Library Tower / US Bank Tower, Los Angeles BATing

[croyboy20052003 0]

that's it?! i got it but never use it. thanks!! enjoy your last year of high school man. last chance to be a kid before you grow up into a real young adult, unless you're italian then it's another 18 years, lol jk.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Well, that and the Plugin Manager, which comes with the BAT. Simply export your model, put it into an empty plugins folder (NO sub-folder), open the Plugin Manager, find your building in the right half of the screen and drag&drop it to the desired category in the tree in the left half of the screen - "Landmarks" would be the best choice in your case. Simply enter an item name, set plop cost to zero, and hit ok for now.

Then open the Lot Editor, find a landmark lot, go to the "Building" tab, hit "replace item", and select your tower from the list that pops up. Slap it onto the lot, save, run the game, plop, drool. That's basically it - of course without any lot design or reasonable stats, but it should do for testing purposes.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Yup i have Plugin Manager and Lot Editor too,  though using the Lot Editor can be complicating, at least for me

But, if your one of those people who like to play with the props and the buildings, then your gonna love the lot editor.

[JDRCRASH 53]

So any luck or progress

[croyboy20052003 0]

sorry for the delay. i worked through the weekend on finals... AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! i'm going insane with exams and projects!! on top of that i got sick the second time in two weeks (yeah yeah, excuses excuses).

i'm gonna work on it tomorrow. i'll have time for it. i wanta get the building into the game like you guys said just to see how the building looks in proportion and all that. i got the tower nearing completion. i just need to do the roof and windows. then the base and i'm done...

really sorry about my timing on this thing. my college runs on a quarterly system so i take midterms 4 times a year and finals 4 times as well. each quarter is 11 weeks. YAAY!!! next week is my last week before break. i'm gonna work on that thing every day of the break and hopefully complete it by the time it's over in a week.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Yay!

Man they must work you hard!!!!!

[JWUT 2]

Uhhhgh... school...
Takes us away from the really important things in life... family, church, BATing on the STEX...
Here's the last two photos I'm gonna give for a while. As always, use them as you like.


(2 California Plaza)


(Wells Fargo Tower)

When you start working on other buildings, I may have more stuff, but until then, keep up the good work with U.S. Bank!

[JDRCRASH 53]

@JWUT:Nice pics! 
Hey , wait a minute aren't they going to revive the proposal for "3 California Plaza"? 

And tell me about it, the personalities of some of the teachers, aids and professors make me wanna vomit

[JWUT 2]

OO! OO! 3 California Plaza? Would that be bigger than #2, or smaller?

And, thanks for all these compliments on the pics. I had this notion, for a while, that I might submit them to Emporis.com, but they only want full-time professional photographers.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Well its supposed to be taller than AON but shorter than U.S.BankTower...so yes it would be taller than 2 and 1.

915 ft.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Did your break begin?

[croyboy20052003 0]

YES!! FINALLY, i got done with my last final today...

now i can do more work

i'll get to work on this thing now

btw, cal 3 plaza was canceled and is replaced by park fifth. check out that link that i posted before if interested

[croyboy20052003 0]

T Wrecks, when i export the file, what pugins folder do i place it in? i've tried a few, but none of them turn up in the Plug-In Manager. anyone can answer this, i would definately appreciate it

[T Wrecks 10,210]

C:\My documents\SimCity 4\plugins. On a Windows XP Machine, the full path is longer, there's the user name somewhere... I believe it's something like C:\Documents and Settings\[Account]\My documents\SimCity 4\Plugins, but I don't have XP, so I'm not 100% positive. AT least I guess you know what I'm getting at.

It's also important to know that the Plugin Manager doesn't see sub-folders, so the .SC4Model file needs to be in the root plugins folder.

[croyboy20052003 0]

sorry, it still won't work... i was able to get a cool render view of what it might look like in-game

don't worry it's not going in like this... it looks short to me (probably because i'm not finished with the lobby). it's still missing the antenna on the roof, the blue corners, the crane, it's tracks (i can finish that today).

i really wanted to get this thing onto the lot editor to see what size lot i need. if it needs a larger lot than 4x4, i think i will make two lot versions: one with just the tower and lobby (no steps) and the real version. or i might just stretch this thing  to make it taller. tell me what you guys think of this stuff.

don't worry, i haven't forgotten about this

Vehicle Strength & Off-road speed modifier.zip

[JDRCRASH 53]

Woah thats sweet!!!

