Week 2

Today I did some more modelling for my Greek temple. I wanted to get the base of the temple completed first, however, I couldn't do that until I had done the columns that are along the outside of the temple. All I needed to do was use the duplicate special tool.

Using this tool I am easily able to duplicate as many times and determine which direction the duplicated items will go. In this case I needed wanted to translate the column along the X axis. I did a few tests to see how much I wanted to translate, and I found that 2.5 was a good amount. I did 5 copies as on my floor plan there were 6 columns along the top and 13 down the sides.

I also needed to translate along the Z axis, and to keep consistency I again used 2.5 as the number. For this duplication I selected the first the column again and duplicated 12 copies. I finished the outer columns extremely quickly using the duplication tool.

Now I had most of the columns done I was able to create the steps for the temple. This wasn't exactly difficult as all I did was make the shape I wanted, duplicated it twice and scaled and moved the over two polygons to where I wanted them to be. So currently my temple looks like this.

The last bit I did today was create the block that is inbetween the columns and the roof. However, I didn't begin creating this straight away. I was curious on how it should look and if there were any properties that I need to include. So I found this image that shows what some temples looks like in this area.

As seen in this image there are two parts of the temple separating the column and the roof. I only went on to create the space for the Frieze for my temple but later on I may try and create a Metope - although I doubt I'll be able to get to the level of detail that is found on these.

Creating the space for the Frieze was again fairly easy. All I need to do was use another cube, scale it to how I want it. Then use the insert edge loop to remove the middle area. Once I had gotten rid of the middle part, I just needed to replace the missing faces using the fill hole tool.