Under Bridge Scenery

[buddybud 63]

hey sodatwin...sorry those are mostly my little creations and havent uploaded them... something similar (where i got the idea) can be found some where buried in the Massively Gigantic Japanese BAT Gallery   sorry i cant be more specific....

 

edit...hey mteach2000...please share some pics of what your doing...love to see someonelses ideas....the more the better...i hope i inspire creation not praiselol...ok a little praise...

[Dolfan348488 0]

I have to say..thats most intriguing thing ive seen in a while....

[Nik-nik 3]

It has been weeks since I visited this thread, mostly because of work.

What a progress has been made Budbudy!

You realy do nfantastic stuff with the underbridge scenery. Also your use of Peg's fire station was very creative if not impessive. BIG THUMB for you

[buddybud 63]

a little progress report...ive finished the first 7 models here they are.....all of them (cept the 1x1) are shown on flat and sloped terrain...each prop is anchored on a 1x1 lot ......im going to do all the intersection pieces next

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//FinalBudUB03.jpg align=baseline>

[HighRiser 6]

What some stunning work you have done there. Thanks for sharing as this is an excellent topic to learn from.

[cinzbenz 3]

OMG.  These are amazing.  Wonderful work!! 

[rewright 804]

Nice work! Where did you get the various embankment pieces?

Date: 7/13/2005 3:04:19 AM
Author: buddybud

Thanx Diablo...i plan on it but i want to do it right....whatever that is lol....heres a refinement of my kinda slope conforming under railbridge industrial area tarraced thingys....i think it might work though i want to work on the model and add some variation to the different bits...the lods on this were the worst part to figure out...but i finally worked it out.....feeling better about bat...

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[Vandy 110]

Hey, BuddyBud

 

There you go, making me drool on my keyboard again!

 

Your under bridge pieces are coming along just great!  I REALLY like the looks of them -- both under bridge and up embankments.  This is really going to bring so much versitality and possibilities into SC4.

 

Thank you for developing these and I certainly look forward to using them when you release them!

 

Great work!

 

Regards,

 

Vandy

[buddybud 63]

a note to all....the embankment sets are found on this japanese link....scroll down to find them http://tokitoko.hp.infoseek.co.jp/lot_others.htm there is also a thread here  Massively Gigantic Japanese BAT Gallery  

it covers all of what the japanese are releasing with some in attendense....thats where i got the initial pieces for the rail line on the first page....great thread to watch...never ask again

 

[Radial Pong 0]

Ha'...Now that's eye-candy for ya'...Looks awesome...And so completely innovative, I am surprised no one's thought of it before...So...Am I to believe these will be available to the general public?

[jacqulina 162]

great looking work you are doing

[unseelie 0]

First, this is very nice. I love the lots.

Second, you had a land-bridge tutorial where you mentioned using the rain tool in the extra god-mode tools mod to create rain in a depression. I installed that mod, but for the life of me I can't find anything that adds rain. Am I missing something?

[buddybud 63]

ya...you need to reenter god mode by hitting lctrl lshift   lalt then the terrain editor button thingy..this is considered a cheat so its not officially documented..when in god mode you will find it in the terrain menu

[PhilsCafe 8]

Amazing work (the lots and the city layout). I always hated that the room under bridges, elevated rail and highways looked so unrealisticly empty but I never did anything to change that. It's great that someone finally put effort in that.

Your cities really look great...

- Phil

[ExiL3 10]

I agree, great idea, we really needed this!

take care

[unseelie 0]

I actually do the shift alt ctrl click on the god mode button thing and all it has is four new tools for making earthquake faults, sinkholes, etc, but no rain. Maybe they took it out since you downloaded it. Oh well.

[buddybud 63]

sorry i think you need this https://www.simtropolis.com/idealBB/files/ExtraTerrainTools2.zip  

then look for this

 

 

edit i updated the land bridge tutorial cause im a moron....listed the wrong mod...anyways sorry

[unseelie 0]

Sweet, Buddybud. Thanks. I'll try that out asap. And again, nice job on this thread. I really like your el-train and NAM under-road addon effects. Are you planning on putting any of them out for public use, or are any already out?

