toki's Simtropia Productions... Productions.

[Soapy 1]

Hello there, this is where ill be showing of my BAT creations for the next little while, maybe some 3ds stuff, but that’s too expensive (unless someone wants to get me a present for Christmas) anyway, here’s my latest master piece  



Almost done, just need a name for now though

[Moshi 61]

Ivory Soap Inc.

[jacqulina 162]

very nice work

[Soapy 1]

mini update!

Ive re-textured the roof, now all textures are done and out of the way!

to do list...

- add some junk on the roof

-night lighting and render

[SpartanBadger 4]

Woah, pleasant surprise! That is very good work...I think you should add a spire with colorful night lights...just a suggestion though...looks great!!

[Jasoncw 11,839]

It's looking good! 

My only suggestion for this one is to increase the contrast in the windows, and to give the building a main entrance.  Even though there are doors, there should be something that visually looks like a main entrance. 

The black looks like it will probably be ok, but to be sure, you'll want to see it in the game.

The base of the roof texture is a weird texture to use though.  usually roofs aren't solid concrete with a bunch of cracks in them. 

[scotty222 549]

looking cool , really cool

i agree with jason about losing that roof texture with cracks

[Soapy 1]

I tried a few other variations for the roof, but nothing looked good. Ill keep messing around with it, but for now Im gonna stay with cracked asphalt...

this was one of the other roof textures, but it looks very low quality...

[jacqulina 162]

great progress

[patriots_1228 51]

use a regular concrete no cracks. looks good i suggest adding some sort of fancy thing on the highest roof, just for show

[Howling 9]

Great start - love the darkness of that tower. For name giving, open up a phonebook or a dictionary (a foreign or dead language can help, such as ancient latin) and mix & mingle. Often helps me. You can use the yellow pages to find the sort of business.

Some ray tracing might improve your tower. I only recently learned about it, but it does make that difference! Check out gascookers tutorial in the Omnibus.

Keep it up!

[spa 968]

This looks great. I like the transition from the tower to the base. The penthouse is a nice contrast to the rest. I have one issue though, on the base there is a single double door on every single section. I can't think of any skyscrappers with a design like that. Surely some of the ground sections would just be large ground windows without doors. All those doors just look silly.

[SpartanBadger 4]

Nice progress!

[Soapy 1]

I fixed the roof, I think it looks good enough to keep now

also I took out all the doors around the building and replaced them with a main entrance, that I still yet to make

I found a name, Scotia Bank Tower, a real bank but fictional tower

for the top roof, I want to build a dome or a glass pyramid, something along the lines of those

Howling: thanks for the link, that will be very useful im sure of it

[SURUMI 2]

I guess it's better you're making a dome.

A glass pyramide could be too much for such a tiny building.

Yust my suggestion.

[jacqulina 162]

looking great

[Soapy 1]

got the doors done, i had some free time yesterday to finish them up

looks much better now

[SimRabbit 48]

Looks excellent Soapy, just do some texture works and make roof details and this building will rock!!!

[Odainsaker 2,133]

I kinda liked the octagonal penthouse and its contrasting lighter colored walls. You could always make several steeply receeding stacks of layered octagons, up to a final flat octagonal top. Each layer can even be a different shade or even a different color, and at night you can light it all up. It would be crowned, without being too over-the-top.

[Soapy 1]

Here is an old project I put to rest, but  resurrected it only because mjig wanted it for his city journal


to do list:
Lights, render and mod

[Jasoncw 11,839]

I agree with Odainsaker, that would look really good.

The new (or old) building is looking really good.  My only advice on it is to weaken the roof gradient a bit, and to apply a single, big, box uvw map to all of the windows at once, to make the windows look better.  Also, one of the flower baskets is looking strange.

[mjig_dudy 11]

yay! I love those houses,  but you know that already

[SimRabbit 48]

Nice small house looks very detailed. IMO the textures are too dark. Good luck

[Godzillaman 21]

Dang this is good work!

[.soapy 127]

Well, the virus seems to be spreading, run to the hills!

for those of you that dont know what Im talking about, Ive started a virus that keeps me from finishing anything, the only way to rid myself of this curse is to... finish something. everytime I'm nearly completed a BAT, I feel this urge to start another...

Anyway, here a few recent BAT's I need to finish before more get infected with this horrid curse!!...*coughfrankiecough*

The most recent...

I'm doing this for my CJ, this small part of the roof top will soon be Union Towns city hall

still much work to do...like the rest of the building...

This one a can render now and would still look...rather ok in game, but there are no lights and alot of missing details...

(old pic)

Here is a more updated pic of the details and roof textures

http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?image=closeup2qg3.jpg

And last but not least, I made a few changes to that tower..thing...for one, it is now UT commerce tower, and...

a tower re-position... 

I captioned the picture of what needs to be done

[mightygoose 92]

this one needs a spherical UVW map on the texture for the dome part as it becomes overpixelated towards the base, im assuming you have a planar XY map currently.

this one, the flat roof texture needs changing, needs to have more variation, also there would be some form of vents or skylights on the sloped roof portions...

[Frankie_Grove 32]

While I may not be able to offer hardcore BAT advice, I can provide moral support Great job so far! I really like that skyscraper you were working on, the factory is very impressive as well

[SimRabbit 48]

very nice indeed. the one at the top has a really weird roof but it looks ok, and the one at the bottom looks nice too.

[.soapy 127]

I fixed the roof texture in the first pic, this is what I was going for...

[OffTopic 3]

Oooh...I like that building. If your going to make it, please don't make it a windows intsaller file. (I have a mac)