Jason's BATs & Tutorials

[nofunk 1,933]

I'm not sure about having grass around the skylight; I'm not sure they'd do that in real life. Otherwise it's a very nice building!

I'd make it medium wealth, probably office, but we certainly could use more commercial services in the game, so it's up to you.

[Swiss_Canadian 2]

OH JASON! So many things to say about this building! First of all, I LOVE IT! Second of all, I think you should make it CS$$$ because it does look rather upscale, and I'm not sure why, but it seems to me like it'd be filled with retail, much like a certain mall I've been to in Chicago. I LOVE the windows as most people mentioned (I have a bit of a Bauhaus fetish; P.S. you can find more pictures and even floorplans of Bauhaus Dessau if you look for them); I LOVE the inset doorway - it's classic 3D facade modernism; I LOVE that you made it environmental with the green roof (it also reminds me of the lower-rise buildings of Rockefeller that have greens and tennis courts on the roof); and that little bit of overhang on the structure on the roof caused a puddle of drool on my desk here, it's the next best thing to being cantilevered (which I also have a fetish for ) Amazing Jason, simply amazing; and to think you just put it together in your spare time during what is normally the most stressful time of the semester! Thanks for the good taste!

[josefmayor 8]

Nice jason

[gfvsims 169]

Another awesome building! Look forward to downloading this one.

[Krio 624]

Good luck for the final!

If you don't pass, I'm gonna grab a metal bar and gonna smash some professor skulls.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I've finished it and am exporting it.  There is a problem with exporting it though, but I don't think it will delay things very long.

Here are some perspective renders for the fun of it.

I think this one would have looked good in my architecture portfolio, it's too bad I didn't make it a few months earlier.

I only have one final left, and there is no test for it (I just need to go there, we'll be doing fun things).  The final is tomorrow morning, and afterwards I'm going back home, and starting vacation.  I expect to get a lot of stuff done then.

Ill Tonkso:  Thanks!  Yeah, I think this one will appeal to a lot more players than my building usually do, since both Americans and Europeans can use this in their cities.  This is going to be a CS$$$.  I've tried to make the roof look wealthy though, so hopefully it will feel like a CS$$$ overall.

Mightygoose:  Yeah, I'm going with CS$$$

Patriots_1228 & Irfox:  Wow, I think most people would say the opposite, there is a lot more CO$$$ stuff on the STEX.  Most of it is skyscrapers though.

Krio:  lol, well, there is that grass on the roof, maybe it's a grass farm.

Nofunk:  I don't see any reason why the skylight couldn't be there.  Skylights have been put in grassy areas on roofs in real life.  The only difference is that they have areas of non-grass around them, to keep the skylight dry.  Mine has a small one.  If it was real, it would probably have to be bigger.

Swiss_Canadian:  I'm glad you like it!    Those are all things that I think about it too. 

JosefMayor:  Thanks.

gfv1974:  Thanks, hopefully it will finished soon.

Krio:  Yeah, hopefully I did good on all of them.  I know I did good on my Physics and Industrial Drawing final.  I know I didn't do very good on my Calculus final, and I don't know how I did on my drawing final (it was an actual drawing, which I turned in early last week).

Thanks for the support everyone.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

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[bixel 1,223]

Wow that looks nice.

& Van Wingerden Plaza A and B is amazing

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Thanks Bixel, hopefully they'll be finished soon.

Some updates from me:

- I'm still having exporting problems with The Sojot Building.  Check out the 3ds Max Troubleshooting thread to see what.

- I'll be finishing Van Wingerden Plaza and then I'll try to render that, and I'll see what happens.

- I recently opened "the CD Building" from last August, and did a preview render, accurately scaled, and properly lighted, and I have to say, it is thoroughly horrible.  At the time I didn't know how to do accurately scaled preview renders, so all of my modeling is really blocky and unrefined.  The textures would have to be redone too.  I will not be finishing this building.  Someday I'll probably revisit the idea though.  If you don't remember what I'm talking about, don't worry about it.

- I really want to finish something, lol.  But the whole not being able to export thing really demotivates me.

- I'm on summer break!  So I'll have some more time nowadays.

- A while ago my plan was to release some stuff by mid-April, but I bumped that back to mid-May when finals came.  Mid-May is still realistic for something to get released if this rendering problem is solved.

[spa 968]

Woo congradulations on getting to the break. It's damn nice to not have anything to do for a little while isn't it? This is the first time I have seen the Sojot Building. I like it. It's got a nice generic feel ot it and I like that it's really long but short in front. Very unique. The windows are, of course, top notch. Hope you can clear up the rendering issue. Can't wait to have this one to use in game.

