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Castle in Rhino (Textured/ Complete)

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 As stated in my previous post, I have finished a castle made in Rhino and was ready to begin texturing it.  However, as I was working on that, the worst possible thing happened.  My computer updated unexpectedly, which closed down all of my tabs.  I unfortunately underestimated the importance of saving, which has to be done manually in Rhino, and all of my progress was lost.  Thus, I had to start all over again.  On the bright side, restarting meant that I was able to fix some of the issues I had with the original work.  Here is my new-and-improved castle concept in shaded mode: With the new concept done and dusted, I got to work on the rendering.  I explored the various materials in the library provided by Rhino, and settled on a stone look for my tower.  I also changed the background to a orange-pink gradient to resemble a sunset sky and set the tower on a base made to look like grass (The grass materials available through Rhino, however, ...
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Castle Model (Untextured)

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 After struggling with the castle model I was working on using Rhino, I ultimately decided to ditch my original idea and work on a new model that's more so inspired by a fairytale tower, especially the famous one from the fairytale Rapunzel.  To do that, I relied on gridsnap a lot more to get more accurate proportions than I did in my original model.  I started out with a box, which I combined with more boxes using the Boolean function to create an iconic castle structure with merlons as a base.  From there, I created a cone structure with a top shape on top to form the rest of the tower, and added windows using Boolean after merging a square with a circle and extruding the final shape.  Thus, I ended up with this as a base model: From there, I added some more details, including merlons to the top of the tower by rotating a box and using Boolean to remove the copies from the base.  However, while doing this I struggle with forming the divets properly so som...
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In-Progress Castle 3D Model

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 To further familiarize myself with rhino and its assets, I have started creating a castle model with its 3D features.  Beginning with the basics: A large box. I began to add details to the box based on what I planned for my final product to look like.  I began to add a couple of cylindrical towers on each of the box's four corners, but it is here where I ran into my first issue:  whenever I tried to move the cylinders, they moved vertically as well as horizontally.  In other words, every time I tried to move them to the box's corners, they moved off of the base plane as well.  I looked into how to fix this and realized that the problem was the fact that I was trying to snap the center of the cylinders to the edges of the box, leading to the cylinders automatically being pushed upwards as they were different objects.   I figured out that the best solution for this would be to loft the objects together rather than dragging them on top of one anothe...
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Voxel Flamingo Made with Rhino

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 I've been trying out Rhino for the first time.  To acquaint myself with its features, I've created a 1x1x1 voxel model of a flamingo floatie.  Different views of said model are depicted below. I sculpted the model by making several copies of a cube until I formed a shape that I liked, and then colouring it with the paint material.
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