A few years ago I sold all my stuff to explore the world, creating 12 startups in 12 months and building $1M+/y in companies as an indie maker such as Nomad List and Remote OK. I'm also a big pusher of remote work and try to analyze the effects it will have on society. Follow me on Twitter or see my list of posts. My first book MAKE is out now.
Mar 04, 2016

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

Learning 3d

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)

day-25-door bars

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

2016-03-03-restaurant front

And the other one:

2016-03-04-render4

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:

2016-03-04-render4

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:

Cinema-4D-Blend-Clone-Tutorial

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

Screenshot 2016-03-04 20.32.40

…and your one object duplicates:

Screenshot 2016-03-04 20.33.48

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:

Screenshot 2016-03-04 20.32.45

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

Screenshot 2016-03-04 20.33.55

Or the Z axis:

Screenshot 2016-03-04 20.34.03

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:

2016-03-04-render3

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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