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[AndisArt 2,068]

Ah ok, so the displacement map just simulates office furniture, is that right? My building already has office furniture, so I wouldn't need to do this, I would just add internal lighting instead?

 

Sorry, I thought the displacement map did something else. I does have a nice busy feel to it.

Yes correct, so if you have furniture already you're all set! Just light up the place :-D

 

 

Still a few little things to tweak, but nitelite is basically done:

[PBGV103 729]

Looks amazing!

[Vlasky 1,803]

Looks great indeed. Just don't forget to have a night ground map for reflections on the glass

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wow! It's going to be awesome! Can't wait to have it in my modern cities *-*

[AndisArt 2,068]

Looks great indeed. Just don't forget to have a night ground map for reflections on the glass

Thanks and jep, that's one of the things that was left to tweak.

 

DarkNite version is rendering as we speak, just entered Zoom 4, took 16 hours for the Zoom 5 views :-o

If things go well I might be able to upload this weekend! (need to render MaxisNite too)

 

This is the final version, DarkNite:

[PBGV103 729]

Without the displacement maps on the floors how long do renders take?

[AndisArt 2,068]

Without the displacement maps on the floors how long do renders take?

I dont know since I havent rendered the nightview without displacement. I think it's considerably less though. A dayview preview took only an hour (without displacement).

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Simply awesome!! This building will be in all my cities!

[Girafe 1,729]

Lighting is really interesting, good job

[weixc812 509]

DarkNite version is rendering as we speak, just entered Zoom 4, took 16 hours for the Zoom 5 views :-o

If things go well I might be able to upload this weekend! (need to render MaxisNite too)

 

I'm gonna wait till the morning light then

[AndisArt 2,068]

GT Tower East is now released

 

Download

 

Enjoy!

 

Now off to the world of Harry Potter...

Descendo!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wow! GT Tower East is awesome! Thanks for that!

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Yep, thanks for uploading!

[Jack_wilds 550]

THX, got mine to play with... a neat model with superb lighting... well done 5/5  :bunny:

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wonderful work!!!!

[AndisArt 2,068]

Thanks guys!

The progress I made on this tower will help me with Burj Khalifa!

 

Although I am working on the Harry Potter project atm (Azkaban prison) and then will finish Tower Verre :-)

[Reddonquixote 4,340]

Congrats on the new release! It's a very unique building and you have done a great job with it, well done

[weixc812 509]

Great release of GT tower

I'll keep focusing on your HP projects as well as Burj Khalifa project!

[Seraf 1,239]

I might not be a fan of this kind of architecture but I can still appreciate the superb model that you made

[Harry's Place 918]

great work . i'll put it near the seashore

[edwardjeria 503]

congratulation

[AndisArt 2,068]

Construction on the MoMa Extension Tower in New York is finally gearing up properly after long delays.

Turns out the cladding will be dark, almost black! And pretty dark windows too. Quite unusual for a tower this high. What do you think about it? Do you think it will look better this way? I'm curious as to how it will look. I do like that it's different. 

 

A good time to finish work on my model and update the colors as well. This will be wall2wall, like the original:

[Fantozzi 4,069]

This was funny ... scrolling and scrolling ... and thinking: man, where does this bat finish? 'Titanic' might be the word to describe it? I like the glas texture, vivid and not repeating. Great job. Err ... no ... 'titanic' job, I mean.

[Edit]

Yesterday I reviewed the John Hancock Center by By Diego Del Llano. Don't know how this is done exactly, but I like the way light seems to come from certain windows not only in night view but also on daylight. I personally think tall black buildings can look very good if between the strutting - like in your picture - there is much light/reflection, making the structure light instead of heavy. If they are all black - strutting and glass to equal - they're like this thing in Kubricks 'Space Odyssey'. But all black structures with nothing in between the strutting - they don't look massive, they can look very elegant, delicate. Just my opinion.

