Scottys stuff

[scotty222 549]

as you now i like to start new building everyday lol

so heres a new one

Its the BNZ tower in auckland and in my opinion its the most hideous building in the city (mostly because the colour makes it look like it was thrown up

so far ive modeled the main tower and noting else

i still have to do the glass octagon trapezoid thing on the roof

[Qaxpla 0]

noiiceee!!! like it!!! any hints on some release dates?!

[SpartanBadger 4]

Cool! I just picked up the AMP Building and I can't wait to see it in-game. Any more on the PWHC? I really like that one. Great work!

[DarkEldar 6]

your doing afine job of batting our buildings here in New Zealand

[jacqulina 162]

nice work and detail you are doing here

[Qaxpla 0]

Wow, I was just looking through the towers of Auckland and I found this beauty: http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=352551

I can't believe it was never built!!! 145m and 25 floors. damn sexy!!

[patriots_1228 51]

nice work on the model the textures look a bit stretched. what project will you start tommorow?

[scotty222 549]

Bad new guys my computer died on tuesday (i saw it coming) and i lost all of my newer models

(my old ones are on a disk somewhere i just gotta find it) that means everything in this thread except for

pricewaterhousecoopers is gone

there is some good news though, my dad gave me his old laptop which is still pretty good and it turns out it has 3dsmax on it

so ill use that from now on

today i finally decided i could be bothered BATing again so i started BNZ again it looks much better now

Ignore the logo it needs lot of work

ill also probably redo most of the textures

[patriots_1228 51]

hehe everyones getting max all of the sudden. nice work on that.

[Qaxpla 0]

aww man, that sucks!! i was loving your work!! hope you do carry on because you're coming up with some sweet designs! what about some residentials to include? im loving the houses on http://www.mygjwishlist.co.nz/wawcs0128442/tn-house-plans.html especially the family ones, some of those would look sweet as in SC. http://www.mygjwishlist.co.nz/wawcs0128450/family_series_150-200sqm.html

[SpartanBadger 4]

Bummer man, but glad to see you're still working at it!

[DarkEldar 6]

looks great Scotty. It looks different than the last version,probably cos your using 3ds max

what version of 3ds are you using?

[tomdapom 79]

Man that does suck! But you have done a good job on the BNZ building, and I actually quite like that building .

[autoVino 26]

Ouch, that must suck... hope you find that disk soon!

That building looks great!

btw, what max are you using?  If it's 9, you should use mental ray, it's supposed to be easier to use in that version

Keep up the great work! 

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Either way, Mental Ray isn't mega hard to use. You just need to change a handful of settings.

[SimRabbit 48]

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 hehe everyones getting max all of the sudden. nice work on that.quote>

 

for real dude, i wish my bro or my dad worked for EA and had 3ds max on it

Nice building you are doing

[scotty222 549]

im using 3dsmax7

ive dine the base on the BNZ its i bit fictional as i cant get any pics of it

the base is based off the sort of buildings on queen st where this building is

[Qaxpla 0]

looks really good! can't wait to use it!!

I tried looking around for some pics of queen street but couldn't find much for this particular tower, how annoying!

[josefmayor 8]

It is looking great keep up the work there man! I like the base a lot. It's beautiful

[scotty222 549]

Thanks for the comment guys

i couldnt think of stuff to do on BNZ, ill do more later so i started

Pricewaterhousecoopers again

heres what ive done so far

[Qaxpla 0]

sweet!! loving the glass!

[scotty222 549]

i decided to show some shots of the BNZ all if done is added some billboards to the base for a more urban effect

these are more just so you can give me suggestions cause im nearly done

ill test it in game on monday

[Sim shady 12]

wow that looks fantastic! what size lot will this sit on?

[SpartanBadger 4]

Lookin good scotty, my only suggestion is that you darken the base texture on the BNZ, it kinda looks out of place...just a suggestion.

[scotty222 549]

You mean like this xspiderman

im gonna do a render next and see how it looks in game

ive started another building

not much to show so i wont show yet

its the ANZ centre in auckland

show some tomorrow maybe

[Qaxpla 0]

sweet!! you're getting through these pretty fast haha.

ooh, have you thought about doing an updated Sky Tower? I don't know if it's just me but the one I use in the game that's already on the STEX (sam_lawrence) doesn't seem to be of the right measurements/perspective?? Plus the base could do with some jazzing up haha.

http://www.azza.co.nz/skyjump-4.jpg

http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/round-the-world-trip/country/04-new_zealand/north-island/01-auckland/images/manda-foot.jpg

http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=auckland&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.848689,174.762703&spn=0.002155,0.003396&t=k&z=18&om=1

I love using the sky tower in my cities though. It add's an extra "umph" into the city, makes it looks heaps better.

[SpartanBadger 4]

Yes, Scotty the new base texture looks great. You might want to try using a darker color, like gray or black to fit with the color of the rest of the tower, just another suggestion. Great progress, looking forward to more!

[scotty222 549]

Ive started the ANZ center ive done the main tower and some textures, the main texture needs to be desaturated and the windows need spicing up

i still need to model the disco ball on top and the entrance

i sorta forgot to test BNZ

[patriots_1228 51]

everything looks great but i would suggest adding reflections to your window textures, funnest part of 3ds!

[scotty222 549]

Patriots- ive sorta done that now now, thats mainly what i meant by spicing up the windows

heres an update with the disco ball thingy on top

i made the sphere taller as SC4 will squish it down