{"id":3796,"date":"2010-04-27T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T06:36:09","slug":"making-a-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"Making a fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

As \u00a0you know by know, I’m working on my The Neverending Docks<\/em>, but it might make some new turns as I think I need to extend the collection a little. But, while making some tiles, I needed a fountain, and I was eager to just play around in Cheetah3D exploring, and this is how it went.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, start up Cheetah3D<\/a> and have some fun. We start out by making a flower spline, that we tweak the setting for to look like this.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, we use extrude to make a pillar like shape (mental note, make some pillars later<\/em>).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We create a cylinder, set polygon count rather high, to make a smooth cut.<\/p>\n

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We use a Boolean remove to cut away the cylinder from our fountain. Now, we create a n-sided spline, six sided, a hexagon.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Using the sweep tool, and a cylinder as sweep shape, we create this hexagon ring.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, using the Array tool, we make this hexagon ring repeat five times. We place it and size it so it will dig into the “flower petals” of the fountain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, we use a boolean remove to remove the rings from the fountain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This looks good, but we need a softer, more rounded top, so we create a ball, and place it over the top.<\/p>\n

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Using a boolean remove, we cut away the ball from the fountain, leaving a nice rounded inner bevel.<\/p>\n

Bow, we use the Taper tool to taper the fountain, as we will use a top-down view, all our nice carvings will be hidden from the eye, and we cannot allow that can we?<\/p>\n

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Now, we add a slightly modified granite texture to the fountain, and we add a circular plane as water surface, adding some ripples to it, and a light beneath the surface for a nice effect. This is now it looks in the modeler now.<\/p>\n

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And this is the final render, with some sky light applied.<\/p>\n

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So, this will come to good use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As \u00a0you know by know, I’m working on my The Neverending Docks, but it might make some new turns as I think I need to extend the collection a little. But, while making some tiles, I needed a fountain, and I was eager to just play around in Cheetah3D exploring, and this is how it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}