nybt-forum-threads NYBT BAT Thread

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

You can do I just try I see you have some of the details already, I think you are going to have some trouble with the faces thats on the building.

[simcity4fan12 13]

Oh I almost forgot: Aaron, didn't you need to email me your Transportation Building for a night pic? I thought you were done and needed to just do that.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Yes, because my lights does not work.

[simcity4fan12 13]

You can go ahead and send it when it's ready. Is it ready now?

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Not yet im so sorry if its taking to long I have other BATs that I was working on, im going to get to it to night an I will let you know if im finish.

[jpj_starfleet 3]

I,m having a problem with the RCA/GE Building at 570 Lexington, the game says it is missing plugin pack #941345111, I redownloaded the bldg but I get the same message. The bldg looks great and does work as a landmark so I don't know what this plugin is but it it definitely corresponds to this bldg. Anybody have any ideas?? PBGV103??

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Heres the Transportation Building I have put all the textures back on the building, I haved some thins to the building.

I hope the Gwail is ready to mod the Transportation Building and I know Simcity4fan12 is ready to take  picture of the building. Tonight I will export the building if the building looks ok.

[Gwail 52]

Shown already elsewhere, being shown here now, I do hope it's not considered as spamming

Aaron, sure, go ahead !

[simcity4fan12 13]

@Aaron- It looks great! Can't wait for the release!

@Gwail- No, definitely not spamming! Those look amazing!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

OMG!!!! that is beautyful I have to download this!!!!!!

[UrbanLatinFemale 1]

Hey guys, any of you know if Brooklyn Library is available anywhere? Or would anyone like to take that project on?

[Hanson784 165]

Gwail that looks absoultely superb! Beautiful texturing and the motion blur is wonderful. Looking forward to it.

Also looking forward to the Transportation Building. Nicely done Aaron.

[DCMetro34 576]

@Gwail, Have those been released? They look marvelous!

[simcity4fan12 13]

To reply to the recent questions-

@jpj_starfleet- I don't understand what you mean....that doesn't seem like something to happen or even pop up in SimCity4...can you be more specific?

@UrbanLatinFemale- You could search the STEX first. But I don't believe it has been done yet. If not, I'm not sure if we will get to it anytime soon, but eventually most buildings from NY(Brooklyn, Manhattan, anywhere in NY) will be made.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

@ Gwail: Well, if that is spamming, then it's the highest-quality, highest-resolution, most mouthwatering spam I've ever seen.  Incredible what an effect you managed to achieve despite the rather unspectacular "colour" scheme!

@ Aaron: It's looking great, you did another good job! I don't know if it's too late now, but one improvement I could think of is adding a slightly visible gradient to the main walls and to the roofs. This could help to add a bit more visual depth to the building. For more detailed feedback, as usual an in-game pic of your BAT next to similar Maxis buildings would be helpful.

[madhatter106 3,903]

The tiling on the Transportation building is a touch obvious - my preference is to use a texture which spans the entire length/width of the wall, and not to have the texture repeat horizantally like you've done there. Where there are stains and darker areas, it's much more obvious that it's repeating.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good - the windows are varied enough, and I love the details of the awnings and windows of the stores/shops on the ground floor.

[lucky7 73]

Originally posted by: jpj_starfleet

I,m having a problem with the RCA/GE Building at 570 Lexington, the game says it is missing plugin pack #941345111, I redownloaded the bldg but I get the same message. The bldg looks great and does work as a landmark so I don't know what this plugin is but it it definitely corresponds to this bldg. Anybody have any ideas?? PBGV103??

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jpj_starfleet: Yes, this really exists! 

I had had the problem with a specific city tile of my NYC region before I transfered all my plugins to my new computer, then it was gone.

Honestly, I am not sure what causes this. I assume that it is either an outdated, thus substituted, dependency of props, or a malfunction of props caused, e.g., by a crash to desktop when trying to save the game.

As far as I can remember, I had the second possibility happen to me. Additionally, the majority of the buildings that had not been packed with the dat-packer, appeared a second time in my plugins menu, but were named at a temporary dat.file...     (which I deleted after duplicating the folder to a save place, btw)

The only strange thing is, that this has happened to you with a building you definitely should have all the necessary files, naturally including dat. and lot.files.

Have you experienced any crashes to dektop recently?

Aaron Graham: the transportation building looks fantastic!    If you need any help with lotting, feel free to PM me.

Gwail: these look fabulous! They make the rest of the buildings appear like.. , well,... when zoomed in to this level. Outstanding textures!! 

