McDRye tries BAT again..

[mcdrye 105]

If you remember me I left some unfinished projects behind some time ago. I hope to finish them along with some other projects no-one knew about till now..

First up is Churchway Station, a fictional Circle Line station on Churchway, Camden, London situated in between Kings Cross and Euston Square stations and would be within walking distance of Euston for interchange. It once had 4 platforms but as you can see a refurb demolished the rarely used platform 4, a stub left for emergency detraining.

It's not finished as yet...What are your thoughts? What can I improve?

[LE0 5]

It looks great but the roof needs more work. is this a subway station?

[GMT 389]

I spot some Underground sings here and there, I guess it's a subway station ;-)

anyways, as leo said, the roof needs some work. Some weathering and a lil bunch of roofjunk and I think this in fact very very nice creation is ready to hit the exchanges

[toxicpiano 125]

oh wow good lord this is fantastic!

Welcome back! (I don't know if I was here before you left though)

I'm assuming the roof isn't final?

[nihonkaranws 88]

Great work! It looks very realistic!

Do you think you could also do a similar version, but with a red tiled roof, like seen in Germany/Czech/etc.?

[mosin33 5]

Holy smokes!!

I love you.......jk haha, well that looks truly amazing! This is just so awesome!!!

I have a new favorite BATter!! (Ur still my favorite nihonkaranws )

Something about this I like alot!!!

Be back soon keep working.............and add some grime and grossness.

[art128 4,622]

this subway station is awesome, excellent work on it ! and should be for sure in my city !

[jon7985 3]

This is one amazing BAT! Great work , I can't wait for it!

[Gn_leugim 858]

you could change the rail texture to fit the new one

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work

[Francis90b 748]

This is really good, almost perfect.In my opinion you may change the roof a bit, maybe adding some dirt.It looks a bit too plain right now.

[allez l'om 1]

It looks breathtaking!!!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Looks great! Just add some roof junk and replace the white texture in front of the building...just tone it down a bit Keep up the good job!

[mcdrye 105]

Yep it's a 'subway/tube' station. That little white cabin at the end of the platform is a disused signal cabin, similar to the one at Barbican Station.

Yeh the roof isn't final, I'm doing roof stuff at the mo. What do you mean by new rail textures Gn_leugim?

Also what do you mean by the white texture at the front of the building De Ja Vu? Is it that mini base bit? If so thats just temporary and won't be there on release. If its the front wall then thats supposed to be a white brick texture though it's not very clear. A lot of the Met/Circle line stations are like this, they have a fancy front and utilitarian ugly back.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Nicely done! I don't notice much that isn't going to be finished later anyway. Wonderful job and I hope to see more form you!

-Todd

[Gn_leugim 858]

well, you use the GLR texture from old NAM, but now there is other one but anyway, this one looks good

[mcdrye 105]

Oh I see, it's not the GLR texture though it's a modified version of the games elevated rail texture. It would be cool to actually model the the electric supply rails on their ceramic feet but I feel using the rail texture gives it a Simcity feel.

[mcdrye 105]

How's this?

[mosin33 5]

LOOOKS really sweeeeeeet and I like it alot! But I think the roof should not be so smooth. Change that if you agree and then I think it would be...Perfect!

Questions for you.

-How would this work.....would you be able to see the cars go through?

-Also would it be functional, and is it a subway station?

Thanks and Nice work! Mosin

[mcdrye 105]

Unfortunately you can't have trains passing through, at least, I'm sure you can't, even with special LODs. On the other hand it will indeed function as a subway station.

[autoVino 26]

Not everything requires "roof junk". 

This building especially.  I think a slight edge burn to fake ray-tracing would do just fine from the first images you posted.  The most roof junk I would imagine on this building is maybe a couple of small vents, but nothing more than that.

I would also keep the white facade for the building, it makes it look classy. 

Otherwise the model and textures are great, not to mention original. 

I recommend to not place lods underground for technical purposes.

[mcdrye 105]

How about this

[toxicpiano 125]

This is very good.

[SimFox 804]

mcdrye:

may I ask how do you mask the underground parts??

[mcdrye 105]

Photoshop hehe

[bixel 1,228]

Fantastic!

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

dude... 800x600 pictures, you're screwing up my browser

Anyways I really like your subways! Keep up the good work. I think you could improve on one thing though... I was wondering if you could put pavement textures underneath here. so I don't end up with grass.

[GMT 389]

guess that's a lot editor thing with the pavement.

I think tho you should work on the ground texture around the entrance mcdrye. it looks like a plain white surface.

second, around the bottom of the front wall, it looks like you brightened the lower gray parts, me personally, I liked the first, dirtier version better

and finally, third, the most recent version of the roof, with fewer roofjunk and a more patterned roof texture, looks best!

[mcdrye 105]

Thanks GMT I agree. The white bit is just temporary and the the lower grey bits it just where the texture didn't appear whilst rendering, tis annoying as even reset won't sort it atm.

[Simbourgeois 139]

Wow, wow, wow  This looks just fantastic, can't wait to see it in my city!

Keep up the great work!

Simbourgeois

Mayor of Belleville