Sunday, September 15, 2019

Castle

I am learning how to use a program known as Rhino 3D.
To help with learning the basics, I made a castle using this program.

I started by making some basic shapes, essentially drawing a blueprint of the castle.
I used circles, squares, rectangles, and a single point to make these shapes. To make the squares perfect squares, I pressed shift, which locks the shape so it can only be a perfect square.


It has four towers, an outer wall, and an inner courtyard. The circle to the left is for the tops of the towers. I used osnap to align everything, it's a very handy tool for making sure that things are exactly where you want them.

Next, I changed to perspective mode and made the shapes 3D.


Once I had done that, I hollowed out the insides to make corridors, and so that the towers were also hollow. Not a very exciting castle if you can't go inside. I made smaller shapes, made them 3D, and connected them using the command Boolean Union, which makes the shapes into a single unit.


It was a bit tricky trying to make sure that the hollow part of the towers was connected to the corridors. I had to play around with a few different shapes to get the correct width. I used a function called Boolean Difference to subtract the one shape from the other.

I had to add another shape, a square with a half circle on top; I almost forgot the door!


I completed the door, made it 3D, and subtracted it from the castle walls. I first just had the opening through only the outermost wall, but thought it looked more authentic with it going through straight into the courtyard.


For the final step, I added the tops of the towers.


The Castle is complete!

Once I finished the Castle, I played around with the different view settings.

This one is called Arctic. 


This one, Artistic, looks like a clean sketch of the castle.


Ghosted shows a ghost image pf the insides of the castle. I think this one is pretty cool, like a haunted castle!


Raytraced makes it look like a sandcastle!


Rendered looks a lot like Arctic, but the shadows are a bit darker.

I think my favourite would be Raytraced, reminds me of the many sandcastles me, and my family have built together.


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