nybt-forum-threads NYBT BAT Thread

[simcity4fan12 13]

Well I'm getting frustrated with glass textures now...

I got annoyed and for some reason felt like taking a texture from a picture of it and this was the result.... Right now I'm trying to get the old texture to be darker and blacker.

[simcity4fan12 13]

Any opinions on that glass texture? I actually like that one in the post above and wondering if I should keep it that way.

I felt like mentioning that I have a huge book called "Manahattan Skyscrapers" that has alot of buildings in New York city(not just famous ones, some I never heard of are in there). It has alot of skyscrapers listed in there, and if any one wants to see the photos in it, I can probably get a pic for ya'll if you need it by posting it as an image here. That's only if you need it to help with the building. Speaking of that, it has the General Electric Building that you are making PBGV103(570 Lexington Ave).

[cmdp123789 710]

Ok, Im very pleased with everything I've seen already.. BUT! hahaha there's always a "but" right? well I was wondering... and I know that we are not suppose to ask in this thread... but wouldnt be great to have more buildings that give the "new york color" to the city?? what I mean is... for example look at midtown manhattan... the citigroup, the 599 lexington... the lipstick those are the kinda buildings that give simcity the look of manhattan... I know that the buildings you are doing are also important... but some of them we alkready have them... the metlife building is not perfect but it looks like it... the rockefeller is not perfect... but it's there... but TIMES SQUARE buildings are the ones we dont have that make a city look manhattan... wall to wall buildgins found in midtown ... how about flatiron and the buildings from around it.. the one that's next to the madison square park... or how about trying to make United Nations... or the huge hospital next to the river near empire state... how about woolworth... there's tons of buldings we dont have... AND I AM NOT TRYING TO SOUND MEAN OR ANYTHING... PLEASE DONT TAKE IT BAD OR GET ME WRONG... but we the players that dont know how to bat... well everytime we see something new on the stex... well it feels great cause it is another addition to our recreations... for example who wouldnt love to have a TIMES SQUARE in their city... the good buildings... the ones that belong in there... hahaha mi Times Square has two buildings only... I'm sorry if this makes you feel bad guys.. not my intention again... please please please some of those would be great

[Vlasky 1,803]

About group projects> It would probably be better if we'd choose one person for making the model of the building, other to model the props, another to do textures and another to make night lights. Something like conveyor (i hope it's the right word) in factories. I think it's a good idea. for example I'm good with making the building model itself, but props like HVACs I do badly. Than I'm bad with textures and I can make only basic g-max nitelites. What do you think?

[Kryptowhite 9]

cmdp-well my times square has about 15 buildings so....

Simcity4fan: I think maybe you are trying a bit to hard with that texture. I know all those colors and assorted bloches are supposed to mimic reflections and what not, but really, it just comes off as strange color on a building like this. Seeing as the windows in this building are barely discernable, let alone the make or break feature, i think your best off simplifying your self and going with a simple tinted gradient.

[simcity4fan12 13]

@cmdp123789-....Look we do what we want. I'm not trying to sound rude, but we won't be commanded to BAT what ever building someone wants. The buildings we make are buildings WE want to do. And technically, that's a request that should go to the BAT Request Thread. Simple as that.

@Vlasky-Yea that's good. Gmax night lights are good! I use 'em.

@Kryptowhite- I seriously hate texturing glass now. Everytexture I used looked horrible. It's like I need someone to make the glass texture for me. I'll just use the first one I used and just...I don't know try to make it look good on it I guess.

[ozdaniel 4]

i think you should keep it that way !!!

[Hanson784 165]

Great work all! Everyone's been so busy putting out great stuff on the STEX this weekend.

I'm about to render One Liberty Plaza for the night and hopefully it will be done when I wake up in the morning. *crosses fingers*

Kyrptowhite, great job with 599 Lexington. Your best BAT yet.

