lighthouse

Well, I decided to start getting better at textureing and makeing buildings and landscapes. So what better way to do so than make a seen with a lighthouse!

c&c is welcome

Also I have photoshop, are there any good tutorials on advanced texturing for both photoshop and blender?

for now the shape is fine.
try to be fast, i can´t wait to see da finished work :smiley:

ohh i forgot to C&C lol try to get the base more detailled

All the light houses that I’ve seen do not spread out at the base in an exponential manner. The one’s I’ve seen taper in a linear progression.

Thanks for the quick replies, I will detail the lighthouse by adding windows and little indoor things you can see through the windows :slight_smile: Also on another note I am modeling the base after some lighthouse I saw on like the history or discovery channel, it spread out like so, and I thought itl looked rather cool.

ohh, i love discovery channel, i´ll model an animal a edocational animal…
maybe de scooby doo… :stuck_out_tongue:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/Haker/lighthouse2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/Haker/lighthouse.jpg

Haven’t gotten much work done in blender for most of my work is being done in photoshop. Can anyone reccomend some good refrences for photoshop tutorials?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/Haker/rock.jpg

I am very poor on my ability to create incisions in my mesh and then put in a window or a door, does anyone have any advice to offer on such a subject?

The quick way would be to delete a few (or just one) face(s). then you can move the surrounding verts to cover for it. that’s the easiest way… for me.

if you do that then you can move the verts in the wall to the exact edge of the door/ window by switching back and forth and using the 3d curser.

(i don’t know id this a bad or good technique but what i do is)

  1. Create enough faceloops, so you can cut out the section you want … hardest thing is to get the right shape back after the faceloops (maybe there is a soft faceloop ? don’t know)
  2. Delete the faces that wouldn’t be there
  3. in this case your done