Lotting The Regent Mall

[octaves 4]

Hey guys! (and girls!)

    I have been part od Simtropolis for what seems like an eternity (A good one...)but, I feel so guilty that I havent contributed to STEX.  Plus, I cant find anything on there from my city, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  So I have decided to make a lot version of my city's biggest mall, The Regent Mall.

    Now this is my first ever attempt at STEX lot quality so I might start over and over to finally be happy with it.  Also something you should know is that LE crashes every 5 minutes so I might lose a lot of work but luckily it saves quickly and I do that after every big step.

    I have made a couple of pictures of what I have done so far.  I just started this afternoon when I got home from school and then after 24 crashes, (Yes it actually did crash 24 times, not exaggerating) I gave up in frusteration for the night.  I'll be at it again tomorrow though.

     When this is done I do NOT expect it to be like those crappy lots that have like 2 or 3 skyscrapers mishapedly dragged onto a lot with a cement texture that functions as an airport and spews radiation around your city.  I want to be good quality like my 2 favourite lots,  jtportland's Lloyd Center Mall (where I got my inspiration, Thanks jtportland!!!!) and vlakhaas' Downtown Athletic Club.  So dont say "Oh hes just making a waste-of-space lot thread thats either gonna be cancelled or completly booed off the ST forums".  If you do, then Im sorry you feel that way, and I will most likely ignore those little snobby comments.  But please, hang in there and understand that Im doing all I can becuase my compuer hates me and wont let me install BAT or GMAX.  So lotting is all I can do.

So here are my pictures so far:

My first one here is what I stared with.  First I estimated the lengths of the initial area that the mall and parking lot took up and created the lot to that size.  Then I estimated the lengths and widths of the walls of the mall.  I have put the malls outline in concrete:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7162/basetexturechangeas3.png

My second and third pictures here just shows the basic parking lot space.  Dont worry, theres a lot more parking than that.  Ive only begun.    Im thinking of changing the parking lots into sc4jeeks'  Shopping Center Parking Textures Pack 3 instead of the ones there now.  So heres some added parking lots:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8122/addparkinglotig1.png

More Parking Lots added:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1082/moreparkinglotli1.png

    I hope you guys like this idea and I couldnt really find a good forum section to put this in.  So if this is in the wrong one, could a moderator please move this to the correct one?  Thanks. 

    Thanks for lookin at this, and Feedback is very aprecciated!

    Thanks alot everyone

-Brad MacD

Moving to BAT - Open Discussion Forum - MM

[SoulStealer 12]

sry dont see any pics

[octaves 4]

There I changed them into links.  Enjoy!

[hamsterTK 93]

i wouldnt just give up on BAT, if you can finally get it to work...

anyways, im sure you'll do a good job.

[jacqulina 162]

i am also sure that you will do well

[squiggles35 1]

Looks good so far I think you can pull it off

[octaves 4]

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/4930/arghzr1.png

Crap.  This happens everytime I try and save!  Argh  Stupid computer...