Hylands House - Entrance

After making most of the details of Hylands House it was starting to look very effective. I next needed to make the front roof the building by making a box and pulling two of the top edges together. I then used the chamfer tool to make the edges look 3D. This was then put on top of a box and the align tool was used to make sure that it fit on top of the box well.













This is the rendered image of the two shapes put together. I also applied the material to the shape and made sure the square is slightly bigger than the square on the bottom.















After putting the shapes together and putting them in place on the building I had to put the columns underneath them. The original columns look slightly different to the columns on the front of the building. For this I extended them in length and equally aligned them under the two shapes. I also put two other squares on the entrance underneath the columns.

Hylands House - Symmetry Problems

After creating the detail on half of the main building, I deleted the polygons on the right hand side of the building in order to use the symmetry tool. However, when using the symmetry tool I came across many problems. When I selected the weld tool to make sure that the symmetry line welded together, it created many holes in the middle of the building in the shape of triangles. This was very frustrating and I had to ask my group for help at this point.













This is a rendered image of what my building looked like when I used the symmetry tool. This was very frustrating as I had not come across a problem like this before.















This problem was solved by getting rid of the symmetry tool and instead copying the left side of the building and using the mirror tool to make an exact replica of the left side on the right. I then welded each individual vertex because there was so much detail on the building.

Hylands House - Details and Materials

The house needed many different colours and materials applied to it as the building is mainly white but there are many other shaded colours in small parts of the house. For this a made a multi/sub-object material which allowed me to make several materials in one. I applied this material to all the parts of the building and made each colour of the building. The different parts were, roof: black, roof: grey, bricks: white, columns: moss green, windows: black, win sills: light yellow, columns, white. These seven colours helped to make the building look more realistic.





I then wanted to form the details of the building to make it look more like Hylands House at this stage. For this I used the columns I had previously made to place them in front of the first section of the building. I did this to know where the windows would could be placed and how big the columns need to be in comparison to the building. The windows were easy but confusing to make. Firstly i sections off the parts that I wanted to make black and made an extruded window sill which was set at a slight angle. I then used the chamfer tool to make the different panels of the window. The windows were slightly extruded inwards to make them look 3D.













This is a rendered version of the first section of the building so far. On the right hand side I have made a shaped gap in the building for a door to be placed. I made sure I duplicated the building before making the door gap because the other side of the building did not have the same details.















In order to make the details of the front of the building I found the image below to make sure I could see the details clearly as I wanted it to look exactly the same as the building.













I started by making the windows in the same way I did with the first section of the building. I made sure that I only created the details on the left side of the building because I knew it would be easier to use the symmetry tool to make the rest of the building. This would ensure that the building looks symmetrical on both sides to make it look more effective. The image below shows the rendered version of the details of half the building. Next I will be using the symmetry feature to make the building equally detailed.

Hylands House - The roof and Columns

Next I decided to make the roof. This was a lot harder than it looked. As I have not used 3Ds max for a while I completely forgot the easiest way that I could make the shape of the roof. I eventually realised that a box would be the best option and then I used the extrude tool to lower the bottom of the roof. I also used the Chamfer tool to make the white edges on the roof.













I have used these tools many times before so this was all very easy to do. The picture below shows a rendered version of the roof. This shape would need to be duplicated to make the other smaller roofs.















The columns were lots harder than I first thought they would be. I used a simple cylinder and then used the extrude tool to make the bottom of the columns have a larger base. The columns were needed one many places on the building so I needed to create one and duplicate it eleven times. The feature at the top of the columns was made out of a simple flat box and two other cylinders.













Four of the duplicated eleven cylinders had to be slightly taller and thinner than the other columns but this has to be left for another time when I am more aware of the sizes that the columns need to be. The picture below shows a rendered version of the column.

Hylands House - The shape

My first scene that I wanted to make was a building which represented Chelmsford and that also contains lots of history. Hylands house is a very important building which is surrounded by Hylands park and tons scenery.

This building was built in 1730 for Sir John Comyns, who was MP for Maldon for many years, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Since then it has undergone many different stages of development to become the beautiful and elegant building it is today.

The picture below is the picture I used for reference to make sure that my model was like an exact replica of the real building. I wanted to make sure that people instantly know the building when the advert is viewed.










I started by making the middle section of the building by making a box and making the basic shape of the middle section. I made sure there was plenty of polygons on the building to make the complex shape of the building. I firstly constructed top parts which was like an alcove which ran all the way around the building.













This is a rendered image of the middle section of the building so far. This doesn't look very impressive so far, but there is plenty more work to do to the model. This model will need to be copied twice to form two smaller buildings either side of the middle section.

Storyboard

After deciding on the places that I would be focusing on, I made a short storyboard to give me an idea of the views and camera movements and which sides of buildings would need to look most effective. This also gives me a good idea of where to put trees and how to arrange the planes for the grass and sky.

Planning

Before jumping into making some scenery I have to decide on exactly what I will be showing and how it will be displayed. I also need to make sure that design and transitions between scenes is similar to the parts that the girls in the group are designing.

The only way that I can make scenery look effective is to have walk through camera movements which scan around buildings and scenery in Essex. I have picked out a few building and scenery which are significant in Essex to give me an idea of what I can create in 3Ds Max. The buildings and scenery I have picked are listed below:

• Chelmsford Cathedral
• Naze Tower
• Hylands Park and Hylands House
• Colchester Castle
• Mountnessing Windmill
• St Johns Abbey Gate in Colchester
  
• Essex Coastline
• Epping Forest
• Audley End House and Gardens
• Hill Hall in Epping
  
• Ingatestone Hall
• Tilbury Fort
• Hadleigh Castle
• Cressing Temple