Grass Merging

Today I had to merge the grasss in quite a lot of places. This is because the maya file that I used was made on a different version and lots of big box shapes appeared on the grass (as seen below). As well as having to merge the grass, I had to clean it up with control vertex as parts had gone higher than they should be, some pointed parts were sticking out at the edges and also the edge lines were not sraight anymore. On the right is a screen shot showing how the file looked on both versions of Maya that I have (8.5 and 2008)

Tiles

Here is a picture of some of the tiles that I created. This was formed by extruding off of a thin cube I filled most of the church's floor with them.













The church tiles were created by:

1.
Extruding face that was in a church floor's tile shape









2.
Selecting the top four vertex points from the extruded section of the floor








3.

Move them inwards with the scale tool and then shorten it with the move tool






So I carried out the above instructions to fill the plane and then gave it a simple example texture for my team to see and duplicated it the number of times needed to fill the church floor on the parts needed.

Church Tower Windows

I wanted to create some windows for my church tower as I thought that some varied designs would be much better to include than just traditional glass windows.
I am very pleased with this over all and I feel that it does look very like ones from the period of time that my group are covering (around the 12th century).

Archs

I have made a lot of archs during the modeling of this assignment and spent a lot of time on it as you can see below

Helping with Windows

I added edge frames on the inside and outside of the building (two separate files) so that it was easy for my team mates to delete the hole using the face tool and add the windows into the building. I also wanted them to be able to now how many windows were in my church design and where I planned for them to be.

Creating the Fence

we debated whether to have a perimeter fence or not in the church garden, I offered to create one.
I wanted the fence to look quite old starting to fall apart. A good decision!

Changing Design

I have just decided to change my design of the church slightly from a flat roofed 11th/12th century church to one with a pointed roof with a partly Gothic look. The reasons are because from research I found out that flat roofs were not used often.
I discussed this with the group and they all agreed that this would achieve a much better look and they said that they would have chosen a spire roof but if I want to stick with the flat roof I can.