Man UV unwrapping was not cooperating last night. As I use the latest builds just about every day I think that had a lot to do with it. Need to check out the wiki for possible documentation I was missing. Everything ended up working good but some things were just not doing what I expected.

Looks like it was not a problem with any build but some new features I was misinterpreting.  This first image is of the second floor and where I had the most problems although after identifying what I had done wrong everything went smooth after that.

The next image is the beginning of part four, the interior. I did some things different from the video. In the video he gave the walls around the house the white interior material which makes these walls white inside and out. I selected all the faces and separated them from the mesh into there own object, added a solidify and added the additional material to the interior surface. Now, if I decide to move the camera angle possibly showing the sides the materials will be correct.

The big thing I did differently was the indirect lighting around the ceiling of the second floor. I created the edge loop and separated it as its own object but here I pressed ‘F’ to create one face, used the inset tool with the check box set to even and inset that face. I then deleted the inner face leaving the ledge around the periphery. When I did this I did not need to move around vertices and all edges were straight rather than angled. From then on it was solidify, add materials and everything worked perfect after that.

I know it is noisy…. 🙂

Could not get online to post anything yesterday, bummer.

I spent about an hour modeling part one of the Pool Deck from the Architecture Academy yesterday and a bit more time refining the model and my technique as opposed to Andrews. I modified the model by redistributing the deck railing posts, positioning better from a building ‘code’ point of view and added a couple of structural posts below the deck.  The posts were added below the deck because there was no way this design would pass any kind of inspection without them :).

From a modeling technique point of view I started using the ‘Enhanced 3D Cursor’ addon and snapping to edges, faces or vertices to place my objects more precisely and I found edge and vertex snapping much easier to use than face. I also took the time to correctly label all objects as I created them, or very shortly afterward. This does not add much time to the actual modeling but helps tremendously in the organization of your models, going back and doing this later is tedious.

I have come to love the Enhanced 3D Cursor addon and use of snapping as it gives me a more accurate model which is important to me being an Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer with a Architectural drafting background I like to be precise.

Finished the render of the Museum Foyer, added a little light glow and since I did render this with multiple passes to experiment with this will not be the last render you see.

The Museum Foyer is complete. I am now waiting on the final render to complete with 1000 samples at 100%, multiple material indices for some compositing affects so this is a multilayer.exr as well. While this is completing I will watch the last episode of Burn Notice (It shouldn’t be too long).

I have been having quite the time keeping a connection to the internet lately. Anybody else having these problems today as it seems a lot of sites I have been to today have been having problems. Well, I added a few details and understand why some people tend to tweak with things after a project is done. I keep playing around with different things before I have decided to go to be and finish up tomorrow. Promise I will not tweak anymore (Ya, right).

Added some track lighting