Modelling basics 2

Derelict scene

In this practical we were tasked with creating a derelict village for use in something like a first person shooter game, we used the new tools that we were taught, such as grouping, booleans and alignment. The example of grouping that I used was in the small cylinder that you can see in the image above, I grouped the ladder with the cylinder as one building. Alignment was a very useful tool that can be used to place an object in perfect alignment with another, very useful for if you need to object perfectly parallel to each other. Finally we were taught boolean operators, you can see examples of this used above in the small rectangle wall in the middle of the image, I used a sphere to cut those shapes into the wall in order to create the effect of the wall being damaged by bullets or explosions.

Out of all of the techniques and tools that we used, I would say that grouping is the most useful one that we were told to use. While it does not directly affect the appearance of your models, grouping can be extremely useful, both to move individual objects as a part of a group, but also it helps make your work much cleaner in the outliner, as if you are creating a complex model with lots of different shapes, you can group the appropriate ones together and this cleans up the appearance of your outliner and make it a lot easier to navigate.