nybt-forum-threads NYBT BAT Thread

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

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[Seraf 1,238]

It's only small update from my work on Pulitzer Fountain

Here are the two versions of water material but I think I'll use the greener one

EDIT:  Fountain is almost finished:

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Seraf- The Terrace you've been working on is looking amazing! I vote for the second one too, it looks fantastic. And the new fountain looks great!!!!!!

lucky7- Got your emails and replied.

Aaron- Hopefully we can get lucky7 to send it to you. I have it but struggling with dependencies for it...

The only diffrence here is I resized the glass a bit, I think I need to change the color and make it a little darker but not too much. Sorry I haven't done much work on it. I just got back home last night.

[lucky7 73]

@ seraf: Oh my good, Pulitzer Fountain looks awesome. If I had known that I wouldn't have spent so much time in re-creating it in the LE

Great work, it looks like the real one!!! Your work in and around Central Park is fantastic, keep it up!

@ Sgt Pepper:Brando, you're welcome.

@ Sgt Pepper to Aaron: I emailed the zip file to him; personally, I didn't have any struggles concerning the dep., how come? Just tell me.

BTW, thanks to everyone's efforts my Midtown is finally getting filled. I guess, it's time for a showcasing update...

Take care everyone,

Ren

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

lucky7- Thank you very much for the 599 Lexington.

Seraf- The Pulitzer Fountain looks great.

Sgt Pepper- to me I have I have no problem with dependencies.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

I have problems with the dependencies on that one i meant, like I'm missing some base textures and props. From what I recall, Kryptowhite also BATed the 599 Lexington Subway Station which was one of the dependencies for the lot if I remember correctly....

Also does any one know the base texture dependency for Darknono35's One World Financial Center? For some reason I don't have it and the dependency list for it didn't mention a base texture.

EDIT: I guess we can just re-upload Kryptowhite's 599 Lexington and his 17 State Street. I went over to that site that can't be mentioned to get permission about it and they re-uploaded an NYBT upload there: NYBT 1 Times Square. I wasn't sure how to contact them because the site doesn't really use the forum there just the upload exchange. I don't think Kryptowhite would mind, and they probably don't care to much about permissions anyway if they put NYBT on the site. I think the 1 Times Square there was the version I worked on that I gave Kryptowhite to finish. I can re-upload 599 Lexington as soon as I figure out the dependencies.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Sgt Pepper- Im glad you went to that site the last time I have check that site was a while till about five days ago I decided to check it out and see hows things are going.

Im going to see if I can help you on the dependencies.

[His Divine Hand 244]

Hey, just to FYI, I'm pretty sure that you can't re-upload any of Kryptowhite's work to the STEX due to his being banned.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

I know he was banned, but those 2 BATs(599 Lexington, 17 State Street) were for NYBT and not TG. I'm sure those 2 BATs can be atleast be re-uploaded. None of us at NYBT are just going to re-do them just because he was banned. Though, I think 17 State street needs an update because it's a little too tall...

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

I don't think he'll want to have those bats reuploaded since he's been banned, think about it, would you give your bat to a place you're banned from?

[Sgt Pepper 864]

They uploaded an NYBT BAT without mentioning it to us on their site...but whatever I guess. I'm sure you're right. Never mind on re-uploading those.

[Cockatoo 2,256]

Sorry guys, there's a blanket rule here. Regardless of what team somebody might have been a part of, and regardless of what the person actually wants, you can't upload (or re-upload) the work of a banned member to the STEX.

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Oh.....well then........any way let's get back on topic shall we?

I've done little, but some work on the roof even though It needs alot more work and some more editing on the textures...

[GuerrilaWarfare 39]

Why was Kyrptowhite banned, I still don't know.

Well watching you guys mourn for missing bats, I have every NYC buildings up to date if anyone needs, just please show me how to send files via Internet.

[Parisian 556]

Hi everybody.

@GuerrilaWarfare : Could you please make a list of all the buildings you have, a lot of has been asked and I think a list could be welcome.

@Sgt Pepper : It looks perfect. I have a question about the texture. Few days ago, you change the dark front texture of your building into a realistic one (the actual one). How did you do that?

@Seraf : Wow I like a lot that kind of little street objects like fountain, especially yours which is very very detailed. Good Job. I love the Cherry Hill fountain too which was posted on the STEX few days ago.

I have a question for the Cherry Hill fountain : in the game, for me, the base texture is missing, but no dependancies are written, what's the problem? is anyone know... Thanks

[Jumpthefence 74]

Alright, I'm back! It doesn't appear as though hell broke loose after I left, though some of you may be crying behind your monitors. Alas, you know who you are, we don't need to share.

