Quions on buildings

[Neil Woodhouse]

Greetings,

 

Anybody got any good ideas on how to lay quions up onto the corners of buildings without having to instance all the time, god it gets so boring

 

Neil

[mattclinch]

Quoins? Have you tried arraying them?

[Stephen Thomas]

I'm not sure if this is any easier/different from your workflow, but generally I draw the 2 different sized rectangles then array them up as far as I need. Then add a bevel modifier and flip them over to the other side of the corner offsetting vertically by one course. This then gives me a group to instance around the other corners.

 

It is a bit laborious, but I can't think of an easier way really. Displacement for instance would take just as long to set up I think and once you've created them once you can just merge them into other scenes.

[Neil Woodhouse]

Mmmm,

 

I remember trying array sometime back. I wasn't happy with the result. Perhaps a revisit is in order.

[NOOXY]

are you modelling them in 3D Studio...I normally do it in an architectural software then import it over to 3ds..

[A.Mitov]

Model the quoins, chemfer(or bevel) them, position them in the right place and array along Z-axis - the way I would do it.