Added Thickness To A Building's Walls

allengingrich

What's the proper way to go about this? Do I block it out like so, cut all of my holes, then add thickness by extruding the faces? I would just like to adopt the best method early on. Thanks!

Steppenwolf

You could use the shell modifier but will need some cleanup afterwards. Personally i would construct the walls from seperate pieces instead of modelling all from one piece.

allengingrich

Steppenwolf said:

You could use the shell modifier but will need some cleanup afterwards. Personally i would construct the walls from seperate pieces instead of modelling all from one piece.

I'm working in Maya, but I get your drift. Look at the odd shape of my building... Would you still do each wall as a piece?

Sajeet

Im working in maya.. i would also break it up in separate wall pieces... Dont know what you are aiming to do. but you probably benefit from doing separate pieces

Steppenwolf

allengingrich said:

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Steppenwolf said:

You could use the shell modifier but will need some cleanup afterwards. Personally i would construct the walls from seperate pieces instead of modelling all from one piece.

I'm working in Maya, but I get your drift. Look at the odd shape of my building... Would you still do each wall as a piece?

Yes. You can align and weld when everything is in place if necessary or use some trims and pillars where the pieces touch to hide intersecting/not perfectly aligned pieces which creates more visual interest anyway.

musashidan

And you should definitely break off the floor and ceiling, for level building efficiency if nothing else.