@Jorge:
If you want to know about the stairs, I believe there is a tutorial, oooohhhhhhh lookie gwhat I found in: http://www.blender.org/tutorials-help/tutorials/modeling/ ; http://download.blender.org/documentation/oldsite/oldsite.blender3d.org/2_Blender%20tutorial%20Building%20a%20Spiral%20Stair.html
Or you do a search on how to use the spin funtion, intrest might be robbur’s Mechanical tutoirals http://www.rab3d.com
I’m just watching the first part of your tutorial, and I just felt the urge to thank you A LOT. Really, I’ve found a side of Blender I didn’t know was there, its almost like I’ve found another application entirely. Many thanks from an architecture student.
edit: question. When you’re “closing” the doors and windows, after extruding vertically, wouldn’t it be easier to just duplicate the original floor plan, move it to the top of the wall, and then just remove doubles?
That’s a great suggestion! Thanks! And I can as well use it to close the top part of the doors and windows. I’ll add that to the tutorial when I get my PC back.
edit: I got my PC back yesterday and did again most of part 1 - also focusing bit more on using the snap tool. (I also get a new mike, so the sound is a bit clearer). Otherwise nothing much new to learn, so it IMHO does not make sense watching it again. But tonight I’ll try to add some 30 minutes or so for part 3 and try to bring it a bit closer to the final render, and spend few minutes on the interior as well - many people were asking…
Cheers
Bruxy
Wonderful job now that i actualy downloaded them 
haha
Can i have a copy of the blueprints you used so i can follow along? Or did you already post them and I just missed, however i don’t think so. I understand if you don’t want to, it’s great anyway. Thank you:)
Well, I meant the tutorial to be generic, so anybody can build the house he/she likes.
The blueprints I used were actually made by the architect, and I am not sure I would not break any copyrights by publishing them…besides, I am not too fond on posting the full construction documentation from my house on the web either.
But so you can practice…not to make you sad, I have erased the non-essential data from the two floor plans, added a side wiew and I will send that to you as a private message. In return, would you like to send me back your model when it is finished?
Cheers
Well @ ove:
There are literally thounsands of thoundsands of blueprints, just google:
House plan
Any update bruxy?
Hey, I am working on it. I was trying to figure out how to make part 3. There were some people asking to bring it a bit closer to the final render from outside, some others were asking for interior. I did not want to combine two in one tut, and I do not want to do two either.
So I have decided to change second part of the part 2 instead, make it a bit smarter and bring it bit further, and make part 3 only about interior a bit later. As I said, it is a bit smarter and it is 9 minutes longer…This is the last render from the tut:
I guess it is close enough to my the final render, so you folks can imagine that with few more hours of texturing and finishing details, (and some lighting fine-tuning) it will look almost real.
So then I will make a short one just for the interior. I’ll catch up with you on that one.
The new tut is just enconding in Virtual Dub. I will post this tomorrow morning - I still want to watch it before I post it.
(edit: uploaded)
Cheers
Bruxy
Hi,
Can’t wait to get home and download the tutorials again. Btw, didn’t you re-did the first one also?
Best regards,
Jorge
Yes, I did. There is a bit less manual verticle selection, face creation and manual aligning. and a bit more snapping, duplicating, removing doubles… bit more intelligent - I am happy with it now.
I guess it gives you more if you watch it first time, but if you ask me, whether I would download the part 1 and watch the whole hour again - I would not.
But anyhow, if you want to check what has changed:
In part 1 - it changes from closing the oustide walls right in the begining, through raising the house up till it reaches the roof. The roof retopo part is the same as before.
In part 2, it changed from creating the dupliverts for skydome (27th minute) until the end.
Hey, if you are really going to watch it again, let me know f you think it is better. Thanks.
Cheers
Bruxy
I don’t see it on the site (or here) yet.
So, please!
If you are looking for part 3, that one is still not done yet. I have changed part1 and part2 instead, to cover the questions that I was asked, and will do part 3 either over weekend or next week… Part 1&2 works…just checked…
Hi,
I don’t want to ’ push the bar’ but could it be possible to give , even if only a few hints, how to set up a video like the one for the virtual visit of the house?
Might contribute to this:
I remember someone said if … could use bruxy’s house blueprints.
Logically, bruxy, refused, however it is far from difficult to design your own, and you don’t even have to worry about copyright violations.
Just a few good Google result’s:
Thinks to think of when you want to draw one.
http://www.smallblueprinter.com/
Simple webapplication which you can drag and drop some basic stuff to make a blueprint (free to use).
http://andyshowto.com/room_design_floor_plans.htm
Yet a few more tips.
Might be an intresting site as well (not only the house design section).
Now the only interactive was the second link, I tried it and it was good but not perfect.
If you are confident of drawing your own house blueprints, use vector drawing programs.
Why?
It doen’t matter how far you zoom in in a vector drawing, you won’t get squares, like you do get with a bitmap editor.
The most famous, and perhaps one of the better is Inkscape, availible for almost all operating systems:
http://www.inkscape.org/
And very much instructional video’s (not house related, but still very good (and it’s updated very regular):
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/
Other for Linux are:
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
http://www.koffice.org/karbon/
Hope this helps some of you.
Offtopic:
If you talk about drunk at a wedding party :D:
Hi,
Not directly related to this tutorial, but still fairly in the theme, I’ve been trying for a while (even before this tutorial appeared) to model a house from the DXF blueprints and come to the stage of doing the rooftops.
I’ve attached a jpg file with the top view of the rooftop (the yellow arrows are the rain fall direction) so you see that’s no ‘2 plane’ roof.
Considering this image how you suppose it would be the best way to model it?
I would probably:
or cerate vertices where the edges end on the top part (or you might do that by slicing the base) - and move (or extrude) the isolated vertices up, and then create faces manually.
or you could make it as two meshes and boolean join them (but I would not go that way)
animation looks great, interior is very detailed.plz tell us a about modeling & lighting the interiors and thks for nice tutorials
Has you can see Bruxy, you’ve gathered a small fan group 
Hehe, thanks. For my fan group … 
I HAVE JUST UPLOADED
!! PART 3 !!
Get it, as always, on http://blender-house.spaces.live.com
It is about the interior, I have tried to touch on all the questions that you had in here, so it goes about furniture, lighting, texturing, UV mapping, staircase as well as camera fly through animation.
I know I said that earlier, but this time i really believe this subject is fully contained and the third part is FINAL. All the parts in the trilogy follow one the other; together they create a compact story. I took it a bit further than I expected, but I have enjoyed doing this. Thank you for your suggestions, questions and praises.
I will welcome any further questions or related discussions in here or on the forum that I have made available on my site. I will do my best to give you the answers.
Cheers
Bruxy
Dammit.
I’m 100% heterosexual, but I almost want to love you.
Why do you make tutorials that are fun to watch?