Cockatoo's BAT Thread

[Cockatoo 2,257]

SO, to re-cap. Stuff I'm working on at the moment...

(In order of what will be done first!)

  •  Gateway Tower 6!

  •  AIG Revisited - Corrected shape, re-scaled and re-textured with new nightlights. Don’t worry, not the ones on the previous page!

  •  HK Streets Pack - (Back in business) I've already rendered 3 buildings, with two more in the pipeline and the foundations for Stanley Market laid down.

  •  Star Ferry Terminals - I want to do this a little down the track. Haven’t started this yet but I need reference pictures.

  ^{•  HK Custom seawall's - (Just for me.)}

And something to keep you on the edge of your seat...

Gateway Tower 6:

[Cobra_nVidia 30]

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893

  ^{•  HK Custom seawall's - (Just for me.)}quote>

Awww

Anyway the pic you showed was absolutely stunning very nice!

[jacqulina 162]

very nice textures,excellent building

[tankmank 853]

wow looks allost real can't wait for it

[xxbydesign 1]

I have a little constructive criticism about the base texture of the lastes tower you posted; it looks to 'busy' and distracting.  What if you reduced the scale, or maybe even reduced the contrast of the texture so its a bit lighter and less defined as 'marble', cause thats what it looks like to me.  Sidewalks of green marble?  Whooda thunk it?!  The rest looks great though; i like that the roof junk has actually been designed in a patten, nice touch.

[mcarch 15]

I do agree with xxbydesign about lightening the sidewalk textures. Another question: Is that a fountain of water at the front door? It looks to be white-capping... lol.

[Ke|is 3,337]

my friend's good to see that this,

I look forward to seeing all this early in the stex.

[nihonkaranws 88]

Great work Cockatoo, has very impressed!

[bixel 1,224]

pretty nice!! I still have odd feelings about how you use window textures... also I think the ground texture needs changing. here have a whole bunch from my building library

https://download.yousendit.com/D837670A5B2DA108

[Cockatoo 2,257]

[shinkansen1 84]

Sugoi desu ne!

[sithlrd98 66]

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893

  ^{•  HK Custom seawall's - (Just for me.)}quote>

Love to see what they look like!

And the Gateway Tower 6 looks excellent!

I'm loving your buildings!

[mcarch 15]

Looks much better!!!

[kellydale2003 2,276]

Holy omg, I didn't know you had a bat thread!

First of all Awesome BATs! I gotta update my thread soon.

I would like to know how do you get your night lighting like that?

[jacqulina 162]

excellent work

[fusion_lemon 2]

very nice!!! I used to walk around there shopping quite often...

[Jurianu 0]

simply brilliant work^^

[Cobra_nVidia 30]

You definitely deserve a couple of these guys

[tankmank 853]

WOW is all i can say

[villagemayor 0]

the building looks amazing! Is the Gateway Tower 6 on Canton Rd. in TST?

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Originally posted by: bixel pretty nice!! I still have odd feelings about how you use window textures... also I think the ground texture needs changing. here have a whole bunch from my building library

https://download.yousendit.com/D837670A5B2DA108quote>

Wow, thanks a million Bixel, those textures will be very helpful. You even had the MTR logo in there, nice.

Originally posted by: shinkansen1 Sugoi desu ne!quote>

Gracias amigo?

Originally posted by: sithlrd98

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893

  •  HK Custom seawall's - (Just for me.)quote>

Love to see what they look like!

And the Gateway Tower 6 looks excellent!

I'm loving your buildings!

quote>

Just look back a couple of pages, I posted a few images. And for those of you who are wondering, I can't release them... 1. Because they're CUSTOM! I'd be the only one who would be able to use them because I'm the only one with the city that fits them and 2. The total side of all the rendered .sc4model files would be huge. Probably in excess of 100mb.

Originally posted by: kellydale2003 Holy omg, I didn't know you had a bat thread!

First of all Awesome BATs! I gotta update my thread soon.

I would like to know how do you get your night lighting like that?quote>

Yep, I do. In fact I’ve had this thread up for quite a while. And about the night-lighting, I believe I'm the first to actually try this method in Gmax so I'm kinda just making it up as I go along. First I'm lining up rectangular target spot's perfectly with the glass windows where I want the night windows to appear (this takes some time to get right) and then just adding a projector map of a night-window texture to it. Set the intensity multiplier somewhere between 1.5 (dim) – 3 (bright) and make sure the cast shadows box is checked on.

Originally posted by: fusion_lemon very nice!!! I used to walk around there shopping quite often...quote>

Hehe, I've been there myself. Really nice inside if I remember rightly.

Originally posted by: villagemayor the building looks amazing! Is the Gateway Tower 6 on Canton Rd. in TST?quote>

Yes, indeed it is. I'm pretty there are two or three more very similar to this along the East side of the Kowloon peninsular.

And thanks to everyone else for constructive criticism ect.

EDIT:  If I can get the Gateway Tower to render tonight, then I'll modd it tomorrow and hopefully have it on the STEX within a couple of days.

[tankmank 853]

i can't wait

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Everything is done. The model is rendered and all 3 versions have been properly modded.

Should be up as soon as I see the STEX has been fixed.

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

Hip Hip HORRAY!

[fusion_lemon 2]

Great work~~~ a typical cockatoo-style BAT

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Okay, the STEX has been down for days now and nobody seems to be doing anything about it so I guess you guys can have it now if you want. Readme, stats, ect are is included in the download.

_{HK Gateway Tower Six.zip}

[SimFox 802]

It's a very well done tower! Your glass faking is an art form of it's own class!

But I would like to point your attention to some modeling issues, not necessarily for this tower (if you think it is done) but may be for you next project. Try to be more logical with the sizes. For instance your roof detailing looks very flat, almost like it would be a picture. Some recesses and elevations appear to be of absolutely arbitrary size. That is a problem as it start to look not to believable. And in striking contrast with superb glass surface of the tower.

Same could be said about satellite dishes, or more cups. They look very odd and apparently with nor connection to anything. Another issue with the roof is hat for some reason nothing seem to cast any shadows. Parapet wall odlly changes it's thickness. From rather massive on the sides of the tower to almost paper thin on the from and back.

For the wall parts... well Glass as I've said is superb and although may not be "physically" accurate is very spot on in impressionist sort of way. I do have a little problem with mullions though... Either there should be more of them, or non at all... These huge expanses of glass look a bit suspicious. although I may be wrong. For instance on Hangzhou Richful center there are just this huge - 5 meters wide, plates of solid glass.

Base does seems a bit squashed in relation to the tower itself. The floors about the entrance are just a half of the height of the office floors above.

Ok with all this nagging, it doesn't change a fact that you've mad a great tower!

[tankmank 853]

wow thanks i for giving us the link it is greatly appreciated

[villagemayor 0]

Cockatoo, your work is even better than the orginal maxis buildings. Maybe you can send your resume to EA should a proper SC game is in the works

[HONG KONG 74]

Thank you buddy