nybt-forum-threads NYBT BAT Thread

[gio10469 24]

page flip?

[Sgt Pepper 864]

JTF- I love how the BAT is coming along, it looks fantastic! You have certainly gotten better since you first started.

EDIT: Aparently I fixed a page flip.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Well Well Well........ I wonder what causes the pages to do that????

[Triforceseek 2]

terrorism jk

[TheOlympics 546]

So guys thats it for the 599 Lexington Avenue??? It can't be downloaded anymore? and ill need this for midtown. OOhhh and please bring back 17 State Street lack of these 2 buildings will be critical to the level of realism in my CJ. How should i explain the blank  space at 599 lexington ave that wouldnt be a good look. I mean is there some other site that i can get Simcity4fan12 and Kryptowhite's buildings from cause without those i cant do anything further to midtown nor lower manhattan

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Im sure some of the buidings will be back on the ST someday.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

I can get my stuff back on soon once Gwail finishes the modding to them.

[BoxCarRacer 1]

This thread is great. Not only are there some cool buildings but there is a Russian bear!

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Originally posted by: BoxCarRacer

Not only are there some cool buildings but there is a Russian bear!quote>

[Gwail 52]

Brandon, I'll try to spare some time and find the CD with game to check out all the modding I've been making for you ASAP.

A lil' update from me. Nothing special, but sometimes I need the break between the RL projects .

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Any chance we can have a SC4 preview render of that? It is looking wonderful! That and I'm a sucker for large industrial type sash windows.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Gwail- Your model is coming out to be a master pice.

Heres somthing I was working on ove the weekend. Sense I love apartments I was thing about doing some from the Bronx, I don't know if its a sucess but I have tried.

[Francis90b 748]

Aaron, they're looking very good so far!

Don't forget to post a preview render though, .

The bus stop is coming along wonderfully !

[Vlasky 1,803]

  @ Gwail : I love how your depot looks, and would love to see it on STEX when you finish it

  

  @ Aaron Graham : It look very good. Good choice. I guess it'll be w2w?

Here's a progress on my mystery NYBT BAT:

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Francis90b- Im sure I won't forget to post a render.

Vlasky- It looks great.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Projects are looking great everyone.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Indeed every project is looking good!

As for me....still got nothin'....

[Gwail 52]

Thanks you all for the comments, glad you like it!

Originally posted by: SimHoTToDDy

Any chance we can have a SC4 preview render of that?quote>

As you wish, Grimy Masta!

As you can see, there's still many to do (textures and detailing). Hard to recreate, as I don't have any photos except a few with the front and these from the bing.com. And oh, don't care about the buses... they seem not to like the 130% vertical stretching .

Originally posted by: SimHoTToDDy

(...) I'm a sucker for large industrial type sash windows.quote>

So am I. But I've still haven't found what I'm looking for, I'm not 100% satisfied of my results.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

I have tried and tried to get my main wall texture to look like the building on the right that SimHoTToDDy fix up but I can't get it to look like that, I really suck at making textures.

Heres is the original main wall texture Click

Heres are some of the wall textures I have made to look like the image on the right that SimHoTToDDy have fix up for me in the past. But I seems that they are not coming out right.

1. Click

2. Click

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

What are you using to make them? They don't look bad so far.

Believe it or not, you have the hue spot on, you just need to desaturate 30 to 40%. In order to keep things from tiling, you can make the image bigger and extend the image vertically. Take a look at this tutorial I made. Also go in and add a little more contrast so the gradient is more obvious. However I think the best thing you can do to get close to what I made is to make new UVW maps. Each color refers to a UVW map on that set of walls.

 If you click on the actual UVW map modifier after you have applied it, make sure that all of them have identical dimensions (and all should be on "box"), you can also hit the "+" next to the modifyer and click on "Gizmo" and use the move tool to move the dark part of the mapping to how it is on my picture. Depending on which one you are playing with, you will have to do that more or less. Don't make them all at the same place or it will be obvious what you are doing. Use the x,y directions to move the map side to side so they are all in different places, in addition you can flip the map so that the horizontal is mirrored, also making things less obvious.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Right now im using Photoshop and paints.Net to make the texture,And thanks on the tips. But im going to keep trying to make the texture similar to yours.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Well, "mine" is just the one you applied to your model only I used the burn tool (on the shadows) to make the gradients and stains (plus the hue/desat stuff), so it is only a matter of tweaking untill you can replicate my adjustments.

Paint? Why bother when you have Photoshop I love Photoshop and it is what I use, let me know if you have questions with it.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Aaron, Gwail, your stuff is looking great!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Sgt Pepper- Thanks

 Here a render of my Bronx apartment. I have to make the fire excapeand thats going to take a while.

[Jumpthefence 74]

 I've had one heck of a crazy week, but this thread just made my day! That, and tomorrow's Friday.

Gwail: Cool! I really like how you copied the exact roof texture from Google Maps, or something... and those industrial sash windows look pretty... what do the cool kids say these days? EPIC? I can't wait to see it on the STEX!

Aaron: I'm glad you kept faith in the Transportation Building- it's starting to come together nicely. And those Bronx apartments are looking very nice at their current stage. I might suggest adding more random grunge-y grime on the roof and playing around with the roof access, but other than that, I'm looking forward to the next update!

PS: I would hope you plan to add some variety to the window colors on both models, they look a bit to uniform for my liking.

Todd: Still here, eh?

I don't have any progress to post. All I did while I was offline was add the query sound to 112 Mott St. And boy, was I doing it wrong! But I eventually figured it out. I'll attach the query sound to this message... it's a bunch of guys singing the Italian National Anthem.

Anyways, I'm still trying to figure out what to do for the next pack of buildings. Little Germany turned out to be too "Medium Wealth-y" for my liking, so I scrapped the project. If anyone has any suggestions for LOW WEALTH buildings around 5 stories or so in a certain neighborhood, preferably in Lower Manhattan, please go and post 'em cause I'm a bit stuck in that field.

If no one has anything to say, I'm going to render the other Little Italy shops this weekend.

Y'all have a good Friday!

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Aaron: just make one "floor" of the escape and then array it up. They are really only a series of rectangles and lines (at least when I make them), draw your rectangle and then under rendering check both boxes underneath (that will give them some volume). I usually set the thickness to .1m and the sides to 4.

JTF: I'll be here until you all become master BATers. Fortunately I have Espresso on an intravenous drip so I don't even need to leave for coffee brakes.

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Just remember... I'm watching you, kid!

[Triforceseek 2]

lol ToDDy i cracked up so hard when i saw your last line XD ?!@

Aaron's Bronx apartments look really good, i'm looking forward to the next 6 month of waiting ( sarcasm intended, i hope )

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Ha,Ha,Ha, you made me laugh. I can make the model pretty fast, but what stops me is when someone say something bad about my textures, thats what slows everything down, it makes me not to work on the building for a long while. Hopefully I can get this building done by the end of next week I believe.

(Update)

I have put the fire excapes on the front of the Bronx apartment but not on the sides yet.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

That smiley face will always scare me...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

I have made some more changes I have not put a window texture on it yet.