TatooedMillionaire's BAT Thread

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Hi,

I'm working on this new BAT of a building in Amsterdam (at the Wijttenbachstraat)

The building is built around 1885 and demolished around 1995.

I think the BAT will be allright, although I'm having doubts about it's size (will it fit 2x2 or 2x3?)

Things I have to work on:

• textures
• the roof in general
• the back facade
• chimneys, roof windows
• the little corner shop.

Here are some screenshots:

If you have comments or questions, please send them in.

TatooedMillionaire

[mjig_dudy 11]

Awesome work!

I must ask, do you Dutch batters all have some special dutch secret, your all so awesome

You have some great details there, and the textures are look awesome.

Have you considered creating some diagonal buildings? There are many amazing Dutch buildings on the STEX already, some diagonals ones would really add something extra.

Anyway, keep up the good work

[jacqulina 162]

wow the detail so far is awesome,excellent work

[patriots_1228 51]

stick with preview renders, the veiwport shots dont do much. its an amazing model, mjig is right, i have never seen a bad dutch batter.

[josefmayor 8]

Gorgeous I love Dutch Architecture, keep it up!!!!!!

[gshmails 536]

So far so great!  Very nice work.  If I have one critique it is the stairs are way too steep.  I would pull the first few stairs out in front of the front wall, and make them 0.3 to 0.4 tall per step.  Other than that, keep up the great work!

[Jasoncw 11,949]

One tile in SC4 is 16x16 meters. 

Look at the bottom of the screen, and it should say "Grid = X " down there.  That is how big your grids are.  I'm pretty sure you accidentally modeled your building too big.

But anyway, it's looking really good so far. 

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

This is how things are going now:

- The roof is (almost) finished

- The corner shop needs signs, sun screens and fruit stalls

- The back facade is still missing (I've got no photo's of the back so i've got to make something up, I can't go there and check it because the building isn't there anymore)

- Night windows have to be made

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

oh and about the size... the problem is not how big it is in Gmax, because I can rescale it, but how big it will be in the game (2x2 or 3x3 tiles?)

[Sim shady 12]

dang that is spectacular!

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

I think I'm ready to render this now, this is how the previews look like:

The problem is stil the size. It will fit 3x3, but because the building is not as wide as it is long, there will be a difference in how big the sidewalk is, and for a wall 2 wall  building, that doesn't look too nice probably.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

a little closer:

[jacqulina 162]

wow this is excellent progress beautifull work and detail

[Simfan34 11]

Great work!, would be great for my upcoming CJ. Do you dutch people have some secret for BATing?

[BAT56 0]

Excellent model!!!

You should improve textures of the roof, to add spots, to show wear.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Here are some in-game pics, you can see it doesn't make a straight line with the other buildings.

I have to re- render it anyway, because there are some little mistakes I saw when i looked at it in- game.

[siso43 13]

GREAT WORK; AND YOUR BUILDING LOOKS GREA.

[Jasoncw 11,949]

Yeah, you need to do some pre-planning with wall to wall buildings.

The windows should be quite a bit brighter, and more color.

Here is a texture given to us by one of the Maxis modelers.

To apply a single window texture over multiple objects, read the texturing tutorial in my signature.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Is it possible to make windows with a (that) texture but transparant as well?

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

I've made one side of the building a bit longer so it will fit the 3x3 lot easier, and I think it will look better now with other wall to wall buildings:

old:

      

new:        

as for the windows, I will not apply any texture as long as I haven't foud out how I can have them transparant as well (at the same time). Maybe if someone can help me with it?    

[Glenni 1,447]

Simple, you just reduce the opacity in the material editor! great work by the way, i love it, lotsa nice details!

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

yeah, but when I apply a bitmap in the material editor, the opacity button is gone from the menu(s). So, is it possible to apply a bitmap and still have transparency?

[Jasoncw 11,949]

Yes, but you don't really want it to be transparent anyway.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

About the window textures: my personal opinion is that when it is transparant it looks better. The one with the texture looks a bit flat:

transparant:

textured:

please tell me what you think....

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Well, i guess I'm making too much of a point here, It probably does look better with the texture. Anyway, after some more improvements, this is the thing that I think I'm goig to render:

[Jasoncw 11,949]

Select all of the window panes, group them together, and give them a big box uvw map.  It will make it look better. 

[Spike345 20]

I think there needs to be an ad somewhere or other....just my opinion.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Jasoncw: About the window UVW  map: that's exactly what I did, maybe I can play with the size of it some more.

Spike354: as in a picture on the empty walls? I don't think I will do that, it's not so common in the neighbourhood this building was in, and this building should be wall to wall with other buildings.

[TatooedMillionaire 44]

Another question:

I don't know much about LOD's, but is it possible to create them in a way that only the building is covered? I mean, the default ones are boxes, but is it possible to have the open area in the back not covered in them, so that I can place props in the garden at the back of the building? 

[scotty222 549]

Im not to smart, but you should still be able to put props there if the LOD covers it