Monolithic Dome House

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:47 am

It's been a while since I moved any polygons around.

Here's a quick model of a 3-domed house re-created from the floorplan DWG.

The roof was the last thing i modeled, but it should have been the first. As it is I either face the near-impossible challenge of stitching the roof to the walls, or the far easier solution of re-making the walls by extruding the bottom edge loop of the roof. However then I'll need to cut the window and door holes, and put in the tweaks where the walls flatten out slightly again.

Both pics rendered to about 70 spp.

cpfresh · Post by **cpfresh** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:20 pm

ooooh cool. please post some progress shots as you go. gonna be cool to see how you customize your dome!

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:32 am

great camera-angle dougal!
looking forward seeing more

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:52 am

Same here. Would like to see more.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:00 am

ok, I'll see what I can do.

cpfresh · Post by **cpfresh** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:50 am

ROFL! well you dont have to.

I started a dome when I got home yesterday after I saw yours. I chose to try the oblate ellipse(?) instead of the full dome though. It is slightly more difficult to work with these curves in SketchUp versus Maya.

I'll post once I have a decent image though.

DOMES RULE!!!1

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:24 am

haha, my reaction was mostly because I've never had quite that unanimous a response to anything I've posted here.

I will try to finish it anyway, because I'm already learning lots of good (i hope) modelling tricks. For a start it's good to work out the order in which to do things

With regards to the original curves, what I've actually done is to simply use them as a floorplan template and re-make everything in polygons rather than try to join, tidy and extrude etc the original curves.

I've re-done the walls now, here's the 1-piece roof+walls, and a wireframe (original curves in yellow).

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:58 am

really a nice start

This'll be great, if you give it some interior and surrounding

tobak30 · Post by **tobak30** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:30 am

i think the curveness should start at ground level on those houses. and not onyl the roofing.. but i might be wrong.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:42 am

I decided that there's space in the roof for another level. The problem is then where to put the stairs and how to fit them in.
This is a solution I came up with (well, I didn't invent the bent stairs, but I thought they'd work well here).
Perhaps I'll adapt the stairs to make them actually fit the walls, or change their style to be a little more modern.
Perhaps I'll cut more of the ceiling away to create a more open balcony that overlooks the front door also (I measured that a 6' man would actually have to stoop a little to get up these stairs).
I dunno yet, still messing around with it.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:07 pm

i just quickly did this, as i only really thought of it whilst typing the last post.
Already this looks better

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:45 pm

Hi dougal

Looks good except it seems to have a burnt out sky. (tonemap check?) Probably not something you are worried about at this early stage or even at all. But I love to see a blue sky. It looks more realistic I guess.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:07 pm

i'm using exit portals, they tend to burn the sky.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:29 am

Very nice

Hopefully, there will be a window in the roof...

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:32 pm

dougal2 wrote:i'm using exit portals, they tend to burn the sky.

Oh? I didn't know that. Too bad that happens, a flat white sky is hard to see any depth in it. Thanks for the info.

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