Modular 3D tiles

Background/scenery: spaceship interior sample

Modular approach

In this attempt, I tried a modular tile-based design. Walls, corners, floor and ceiling consider of single elements, which can be combined in various ways to fit together. Each element has several variants, usually.

I consider it failed, for various reasons:

• It is by far not as efficient as I first thought. You need to pay a lot attention, else you will experience mysterious little gaps here and there. This may get better with more experience and a better workflow though.
• To not have the interior look overly repetitive, many sets and variants must be added. The complexity increases with every addition, either at construction time, to make sure everything fits with everything, or at assembling time, when you have to work within a huge set of constraints (A cannot go next to X, B can go next to Y just be aware of caveat M and N, etc.)

Really failed?

I expect to discover special cases, where modular sets of 3D-tiles will be useful. For now, there are more ideas I need to try out, and compare with each other.