Take care everyone,

René

[simcity4fan12 13]

Sorry it took so long to post this. I didn't get a chance to post more than one pic like I wanted too.

^Aaron's Transportation Building.

And here's something Aaron is working on that he showed me in a PM that I'm posting here for him: The Beekman Hotel Tower-

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Can't wait till Gwail mod it.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Aaron Graham: Your wall texture is about the right color, but as others have said, repeats too often. Take a look at this tutorial I recently posted for help.

In addition to that, the texture itself looks more like pored concrete than brick, so you may want to find a different one, or try to adjust the one you have to look more like bricks. The base on the building looks like some kind of light asphalt rather than stone.

Also, there are lots of little details that make this building beautiful, however non of them are very obvious or even modeled (little arches above the windows and the details on the base). It may not have much more up there, but the main copper (green) roof looks like it needs attention in this department as well as some texture TLC. Try putting in some simple ribs like these.

There are a number of photos that illustrate my point in this thread and in Bing maps. You should try to implement what you see into your model because it would make a world of difference.

[jpj_starfleet 3]

Thank you lucky7 for the response, yes I have had crashes to the desktop with this building in my city, not while saving my city but the usual zoom in/out bug which everybody seems to have.  

I don't see anything wrong with the look of the building or anything missing at all, O well... 

[simcity4fan12 13]

I'm still around working on this-

I didn't do much, I just added the triagnular roof to my 14 Wall Street. For Simcity, should I make it just a regular Triangular roof(like 40 Wall Street) or make it stacked-boxes in the shape of a triangle like in RL?

[PBGV103 729]

I'm all for RL but I guess I don't really have a say cause I haven't been here in like 4 weeks lol

Anyway... hey guys! hope all is well. I'm going back to vt on monday, so hopefully I'll have time to work on my BATs

[simcity4fan12 13]

Hope you will too! I can't wait for the official release of 345 Park Avenue(I still have the landmark test one haha) and the release of that other one...I forget what it's called, but it looked amazing! I'll try the RL stacked triagle again on this BAT, I messed up the first time.

BTW, the builidng is W2W on two sides in a way were it's best to place it on a corner. It will make a perfect coner cap in a city.

[simcity4fan12 13]

I haven't been up to much NYBT Stuff lately but here's a little bit I've been doing-

CitiBank Building in the Financial District. Still very basic so far.

Part of the base of the HSBC Bank. It's still in the works.

I've been tryin' to add some detail to the plaza of this one like some railing. Is it too high or too low?

I thought of something one day about NYBT having it's own logo.

This is the logo of the HighSchool(some type of highschool for business) next to One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. Notice how the triangle shape in there is the same shape of the building. I thought that a logo for NYBT could have that triangle with NYBT inside it with different stuff around it. Just a thought.

I never thought about this before, but what if NYBT branched out of making other BATs besides New York BATs? Like stuff from our imaginations or anything. I wonder what that would be like if we decided to make more than just NY BATs...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Your new model looks good keep it up. I have been on google maps looking for some buildings to recreate, I want to work on some Park Ave. apartments.

[Jumpthefence 74]

Dang, it's been a long time.

I can explain! Really!

As the result of my nitemaps issue i had to reinstall the BAT. I uninstalled it, but to reinstall it, I needed to have Simcity installed. Too bad that 3 days earlier I had uninstalled it due to technical issues. I needed to find disc 1, which I thought was in my basement, but a 5 hour search found nothing. So I had to borrow Simcity from a friend. He got it to me and I couldn't install it. I essentially gutted all my Simcity related anything software, and it installed without problem. Then I was able to reinstall everything. This is in the time span of about three weeks.

...quite a tale, eh?

So I finished up 109 Mott Street this weekend, being happy that the BAT and Simcity even worked.

Anyways, I'm not asking for suggestions (not that I'll reject them).

I just wanted to make it known that I'm still alive.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wow!! I love you work keep it up, im also glad that you have found a way to install the game. About a year ago I crack my Sim City4 disc it was a small crack as time when on the crack on my disc have got even larger and I still manage to play the game with the crack in the disc, later on the game did not work I was mad as hell I had to buy Sim City4 again, I was glad they still manage to be selling in stores.

[Seraf 1,238]

Sorry for my absence again.... I'm working on Michigan Central Station and I don't have much time for other projects

However, I made a fountain from Cherry Hill within the framework of my Central Park Pack. I'll try to make some more props for CP soon.

[allez l'om 1]

The 109 Mott st building looks so realistic.