MI6

Using what I learn from the 3ds max 2011 tutorials, I have decided to make the MI6 building.
First I find the front view of the MI6 image and change what I don't need in photoshop.

In 3d max I create a plane, set the length and width same as the image. Open slate material editor, drag Arch & Design to the active view, choose Matte finish in the templates rollout, then drag bitmap into the active view and open the MI6 image and link with the circle to the Diffuse Color Map and Bump Map component at the Arch & Design material’s. Turn on show map in viewport, and drag the Arch & Design material node’s output socket to the plane.

Use the select and uniform scale tool, to scale the plane to the size I want, change the pivot to the base of the plane and convert to editable poly.
Apply UVW Map and poly select, go to the editable poly level, click edge and select the top edge of the plane, move the edge downward to the first level of the building, hold shift and drag the move Y- axis backward and move the edge up, and repeat this for each level, so this has create the floor for each level of the building.











To create depth for the windows and surface, I have turn on swiftloop, to add vertical and horizontal loops around all the windows and the surface of the building, select polygon to highlight the windows and use extrude settings and in height have the value about -2. For the surface part of the building I just extrude it outward.











Select border and click the edge, this highlight all the outside edge of the plane, then hold shift and move Y- axis of the border back.

As you can see each floor of the building has been over stretch, so I apply unwrap UVW modifier, choose face sub-object from Unwrap UVW and select the faces that are over stretch.










Go to map parameters rollout, click planar, then align z, go to parameters rollout, edit, the Edit UVWs dialog will pop up. Turn on Filter Selected Faces and freeform mode, drage the corner to scale the face, move and rotate the box to the size and place I want.











Reference:
David Williams, Charlotte Gill and Tom Kelly
2010
Did spy's killer steal state secrets? MI6 agents search for 'missing' laptop or MP3 player after body-in-bag murder case
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306233/Did-killer-MI6-spy-Gareth-Williams-steal-state-secrets.html
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[23/3/2011]