CGAN Dec25 -Gingerbread House - WIPs

I reworked my plate and started playing with gingerbread but I still can't really get the effect I want so both colour and bump needs some more work. 

 

Well I had a go at the gingerbread and got this...

 

Not quite what I had in mind.
Part of me thinks that there should be some subsurface effect in there but when I tried that it looked stoopid. Maybe it just needs better lighting with an HDR.
Also I tried to cut some windows into the walls but the solidify/bevel/subdivision modifiers really didn't like that idea.

May have to go to Youtube for a bit to see how they do the textures

Jesus H Christ *@%$ Blender &^@# crappy @$£*& modelling 

Herbert?

And Val, your gingerbread texture looks better than mine. If you change it can I have your current one?

Hypothetical 

Hypochrist.

One of the suspects in today's dose of Death in Paradise bears the surname Herbert.

Charlotte wrote:

And Val, your gingerbread texture looks better than mine. If you change it can I have your current one?

I'm not sure I'm changing it just yet but yes. Yes you can.
Here's the node setup...

 

It's just two noise textures with different scales combined through a Colour Mix node set to multiply and then goes to a bump node and a colour ramp.
I'm not sure the two colours in the gradient are quite right and I may also send the texture to a displacement node too but that would need more subdivisions and I'm not ready for that kind of sloooowness yet.
But I was right, it does look a little better with proper lighting.
 

That's almost twice as many nodes as I have

Edit: And my Principled BDSM ( ) node doesn't look like yours. And when I tried to experiment with a value in it, Blender stopped responding. (And no I hadn't saved my changes. Not that I can't do them again. And my gingerbread looked more like lava than like Val's gingerbread anyway)

Oh it's responsive again. *saves* 

Meh. If I put the noise textures parallel I get the bump I want but not the texture and if I put them "serial" I get the texture I want (more or less) but no discernible bump.

I'm too tired today (had to leave home at 7.20 and the cat decided we shouldn't sleep, around 4.30 to 5). I think it's a bit more TV and then night night.