SimCityfan, the picture texture doesn't look that bad. The white parts look like shades actaully and there's a bit of reflection of the surronding area in the windows which adds realism.

PBVG, can't wait to see 570 Lexington. Though, the spire might be a bit difficult. BTW, I can't remember if I asked you this before but is OK if I touch up a few things with you Citigroug Center. I want to change the textures darker and make the walls more 3D. If not that's fine, I know you're moving on to 570 Lexington so that's why I'm asking for the model.

[simcity4fan12 13]

Thanks Hanson for the comment on the texture. I'll do a HQ test render in the game tomorrow. I can't wait to see One Liberty Plaza fully complete!!! Are you going to release it on Simtropolis too? If you can't I can release it for you if that's all right with you.

[Gwail 52]

A warm welcome for new teammates!

Good progress everyone, can't wait for more fresh meat. I've seen so many new uploads - pity no one wants to use my custom query .

[cmdp123789 710]

Of course you do the buildings you want... no need to say it... sorry for the incovinience...

[Gwail 52]

And something new from me. Here is the alpha version of MCI D4500:

There is still a bit to do about it - I don't like the shadows on the roof, there is no nite lights, some parts of textures have to be replaced for more variety (especially windows).

You can see 3 buses:

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• MCI D4500 with standard MTA livery
• MCI D4500 with special painting - 9/11 never forget
• MCI D4500 CT

I wasn't able to find out, what route number should I place on the 9/11 bus. Can any newyorker help me out?

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Gwail- Of course we wanna use your custom queries! I just thought you were gone, so... Did you ever finish the custom Query for One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza? Awsome job on those buses by the way! As for the route numbers...hmmm maybe I can look up stuff. I know quite a bit about 9/11 and the WTC.

@cmdp123789- I apologize for sounding rude, just had a frustrating day dealing with stuff. And I'm just super busy with all the BATs I already have, that I can't really start on so many Times Square buildings. I think I gave my Bertelsman Building I was making to Hanson. I forgot about that awhile ago.

Well I did a render HQ quality on 130 Liberty StreetV2 and test it out in the game. I like it but I had to rescale it becuase it surpassed Home Insurance Plaza when it's only sort of at it's height.

I might re-position the glass texture to look like one in my last post about it. Not sure though.

A close up on the facade.

The base close up. The mullions down by the rovolving doors changed becuase the doors were short(even though they were at an acceptable RL height, simcity4 ruins my buildings with vertical scale).

Any way Iike it. I gotta finish the roof and night lighting then it should be done.

@Gwail- You think you can make a special 9/11 query for a ploppable version of this one and make the ploppable? And I would like to update the St. Nicholas Orthodox Greek ChurchV2(with a similar 9/11 query) and Home Insurance Plaza(regular NYC Query that you do). Please?

[Kryptowhite 9]

^ well that one looks nice..maybe it was just the quality/size of the renders you were posting

[Vlasky 1,803]

 Here's a sneak peak of my future GM building.

Does it look like General Motors building already? Anyhow I would appreciate pics of the base 'cause I don't know exactly how it looks. PM me

[Kryptowhite 9]

google maps street view.

BATters best friend.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Yes, Krypotwhite is right. You Just keep looking around for pictures so you can see the details and looking go ggol map other stuff.....

o Yea!!! just about to forget Im working on the transportation Building. I will post it soon.

[ozdaniel 4]

here soum picthers of the general motors building

[PBGV103 729]

Ugh... more gmax problems.

[Keegan V50 15]

@Simcityfan12: Wow!,it looks good actually!,cant wait to see the nightlights you will be adding in it,good luck!

all the best

victor

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Victor Valdes- The wait is over for that-

Draft Render to save time. The building in RL had alot of windows lit up at night according to a photo of the building at night next to the WTC. Such a shame that this beautiful example of a block international styled building had to be a victim of 9/11 by being damaged beyond repair by the collapse of the South Tower.

