Sgt Pepper's BATs

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Look great. Why this is not in your NYBT thread, you do not like NYBT any more, I feel like I'm the only one truly keep NYBT alive?? And will you use the NYBT queries, I also help but them together with Gwail at the time when I wanted more queries for NYBT instead of just commercial.

I wanted NYBT to be a team of BATing legends like the BSP, BSC, NDEX, NAM but that's modders, VIP Team, HKABT. NYBT batting heros are Sim Fox, Seraf, Sgt Pepper, Anton, SimHoTToDDy, and including myself, yeah i'm sure I am a batting hero like a bunch of Batters I can name and can not name.

  Edited October 13, 2012 by Aaron Graham  

[Sgt Pepper 864]

T Wrecks- I see. You're definitely well experienced with this and well versed in this information. So Maxis basically just made up stats at random with all of their buildings? Seems like it would be just trial and error really for us at this rate. But, SC4 Tool allows you to check the stats of Maxis Buildings? That would be very useful. I should definitely look into downloading it. It's on the STEX right? Or just the LEX probably?

Aaron- Oh, I haven't actually BATed other buildings for NYBT for a while besides 22 Cortlandt Street(but the model got bugged ...) and recently One Chase Manhattan Plaza that would be released soon with the Querry. The reason that this isn't in my thread is simply because it's not an actual recreation of a building from New York, simply inspired by one... I know I suggested that we can BAT New York themed buildings for NYBT...but I wasn't sure we came to a consensus about that. However, if we would really like to do that, then totally, this would be in my NYBT Thread. You know I am still BATing for NYBT right? I made One Chase Manhattan Plaza and it's almost ready to be uploaded(all I got to do is finish that fountain...) I'm definitely still with NYBT Aaron, the Team is alive, we're just real slow with our progress. And of course you are a BATing legend yourself! Don't guess it, know it. But like I said, if we are on a general agreement that NYBT can also do NY-themed fantasy buildings along with recreations then this would be moved into my NYBT Thread. Did we agree already or did I miss something or not pay close attention?

As I believe I have my stats corrected on this building, do you all believe that this building would be ready for the STEX soon based on the images in the now previous page?

  Edited October 13, 2012 by Sgt Pepper  

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Oh I decided to finish this last night to help subside the amount of projects I have.

Marine Realty and Liassez-Faire Investments V2. I think I'm just going to leave it as is. I like it.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Wow! I browsed the STEX a few days ago to look for some older BATs of yours, so I remember what the first version looked like. Although you didn't make any radical changes, this new one looks so much better!

The only thing I wouldn't leave the way it is now is the window map. It's great in itself, but it repeats (tiles) very obviously.

[Gn_leugim 853]

yep, three times to be exact ^^ try to make it mirror in the material navigator so it looks like a gradient and dont have that sudden change on light to dark windows

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it. I fixed the tiling, using that mirror option on the material editor that Gn_Leugim mentioned(I can't believe I forgot about it!)

Here's the result.

Better? The lot is 3x4 by the way. I lotted it myself actually. So I hope T Wrecks will be proud.

You'll notice a curved subway station behind the building itself. That's not part of the lot. That's a separate subway lot. The city block I placed it in is like 3x6(was much bigger until the street there separated the rest of the block). So i filled in those extra spaces with plazas I made and a subway station to help commute, in case people someone thought that subway station was part of the lot.

Well with that I believe it's ready for the STEX then?

[Gn_leugim 853]

you can still see if that it tiles but IMO, it blends much better maybe I see it tiles only because I know the original issue

[Sgt Pepper 864]

I didn't even notice the faint tiling so good eye. xD It does blend better but I don't want to increase the size of the texture. If I do it looks very very weird. :| So I hope this would suffice better than the previous one.

  Edited October 15, 2012 by Sgt Pepper  

[Hamish 1,369]

Building looks great!

The tiling of the reflections isn't something I'd worry about too much, if I wasn't looking for it, I wouldn't have noticed it. It's a lot less obvious than it was, to me it looks fine.

Great building by the way, the lot looks good too

[ComeTogetherOverMe 4]

So are you going to make a plaza version of the Twin Towers with the 2 level base?

EDIT: Well, it's been 10 days and you're STILL not even replying! Are you busy?

  Edited October 28, 2012 by Geometry345  

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Gn_leugim- Ha knowing those issues before can keep one with a more precise or keen eye on anything it seems.

Hamish- I know this is quite late in reply but thank you so much! I really appreciate such comments.

Geometry- Patience is a virtue. I'm not sure about a "plaza" version of the Twin Towers just yet. I wouldn't get my hopes up too much on something like that soon. Maybe in the future perhaps but I wouldn't count on it. I think I'm going to confine myself mainly to the buildings before considering that.

Well I haven't done much to the model of 4 WTC but I changed the roof texture-

I didn't really edit anything except maybe the size of this texture and slightly alter it's color but I do like the result and I think it closely matches the real life roof with a hint of difference.

I know that this isn't an accurate replica of 4 WTC but it is close enough right? My Twin Towers weren't exact replicas either by the way(you'd notice that the lattice or top of the towers is slightly different than what it was in real life, partly a misjudgement on my part that I just went with it actually).

I was wondering if I should make the base window frames black like the mullions and facade...

Any thoughts and what not?

[Gn_leugim 853]

well, my thought are on that roof texture, and how it will develop a bit more

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yeah, first of all there's some visible tiling going on there, and secondly the size of the slabs doesn't correspond in any way to the building dimensions. The latter is particularly noticeable on the penthouse roof, where there's a small strip towards the left side. TBH, I'd probably stick to a grainy grey texture without any strong linear features on it, just subtle stains and variations. I think this building really calls for a nofunk roof - a bit like this, maybe even without those seams:

[Sgt Pepper 864]

I see, quite difficult to make something close to that though. But I wonder...

I do have GIMP but I'm not very well versed with using it. I've only used the Dodge Burn Tool before on it and nothing else really. I also have the Maxis Asphalt roof texture I could try to edit(on nofunk's BAT there it looks like that's what he used just edited fantastically). But like I said I'm quite clueless on image editing other than editing some simple things like sliding a bar for contrast, saturation, and colors.

The only problem now I'm noticing with the Maxis asphalt texture I want to use here is that it's got these very noticeable seams that I don't really know how to get rid off...other than opening it up in paint and drawing a grey line where the black seams would be...

[Gn_leugim 853]

hmmm.. I had in mind to go on tile roofing first on my textures topics, but I may go for these instead, so I can, maybe, help you out

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks great buddy. Getting rid of the lines on the roof is no to hard you can also try copying a section of the roof texture and pasting it over the lines on the roof.

[ComeTogetherOverMe 4]

Hello, how's the WTC project?