Jason's BATs & Tutorials

[Tia-may 0]

Very nice: it blends very well with the Maxis buildings.

[Wrightguy0 40]

Looks amazing, It will be great

[spa 968]

Jason, this one came together before I could even comment. The results are quite attractive.

[timcravey 168]

What an amazing thread.  Does your rig only work for MAX or will it import to GMAX too?

[Wrightguy0 40]

Wh not leave out the growable option alltogether? Have you tried an H shape yet

[jacqulina 162]

excellent work

[The Border City Kid 0]

very nice

[Jasoncw 11,840]

With school picking up, I've kind of forgotten about BATing, and haven't done any work on anything since whatever the last updates have been.  I have done some work on the Eile Building though, which is the large department store me and nofunk are making, but I haven't even worked on that in about a month.

To all of the comments, thanks everyone. 

About the growable version, one of my attitudes towards BATing is that they should contribute directly to the gameplay, not just be eyecandy, or even functional eyecandy.  Ideally everything would be growable.  That will also be growable, though if it's really growing too much people can just take it out of their plugins and only use the plop or LM.

[Fledgeling 1]

Whoa, it may be close to a year since I last posted here. Or not... I forget.

Anyways, speaking of ploppables, the ploppable version of Brei Market And Happy Camera seem to cause my game to crash to desktop whenever I plop the building. The LE will not open the lot files either. I have never had this issue with a downloaded lot before, and had to remove the files. Any idea what might have caused this? First time I have experienced anything like this.

Thanks.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

hmmm, that's weird. It's never crashed for me. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you try emptying (temporarily renaming) your plugins folders and only having that one building in there? Have you tried redownloading and reinstalling it?

[Fledgeling 1]

Originally posted by: Jasoncw hmmm, that's weird. It's never crashed for me. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you try emptying (temporarily renaming) your plugins folders and only having that one building in there? Have you tried redownloading and reinstalling it?quote>

Emptying, no. I redownloaded it twice, and it happened each time I reinstalled it.

[nofunk 1,933]

That is strange. I tested it pretty extensively after modding it for Jason. I've never had issues with it before.

When I get a chance, I'll check it out again though.

[surdanis 6]

jaconcw, i've got a lot of your work, which i enjoy. would definitely like to see u BATting again.

[The Border City Kid 0]

yes sir, theres a few of your projects that are on my list that are not yet on the stex

[SimFox 801]

I took a look at Brei Happy Camera and have to , regretfully, inform that it's modding is indeed seriously faulty one.

the reason for this, I'm, pretty sure, is a tempting copy/paste method. Lot design (e.g. LOT exemplar) has been simply pasted in all lots. And with it reference to same Cs$$ building exemplar, regardless of what that lot is suppose to be. So what we have here is that all lots in fact grow or plop same Cs$$ building. Situation would be visually OK (eg no crashes) as long as Cs$$ lot is installed since it contains that building exemplar. But if it would be removed crashes would occur since now lots would effectivelly refer to non-existent building.

To fix this building reference in LOT exemplar has to be changed to refer to one included in a given Sc4Lot file.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Those of you who recognize it will appreciate it.

[Gn_leugim 853]

hummm.. don't know what it is, but know thats look good ;p

[HONG KONG 74]

The German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona ,designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

[jacqulina 162]

that looks interesting

[The Border City Kid 0]

is it a Detroit building?

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Yes, Hong Kong is right! 

Mies and this building in particular has been relevant to my project in architecture school, so I figured I'd get to know the building better by modeling it, and since there isn't much Mies on the STEX.

[Gn_leugim 853]

I see it does look very good so far

[nofunk 1,933]

Hello, Mies! Very nice work, Jason.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

Great work!

It's always astounding to see the date 1929 and realize the era and historical context this pavilion comes from. That was from nearly 80 years ago! How different would modern architecture have developed had the reactionary nationalist regimes soon to take power in Germany and elsewhere in the wake of the coming worldwide Depression not chased Mies and Walter Gropius to America?

[SimFox 801]

oh! it's a jewel!

One of my most favorite buildings int the world!

[CarmineHilton 6]

It's indeed a pavillion in Barcelona... We saw it as an example at school, to design our own pavillion =p

Great details, btw! I can even see the statue!

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Thanks everyone!  I finished it up, modded it, and uploaded it today.

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

Wow, that was a quick project! Thanks for sharing it with us, Jason

[The Border City Kid 0]

new record? lol

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Thanks guys!

I've uploaded Brisco's Department Store, Roth's Department Store, and Nafmis Department Store.

Nofunk will upload Eile Department Store today or tomorrow.

I'll make a list to show where I am in my remaining projects (modding hasn't started on any of them):

J.W. Reid Building - BAT is complete (just need to export it).

Oulette Electronics - BAT is complete (just need to export it).

211 West Fort Street - Still trying to do the nitelites.  I have the windows and lobby done, but the mechanical floor's lighting is still beating me.  I also need to remodel the garage entrance and front planters.

One Woodward Avenue - Same niteliting problem as 211, but otherwise complete.

Bus Shed Pack - I think this is done, but I remember that I did something wrong and needed to re-export one, but I don't remember.

Penobscot Building - Still in early modeling stage.