hkabat-forum-threads PaulvMontfort's Showcase

[SimFox 804]

Ardecila:

The bump map although originally my idea (HERE is the suggestion) was, however, made by Paul (you’ll see it in the last message on same page). It is simple like all ingenious things generally are. The biggest challenge would be accurate application of it – to get this done (unless your structure is very box like one) you would need to do proper UWV unwrap.

Paul:
sorry, I haven't really had any time to do any experimenting for whole of December. But I'll get back to it as soon as I'll have time... I'll do some tests on different techniques to see what will work and how.. if anyone have any ideas or suggestions they will be very welcome

[AndisArt 2,068]

Wow, that is fantastic work, paulvmontfort!

Is that plaza gonna be a triangular BAT it looks like?

And the Lippo Center project is just stunning, heading to become an instant classic for sure! Greatly modeled, innovatively textured and rendered... great collaboration!

[Gecko_2006 1]

It's beautiful. Excellent work Paulvmontfort. It's a bit hefty, but still a fantastic piece of architecture.

[allan_kuan1992 6]

WOW! truly a piece of art and modern architecture!!! =)

Have you ever thought of transit-enabling the plaza's roads?

-Allan Kuan

[paulvmontfort 617]

I know i should be doing Pacific Place. I know it is already ingame, but i really couldn't hold myself and i needed a little brake on Pacific Place. I think the BOC tower ingame is inferior to our current standards and it it doesn't have the cool nightlighting the original tower has. I've worked on it for 2 days and this is what i've got:

[mightygoose 92]

paul are you going to do downtown hong kong as one big lot lol, union square phase 6 and 7 would be nice though nudge nudge wink wink, nah its astounding and much better materials...

[bixel 1,228]

Oh yeas that is AWESOME you are the best!

[Sim shady 12]

omg lol you are doing bank of china tower? well all i know is its gonna look really good if you finish it

[Skyfire2275 23]

Very nice!

I think it will be a nice replacement for the Maxis verison.

[SimFox 804]

Oh, MY!

Actually... I wanted for a while already to suggest it, but was a bit reserved about it as to not offend some SC4 purist... (long time ago I had an audacity to say something like that and called quite some wrath on my poor head... anywho, I think it is a brilliant idea! I also think that Game version isn't particularly good - way to may corners were cut (pan not intended, oh... well of course intended).

The building clean lines would call for extra attention to the none glazed part – they texturing and also ground level design – a bit of a let down in the official version.

 

Great start!

PS I’ll be starting on night experiment with Lippo tonight… hopefully tomorrow we’ll have some first test results…

[tommiej 0]

this is what you get after 2 days!!?? totally awesome!! it already looks better than the original ingame one!! very realistic!!

keep it up paul!!

[toxicpiano 125]

Er... OH.MY.GOD.

[paulvmontfort 617]

the Bank of China Tower has reached it's final height of 367.4 meters:

[bixel 1,228]

Wow! That is sooooo much better than the Maxis original. Bravo!

[Skyfire2275 23]

Holy crap batman. That's amazing!

[mcarch 15]

ooooooo, oops, drooled a bit... hehe

[paulvmontfort 617]

I'm almost done modelling, I also added the same type of bump map as Lippo has

[mightygoose 92]

oh dear lord....

[Skyfire2275 23]

Maxis should hire you for SC5.

[Glenni 1,447]

you freakin lunatic lol that is so much better than the Crapxis crap

[Shinnie02 17]

Why do you make things better then Maxis?? is it because you are better? i think you are better!!

[jesselong 0]

Bravo! Those reflection details would probably send the Maxis BATer into shame!

[sunrise7 0]

really nice modelling!everything looks great.

but i still looking forward to the pacific place,waiting for the complex to be complete.

[SpecialEddie 3]

*pokes computer screen*

Is it real? 

*in awe*

[paulvmontfort 617]

I want to upload the Bank of China Tower on Turbosquid for a reasonable price. Any suggestions what it's worth? And is it likely yo get sold at all?

EDIT: I think i'll use PNG format for the pics next time, the quality is really poor...

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work

[Skyfire2275 23]

Wow... I have no idea how much it is worth... but it sure is awesome!

How long, may I ask, until we see this rendered and in game?

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Looks superb so far.

As for the pictures, should you decide to use PNGs, be aware that IE users will not be able to see them and that file size will increase dramatically, which is why I urgently recommend using links or thumbnails.

[paulvmontfort 617]

I finished modelling the BOC tower. The nightlighting has to be done though. I want to send it over to Simfox but i he's doing such a great job on the Lippo that he deserves a break after it. But i guess he can decide for himself. Now i can get back to work on Pacific Place. I downloaded a demo of Natfx, a flora plugin tool, It can help doing the flora a bit quicker and better. After that, guess it or not, probably the Ryugyong hotel, though i have a pretty dusty project codenamed ICC left somewere on my pc...

[Skyfire2275 23]

^ Oh yeah, the ICC project. I forgot about that too, but now that you mention it, you've got my hopes up that it will be finished soon.

j/k, take your time... I probably won't play much SC4 until the summer now.