Project 3 3D – environments

Mood board

To start off this project I had to find some references to use after i was given the task of modelling a residential building .I found it difficult to find many high quality pictures that included residential buildings. Subsequently this caused me to get lower quality pictures.

First stage of creating my model

In this first screenshot I had only just started creating the basic shape of my residential building by resizing a cube and planning to use it as the main body of my building. Furthermore i also used the provided humanoid figure to correctly scale my model.

Detail

At this stage of creating my model i had gone over a few different design changes and had decided to add details such as windows, a porch and a door.To attach these different polygons to my model i made use of the combine tool, which turns two different models into one model by attaching them together.Utilising this tool i created the porch of my building separately and attached it to the main building once it was completed.While adding these details to my building  i avoided creating shapes with more than four sides on a face to prevent the creation of ngons  that would make texturing and importing my model more difficult.

UV checking and unwrapping

In this image i applied a UV checker onto the model so that i could make sure that all the textures on my model would be the same resolution.I also had to use the cut and unwrap tool on every shape present on my model so that I would be able to resize the textures.furthermore i had to fit all of the unwrapped shapes into a certain space so that i would be able to  apply my textures in substance painter.

Texturing 

In this screenshot I used substance painter to apply a base layer to my residential building and then add dark brown accent to the buildings supports, the door and the porch.

Conclusion

To conclude i believe my attempt at making a residential house was successful as it allowed me to learn skills that i will definitely use in the future when creating other models.However if i were to create this model again i would try to focus more on the old western aesthetics of the house.