PBGV103 emailed me some progress on 570 Lexington. It 's looking great so far. He had to email it to me becuase Simtropolis is down for him. I wanna make more suggestions about it but first we gotta have some more pics of it. Can't wait!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

It looks good!!!

[Keegan V50 15]

Yep you're right,it looks much better compared to your V1,here is a pic of it at night when it was still standing...

Anyways good luck once more!

[Gwail 52]

Simcity4fan12, the query for One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza is waiting for you for over a month . Just look here and download both attachments.

Indeed, I'm very busy last month-two, the RL doesn't show any mercy. But I'm still hanging around and lurking. Glad you like the buses - that special 9/11 has number 2185. It's a bus that suffered major damage during the WTC collapsion and has been repaired and repainted by employees of MCI. I'd like to find out, what route did it go.

I like the window textures, look great. Of course I will make for you the special 9/11 query, I've got already an idea how it could look like:

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Gwail-Oh, lol I didn't realize that was the final version of it. My bad. I'll get it now. I like A, but I was wondering if there could be a picture in the background of the entire thing- like there's this photo of the building before they started deconstructing it that had a huge American Flag on it. I thought that would be cool and a great tribute for it. And for St. Nicholas, there's a photo of it shadowed in front of the WTC that I'm thinking it would look great. Oh, and one question- If we don't have the essentials files, would the queries just turn into the defualt ones? Or would it mess up and crash the game? And do we use these queries for the ploppable versions and the growable versions? Or just ploppable versions? Speaking of which, I need Home Insurance Plaza as a ploppable. Still can't mod like that. Tried, but had much insucess.

@Victor Valdes- Thanks for that photo! I should finish the entire building today or tonight and release it hopefully tomorrow or if I'm lucky- tonight.

[Jumpthefence 74]

The last month or two's work condensed into a single, poorly-edited image.

And it needs another few weeks to be completely finished.

Irony: I'll be spending Thanksgiving Day in Hackensack, New Jersey, about 10 miles from Midtown, Manhattan.

More Irony: Friday I'll probably be going into the City, maybe go to a mueseum or something.

Even more Irony: If my step-grandmother who lived in Beijing is here, we might go to Chinatown.

If I don't get a chance to post again, Happy Thanksgiving Day y'all!

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Jumpthefence-Wow, can't wait for it to be finished! Have fun in Jersey and NY if you do into the city!

EDIT: @Gwail- Almost forgot to ask- Do we need to upload the essentials file to the STEX as a dependency?

I came up with some random nicknames for our teammates. Not like you know, we have to be called this, I just felt like sharing this with ya'll for a laugh I guess...

Simcity4fan12- Ulgy Building Commondore

Gwail- Lego Transit Man

Kryptowhite- Glossy Glass Master

Jumpthefence- WHA CHina Town BATer

Just being random. Ya'll guys were the only people I could come up with nicknames. Other members haven't been here long enough or around enough. lol

[Kryptowhite 9]

simcity4fan: To be honest, Maxis nightwindow maps make me cringe. Swat medic figured out a way to use custom maps and trunite in GMAX, you might want to ask him how he did it, it would look really nice with your building. Anyways nice job as far as arranging the lights. See what you can do about the maps, but either way its fine.

JumptheFence-excellent. Excited to see it come together when its finished!

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Kryptowhite- Last time I tried something like that, I did it myself and it somehow completely erased any night maps even though they were there. I couldn't use them at all, and I had to re-install everything becuase that was the only way to fix it. But I'll see about getting trunite in GMAX with Swat Medic.

[Jumpthefence 74]

Except for roof textures, it's done. Even the roof junk is done; there's four pipes and two roof accesses. That's it.

I am really darn happy about the street level. Especially those tables spilling out onto the street. That's realistic!

It was pretty easy considering how only one wall has details, and the back has just a few doors.

Any suggestions are welcome.

I'll be in New Jersey until Friday night, everyone have a great Thanksgiving Day!