Day 30 of Learning 3d 🎮 Cloning objects 👾👾👾

Today is day 30 of my challenge to learn 3d in a month. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any 3d before. A day ago, I learnt how to make glass and reflectives.

Today was doing some more grunt work. I did my first live stream of today on Twitch and you can watch it.

Doors

I added more two more doors to the right side of the shops.

I copied the one I already had on the front right (the silver paneling with paper background)

And changed things around a bit and added some glass and put them in the restaurants fronts:

And the other one:

This was simply a matter of copy pasting lots of little panels and adding a wall of glass with a wall of paper behind it.

Fold down door

I also added a fold down door between the restaurant and the wooden front:

This was really fun. To make the angled fold down door I thought I’d just duplicate lots of little rotated bars. But @flowen_nl taught me there’s a group layer tool for that called Cloner:

You simply make one object and put that inside the Cloner group layer:

…and your one object duplicates:

In this case I made one bar and it duplicated vertically to become a door. I also rotated it slightly. You can tweak lots of parameters:

But you can go crazier by rotating the X axis inside the Cloner:

Or the Z axis:

The cloner is a super fun and useful tool. I’d saved lots of time adding little panels everywhere if I knew about it before 🙂

Conclusion

This was a pretty quick short day. Here’s the final render:

Next I’ll be adding the final shop on the left deep end of the alley. Read how I finished my challenge with a special trip to Tokyo!

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