I decided for my "castle" to build a beach house instead because its been so spectacularly cold the past week. I looked up a few houses and decided on a layout that I liked. I'm a big fan of open spaces and large balconies and porches so I incorporated both of those. And of course what beach house is complete without a pool?
I've never used Rhino before and its been difficult for me to get the hang of it. I'm used to working in Google Sketchup because it's a lot of more useful for Production Design. The keyboard and mouse controls are completely different so I really took the time to explore how the tools worked. I used the solid tools and the surface tools mostly. The extrude tool does very similar to the pull tool in Sketchup but works completely differently which threw me. The boolean tool is very useful but it took me some time to really get the hang of it. I used those tools the most.
I didn't play with the lighting too much but I did play with the textures. Obviously I chose a base close to sand. I really wanted the main structure to be stucco but I didn't find a texture close enough so I used one of the stone textures. The porch I decided to have fun with and see what some of the different textures did. The pool in the last shot is the water texture. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It seems a little too much like glass.
great work!!
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