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awanderingbard) wrote2013-04-19 10:42 am
awanderingbard) wrote2013-04-19 10:42 am
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"There's a pilot in the attic, but don't worry, he never bothers anyone..."
I've come to realize that I'm basically set designing with this programme. And having a really indecent amount of fun.
I've built a set for Martin Crieff's Attic. Below the cut, because I'm sure people are getting sick of these by now.
All pictures get bigger if you click.
Entrance and bed area. There's a door at the bottom of the stairs. The style of bed is called a captain's bed. I like to think Martin couldn't resist. Plus, storage! There's a coat hook and coat hanger there for hanging one's captain's uniform and hat on so they don't get damaged, plus a mirror to check one's captainly appearance. The bedside table has an alarm clock to make sure he's on time, and manuals for light bedtime reading. The art over the bed is a photo of a cockpit, for happy captainly dreams.
I choose the wallpaper because A) it's a bit ugly and B) it looks like clouds, which I thought would appeal to Martin.
Window area. Toaster oven for making toast (and the occasional baked potato), and an electric kettle for tea and Pot Noodle making. A cabinet for holding silverware and extra food. I imagine there's a shared kitchen, and he probably has a shelf in the fridge there, and access to more sophisticated equipment.
Far wall. An ugly chair, accidentally make even uglier by a rendering error that I liked so I kept. Maybe a manufacturer's mistake that Martin picked up for a low price. A bookshelf, probably full of books on aeroplanes. A little commercial airliner model. I wanted a Lockheed Martin or a McDonnell Douglas to keep the spirit of Finnemore's puns, but neither model would load. A desk and laptop for writing CVs. A crappy telly that probably only has its licence renewed when goings are good. The photo on the right is over England, and the photo on the left a more stylistic view from an aeroplane window. And a toy biplane, probably the equivalent of a teddy bear.
I do picture the furniture as being more banged up, but I don't really have that option in the programme. I did at least try to make the furniture have no sense of matching or belonging together.
For those interested, I imagine there's a shared loo as well.
I've built a set for Martin Crieff's Attic. Below the cut, because I'm sure people are getting sick of these by now.
All pictures get bigger if you click.
Entrance and bed area. There's a door at the bottom of the stairs. The style of bed is called a captain's bed. I like to think Martin couldn't resist. Plus, storage! There's a coat hook and coat hanger there for hanging one's captain's uniform and hat on so they don't get damaged, plus a mirror to check one's captainly appearance. The bedside table has an alarm clock to make sure he's on time, and manuals for light bedtime reading. The art over the bed is a photo of a cockpit, for happy captainly dreams.
I choose the wallpaper because A) it's a bit ugly and B) it looks like clouds, which I thought would appeal to Martin.
Window area. Toaster oven for making toast (and the occasional baked potato), and an electric kettle for tea and Pot Noodle making. A cabinet for holding silverware and extra food. I imagine there's a shared kitchen, and he probably has a shelf in the fridge there, and access to more sophisticated equipment.
Far wall. An ugly chair, accidentally make even uglier by a rendering error that I liked so I kept. Maybe a manufacturer's mistake that Martin picked up for a low price. A bookshelf, probably full of books on aeroplanes. A little commercial airliner model. I wanted a Lockheed Martin or a McDonnell Douglas to keep the spirit of Finnemore's puns, but neither model would load. A desk and laptop for writing CVs. A crappy telly that probably only has its licence renewed when goings are good. The photo on the right is over England, and the photo on the left a more stylistic view from an aeroplane window. And a toy biplane, probably the equivalent of a teddy bear.
I do picture the furniture as being more banged up, but I don't really have that option in the programme. I did at least try to make the furniture have no sense of matching or belonging together.
For those interested, I imagine there's a shared loo as well.
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One note about that link I gave you: the models have to be in .dae format to be directly imported into the programme. They're label as collada or zip files. If you want to use the ones that are in Sketch Up format, you have to download Sketch Up, import the model and export it as a .dae. Sketch Up is free as well, however, and it can be worth it to get that perfect model if you don't want to settle for something else. They are often of a higher quality, too. You can also edit them in Sketch Up, so you can removed certain sections or whatever if you want to. Some models come with two or three pieces, and you only want the one for example. You can delete the other pieces and export the one you want.
I can see why! Lots of people can download random pieces and shove them into a single space together, but to make it look good is something else entirely, and you seem to have that down. :)
Thank you! I just really like finding furniture that would appeal to the characters and finding all the little objects that they might have lying around. It's so much fun, and I feel like I learn more about the characters as I do it. I have a rather massive project of the Holmes Ancestral Home on the go, and it's been a blast to make the brothers' childhood rooms, and such. ^_^
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And thank you for clearing up the bit about the formats for the models! I was noticing that almost everything through that one database link was for another program, so I was wondering about compatibility issues. I haven't opened up Sketch Up yet, but is there a reason you don't like using it, save for exporting files into different formats? Is Sketch Up not as cool as the other one you like?
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Sketch Up is a modelling programme, not a architect programme, so it's not as straightforward to use. I haven't even be able to build a proper triangle with it. And it doesn't have the option to build walls and rooms and stuff, automatically. You'd have to do it all with squares and things. I admire anyone who has the patience to build the models, and am grateful that they do!