Kakado's BATs

[libellibicus 396]

Cool buildings. Very UK Council Estate-ish.

[kakado_to_save 514]

houses from 1930-1950

the European architecture leftovers in Israel

 

I will make more houses and more different variations

and I just noticed i didn't add a door to the balcony in one of the buildings

 

improvements ? 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Good to see you're still around!

 

I think the houses look great so far, but IMO they look like 90% finished because they lack some details. Aren't there any TV aerials, roof gutters, or chimneys? Besides, most windows look like black holes, which emphasises a somehow empty look. I guess better window textures with some variation could make for a considerable improvement.

 

What I particularly like is the subtle variations on both roof and wall textures, you have become really good at texturing.

[kakado_to_save 514]

about the chimneys - chimneys in Israel are useless 

 

TV aerials - i'd add for some variations, and satellite dishes 

maybe solar panels that are popular.

as for variations : 

 

the 3 left are real variations (the 2nd left is the base one) and the right one is just a really poor thing i made up .. 

 

 

and you can pretty much see that there are no gutters here .. 

http://goo.gl/maps/CQF3Z

 

http://goo.gl/maps/R5i9p

 

but if so .. 

will one of these work? 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

OK, no gutters indeed. However, I do see some metal flashing at the edges of many roofs, especially at the gable wall (this obviously does not apply to the house shown in your last post because it doesn't have a gable wall). Those solar modules with water tanks seem to be very popular, though, and (probably more useful then a chimney) A/C units are also to be seen here and there. You know best what's typical for your area, but in any case I would advise to add as much of these little details as you can - they are what makes a small building without striking features interesting to look at, and you get that 'lived in' appearance that contributes so much to their overall impression.

[kakado_to_save 514]

somethings like these? 

i added a solar panel and A/C to the more renovated house, and some balcony junk to one of the houses,

and I also changed one of the houses' texture as well as added a TV aerial 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yes, that's great! That's the general direction I meant - just some little bits here and there to give the eye something to discover.

[kakado_to_save 514]

I want to make a 2 building pack so i took the 3rd small brown house from the first house post and re-did it..

but the yellow texture ... is greenish and .. doesn't fit 

I'm still working on it, and I promised my self i wont start skipping projects again and again

but as for the square building, is it ready? 

[libellibicus 396]

What about some drainpipes coming down from the guttering?  I think that there would also be some water staining to the paintwork underneath the AC unit, but that's just splitting hairs TBH.  Overall the modelling is very good.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Do you have a gradient on those roof textures? If not, then this would be a good step. It doesn't have to be a strong one, only a very subtle gradient. Otherwise, I think these are ready.

[IL. 1,043]

What a wonderful Palastinian house pack. 

[kakado_to_save 514]

I re-exported the same BAT 30 times

why ?! whyyy

[edwardjeria 503]

that good to hear from you again

may be fixed if it is well placed in the plane or something I miss

[mntoes 271]

1) Have you applied the "texture fix"

2) Re-fit the lods and export again.

3) Select all, save and merge into a new blank scene.

 

Hopefully one of the above should work, More advice is in the Bat trouble shooting thread.

 

Regards

 

Mntoes

[zahrul3 472]

You can also do this:

 

1. select the entire building(without the LOD)

2. save selected

3. save as a different file

4. go to that different file

5. save as old file(thus overwriting it)

6. re-create LOD

7. export

 

 

Works really great, it happened so often to me in the past and this method pretty much works

[spa 970]

One other thing to try. Make sure you're exporting with an empty plugins folder. For some reason, having files in the plugins can screw with the rendering process.

[kakado_to_save 514]

omg. I think i will cry from happiness.

one down, a few more to go

[T Wrecks 10,210]

So your export problems are solved? That's great news! Oh, and welcome back - I feared we had lost you, and that when you had just reached such a high skill level! Good to see that you're back. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the other exports will go smoothly.

[mayorgreener 37]

awesome

I'm luvin it.

[AndisArt 2,068]

That's good news, I'm happy with you

Those houses are cute!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

It's looking good

[mntoes 271]

For one moment I though this was another "revived" thread.  Glad you got you problem sorted. Welcome back, looking forward to more great work from you.

[__A 792]

Eytan's alive again! Great stuff!

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Looking very cute !!! We need more little houses ! 

[kakado_to_save 514]

So I decided on 5 buildings I will export

If there are things that i need to change (and I know there are) tell me now

I Added the city where they were taken from and the approx years

 

For some reason the 2 from Ashdod and Gan Yavne look the same ... how can I change that ?

 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

In my opinion the houses are nice 

[__A 792]

They all look wonderful!