AndisArt's BAT cookery

[AndisArt 2,068]

thx 4 ur replies

update: 2nd Entrance lot completed

[mcarch 15]

Looking good!

[art128 4,618]

Oh My !! this entrance is awesome !!

[Gn_leugim 858]

nice entrances they could be turn into metro stations as well

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Really great entrances, I think I like them more than the building! We could always use something like that, I'm surprised there aren't more like it.

-Todd

[CarmineHilton 6]

Ohhh, I love them!!!!

When will they be released?

xo

[Jasoncw 11,933]

Looks like it could be a subway station as well, and the one that will have roads could be a functional parking garage.

[AndisArt 2,068]

hmm, would be cool to have a subway and parking garage version as well.

is there someone who could mod me those lots (transit enable)?

this is how it´s gonna look (need some minor changes). The ramp is an individual 1x3 lot, so you can built freely

[madhatter106 3,905]

Wow! Gorgeous stuff! Very impressive...

[AndisArt 2,068]

thank you

this is how it could be used with Okhta Center:

[_Atticus 10]

That's a good way to fix the problem These would indeed make great subway / underground parking lots. They look really nice, especially at night.

-Pingangster

[CarmineHilton 6]

If you want I can transit enable the road versions? (If you're talking about just adding a road and not moding it as a subway station)

They look wonderful, btw! =)

x

[AndisArt 2,068]

thx

CarmineHilton: I think it needs to be modded differently for a garage, I

[CarmineHilton 6]

Well, mod it as a garage is something I can't do (yet)...

All I can do is make it transit enabled (road connection).

Sorry x

[Gn_leugim 858]

I wish I could help you =1

[autoVino 26]

mmm... this BAT stew smells delicious!

Is plug-in manager by maxis no longer a viable tool for modding? You can place it into transport -> garage to get the preliminaries sorted out, then work out the details later.

[HONG KONG 74]

The nightlight is cool,   

..but these entrances are far too unrealistic.

Extremely tall, with long walkways and two huge driveways without escalators and elevator

[De Ja Vu 117]

The two entrances for the cars should need some more textures. Maybe white stripes or something...

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yeah, if you want to make them transit-enabled, they should ideally line up with street connections as seamlessly as possible. Modding them to be parking garages is no problem at all, I could do that.

[AndisArt 2,068]

T Wrecks, I think I figured out how to do the subway and garage. I sent u the files per PM, could you have a look and confirm they

[jacqulina 162]

wow the entrances are wonderfull

[SimFox 802]

These are great! But I must side with people who said that the width of the garage entrances is way over the top. But the biggest problem as I see it is that the color and contrast is very different from the game. So intensely deep and saturated blue shadows stand out too much. Same could also be said about the tower as well, but there affected area is not so large and not so visually important as it gets overpowered by the tower itself. With entrances is is too much in your face...

You must use some sort of Color-mapper (Exposure control) when you render your bats. Without it the purplish hue of the shadows (particularly on the ground) is too strikingly different to the lots "nextdoor"

Vegetation is done very nicely. I would like to especially comment you on superb match of hue/saturation of foliage!!!

PS

there is one trick that you probably would want to apply. Try to render against neutral gray background., It would help you to control ugly black outline (particularly visible in the foliage)

If you gonna do only trees then you could set background to the same color as folliage itself - this will insure the best possible look for trees in game.

[AndisArt 2,068]

thx for ur replies.

I re-rendered the models with a modified Sun light source (I decreased contrast from 100 to 50  and intensity from 10000 to 7000), the outcome looks much better. Thx SimFox for bringing my attention to this. I will probably rerender Okhta Center as well.

Also I acted upon the critique and here´s a slimmer ramp, with white stripes in the middle

Now I just need to hear back from T-Wrecks to confirm the transit lots are working ok and then I can put the lots on the STEX

[Ferrariguy1000 43]

congrats on your trixie andisart. I voted for you. I can't wait for more detailed BATS from you.

[mcarch 15]

So whats up next?

[AndisArt 2,068]

Thank you ferrariguy1000. It's quite touching to have gotten this special award....!!! And it was such a lovely surprise

Up next in the cooking pots is stirring once more a very very twisted meal, ho ho ho, but this time it shall not be unveiled until it's ready to be served! Ho ho

Also, MOMA Expansion is in the simmering pot...

[timcravey 169]

I love this thread! Those cats don't give you an inch and you just keep on dancing!

Are you gonna do a version of Okhta that matches the SimMars color theme?

[Ke|is 3,337]

very niiiice bat's my friend.

[paperless 0]

I actually came to this topic to post a pic of my city with one of your buildings, i wasn't expecting to see more of your stuff (and im amazed).

Great work.

[AndisArt 2,068]

Ok folks, time to dust off this thread and start the fires on the stove again!

RL was quite busy the last years, so I didnt get much chance for this great little hobby here.

Now times are bit slower, so I can get my hands dirty again in the BAT kitchen, hehe.

I dug up what I had left unfinished and that is MoMA Extension, NYC, or as it is now rather called simply Tower Verre. Ground on the real building should break some point this year, final building permit was just granted in December.

The model was created with an older MAX version, so I had to import it, which didnt go that smoothly and a lot of the polygons got weird in the process. But it's acceptable still to work with. I had to do refinments tho.

I just added the vertical mullions today (unfinished), have a look:

PS: Before you ask, no updates for Burj Khalifa atm