Replies!

Aaron: The apartments are looking pretty good, I'll bet a lot of people are looking forward to their upload. My only suggestions are to darken the brownish-pink walls, maybe desaturate them, and to darken the edges of the roof texture with Photoshop/GIMP's Burn Tool. If I may make a suggestion adding a gradient to the main wall would look good on this specific building, but that's more up to you if you want to do that.

Brandon: It's coming along pretty well. I think we both agree that roof textures need a lot of work before they are done, but the glass is looking very good. I'll have to try the Maxis glass, mine is looking unbelievable at the moment (and not in a good way). As for your reply to my last post, the roof is needing some major work, and the solid parts in between the windows are solid for now, at least until I add a considerable gradient, and maybe a noise filter or something.

Simfox: Oh well, being a big, bad wolf is necessary sometimes. After all, it gets a lot done, and apparently, wolves sell a hell of a lot of books...

But I digress incredibly far back: You make a good point about the building being parallelogram-ish. After all, there's only a fine line between something looking "different" and "out of place". I'm sure that it may piss off a number of people, but I'll side with you and make the building rectangular. As for the base floor, I seriously should get a better method for measuring wall heights. But I tried adjusting the base height to 7 meters instead of 10, and the building looks better; I would say, "more modest". Thanks for the help!

Paul: Congrats on finishing that building! You've been working a while on it, and it looks great!

Seraf: ...woah... ...cool! You seriously just made my day with the new fountain.

Lucky7: Good to see you're lurking around here.

GuerrilaWarfare: Unfortunately, we're not allowed to talk about why he was banned. Let's try to drop the subject, I'm not going to relive January 5th. Although, it's a relief to hear that you have all the NYBT files on double-emergency-backup.

A BAT!

This is the view of the reverse side of the building. Apparently, it's all under renovation or something of the sort. Not able to use Google Street View for base level pictures, I had to BAT all the details. Naturally, it doesn't look as good, so I'm wondering where I can improve. As for the wall on the right, it shares a party wall with some smaller buildings, so I'll just make a simple lobby, some concrete covered walls, and make it W2W. Any more suggestions?

Otherwise, I'll be working on the roof over the next few days, when I get the chance.

Random Thoughts:

How about those fireworks in New York on Sunday? I was watching on NBC, and they sure made a show over the Hudson!

In the meantime, on Saturday I saw Mets play the Nationals in Washington DC. That was my first baseball game so I guess I'm officially an American now. Here's the recap: Nationals are down 5-2 at the seventh inning stretch, I leave around the eighth inning to beat the crowds to the DC Metro, the Nationals miss a home run by inches, and beat the Mets 5-6 while I'm in a metal tube under the Potomac River. Missed a good game, just my luck.

I should stop writing long posts full of pointless stuff. Sorry you just spent about three minutes reading all that when you could have been eating a sandwich... or something else important!

Bye.

[SimFox 802]

Well I'm not that evil... In fact I'm full of LUV!

Look how I love Karl:

His chum buddy Fritz:

and am generally good natured, fun loving person:

[Jumpthefence 74]

Ah, you say you're not evil, but that applies only to animate objects!

According to this forum manuscript, millions of pixels have been harmed as a result of your actions!

And according to this brightly colored text under your alias, you have also harmed millions of teapots! What do you have to say for yourself!?

Detective Drew has finished his analysis. He's now going to watch some baseball. Because he's non-evil and funloving!

And this time, he won't leave just so he can cram into a DC Metro train!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Jumpthefence-Looks good, that seem to be the only thing I can say.

[PBGV103 729]

Wow looks like this team is really starting to make some progress again! everything is looking great! as you all know I've been focusing on midtown , but unfortunately theres 75+ significant buildings in midtown, still waiting to be BATed, not to mention the hundreds left in the rest of manhattan and the other boroughs... so, time to get to work! but first, do you guys want me to keep focusing on Park Avenue, or move to another area of NYC? any suggestions on my next project?

[gio10469 24]

Great work guys! Great BATs are coming out of here. It feels good to see all these BATs of familiar places. Keep it up!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

You can keep working on Park Avenue. I wanted to start making apartments from park Park Avenue, but one I wanted to work on a Bronx Project to make a lot of tenement houses .

[Darknono35 3,138]

Hi everybody !

"One New York Plaza" located on South Street Seaport".

It's the result after five hours of work...

[maikeli.1 12]

SGT PEPPER:hows Lower Manhattan coming?

