The Journey

 

 

 

 
 At first, I started with a cylinder, I sized it appropriately and extruded the top face inwards while extruding the bottom face outwards. I used a sandstone texture found on www.cgtextures.com. I think this texture works perfectly as it doesn't have a cut off point and it's seamless.

 

 The next thing I made were my poles for the top of the lighthouse. They were designed to fit in a diamond pattern on the top of the base of the Lighthouse. I textured them with Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics to add effect and to hammer home the Egyptian theme, as hieroglyphics were a very common feature of most Ancient Egyptian structures.

 

 

Next I added some stairs, windows and a door to my Lighthouse. At first I textured the stairs with the same texture as the base of the lighthouse but I changed this later on. I created the stairs by creating a cube, scaling it to an appropriate size, adding lots of edge loops in specific places around the cube, and extruding the newly created faces to give the look of a small staircase.

 

 

 Next I made my windows look more like windows rather than cubes of grey. I also added a flattened down cylinder to the top, which acts as a stand for the bowl of fire. At first I textured this using the same hieroglyphics texture that was used on my poles, but I changed this later on as I felt it didn't look as good as it could do.

 

 

Next I added a little shelter over the door held up by two more hieroglyphic poles. I also made my door look better and textured both the windows and doors with a rough stone texture.










Next I added in the bowl with an old Egyptian pottery texture added to it, this just adds a small but of authenticity to my project. I added 4 more poles to create a sort of room for the fire bowl to sit in. I used a different hieroglyphics texture for these poles to add a bit of variety.







Next I added holes where the door and windows were to make it look more realistic rather than just a sandstone texture behind the window frames. I also added a polished bronze mirror that is manually moved from place to place to reflect the fire's light into whichever direction is requested.

Next I started to create the scene that my lighthouse will sit in. I added some pyramids, some sand and the sea of course