Scipios BAT Thread

[ianpaschal 77]

Welcome to my BAT thread.  I decided to make this because often in chat people ask to see pictures of what I'm working on, so here is a place to preview what I make.

    This first building I'm working on is an airport based on the new Detroit airport.  I'm struggling to decide whether it looks better with nightwindows or actuall lights.  I like the omnis, I think they look more realistic but maybe nightwindows work better.

 

Let me know what you think. Note that all the pictures are a little pixley and small (less detail) because the building is too big to be shown 1:1.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//untitled3.bmp align=baseline>

 

This is without the main wing lit, but the big part is.  I like the way the omnis cast the shadows of the window frames onto the roof.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Night%20Time%20Building%201.bmp align=baseline>

 

This is the latest model,

 

Notice the texture on the roof is a little messed up.  If anyone knows the problem and how to fix it, let me know.

 

Next update will be pictures of the entrance on the other side of the structure.

 

The little thing on the ground is just another shape I was playing around with.

 

-Scipio

[toxicpiano 125]

very good.

[Cjah 15]

Great job so far.That looks so much better then the ingame airport terminal.Will you be giving it the stats when it will be completed?I suggest the capicity should be that of the Detroit Airport one.

Can't wait to see your other works....

[woodlandstrudel 0]

This looks awesome- ill definitely download it wen it's finished!!!

[GingerBlokey 30]

I like this building alot. Keep it up

[ianpaschal 77]

The little shape towards the bottom of some of the pictures is the roof of an elevated walkway I'm playing around with.  It's meant to go in the front of the building, where there is a sort of plaza like outside Schipol.

More pictures of the plaza to come soon.

[NintendoMaster128 30]

You might want to give a little bit of colour to your nitelites there.  I normally make my window nitelites numbered as below

R:  255

G:  255

B:  225

 

This will give it a nice yellow effect for the light.

[ianpaschal 77]

Date: 7/27/2005 3:37:37 PM Author: NintendoMaster128

You might want to give a little bit of colour to your nitelites there.  I normally make my window nitelites numbered as below

R:  255

G:  255

B:  225

This will give it a nice yellow effect for the light.

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I'll think about that, also, I might add some random lights that are from shops and things inside.  Thank you for your input.

 

-Scipio

[hyped_up_boy 15]

cool, looks awesome, cant wait to see the finished product lol

[timo 15]

Nice start!

[ianpaschal 77]

Okay, hello again.  In an attempt to enlarge the preview I deleted most of the model leaving only the front plaza.  Infront of the plaza I will put busses and taxies.  Behind it, is where the actuall building goes, as seen above. Infront of the busses will be a grass hill and the parking garrages, with several large electronic bill-boards.

Let me know what can be put on this plaza to give the right feel, in this respect, very different from the Detroit airport.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Daytime%20Plaza%201.bmp align=baseline>

 

This next picture is from the side of that last shot, and I put in a utility walkway and a power box. The power box doesn't quite look right, and if anyone has any suggestions, please tell me.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Catwalk%20and%20Power%20Box%201.bmp align=baseline>

 

-Scipio

[SpartanBadger 4]

Cool! I'm glad you got inspiration from the McNamara Terminal, it's a great building. I will definitely keep an eye on this!

[Glenni 1,444]

that looks pretty good scippy.

[crazyarchitect 7]

very interesting, good job so far, can't wait to see more

[ianpaschal 77]

7/29/05

Disaster has struck.  All my textures.....ka - plooey!!!!

 

I'm working to get all the textures back to normal, but the it will take a long time as a lot of them I don't remember how many times they were tiled, I'll have to experiment.

 

In the meantime, I've begun to work on the SC3000 building, Fortune Cookie Corps.  I'll post some pictures asap.

 

-Scipio

[jt_144_2004 0]

wow.......fantastic that brick texture looks great! The only thing I see wrong is the railing, its too bright .

[MayorTim 16]

Great job so far!

[ianpaschal 77]

7/31/05

I've started to work on some other stuff.  I had heard all of a sudden lots of people wanted the SC3K buildings back, which was funny because I was thinking the same thing.

 

So I've started to remake my favourite SC3K building, Fortune Cookie Corp.  Tell me what you think.

http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/5729/gmaxfortunecookiecorp11es.png align=baseline>

 

 I apologize for the overly large picture.

This is the original building in SC3K.

 https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//fortune%20cookie%20corp%20sc3k.BMP align=baseline>

 

Also, please give me suggestions of other SC3K buildings to do.

 

-Scipio

[Buffalonian1 0]

Interesting, I'm not familiar much with earlier versions of Sim city (except classic lol) but I would like to see how that airport turns out. Good job

[Glenni 1,444]

good idea scip!!that is oine of my favourite sc3k buildings too!!!!

[Chris M 406]

You already are one great BATer, that is some very nice work!

[DuskTrooper 314]

All of this stuff is looking pretty good so far, although, I'd turn the lights down a bit on the airport. As for the glass on the tower, I'd go with something like this:



Anyway, keep up the great work!

[ianpaschal 77]

Thanks DT, but think about this.....

If you're looking at the building from the top, the street and other buidings would be reflected in the glass, not the sky.  You think of sky because when you see a building, usually it't from the bottom, unlike simcity.

 

But thanks anyways!  I'll try it out and see how it looks.

 

-Scipio

[Glenni 1,444]

yeah dt has often done that mistake on his buildings.

[DuskTrooper 314]

Actually, I try to avoid building reflections in glass, since it does not match up with the street scene below. Instead, I use a graded cloud texture, and I utilize it in a way that the entire structure looks graded, rather than clouded, with a hint of clouds at the top. This looks more realistic, and lends to a more swirled mysterious relective property in the glass, rather than a what you see is not what you get look.

And Glenni, Do NOT get me started....

[bosnianman 0]

That looks great, do you have any other projects that are from Michigan.

[Glenni 1,444]

Date: 8/1/2005 4:55:05 PM Author: DuskTrooper Actually, I try to avoid building reflections in glass, since it does not match up with the street scene below.  Instead, I use a graded cloud texture, and I utilize it in a way that the entire structure looks graded, rather than clouded, with a hint of clouds at the top.  This looks more realistic, and lends to a more 'swirled mysterious' relective property in the glass, rather than a 'what you see is not what you get' look. And Glenni, Do NOT get me started....

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you recomebd me doin that on my Oslo plaza to?

[xiziz 11]

Thats a beautiful Terminal, as for the lights, stick to Omni, they make the effect far more nicer ^^
Cant wait to se more

Cheers
//Sim

[MC6Ash 4]

OOH! cool airport dude, and that tower looks a lot like the SC3k one already. keep up the good work scipio. *cough* join SimMars.

[cheese91 9]

Looking really nice, Scip