Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Sounds like a Linked Duplicate thingy.
Shift-D creates a duplicate.
Alt-D creates a linked duplicate.

I think.

I'm relearning lots about Blender thanks to you.

good for you

I'm pretty sure I used right click - create duplicate, but I guess I might have clicked the wrong row in the pop up menu... twice...

I need to simplify some shapes before texture mapping but at least it looks like I intended. Whether it would look as intended in game is another thing. I've come to realise that the houses in game that I think look normal vs big are actually way too tiny vs more normal, if you think of the game characters actually fitting inside. So this is approximately 3*5 meters which makes for a tiny log cabin but if I ever manage to get it into Banished it'd look pretty big...

It's also protruding slightly beyond the 3*5 so I'd probably have to use 5*7 in game "squares" for it... To prevent overlap if nothing else.

This looks to be attachment 10001 - I wonder what attachment 10.000 was?
(edit, subtracted a zero)

Oh and I forgot... Is there a way to merge 2 or more faces (in the same plane) into one? The end of every beam is made up of two face (except a few where I had to cut away something and then re-add a face). The only way I know how to reduce those particular number of faces would be to first delete the two faces and then add one new, which seems like taking two steps when you could just take one.... (and yes, I'm lazy like that)

And maybe I should point out that some of the interior geometry from the first models (as they represent building stages) are not present in the finished cabin where you wouldn't be able to see it anyway. (But there are more simplifications to be done, still. )

There seems to be a dissolve function for that but I've never used it so be careful.

It's looking pretty good. The detail of the logs and the interlocking beams make it seem very intricate indeed.

PS. I think Banj's cylinder may have been 10,000. I did notice that my last gaming screenshot was 9,999 but it seems right that Banj should have the privilege on his own website.

Yup, that was it. Seems a little anti-climactic.... but at any rate it was Banj's. You're right it should be his :p

All you need now is some 3D teenagers and a chainsaw.

So uhm, does anyone know why some items are shown with wireframe AND faces and some only with faces?
I know I fiddled with some view setting somewhere to make those edges/wireframe show up but they still only show on some things and I'm not sure how to turn them off again?

Also I googled how to find out the number of faces (polygons) in a model and the response was "in the top right in Edit mode" and "oh duh of course". But I see nothing like that anywhere???

EDIT: I'm also seeing that | cursor/marker thingy in uneditable text on websites for some reason... I'm sure it has nothing to do with Blender, but whether it's to do with the annoying mouse & wire or the cats stepping all over the keyboard.... (probably the latter...)

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