Wall and windows

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#1

Hi.
I am currently modeling a building.
The walls have windows :slight_smile: and my question resides on the fact that I dont know the best way to model them (windows).
Should I use boolean operations?
What method you use to model this kind of environments?

#2

NOOOOOO!!!

make the wall with holes in it where you want [by making the shilouette and stuff], then extude it to create the wall’s thickness

#3

Hi,

there are severall methods:

  1. If your facade has a regular structure, you could use a grid-mesh, erase the faces where the windows and doors should fit in, and extrude the mesh.

  2. Draw and compose the facade in EDIT-Mode using “circles” with 4 vertices. Mind the exterior bound is closed. Then select all, fill the face SHIFT-F, ALT-J, extrude, and voilá.

  3. Have a look at the “Building A Castle”-Tutorial and the “A Die”-Tutorial.

HTH,
Abraxxas

#4

yea, read the building a castle tut, very helpful. Thats what I use to do stuff like this.

#5

Yet another way, which is great when you go ‘doh! Forgot to put windows in my building’
In edit mode on the face where you want your window, create a plane by either adding a mesh or by Ctrl-left clicking to create vetices, making faces, etc.
Then create a new material for just these vertices and select the ‘Env’ button. This allows whatever sky/backdrop you have to show through the faces. Leave the ‘Alpha’ at 1.0.