Hmm, This Isn't A Car!

So yes, I kind of changed my mind about my next project. I know having car modelling skills would be beneficial, but I don't want my portfolio to be a one hit wonder, if you know what I mean? Rather than having multiple pieces of various things but only one of each, I'd like to have more of one. So I decided to start another environment modelling project. This time, I was working from pictures; it's of my old house in Kenya!

As you can see from the picture, the house is not small! I intend on modelling the house to be near enough exact, both inside and out. However, I cannot find the pictures of the other side of the house nor the ones from the inside, so a lot of the modelling will be done from memory.

This is what I have got so far.

The inside walls have been done as well for all three floors; the basement, ground and first floors.

I have yet to include the doors (exterior and interior) and stairs. I plan on modelling my own stairs as the in-built tool for stairs does not give me the desired effect. All of the walls have the same thickness; 10 cm. I used a simple method to create them - extrusion. The windows have been the most annoying part of the project so far as I could not simply leave an open space like I did with my previous house project. As seen in the reference picture, the windows have a curve at the top. I modelled a separate object in that shape and used the boolean tool to subtract the window shape from the main house walls. This created an annoying result in the fact that I had many holes to close up.

For each window, there was a gap between the walls. These gaps had to be bridged up which took a fair amount of time. This led to me thinking that I hadn't progressed much as nothing visually changed for a day or two! The next step is to finish adding the windows - I still have the basement ones to do - and then add the doors and finish up the roof.

Ah, the roof. That was created using a plugin that generates roof tiles with adjustable parameters. The flat, slightly angles portions of the roof were easy to do, but the section with the inverted "V" above the centre of the house is posing difficult. I intend on modelling the whole compound and house I lived in, from the trees to the drive and the garden to the furniture. It will take a while, but it also allows me to hone my environment modelling skills as this project has everything. I will be modelling grass and trees and other various shrubbery and a lot of different furniture items and aesthetics. I thoroughly look forward to it!