apperciate this model.
It would be even better if it has a dragon-room and a reserve storeroom for pommels in the keep
When you think about it, cannons fire metal balls. So a cannon is just a pommel delivery system, which is also why they were so successful.
Isn’t a mace what you get and when you turn an entire sword into a pommel.
Sooooo.... Epiiiiccc....
* *basks in the glory* *
Amazing choice of music, 99/10
(No I did not forget a zero)
I would want to live here for sure (as a lord ofc not some common pauper lol). Cozy, functional, aesthetic, safe what more can you ask.
Hazzmati I'd be fine as his lordships tailor. Whip up some nice doublets and justaucorps.
Air conditioning.
Without an elevator? Fuck no!
SHAD PLS MAKE A VIDEO WHERE YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TING! THE CASTLE, THE EVERYTHING!!! And would be awesome if you could put furniture and just a bunch of stuff around. Decorate the ballroom, throne room, other rooms, stables etc. And then talk abouy why, how, and what etc.
Not gonna lie this amazing project you've made will probably teach me as much about castles as I've learned from your other videos, and that is saying a lot as you've been a primary source for my quest to learn about medieval fortifications.
Kudos to you old chum!
If I was a billionaire the first thing I´d do would be to
A : Build this Beauty
B : Equip certain rooms with modern technology ( Living quarters with Pcs, Wifi, Kitchen with a few things like a modern oven, obviously a modern toilet connected to a sewer system etc. )
C : Hire a ton of personel
D : Move there and hold annual Medieval fairs, conventions and tournaments.
E : Live like a litteral King
F : Think about what I will do about dragon attacks
If I was a billionaire the first thing I´d do would be to
A: Build either a giant mechanical flying dragon or generically engineer one
B: Lay siege to your castle
C: Have giant castle and dragon
D: Move there and hold annual Medieval fairs, conventions and tournaments.
E : Live like a litteral King
F : Think about what I will do when 2 dragons attack
This means WAR!
Just wait until I get my hands on 3 dragons!
but i have 4, hmmmm, that just mean the two of you will ally against me
I think you should swap the Granary and the Blacksmith around. I've seen this on castles here in Denmark.
The rather large castle of Hammershus on the Island Bornholm had a huge ganary built up to the inner bailey wall.
This was used to collect grain as taxes from the farmers on the island.
The castle ruins of Kalø north of the city of AArhus, had a rather small blacksmith, as a freestanding structure right past the outer gatehouse in the outer bailey.
This was of course due to the inherent fire danger of the blacksmith, that you absolutely don't want to spread to nearby buildings.
Other than this, it's a nice castle :)
*tears of joy* This is beautiful!
Since you've been getting more and more popular there's more and more pressure to make my castles in my story more and more functional and realistic... and I love it.
We shall protect honorguard with the best defences
Maaaaaaaaaaachiiiiiiiiiiiicuuuuuuuuuulllllllllaaaaaaaaatiiiiiiiioooooooooonnnnnnnssssssssssssss ahhhhhh
This is one of the best looking thing i've ever seen. Really a nice job! i love your 3D works.
Wow this is so cool great job dude:)
Was wondering when this video was coming. IT'S HERE EVERYBODY!
Kitchen under the main hall is probably a bad idea. The smell, and all that...
Great job! Even history couldn't do better!
Not unheard of, Colchester, Hedingam and Rochester Castles, three castles local to me, all had the main kitchens below the main hall.
This way the kitchen heats up the main hall. Unless the cook is terrible, I don't see why the guests might hate the smell from the kitchen. Though I would place a kitchen under the dining room and connect them with a chute, so I could move the dishes between them with a small elevator, like it's done in Malbork Castle.
it is also not unheard of for there to be an external kitchen
Great castle. i love that it has an Oubliette.
suddenly felt like building this in Minecraft! AWESOME work!
