Architectural software for background?

[Comic.Kikikora]

Do people use Architectural software to draw their background??

[Rhonder]

I haven't yet, although I've briefly considered doing so just to see what it would be like xD

My job utilizes such software and especially since starting work-from-home I have full access to it after hours... but the thing that has been stopping me is that it's too much like work but after work hours lol. After modeling a building for work, do I really feel like modeling more for my comic? I dunno. GRANTED my comic has mostly taken place in natural environments so far. In a few episodes though the party will be visiting a city so... maybe I'll try it out??

[Aleksei]

There are some pages like Sketchfab who host 3D models of mostly anything. You can reference from there. Also, you can use Sims if you don't find what you want (some motherlode here and there, and you are good to go).
Some programs that I have heard of, but have not used, are Sketch-up and Daz3D. I have not idea how they might work, but I have heard praise from people about them.

[Lady_T_Musings]

I haven't used a specific software made for it, but I used to use the Sims. I've since switched to

Free 3D Home Planner | Design a House Online: Planner5D

for creating places I'll need a reference for. Idk the feel you're going for, but there is also https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/
it's more quaint and countryside fantasy looking, but it may inspire you.

[Puck]

I used Sketchup, Sketchfab, Sweet home 3d & the Sims.

Sweet home 3d has better angles than the sims, you can make a worm eye view easily and
also a bird eye view or ground level. The camera of the Sims is more limited

[Kaydreamer]

Not yet, but I recently downloaded a CAD app to model some spaceships in, so I could 'pose' them better and make more interesting and accurate drawings of them in my comics.

I think I can use that app to nail down the basic geometries of trickier interior spaces. I'll be giving it a try, because otherwise, the living space of my scruffy courier's spaceship is going to be an absolute trial to figure out. I can use perspective grids just fine when everything is rectangles, but the shape language of his ship, other than the cargo bay, is all triangles.

[JeanGuillet]

I use actual architectural software, then port over a collada file into Blender. I'm currently using Home Designer Pro from the ChiefArchitect guys. Blender has a free Archimesh add on that also lets you quickly set up walls, but it wasn't as robust. For a comic with a lot of interiors it's worth it because of all the little details like trim and vents and sockets and stuff that I forget to draw if I'm modeling 3d from scratch.