nybt-forum-threads Vlasky's Hell's Kitchen

[Roger51 381]

Thank you for putting this beauty on the STEX for all us to enjoy

[SimCoug 5,976]

Great work Vlasky!  

[Amsterdam1979 56]

It sits already proud in my city! Thank you!

[kellydale2003 2,276]

Very nice upload Vlasky!

AND OMG, can't wait to see more progress on the Empire State Building!

[cmdp123789 710]

Hi! Im finally back... sorry for missing the release of that beauty... =( But, I dowloaded it already.. GOOD GOD its amazing...!! CONGRATS ON THAT ONE!! About ESB... thats so wanted to be honest... so needed... please dont lose that one.. it would make a perfect Christmas present 

[edwardjeria 503]

not want to bother you but be ready when the Daily News and batery park barriers

[jwsteele 77]

WOW!  Maritime Exchange looks incredible in my city!  Count me in amongst those who would prefer Daily News next over Empire State Building, because I try to avoid buildings in my city that are "obviously" in another real world city, but totally get that I'm likely in the minority.  Your art deco work is impeccable!

[Darknono35 3,138]

Yep Gorgeous, and now we wait the next Bldg

[Vlasky 1,803]

Roger51: You are welcome and thank you.

SimCoug: Thank you

Amsterdam1979: You're welcome, and if you feel like it, you're welcome to share the pics from your city and Maritime in it.

kellydale2003: Thank you, and progress on ESB will be updated soon.

cmdp123789: Glad to see you''re back. Thank you for nice comments and I'm glad you like it. About ESB, I can tell you for sure it won't make it in time the Christmas, because I want to do my very best on it, down to the smallest detail, and that will take some time. That's why I said it will take a while till I finish it, but rest assured it won't be forgotten.

edwardjeria: You are not bothering me, and please feel free to remind me whenever that I really need to finish those. I will not forget them, but a little pressure is always good

jwsteele: Thank you very much for compliments. I share your opinion that building which can be replicated more times throughout city are what makes the base of the city and that their value is bigger than that of a instantly recognizable landmark building, but landmark builldings have their role as well, and we all love them in RL, so we love to see them recreated for the game too. Both Daily News and the ESB will be finished eventually (but Daily News might be finished sooner than ESB wink wink)

Darknono35: thank you and you need to wait no longer as I am presenting to you

 

261 Madison Avenue, former American Machine & Foundry Building 

 

background story: 3 of us on the team agreed that we need to pay a bit more attention to the international style buildings from the City, and that is why I took a quick intermezzo with this one. Plus I always wanted to do a transparent glass building

 

 

zoom 4 images because zoom 5 takes toooo long, but I promise to soon post those as well. 

Any suggestions, comments are welcome because I'm stepping into a turf I'm not very experienced with

[edwardjeria 503]

amazing

I love the windows

great job my friend

[Ceafus 88 1,906]

That looks awesome Vlasky!

[cmdp123789 710]

Wow! Amazing... you keep getting better and better! I really like the fact that the team is working, and delivering. To be honest, This is the kind of building that makes a huge difference, no one really notices it, but in the end, it defines the skyline... really appreciate it buddy!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Great work buddy!!!

[Darknono35 3,138]

It's looks awesome so far buddy. Keep up with your quality

 

I like this International design, and transparent windows it's interesting to do

[shinkansen1 84]

International design is always my favorite, and I absolutely love the look of this building!

[Vlasky 1,803]

edwardjeria: Thank you!

Ceafus88: Thanks

cmdb123789: Thanks and yeah I agree, small profile buildings are what makes the city work or not  

Aaron Graham: Thanks buddy.

Darknono35: Thanks and do you have any piece of advice? Afterall you have experience with glass.

shinkansen1:  Thanks. btw, I digg ur nick

 

So, nobody really noticed that I have mistakenly used same angle of view twice?

 

 

LOL I just noticed my mistake And here's the missing angle:

 

 

ANd I have promised a zoom 5 image, so here it is (with bump maps for glass and ground plane)

 

 

And, again, I'd like experienced glass building BATters to come forward with advice how to improve this model.

