Balcony-W.I.P
 

My first modeling attempt.Hope you like it.
I have no idea how to put images so i'll give you a link to the site where the image is uploaded.

http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?i...tairwayix8.jpg

Looks good so far, could we get a pick with the wires, maybe able to off er some help then.

Chris

Here it is (i guess)..

http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen01th4.jpg

The roof looks a bit dense to me, as I can't see any poly's for all the edges. How many polygons in the roof?

Gio

Too many...I just extruded the faces up and smoothed it, because i dont know any other way of doing that. :(

I totally forgot about number 3 -.-, anyway here it is.

http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen03zu5.jpg

perhaps the smoothing was a bit too much as it's a solid blue so I would remake that bit more efficiently.

I just quickly did this to give you an idea of what I mean

Base mesh something like this although this was done in a few seconds so you could make it a bit nicer
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...o/RoofBase.jpg

It will look like this when Smooth Mesh Preview mode is used in Maya 2008 (press no3 key)

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...othDisplay.jpg

Then convert the mesh preview to poly's using linear and it will look like this
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...olyConvert.jpg

Should be more efficient.

Gio

Your mesh looks fine apart from the number of edges going across the roof, take some of those out before you smooth it and you'll be fine

Gio

the parts holding up the railing look dense in polys to me to especially for as small as it is

Thanks for the help.
Here is the update, mostly cleaning up and some parts were changed.

closer look at the stairs:

http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen01de3.jpg

closer look at the roof:

http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen02kq6.jpg

the whole picture:

http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen03zh4.jpg

Update:
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http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen05li4.jpg

thats' looking much better

Keep it up

Gio

Here it is the final model.

http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?i...creen06fn9.jpg

But now comes the hard part...I am even a bigger noob at texturing.Can some1 give me some pointers on how to make a nice metal,plastic and wood shader?