Week 7 + Mid semester Break

Over the Break I took a week break to recharge and relax from term 1.

In the second term in worked on the a new model the fountain

While its low poly it still looks like what we need and keeps a unique silhouette that fountains would have for a small village.

First i took a plan so to setup the basic cylindrical shape then keep extruding it to achieve the look I wanted.

after this i worked on the UVs for this. This took me some time as I has some curved UV shells that would cause issues while also taking up lots of space in the UVs space.

After some research i found a reddit post that had a comment on how to straighten the UV shell

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/13ksyfv/how_to_straighten_circular_uv

this was really helpful.

With this found I went ahead and UV unwrapped the fountain

With this the fountain is done the only extra bit would be a simple mesh to use as the water flowing from layer to layer by using a animated texture.

An issue i had was that maya just closed on me not crashed so no crash save was made. This made me realise that autosave wasn't enabled by default on my project.