For our first project in Maya, we had to make a castle. It had to have 4 towers, walls, and a door cut out of one wall. I started with the towers. To make the towers, you first make a cylinder for the bottom tube thing, then another for the top part. After that you duplicate the bottom one, drag it up so that it is inside the top part, and use Boolean > Difference. This makes the "bowl" effect, seen here: To make the parts that stick up, you select every other face, use the extrude tool, and drag them up. Then duplicate the tower 3 times and arrange the 4 into a square.
Next were the walls. These were pretty simple, they're just a rectangular prism sized to fit with the towers. To make the battlements, you have to add divisions to the width (mine had 19) and repeat the process from the tower, selecting the faces, extruding and dragging up. After that, the wall was duplicated and moved to connect the towers.
The door is made by making a cylinder and orientating it long-ways, and connecting it to a cube of the same width with Boolean > Union. The new shape is placed in the wall, both are selected, and the shape is cut out of the wall with Boolean > Difference. The cylinder is what gives the door the arc, but if it is not lined up right with the cube, the door would look weird. An addition I made was the tower in the middle, which is the other tower duplicated, extended in height and shrunk in width. The topper is a cone placed in the tower's depression.
Overall, I think the project went well, I didn't really have any problems except a bit of confusion with the Difference. If the objects aren't selected in the right order, it might cut out the wrong thing. The colors are added by making new materials, changing the colors of those materials and assigning them to the shapes. The ground is a large, flat plane.
For our first project in Maya, we had to make a castle. It had to have 4 towers, walls, and a door cut out of one wall. I started with the towers. To make the towers, you first make a cylinder for the bottom tube thing, then another for the top part. After that you duplicate the bottom one, drag it up so that it is inside the top part, and use Boolean > Difference. This makes the "bowl" effect, seen here: To make the parts that stick up, you select every other face, use the extrude tool, and drag them up. Then duplicate the tower 3 times and arrange the 4 into a square.
Next were the walls. These were pretty simple, they're just a rectangular prism sized to fit with the towers. To make the battlements, you have to add divisions to the width (mine had 19) and repeat the process from the tower, selecting the faces, extruding and dragging up. After that, the wall was duplicated and moved to connect the towers.
The door is made by making a cylinder and orientating it long-ways, and connecting it to a cube of the same width with Boolean > Union. The new shape is placed in the wall, both are selected, and the shape is cut out of the wall with Boolean > Difference. The cylinder is what gives the door the arc, but if it is not lined up right with the cube, the door would look weird. An addition I made was the tower in the middle, which is the other tower duplicated, extended in height and shrunk in width. The topper is a cone placed in the tower's depression.
Overall, I think the project went well, I didn't really have any problems except a bit of confusion with the Difference. If the objects aren't selected in the right order, it might cut out the wrong thing. The colors are added by making new materials, changing the colors of those materials and assigning them to the shapes. The ground is a large, flat plane.
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