hkabat-forum-threads PaulvMontfort's Showcase

[Blazerhawk 162]

Man, if I were in charge of creating Sim City 5 you would be my first choice for buildings. Your work is better than anything I have ever seen.

[yarabundi 3]

Wow !! This version will bumped the Maxi's one out !!

[SimFox 804]

I must apologize here…

Somehow I’ve posted latest renderings of Lippo on my thread… I guess it just was open together with Paul’s one and I didn’t notice in which one I’ve pressed Reply, and after that I’ve kept replying to the same…

Paul, you could have mentioned it in your post there, but anywho..

I’ll not repost here all the previous version and some post, those interested to see some development can see them in my thread, but here is the latest version:

As always, please comment and post your ideas!

[toxicpiano 125]

That is quite incredible! How long does a preview render like that take just wondering?

[SimFox 804]

it takes about 40 min. on not overclocked E6600 with 2Gb of HyperX 800MHz CL4,4,4,12 DDR2 memory.

It probably could be still optimized somewhat, but I think the effort involved wouldn't really be worth it. It is easier to just overclock the system and get some 30% saving.

[Blazerhawk 162]

Knock out job. My computer screen is about to burst from viewing these incredible buildings.

[paulvmontfort 617]

Simfox, What kind of lights are you using in the rig. Those photometric ones. If I use those, 3dsmax freezes.

Anyway, here's a new building i'm working on:

[SimFox 804]

what exactly do you mean?? Light in the sun/sky rig?? or ones used for night lights?

I see you decided to make our white elephant!

I think it is splendid Idea!!

[2ch.net simplayer 180]

WOW! YOU ARE ACTAUALLY DOING IT!!!!! :-0 :-0 :-0

Mansei! Mansei! Kim-Ilsong dewunsu manmansei!

[fledder200 5]

WOW!!!!!

it realy looks cool!!!

OMG that something so ugly can look so nice...

it's just like woman...with a litlle bit of paint and surgery they all look nice ( sorry ladies, was a joke )

[paulvmontfort 617]

Simfox: The sun/sky rig ones

[Skyfire2275 23]

Excellent! I can't wait to see it when there is more progress.

It looks a lot better when you "finished" it, vs. the real life unfinished version. By the way, are you going to make it as is... ie: unfinished as well?

[SimFox 804]

Actually I do, but not IES SUN/Sky, instead I use MR (MentalRay) Sun and Sky (they are also photometric light sources) bind into MAX Daylight system, which I then put in place where SC4 sun is suppose to be...

[bixel 1,228]

Can you make it bigger so that is cracks my monitor and pops out my bedroom door and it full of minature little people.

[sunrise7 0]

i always hope to finish the old one first before start a new one.

the pacific place is always be holding.

[SimFox 804]

Sunrise7:

well, you can't control creative process.

Plus it seems like we sort of developing some specialization here ;-)

not that I'm not planning to do some modeling of my own...

So let him fly!!

Don't crop his wings!

[paulvmontfort 617]

true, with Pacific Place i've ran against a wall: adding vegitation. It's really a pain in the ass and very demotivating I can't get anything that looks right.

[SimFox 804]

well, if it could at all be rendered in one piece on 32bit system then I think I could try vegetate it..

I have couple of ideas of making trees in a bit different was - so that whole forests could be created as opposite to the individual trees. Scaled down this could be used to make groves of bushes.

So far it is an idea and haven't yet tried it out, but later this week I plan to do it.

Paul how much memory does rendering of Pacific place takes? (you can see it either in render progress window with break down for physical ram and virtual one or in memory consumption of MAX during the render in Task manager...

[paulvmontfort 617]

according to taskmanager it peaked at around 352000 kb while rendering a preview at a resoltion of 800x600. Note that i didn't finish all the geometry yet, i'll do that soon. I also found out that with the nightlibrary technique you're exploring we could make all the windows have their proper colour at night. so the Conrad and Marriott can have orange/yellow nightlightes, One Pacific Place green and the Shangrila both!

[Skyfire2275 23]

I'm sure it will get done sooner or later... and that's all that matters.

Good luck!

[SimFox 804]

yep... with night library there is literally NO limit of what we can do in terms of night effects - it is just like texturing something exclusively for night view! not just things that suppose to be light emitters, but any "altered" look is possible! It could be as complex as your imagination will allow!

[paulvmontfort 617]

it has almost reached its final height, just a few inches/centimeters...

[mightygoose 92]

is it designed so the reflection is in the precise position of the third spar anyway... if so that is really cool

[mcarch 15]

It looks good!

[2ch.net simplayer 180]

I think this is THE FIRST North Korean building to be BATed.

[tommiej 0]

Simfox, the lippo centre is totally awesome!! the most realistic BAT i've ever seen!! it looks so real!!

damn keep that up!!

[Skyfire2275 23]

Wow, looking good, as always.

I guess you have a bit more artistic freedom on this BAT than most because it is incomplete in real life.

Keep up the good work!

[paulvmontfort 617]

main tower is done:

[fledder200 5]

Looks good!!!

it's stupid how that ugly thing looks so good when you dress it up!!

But i think it also has to do with the person who made it!

[jacqulina 162]

wow thats excellent work