Frogface BAT buildings

[Smurfer2 7]

King's Cross keeps getting better and better. I think the metro's night lights need some improvement. They just don't look right in your last picture.

[SimGoober 2,365]

Frogface : try this on renders, it works for me sometimes...

 

Save your file under a new name.  Then reset GMAX (under file), then reload and try rendering it with the new name.  Make sure you have the perspective view open, or the textures might grey out.  Doesn't always work, but it seems to help.

[frogface 354]

thanx simgoober, i tried that first but it doesnt seem to work with that file unfortunately... some people posted other advice way back when i had the same prob with kings cross. i'll see about that but i dont think i'll have much time over the weekend to do this.

 

some night lighting on the clock! i quite like how its turned out.

(btw eagle eyed ppl may notice the light 'bleed' through the clock tower, i forgot to enable 'cast shadows' which is why it does that, it is fixed) now im gonig to work on the night lighting on the roof. i used some spotlights but omnis seem t look better, even if they will take longer. ah well .

[oneil_1 140]

Very Very Good!! need more work, put omnis lights inside the train and add more parts the the building.
And one more thing where did you got thet XP theme in the background???? very cool!

[frogface 354]

yeah i will add some omnis inside the station, i got a nice effect last time, only problem was i need to get it a brighter colour, more like fluorescent lighting, i've been experimenting so i think i can improve the lighting.

i might add the houses to the west of the station too. Also bear in mind Kings Cross isnt a fancy ornate station like its brother station St pancras, its a bit more simple.

i got the the theme with windowblinds... nice innit?

[hogmeister 7]

Looking good, but remember you are going to need to resize the columns so they don

[frogface 354]

thanks,  i will probably add something to support the base. i'll think of something but i wont leave it how it is since it looks a bit odd.

heres a early preview of nightlighting:

any suggestions on it? im not talking so much about placement but more about colour or intensity of the lights.

[hogmeister 7]

Wow, looking good young man

Edit: one thing the night lighting does show me is that you need to end the platforms before they reach the entrance,LOL, what i mean is the tracks seem to come too far forward, and you need some sort of interior concourse for gates and passenger flow etc.

[Tunafish 48]

Can you give me a link, name or web site where I can find that skin you have. I've be looking on themexp.org for about 2 hours and I cant find one as cool as that. Thanx. Kingscross looks great

[DuskTrooper 316]

Nice work!

 

BTW, how did you get your Windows GUIs to look like that?

[Smurfer2 7]

I think the night lighting is perfect the way it is now. I wouldn't change a thing. As this project progresses the more excited about this project I become.

[hogmeister 7]

I think this is really coming along nice now Frogface, I never did like the BR concourse (now there

[Gemika 6]

Wow! Frogface this is worth more than a 1000 words, I like the look of it great that you can see inside the station itself its really amazing how you have improved in the BAT keep up the great work! will be looking forward to more updates

GE

[frogface 354]

thanks for all the comments people! it really does get me motivated anyway for those that asked the theme is called 'corona' and comes with windowblinds, not sure if there is a themexp version.

 

hogmeister: my thoughts pretty much. the suburban terminus in my opinion is practically its own small station just bolted onto kings cross with the same name, i also wont be doing it for the reasons you mentioned, its at a diagonal so it'll be a dodgy lot size, it couldn't be transit enabled since it is at an angle blah blah blah the list goes on .

i will be doing the side buildings though, hopefully they'll turn out as well as the east side buildings did.

 

i will probably be making the concourse a prop so two versions would be possible if i do that  

the nightlighting i might turn down the intensity of a bit since it does seem a tad bright, the colour i think is pretty much fine for the fluorescent (did i spell that right?) effect im going for, the intensity seems a bit high though

[frogface 354]

update time: heres a preview of the whole station

it will be roughly 10-8 tiles long now and 6 wide i think. i will need to get it rendered before i really know the exact lot dimensions though... at the moment my feeble computer isnt capable of rendering it, some updated night shots

back of the station and roof: (need to tone the lights down a notch, they seem a little bright)

front.

btw these have been sharpened in photoshop to get higher detail in these screenshots, dont worry the level of detail is the same, the sharpening is just to compensate for the shrunken pic size

 

[Smurfer2 7]

Wow Those night lights are amazing!  This will be one of my favorite train stations! You might want to ask Equinox or DM to render it for you.

 

[MayorVieira 1]

Great, another train station... I love them! This one looks very nice, especially at night. Good job, frogface.

[frogface 354]

thanks for the comments

started work on the west building:

also added some supports to the front

[JEC 101]

i'm impressed, especially the night lighting. i don't have any suggestions because it looks great and the fact that i haven't been in king's cross in a while.

keep up the good work

[frogface 354]

thanks JEC youre work is always great too

small update facing from a south direction (in real life north but i'll fix that in the LE)

i just love the nightlighting here  

annoying prob here though. the intensity level is perfect except that front facade part where it is too bright and looks kinda fake like someone painted that area with a paintbrush  it just doesnt look right...

any ideas on how to fix that???

[DuskTrooper 316]

Omnis are the problem.   Omnis are very wierd....

[SimGoober 2,365]

Have you tried tweaking the attenuation parameters?  Until i started playing with those, I thought Omnis were about useless.....

[frogface 354]

i tried it with spotlights before but it just didn't look as good. i'll try the attentuation thing

[burwellian 16]

(Jaw drops)

Amazing station, looks very like the real Kings X. (as the signs at Cambridge Station call it...) I will be downloading this when finished, looking very nice...

Thanks Frogface

[chunkymon24490 6]

Looks gd! I c wot u mean by it doesnt look right- Ive enver been on the outside of Kings X- I always change 2 the tube inside- strange even tho Ive been through it millions of times....

[BarbyW 40]

Looking good, frogface! It really does look like the real station. BTW what happened to the lovely thatched cottage you were making? Never mind, you have your exams to think about as well as this

Barby

[frogface 354]

Date:5/22/2004 9:11:43 AM
Author:BarbyW

Looking good, frogface! It really does look like the real station. BTW what happened to the lovely thatched cottage you were making? Never mind, you have your exams to think about as well as this

Barby

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thanks, the cottage i wil be revisiting later with a couple of other BAT's i had so no i havent forgotten about its but its just on the backburner for now 

my exams start on monday....fun 

[hogmeister 7]

Good Luck with the exams, the station is looking good, and here are a few more pictures of the front with emphasis on the west side.

 

 

 

Notice the tower detail and the flag poles on top of them

[M-SIL 2]

Good Luck, frogface and sweet job on the build! 

[Smurfer2 7]

Date:5/22/2004 9:45:12 AM
Author:frogface

my exams start on monday....fun 

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  Good luck on them.

The back of the front part of the station's night lights are too bright. I hope you can fix that.