Sunday, May 3, 2009

Project Progress - Dome

We wanted to create another smaller dome inside of the larger dome. The dome would still have the same position holes to still allow for the sunlight to penetrate through the building, but permit for another texture to be allocated only to the interior face of the dome. Leaving the exterior of the building to retain its white marble material, we intended from the beginning. We had previosuly tried to have different textures of either side of the face, but because the sphere was group and exported together with some slabs, that would mean other materials would have these same material properties.This mini dome that would lie directly underneath the outer dome. We used the original sphere and copied and scaled it exactly to fit the outer dome in 3dsmax.


We remodelled in 2 spheres in 3dsmax and we imported Pui Pui's version and installed the new object successfully. These images below are the result of this work and how we then texturised the inner dome to a material mimicking that of a starry night. The photos also illustrate how the holes in the roof still allow for light penetration and hence depict stars in the sky.



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