[jacqulina 162]

wow thats excellent fantastic work and details

[Jasoncw 11,840]

spa:  lol, yeah, definitely.  Thanks, SimFox is looking at it now to see what he can do, hopefully it can be rendered.

Jacqulina:  Thanks. 

Van Wingerden Plaza A (the tall one), is done.  I've reworked the roof, and it looks much better.  I've done the night lights, and those look nice too.  Van Wingerden Plaza B (the short one) shouldn't take too long to make after this, I just need to rearrange which windows get lit up, change the roof and glass a little (so they don't look exactly the same).

BUT!  There's a problem rendering! 

When exporting, the night lights show up during the day, and there is no night time render (as if there weren't any nitelites).  It seems like it doesn't realize my nitelites are nitelites.  I'll experiment first, and then I'll post in the 3ds max thread about it, but in the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions, I'm open to them.

[jacqulina 162]

i hope you manage to sort out the prob

[____----____ 37]

i have loved your stuff for quite some time, this new project seems to be continuing your tradition of excellence!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Jacqulina:  Thanks, I hope so too.

Aleking:  Thanks!  Excellence is what I'm going for, so I'm glad that's what's happening.

Ok, some news!

But in the BSP thread!

I've been sort of busy in real life the last few days, so I haven't had time to work on much.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

The Sojot Building has been successfully rendered!!

I need to re-render it though, because I forgot to do a few things, but that can be finished tomorrow.  I'll work on VanWingerden Plaza tomorrow too.

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

Wow! It's a 1x2? That's great! There aren't nearly enough small office buildings like these! Gorgeous, Can't wait to see it on the STEX

[josefmayor 8]

Awesome Jason, I hope to see some of your visional buildings in real life some day

[AndisArt 2,066]

Hey Jason, great job on your BATs  

I look forward to see more of the (already excellent) VanWingerden Plaza. The roof looks more than ok IMO. 

A thought about the Sojot Building: the appearance of the building is very box-y at the moment. Since you intend this to be a wall to wall building I thought it might look better if you open up the design at the front and/or back of the building more to create more "tension" (looks a bit flat now). Only my opinion, looks great anyway.

Keep it up!

[jacqulina 162]

looking great though allready

[Jasoncw 11,840]

ilikehotdogsalot:  I definitely agree.  Hopefully this will make it easier for people to make wall to wall areas.

josefmayor:  Me too! 

andisart:  What do you mean by "open up"?  I'm actually done with this one already, but I'd like to know for future buildings.  Thank you for your input! (I don't usually get much advice)

jaqulina:  thanks!

I should probably update everyone on the buildings:

VanWingderden Plaza A (the tall one) is finished (including a reworked roof, which looks better than the old one).  Nitelites are also done, and they look good.  Right now though, there is a problem with exporting it.  For some reason, it is not recognizing my nitelites as nitelites.  It seems to think they are normal lights, so they are appearing in the day render, and there is no night render (since it thinks there are no nitelites).  Once I get around to fixing that though, the VanWingerden Plaza set shouldn't be too far from completion.

The Sojot Building is actually 99% done.  It's rendered and almost completely modded.  This will be on the STEX any day now.

[dmscopio 225]

What a nice building! great details, plan to us show some night view pictures?

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I just uploaded it to the STEX , so you can see the night preview of the Sojot Building there.

I'll show a night preview of VanWingerden Plaza (also showing the new roof) tomorrow. 

[cammo2003 20]

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Thought you might like to see your building in use.

[Sim shady 12]

great job on the sojot building, it fits like a glove into any city. BTW, cammo what is that building to the right of the Sojot building?

[AndisArt 2,066]

@Jason: What I meant with opening up the design was parts extruding or intruding the flat front or back wall, like extruding entrance areas, intruded window areas, stuff like that. This would help work against the building appearing "just as a box", since the sides need to stay flat because of the concept of a wall-to-wall building. You know what I mean?

Yahoo to the release, btw

[Jasoncw 11,840]

cammo2003:  Thanks!  It looks quite nice there. 

sim shady:  Thanks!  The building can be found here.

andisart:  ooohh, yeah, now I know what you mean.  The building did end up being very boxy, and that would have helped it.

Here is VanWingerden Plaza at night:

I think I'm going to add some lights to the roof too.

[jacqulina 162]

very nice work and details i think thats a cool idea for lights on the roof

[Hanson784 165]

Excellent work. I love the little details around the base of the building. Texturing is crisp and clean as always and It almost looks like you can see the desks and chairs through some of the windows.

[Sim shady 12]

wow a link and all! tyvm jason the plaza looks fantastic