Kellydale2003's BAT Mine

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

That's no fair, I finish projects!!!

Occasionally...

Well at least I have a condition named after me!

[Simcity player 13]

New Projects dont please the crowd, but completed or near completed are.

and is some kind of rule with cranes and skyscrapers. if its under 300m(984ft) it is a 90* crane. if its over 300m its can be 60* and sometines 90*. but its up to you.

[Vlasky 1,803]

Many great BATs, not one near competition. You're a tease! You break all the deadlines.

[Simcity player 13]

okay every body don't get hard on the guy. he's probably showing us some of the things he's practicing. think being a Batter who retired for a while is easy to pick up where you left off

[Cockatoo 2,256]

Originally posted by: Simcity player

New Projects dont please the crowd, but completed or near completed are.

and is some kind of rule with cranes and skyscrapers. if its under 300m(984ft) it is a 90* crane. if its over 300m its can be 60* and sometines 90*. but its up to you...

...okay every body don't get hard on the guy. he's probably showing us some of the things he's practicing. think being a Batter who retired for a while is easy to pick up where you left off quote>

Uh, you lost me at new projects don't please the crowd.

[Simcity player 13]

i meant that new projects coming after like several bats in progress that aren't close to completion

[kellydale2003 2,276]

@SimFox - Yep Yep fer sure! I'm still determining which floors will be finished, half finished, and just getting starting. So I'll texture it nice and pretty when I know which is which

@simcity4fan12 - Lmao! That made me laugh. But yeah, just read up there! ^^^

@Cockatoo-210893 - I'm afraid that's a misdiagnosis my friend. It's kind of like "I'm too busy but get bored easy  - yet still finish my products" syndrome. I just like to work on multiple projects so I don't get bored. And yeah, the SWFC probably wont be released till next year. I just wanted to get a sense of scale. I'm BATting a lot of huge undercover projects that will melt the stex server with yummy-ness. Just needed a sense of scale...thats all.

@DragonAnime - Since when do I sweep stuff under the rug!? Yeah, most of my stuff that I showed photos of (in the old days) were basically finished. Some weren't rendered because I just didnt bother, and I finish most of my projects. The ones I dont finish are either un-needed, low demand, or they're ugly. So yeah, dont be disappointed.

@SimHoTToDDy - Is Simhottoddy Syndrome contagious?

@Simcity player - That's really useful! Thank You

@Vlasky - I make deadlines, but they're very vague; but I do get my stuff done

UPDATE:

Since everyone has such great faith in me, I decided to drop my crayons and get straight to work!

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for making 1,000+ views....I've waited my whole life for this moment... :')

So yeah, I was going to have the Richardson Building done by Saturday night....but I was called in to work weekends this week. So maybe a day or two later than expected. I'm currently working on the rainbow lighting at the base, the nite-liting on the roof. And maybe a little more detail on the roof. <

But yeah, feedback would be appreciatted. enjoy.

^^^Zoom 4.

[simcity4fan12 13]

That building looks awsome! But did you texture the grey metal things(the air units and the other stuff) on the roof? They look more like a grey color than a material or texture, try changing it. I know it's just a minor thing, but I garuntee it will look better right there.

[io_bg 249]

Looks fantastic, great work!

[art128 4,618]

Nice work, the lights are awesome. Maybe if you put the red one a bit lighter it would looks good, no ?

[CarmineHilton 6]

Loving those red lights! =)

x

[Delecto 941]

Look's good and the night-lighting start good too.

Simhottoddy syndrome is really contagious, but from time to time he impress you with its superb achievement so it's not a dangerous disease.

DEL!

[Evillions 552]

How do I apply "window textures" in gmax without it looking solid instead transparent? Anyways, nice buildings you have there! But just one little change, can you add a 2 floor lobby on the bottom like a large one? Like some type of hotel version?

[Kryptowhite 9]

Nice touch on the red lights for the base. Can't wait to get my hands on this one.

[Chris M 406]

haha, I hope I didn't offend you! I meant you nicely sweep things under the rug. ;-) Anyway, I agree with what everyone else has said - the red lights at the base stand out and look great. Normally, you don't see such neat touches on a boxy building. Cities usually save those for the art deco and gothic structures! Looking forward to having the Richardson in my cities.

[Simcity player 13]

great lights, just some more final features and your ready for export

[jantolini 0]

how can i get skyscrapers in Julian and Twilight?

[crazyarchitect 7]

Such great talent, I love the Main Place inspiration (of course I would I'm from Houston lol), Richardson Tower looks awesome with the red base lighting too

[Cockatoo 2,256]

This is looking really nice, well done.

If it were me, I'd try to make the night-lighting texture a little more varied, but otherwise it's looking great.

I agree with the others that the red lighting is a nice really touch.

Originally posted by: jantolini

how can i get skyscrapers in Julian and Twilight?quote>

Oh, that’s no problem, at all, you can get them here.

[CarmineHilton 6]

No updates in a while, busy I assume?

