Modeling bay windows

[Arnold Grove]

Whats the best way to do bay windows? The windows Im doing are of course in the rounded parts of the wall.

 

Using this tutorial as a reference (did this a few years ago)

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/resources/tutorials/smoke3d/tutorial13.asp

 

Its pretty stratight forward but its tricky for me because of the curvature of the walls. I extruded my walls spline a few times to make the window openings in the curved areas.

 

When I give the window openings the needed ID's and then extrude -- the polys are also curved. I need them to be flat to make the windows and window frames.

 

If the walls were flat I could just use the snaps and draw a reqtangle to make the interior winodw trim molding BUT the modling trim also curves with the wall on the top width (across) the window.

 

Thanks for any advice. ag

Edited November 20, 2009 by Arnold Grove

[anton]

Can you post a reference image? All i could find in google images are rectangular windows on a flat wall...

 

If i understand correctly what you're trying to achieve, you could build the rounded windows then remove some of the edges to straighten the glass pane then divide them again and rebuild the mesh. Check the attached image for a step by step illustration of the process.

[Arnold Grove]

wow thats great -- thanks thats a lot of work!

 

Ill figure how to post iamge. Room was from drawing on napkin (real professional...dont try that at home kids)

 

and its an interior -- opposite of what you have but still the same prinicpal -- I know I did it wrong -- I copied the wall spline and deleted all but the window shapes -- and then made the vertex's corners (at spline level) so the windows would be flat -- but your way is better

 

ill post images