[JDRCRASH 53]

I think its perfect!!!!!!!!!!
But whats with that yellow circle.........is that where the building ends?
(sorry about the double post)

[croyboy20052003 0]

the orange circle is just sort of a reference as to what size lot i would need. it will be taken out later.

it's a flat cylynder that i was going to use to morph into the lobby's cement arch thingy above the lobby doors and windows, but for right now it sits exactly underneath the building.

perfect? wow... i guess i see more flaws because i built it

cool thing is i've done more work from here and i just figured out window transparency. this thing will be awesome when completed. i need to do some separation on some parts and i will put in simple stuff like shades and roof junk.

i really need more lobby pics though... i really need help where the tower meets the top of the steps. i'm mostly looking at windows on the left and right sides of this thing.

thanks for the support

[Sim shady 12]

sounds cool. looking forwards to seeing this complete

[JDRCRASH 53]

Are you going to make the green triangles  in between the white ones on the crown,because your missing them

[croyboy20052003 0]

haha... yeah, it's actually the first thing on my list of things to do after my morning habits.

right now, it's all roof is what i'm concentrating on. well, i might finish up on my windows before i get too detailed with other things.

either way, you'll get what you want you slaves of STEX  ...

well,... don't know what that was about, but here we go...

i'll update with more pics soon. tell me more of what you guys think

[croyboy20052003 0]

well, here's an update.

i'll mess around a little more with the windows and roof. also, still gotta do the lobby. it's getting easier too

enjoy:

Prop Pack Links for farms.zip

fence fix jeronij.zip

[JDRCRASH 53]

Oh, so you did finish the roof!
So far so good!

And here's some help with the glass pillars at the base

  

you should also look at those pics of the model i showed you a while back

This will help!!!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_6_10_2005_18_10_35/ltpreview12.jpg5cb67a6e-1963-482e-b679-19e51ef716a8Large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/266804&h=400&w=400&sz=24&hl=en&start=268&tbnid=LMagq9ftydKRUM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLibrary%2BTower%26start%3D260%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Make sure you visit this link croyboy!!! 
It has a few other models of AON Center made by other BATers that i think would help you in the future!!

[croyboy20052003 0]

sweet!! thanks

btw, that link with aon and us bank are both from the same guy... rickk. he made the first library tower for STEX. looks like he finished aon, but it's not on STEX

[JDRCRASH 53]

Wait a second.......

Rickk finished AON and didn't inform a single word of it here on Simptropolis?!

(maybe he did, but i've been following the thread and he hasn't said anything about it)

Alot of us on the site were following his project and were counting on him to send it to STEX.

.......I'm going PM him.

[Rickk 16]

The Library Tower was my first "real" BAT, and you're right - it was no where near perfect.

I can't wait to see the progress of this one. It's looking great!

[croyboy20052003 0]

thanks

it's taking me a while though... i know too many people were giving you a hard time about completion time... this building is harder to BAT than most because of all the odd angles and shapes.

i did as much as i could over the break (ha, one week). now i'm back in school and am limited to weekends... it'll get done. either just in time for thanksgiving or for Christmas. a perfct gift for those who will spend their holiday playing SC4 all day and night 'til they go back to school (you know who you are)

[JDRCRASH 53]

So how are the windows and roof coming along?

[croyboy20052003 0]

so far ok... i've been workning a little less on it lately... almost midterms already... my quarter is already one third of the way over!! another 8 weeks and Christmas break will be here...

does anyone know where i can grab textures from that are used in the simcity game already?

[JDRCRASH 53]

Yay your back!!!!

I'm not an expert on textures, but others might!

BTW did you hear about that new enviro-friendly slanted 755 tower proposed in L.A.?

Here are a couple of pics:

This is the old design:

Hey wait a second.....your on Skyscrapercity Croyboy?