Architectural Details

Now that the basic room has been laid out, I have begun to model the larger details.

After splitting the room into three strips to make texturing easier later on, I built a "door to the afterlife", which is a false, stone door with spiritual significance. Modelling this consisted mostly of simple extrusions and a couple of insets with only a small amount of vertex aligning required.

While the ceiling is supported by four block columns, supposedly part of the rock the tomb was dug from, I decided to add two decorative pillars on the corners joining the entrance corridor to the tomb. These are roughly based on a type of "palm pillar". Egyptian pillars were often made to resemble more primitive pillars that were once used in the region, which were made from bundles of palm or papyrus. This mesh is based on the pillar illustrated on the far right.