BATs Currently in Progress

[Glenni 1,444]

Something which might hit the STEX soon.

Sørhauggaten 129, Haugesund, Norway

Plus 4 paint colour variations:

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Thats two images

I have done more to the roof, and replaced the flag with a Brenntian one.

210m, 689ft, 44 storeys above aquadruple hight lobby and mezzanine

[patriots_1228 51]

glenni-i love those textures

tonks-awesome as usual

perhaps we should see how many of these BATs actually get uploaded?

[skyliner22 16]

Yea i know what u mean im still waiting for Scotty's awesome NZ and Sydney scrapers!

[Glenni 1,444]

Here's another house from my hometown i'm making.

[DarkEldar 6]

Hah thats a cool little building, very small though.

[Fledgeling 1]

we need more small houses. I hope its a R$.

[SimFox 802]

and here is something new:

I give you Elsinor House - somewhat R$$+ 35 storey development in north-West Moscow built by DonStroy about 2 years ago:

and real life one:

by Bolik

by Ulex

[bixel 1,223]

Those Russians are ingenious!!!! Keeping their awesome medieval style yet..modern!!! BRILLIANT

[plasticboy 36]

Simfox, feel free to correct me, but the Elsinore is probably only 26 storey high, not 35. In any case, I do have a feeling that it is going to fit in together with Chicago-tile buildings quiet nicely.

[scotty222 549]

Glenni-those houses are rally cool and look very useful

Tonks-taller than most of your other stuff but still really cool

Simfox-these mordern russian buildings your doing are amazing, its really cool how that one is designed to fit in with the older buildings

wll i havn't BATed in a couple of months but today i saw a building from sydny and decided i had to try it

its not gonna be a perfect recreation

HSBC tower

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Shame it wont render, and my usual way around that (with the lighting) isnt working. Simfox, i need help with learning how to do nightmaps

[bixel 1,223]

Wow the HSBC building looks great!

[patriots_1228 51]

wow scotty! i would switch the cloud reflection with a ground reflection though.

[BB62BlackDragon 13]

I'm introdusing my latest(2nd) project here...the new WTC3! Modelling is beign done with Blender again...still lots to do....

[bixel 1,223]

Very nice!!! I wish I can make the switch to Blender but I've no time at the moment.

[SimRabbit 48]

BB62BlackDragon: is that a new tower that is being built in NYC??

[autoVino 26]

Jeez, Simfox, you make me more and more excited about my two week trip to Moscow!

Ahh, I remember using blender.  I completely hated learning the user interface, it was so confusing, but it was increadibly easy to use after a couple of months of work.

[BB62BlackDragon 13]

Thanks bixel, same here with gmax

SimRabbit, yes it is...it doesn't seem to have a name yet, I've only seen it refered as the 175 Greenwich tower...

[DarkEldar 6]

ahh good to see you back at work scotty, hopefully some new releases coming this way ..........

[scotty222 549]

patriots_1228-actually its supposed to be reflecting a plane with an image of a city

i guess the reflective index is so low it looks more like clouds

i better fix it thanks

bb62blackdragon-good to see some of the new world trade center, i was thinking bout doing 4WTC

[SimFox 802]

Tonks:

there is an explanation in my Forces of Light and Geometry of Shadows thread. it has been moved to this forum.

Scotty & Partiots:

He, he

Well I guess this reflection is perfect! Perfectly vague that is :-)

Scotty remember that glass reflectivity isn't constant and depends on viewing angle. Even mirrored glass (not a total mirror) follow this principal. If you making glass material from standard or ray-Traced one in MAX put a fall-off map in reflection slot and set it to Fresnel reflection. Then you can play with two slots of Fall-off map to set reflectivity level you desire.

AutoVino:

you'll either love it, or hate it, the city doesn't know middleground, everything is taken to extremes.

[autoVino 26]

well, I was born in Russia (leningrad, actually) so I can't wait to see what it is like now.

[SimRabbit 48]

autoVino: isn't called St Petersbourgh now..

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

Originally posted by: SimRabbit autoVino: isn't called St Petersbourgh now..quote>

that's a big change

[autoVino 26]

yes, it is!  Everyone in my family calls it the old name, so... just got used to it.  St Petersburg

[SimFox 802]

Well aren't all St-Petersburgians suppose to hate Moscow; I believe it is a local sport in there ;-)

Although the whole country is ruled now by St.Petersburg Clique of Putin.

Basically two cities couldn't be more different if they were located in two different continents. I'd say both are beautiful in they own right, but Moscow is extremely dynamic and fast city , this way it is more a kin of booming cities in Asia (particularly china - at many place s Moscow and Beijing (if you move people away from the picture) look almost indistinguishable) St.Pet is more like Europe - much more slow. Although it is also go through construction boom. They even have an island project (like those in Dubai) of they own. But I would say that for an large St.Pete had stack in its glorious past, for most people it is very difficult to look forward. And Moscow is all about future and success.

PS autoVino - there is something for you:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=125&threadid=93159&enterthread=y

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Hey, the nighmaps are annoying me lol. they show up during the render, but not in the game or i-lives reader (the omnis in the lobby do). The lights are apparant in the FSH files.

[SimFox 802]

That is most probably cause you export your stuff still using Scanline - for it nightmaps aren't lights so they are not included into night alpha. so, naturally - you don't see them. Do one of the following - either switch to MR and use FG - then those will be treated as lights, or if you still want to use Scanline follow the naming convention described in BAT redme

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Doh, ill try that Thanks

Edit it worked, new project