First Build

So yesterday in the sand box at Help Island, I made my first piece of furniture; a couch - white.

Note: I do not claim to be a builder of any magnitude and have had no formal training. Just tinkering around with the Prims (primitives). As you can see.

The first prim I made was a square and stretched it into a long rectangle (seat)

<~~ Doesnt come out naturally white.

Open up the "More" tab in the edit box and use these numbers.

X 2.336

Y 0.911

Z 0.500

then a tube (arm)

X 0.656

Y 0.710

Z 0.902

and one oval (back)

X 2.444

Y 1.507

Z 0.165

and half moon (arm cap)

X 0.663

Y 0.716

Z 0.496

and a ball (foot)

X 0.303

Y 0.367

Z 0.295

When you right click the ground in a sand box the "Create" option a pie chart appears. This brings up an editor box. I would suggest at Help Island to read the tutorials there about creating Prims.

First thing I did was take the seat and stretch it.

Next the oval (back rest) I made that the same length as the seat and thinned it out.

<~ Back in red so you can see it

The tube (arms) I stretched to the width of the base and width.

The half moon (arm caps)were stretched and rotated to stand on end to one meter wide.

First I grabbed the oval and placed it on the back of the rectangle and then put a slight rotation on it trying to center the edges and dropping it into the rectangle slightly.

Then I grabbed the tube (arms) and positioned it on one end of the rectangle letting half of it hang off. I copied the tube (using the Select shift trick) and placed it on the other side of the rectangle and positioned it also

<~ Base with two tubes attached

Arm caps were next placing them on the ends of the tubes by rotating them to cap them off.

<~ see rotation wheel? (see building tips)

I played around with the rotation/position of the items until I had them like I wanted and it looked semi like a sofa.

Then clicked the edit tool and above it all and created a yellow box around the whole thing. Holding the Ctrl key and L then letting go of the L key. In doing this, I linked all the Prims as one making it one solid object to work with.

<~~~ See the faint yellow box?

You can only have 256 Prims to link.

Now I could rotate the couch to insert the balls on the bottom as feet.

I worked our Ctrl L key trick once more and linked all the items again. After, I changed the texture to solid and the color to white and admired my first attempt to making furniture. It was simple and very primitive, I am sure there are easier and more proficient ways to make this but I wanted to try.