Zerynthia Arthrocology

Hello all! Part three of the duo contest entry... sure. As usual for my yearly summer contest entries, I put in a huge amount of planning and effort to make this bigger-than-genesis-turtle butterfly city complete with major organics overhaul, infrastructure planning and plenty of jukebox music. Do note that its context is a sequel to the story Hero , so do check that out too, and for the worrying sake of music licensing, I would have to remove some adfly links to your own convenience . As usual, due to time constraint and pretty poor planning, I couldn't add more features than I would have, but it's still strikingly complex enough. Enjoy!





FUN FACT: Although all butterflies do have six legs, the largest family of butterflies called the Nymphalidae are known to stand on only four feet instead of all six as its fore limbs are held up against the body; it's only as useful as our own appendices. There was no space to put even one leg on this butterfly...



EDIT: Woot, third place : personal highest ranking building solo alongside teams in a project contest! Thanks guys for all the great support for this vacation project! Now since the contest is over I will freely release the Youtube links for easier jukebox listening.





Mods and programs used:



MCEdit 1.5.3 and 2.0 alpha



WorldPainter for template export



Voxelsniper and WorldEdit through personal premade 1.9 Bukkit server for organics



Sketchup Make for butterfly model reference



Optifine for performance (interface and texture effects omitted from pictures)



Chunky render



Paint.NET for template making and render edits



Background Story