[sandykoufax]

Great start, Benjamin!!! You always go a step ahead.

And very nice model. I never could do that within such short time.

[SunlightRocker]

...The first step would be to find the correct perspective and cameralens...

How did you do that? I cant seem to find it right in my scene...

[Tora_2097]

Well, its a little hard to explain in words only, but I'll try. I start with a plane that resembles the shape of my rooms ground plan. I am at this point purely guessing how wide my room might be, in my case I started with a 4.5* 4m plane with the little rectangular cabinet you see in the far right corner. The next step is to create a camera (start with a 35mm lens) and position it in a way that your baseplane lines up with the bottom lines of your image. To do that I display the image as a viewport background and set everything else to wireframe mode. You can now easily adjust your camera in a way that your perspective lines up with your reference photo. Then extrude your walls, and cut in your windows. the position doesnt matter that much, because once you nailed the perspective you can just slide your vertices until they line up with you photo. the same goes for wall dimensions, ceiling height etc. The setup for my image took 15 min. It's really simple.
Why now show your image and I can give you more specific starting points?

Regards,

Tora_2097

[SunlightRocker]

Why now show your image and I can give you more specific starting points?

Regards,

Tora_2097

Thanks Tora. I will try that.

I will start my own contest-tread tomorow. Im rendering right now.

/ Tobias

[4 HeRo]

Tora_2097

Thanks for explaining how you setup your scene.
I have followed your method and all seems ok until a try adding objects inside the room this is when all the perspective goes to pot.
So as a picture is worth a 1000 words could you post the top view point of your scene as i think is will show me where I'm going wrong

Cheers

John

[Tora_2097]

Sure, dunno how this could help you unless you are building the same scene, but here it is:



The dimensions of the room are something like 4.5*4.5m I think.

[4 HeRo]

Thank you Tora

And no I;m not building the same scene just trying to understand how you set your scene up

Cheers

John

[Tora_2097]

Keep in mind that is only my proxygeometry that will only lead my highpoly objects proportions. Some minor things are most likely to change, because modt of the time I encounter certain errors and correct a few things. I am not sure if we are required to EXACTLY recreate a scene.
Anyway, here is my typewriter, done in 3.5h (this one was a little tougher)

[NicoR44]

You are my kind of modeler Tora! looking great!!

[jonathan löwe]

[jdp]

tora please stop, you are destroying my personal myth of nico as the modeling machine...

... not to mention I am fighting with splines and ground curves for work since 3 days ago and looking at your speed I gonna throw my keyboard out of the window... monitor will follow...

[Mihai]

I knew you'd do the typewriter next

I can't see too well in the photo but it looks like it has more "stuff" on top.

[dutch_designer]

Tora, it seems your images aren't loading.. maybe it's just me?
edit: nevermind, it's my internet connection bugging up on me.. I hate wireless internet.

[Tim Ellis]

Nice progress Tora.


Did you box model the typewriter as well, or is that poly modeled?

I never got the hang of box modeling and still do all my work extruding polygons. (Couldn't work nurbs well enough either.)

Tim.

[Xlars]

Wow, thank you for sharing not only your images but also explaining how you progress. Excellent work and very inspirering to follow.