SciFi Room Challenge – Cozy Quarters

After a bit of a false start yesterday I got the room blocked out today. Getting the dimensions nailed down, even with a mannequin in the scene, was especially challenging. Next up, starting work on the walls!

Posted a lament about my SF Room project over in the Discord but I thought I’d post here as well along with a screenshot.

I’ve tried three different rooms so far and each time the scope of what I’ve set up for myself starts to feel overwhelming for my current skill level. Not to say I haven’t been learning a bunch. Not shown in the screenshots are the files full of the results of my fiddling around with materials and geometry nodes and whatnot. But the idea of sorting out how to take any of that and applying it to any of the rooms makes me feel exhausted.

I know the point of the challenges are, obviously, to be *challenging* and I need to push through no matter what!

Below is my most recent room. It has somewhat wandered away from the “cozy quarters” theme and in my head I have been referring to it as a “horticultural outpost”. I really like this room but it will require so many plants.

So. Many. Plants.

The random bit of piping on the wall are the building blocks of a wall-mounted hydroponics system. I’m particularly happy about the “greenhouse” framing which was a happy accident – just seeing what would happen if I added a subsurf modifier under a wireframe modifier.

Here’s an example of the hydroponics system iRL. I wish I had a yard because I would love to try this!