Scottys stuff

[patriots_1228 51]

much better! good work.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Oh wow, really looking forward to these!

[scotty222 549]

A box

[Gn_leugim 853]

uuuuhhh .. black one

[patriots_1228 51]

A big black.....box.

lol. good start.

[bixel 1,223]

you are king of Boxes

[crazyarchitect 7]

GO black boxes lol

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I think you should try out the rig I uploaded to the STEX last week.

[scotty222 549]

Bixel - all hail king scotty

Jasoncw - i was going to but i heard it doesn't work in max7?

got bored with the black box (can you blame me)

Ernst & Young tower, Los Angeles

Roof still needs to be done

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Apart from the absence of roof junk, which you plan to fix, it looks great! It'll be a great addition to the game.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Here are some short instructions on how to recreate it. If you need clarification, just say so.

Create a backup of one of the rigs. Open one of the camera rigs and delete the lights.

Create a direct light. Select the rotate tool, and type in these numbers at the bottom of the screen. X=46.091 Y=0 Z=-53. Then move the light so that it is far away and pointing at the center of the scene. Change the color of the sun to R=255 G=234 B=170, and keep the intensity at one. Make sure shadows are "on" and that it is using raytraced shadows.

Create a skylight. Change the multiplier from 1 to .85. Change the color from white to: R=184 G=187 B=236. Move the skylight somewhere up in the sky.

Save the scene, and then follow the instructions in the download to use it. I think the interface is the same in max 7 and 8 but I don't know.

Try it out and see what happens. I might have forgotten something, lol. Also, you'll probably need to tweak your textures, but that shouldn't take much effort.

[scotty222 549]

Thanks jason that was really helpful

i haven't added anything new just changed the lighting and tried to fix the textures to work with

i think there's something not quite right about the textures

i may try testing it against a simcity4 pic to try and figure it out

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Hm... I think I see what you mean. Maybe the colour hue is too much on the blue side? It lacks that warm, peachy hue of most default buildings. But yeah, testing it against a pic from SC4 is probably the best method. It looks like the contrast could be stronger now, too.

[patriots_1228 51]

omg thats awesome. I will render two towers right now!

[scotty222 549]

Thanks for pointing that out t wrecks

turns out its not the textures its the act that i made the sun 4m off the ground and therefore in the building

now that ive fixed that it looks much better and "warmer"

ignore the roof and the sign which needs to be less white

ill try to do something more constructive tomorrow

[T Wrecks 10,209]

The sun 4 m off the ground? Ouch! Saves a lot of heating cost, of course, but...

Glad to see you found the cause and fixed it. Things are really looking a lot better already.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Yeah, make it really far away, like 1000 meters away.

[scotty222 549]

T wrecks - but then you have to spend heaps on air conditioning

Jason - yeah thats what i changed it to (i think)

Some more from the box king (according to bixel)

One Wilshire LA

(after i finished doing this i then realised one was alrady on he STEX)

Im going to a football tournament in Auckland tomorrow for a week so i obviously wont be updating here

See ya on friday

[Tia-may 0]

Very nice. I didn't know some skyscrapers were based on American designs.

[patriots_1228 51]

excellent work scotty. enjoy your trip.

[Jazzmaster 716]

Have fun on the trip! Can't wait to see you back to work on these again!

[Gn_leugim 853]

good luck on the games

[scotty222 549]

Alright im back from football (soccer to clear that up)

We did awesome, we came second "Cough" to last "cough"

It wasnt to bad considering our keeper got concussed and our and half the team got injured at some point

I released something (well two things) i cooked up in half an hour on the stex

and got some progress on something new

its not much yet as you can see

soon we get to see my inability do make glassy surfaces look decent

[Gn_leugim 853]

sorry for you soccer match ^^ did you belong to the half of team which get injured? lol hope not.. this tower is looking good so far =)

[CRAXZY_D 2]

Originally posted by: scotty222 Just so you know the building is Central park

Its the tallest building in Perth, Australia

Im not going to be able to do much this weekend cause its a full on weekend in hamilton

im going to the V8s and the cheifs game which will take up most of my time

quick progress pic

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[CRAXZY_D 2]

when will you release this?

[fabsies55 5]

omg hurry up and finish them all lol there friken awesome. i really can not wait like seriously.

you gotta finish them all please.

[patriots_1228 51]

I hope scotty got injured. Means he has more time to BAT

[jk]. these latest look great scotty. keep it up.

[Gn_leugim 853]

patriots: don't be mad man eheh ^^

[4Seasons in 1day 0]

I'm back, I love your buildings, You are such a great genius, I am looking forward for more.