Nofunk's BAT Thread

[madhatter106 3,903]

All I can say is...

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

what is that bottom building?

[Hotwheeler 409]

The Aluminium Conversion Technology Building looks amazing and well detailed.Looks like it would be perfect to sit right in the middle of a half industrial/ half residential Block like the Loewenthal Building.

And what?You are doing Rowhouses now?

"Shut your corn filled Mouth and take my Earth Money Units!Me demands MOAR Rowhouses!"

 

No seriously,those look great.A bit weird and a somewhat unfamiliar Style but they look great.Where do your newest Buildings come from?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

@Hotwheeler: He's done rowhouses before. Not to mention that much of the bigger stuff is also W2W.

What a cutie that corner building is, though! It looks like the love child of those typical cozy Dutch townhouses (the colours maybe?) and a typical American W2W to me. That factory is pure awesomeness. And there goes another keyboard...

[SimCoug 5,972]

The industrial campus is pure smog producing gold I tell ya!  Can't wait to give my sims cancer when I plop it down next to their neighborhood.  They can thank me for the jobs later.  Activity in this thread makes me giddy.  

[IDS2 3,346]

I really dig that rowhouse. I don't think I have any other corner buildings of that size and orientation in my plugins folder, so this will be an awesome addition!

[nofunk 1,933]

Thanks everyone! I've been traveling the last couple weeks, but hope to get back to these this weekend.

@Hotwheeler, @DavidDHetzel, both of these buildings are from Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

Aluminum Conversion Technology: https://goo.gl/maps/XwQMrCdYGC12

East Sider: https://goo.gl/maps/vehJ6RqfNa42

[Silur 3,302]

Excellent buildings - I hope You'll create this ...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

OMG, I love that little building.  

[philforhockey51 4,203]

[nofunk 1,933]

Hey ya'll, the EastSider Bar is up on the STEX!

[SimCoug 5,972]

Forgot to mention on my review that it blends well with maxis too 

[Silur 3,302]

It is even more. These buildings are organic for many styles! 

[nofunk 1,933]

Oh hey, I just dropped another BAT on the STEX! 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Stop the presses again! It's always breaking news when BAT royalty posts something.

[SimCoug 5,972]

1 hour ago, nofunk said:

Oh hey, I just dropped another BAT on the STEX! 

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wonderful work!!!

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Water Street Brewery is a beauty

[nofunk 1,933]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback on Water Street Brewery!

So far this year I have released 1 BAT per month, and we're absolutely down to the wire for June, but all hope is not lost! I present to you Watkins & Sons, a fictional mid-size corner commercial building:

It's come together pretty quickly, but as you can see it still has a fair bit of work left, but I'm still hoping to finish it up before the end of this coming week.

Hope everyone's having a good summer so far! (Unless you're in the southern hemisphere, in which case I hope you're having a good winter!)

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

This building is so lovely *_* 

 

[matias93 7,535]

Simply perfect! There are never enough W2W corner buildings

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Looking good from both sides!

[SimCoug 5,972]

Love it - I feel like I could stumble upon this while walking along a Milwaukee city block.  

[Hanson784 165]

Great work! Watkins looks like a lot of early 20th century office buildings in the Chicago Loop (among other Midwestern and East Coast cities)

[nofunk 1,933]

Sooo... I missed my June deadline, but of course it still needs to get done! Here's where things stand now:

My hope is to finish this up over the weekend and then dig into a new one for July (or to finish one of my ongoing projects).

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Take your time! Just get it done at some point and I'll be happy.

[madhatter106 3,903]

There's a deftness and a subtlety to the way you model and texture that I wish I could capture.  Nofunk, you make BAT magic.  I love this new one.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

It's a wonderful new project.

 

On ‎6‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 8:20 AM, SimCoug said:

Love it - I feel like I could stumble upon this while walking along a Milwaukee city block.  

 

On ‎6‎/‎30‎/‎2017 at 3:06 PM, Hanson784 said:

Great work! Watkins looks like a lot of early 20th century office buildings in the Chicago Loop (among other Midwestern and East Coast cities)

 

Nofunk's building choices really do have that character.  I mentioned once that his Hoffman Building looked very much like the old Exchange Building in my hometown of San Antonio.  Amusingly, now his Watkins & Sons looks like San Antonio's Robert E. Lee Hotel, both of which I am sure look like many other similarly sized buildings of the period.  Naturally, these are not identical relations, but buildings of these types used fairly standardized parts and easily repeatable designs and were then decorated with the aid of widely distributed trade industry pattern books.  Such buildings may have been commonplace then, but nowadays are becoming more precious to preserve as we have lost the basis and ability to convincingly build them like that.  I just find it funny to walk around my downtown and think, "that could easily be a Nofunk building!"

 

[IDS2 3,346]

Love these corner buildings, and I'm a sucker for the fire escape. Out of curiosity, do you do your brick materials with tiles maps, or are they textures?

[nofunk 1,933]

Thanks again everyone for the kind words and ongoing support. It definitely helps keep me motivated when I run into BATing snags... like right now. Watkins & Sons is done, but I've run into an issue where BAT4Max apparently isn't converting the .fsh files properly, so the past few days I've been trying to figure that out.

Also, the fact that Odainsaker walks through San Antonio and thinks of my BATs is incredibly flattering.