Arabian architecture bating team

[AlexandrosB13 184]

Looks enough better i think! The only thing you just need to show us is the previe renders zoom 5! It looks like height and the whole scaling of it is a bit off, whats the dimensions of it? It is importand to tell us before you upload because if it is off it will look really odd in the game. It shouldnt be much bigger than 16x16m and how many m. each floor is? Answer so you can help out.

[AlexandrosB13 184]

This is a really step by step tutorial so you can understand how to make tv antennas. The roof still looks a bit empty so you should add some, oh and the plate you ve got there i think is too big, so make it smaller. I use max but its the same for gmax.

Step 1: Create a box like this and convert to an editable poly.

Step 2: Click on the edge selection.

Step 3: Click to one of the height edges and then click Ring to get somethink like that (the 2nd picture).

Step 4: Click on the connect settings and make something like that.

Step 5: Once done click on the polygon selection and select one polygon like in the picture.

Step 6: Extrude it and move it a bit down. The same for the other side but now you move up.

Step 7: Select the polygon in the picture and then click on the inset settings. Play with the settings.

Step 8: Extrude, do the same to the other side and creat polygons to the other sticks with exactly the same way. Like shown in the picture.

Step 9: Extrude. There you go, your tv antenna. Dont forget to play with the settings. Its not hard, you will just need to be patient and read carefully the tutorial. Hope that helps.

IN ORDER TO SEE THE EDGES PRESS F3 OR F4

  Edited May 26, 2011 by AlexandrosB13  

[CO2 59]

great! i'll do that, and maybe remove the satelite dish

i don't know the real dimentions of the building, and as you see, i didnt make it identical

here's the preview btw

i'll make the windows on the last puicture bigger (i already done that after making the preview)

i wish if the texture was whiter than that

[AlexandrosB13 184]

In order to see whats the height of the building you can just count the 1x1 m grids from ground to top, or creat o box from the bottom of the building till the roof, like here:

About the solar ponals, just a small notice, you may want to add some sticks or something so again it doesnt look there is no gravity there. Like here:

I dont want to comment enough on texturing cause i am not the best at it, get advice from others that know better.

In general i can say that you have improved enough since the uploads on stex.

[CO2 59]

btw, my gmax don't have the options that you showed me, but i managed to make an antenna, looks just like that one, and i added the sticks under the solar panels, and i maked the satellite dish smaller (i really like that satellite dish)and also the solar panels little smaller too, maked the windows little bigger in that last picture, and added another one in the ground floor

and as for the hight of the building, it's 36.305, may look big, but i think it's suiteball, i think

btw, how much is the height of the simcity 4 building's floor?

[CO2 59]

(btw, i'm exporting it to see how it looks on a lot, and if it's seize is suitebal for simcity4)

[AlexandrosB13 184]

Oh, maybe yes. I have such a long time to use gmax and i dont remember all the options of it, i thought that editable poly options would be there at least.. anyway, since you found one its ok.

30m? sounds much i think. I want to see how it will look in the game to be sure.. since you say you exported it.

I am not sure about the height of maxis' buildings, and i am not sure if there is one, since you can see that many maxis buildings have different scale between them, so its hard to tell.

[CO2 59]

look what did i get after exporting it

(i refited the LOD and reseted the cams and lights and maked the hall building into one gorup before i export it)

anyway, at a smaller zoom, it looks ok, and the size is ok too, look at the tree on the side of the building

  Edited May 27, 2011 by CO2  

[CO2 59]

wait, i think i fixed it

[spa 970]

When things get messed up like that, merge everything into a new scene and save it as a new file. Then, before you render, make sure your plugins folders is empty. Most the advice about this issue always focuses on merging into a new scene. I have found that emptying the plugins folder before rendering is the real fix.

[CO2 59]

When things get messed up like that, merge everything into a new scene and save it as a new file. Then, before you render, make sure your plugins folders is empty. Most the advice about this issue always focuses on merging into a new scene. I have found that emptying the plugins folder before rendering is the real fix.

yeah i did that, and it worked, and i uploaded it too

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/26276-tunisian-traditional-appartement/

but i'm going to update it to another smaller version

[elavery 1,013]

I think the scaling makes this BAT look weird in-game. Also, with middle eastern BATs I wonder if it is useful to make them W2W as many middle eastern cities have densely packed areas where all of the buildings are wall-to-wall.

[CO2 59]

I think the scaling makes this BAT look weird in-game. Also, with middle eastern BATs I wonder if it is useful to make them W2W as many middle eastern cities have densely packed areas where all of the buildings are wall-to-wall.

I will update th bat, and it will be smaller, and wall to wall if you want to use it like that as you said, well, and nothing wrong with non wall to wall

(and btw, it's not middle eastern, middle east ends on egypte borders, then comes arab maghreb, or the arab west )

[CO2 59]

i'm trying to export the new version, but it always had the same error, when i export it and put it on the lot, i see it, corrupted or polluted, looks very weird and bad

anyway, when i open the model file, this is what i get, i used to ignore it and click continue and etc... but since there was no other problem, i would assume this is the problem

what is it? i don't even have a texture with that name

[harishna 847]

well this means that an object in the scene has a material applied that is linked to that texture so you need to either change the texture or update the path linking to the texture. The easiest thing will be to find the texture in your computer and then when the message appear in gmax click browse and direct it to folder with the texture. You say you don't have a texture with that name did you merged a file into the scene?

[CO2 59]

well this means that an object in the scene has a material applied that is linked to that texture so you need to either change the texture or update the path linking to the texture. The easiest thing will be to find the texture in your computer and then when the message appear in gmax click browse and direct it to folder with the texture. You say you don't have a texture with that name did you merged a file into the scene?

i murged the satelite dish, but that had no problem at the first original export

anyway, i merged the hall model into a new scene, refited the lods and the cameras and lights and etc... but the problem is that texture error

i didnt find that texture, so i will texture the model again ,and i hope it works, but the problem is, it was once exported right, this same model

[CO2 59]

and you can find the file here https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/26290-tn-old-appartement/

[CO2 59]