Nihonkaranws' Studio

[GMT 389]

nice commy block

looks like straight outa the moscow suburbs :-)

[Gn_leugim 858]

oh yes its done

[Francis90b 748]

It's just perfect.

[nihonkaranws 88]

It's been about a week since I've posted here. Anyway...

Ever since I started making Asian cities in SC4 (which I don't even do much anymore), I desperately wanted Shinjuku Station from Tokyo. Finally I gathered up the courage to do it, starting today. BATs back to Asia (for now)! So far I've managed to make the first wall of the northwest building group at the station, as well as a taller connected part that shows a big billboard and is also used as a roofjunk/ventilation area. Here is my progress:

I know I can finish it. It will be an ambitious project, but with the right sources and attention, I think I can pull it off.

Oh, and by the way, Nowe Szcoty is going to export sometime tonight. Peace

[art128 4,618]

Wow -- that station looks awesome !

[skyliner22 16]

Wow a very ambitious project from you Nihon! I look forward to it and maybe even some Tokyo skyscrapers too! Ahh  Odakyu, brings back so much memories, the train that passed my house those many many years ago.

[spa 970]

That's a very promising start. The textures are really great and the roof junk on top of the tower is just awesome. Can't wait to see more.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

I couldn't agree with spa more, the textures look great so far and the modeling on that tower is fantastic.

-Todd

[Jasoncw 11,841]

The modeling is looking good and so are the textures.  But I think as the model progresses you'll need to start doing some heavy tweaking of the color of the textures to make the large expanses of grey look correct in the game.

Aside from that of course a better lighting rig and better use of materials would improve this A TON.  The lighting would really make the large flat surfaces more dynamic, and especially the more complicated mechanical areas.  And for materials, I'm sure there's something nice you could do with the cloth (?) and metal in the mechanical penthouse.  And while the default lighting rig doesn't handle anything particularly well, it really doesn't handle angles very well.  I know I say this a lot though, heheh.

[Jasoncw 11,841]

Yellow probably isn't what you want. Go into the game and find a Maxis building whose walls are the same material as yours, and take a screenshot and take it into Photoshop and see what the actual color is (it's probably some kind of pink-purple-blue ish color).

SimFox would have more specific things to say about materials. Details like ripples on the bitmap could be good, but I'm thinking more of the material characteristics itself. Cloth has different light-related characteristics than concrete or metal or glass.

What might be good for the metal deck, is for there to be a regular roof underneath, with the roof junk on that, and then an elevated metal catwalk making paths on top of the roof. But I don't really know what exactly goes on in those penthouses, so I don't know what would be the most realistic.

But yeah, a better lighting and material treatment would really improve this a lot.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

Score! I will definetly be using this in my new CJ! I can't wait to see it completed

[Gn_leugim 858]

it is looking good so far

[Neonsim 43]

I can already see from the given ammount, Of detail's, that this will turn out to be another great adition to the scarce trivial Mysterious world, That is japanese batting.

[nihonkaranws 88]

Oops... I forgot to show this. Yes, I have already finished the commieblock and still working on Odakyu Building at Shinjuku Station.

Here are two final shots before I release Nowe Szkoty:

[mcarch 15]

Looks wonderful!

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

It's amazing how your batting skills have improved.

[bixel 1,223]

ZOMG Release these alreddy - what does it take man? How much more worship can you consume?!?!

[Gn_leugim 858]

beauty

[Neonsim 43]

Hey man, What's up, Are you still going to be doing another shinjuku park tower, I'm not trying to saying anything bad or anything but The scale is way off man, I had to raise then flatten the land just for it to be Alot taller, As you know it is the 2nd tallest tower in tokyo.. But yea i was just wonder, Still an awesome BAT though, Haha, just a little constructive critisism

Good luck on your current one man!

Neonsim.

[rpastrac 0]

hey are you gonna finish these BATS soon? i was looking at around the BATS threads but there was alot of bad BATS. are you gonna finish shinjouku station BATS soon? i really need it for my city. also I cant get by with only fkuda's industral BATS yours are great could you make more?

[rpastrac 0]

also i forgot to say that the soviet appartment looks very nice and finished it is better than alot of others. can you release it soon. thanks

[Francis90b 748]

You've posted on a thread which had been unactive since March 2009.We are at the end of July now.

[rpastrac 0]

thank you but how can i get this BATS

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Unless nihonkaranws becomes active again and releases them, you can't get them. Fancis90b's point is that you should not post in threads that are obviously dead, just to say you want something.

[rpastrac 0]

what do you mean dead? can i still get this BATS?

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

No...they haven't been released to the stex.

[nihonkaranws 88]

Hey rpastrac. Thank you for being a fan of my bats. Firstly make sure that you don't doublepost, instead 'edit' your posts. Also make sure that the thread you're posting in is still active (ie, the last post being no more than one to two weeks ago. I've become inactive here at Simtropolis because I've been very busy with university and of course life. I just got back from Florida, and one of my friends who knows this site told me that I should check out this thread.

Well unfortunately I completely lost all of my models in a computer crash - now I know to save room on the hardrive, hehe. I don't have much time to be active, but when I do, I'll be sure to remake them and release them.

[JayStimson 211]

looks promising ... only criticism is maybe a little less roof junk might be better ... otherwise keep going.

[Andreas Roth 607]

Originally posted by: nihonkaranws

Well unfortunately I completely lost all of my models in a computer crash - now I know to save room on the hardrive, hehe. I don't have much time to be active, but when I do, I'll be sure to remake them and release them.quote>

That sucks. I hope you also started to make regular backups...

P. S.: It's nice to see someone else using a Lisa avatar here.