Modeling: Create “London Bridge at a distance” in 3ds max – part -1

After a long time, we are going to learn this simple and realistic (only from a particular distance) looking London bridge modeling in 3d. This serves same as Eiffel tower modeling from previous tutorial.

Final Image:

create "London bridge at a distance" in 3ds max

Making of London bridge:

Step-1

Before we start off, let’s change the units to centimeters for  easy understanding of measurements.

For this, go to Customize >> Units setup and change metrics to centimeters.

And Draw a box (standard primitive) with following properties.

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Step-2

Draw a cylinder place it in the following position with following properties.

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Duplicate the cylinder and place them rest of the 3 corners.

Step-3

Duplicate the box and resize it to 360.6cm. we use this as a measurement  for placing something at the height of 360.6cms.

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Step-4

Duplicate the cylinder, set the following properties and place it at the height of duplicated box in the following way (at the height of 360.6 cm)

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Duplicate it and place them at rest of the three corners and delete measurement box.

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Step-5

Draw cone(Standard primitive) with following properties and place them on top of the cylinder.

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Duplicate the cone and place them on the rest three cylinders.

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Step-6

Draw a box with following properties and place it in the following way.

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Step-7

Duplicate the same box and decrease its height to 60cm and place it like this….

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Right click the object and convert it into “Editable mesh”, select “vertices” option and select top right corner two vertices from front view and move them to center.

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Similarly top left vertices.

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Finally, it should look like this…

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Step-8

Duplicate the above modified object, using vertices match the base of the object to the following object.

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Decrease the width of the top to 60cm (to measure centimeters, follow the process which I’ve shown you earlier)

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The top is sharp, lets un sharp it using vertices.

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The result should be like this…

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Step-9

Duplicate the following object and place it in the following way.

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Step-10

Create cross, duplicate it and place them on top of the cones.

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Step-11

Draw a semi circle cylinder with following properties and place it at the height of 170cms.

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Step-12

Convert the object into “editable mesh” and select bottom vertices.

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Drag them down.

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Step-13

Now select main tower, go to Compound objects >> Boolean >> Pick Operand B

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Select “Pick Operand B” and click on the following object to make a way through the tower.

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You get result like this….

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Step-14

Create cylinder with following properties to place it as a base for the tower.

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Convert the object into editable mesh and select semi circle vertices (top and bottm) and drag them to other side of the tower in the following way.

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Step-15

Duplicate the whole tower and place it at 850cm distance in the following way.

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Step-16

Lets create road using plane (Standard primitive) with following properties.

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Step-17

Create walls on both side of the road with following properties.

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Step-18

Boolean out the base to level up with road.

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Create a box with width of the road and cut the road using Boolean method.

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Convert it to editable mesh, using “polygon” option select surface.

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Extrude the selected  surface to -35.5cm

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And bevel the selected surface to -1.5cm

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Duplicate the base and replace the other base.

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Step-19

Draw two lines using lines from “splines” options in the following way.

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Go to line’s properties and set the following parameters.

The parameters will add mesh to the line.

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Do the same thing with the other line too.

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Step-20

Using the same line properties, draw lines in the following way.

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Make three copies of those lines and place them like this…..

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Step-21

Connect the towers at the top using box primitive with following properties.

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The final result supposed to look like this….

create "London bridge at a distance" in 3ds max

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In Next part we will learn to add textures to the model.

I hope you find this tutorial useful.

Enjoy!