IDS's (mostly) Minnesota BATs

[SimCoug 5,972]

I should have mentioned at the beginning that I'm just about on winter break now, so I have just over a month to see what loose ends I can tie up

 

That is great news - let me know if you need any help towards that end

 

Good luck on any finals, if you have any more.  

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Glad to see an update. 

 

The render for the art deco building seems blurry for some reason.  :/

[Darknono35 3,137]

Art deco = :party:

I'm agree with Jason, something it odd with the textures of your Art Deco building. The others, looks very nice

[IDS2 3,346]

Looks like Photobucket compressed my resolution again. Let's try Imgur

[Vlasky 1,803]

It looks great. I'm glad to see Deco development. But did you know there is another recreation of that same building going on? 

 

 

Is it a coincidence or what? I'm very interested

[IDS2 3,346]

I hadn't even seen that! That's what I get for being gone so long, I suppose. Coincidence, I assure you. I started this model well over a year ago, as you'll see in my previous post  But I'm really glad Sky's doing a recreation of the actual thing now that I've decided to go the fictional route. The real building is beautiful, I just lost the motivation to do a recreation. 

[Sloonei 25]

I don't see any problem in having both.

[Shy Dude 149]

I'm curious as to what made you add that wing to the front and take away the one from the side that the real life building has because from the looks of it, it looks like it would've fit snugly as a wall to wall 2x3 (if my Google Maps measurements are correct).

[edwardjeria 503]

theaters

when there will be a breakthrough

[IDS2 3,346]

Thanks guys

 

Sloonei - this one is fictional now, so it might wind up being pretty different, but I think using the same reference building should be fine

 

Shy Dude - I was hoping to do that originally, but including the 1.6m setbacks for w2w, it didn't fit as snugly as I expected. It needed something to fill it out to the edge of the 3x3 lot, so I decided to pull that little wing over and use it for that purpose. 

 

edward, hopefully sooner rather than later! I opened a few of them up the other day and did a little work on them, and I'm pleased to say that they're ready for texturing  

 

Good news about the house set! I have somewhere around 24 total variations prepared (I'll probably do another 8 to round out the set) and they're coming along nicely. I expect you'll all be seeing them very soon!

 

In the meantime, I've been picking away at the art deco building. I still don't have a name for it, but I've cleaned up some of its roof textures and made a feeble attempt at black marble for the base. I just have to fix a couple textures (mostly in the back of the building that isn't shown in the render) and model the roof HVAC and then I can start on the night scene!

[MTT9 187]

Love the black marble texture!! Keep it up

[Sloonei 25]

Looks awesome! Can't wait for it to be released!

[Darknono35 3,137]

Impressive, I love it

[RepublicMaster 428]

I'm liking it a lot!

[IDS2 3,346]

Thanks everyone!

 

So I took a good look at the building and realized that it did look pretty funny with that little wing on the side. I played around with scaling a bit and came up with a result that I think is satisfactory:

This way, the building will fit snugly on a 2x3 lot (W2W). I'll do a test export now and see how it looks ingame.

Other than one or two texture tweaks on the back of the building, I think next update will be a night scene!

[MTT9 187]

Looks great! Maybe you can export the side wing as a separate building.

[edwardjeria 503]

asome

[Darknono35 3,137]

Great work, now I can't wait for the nightlight

[IDS2 3,346]

Hello again!

 

I've been slowly working away at the night scene since my last post here. It's been pretty tedious as I've been experimenting with displacement maps among other things. I have a result that I'm somewhat satisfied with, but I'd like to get your opinions because something about it doesn't work for me.

 

This is clearly my first time using target lighting Here's the reference image I've been using for that part.

 

The lobby isn't done yet, obviously. I think the part that bothers me the most is the crown of the building - the lower tier of spotlights looks fine, but the top tier seems a little bit off...I'd play with it more, but renders are lengthy so I'd rather come up with a few ideas first.

 

What do you think?

[Cool_Z 1,547]

I think its stunningly beautiful already !!!!!!! 

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Amazing!

Awesoooome! I love these kinds of building! 

[MTT9 187]

It's coming along nicely!

[jaredh 195]

The lighting at the top is very striking.  Like it.

[mcarch 15]

The picture which you are referencing seems like the lightings is more yellowish.  Yours is a little subdued.  That might be what you are think is a bit off as it seems to be a little flat - not sure if flat is the right word.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I'd make the limestone a little warmer.

 

And I'd make the spotlights less green.

 

For the spotlights you should use Photometric Lights. And I think by default photometric lights cast shadows and stuff, but either way make sure that shadows are being cast.

[gutterclub 2,729]

I agree with Jason, I'd also add blinds to the windows, the glass doesn't seem quite believable yet, it's a bit grey and flat..imo

[IDS2 3,346]

Hey guys!

 

Since I'm on spring break, I'm going to try to export the building this week Still deciding on a name. The night scene is basically finished, I tried to incorporate all your suggestions (adding blinds, using warmer colors) and I think it's just about there! I only plan on making a couple slight adjustments to the lobby (you can see a couple bright spots that look funny, etc.) before I export this week. I'm really at the point where I can't make any more additions to the scene without the thing taking a week to export (I expect ~3 days total as it is, assuming I don't get any errors). This is more or less the final product, save for a few minor details:

 

If anyone has any lingering concerns, please state them now - I'd like to get this out soon!

 

Meanwhile, I finally got around to texturing the theaters I showed back in August (along with a lot of other stuff that I haven't finished  ). Note: these are all HD previews to show detail, but I'm only going to export them in SD. 

 

I'm slowly learning to finish one project before starting another Texturing is almost done, so night scenes are coming soon! I've found these things go pretty quick because my attention span is just long enough to do one per evening.

 

I've also been trying to finish off the day scenes for the 32 housing variations I've created. I'll try to get a preview posted in the near future.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Great job! These buildings are fantastic! Hope to see it on STEX soon 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Wooow, I love those little theaters! The Paramount may be my favourite, but not by a huge margin because each and every one of them has its charm and its character. The roof grime on Watts is another highlight for sure. That, in combination with the dynamically curved sign and awning, and then those vivid colours on the front...

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

I agree, there's something special about the Paramount, but they are all great. Really nice work