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July 10, 2006 - Exterior Details

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I know it's been a while since my last update, but I'm finally making some progress. I had to spend a good bit of time recreating the roof. It's done now.

As you can see for the image above, I've been putting a lot of detail into the model. I'm preparing the model for another purpose in the future. Otherwise, I wouldn't be putting quite this much detail into it. It takes a lot of time to get the geometry right. :)


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I've also finished preparing the landscaping as far as the walkways and edging go. The next thing I'll work on with the landscaping is trees.

You probably are wondering about the black areas around the model. Well, I had to cut the model off somewhere, otherwise I'd end up modeling the rest of EPCOT. Not that that's a bad thing, I just want to concentrate on Horizons for now. :) I will be adding a section of the monorail track to the front of the model since the track crosses that area of the landscaping.


I also have adjusted my shaders once again to comensate for the IBL. (Image Based Lighting) I also added a light to simulate the sun.


I also began adding more detail to the back and sides. I still have a little bit left to do, but most of it is there now. I also added new shaders to the backstage area. If anyone has photos of the backstage area, I'd love to see them to help fill in this area.


Here's another angle of the back of the building.

Horizons's Roof

Well, I've managed to get a bit done on the roof, but it's a little sketchy. I was wondering if anybody out there had some more images of the camera on the roof and shots of the roof area itself. As you can tell in the *only* photo I have of the camera (shown below) it's a little tricky to model a whole roof from this pic.

I'm also looksing for shots taken from the roof showing parts of the roof. I have a blurry small drawing showing two roof drains, but I have no idea what they look like. I'd like to really detail this section of the pavilion since it was so rarely seen.

This is what I have so far. Please disregard the rendering artifacts. :)

You can see the roof hatch on the left side of the roof. The pole sticking up is tha approximate position of the camera.