Project #1 - JR Week 2 Update - Some Interior Items

   
            These are some of the items I have designed for the interior of JR's restaurant. With the exception of the conveyor belt, this week, I decided to concentrate on the main restaurant/dining area. These were made in a similar way as the furniture from my maze project in GDD 110, but this time around some of the more advanced tools were used. Along with that, thanks to boolean merging, I can now merge my polygons into a single object, which will make them much easier to place and rotate.

         The first couple of pieces. the tables and chairs, are among the most important, as there will be multiple instances of them in the room. I decided to keep them relatively simple, with the table looking both wood-like and modern at the same time (I've seem pictures of similar tables in actual BBQ houses and restaurants). To keep the southern feel, I went with a traditional design for the chairs (though, I might add booths in another stage of the project), with the traditional rod backings and rounded seat boards. I was originally going to make the back board and seat board simply square-shaped, but more traditional chairs have them at a more natural curve. In order to emulate that, I used the edge looping tool to create more vertices on the object for me to move around, creating a curve in the process.

     The next two notable items are those that will be used in the main room once. With some measuring, the stairs were relatively easy to make, and will serve as stairs that would lead to the second floor of the restaurant. The second item in the image is the desk/booth up near the entrance that restaurants use to greet people, keep track of reservations, and to mark down which tables are available and which are occupied. I was able to create an indent (used for leg room for the person at the desk) with the difference boolean tool, similar to how I created the windows in last week's update.

   The final piece that I prepared is the conveyor belt that brings food to the divider wall's window for the waiters and waitresses to pick up. If you take a look at my GDD110 blog, this is the same conveyor belt that is shown in the animation of my title screen. I was able to give curved sides to both ends of the belt using the edge looping tool, similar to the chairs.