My Appartment

Artwork Works in Progress
#1

I just began with blender again after 2.40 came out, ive had some experience with Maya but thats no good for me anymore since i jumped over to Debian AMD64.

So i got this appartment, right.

I always wanted to model it and this is a perfect opportunity.

The first thing i did was to make a wireframe of the outlines of my appartments.
I then started with my kitchenbench.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/slinning/bench.jpg
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I have progressed further then this but this is the only picture i had online for the moment, and the project isnt on this pc.
I will upload the newest progress, asap.

but what i need is two things, a way to messure the dimentions of my appartments, in blender that is.

And a decent UV tutorial and texture tutorial.

The latter part i should be able to find myself but the first is a little enigmatic.

Critics, Hints, Tips, drunken ramblings are all welcome

oh, hi btw
:smiley:

#2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/slinning/appartment2.jpg

Here, im finnished with my kitchenbench.

im going to look into the uv and texture part to later and will begin a little more complex furniture.

#3

first of all it’s looking good.
second: if you what your textures to look realistic you should read the articles on this website: http://www.onona3d.com/tutorials.htm read the, Texturing for Dummies PDF it has alot of wonderfull insight on texturing.
also UV mapping a tutorial cn be found at Blender.org but it is missing somethings like how to map the texture to UV and soforth.
I look forwar to seeing the compleeted project.

#4

Looks good so far. As for measuring the pieces in Blender, go to the buttons window and the editing section (F9) and the Mesh Tools 1 tab (far right) and click “Edge Length”. You have to convert the Blender units to whatever system you’re using (Imperial or Metric, Metric being far easier) and vice versa.