Environment + lighting

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reference

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4663041913_2dce4f2f8d.jpg

Reference picture + material sample used for grass effects

Setup 1 light to create settings to give desired effect - tools - arrayed to cover entire roof of hangar

Created outdoor fairy light to desired specification - the cloned and placed along lining of roof as desired

Rendered to test (lots and lots of testing this is an overview)

Dragged out extremly large plane (scence floor)

Highlighted and detached required sections and applied grass material (shown previously)

Created atmosphere / moon lighting. 1 bulb - 1000% intensity - test rendered (many many mutilple times) to achieve aquired effect

Created complicated material using splat to show splats as reflections with desire to create water puddles

adjusted puddle sizes

test rendered

Along grass sections created barriers - then added fairy lights to travel down barrier (one fairy light arrayed

Showing array

Test rendering

LIGHTING TOWERS

Create cylinder

inset - bevel extrude so top is slightly narrower then base

Create box - rotate - position on pole as light casing arm pole

tools - array - rotation - 6 - 360'

Create cylinder

Take geometry of one end - bend towards base across single plane - this creates pinch

Place on to single supporting arm (previously array)

array with same settings

Add light to lamp centre - adjust light setting and array same settings as before

Created corrugated door for hangar - duplicated ready to animate

Showing surface texture (highlight every other vertex and push inwards)

Created duplicate hangar (shell no internal lights)

Placed in background

Tow truck

Reference pic

Create cylinder - extrude - 20+ sides - smooth - editable poly

Inset - front and back - Remove excess geometry

bridge gaps in geometry - creating to archs

Clone - move second arch required distance

Attach to each other

Remove depth geometry  (change of build plans)

Bridge arches using bridge tool under edges

re create - depth

By building this method lost smooth geometry in curves - straight edges were simply projected for depth

Rebuilt from scratch

Bridged as originally planned

Capped all gaped geometry caused by this method

Increased depth of body compared to wheel arch

Removed excess geometry

Removed front arch

Replaced with flat plane

Extruded box from bottom edge. Moved vertices to create angle

Removed excess geometry

extruded centre

Angled centre (to allow room for airplane front axel)

Extrude forward to create font of truck

Extrude vertically to create cabin

use connect tool to add geometry to angle cabin backwards - use inset to create window geometry

Select window geometry and extrude into cockpit create indentation

repeat technique to create indents for lights

Create box 2 verticle sections by 3 horizontal - editable poly

Edit vertex to create step - assign material and attach to body

Add geometry for sun roof (half of geometry for use with symmetry later

Use previous technique to create details in indents

Apply materials - detach indents to apply black material for illusion components

Use symmetry to create whole body

Import wheels from truck

Created wrong sized wholes for wheels (should have built around wheels at start!!) Learnt and method used for airplane steps

Created new cylinder - cut geometry of old arch - bridged geometry - removed new excess geometry