hkabat-forum-threads Hong Kong / Asia BAT team

[paulvmontfort 617]

here's another Central Plaza Picture:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//pvm_central_plaza2.jpg align=baseline>

[Fantail 0]

Central Plaza is coming along really good.

[paulvmontfort 617]

I'm in search of a fairly big picture on which the entire dragon neon-nightlightning is visable

[capsertje 0]

Maybe thuis helps if you dont have it yet that is, not that large a picture but entire dragon is visible

[paulvmontfort 617]

I'm sorry, but i want it as big and detailed as possible

[bixel 1,228]

Just came in to say I wont have any updates for about a week. Working on some much neglected projects for the Portland City of Roses team. The Pacific Place is the first thing on my to do list as soon as Im finished with the other stuff. Next comes the Arch and after that Hills Grove (I think that is what is called). So jesselong you should start sending me pics and building plans for that complex. use yousendit.com and send it in zip or rar to nbixel@gmail.com

 

hrmm these ducks are cute!

[Fantail 0]

Cool, i'm sure you will do good on pacific place when you are back.

[jesselong 0]

Great work on the Central Plaza but the colour of the glass windows can be a little bit darker.

[bixel 1,228]

Sorry!!! Couldn't wait any longer. Its the Tung Chung Cresent!!!!!!

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//t-b01.jpg align=baseline>

 

Yup I've already started work on the foundation

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//tcc1.jpg align=baseline>

[toxicpiano 125]

ahh, excellent work as always.

[paulvmontfort 617]

here's an update of central plaza:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//PvM_Central_Plaza3.jpg align=baseline>

[HONG KONG 74]

Very beautiful detailed work at the Central Plaza!

The color organization is very exactly after the model so far. I found only a very bad photo of the entrance, that has unfortunately too few light.

 

Click..

 

http://images3.pictiger.com/thumbs/bc/f4cec0f40d889e00c214c892c2628fbc.th.jpg border=1>  

 

[toxicpiano 125]

ahh so thats whats wrong with the one on the STEX. its square! am I correct?

[paulvmontfort 617]

Date: 1/28/2006 2:48:40 PM Author: toxicpiano ahh so thats whats wrong with the one on the STEX. its square! am I correct?

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true, and a lot of other things are unaccurate

 

here's the finished top part. Lets see if someone can find the real picture on emporis.com:

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//PvM_Central_Plaza4.jpg align=baseline>

[bixel 1,228]

Looking awesome Paul! BTW way I rendered two versions of his The Centre, I hope he uploads both!!! Ignore the peice of the Victory Arch, that is just threre for testing.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//PVM_CentreDemo1.jpg align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//PVM_CentreDemo2.jpg align=baseline>

[jesselong 0]

Here's some information of the Central Plaza... from emporis:

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=120372

 

Make good use of it...

[HONG KONG 74]

First a very large (beautiful) photo. Perhaps it shows details which you doesn't know yet

   click..

 

Now to the Centre. The texture of the right model is more realistically than the left however a little too bright.

The lighting became outstanding. Only one thing is confusing something, where is the entrance

[paulvmontfort 617]

sorry, i thought the entrance was located underneath the tower and thus not visible

[paulvmontfort 617]

here's a full render of how Central Plaza will look ingame:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//PvM_Central_Plaza5.jpg align=baseline>

[jesselong 0]

The Central Plaza is fabulous! How big ( I mean the lot ) is the Central Plaza then? Keep it up!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Central Plaza has a lego-ish look to it somehow... the original, I mean. Still a very impressive skyscraper, and your representation of it looks superb!

Seeing the recent hype for diagonal buildings here, it might be an option to BAT a triangular base that would line up with adjacent streets... in that case, the base could be used as an overhanging prop for the ploppable version, but left out for the regular growable version... I dunno if that would sound interesting to anyone...

About the Centre, I agree with HONG KONG: I like the texture of the right version even better, but especially the angled surfaces end up a bit too bright in game. The night lights are great, though, and so is the rest of the model.

Dang, when I finally have my internet connection back, my mailbox will burst.

[paulvmontfort 617]

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//00030400_Central%20Plaza03_NightMaskTemp_Z5S.JPG align=baseline>

[mcarch 15]

*Droolz*  Oops, you might need to get a janitor to clean that floor!

[bixel 1,228]

wOw! So cooolll!! Great job Paulvmontfort!!!!!!!

[paulvmontfort 617]

First I want to thank everyone for the positive replies.

Second: Here in this topic we always get positive feedback which is really appreciated. The only thing bothering me is that it is always from the same group of people (HONG KONG, Fantail, T Wrecks, Mcarch, Jesselong, Toxicpiano). We really get very little attention from other people. They might be looking at the thread, seen in the number of pageviews we have. But there are hardly any posts. And this while other similar threads do get a lot of attention. I think this is a pitty. If readers would just take some time to post something, it would really improve my motivation. Therefor I would like to ask to just take some time to post something. I would really appreciate it very much. I hope the others agree with me on this subject.

Third: Ever since we started the team, there have been only the two of us (bixel and me) who are doing the batting. We had one person who wanted to join us, but we never heard from him since. It is really a lot of hard work to make these towers and we could use some more batters in the team. This is stated several times but without any succes. At leas Fantail is learning the bat and will be able to help us, but we could use all the help we can get. So if you're interested and you have some batting skills, please feel free to join us. It doesn't matter if you'll make one building or several. Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

That's all for now

 

Paul van Montfort

[toxicpiano 125]

Date: 2/3/2006 4:43:08 PM Author: paulvmontfort

First I want to thank everyone for the positive replies.

Second: Here in this topic we always get positive feedback which is really appreciated. The only thing bothering me is that it is always from the same group of people (HONG KONG, Fantail, T Wrecks, Mcarch, Jesselong, Toxicpiano). We really get very little attention from other people. They might be looking at the thread, seen in the number of pageviews we have. But there are hardly any posts. And this while other similar threads do get a lot of attention. I think this is a pitty. If readers would just take some time to post something, it would really improve my motivation. Therefor I would like to ask to just take some time to post something. I would really appreciate it very much. I hope the others agree with me on this subject.

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yeah thats kinda why i stopped BATing (in public), my thread was just filled with replies from me. Id take up your offer, but i dont have enough time.

[bixel 1,228]

Yup, RLS is really getting to me right now + the fact I'm on two teams HK BAT TEAM, and the City of Roses Team. I got Sparkythepenguin's Hatfield I have to fix, and Paulvmontfort's colossal Pacific Place that also needs fixing and nightlighting. On top of that I have a nearly completed Arch gathering cobwebs.

We definetly need more BATters, perhaps we should start a recruiting thread in the Open Discussion? I was thinking of asking kd4rax to join us, but he is a bit of a 'lone wolf' type and has his own agendas. I would really like someone interested in the Hong Kong wharf, its industry and transit networks. I thought about trying my hand at making some highway peices but I have no clue how.

 

2ch.net Simplayer, is pretty good batter, he's made some really cool Chinese buildings like the zhonghua zutao China Cityblock Pack

Maybe he might be interested?

[Fantail 0]

That is really coming along great paul. I love the lights on the top.

[Bodom 1]

very, very good, excellent, but i hope its in a good scale.

[ramvid01 0]

Wow that is just a beautiful model you have there paul, and i  just loooooove the nightlights, it just looks sooo realistic, keep up the amazing work =D