KCtheDestroyer goes BAT

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

NOTE : This subject contains lots of pictures. I tried to keep the size per picture low to keep the total size as low as possible, but with a slow internet connection, this still could take a while to load.

He ppl. Maybe I should have started this earlier. As some of you may know I have started using BAT a while ago though I haven't uploaded a file to the STEX.

My HD crashed earlier this year so i lost my earlier work that way. I havent restarted those projects yet. That were a Barn, some farming fields (corn and grane) and an Ice Skating Stadium. I have a few pics though (posted on my webspace).

At the moment I have a few projects running:

- small suburban passenger rail station (released on STEX)
- Medium sized office building (replica of a real life building from a nearby city here in the Netherlands)
- Y interchange for the highway network

The last one is far from ready. Im having some troubles with it as it wont do what I want it to do . I found out some difficulties in the design part too (to match the ingame Highway design properly) so I think I thinks its better to start all over again. Sorry about that delay. But on the other hand... Because of that, I have been working more on the office building lately .

Ill keep the rankig of the list above so Ill start with the train station. Its based upon a Dutch suburban-railstation with an 80's building style.

This is the Station as from a pic IRL :



I started by making the main building shown in the pic on the rightside:







After adding the platform I also added some billboards and of course , the lighting, though that still needed some work to be right:





The platform on the other side of the track still needed to be done, so that was the next step. After some quick draf exports to make the distance between the 2 platforms right, I started with the platform, then cloning the existing builing and adjusting it:





Some more adjustments and addings to the platform like lighting, stairs and some props:




Now I applied some textures. A previeuw in day and night:




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After some advice I got which I agreed with I raised the hight of the platform a bit. But as you can see the texturing shows it needed some work:




For the ppl who dont want the exterior but the skeleton framworks:





The last things I have adjusted on this are the platforms. Instead of just a box I now made of all separated boxes so the textures now work. I dont have pictures of it yet.

27-05-04

WORKS OVER!!! This part of construction has been completed... I have put the station on the STEX for anyone who would like to see their Sims comute by this rail station (uploading at the moment). Also credits to Gemika. He did most of the Lotting and made the Lot transit enabled. Here are 2 pics of a test city of me with the station completed.

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

My second project is the office building. The next 2 pics show the building as it is IRL:







I started with making 3 boxes to mark the bounderies:





After that making the roof:





I created the walls with their windows in the next steps i took. Deleting the marker box i made shown in the first pic:






To make it easier to work (to make the windows better visible) I made a blue box that I put in the interior of the construction:






After seeing the outer walls were OK, I started putting the windows in place:







The next step was making the enterence and adding the marbel walls of the first floor. Also the stone decoration of the upper floor of the smaller side was added:







Some details added to the exterior of the walls and the glass:





This is the last pic I took. I have added some other details from the decoreation. I havent done any lighting or texturing yet.


Added 13-05

I have been working on this the last 2 days. On first site not much changes. But Im almost done with the editing. I hope I can finish this today or tommorow so I can render it before this weekend.




Next update expected: soon


Added 27th may

Well. Besides the train station, also some news on this... Im almost done with this building too.. I just need to do some work on the roof texture.. thats all.. so expect this one on the STEX soon too Here are some pics :











Next update will be the release announcement

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

The Y junction for ground Highway.


A scetsch of what it will be looking like:





I made a few screenshots of what I have made so far. But I might have to leap back a few steps to change the design. Here are a few pics i made so far:

Quick gridlines:




Where the road gets wider:




A more smooth road shape:




A possible crash barrier put in the LE in front of a building for checking the dimensions:




I'll come up with some additional pictures as soon I'm back on track with this one

[bewilder2 2]

Looks great so far!

[+Guest]

I'm loving that Y! You should PM RedLotus. He's done some BAT stuff with roads and sutff and could probably help you texture it and whatever and maker sure it fits in well in-game.

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

I havent seen him in the chat recently. He knows Im trying to make this. Anyway... Tropod and Red already know

[+Guest]

Ooooh.....create a stack next!!!

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

MaNN i like this the Y interchange looks GREAT!

I cant wait for that one will cars be able to get through it too?

[jtportland 184]

i really like that office building, there arn't many BATs of low rise skyscrapers like that one. good luck on the y interchange, it looks like that'd be hard to make! looks great so far

[RobledoRessainance 36]

Wow! I just keep seeing more and more people mastering in gmax. That's a good thing, more diversity, more choices.
The office building looks well done, hope to see it textured soon.

