Hands On DarkBASIC Pro - Digital Skills

Creating a Complex 3D Shape
Introduction
Designing the Castle
FIG-32.29
A Rough Sketch of the
Object Required
By combining the basic 3D shapes available to us we can create almost any complex
shape. However, this may take a considerable amount of work and require a great
deal of code. In reality we would probably create objects such as these in a separate
3D drawing package and then import the resulting file into our DarkBASIC Pro
program (we'll see how to do this in Chapter 36). However, just to give us some
practice, we'll try creating a simple castle using only DarkBASIC Pro.
We are going to save ourselves a great deal of time later if we start by doing a grided
plan of the castle to give ourselves the basic layout and sizes. FIG-32.29 shows a
plan of the castle.
Next, we need to create a more traditional drawing showing the characteristics of
the castle (see FIG-32.30). We might also draw specific parts in more detail.
822 DarkBASIC Pro: Texturing