This post will partially be about the Ground object, too – our retopologised mesh of the height map data, Terrain. I wrote about this previously, and will assume that you have read it.
Reference images
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/front-from-website.png)
The building in the post is a firm favourite of mine, Old Queens Head.
It’s not as if the thought of doing the building hadn’t occurred to me before, but something in there inspired me:
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/model01-1.png)
![class=](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/model02.png)
Why not use these as reference images?
How apt that the reference images have an artistically constructed floor, on the very same building I began to construct the floor for our city on.
The ground in this scene is sunken slightly where the beer garden is.
I cannot sink my ground plane in such a way because the height map, Terrain
will prevent me, because of it’s accurate topological data.
It cannot go that low without cutting a hole into it, which I’m not going to do.
So, I have to build everything around it, up because that direction isn’t locked.
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_01-1.png)
Notice how the checker-board flows into what will be the right-hand entrance; this will allow for a smooth transition upon entering buildings.
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_02-1.png)
The Stucco texture on the white wall is now more visible, though I think I will tone it down a bit
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_03.png)
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_04-1.png)
This looked too odd
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_05.png)
Better, for now.
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_06.png)
![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_07.png)
Ground
object to the bottom of the door![](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.thefan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/old-queens-head_08.png)
Ground
some more
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