hkabat-forum-threads Hong Kong / Asia BAT team

[HONG KONG 74]

You work always very realistically, and the windows do not have this color, but why not a second pop color version.

 

I hope, with the center go everything well.  I want it so much.

[Fantail 0]

O, i see.

[paulvmontfort 617]

I Textured the HSBC:

 

As for the Centre, I've opened another topic to ask for help with the nightlightning

[bixel 1,228]

OMG!!! Great texture job!

[HONG KONG 74]

The south side looks outstanding, and the texture also.  Great work

[Fantail 0]

Wow, nice textures.

[paulvmontfort 617]

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//pvm_hsbc7.JPG align=baseline>

[bixel 1,228]

Whoa! Tai Hao Le! Incredible Paul!

[jesselong 0]

Excellent JOB!!! Can't wait for the nightlighting effect.

[mcarch 15]

I dont think there is a word to express WOW!  Id go nuts trying to do each of those supporting beams!!!!

Great Job!

[bixel 1,228]

Construction nearly complete!

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//ArchDem.jpg align=baseline>

[Fantail 0]

Incredible, those beams must be hard to make.

[gsch31151 0]

hello guys!

i am also a sim4 player from hk (i live in taikoo, if you know where)

see you guys have done such a great job, finally lovely hk buildings can be found in our sim4 world!

 

wonderful!

 

oh yes, i suggest you to do the ifc shopping mall, the ifc2 stands so lonely in the simcity. it would be much beautiful if an extraordinary shopping center is beside it

 

P.S. by the way, can u tell me where can i download these bats?

 

thanks,

frog from HK

[Fantail 0]

You can download the ones that are released on the Simtropolis Exchange, or STEX.

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex

then search for paulvmontfort and bixel

since those 2 guys havve made them.

Hope this helps.

[paulvmontfort 617]

The HSBC is finished and I sent it to T Wrecks this afternoon. After he's finished I need to put new FSHfiles in the modell because the nightlightning didn't turned out as i expected

 

BTW, Fantail, How's your progress with the BAT coming along, We could use another batter

[Fantail 0]

Well, i've worked quite abit on a BAT that i am almost ready to release, but since i lack modding and lotting skills, i have decided to join SYM productions so i can send the model way for modding and stuff. I haven't seen T Wrecks for a while either.

After my building goes out, you tell me if i am qualified to BAT a hong kong building.

[toxicpiano 125]

great work! would it be possible to release some of the textures you guys use, im sure they would be useful for other BATers (if possible).

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Date: 1/2/2006 6:32:40 PM
Author: Fantail
I haven't seen T Wrecks for a while either.

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No wonder - I've spent some days away from modding and posting much, but I'm always lurking here, har har.

[Fantail 0]

O, i see.

[bixel 1,228]

Cool news Fantail. I didn't know you were BATting, depending on what kind of projects you want to do I will send you all kinds of tricks and methods of doing stuff that I have learned.

[Fantail 0]

Ok, thanks bixel, i am near finished a building, except for the roof. If there is a building that is rather simple to do and there are dimensions, i'm pretty sure i can make it. But modding and lotting are my week spots.

btw, i am interested in office buildings and one thati want to do it 1 IFC, but i can't find any good pictures or dimenesions of it. the only picture i have of it is in a book i got from hong kong over the summer called building hong kong

[HONG KONG 74]

I send you gladly pictures of the one ifc.  For your first I recommend however the Murray House to you.  An architecture everyone in HK knows.

[bixel 1,228]

Honestly the 1IFC is intimidating for me, Paulvmontfort is great at making slick HK Office buildings, the trick with the 1IFC (as you can see from the picture) is to get the building dimensions just right and splines, splines, splines. Check Paul's history of progress with the 2IFC and you'll see what he does with the splines, its amazing, I don't know how he lays them down so perfectly. Seriously you will need to talk with him especially if you are going to do the 1IFC it would be very pleasing to see both buildings are complimentary to each other.

Also, HONG KONG has sent me a small zip file of pictures of HK and its buildings, if you ask politely he can point out some cool buildings possibly overlooked by Paul.

[Fantail 0]

O, i see, i'll look into murray house. Yeah, 2 IFC is amazing, is it true that he will make an updated version with fixed lights and stuff? It's funny, all i use in buildings are splines, no meshes at all, or very little, since i never learned how to mess with meshes, so everything u see in my buildings are extruded or modifiyed spines.

I'll ask HONG KONG for some suggestions, but for now, during the weekdays, i'm kinda busy with homework. I'm a sophmore in high school.

[Fantail 0]

Bixel, is the murray house you are talking about located in stanley? If so, then i've been there before, anyways, i find archetech like that difficult for me. I would rather start out with a building with a for example a flat wall, with glass or a wall.

BTW, what happened to conrad and pacific place that paul was working on?

[SYM Productions 7]

Wow things are really churning here!  Send the model to me, Fantail, via e-mail, with your desired specifications for the building (if any) and I'll find an open modder to get this thing all jazzed up! 

- CDI_spy

[paulvmontfort 617]

the problem with Pacific Place is the Nightlightning. I discovered a new technique for doing the nightlightning very easily but I didn't use it yet on Pacific Place so I'll probably have to redo the glass surfaces on the model. I wan't to finish it off after I'm done with the Centre were i'm working on now

[HONG KONG 74]

Fantail

I thought of the Murray in central. Consider the interesting window arrangement.

www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=120596

 

This isn't a request only a suggestion.

[Fantail 0]

oooo, lol, i thought you were talking about the murray house in stanley. Ok, thanks HONG KONG. I'll think about starting this.

Btw, where do you guys get dimensions for the buildings?

[bixel 1,228]

If you got Phillipobo's tutorial he gives you some adivce in the beginning on what your grid lines an viewing measurements are supposed to be. Typically for measuring units (not grid spacing) I leave on default, though I think Paulvmontfort puts his in metric. Grid lines should be set up so that your large squares should be 16x16, or 1 SC4 tile. If you want test it by making a box 15.5x15.5x5 and export it and view in the LOT Editor.

Since I do residentials my usually height for each level is 4, though basement/lobby level tend to be a bit higher around 5. Keeping my verticle measurement simple and correct with the floor count of the actual building will usually result in almost identical measurements. For instance I recently did Manhattan Heights and it turns out I only have about a 1% height difference from the actual building.

 

Office buildings try 4.5 or 5, or ask Paulvmontfort about it. I tend to build level by level, though I think Paul creates a mesh to the specs of the building then adds to that.

 

Placement wise I usually get the actual floor plans from the official site of the building and more or less follow their measurements by eye comparision rather than by direct input, I dont want to make rooms 4.378 meters wide, so I round it off to 4.25. Windows tend to be about 3x3 or larger.