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London Townhouse Pack  1.0

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London Townhouse Pack

 

A BAT pack for London / British cities enthusiast. This pack contains 18 residential, commercial and office buildings and one town medical clinic. The Architectural style is Georgian, very late of 18thcentury, but these kinds of buildings are still common in different parts of the British Isles.

 

Aesthetically very simple, but I like this period style. And very much in London style. To me a typical London building is this kind of old Georgian house. Although in the City the Georgian buildings are mostly gone, in many places outside of the Square Mile there are still streets lined with the Georgian row houses. Often with upmarket prices.

 

The BAT design is modular and the houses are variations of same basic structure. I have aimed to create ingame variation with only handful of lots. For example, I have made 8 R$$ houses and 4 lots (2 1x2 and 2 1x1) with 12 separate house extension props. The house extension props are grouped as prop families, so type and number of extension should vary from lot to lot. In theory, this should give over hundred different combinations for the lot, although difference can be minima for overall game.

 

However, using separate house extension has caused some problems. The extension props overlaps slightly with the houses and sometime a corner of the prop is invisible or leaves a hole. Also need to align the extension props to the houses, causes these lots to be slope unfriendly. Max slope before foundation is limited to 1 and I don’t think these lots would look nice in mountainous maps.

 

Nightlight are Maxi only. HD render

 

 

The house model is based on a real life building in Smithfields, East London. Artillery Lane 54-56. The shops are still standing (or were at least few years ago) and the façade is original or faithful to original Georgian design. I think today these building are residential buildings, but the Georgian shop windows remain. I found a scale drawing of these houses and the BAT model is made by using this info. The scale is real life scale and it makes the buildings look slightly smaller than SC4 comparison buildings from batters such as Gascooker. But then again, the historic Georgian buildings tend to be smallish, so I don’t think that size is a big issue.

 

I did choose medium wealth level as originally these houses were often inhabited by carpenters, merchants, sea captains, watchmakers and other artisans. People whom I would call as Georgian / Victorian middle class. By late Victorian times many streets and houses had dilapidated to rentroom housing and slums. Therefore I made few R$ rookery versions. Today these houses would probably be High Wealth, at least in good areas, so please adjust setting to your liking.

 

Ormond Surgery:

 

Plop Cost 450

Radius 400

Capacity 550

Jobs $ 8, $$ 13, $$$ 3

Monthly Cost 300 100

Department Health Staff Health Coverage

 

R$$ Houses Acton Street, Charlotte Street, Primrose Street, Perceval Street, Montague Street, Tavistock Place, Devonshire Street, Russell Street

 

Capacity Satisfied R$$ 22-27

Building Value 533 - 678

Bulldoze Cost 245 – 265

Pollution Air 1, Water 1, Garbage 4

Power Consumed 1

Water Consumed 2

 

CS$$ Artillery Lane, Drury Lane, Folgate Street, Bayswater Inn, Grand Junction Street

 

Capacity Satisfied CS$$ 21-22

Building Value 610 – 669

Bulldoze Cost 245 - 265

Pollution Air 1, Water 1, Garbage 13-14

Power Consumed 2

Water Consumed 27

 

CO$$ Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, Broad Street

 

Capacity Satisfied CO$$ 23-27

Building Value 360 - 376

Bulldoze Cost 252 - 265

Pollution Air 1, Water 1, Garbage 4

Power Consumed 1

Water Consumed 15

 

R$ Rookery Wilkes Street, Dorset Street.

 

Capacity Satisfied R$ 65 - 66

Building Value 883 - 896

Bulldoze Cost 253

Pollution Air 1, Water 1, Garbage 4

Power Consumed 1

Water Consumed 1

 

 

 

DEPENDENCIES

 

British Boxes

 

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29965-british-boxes/

 

 

BSC Mega Props CP Vol 1

 

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1180

 

BSC Textures Vol 1

 

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=90

 

 

 

 

Please report any errors

 

 

Enjoy

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Hey Kimmo! Congrats on the release! The pack looks amazing.. thanks for this great addition my friend! Hope to see more of your wonderful work soon!

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This looks very good! You could however improve on the nightlights and maybe create a darknite version. It looks good nonetheless and I guess I should really start checking out your BAT thread. :lol:

 

Keep up the good work. :thumb:

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These tiny houses look great my friend.Of course,there is always a little space for some improvemend,but overall they look nice,especially in groups....maybe i even can sneak in some of these tiny georgians into the side streets of my NYC...

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oh!  it has been soo long since we got a w2w pack. And this one is just GREAT.

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Superb, excellent work!! These will look great in the Dublin recreation which I'm slowly but surely doing (apart from the red phone boxes of course :)

 

Would there by any chance be a red brick being released also?!

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These are great! I will incorporate them in my re-creation of Annapolis, MD (it has a ton of Georgian buildings)

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Great to see these released, I look forward to seeing what you do next. :).

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Thank you for your kind words. I feel that there is still to be improved, but for this project it was time to release or abandon it. Onwards to next one.

 

@Crushproof I have few green Irish boxes in my British Boxes prop pack, so you can replace those offending red thingies. :)

No more variations of these building, but I have plans for more slope friendier, R$$$ and others. We will see. However no good news for nightlights. I use GMAX and AFAIK 3DS Max is need for Darknite buildings.

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These London Townhouse buildings will look lovely in my cities.

Just a couple of questions: what tileset do these grow on? I'm assuming "Euro"...? And what density do these grow own? Medium?

Thank yous.

~mpkio2~

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I've seen these grow for a few hours now...they are stunning creations to which you should be very proud.

These London Townhouse buildings will look lovely in my cities.

Just a couple of questions: what tileset do these grow on? I'm assuming "Euro"...? And what density do these grow own? Medium?

Thank yous.

~mpkio2~

If you have the tile set mod then these will grow under Euro without any trouble at all.

 

 

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