hkabat-forum-threads Hong Kong / Asia BAT team

[shmchan 0]

news://newsgroup.com.hk/newsgroup.game.simcity or http://news.newsgroup.hk/?newsgroup=newsgroup.game.simcity

[bixel 1,228]

right on shmchan, good way to let the Chinese people know about our stuff!

[paulvmontfort 617]

T wrecks, I have a question that you might be able to answer:

If you have a lot without a foundation and some floting bushes on like in the picture, will it look lika A or B when you build the lot on a slope?

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//bush%20question.JPG align=baseline>

 

I have a problem too. All buildings that i render seem to have different problems. Mostly they are placed different in other views or placed off center. I also can't use custom LODs because it'l mess up the building. It is very annoying and i can't seem to fix it and it'll infect all of my buildings so i won't be able to render pacific place for instance because it'll need custom lods. If anyone can help me that would be mostly appreciated.

[bixel 1,228]

Show me a pic of the render, and maybe I can help you out.

[HONG KONG 74]

The 2ifc became really very beautiful

 

Noticed the building does not turn if I rotate the map. In the LE it is also not moveable.

I hope it helps to solve a problem.

[paulvmontfort 617]

I need an alternative for the pacific place flora. The tree models have too much polys... Anyone has suggestions?

 

Because some guys make requests all the time i made this in an hour and a half:

 

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

 

And from now on.. Place all requests, even the Hong Kong ones in the official BAT request thread. If you want your favorite building batted, you can vote for it in the polls if it's in it.

[HONG KONG 74]

That is definitely also one of my favorites.  Very good work!

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//922990top.jpg align=baseline>

[Fantail 0]

Oo!! Jardine house, i've wanted to see that for a while.

[SYM Productions 7]

Wow if the render background wasn't black, I'd have trouble discerning which is the real pic and which is the model... no kidding!  Incredible...

- CDI_spy , proud part of SYM Productions

[villagemayor 0]

Excellent work Paulvmontford. I don't have the skills nor the patience to produce buildings like that. Keep up the good work.

[villagemayor 0]

Excellent work Paulvmontford. I don't have the skills nor the patience to produce buildings like that. Keep up the good work.

[bixel 1,228]

Amazing Paulvmontfort, really topnotch.

[ectower16688 1]

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[ectower16688 1]

Edited By Mr. C.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

@ ectower: Say, do you think you have spammed enough threads with your numerous building requests by now? You opened four threads, you put your requests in this thread, and apparently, you finally found the official building request thread, which is the only place where your requetsts should be. Has it ever occurred to you that when people go to this forum, your building requests are not the only thing they want to read? It's very rude and selfish to flood a forum with your wishes and spoil it for everybody else, so please hold your horses, keep your requests to a sensible level and put them where they belong. Jeez...

@ paulvmontfort: At my PC @ home, ST acts weird, so I never know if anything reaches its destination... I don't remember If I have answered your question via PM, and there is no Sent Items folder in the user CP.
Anyway, if those bushes are regular Maxis props, they will follow the slope. If you make them yourself, there is a property for that in the Plugin Manager which you can set to true or false. It's explained in the text box at the bottom of the PM. I don't recall the exact name of that property...

As for the LOD problem, in what way does it mess up your building? Does the building get distorted, or do graphical glitches occur?

[ectower16688 1]

Edited by Mr. C.

[sunrise7 0]

how about those hotels??why you stopped?that's very nice and needed urgen!

[mcarch 15]

I dont think he can understand English very well?!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

*sigh* Either that, or he's better at posting than at reading.

@ sunrise 7: There are some problems with the hotels. These problems need to be solved before the hotels can be finished and released.

[paulvmontfort 617]

Could one of the moderators please remove all of ectower's posts from this page?

 

As for T Wrecks: Mostly the buildings get offset like the 2IFC. I also noticed another problem with the 2IFC and Jardine house: If I render them, only 1 side will be rendered!!! I first didn't noticed it with 2IFC because all the sides are the same, but just look at the 3ds trees when you rotate the model

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yeah, I wondered about those trees! So that's it - only one side got rendered, and this site gets diplayed for all perspectives. Sheesh.

And this comes from adjusting the LODs? It's really odd... Your Lippo Center was perfectly ok in terms of night lights and perspectives, at least AFAIR. However, the LOD was totally off. Did you use a different program for that building?

