Department of Transportation 1.0

Looks very nice Downloading Now 9/10

Looks pretty Snazzy for a building...however I think you shoulda made it a real Department of Transportation. It should tell stats like: Number of Bus Stations,El Rail Stations,Heavy Rail Stations,Mono rail stations,subway stations, Number of mass transit commuters total,Number of mass transit users for each of the commute methods of travel, etc. For the building I give it a 7/10. If it had all the stat stuff i mentioned id give it a 10/10

Yay! There's a larger rush of generic buildings these days... 10/10 ;)

Maybe T Wrecks can modd it - to give all that info. I dont know how to do that.

Well I asked RippleJet hes been doing a bunch of stuff..either way ur building will do just nicely for a downtown bus station..sadly no one has ever really made any since porkissimo. Your lot actually got me wanted to make some Department Hqs with stats for each transit department though :P. But I cant bat so lot editor will have to do

Generic buildings as realistic as this one is always welcome! Plus the lot and the ploppable bus station is just wonderful! A 10/10!

Could you make this building with some jobs as well? It looks great, but I like to utilize my downtown space to the fullest.

Ok when I was trying to download, it says DOT.zip? I did not think Bixel will ever name a file that does not reflect the nature or the name of the bat. Can someone clarify?

Oh wait...DOT stands for Department of Transportation...LOL..silly me

Ok to be fair about jobs, I think there are many of those large rail station bats here at the STEX that takes up a lot of space but also do not offer jobs. And then there are some government buildings that do not provide jobs (the City Hall, The Opera House, the Stadium). Is a 5x3 building that does not offer jobs but offers a realistic appearance that bad an idea? No!

I think it has jobs. Hrmm. I was pretty sure I modded it for jobs. But it is hard to tell since I never made a Civic building before.

Generic or not, this looks great

By default, all civic buildings have jobs... in fact, the PM's default setting is far too high. Plop this building in a suitable city, wait a while and check the route query tool to see if any sims commute to this building. All those railway stations that were claimed to have no jobs, too, ought to have quite a bunch of civic jobs - you just don't see them in the query UI. But that doesn't mean they're not there - see in-game civic buildings.

@ SimNation: you shoulda made this, you shoulda made that... that's so easy to say. Ever tried even half of what you suggest? Citing RippleJet is great... do you have any idea who and what RippleJet is? There are probably 4-5 people in the entire SC4 community (RJ is one of them) who have the skills to do what you would like to see - just to adjust the perspective.

Finally back on topic: Bixel, that's some nice BATting and texturing once again - and once again, I wonder if the floor height (especially of the ground floor) is sufficient... just a detail I noticed on some of your latest BATs, but I'll have a closer look at it. Anyway, a great idea and another great BAT! Could also be a nice CO

Nice.

Floor hieght is 4 generic units, the bottom floor is 5. most of the windows are a little short - which gives the illusion of shortness - but I could rerender this puppy - not too sure if the windows textures are to my liking. Originally I wanted this building to act like a mod adding a small percentage to commute distance and subtracting commute travel time, but I dont know all the lua functions. Besides - I am using NAM, and I didnt want it to conflict in any way.

Perfectly Excellent

Wow, I have a family member who used to work in that building! Very nice work, the courtyard looks great.

No way! This was modeled after the Kowloon Government Offices, but I havent seen the actual building - just a 3d representation at, http://hongkong.edushi.com/Default.aspx?L=en.

Nice building. I wonder if their DOT is as bad as wating in line for the DMV here in the US.

wow it's looks pretty awesome!!!!!!!!?? ??

I really like that courtyard!

:) ****ing nice

Well, he used to work for the Department of Transportation in Kowloon (branch of the HK government) I'm guessing that these would have been the head offices...