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Low Poly Cottage
Rough Walkthrough
 | New scene, start with default cube. |
| Resize and extrude top to create a house shape. | |
| Add two horizontal and vertical loopcuts. | |
 | Create the roof by duplicating then separating the corresponding faces. |
| Pull it out just above, adjust the outer edges so they go further than the base and apply a mirror for the other side. | |
| Duplicate the entire setup to create a second floor. | |
 | Add solidify to the roof (Offset 0) and apply it. |
| Move things into place and move vertices around to break rigidity and create character. | |
| Apply mirror modifiers on parts that need to be asymmetrical. | |
 | Add beams to connect the different parts of the building together. |
| Loop cut the beams and set them in line with the lines of the building. | |
| Use mirror modifiers, apply if individual editing is required, leave in place where mirroring is enough to properly show on all sides. | |
 | Use knife tool to create cuts for windows and doors. |
| This step creates n-gons. They can be kept if they are flat faces, or cut down to quads and triangles. | |
| Different faces can also be made flat by scaling to 0 along the perpendicular axis then rotating the flattened face back into position. | |
 | Duplicate loops of windows and doors and move out slightly. |
| Scale inwards, extrude then scale outwards, rectify geometry and/or normals if needed and solidify to create window frames and doors. | |
| Add another level of detail with small beams inside the windows and details such as door frames and door knobs. | |
 | Create a pipe with a low poly cylinder (16 sides). |
Extrude upwards with CTRL + LEFT CLICK in a sort of wobbly path. Bevel some joints and extrude along normals. |
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| Correct any distortion manually by selecting edge loops and rotating them back to fit. Dissolve half the edge loops to bring cylinder down to 8 for a more chiseled look. | |
 | Create lamps easily with a cube, loop cut and scale out the center loop and in the top and bottom. |
Inset all faces with I twice to target individual faces, then extrude and scale down along normals to create the inside. |
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| 5 sided cylinder work very well for low poly ropes that are fairly thin and not very visible. | |