lL gmax models

[IL. 1,043]

You can find the new palace museum version here:

and here: http://simcity4kingdom.jrhmedia.net/files/file/168-ancient-arabian-palace-museum/

  Edited July 17, 2012 by IL.  

[IL. 1,043]

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27829-tn-house-2/

this is my new house BAT, it is now uploaded

[darn42 1,268]

You said your computer doesn't meet the specs for 3ds max. What kinda computer do you have?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

I need someones help, to make some lots for my residential building.

I used sc4 plug in manager, to put the house model into the residential section, but when I went to the residential lots in lot editor, I didnt find my building.

However, I did use the building as a prop on a park, so the players can use it anytime and anywhere they want.

Sounds like the building was too big for the lot. You will only see buildings that fit on the lot that's currently selected. Make sure that your building is less than 16 metres deep and wide if you want it to fit onto a 1x1 lot.

[Amthaak 1,501]

You can also, if the bat is slightly too big "resize " it in the plugin Manager as shown infra:

You can degrease lenght and width in order to fit in your lot, without resizing your lot or your bat in Gmax and have to re-export again! Hope it helps!

  Edited July 17, 2012 by Amthaak  

[Amthaak 1,501]

Sorry! It seems that I make a mistake, as You cannot do that in the Plugins manager but with reader! Sorry again!

[Amthaak 1,501]

[IL. 1,043]

Sorry! It seems that I make a mistake, as You cannot do that in the Plugins manager but with reader! Sorry again!

Thanks very much

That will certinly help

But what is the size of a 1x1 sized BAT?

I need someones help, to make some lots for my residential building.

I used sc4 plug in manager, to put the house model into the residential section, but when I went to the residential lots in lot editor, I didnt find my building.

However, I did use the building as a prop on a park, so the players can use it anytime and anywhere they want.

Sounds like the building was too big for the lot. You will only see buildings that fit on the lot that's currently selected. Make sure that your building is less than 16 metres deep and wide if you want it to fit onto a 1x1 lot.

Well the problem is not that, because i turned the building to a prop, but no problem to use it as a building as amthaak showed how

[Amthaak 1,501]

No! the size of a bdg 1x1 is 16mx16m . It is just an example to show you which nbrs you have to change in order to fit to your size lot. For instance a lot 2x2 is 36mx36m . If your bat is for instance 37,025mx36.1259m you can then slighly reduce these dimensions in order to fit with 36x36! Hope it's understable...!

[darn42 1,268]

it's 32x32 not 36x36, just thought I'd point that out to avoid future mistakes

[Amthaak 1,501]

[IL. 1,043]

Understandble, I just asked for the size of one tile, wich is 16x16 as you just said now

ilive reader right?

just installed, thanks for the help

[IL. 1,043]

[IL. 1,043]

But why?

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

I remember having the same problem when I was working with Building Architect Tool.

As far as I can remember I solved it by moving the BAT to X=0; Y=0 and re-fitting LOD's. Then export it again.

That was the way it worked for me when I had the same problem.

  Edited July 19, 2012 by skyscraper241  

[Amthaak 1,501]

And to complete what sky said, don't forget to refit the lods before exporting!

[Gn_leugim 853]

just refit the lods and re export XD

[IL. 1,043]

Thanks

It worked.

It is now uploaded

[IL. 1,043]

Hello I'm back with a new model (not for SC4), I just liked to do it.

I uploaded it on turbosquid:

[Susaji 523]

Wow!

[IL. 1,043]

cool, I didnt think it was that good

[IL. 1,043]

Can anyone help me with those domes?

I'm not very good with it.

[paulvmontfort 616]

are those domes supposed to be something like this?

[IL. 1,043]

yes

How did you make that effect btw? Is it a mirror effect of what?

[paulvmontfort 616]

hehe, it is actually very easy to make. First make a sphere with the diameter of the dome you want. Then set hemisphere to 0.5 and increase the number of segments (double the amount of ribs you want). Then convert the sphere to an editable poly. Now comes the long and boring part since gmax doesn't have a loop function for edges: in top view and in edge mode select every other line of edges that go into the middle. If you have done that, scale the edges to the desired scale ( make sure to only scale in x and y directions and not z). That's it The mirror effect is done with a 3ds max material and is unfortunately impossible in gmax

[IL. 1,043]

Yeah that's a long and boring way, I use 3ds max too, so, is there a short way to do it like you just did?

I forgot to mention that.

[paulvmontfort 616]

oh yes there is. just select one edge of each row and press the loop button found in the menu to the right

[darn42 1,268]

there's an even easier way to select the segments to scale: Select one of the vertical segments, select the loop (shortcut is ctrl-L), then under the graphite modeling toolset selection, hit the dot ring button. It's the 4 horizontal lines, 2 green on top and bottom, 2 grey in the middle. This will select every other segment in the ring.

[IL. 1,043]

This is what I've done so far:

This model is not textured yet, and it is with real life dimentions.

So exporting it to Simcity4 is going to be a problem, because it would be too small for simcity 4 in the term of height, those walls are 8 meters high for example, and in simcity4 they would be, too short, but not sure, what do you think?

[IL. 1,043]