I was wondering, what do you think about requests? (small ones that are totally sexy, LOL)

x

[kellydale2003 2,276]

So hey everyone, I've been away for awhile now. It wasn't on purpose... well kind of. But yeah, I'm back. Started and finished some new projects. But just to keep you up to date on what is Currently in Progress, I will show you what I've been working on for the last 2 days. My computer must've gotten a virus or something, It's running awfully slow. So BATting will be slow for a bit.

I can't even render a BAT because of how slow it's gotten; but here's what I've been working on in the meanwhile.

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Manitoba Hydro HQ (360 Portage Ave)

I recently took a tour in this building and it's amazing! Very huge, it's only 22 floors. 2 plaza, 18 office, and 2 mechanical floors. It's very energy efficient. And that big slab of concrete at the North side is the Solar Chimney. If anyone asks I will explain .

Here's some photos.

^^Render to show staircase inside.

^^^Actual Staircase in building.

^^^Zoom 4 (West) **Resized                                                          ^^^Zoom 4 (South) **Resized

^^^SW photo by 1ajs.

^^^No floorplans were given out publicly, but the tour guide "Roy" gave me special permission for the 3D model. I'm supposed to build the model for him and give it to him. Thanks Roy! 

**But yeah, this is what I'll post for now. I think I've lost a large audience being away for awhile. But hey, when more come back, I'll update more.

Also did anyone else see Nyc06's WTC4 tower? Click Here to see it. It's part of the "secret" project we've been working on. Maybe I'll show my strips soon too He just wanted to finish it in gmax, than we're supposed to switch it over to 3ds max for the reflections. But hey, it's a work in progress. Deadline for whole project is in July 2010.

Gracias!!, Kelly.

[ThomasSimpson 466]

Glad to see that you're back Kelly, sorry to hear about your computer. Hopefully you can get it working at normal speed again soon!

That building looks amazing - just the kind of thing I need in my cities!

[Larks2242 251]

Wow thats a cool skyscraper, and the BAT looks just like it keep up the good work

Larks

[CarmineHilton 6]

Modern buildings of this size is EXACTLY what SC4 needs, fabulous that you're making one

Hope you'll do more of these in the future? Maybe Brussels can be a form of inspiration?

Tour Dexia, Tour des Finances, Tour Z

[Cockatoo 2,256]

Those reflections are great, very nice use of bump maps. (?)

I know I said it a few months back, but you're so damn good at this now, why you haven't released any of this stuff is beyond me. Do you need help exporting? We're all using LtbL now, other BATers can easily export stuff for you if your computer can't handle it.

[crazyarchitect 7]

Wow, talk about awesomeness, definitely a building I could use in my city

[SimFox 802]

given that glassed out atrium what could really spice things up here is caustics. They would enable light reflections from within the structure giving atriums volume

[ac94 5]

Great Success!!

"Most impressive." - Darth Vader

Andrew

[simcity4fan12 13]

Amazing! Good to see you back.

[kellydale2003 2,276]

Whoo hoo!! I get a week off work. Got a promotion and raise, and got nominated for this months employee of the month. So yeah, Exams start as soon as I have a week off of work. Sucks eh?

Well anyways - Did a bit of work on every building. Not worthy of any updates. If I do a mullion or two - its not that great

In the meantime - here's some updates and replies! 

@Thomaskrules - haha - It's a little Smaller than what it looks like (Thats what she said).

@Larks2242 - Thanks larks! 

@CarmineHilton - Yes fer sure - I will make more like these. I actually like making these size skyscrapers. The tour dexia has a bit of my attention. Got anymore?

@Cockatoo-210893 - I believe I got it now, I have a 2nd laptop and tried it there. Works better than the other. but yeah. My days are too busy to export, because I sleep early and let my little brother on the comp. So basically 24/7 this comp is in use; but lately I've been having the right of way. And Im cleaning my computer - I freed 34GB!!! 

@crazyarchitect - Thanks so much! 

@SimFox - Only If I knew how....I still only have ray traced shadows because I dont know how to use shadow maps. But if your really wanting caustics on these I'm ready to learn.

@ac94 - "Very nice".

@simcity4fan12 - Thank you, and great job on your releases

UPDATE:

Richardson Building

Richardson is done - now only to make it a functional landmark. I was making it and putting it into a zip file...."oh hey, did I make a ploppable version?....oh wait - I dont know how!".

Anyone interested in making this a functional landmark? This is a bit of an older photo, I updated the lot and to save my memory I turned off shadows when I took this screenie.

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Manitoba Hydro Place (360 Portage Ave)

^^^This is a photoshopped image to show the size of the building.

I need to work on the base - I know a lot of you asked about a diagonal lot in chat, but I want to make the real scale building. The real building has a nice modern base with roof top gardens.

 

I didnt know what the roof looked like so I made it up.

Im quite proud of myself on the solar panels - I made them myself and properly did the math to fit everything perfectly in place.

^^^This is the solar panel texture. All I did was photoshop it - Tile it using the material editor in 3ds - Added some reflection. And than added Mr. Sky to the magic.

So this building is coming along very neatly and quickly. The only thing I'm waiting on is finding my camera to take photos of the base of the tower so I could model it accuratley.

Hope that I find it soon!