Building

In order to create a realistic environment, buildings will need to be put on the harbor and island itself. as I had never made buildings before I decided to have a go. I followed a tutorial that Richard put on his blog in order to make a low poly model of a building.



To begin, I downloaded the bulding textures provided via link under the video. I created a plane. I then used the material editor to apply the building material to the plane. I used the ring tool to select the edges around the building, I did the same for the opposite edges. I then used the connect tool to connect these edges.

I then used the extrude and inset toold to create the windows and balconies. I used the array tool to create the 3 other sides to the building.

I finally just drew another plane to make the roof. This is the finished building

Water

Using the Tutorial Richard showed us, I set on making some water. I made a sphere as something to drop into the water so I could see the effectiveness of the water with ripples.

To begin making the water, I created a plane and went to Animation > Reactor > Create Object > Water. I then just used the mouse to draw the water out.

I used the reactor tool as shown below to modify the water to create the desired realistic effect.

 

Here is the finished object. I will now use this to create the harbour scene

 

 



Lamp Post Model

For the animation, we will need lamp posts for the environment. My first thought when constructing the lamp post was a thought back to last years 3D modelling class. In one of the first tutorials, we used a tool called the lathe tool. This enables you to use a spline of half an object and it will symetrically encorporate the half shape into a rounded full shape, we made a chess piece using this method

I thought this would be an excellent tool to use for the lamp post. To begin I did some quick research into what lamp posts looked like in the 1940's and came up with this picture as a guide:

 

The first thing I did was to draw half the lamp post in Illustrator

 

 

 I then imported this into 3DS max and used modify > lathe. This left me with a lamp post shape. I converted this shape into an editable poly.