[trixin 2]

Buddybud, you should seriously consider writing an article to put in the Simtopolis Omnibus . Your tutorials have really helped me build cities like this. Keep up the awesome work!

[MayorAce 0]

buddybud I want to know where you found the lot, or how did you get the lots to go under bridges???

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

you should release these, lol, good work!!!

[buddybud 63]

well after great kaos and carnage im back at it....my initial compulsion to make a single prop for each nam interchange with varying degrees of width became tedious and the lods didnt like it.....i struggled..then ditched this approach

 

however the second approach was a real winner and more verisitile...the idea is to make a prop for each side of the interchange....that way you can use the same two props for all of them...just have different lots with the props spaced appropriatly....this way they can also be easily adjusted to accomodate the custom roads i here rumors about...

 

anyways all the intersections below were done with two props and four lots.....(ive got to adjust the colour slightly)

for all the pieces including highways and a brown texture for rail.....9 props and 9 lots...may be less

 

edit    newyorkrunaway.....yes yes....want to finish them first

         mayorace...no offence but its all in the thread....

         trixin....ya...in the future...after i finish these..sure

         and thanx jacqulina for the short inciteful interchanges...lol....always welcome

[jacqulina 162]

very nice

[Mr. Beer 12]

Good idea!

 You can find many parking lots under bridge, it can be an idea to put on the STEX...maybe...

[buddybud 63]

this looks better...4 props and 4 lots...should finish the rest of the intersections tonight...lol

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//newestnewt03.jpg align=baseline>

[MayorAce 0]

buddybud, no its not...  You are showing more screen shots just now of what I am askign about, not about roads under bridges, I am talking about your Highways with industrial stuff under them, how did you manage to do that??!?!

[buddybud 63]

ah mayorace....YES it is....everything ive done ive pretty much documented in the last three pages of this thread...

a....everybody keeps asking are you going to release these.....   because.....get this...i havent

b....right above the tutorial on the second page....is a full explanation of what these lots are.....overhanging props i created in BAT...

 

thats it thats all......they WILL be released when i am happy with them....thanx for the interest...read the stuff between the pictures 

 

edit...long day at work.....its a matter of learning the basics of BAT.....Renderings models off center.....thats really it...this stuff is nothing new....its just no one else seemed to of thought to use it this way......try using a marrast embankment underbridge piece.....you can rotate it under bridges, nam pieces, and ANYTHING else....thats all that marrast bridge piece is...its a overhanging prop...thats what im doing

[MayorAce 0]

no its not....  listen, I am new to BAT myself, but how did you get the props and textures from SimCity?  Is there an importorer or exporter?  and if so where did you get it?  That's what I been asking the whole time... :/

[buddybud 63]

MayorAce

 

lol....to get the textures i opened up lot editor....made an empty lot...loaded the lot texture i wanted....pressed print screen...went into adobe photo....pasted picture...adjusted with curves....(gmax adobe calibration tutorial).....then saved and used in gmax....

there are some mod tools that allow you to extract the textures...youll have to check that out elsewhere..

 

as for props....ive made most of this stuff....earlier i was using a avenue barrier from rush hour(i think) besides that i made my own...looky here

...all i can offer you is do the box tutorial in the list of tutorials...and the lod one...

 

edit.. there are tools to export textures..and it is possible to add textures...it is not possible to export props...as far as i know...

theres a big portion of this forum devoted to learning bat and other modding tools....i suggest you start there since i am no teacher...you will see quickly that what im doing involves no magic (except the fact that it hasnt been done til now)....bat, plugin manager, lot editor, nam, i reader and leprop....thats all i use...i ve only learned enough from each program to do what im doing....so i cant tell ya much...cept this...

im not hiding anything from ya

if you look at the starting date of this thread till now its been a bit over a month...thats how long it took me from being clueless about the workings of a lot....to this point....

[buddybud 63]

hello again...got a bit more done but not as much as i would like...damn real world..

heres the diagnal pieces(with lots of filler)....

 

thats most of the work thank goodness

...gimme some comments....please