Help Needed with BAT measurements

[JWbuildings 7]

i am creating a new bat and i need to find dimensions of the building. I am recreating one of the world's largest grain elevators in hutchinson kansas. Can some direct me to a source for these dimensions?

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Google is your friend. http://www.hutchnews...Todaystop/eight (I might've had it right the first time...)

And for the height dimensions, increase any height measurement by 30%; Due to the way SC4 displays pseudo-3D objects, it would actually make things look squished if you didn't increase the height.

  Edited July 9, 2012 by Ganaram Inukshuk  

[Francis90b 748]

Download google earth, find your building and measure it.This might give you a rough idea of it's widht and lenght.

Then go in google street view, take screenshots of the building, if necessary correct them so that they feel more or less like a front elevation, and derive proportions (e.g. the conical tip of the silo is 0,1 times the height of the silo itself, and the silo's height it's five times it's diameter...)

An height increase is necessary for the reasons that ganaram inukshuk mentioned, but the increase of height should be performed after you modelled everything...for now, find those dimensions, and model things according to the dimensions you've found.

Then, when you're done, group all of your objects, and scale them by 133%.

  Edited July 9, 2012 by Francis90b  

[IL. 1,043]

For me, I always make a floor's wall height's between 3 and 4, the windows' heights' between 2 and 3 and around 2 and 1 width (for small/normal windows), as for the door, well, I just use my eyes so that it fits.

As for the wall length, I just used to make it between 0.2 and 0.4.

I hope that that can help

I suppose that you are not copying buildings from real life, so those dimentions can help you so that your building fits well in simcity4

[JWbuildings 7]

thanks guys

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

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