XDesign Team BAT Thread

[jacqulina 162]

very nice detail there the textures are great

[XDesign_Team 49]

I'm still checking progress on your work. I havent much time to finish my building... anyway probably world premiere will be at the late september...

[XDesign_Team 49]

...and I've got good news for everybody who is interesed of World Financial Center in NYC - I've started BATTin' 4 WFC.

[XDesign_Team 49]

the best things are always unplanned. I started to batting WFC complex in NYc, but there is a problem - so let me explain this thing. You see a WFc as the complex, but making complex it's impossible to render on my Pc, and LOT sizes... Calculating this, will be 30x12... Too big for SC4... and there shall be other bldgs and marina. so i decided to do 4x4 single towers... and there will be probably Lower Manhattan set - including new WTC (I like so much 7WTC).

Here you got the first shoots:

[PavSek 1]

Hmm...It looks really nice! Great work! I especially like shape of this building. Keep up the great work!

[Jasoncw 11,934]

There are ways to render things seperatly while still making them look like they're rendered, but yeah, 30 tiles is a little too much, lol.

[jacqulina 162]

excellent work,looking great

[Glenni 1,445]

Nice work, btw will there be more 60's-70's like buildings like the hotel presto and arround that height? i loved that building

[mcarch 15]

Wow! Could you make a ploppable?

[szarkoz 8]

Originally posted by: mcarch Wow! Could you make a ploppable?quote>

I believe that every building that XDesing will make will be both growable and ploppable

Very nice building XDT, I'm looking forward to its release.

[Alfred.Jones 2]

I really like the tower XDesign! Keep it up

[bixel 1,224]

Looks good so far!!! I am pretty excited by this...1st Paulvmontfort for with the HK Pacific Place (4 buildings), the Warsaw buildings...ITS London Waterfront and now this...I love themed BAT groups, bravo!

[Shinnie02 17]

Wo sweet!!! I can't wait well ill try and finish my building as soon as possible

[XDesign_Team 49]

Heh, thank you. It'll be released THIS WEEKEND. I'm finishing rendering that

Grow & Plop... about 5000-6000 CO$$$ occupants...

Bixel: What would you BAT from Warsaw skyscrapers???

what do you think about Rondo 1?

[bixel 1,224]

Yeah! Rondo 1 looks good!...I think I can do it.

[XDesign_Team 49]

Good news to all: 3 WFC was succesfully rendered. Now I'm trying to send to Shinnie02 Beta Version to mod this for Ploppable. Hres the stats: 6548CO$$$ PLOP, 3745CO$$$ GROW, 4796CO$$ GROW. No dependencies.

Planned upload: Friday, this week.

I also started BATting 2 World Financial Center.

Edit: There are changed textures to bit blurried and nighteffects, but you sjould wait to Fri to see it on the STEX .

[SC4Noobie 5]

Wow, sweetness! WFC is gonna be great! I really want those buildings, and can't wait until the weekend (who can't, even if its uneventful!)

[XDesign_Team 49]

Shoot from ingame view:

How the experiences?

[Alfred.Jones 2]

Woah! That looks fantastic!

[XDesign_Team 49]

And there is a link for beta version: http://rapidshare.de/files/34605312/XDesign_3WFC.zip.html Choose free button. Please don't upload it on the STEX! This is pre-beta only.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Hey, that's pretty impressive indeed! I think you got the shape just right.

In order to get things perfect, please allow me to suggest a few further improvements:

- The roof texture looks a bit too smooth IMHO, maybe it could benefit from some "noise", or you could make the gradient a bit stronger, or decrease saturation a notch.

- Especially the ground floor looks very flat somehow, as if it was a single, smooth surface with the windows just painted on. Is the real building like this? If not, you could try to set windows back into the wall a bit to give that area some more structure. The same applies to the lower wall sections, those with the square windows.

- Speaking of these wall sections, a very subtle gradient there might be a nice improvement.

- The flat roof textures are very clean as well, some dirtying up 6459978-style could do wonders (if you don't know what I mean, check page 12 of his Toronto BATs thread to see a nifty texturing tutorial)

- Finally, I think you already have chosen a window texture that has some variation in it. I think I see windows that appear to be a tad lighter than others. That's very good already, and I think you could even choose something a tad more busy and varied for the windows - I'm not sure how it will end up, but I can imagine that it might work. You never really know before you have seen it, though.

All in all, I really like your approach at this complex: A landmark can be plopped once, and fine, there it is. Individual towers, however, can be used several times even inside one and the same city, just like the default buildings. Especially at this height, they will be a valuable addition to SimCity. Keep up your great work!

EDIT

Aaaah, a pre-beta! Now this is cool - I gotta check myself in game. Thanks!

[XDesign_Team 49]

I got remoded files. now i'm gonna do installer, then...

@T Wrecks - Ill try to do theses things, that you listed below in 2 WFC. Now I got no time to re-render 3WFC. Sorry.

Edit: noise texture are not good for it, just look for some photos on google. More structure on down? There is more structure in 4WFC, but no in 1,2,3 WFC. They have plain structures. Gradient? I don't think so - they are bulid in well-sunny place, so they are always non-shaded.

And finally window textures - you know why WFC complex is called 'Crystal Complex'? So now you know. NO brighter single windows like in 70's buildings. this is modern-middle-postmodern architekture! See Ill tonkso releases, which had batted other Pelli's bldgs. (40 50 ITS Bank Street???)

[Andreas Roth 614]

Ohh, this is a very nice surprise indeed! I love the World Financial Center Towers, and those will be a great addition to the game. As T Wrecks mentioned, WFC3 looks wonderful, but it could work even better with the improvements he mentioned. The "well-sunny place" argument doesn't really count, though - you might have seen that on photos, but the real world works different - and the world inside SimCity even more. Sometimes you have to "cheat" a bit to make it look right, and things like gradients and "noisy" textures are a way to do this in the BAT.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the entire WFC complex, and I also appreciate your approach in making it modular. The towers itself are indeed a nice addition to any city, and for a landmark WFC lot, you can easily make some props and put them together on a large lot, both growable and ploppable. If you need some help, don't hesitate to ask here, I'm sure there will be quite some people lending you a hand. Good luck!

[st louis dude 6]

Dude,I can't wait for the rest!When will it all be finished?

[XDesign_Team 49]

OK. Here is a 2WFC pre-renders. Window textures will be changed. And night shot presents you only nightlighting created with lights (No nightmaps)

[Fallon144 1]

incredible work mates, true artists you are

keep it up!!!

[mcarch 15]

Hmm.. nightmaps are like lighted windows? If thats the case, I like it better. I can't really see any lighting in this photo.

[XDesign_Team 49]

no, no. this is only lights directed to the building. the nightmaps will be of course added on.

And, this is a 'better' roof for 2WFC. Do you like it?

[st louis dude 6]

What's the difference?

[XDesign_Team 49]

Down part of roof is gradiented as is in T Wrecks wish.