Google Sketchup House

     My most recent project In E-com was to build a house in Google Sketchup. Google Sketchup is a program run by Google, and i gives users the ability to build whatever comes to their minds. In my opinion, it's like Minecraft, but with curves.  The controls are pretty simple and easy for beginners, such as myself, to use and help them better understand how to create objects in a 3D computer world.  

This is the front of the house on the website

     To start, I found a real house that was for sale on a website called House plans. I first started designing one house, but I gave up because it was too difficult.  So I found another house. It seemed pretty simple and easy, so I started recreating it in Google Sketchup. Everything was going fine. I knew how to use most of the tools, and the tools id didn't know how to use, I never used.
     Once the basic layout was set, I started running into some trouble. I spent way too much time on two windows because Google Sketchup was giving me a hard time, and felt like being a rebel, and not do what I wanted it to do. I couldn't create a simple, easy, little window because the tools wouldn't do what I wanted them to do. I was pretty frustrated, and upset. I eventually dealt with it, and found a way to create the windows, but it still was agonizing.
     After I was done with the two windows, pretty much everybody in my class was done, and I knew i was behind. Being behind makes me feel like I have to do more work than I really need to do, and I tend to rush things, and I'll get flustered if others try to bother me while I'm working and trying to focus. It's not good for anyone if I am or feel behind. Luckily, I did finish and when I did i realized I wasn't that far behind everybody else.

My seamless stone texture

     When I did finish, I texturized the house. That means I just put colors and textures on my house. It wasn't too difficult. In fact it was the easiest part of the project. Part of this project was to find a seamless texture on the internet. I did, and it is absolutely beautiful because gray stone is obviously prettier than diamonds.
      Overall, I didn't hate this project, but I wasn't fond of it either. If I could do it again, I wouldn't because I thought was going to lose my sanity trying to create those two windows, and I don't  want to go through that again, but if I absolutely had to do it again, then I would change it where the students can choose to create their own house, or find one online, and not do an exact recreation of it, but change it to where there some similarities but the student's creation is still its own thing.

     Click here to see more of the real house :)