McDRye tries BAT again..

[jacqulina 162]

fantastic work

[mcdrye 104]

vershner you've read my mind! I'm currently BATting some eye candy pieces I'll reveal soon. I'm also sorta working on an underground carpark entrance with a spiralling road deck. I'll probs be posting a peek later today when I get home.

[vershner 11]

Excellent news! I can't wait.

[mcdrye 104]

Sneak Peek Time!

The first picture is a circular underground car park entrance I'm messing with. Obviously textures aren't final. What do you think of the model/idea?

This picture shows two other BATs I'm messing with, a sort of giant underpass staircase and the 1st piece of  the SubSurface rail set I'm doing to compliment my London Underground sub-suface station. The problem I'm having as you can see, is matching up the 1 tile pieces. How do you do this? My LODs are 16m x 16m but I'm not sure as I've not done that sort of thing before. The last picture is another SubSurface piece in the works, a single track junction leading off the main line, the sort you would see leading to small branch lines on the London Underground. The crossover connecting the other track to the juntion cannot be seen as it is in the tunnel. Thoughts?

[Jasoncw 11,840]

These are all looking really nice.

For the gap problem, I think you need to extend the LODs a little bit, so maybe 16.5 or 17 meters instead. Then, you can use iLive Reader to change the size of the model (according to the lot editor), tricking it into letting you place that on your lot even though it's bigger than it. I can never remember what property to change, but I'm sure someone else does.

For your stairs, I think you should make them more realistically scaled. 3ds Max can render them better than Gmax, and it will give a better sense of scale.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

The parking garage is a great idea, and looks like it is well done so far. I have fallen in love with your subsurface rails and stairs. The texturing is beautiful and the models are great. Really looking forward to these kinds of things!

-Todd

[mightygoose 92]

i love those stairs, hey i dont suppose you fancy expanding into a set, you know have subsurface alleyways with shopfronts at the same depth, maybe an open plaza? maybe even a subway station linking your subsurface paths with your sub surface rails, i just love your style and texturing.... the circular parking looks awesome too.

[vershner 11]

Originally posted by: Jasoncw These are all looking really nice.

For the gap problem, I think you need to extend the LODs a little bit, so maybe 16.5 or 17 meters instead. Then, you can use iLive Reader to change the size of the model (according to the lot editor), tricking it into letting you place that on your lot even though it's bigger than it. I can never remember what property to change, but I'm sure someone else does.quote>

If it's a prop then the Lot Editor doesn't care. It's only buildings that have to be smaller than the lot.

The parking garage is looking good, but I notice in the second picture you can see the lower end of the road. Extending the end so it's behind the pillar would look better.

The subsurface bats look great.

[Jean-Mi17 2]

i'm in love with you'r work continue like that

[art128 4,618]

That's really awesome my friend, excellent work !

[lesimdeluxe 9]

Excellent work !!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Wow! Spectacular! The spiral car park looks a bit too bright...you should tone the colors down a bit. Anyway I like what I see so far!

Keep up the good job!

[mcdrye 104]

Heres the latest picture of my rail pieces, I've got two in-game: the straight piece and the tunnel portal piece. As you'll see they match fine now but the difference in the two seperate pieces is quite large in brightness, even though they have the same render settings.

[vershner 11]

Looking good! The tunnel end is slightly misaligned but everything else looks good.

[allez l'om 1]

It looks so realistic!!!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

When you render it, keep the rest of the tunnel model and just move the model in relation to the LODs for the section you want to export. Remember that there is light bouncing around down there. But at the ends, the end of the tunnel blocks off light coming from some directions, so it's darker, while in the middle, the tunnel is only being blocked from bouncing light from the two walls.

[Delecto 941]

Great new projects, the parking lot and the stairs are superb.

The underground rail bothers me a bit at the height of external walls. A wall of approximately 1 meter high with a mesh barrier, is it possible?

But I expect to see more forward.

[mcdrye 104]

Sorry for week long absence, I've had to reinstall Vista but everythings back to normal.

Heres an update on my carpark.

Thoughts?

[mosin33 5]

hello, I see I have missed alot of your stuff. Have you released those new underground pieces? (besides the underground station) They really like nice and this is a very cool project. Your newest creation, the carpark as you call it is super cool.

[mcdrye 104]

Hi mosin, no the underground rail pieces are not released yet, those and this undeground car park are being made side by side.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

mcdyre, I definatly like your work keep it up, I look forward to more

[vershner 11]

That car park is brilliant! Looks ready to go, can't see anything that needs changing.

[Godzillaman 21]

Damn...now that's what was missing...good job.

[SimFox 802]

Looks great! my only plea, sort of, to you would be to make lifts entrance to look a bit less like out-house...

Also may be you could try some refletion (very very defused) maps on the central concrete core the shape of it may lend itself great to such a material

[grbac80 5]

Wow, mcdrye, that is looking really good. Carpark is great and the rail set is really...londonish if I may say so. Great underground look.

[art128 4,618]

Spectacular work ! I love it a lot !

[De Ja Vu 117]

Ok this is awesome! Much much better!

[ScottFTL 29]

This is really fantastic work, mcdrye. I'm looking forward to these!

[mcdrye 104]

Thanks everyone! I have a question, I want to be able to path the carpark lot so that you can see cars driving down into the carpark. I know that the LODs will need to hug the road surface and that part is easy but the thing is I can't find anything that shows me how PATH it! I have daeley's SC4 Path Creator and the Reader SC4Path templates so that I can insert the paths I create. The sticking point for me is how I link the 9 SC4Path files to each respective Lot Tile?!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I don't actually think it's possible. If the LODs hug the walls, the ground is still there, so I think you'd just see ground there.

I'm pretty sure that it's impossible, but I think I've heard of it being done recently. If no one knows, you may want to try PMing Andreas Roth. I don't think he would know, but I think he might know who does know.