Asset Creation

Asset Creation

I began the creation of my pillar design with creation of a single cube which would be the base of one of the four struts that would hold my water tower upright, I then began by scaling it to the size I wanted and then I pressed the insert button to change the pivot point location and by holding V I could snap it to one of the corners of the box, once this was done I could duplicate my box to create 4 all together these would be the base for each strut on the water tower, because the pivot point on each cube is snapped to a corner this means I can snap them to the grid and keep everything perfectly aligned and equal space away from each other.

Once this was done I then used the edge loop tool on each of the tope edges to create an inner square and then selected the face in the centre and extruded the face upward on all four of the cubes so they had equal height, I then snapped this top section inward so that the four struts nearly converged into the centre.

I then created another cube to make the platform that would sit on the four struts once it was sized and scaled correctly and positioned in the right place I then had to combine all the sections and stitch them together. I started this by edge looping the platform so that it created four faces that matched the top of the four struts once this was done I then deleted out the faces and then used the selection tool on vertices to move them onto the vertices to be merged with once this process was completed for all of them I then selected them all and used the tool merge components which stitched all the geometry together creating one mesh.

I then went on to create the section of the tower that would actually hold the water this process was simple, I created a cylinder and moved and positioned it on the top of the platform in the centre I then scaled it to the right size and after this was done I had to create a pointed roof section on the top which was simple because cylinder caps have a vertices in the centre so I selected it and moved it up a little bit this created the pointed roof geometry I needed. After this was created I followed the same procedure I used to add the platform and struts together to stich the water container to the rest of the model.

That completed my model but I believe that my model is too low poly and not enough detail but we shall see what people say in the next peer review.