I'm not really sure about the software you use... from what I have gathered, you are using 3dsmax and a script that allows the BAT plugin to work with 3dsmax instead of gmax, so that you can render & export buildings to .SC4Models directly via 3dsmax, is that correct?
If so, have you considered importing the 3ds stuff into gmax and rendering & exporting from gmax? I know, the render engine is painfully slow. But if the result works...

Another idea: I know that JaWood has managed to export from 3dsmax somehow, and he has posted a proof shot of his first test export on page 20 of his BAT thread. Therefore, I assume his latest BATs are all 3dsmax creations. He might be able to help you... I guess if you show him a pic of what you have in store, he will see that you're not just some annoying $%&^!, and maybe he'll help you. I certainly hope that your creations make it to the STEX in perfect shape.

[paulvmontfort 617]

Date: 11/14/2005 9:38:11 AM Author: T Wrecks Yeah, I wondered about those trees! So that's it - only one side got rendered, and this site gets diplayed for all perspectives. Sheesh. And this comes from adjusting the LODs? It's really odd... Your Lippo Center was perfectly ok in terms of night lights and perspectives, at least AFAIR. However, the LOD was totally off. Did you use a different program for that building? I'm not really sure about the software you use... from what I have gathered, you are using 3dsmax and a script that allows the BAT plugin to work with 3dsmax instead of gmax, so that you can render & export buildings to .SC4Models directly via 3dsmax, is that correct? If so, have you considered importing the 3ds stuff into gmax and rendering & exporting from gmax? I know, the render engine is painfully slow. But if the result works... Another idea: I know that JaWood has managed to export from 3dsmax somehow, and he has posted a proof shot of his first test export on page 20 of his BAT thread. Therefore, I assume his latest BATs are all 3dsmax creations. He might be able to help you... I guess if you show him a pic of what you have in store, he will see that you're not just some annoying $%&^!, and maybe he'll help you. I certainly hope that your creations make it to the STEX in perfect shape.

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I used Gmax for the Lippo Centre. If I try that with the other buildings I would get an error because of the size of them and the number of polys to make them look so good. Bixel is using 3dsmax too, maybe he can render the buildings without a problem for me. It's not a custom LOD problem though. Jardine House hasn't got custom LODS and still it goes wrong...

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yeah, but bixel also has the black night windows problem. I think it may be related to that script you're using, because I've never seen a similar problem before bixel's Harbourside. Well, if I were you, I'd just go ahead and ask JaWood if he used a different way to get a 3dsmax building into SimCity. If he did, you can try it and see if it works. And if he also uses that script, he may have made some modifications, or maybe he knows a trick you don't.

[paulvmontfort 617]

Didn't hear anything new from JaWood either

[villagemayor 0]

To further the discussion, here is another perspective of the Arch and The Harbourside. If the Arch is 65-79 floors, then the Harbourside must be close to 80 floors. Because Chinese people are superstitious, I think the reason for an 'arch' design must be feng shui, to allow good chi to flow and not be blocked by buildings.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//temp2.jpg width=28 align=baseline>

[HONG KONG 74]

@villagemayor

Excuse, but this is not the correct place for general architecture discussions.

Try the topic here:

www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/forum.asp?forumID=125

[bixel 1,228]

Everybody just calm down. Some of the posts and pics here are still relevant to everything HK BATty, Building requests go into Requests thread, and discussion of HK buildings should only be on projects considered and or being worked on. No doubt the Arch will be done sometime in the future and so I enjoy the pics. But no more clamouring here do this! do that!

 

Please post pics that are related to the HK BATters work or work-in-progress.

 

We all love these buildings but 1 at a time. Or better still someone join our team! Get gmax and start working! Me and paulvmontfort can't do it all.

[DuskTrooper 316]

This may help:

[holland 0]

I have a question. Were do you have does lanes ( to turn right, left )  from because can you download them or is it a deluxe version. Because I have Sim City 4 Rush hour

[paulvmontfort 617]

Date: 11/18/2005 3:31:04 PM Author: holland I have a question. Were do you have does lanes ( to turn right, left )  from because can you download them or is it a deluxe version. Because I have Sim City 4 Rush hour

You probable mean the NAM. It can be found in the modding files section

 

 

These arent HK buildings, but i just wanted to show them. I made these between HK projects:

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//julie%20tower.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//pvm4building.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//hexagon%20place.jpg align=baseline>https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//roundtowerpvm.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//triangle%20plaza%20pvm.jpg align=baseline>