DARKNONO35:looking good

SERAF:you are the best at making central park props

everyone else sim city 4 new york city is becoming reality

[Sgt Pepper 864]

So.............I decided to draft render 22 Cortlandt to just compare it to one of my buildings....

It's shorter than my 130 Liberty Street. And I'm considering doing a V3 of 130 Liberty Street....I don't really like the glass I did on it and I think I need to redo it's scale. So I'm doing a new version of it soon. Gah I'm such a perfectionist....

So I've added a little bit of stuff on the roof, I'm doing such slow progress....And I'm having a Lighting Rig problem(you can tell on the untextured air unit I added), how can I switch to a larger rig? Still working on the roof textures...

Parisian- The wall texture? I just really used an image editor to get the colors right while looking at some real life photos and resized the texture a bit compared to the real wall.

Drew/JTF-NOOOOO HOW COULD YOU MAKE IT RECTANGULAR!?!?!? RAGE! RAGE! RAVEN RAGE!  Joking... I think it looks fine, but I'd prefer it to have the RL shape but of course, the extreme accuracy doesn't matter to me on anything that much. My 22 Cortlandt isn't the most accurate at all. And how dare you bring twilight in here??? RAGE!!!

Paul- I loved the model that you released. Continue doing Park Avenue if you want!

SimFox- I never knew how LUV-able you could be....I feel sorry for the teapots though. Karl looks like he's having fun!

Darknono35- It's coming along nicely! I think the glass could be darker, but I love how it's coming out so far. Since we seem to be both BATing buildings from Southern Manhattan, we should probably make sure what buildings we are doing. Here, I have a list of BATs I really want to do/doing-

22 Cortlandt Street

85 West Street(V3 ya'll don't know but that one ya'll seen before was actually a V2 of my first released BAT)

130 Liberty Street(V3)

HSBC Bank Tower(that black tower next to One Chase Manhattan Plaza)

101 Barclay

Fitterman Hall(the old one)

160-170 Water Street(I'm confused on the name with this one...)

AT&T Long Lines Building(33 Thomas Street V2)

Jacob K. Jabvits Federal Building(next to 33 Thomas Street)

Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse

And lastly, this blue modern building next to the Woolworth Building...I have noooooo Idea what it's called...here's a google earth image of the 3d model-

(could'nt find a proper real life pic at the moment)

 Speaking of Google Earth I felt like sharing something I found out about it a long time ago but still thinks it's cool-

I changed the date on Google Earth(I'm sure ya'll know how to do it). New York in the 1990's. Amazing...

Here's an even cooler one from the same area in Google Earth-

New York in the late 70's or around the 80's. Battery Park City hasn't even been started yet(though the land was added). You can see the Twin Towers, and their shadows. They used to be so close to the water until they extended the land(thanks to the land excavated for the WTC Complex).

EDIT:maikeli.1- Still working on it.

[maikeli.1 12]

is this what your looking for? SGT PEPPER?

The adress is 250 broadway

[GuerrilaWarfare 39]

Seeing what Sgt Pepper did, I have devised a list exactly like the one in the HKABT that paulvmontfort made.

This is just to organize things for you guys 

Line Across means it's done

Line under is in the process of being made

Easy :

- Trump World Tower

- One Chase Manhattan Plaza

- One Liberty Plaza

- 7 World Trade Center

- Metropolitan Tower

- General Motors Building

- JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters

- Solow Building

- HSBC Bank Building

- 277 Park Avenue

- 345 Park Avenue

- W.R. Grace Building

- Olympic Tower

- 590 Madison Avenue

- The Orion

- 919 Third Avenue

- Burlington House

- 

Medium :

- New York Times Building

- Carnegie Hall Tower

- 40 Wall Street

- American International Building

- Citigroup Center

- CitySpire Center

- MetLife Building

- Woolwoth Building

- One Worldwide Plaza

- 383 Madison Avenue

- One Penn Plaza

- One Astor Plaza

- 60 Wall Street

- 20 Exchange Place

- 200 West Street

- Time Square Tower

- 55 Water Street

- One Court Square

- 570 Lexington Avenue

- 

Hard :

- Bloomberg Tower

- Time Warner Center

- Condé Nast Building

- Bank Of America Tower 

- Bertelsmann Building

- 500 Fifth Avenue

- Americas Tower

- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower

- 1585 Broadway

-  Trump Palace Condominiums

- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

+ More. Too lazy to list all of them.

[PBGV103 729]

345 Park Avenue has been done... https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=23308