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

Update 13-05


vanLanschot Tower - Den Bosch, The Netherlands

[Gemika 6]

Wow KC this is excellent work! I love the small Passenger station can't wait for this bigger station am waiting like a boy at Christams eve. hehe Keep it up will check back later.

GE

[Lord_Quillian2 38]

Here is what your LOD could look like

 

This is only for the LOD5 though. The others should be a simple box that encompases the entire model.

 

LQ

[hogmeister 7]

Nice work KC, love the office building, great shape and size, much needed in the game. I also particularly like the way your thread shows the way you make your buildings, in all the various stages, that

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

A new project ppl... The upper ones are almost done and to get my mind of some probs for a moment I started a small and quick to do new one :

GLASHOUSES !!!











At the moment Im making them as a whole, so not as a farmfield that can be any size. Only I'm stuck at the moment because I don't know the maximum lot size to make an agricultural-lot growable. So more to come about this!!


To be continued.......

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

Updated 27th May


- Train Station...(first post on this thread)

- Van Lanschot Tower

[Gemika 6]

The Station Came out Great! Was more than happy to help you on this LOT KC. Thank you for the credit and I can't wait to see what else you have in store for us and remember I'm always here if you need help. Nice Job!

GE

[Damion 1]

your stuff looks promising. I look forward to it in the future.

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

A small update ppl...

The Van Lanschot tower is almost done.. Thanx to EF who solved some texturing problems and re-textured it. So now the file is waiting to be rendered. I hope to release it before the weekend.

The glasshouse-veggies are in the fridge for the moment and the next office building is on its way!!

The RIVA Building from 's-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands) where I live. Its a medium office building from the same office-park as the Van Lanschot tower. It is home to ING-bank and the Essent Power company.





NOTE : I will re-edit this thread tomorow.. the files are already hosted on another site, but I will also make the larger pics thumbsnails or maybe just put the thread nama and host the entire project on my site.....I think. Just to minimize the lenght of 1 project down (to make sure you dont have to scroll you a** off and keep it clear.

To be continued........

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

Ppl..

All projects have been put on-hold because of a new project I'm working on. No pics of it will be shown here. Its a suprise pack of a multiple building pack. It wont be R/C/I but will be eyecandies only, with of course a demand raiser for the 3 types mentioned earlier. But I promise... You'll all love it!!! I've set a deadline for the end of July/begining of August. Maybe some screenshots of it in my own test cities will 'leak-out' in some time

Greetz

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

Ppl.. I was thinking over it again, and why keep it a secret? So heres my latest project that has a top priority on my batting list:

The Boschker Valley Olympic games

The construction of the Olympics tennis stadium has been started. A singel hot of it:







In the time I have left Im working on a overview site. in this thread I will anounce updates and small images, but also the link to the overview with larger pics and more of them. So more pics to come. But this one is made today, so prety much up to date. The roof will be a semi-transparant glass construction that covers only the upper ring of seats.

Im making scetsches for my next stadiums at the moment. Your reading it correctly. Stadiums . The games need more then just a tennis stadium. Upcoming are :
- Outdoor swimming stadium
- Soft/baseball stadium
- Athletic stadium
- Beachvolleybal Stadium
- rowing
- Sailing docks
- hockey stadium
- My big bang will be the soccer stadium.

These are just the first that popped in my head. The total of stadiums will be sufficiant to make sure all of the sports will have an accomodation, so if I left out one of your sports, don't be afread

Stay tuned

[VXD 0]

Vury nuce

Fear the Dutch BATing crew Oranje-powerrrr

[frogface 352]

very nice stadium  

it looks good even wtihout textures. i look forward to this with interest   

[capa don 0]

wow you got some skills there. and those buildings seems kind of familiar to me . i see them at least everyday. great work, hope to see more great (dutch) buildings

[VXD 0]

Getting nicer and nicer, but I see u don't have a ref chairNice for me to do

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

LOL thanx for pointing that out. I really would have forgotten it if you hadn't managed it. Tnx!!

[KCtheDestroyer 14]

Sorry for bumping (is it bumping to post again after a week??). Anyway. I have found some time again to work on my stadium a bit. Heres a next pic with some parts of the roof on top:





EDIT : extra pic, from another angle

[Alkaola 18]

A great improvement KCtheDestroyer , its looks very creative

[HighRiser 6]

KC, that is an absolutly stunning tennis stadium. I am looking forward to your finishing the low rise office tower as we never seem to have enough of these for the game. Excellent work.

[Fox 1,444]

Wow...that looks great, it's different for sure, I can't say I've ever seen anything like it in real life, but if there is, then I'd love to see a pic.

 

You've got an ambitious project ahead of you, I hope it goes well, and I'll keep coming back to see how you progress.