Create a cylinder with barely any depth and only 6 sides.
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6 large rectangles to boolean away from the cylinder.
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This is the remaining object.
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Create runs: Use a H-spline and adjust to your needs in terms of size and depth, etc. Extrude nurbs this out with subdivisions for detailing.
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Duplicate and move into appropriate positons, to create the tiled effect take the long segments and extrude inner and down.
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Solar Panels: Long plane with only a few segments, move every other one up and thats the base. Then create duplicates and move and rotate them. cubes to hold it together.
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Texture for the solar panels. I used a circut board texture I had in a collection, the added a blue overlay and some reflectiveness to it and tiled it so it matched with the solar grid.
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Duplicate and move.
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A sandstone texture for the platforms and a grey stone/ concrete for the walkways.
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This stage was very tricky because I used cloth modifiers, cloth nurbs and fixed points and the kept running the animation over and over until I got the right settings I wanted. Change items such as stiffness, flexion, rubber, friction, weight, gravity, wind direction/speed/turbulance.
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Particle physics are always fun. used an emitter with settings set to realistically mimic the flow of steam coming from the building.
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Add an environment with a volume tracer object on and attach smoke shaders to the particles on the emitter.
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The ground, which actually has a water texture but it looks like it could be a solid, but whatever it looks cool, is a large landscape (40,000x40,000x2,000) with played around settings.
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With a sky added and a test render done some final adjustments needed to be done, reduce the level of the horizon to take away that orange and change some of the sky parameters.
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This is the final stage set up for the render, turn on global illumination and ambient occlusion for the best results and increase the anti-aliasing. Render out.
Be warned the smoke particles slow down the render about 10x minimum, it is very intensive on your system.
Be warned the smoke particles slow down the render about 10x minimum, it is very intensive on your system.
Final result
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