Joergs BAT Showcase

[SimMaster 17]

The building looks great! Can anyone tell me what building it is? It looks like it's a Chicago type building to me.

[M-SIL 2]

Wow, it's so beautiful!!

[joerg 280]

Thanks guys and as for the water tower well first glad i know what is it now lol. But i doubt i will even mess with it. Anyhow as for a release date it just depends.  I think i may go ahead and begin rendering it this weekand. It will definately take awhille at over 400,000 polys.

[joerg 280]

Well progress went pretty quick today. Anyhow im extremely happy with the way things are turning out. I dont think i will need to say anything more though so i will just show the pics

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I think this may be my favorite night lighting ive ever done on a building and maybe my favorite on any building for that matter.

[subedei 3]

Looks awsome..cant wait to download it

 

 

Subedei

[Smurfer2 7]

Date:5/18/2004 11:11:37 PM
Author:joerg

Well progress went pretty quick today. Anyhow im extremely happy with the way things are turning out. I dont think i will need to say anything more though so i will just show the pics

 

I think this may be my favorite night lighting ive ever done on a building and maybe my favorite on any building for that matter.

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Agreed. The night lighting is wonderful. *sits back in amazement*

[geoff_diamond 43]

Looks awesome Joerg.  I can't wait to d/l this (don't ask me why since I don't play SC anymore

 

She's a true Chicago landmark and you've done it justice!

 

AND IF I HERE ONE MORE JOKE ABOUT THE WATER TOWER... SO HELP ME....!!!   Don't hate on us dusk because your city doesn't have any history!

[joerg 280]

Well i was going to start rendering but the network cable to my other computer is damaged and i cant transfer the stuff to it. Anyways hopefully i can start on it soon though.

[joerg 280]

Well why we are waiting for the render on Park to begin here is a quick render of the mall first from gmax.

[DuskTrooper 314]

Date:5/19/2004 12:02:43 AM
Author:geoff_diamond

Looks awesome Joerg.  I can't wait to d/l this (don't ask me why since I don't play SC anymore

 

She's a true Chicago landmark and you've done it justice!

 

AND IF I HERE ONE MORE JOKE ABOUT THE WATER TOWER... SO HELP ME....!!!   Don't hate on us dusk because your city doesn't have any history!

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Well, at least my city DID NOT BURN DOWN BEFORE!

jk, Chicago is cool!  A tad too old for me, though.  I like modern stuff.  

 

NICE WORK, though.  This will really look nice in my city.

 

 

[ak72 54]

That mall looks pretty good and the Park Hyatt looks great! SC4 needs a good mall. I'm assuming ploppable?

[joerg 280]

Yes the mall will be ploppable. It will probably be about 8x12 in size maybe larger.  It will include no parking on the lot but instead i will include a single parking lot tile and a tile with a sign on it.

[DuskTrooper 314]

You should include a few entries for underground garages, then, on the lot...

[joerg 280]

I probably could do that it wouldnt be too hard. I will consider it.  Oh and you guys might check the exchange alittle latter becuase the hospital should be up in about an hour or so.

[joerg 280]

Ok the hospital has been uploaded. You might see the sea cranes tommorow if all goes well and possibly even Park on friday. But both are big iffys.

[Cobb32118 239]

Joerg, that is a work of art!  Truly stunning.

 

My only tiny suggestion would be to move the tables and chairs around a little, maybe even just rotate a couple of them on the z axis, to make them look a little more natural, and not so arrayed.  Nice job on those, by the way.  Are you making all your own small props, or do you have subcontractors? 

[joerg 280]

Thanks cobb i wish i would have thaught of rotating the chairs when i was in autocad. As for where i got them and lot of my other props i made them myself in autocad. Im getting a pretty good sized selection now. I usually make about 2 special props for every building i make in cad and its starting to add up. I would post them to the exchange but they are all in cad format.

[joerg 280]

Ok guys last update park just started rendering.

[DuskTrooper 314]

Cool!

*goes to sleep, in anticipation of it in the morning*

 

OR the afternoon

OR the next day

OR....

[joerg 280]

Well it just finished zoom 5 south day that took about 45 mins. So my estimate for the entire thing is only about 10 hours wich is almost too low if you ask me but hey im not complaining. Anyhow yes it will be up in the morning. Oh and just noticed that im the 5th most downloaded author on the stex.  1000 more and i will be 4th. Anyways im just excited to finnaly see this thing in game.

[HighRiser 6]

I look at this beauty and I get warm and fuzzy all over

[oneil_1 138]

WOW, thet's better then the real life building, maybe thet's becouse i hate thet building, it's just too yellow for me.
But again, you made it so good thet i wouldn't mind building it in my cities.