[Darknono35 3,138]

Yep I haven't seen your mistake on your precedent post.... oh shame

 

About your windows, I think you need to given more reflective effects, but not too much, we must see through them like you have explain, windows are transparencies .

Try to grow the level of reflection, or add an small bitmap in the diffuse part and down the diffuse level around 0,1 or 0,2

 

This is one picture I use for several reflections , try it buddy

[cmdp123789 710]

WOW! I love it! and the speed you are working at.. wow congrats on this one... I REALLY LOVE IT!

[jwsteele 77]

Love it!  I love how you often work on 20-30 buildings, which are so essential to the game but tend to get lost inbetween smaller buildings and massive skyscrapers.  Looking forward to dropping this in my city!

[Parisian 556]

Vlasky )) I m glad to see the 261 Madison Avenue about to be released by someone. We need more of that building which are part of the Midtown "forrest". 

 

I hope you are doing well between...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks great man. I can't say what to do with the glass, I do not know much on how to fix up the glass beside add noise to the glass and some maps.

[Chris M 406]

261 Madison Avenue is looking fantastic already.  Thank you for doing one of these filler buildings that's so common in Midtown.

 

Also, the Squibb Building is looking amazing.

[SimsPlanet2 7]

Wonderful creations! Keep on doing. 

[Ke|is 3,337]

This is a great style of buildings and all can see a lot of this boxy-buildings in each New York city picture, for that reason these buildings must be present in our game. You are doing a fantastic job my friend !!

[Vlasky 1,803]

Darknono35: Thank you Nono for the suggestions and the map. I use a similar map taken from Google Earth with overlayed screenshot from the game so that the reflections have a more game friendly feel to them. If my current setup cannot work I will do what you suggested. 

cmdp123789: Thank you so much for your nice comment. I'm trying my best

jwsteele: Thank you and I'm really glad to that my efforts are not going unnoticed 

Parisian: Pierre, I completely agree with you thanks for the question, I'm doing OK.

Aaron Graham: Well that might be, but I still appreciate all the support you've been giving me in the meantime

Chris M: Thanks, I'm glad you like them.

SimsPlanet2: Thanks

Kelistmac: Thank you my friend. Only when we look really harder can we see all the "types" of buildings that make up Manhattan.

 

Well I have quietly been working on 261 Madison Ave, and I can't believe trough how many changes I have already been with it and not posted in the meantime So first of all I'm going to show you a full zoom 5 render which is OLD but I'm showing it so that you can see (literally) the bigger picture

 

and than this is also a zoom 5 render but due to long long time it takes to get a full render I have reduced the rendered area, but you can still see the changes I've made. This is the most recent render:

 

 

In the meantime,if you have missed it, I have uploaded Diagonal version of the Maritime Exchange Building:

 

 

 

 

And as you know, it takes a village to accomplish something so with Maritime versions finished I want to thank: Jasoncw for guiding and teaching me trough entire process of making it, Girafe for modding the orthogonal version according to which I modded diagonal, Aaron Graham for helping me with rendering issues and providing support during modding, Amthaak, my dear friend who tried to export diagonal version and PBGV103 for exporting diagonal models. And finally thanks to all you guys who supported me in this thread all your comments encouraged me and motivated me throughout the process.

 

I think speech was in order for my first big building

[edwardjeria 503]

great job
I like the design of the windows
hacio already see the entrance on the first floor and the ceiling fan

come on, you can

[Darknono35 3,138]

Don't worry buddy, we haven't missed your diagonal version, it's already in my plugins folder  

 

Something looks odd with the big picture of the 261 Madson Ave, your glass seems opaque. I prefer the smallest picture of this one, the glass looks better.

Keep up the good work

[edwardjeria 503]

 

I agree with darckono
is way too opaque
Let's hurry us but it is the first vercion
then come the improvements, the way my friend

[MTT9 187]

Wow, huge improvements on the glass!! Been quite a long time since i last visited your thread

[Vlasky 1,803]

Thanks guys!

 

You might have seen my latest work over at the If you haven't already, check there to see what to expect on the STEX soon

 

In the meant time, I have to tease you a bit. If someone guesses what the Next BAT is, they will get a rubber ducky  

 

 

Renders coming soon, and even sooner if you guess what it is!