Jason's BATs & Tutorials

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Lovely building, it would definitely suit my cities!

 

Edit: Woah, page 100!   

[tonyr 926]

Porto Ponta looks amazing!

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Porto Ponta Negra Residence..ahh so many great memories of the city of Natal. It's really looking great!!

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Congratulations for your 100th page! 

And thanks for all your great contributions to STEx over so many years.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

100 pages!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

 

   

 

In celebration, here are all (except for one, a secret collaborative BAT  ) of my current WIPs.

 

 

The Pavilion's render is there symbolically, as when I work on it again I'll restart it from scratch.

 

I plan on getting a bunch of these on the STEX soon!  

 

I swear!  

[Bastet69008 1,102]

How's 1001 Woodward doing?

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

All of them looking great! 

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

WOW!!!!!! You know you have to finish them right? I'm looking forward for the release of all the buildings you posted and the secret one too.

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Now that is a marvelous pipeline you've got there! They all look fantastic!

[T Wrecks 10,209]

WOW!!!!!! You know you have to finish them right?

Look who's talking... you do have an impressive stack of unfinished stuff yourself, mister. :kitty:

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

But I just wanted to read recent posts D:

[benvoliothefirst 36]

Just wanted to pop in and say congrats on page 100! And thanks for all your great tutorials, and B-E-A-UTIFUL BATS!

[weixc812 509]

They're all looking great, Jason!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Thanks everyone!! 

 

Here's an update on Design Research HQ, which has had more of the sunken level BATed. That area is hard to see in street view and in photos, but I've managed to find enough reference material to get it to be close. I've also added in some ground to help you understand the levels better.

 

 

And also on Porto Ponto Negra Residence, which I've added swoopy bits to, and worked on the penthouse. 

 

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Both looking really good!

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Oh yeah this is looking great!

[Sgt Pepper 864]

Your rendition of 1001 Woodward tempts me to return to SimCity. 

 

Spectacular work, as always!

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Amazing work Jason, they both look fantastic!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Ok.

[KiethMarkus2014 14]

Hey Jason great work on your newest BAT's can't wait to see them uploaded.

 

I was just curious how do you determine the scale for your buildings?  Is there a particular sized Sim you use to check scale? 

 

Kieth

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

The general rule is model it to the real world dimensions then scale it 133% to fit to Sim City's scale.

[Hotwheeler 409]

Wow,both buildings look really nice.Love all the shiny glass panes on the HQ.

BTW just in case you haven`t found it yet,but i found a floorplan of the Design Research HQ: klick me,i am a link to your doom

[tankmank 853]

All your upcoming work looks great 

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Thanks everyone!

 

The tower is more or less done, and has been rotated. Next to do is the base.

 

 

Finnbhennach: Sorry I forgot to reply after I did my WIP overview post. The noisy appearance is because the building is covered in little tiles. The materials here are the same from my other two Brazillian residential towers, just with the colors changed. 

 

Bastet: 1001 Woodward is the same as it's been for like 4 years now. The problem with it is that I need to make a ground texture for the black granite pavers that are around the building. The other problem is that the building's shape doesn't fit onto an orthogonal lot very well and makes a really big and awkward plaza. The back of the lot ends up with a big plaza that makes it seem like it should be the front of the building even though it's the back, and the way the back of the building has such a big setback would make it hard to put next to other buildings. But this time I am going to resolve all of my WIPs, and I won't be able to put off 1001 anymore.

 

Sgt Pepper: yeah I know you've always really liked 1001. You even made your own 1001ish building. I feel bad for leaving it 95% finished for so long.

 

Hotwheeler: yep I have that already! Floor plans make modeling things a lot easier. I do the same thing that I do in my "deriving dimensions from google earth" tutorial except the floor plan is already accurate, undistorted, and scaled. So with the floor plan I add a grid that is correctly scaled to measure thing with, and I scale other references I find to the floor plan. Thank you though.

 

 

WIP List:

 

• Grand Haven Lighthouse ^{(needs: query, update modding, export prop versions))}
• Big Red Lighthouse ^{(needs: query, updated modding, export prop/hd versions)}
• Porto Ponta Negra Residence ^{(needs: base, nitelites, modding)}
• Design Research HQ ^{(needs: some modeling, texturing, store goods, nitelites, modding)}
• 220 West Congress ^{(needs: texturing, nitelites, modding)}
• Art Deco Department Store ⁽⁾
• Water Street Maisonettes ⁽⁾
• Northern Trust Bank ⁽⁾
• The Kean ⁽⁾
• 1001 Woodward ^{(need to figure out lotting, ground texture. needs: modding, query)}
• Old Detroit Police HQ ⁽⁾
• The Pavilion ^{(0% complete, as i'll be restarting it)}
• New National Gallery ^{(might be cancelled)}

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Brazil style over there ... no comments ... meaning good work as usual ...

[Jasoncw 11,840]

The day version is now 95% done.

 

 

So I think the upper left render is supposed to be the front of the building. In real life it's on a slope, and there's an entrance to underground parking, but since this is flattened there's no room for a garage door. So there's just kind of a wall there. On the other hand, the render on the bottom right is supposed to be the side, but to me it really seems like for the game this would be the best suited to being the front of the building.

 

The area in front of the main entrance is extremely confusing in street view. I know it's probably wrong but there's no way for me to tell what's right. All I know is that there's some walls and paths and plants there. But I think that area looks pretty good anyway.

 

There's a few things left to do. There's the horizontal lines on some of the stuff by the swimming pool which I'd like to remove. There's also a tiny bit of wall near the pool that I can't see but I think it's orange tiles. Other than those things the day version is done, unless someone has anything to say!

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Perfect!  

[tonyr 926]

Perfect!  

 

I concur!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

So last week I actually changed my desktop to all of my WIPs, and as I finish them I'm going to cross them out.

 

This is what I now look at:

 

 

 

WIP List:

 

• Grand Haven Lighthouse ^{(needs: query, update modding, export prop versions))}
• Big Red Lighthouse ^{(needs: query, updated modding, export prop/hd versions)}
• Porto Ponta Negra Residence ^{(needs: nitelites, modding)}
• Design Research HQ ^{(needs: some modeling, texturing, store goods, nitelites, modding)}
• 220 West Congress ^{(needs: texturing, nitelites, modding)}
• Art Deco Department Store ⁽⁾
• Mystery Building ^{(needs: some texturing, nitelites, modding)}
• Water Street Maisonettes ⁽⁾
• Northern Trust Bank ⁽⁾
• The Kean ⁽⁾
• 1001 Woodward ^{(need to figure out lotting, ground texture. needs: modding, query)}
• Old Detroit Police HQ ⁽⁾
• The Pavilion ^{(0% complete, as i'll be restarting it)}

 

 

• New National Gallery ^(cancelled)

 

So I've decided to cancel the New National Gallery, which I don't think I ever even posted about until now. I had started it in 2013 after an architectural visualization website had a competition where people would do materials and lighting and stuff for the New National Gallery, and they provided the model. I downloaded the model to look at it, and figured that since the New National Gallery was something I'd like to BAT that I'd adapt it. Well all I did was open the file, start cleaning it up, and make a few materials. So that's cancelled. I still have the model the website provided if I ever wanted to do it anyway though.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

I like what that site did. What's its name?