As much as I love Minecraft, you're better off using Medieval Engineers (available on Steam) for building a realistic castle.
that is kinda true, tho minecraft is better for details
Mmmhhhmm! beautiful!
I think this is going to be very inspiring for a little project I, myself, am working on. Cheers to that, Shad, my boy!
Hey, Shad, do you want to build a castle? I'll bring a shovel!
I'm not sure how much good that shovel is going to do.
Well, if you really think so, would you mind bringing some bottled water? Some snacks too if you have them?
Sure, can you bring a couple pickaxes?
A French shovel, or an English shovel ?
It says, "MADE IN CHINA."
I WANT THIS AS MOD FOR SKYRIM ASAP!!!!
I would love to see this built some day :) good work Shad.
Impressive work! love the channel
I just knew that you were going to put up a video after uploading this on deviantArt. :D
This is work of art, a true masterpiece! Congratulations Shad!
P.s. I also made several castles in google sketchup and I really enjoyed doing it
Honorguard is an awesome castle, no doubt about that. But it's also an ideal castle built in a vacuum. In real life medieval lords each had their own unique situation that they had to adapt their castle to. I think you should accept viewer submitted scenarios with which to challenge yourself in castle design. They would give you a 3D model of the landscape in which the castle must be built, along with a rundown of the resources available to the lord, the political & tactical situation he finds himself in, how many soldiers he's likely to have defending, etc.
I love the castle but what is a bit odd for me is the hill it sits on. It fits the castle perfectly rather than the opposite. What I mean is that you will be hard-pressed to find such a perfectly symmetrical hill in the middle of an otherwise flat land (also you need to take into account other things like access to fresh water etc.). I guess you could create an artifical hill but that would be really expensive with the technology of the time and the castle itself looks pretty dear already. It could be really neat if Shad could randomize the hill a bit and then use the now only almost perfect hill to build a castle on top of it which has to accomodate those imperfections. As for the other requirements you list, most large castles (Shad's castle is definitely not a small one - there are castles which are much bigger by land area alone but usually most of their area consits of a very large bailey) were not build in one generation or even century, they started fairly modest (e.g. Carcassone was originally basically a fortified house surrounded by old walls that survived from a former Roman military installation) and were built up over time. This also contributed to them usually not being as perfect and symmetrical as Shad's castle. So to summarize - Shad's castle is more or less ideal and i believe that that was the point. But it would be fun to break that ideal a bit now, create suboptimal conditions and still try to make the best castle possible given those conditions.
I thought they created artificial hills for their castles all the time though.
For bonus points, they should include what if any fantasy elements should be accounted for. A castle on the coast isn't such a great idea if you're defending against merfolk...
William Webb If they had the time, manpower, and resources, sure. But those things are never in limitless supply.
Could it physically be done? Absolutely! Could it always be done? Often, but not always.
For a motte and bailey castle, sure. For something as large as this, I don't know. I guess it might have happened sometimes. But it was probably not nearly as common. Also, judging by the texture, Honorguard actually sits on a rock. You cannot make artificial rocks. And I am not sure how easy it is to build an artificial hill which will be stable enough to support a massive stone castle.I imagine this might be difficult and expensive to do even with modern technology, but I'm no construction engineer.
Truly epic!
utterly amazing!
But does it have...
MACHICULATIONS!!!
i spotted them on the wall and corner towers, but not the big central tower (is that the donjon?)
Really wouldn't be much point having them there.
Yes
Is it wrong that I feel tempted to try and probably fail to build this in minecraft?
No me too though
I am trying to build it rn
It's been added to a MCPE Builder but good luck trying
Fascinating and wonderful. I can watch this time after time and still see new details undiscovered before.
Outstanding work!
if only videogame designers make at least a half of the efort you put on this when making castle like structures... XDXD you did an amazing job sir :)
Great! I especially like the pseudo double gatehouse, you have to go through it one way and then back the other way through what's almost the same structure. Presumably there would be internal staircases and walkways connecting them? How about roof access?