[EDIT 2]

That's how painting creates  space, volume, depth - not only with perspective and geometry, but mostly with colours. To make the close, dear things red and intense and to make distance, cold, repellant things blue/grey:

And contrast/colours is a major thing to make 3d-objects looking 'spacious'.

Well, but these are only thoughts. Not meant as critiques. This is already what you did, I think, regarding the soft red spot an the eastern facade.

[AndisArt 2,068]

Haha, yea it's quite slender and that makes it appear long. But I strongly suggest you save the word "titanic" when I upload a Zoom 5 of the Burj Khalifa tower... haha

Thanks for you great insight and thoughts. Very interesting the connection you draw to how color creates volume in dark images. Your comment inspires me to take a look again on the reflection map I am using and improve the effect.

 

I now switched the project to Max 2014, havent used Bat4Max in that version yet. I changed the sampling method in the render settings to Classic/Raytraced to avoid the blurry rendering, now the render looks crisp but it takes forever to finish. Any tips?

 

This is the addition on the side of the building. I decided to make this part see through and show the inside of MoMa there.

  

[Gn_leugim 858]

wow, that is a "small" building you have there, awesome!

 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

That's a big one, I'm sure Huston will love it!

[AndisArt 2,068]

Daytime render exported now. It took forever, like 18hr. I noticed a huge spike in render times after switching to Max 2014 and changing the render setup to Classic / Raytraced. Any tips? MushyMushy suggested to change the Skylighting in GI to FG also. Have to try it. 

There is a small issue with the render ingame:  in the top section on the right you can see a white outline at the edge. How can I fix this?

Zoom 5 ingame:

http://s1.bild.me/bilder/060112/4799710Zoom5_ingame.jpg

 

Zoom 5 fullsize all sides:

http://s1.bild.me/bilder/060112/4070014Zoom5_day.jpg

 

I'm working on the nightlights, this is from the current testing:

https://s25.postimg.cc/uj1o9wm3z/2016_10_27_nigth_test.jpg

 

(btw, what's going on with the images in post atm? everything funky..)

[AndisArt 2,068]

Ok several issues came up:

• Max 2014 render times are tripple as much as in Max 2011
• Max 2014 creates a white halo around the building ingame, sth. Jasoncw told me has no fix yet
• so I had to revert back to 2011, lost some progress on the way
• ingame I thought the tower was not visible enough in contrast to the rest of the buildings, so I darkened the steel frame
• window texture was having too extreme bump mapping, decreased now and looks more natural
• reflection map wasn't updated to new one in render (new one more colorful)
• some minor fixes and errors discovered

http://s1.bild.me/bilder/060112/8281364new_old.jpg

[Fantozzi 4,069]

Did I already mention that I don't know nothing about batting? And I need extreme strong glasses too.

So all I can talk about, is what I see ... and even this isn't too much.

On this zoom level this part seems a little messy to me:

There are some windows on the right almost black and on the other side the white planes seems to blur/overlapping with the strutting - giving the impression this part is someway damaged. Don't know for real but maybe putting some different coloured light there, again some pink - could it change this optical impression?

[AndisArt 2,068]

52 minutes ago, Fantozzi said:

Did I already mention that I don't know nothing about batting? And I need extreme strong glasses too.

So all I can talk about, is what I see ... and even this isn't too much.

On this zoom level this part seems a little messy to me:

There are some windows on the right almost black and on the other side the white planes seems to blur/overlapping with the strutting - giving the impression this part is someway damaged. Don't know for real but maybe putting some different coloured light there, again some pink - could it change this optical impression?

That's the old render you refering to. That's what I meant with the bump effect was too intense, it created distorted effects. Check the new render above, it is milder. Let's double check the full model on completion though, but it should be good now. 

And your look at the BAT is of course appreciated, you don't need to know BATing to give feedback  Actually sometimes a person disconnected from creating BATs can see some things more clearly in a render, cause they are not so involved.