EBLT - European House Add-On (EHA) Thread

[Gn_leugim 858]

you can already

[SimCoug 5,976]

Great upload - I can tell you spent a lot of time getting these perfect, and that is what they are. Thanks so much for sharing.

[Gn_leugim 858]

thank you

well, before I go to bed I want to leave you my latest work, the R$28x24

tell me your thoughts

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Want.

[art128 4,622]

Want.

This!

[Gn_leugim 858]

well, then export modd and test

thank you

[T Wrecks 10,210]

OMG, it's almost frightening how much your BATs resemble Maxis buildings. These days the first thought that comes to mind when looking at your screenshots is "hey, why does he show us that Maxis building?". o_O

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks just like a maxis building. Great work!!!

[Susaji 523]

Nice House!

[Gn_leugim 858]

well thank you all. I have to tell you, I have a dimensional gate that I use to go into the past and steal maxis unreleased BAT's ;P

Or maybe I just studied the ones we have a lot

[Delecto 941]

Look great... nice job!

[Sgt Pepper 864]

You can study them very well it seems. Absolute perfection!

If you really need them to be tested...I could test them out. I could export it too...but modding...erm

Art, thanks for finishing my baffled sentence!

  Edited September 24, 2012 by Sgt Pepper  

[Gn_leugim 858]

thnk you

let me modd them and then we'll see the testing ^^

[mntoes 271]

Perfection!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

You can study them very well it seems.

Nah, I'll still go for the dimensional gate theory. Or some Inception-like method where he sneaks into the dreams of Maxis artists and steals their concepts, or maybe some mind-reader device? Time to wear tin foil hats around here...

*leaves to google folding directions and look for tin foil*

[Gn_leugim 858]

Mntoes: thank you

T wrecks: Sorry, but my mind controlled minions can easily tear apart tin foil.. ahahahahahhahah XD

ok, back to the BAT

IT's ALIVE!!!

But like Frankenstein, it has something wrong. that's the second render I do, and while it is rendereing I can see no issues, but on game, see those dark spots pointed out by the arrows? well, they are not consistent. if I rotate the camera, that place will be good and other (usualy the right side of the building at the moment we are facing it) will have this spots of currupted texture.

anyone has any idea what is it? and how to fix it? thanks

  Edited September 26, 2012 by Gn_leugim  

[harishna 847]

I remember seeing this before in the forum, and I think it was a simple issue with the video card, and not a real problem with the model...

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yes, there was a long discussion about it in mntoes' BAT thread, you may want to read that. What I don't remember off the top of my head is whether there was any halfways satisfactory conclusion or not. AFAIR, the problem only occurs with nVidia gfx cards.

[Gn_leugim 858]

So, I see it this way, but you wont?

[mntoes 271]

That's about it.

I suffered from this for a long time and it stopped me batting for ages. I now bat a little, but I view my models and take screen shots on an old computer with a different graphics card and they look ok. (not sure if it was just Nvidea cards with the problem though)

The discussion T Wrecks mentioned was in this thread. It starts at the verry bottom of page 15.

Madhatter's thread.

Hope that helps :-)

Edit.I'm sorry but due to this fault I'm now going to have to downgrade my inital comment from "Perfection" to "near perfection"...Lol

  Edited September 27, 2012 by mntoes  

[Gn_leugim 858]

That's about it.

I suffered from this for a long time and it stopped me batting for ages. I now bat a little, but I view my models and take screen shots on an old computer with a different graphics card and they look ok. (not sure if it was just Nvidea cards with the problem though)

The discussion T Wrecks mentioned was in this thread. It starts at the verry bottom of page 15.

Madhatter's thread.

Hope that helps :-)

thank you, I'll take a look

Edit.I'm sorry but due to this fault I'm now going to have to downgrade my inital comment from "Perfection" to "near perfection"...Lol

awwww... =( XD

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Ah, yes - it was madhatter's thread. Sorry I got that wrong, and thanks for stepping in, mntoes!

[Gn_leugim 858]

So, after reading a lot, taking many advices and trying them all, I can assume it is a graphic board issue. unfortunately, out of 4 computers tested, only one had the model correctly shown up, not a good statistic eheh =\

So, I went after what Mntoes did, changing the textures and figure out which pixels are troublesome. First texture to test was the roof texture, which had his hue/color changed. and the issue is almost gone, and is barely noticeable.

so, what you think? I will make other variation in textures, let's hope it will not show this too.

And once again, thank you everyone! who helped out

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I don't like the new roof texture.

I love it!

[Jasoncw 11,948]

They really do look just like the Maxis R$.

[art128 4,622]

I like this oen much more than the previous.

[mattb325 28,890]

The new roof texture is excellent!

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Oh I love it! I liked the previous roof just as much but still that's fantastic! Great job! So Maxis-like.

[Gn_leugim 858]

T Wrecks: but please don't propose to it, she is committed

Jasoncw: That's the point thanks

art128: they will be all available

mattb325: Thank you

Sgt Pepper: Like I said before, all versions will be available

So, based on the experience of Mntoes, I made new textures, namely the walls and roof:

maybe too radical change no? ^^ and this would make version number three ^^

anyway, as you can see, the issue remains, so it has to be from other textures. I'll be exploring that

[mntoes 271]

I think version 2 is just great ! . As for the problem I think that we will have to live with it. I never did get to finding a definative answer. At one time I came to the conclusion that it was a combination of textures and not just one individual texture on it's own. If I'm honest though I gave up with the experimenting due to frustration. It was strange though how on my model the removal of a single window frame resolved the problem without a change of any textures?

Keep trying, but it doesn't spoil what are some fantastic Bats. If you ever do get nearer to an answer let me know.

Regards

Mntoes

Edit. too radical a change?..... Not at all. Although i'm not buying one of those Orange cars...

  Edited September 28, 2012 by mntoes