Dmscopio's BAT showcase

[NicolaiS 8]

Congratulations!!! What a fantastic BAT and also for Liverpool FC this will be a great stadium ... if they can afford building it, now they have bought Dirk Kuyt from Feyenoord Rotterdam ( my favorite club ).

[SimFox 802]

Oh, my this stadium is sooo cool!!

[Skyfire2275 23]

Wow, looks great! Except the grass around the outside. Looks kind of fake... It could also use trees and bushes and other decorations, but I assume you are not at that point yet...

[fukuda 351]

Just impressive! We need more BATters like you!

[asonics 0]

when can we expect it

[yoder7652 21]

wow...this is really nice...can't wait to plop it in one of my cities!

[bixel 1,223]

WOW!!! You are really rockin it!!! That stadium looks awesome...your texture work is very good!

[Fox 1,444]

That stadium is stunning ... I'm truely blown away by the incredible leap of talent that has hit the site in the last few months.

My Cities are filling up with your bats and this one is no execption, it will be placed in the heart of my CJ as soon as you release it.

I really cannot even start to imagine what you are going to come up with next.

[dmscopio 225]

Thanks for comments. Here is the update. Some more details added.

I also changed the texture of the area outside so that it become a plazza for the liverpool fans. Next is more details in side the stadium, fences,  ads, big screens, ect. Anyone have suggestions on how to improve this thing? Your comments are very helpful, thanks again!

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work and great detail

[SimFox 802]

The inner part of the roof, is it suppose to be glass or some sort of transparent polimer? Love it asymmetric contour! If so try make it transparent that would create great looking shadow on the field and stands! Apart from that there isn't really much to add! Model looks great! huge step up compare to your first bats! But you have stared good to and with very good (I envy you!!-in a good way) choice of structures! they are quite challenging , but that is the way to learn! if you just bat boxes then there isn’t much room for improvement either!

I'm dying to see it with night lights on!! that must be quite a spectacle!!

Btw how about filling the stadium with fans for the game?

[Skyfire2275 23]

Is the blue area of the roof supposed to not be centered, like it is? Or is it suppposed to be centered? It looks a little odd.

The plaza look MUCH better then the grass. It is a big improvment. Very nice stadium that I would definitely put in a city of mine! Keep up the good work!

[dmscopio 225]

The glass on the roof is suppose to be asymmetric. Here is a render from the official website of the new anfield.

I kind of like it asymmetric, it gives the roof a special look. I guess it depends on different taste...

[SimFox 802]

I'm sure it has been done on purpose! I believe it takes in account trajectory of the sun in the sky in that particular part of the world! And I agree with Dmscopio - it adds greatly to the structure, make it appear much more dynamic.

[6459978. 106]

Suggestions? Mmmm... well if you insist, I might suggest more details around the base. Spline lines on the walls, trim around the little roofs, just stuff to break any large regions of a single solid texture. But really, I can't complain. Looks great.

[kaji 0]

simply fantastic work... i could definetly tell what it was just came to the thread too late.. lol.. nothing really i can advise on although i wondered if you could explain a little how you created such a complex roof for the stadium? i like to know the theory behind these things.. always interesting to see how somone approaches a project / task =)

~kaji

[dmscopio 225]

@6459978., not sure what you mean by the Spline line on the walls, little roofs, and breaking stuff into solid texture. Would be great if you can provide some more info with visual aids.

@Kaji, the roof is a group of 4 shapes created by the boolean shapes and FFD box modifier. Its a bit compicated to descript by words, but if you are familiar with these 2 tools in 3ds max, it is really straight forwards. If you interest, I can post a small tutorial here.

Thanks for the comments! BTW, any Liverpool fans here?

[budweiserdude23 80]

I'm not a soccer/football fan but that looks stunning. I can't say much else...wow..

[ardecila 124]

There's a typo - you spelled "Anfeild". Sorry - typos are okay on the forums, but not as part of the BAT!!

[spa 968]

This is impressive work!

[kaji 0]

yea thanks dmscopio, if you wouldnt mind that would be great ~ i havent reeally attempted to use FDD but i know the rest of the features pretty well =) 

~kaji

[Skyfire2275 23]

Oh, ok... It is done on purpose!

By the way, the glass on the roof would look really cool if it was semi-transparent.

[dmscopio 225]

The typo is truly a stupid misstake . Thanks for pointing that out, ardecila.

@Kaji, all right, I will post some screen shot here for you once I got home tonite.

Thank you all for commenting. Cheers.

[toxicpiano 125]

yay (more) british stadiums!

[dmscopio 225]

OK, this is a step by step tutorial requested by kaji. This will go over my method of making the roof for my New Anfield stadium. There might be an easier way to do this. if you know always welcome to post your idea here.

So here it is:

Step1, create a spline showed in the picture.

Extrude  the spline, so that it looks something like this:

This will be one of four leaves of the roof.

Step 2. Now use the FFD 2x2x2 modifier in the modifier list. Click on the + icon in front of it, it will give you 3 options, COntrol Points, Lattice, and Set Volume. Click on Control Points. It will be highlighted, and you will able to select and manipulate points at the 4 corner of the FFD box.

Adjust the FFD box as the red arrows shown in the picture. And then right click your mouse to exit the FFD box. make 4 copies the roof leaf, line them up like the picture below. Use the FFD box to adjust the edges so that they line up perfectly.

Step 3:

Create  a donut by spline  and extrude tool, not the donut shape in the standard shape.

intersect the 4 roof leaves with the donut shape.

Now use the boolean tool. Select one of the leaf as Operand A, and the donut as operand B. do the intersection operation, make sure you also make copy of the operand B, so that you can do multiple operation on all 4 leaves.

Once you've done all 4 leaves, you are pretty much done.  You might want to convert it into mesh then explode to make it smoother.

There you go. Very simple isn't it? You can also use the boolean operation to create glass and other details on the roof. I will not go over them here, since they are pretty straight forwards. Let me know if you got any question then.

Cheers!

[bixel 1,223]

cool! I didn't know that! More tuts please! Heheheheh

[kaji 0]

wow  that is ever so simple but truly effective ~ great job and thanks for sharing your tutorial. btw are you totally self taught or do you have any good sites to list for tutorials? like i said im pretty handy ~ see  walnut creek for  my current work (sorry shameless plug) but i always like to expand my knowledge especially since im starting university in 5 weeks and i'll be using these types of programs in more demanding ways.

thanks again

~kaji

[SimFox 802]

Sorry to barge into this conversation but if you look for tutorials for MAX good place to start is 3D Total.

Plus, many tutorials could be found on other sites dedicated to 3D modeling. Quite good one is Evermotion , but there are plenty others as well - often national ones (non english), Just Google them! You can actually go to forums ther and aslk people questions - most of the time you'll get reply

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round of applause

[vester_DK 477]

One more round of applause from me.