After spending some time trying to work in my office the last couple of weeks, I’m ready to get it where it’s more functional. And now that I’ve finished up a couple of other projects, I’m diving back in to getting the office modeled.
Since I’m using stand-in shapes my furniture and other equipment in the office, there isn’t a lot of actual modeling to things. Though, there are some items that need a little modeling. Such as the chair and the monitors. All of which needed just a little work.
The chair was created from 2 boxes. One box for the back and one for the seat. Then I made sure I had enough edge loops that I could line up all the edges. Then I removed any faces from each that would be touching when I went to attach the two objects. I’ve learned that trying to attach objects one face to another doesn’t work very well so my general solution is to remove those faces and then attach the objects. I did this. After the boxes were attached, I changed to wire frame mode and vertex selection so that I could weld the corresponding vertices to make the final object look seamless. With so many items starting to fill up the scene, I needed to be able to look at just what I was working on. I found the isolate selection option and the the end isolate option. These proved to be bit time savers as I didn’t have to keep hiding and un-hiding everything in the room, or even just the few
things that were in the way.
I did pretty much the same thing with the monitors. The big difference being the placement of the two boxes to each other. I also made sure that they center point for each box was on the same x and y points. That helped to make sure it lined up nicely and correctly.
With the chair done and the monitors done it means I’ve finally finished off all the big furniture and have moved into creating the smaller items in the room. There was more computer equipment to account for, the keyboard, drawing tablet, the actual computer and all the equipment for my cable and cable modem and so on. So there were a lot of smaller items to model. Most of these items were just box shaped items. Though the trashcan was a cylinder. There was also the TV to model, which was handled the same as the monitors.
Everything was moved to it’s place as it was modeled. Otherwise the room would look much as it is likely to look when I start moving things around for real.
As you can see, I do have a lot of stuff in this room and most of it is on my desk.