[Cobb32118 239]

Date:5/19/2004 9:28:55 PM
Author:joerg

Thanks cobb i wish i would have thaught of rotating the chairs when i was in autocad. As for where i got them and lot of my other props i made them myself in autocad. Im getting a pretty good sized selection now. I usually make about 2 special props for every building i make in cad and its starting to add up. I would post them to the exchange but they are all in cad format.

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Hey, we'll just assume that your cafe manager is very neat and fussy about how things look for his patrons! 

I'm doing exactly the same thing: developing a nice little small prop library, by accident really. 

I can't wait to see the building on the exchange -- it's awesome!

[Artaxis 18]

wow the Hyatt is totally kick @$$, i love chicago Art Deco architecture, but yet also post modern and futurism. The mall is looking great too, your the man Joerg. Hospital looks fantastic. 10/10

-Artaxis

[joerg 280]

Well some good news and some bad. Fortunetly the bad news isnt that bad just means a slight delay.

 

The render went great didnt even take 10 hours which is absolutely amazing i think considering its on my crappier computer and is a pretty high poly model

 

One of my biggest concerns while making this building was its height. Getting everything to scale correctly wasnt going well. And my fears kind of came true. All of you familiar with chicago know that this building should be about 3/4 the height of Hancock. Well unfortunetly in game thats not so. It stands dead even with hancocks roof. This of course is so far off that i have to rerender but quishing it is making the top look rather boring in game so im having a heck of a time.  Anyhow it just stated rendering again not but 20 mins ago and will all the luck in the world it might be able to get done before i go to bed tonight but im sort of doubting that will happen.

 

Ok so the good news is that it looks just as great as it did before. And here are the pics from the game to prove it. I know i just hate doing this when you guys probably wont have it for a few days.

[eburress 267]

I see what you mean about the building's scale but I like very tall buildings so it doesn't bother me. I'm sure I will like your changes, too though.

Have you applied textures yet? It looks like you have to the windows but I couldn't tell whether you had to other portions of the structure.

Edit---> I just scrolled up the page and realized that you have applied textures to the building's walls...for some reason, they're not showing up very well in your in-game screenshots. What do you think about adding additional emphasis to the textures?

[joerg 280]

I think the textures stick out enough as is. You have to realize the jpg kind of cuts down on how much you can make out with the textures also in real life you really shouldnt be able to spot individual blocks on a building from that far away anyhow.  Also the building doesnt really have that much of a defined texture its just a smooth stuco block type thing. Anyhow its rendering now.

[hogmeister 7]

Its all looking very good at the moment, you have been real busy, what with the hospital redevelopment and the Park tower and the Mall, your going to need a rest soon enough.

[woodb3kmaster 342]

One thing I've noticed, and that you may want to fix, is that the windows that have night lights applied to them appear lighter than the others in the day renders. It would mean another render, certainly, but I think the building's daytime appearance would be improved.

[joerg 280]

Those are not day time lights they are windows with there curtains up see check some pics here.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files/Untitled-117.jpg width=262 border=0>

U see all the circles windows have blinds up and are noticably lighter and in my opinion it looks a ton better with it like this. Thats something people just dont often realise that windows usually dont look identicle becuase there are different things on the other sides of the windows so they appear different colors.

 

Also i hate to have to say this but whats with all the suggestions and critisizm now that the buildings already rendering it was all ewws and awws before but now there are things i can improve on i dont want to sound like i dont want the critisizm becuase i do i just wish it could have came at an earlier time. Anyways the render is now on the north view zoom 5 so its progressing pretty well i just hope i scaled it down enough. Im affraid if this wasnt enough then the building will look way to squashed. Also im kind of getting the idea that maxis didnt follow its own rules of exagerating the height on the hancock tower becuase the park building measured in at 340meters on the first export which i figured would be about right. And in game it matched hancock near perfectly to its roof which is 343 meters there by  making it to short.

U see all the circles windows have blinds up and are noticably lighter and in my opinion it looks a ton better with it like this. Thats something people just dont often realise that windows usually dont look identicle becuase there are different things on the other sides of the windows so they appear different colors.

 

Also i hate to have to say this but whats with all the suggestions and critisizm now that the buildings already rendering it was all ewws and awws before but now there are things i can improve on i dont want to sound like i dont want the critisizm becuase i do i just wish it could have came at an earlier time. Anyways the render is now on the north view zoom 5 so its progressing pretty well i just hope i scaled it down enough. Im affraid if this wasnt enough then the building will look way to squashed. Also im kind of getting the idea that maxis didnt follow its own rules of exagerating the height on the hancock tower becuase the park building measured in at 340meters on the first export which i figured would be about right. And in game it matched hancock near perfectly to its roof which is 343 meters there by  making it to short.