hkabat-forum-threads PaulvMontfort's Showcase

[dmscopio 225]

awsome details on the waterfall!! how u do it? you wanna share with us?

[Skyfire2275 23]

Wow, paulvmontfort. That totally solves the only problem I saw on your model. Amazing! Looks incredible. I am definitely replacing the old version of this in my game when the new one is released. Keep up the good work.

[paulvmontfort 617]

Sorry for my absence, I had a lot of school stuff to do as this is my final year in highschool. I have an exam week after 1.5 week or so. I have to go to school now, but when i get back, I'll try to contact bixel to render me One Pacific Place. And ask T Wrecks if he has some screenshots of the lot of the Island ShangriLa Hotel. BTW a week ago was our team's birthday, we totally missed it lol

[bixel 1,228]

oops! Good to hear from you!

[bixel 1,228]

Soo! I need to re-render cause there is some problems...but 1st I want to adresss this issue

Is this supposed to look like that?

[XDesign_Team 49]

Well, from that what I know, if you textured windows applying UVV Mapping to all, there is undocumented problem in .dll which is responsible for this problem - it' occur from 3DS6 to 8 and in gmax...

[ky72x 13]

Looking good so far! Keep it up!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

It's been a while, but I have finally found a halfways acceptable lot design for the dependency-free version of the Island Shangri-La Hotel (Pacific Place Complex). Here you can see both versions (with dependencies and without) next to each other:

  

 

Finally, here's an example shot that shows how the overhanging version can be used:

One question to Paul / Bix: Is this the correct night map? Wasn't that reddish one to be used, the same as on Marriott and Conrad International?

And of course a few questions to everybody who reads this:

- Does it look ok?

- Would you like to have non-overhanging plop lots as well?

- How about transit-enabling the growables? Yes, no, both? (It's not really a big deal to make two versions, then again I don't know if you would want this to be easily overgrowable in the first place...

Constructive feedback appreciated.

[paulvmontfort 617]

they both look very good to me. The nightmap is ok. The real ShangriLa hotel has 2 colours of nightlighting, Green and bronze. The lower green part are offices while the upper bronze nightlight part is the hotel itself. So I had to choose one of those colours I wanted it to be bronze, but accidentily said to bixel to make it green, but green is just as fine with me.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Ok, no problem. I guess I will make a CO$$$ and a CS$$$ version. If I'm not mistaken, the office part is called "Two Pacific Place", so this will be the in-game name of the office version. The hotel will of course be named Shangri-La. Luckily there is no big name sign on the building this time, so it won't look odd if I choose a different name.

[____----____ 37]

looking quite fierce!! i love it.

[bixel 1,228]

AWESOME!!!

[Skyfire2275 23]

The lots look awesome T Wrecks!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Ok, final news before I ship the stuff to Paul: I've decided to cut down the options a tad - I think 9 lots ought to be more than enough. You will get a growable 6x6 hotel (both deluxe and normal version), a growable 6x6 office tower (both deluxe and normal version), plus the same sermon as plops with jobs (makes 8 lots in total), and finally a landmark as overhanging lot. I decided to reduce the overhanging part a bit as well and add some transit-enabling (including the TrafficMark^TM feature introduced with bixel's Tai Yuen Towers), and the result can look a bit like this:

The documentation is finished; all that's left to do now is to make three Icons (CS$$$, CO$$$, LM), some item descriptions, and some file hygiene  - I'm going to delete superfluous files, thus decreasing file size and making this unuploadable (is that a word? ) on the Maxis Exchange. Pirate kiddies fffff.....ind something else.

[villagemayor 0]

Excellent news. I only put growables in my plugin folders, so this is really exciting news for me.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

It's sent to Paul and should appear on the STEX shortly.

(I'm still busy with it, though - just translating and localizing the German version for the SimsZone for the next HKABT upload cycle there... )

[paulvmontfort 617]

it's up

[paulvmontfort 617]

I'll try to finish the Lippo Centre over the weekend...

[bixel 1,228]

You do that!! We are in the battle of our lives! We must re-create every inch of Hong Kong before global warming melts the ice caps and floods the city!

[SURUMI 2]

Global warming ? There's no sign for a global warming. *mrbush*

[jesselong 0]

Well... I hope the floods brought by the global warming won't be as high as 2IFC...

There has been a long silence in the HKBAT thread of bixel's and PaulvMontfort's showcase...

But all I need to say is recent works are amazing at all...

Keep the progress up!

[SimFox 804]

yeah!! it has been quiet here for quite a time now... I myself am in the middle of migration to new system, plus had unexpected amount of work to deal with... but it should get better in a week or so so i can finish couple of projects..

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work but looking out for more

[paulvmontfort 617]

@ Bixel: What did you do with One Pacific Place after you rendered it? I need to know because it has to be released before the Lippo Centre.

[bixel 1,228]

Whoops!! Totally forgot - rendering now!

LOD Problems....pending

[paulvmontfort 617]

I've worked out the roof junk of the Lippo Centre. There's one problem: I'm not satisfied with the window texture. I want it to look more like the real thing and it slows down rendering process too much.

here are some pics:

click for photo

[bixel 1,228]

That is such an awesome building prolly the best one designed in the world. No too sure how you are going ot solve your window texture problem..you are just going to have to hunt down or make some new textures.

[SURUMI 2]

@Paul

Don't be too severe to yourself.

Your design comes very close to reality.

Don't forget, the colours changing with weather influence (sunshine, etc.).

The only thing what you can change a little is to make the glasses a bit more "skyblue" there's a little much grey in the colour.

All in one it's excellent work !

[SimFox 804]

I strongly disagree with making glass more sky blue... it wouldn't look natural IMHO.

Paul what do you mean by "like the real thing"??

[vester_DK 477]

Great work Paul.