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Subject: Tenochtitlan update: I solved the hut problem

Paloth opened this issue on Aug 08, 2009 · 16 posts


Paloth posted Tue, 11 August 2009 at 12:46 AM

Hi. Did you click on the image with the trees? It enlarges to a size that should be adequate for showing the huts (not in great detail, but clear enough to identify them.) I used the gif format to retain sharpness, though at the expense of the actual color. 

William H. Prescott describes the Tenochtitlan huts as being like Mayan huts. When I searched for Mayan huts, I found mainly rectangular huts, and also some that were partially rounded. I modeled the rectangular and loaded two huts, facing two different directions into the ecosystem. It worked pretty well since the huts are in sections of arable land and not locked into an inflexible grid of streets and yards.  

The next major step is to model the buildings of significance, but I spent some time placing Tenochtitlan into a terrain map of Mexico combined with a recreation of Lake Texcoco. I still need to create the roads through the water, tweak the landscape materials and find the best atmosphere settings and scale but I’ll leave that for later. 

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