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2 hours ago, ericexp said:

Detroit is also looking into doing this over I-75 and I-375 as they really break up downtown and mess up the flow and walk-ability. That and they are rather unsightly.

Really? That's interesting. I've been doing some research on Detriot because I'm visiting this weekend, and just from a map, it seems like the downtown/midtown area is very segmented by freeways. Hopefully, they follow through with this! It made a big impact in downtown Dallas. Do you know if they have renderings of a landscape architect on board, or is this just a wishlist item by the city?

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Water tower for filling steam locomotives

[Silur 3,308]

@WolfZe Oh, this is wonderful work !!!

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22 minutes ago, Silur said:

@WolfZe Oh, this is wonderful work !!!

Thank you. Let me guess ...... because rust is involved?

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The centre of Madison Plains.

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@WolfZe That "big signal box" is really lovely, there is not a bunch of these, but wouldn't it be way better to export it without the rail textures, simply as an overhanging building ? So there wouldn't be any visual break and it could easily adapt to any rail texture one may be using.

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1 hour ago, Krasner said:

@WolfZe That "big signal box" is really lovely, there is not a bunch of these, but wouldn't it be way better to export it without the rail textures, simply as an overhanging building ? So there wouldn't be any visual break and it could easily adapt to any rail texture one may be using.

Thanks a lot !!!

The rail textures are basic textures and therefore interchangeable.
I just have not decided which rails I finally use, so it looks a bit unintentional in the pictures. out.

PS:

But I probably will not upload it anyway. Is meant mainly for my new city.

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I give up.

[matias93 7,535]

49 minutes ago, Goldman Sachs said:

I give up.

with the rendering? I guess the model was too complicated for the programme to cope with it. What about splitting it into pieces, render them separately and then joining them back as independent props? Some shadows will be lost, but the overall thing should work that way.

[tariely 4,498]

(Oh no, you mean they don't work??? Or that particular, beautiful one doesn't work ? Nooooo !)

[tariely 4,498]

@Goldman Sachs : those, soon to come to a STEX near us ? ;-) 

EDIT : HA. just checked. Mwhahaha,  they have come.

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20 hours ago, The British Sausage said:

The centre of Madison Plains.

I like the shadows in your picture, the darkness

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36 minutes ago, Duco said:

I like the shadows in your picture, the darkness

Thanks.

Increasing the contrast brings out a lot more of the shadow's darkness.

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On 3/3/2019 at 9:53 PM, ericexp said:

Detroit is also looking into doing this over I-75 and I-375 as they really break up downtown and mess up the flow and walk-ability. That and they are rather unsightly.

 

On 3/4/2019 at 12:00 AM, ByeByeBayou said:

Really? That's interesting. I've been doing some research on Detriot because I'm visiting this weekend, and just from a map, it seems like the downtown/midtown area is very segmented by freeways. Hopefully, they follow through with this! It made a big impact in downtown Dallas. Do you know if they have renderings of a landscape architect on board, or is this just a wishlist item by the city?

I-375, which is the short segment of freeway immediately east of downtown, is at the end of its life. Replacing it with a surface boulevard is cheaper than reconstructing it, and overall it doesn't benefit downtown much, either in terms of urbanism or transportation. It's not being capped, it's being removed. The Michigan Department of Transportation has been having public meetings etc for a while now, but there's not funding for the project yet. But that freeway is at the end of its life so something is going to happen one way or another. I think it will be a big improvement though. Part of the project is also rebuilding the interchange immediately to the north, as well as Jefferson Avenue to the south, so it's going to bring about huge improvements in walkability.

Capping I-75 is something that many people would like to see, but it's not happening. The possibility of capping (actually just making the sidewalks 20 feet or so wider on Woodward and possibly adding a super narrow storefront) was proposed by the owners of the new arena that's adjacent to the freeway, in order to gain support from the urbanism crowd. But it's not in the works from either MDOT or the city, and the arena owners are not paying for it either. Not only that but the bridge was just rebuilt a few years ago.

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4 hours ago, Jasoncw said:

 

I-375, which is the short segment of freeway immediately east of downtown, is at the end of its life. Replacing it with a surface boulevard is cheaper than reconstructing it, and overall it doesn't benefit downtown much, either in terms of urbanism or transportation. It's not being capped, it's being removed. The Michigan Department of Transportation has been having public meetings etc for a while now, but there's not funding for the project yet. But that freeway is at the end of its life so something is going to happen one way or another. I think it will be a big improvement though. Part of the project is also rebuilding the interchange immediately to the north, as well as Jefferson Avenue to the south, so it's going to bring about huge improvements in walkability.

Capping I-75 is something that many people would like to see, but it's not happening. The possibility of capping (actually just making the sidewalks 20 feet or so wider on Woodward and possibly adding a super narrow storefront) was proposed by the owners of the new arena that's adjacent to the freeway, in order to gain support from the urbanism crowd. But it's not in the works from either MDOT or the city, and the arena owners are not paying for it either. Not only that but the bridge was just rebuilt a few years ago.

Thank you! Very informative!! That seems like it would do a lot for downtown Detroit.

I know in Houston, they're looking into taking down the Pierse Elevated (I-45) and expanding I-59 while burying a part of it underground building a park on top. This would connect downtown to the southeast and southwest neighborhoods which are walkable and growing very fast. It's a great idea but it sounds expensive and dealing with congestion during construction will be a huge issue. I don't see them doing this without assistance from the state or federal government (especially considering they're interstates), so it might be more of a "wishlist" item at the moment. Although, it would be really good for the city if they went through with it.

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21 hours ago, Jasoncw said:

 

I-375, which is the short segment of freeway immediately east of downtown, is at the end of its life. Replacing it with a surface boulevard is cheaper than reconstructing it, and overall it doesn't benefit downtown much, either in terms of urbanism or transportation. It's not being capped, it's being removed. The Michigan Department of Transportation has been having public meetings etc for a while now, but there's not funding for the project yet. But that freeway is at the end of its life so something is going to happen one way or another. I think it will be a big improvement though. Part of the project is also rebuilding the interchange immediately to the north, as well as Jefferson Avenue to the south, so it's going to bring about huge improvements in walkability.

Capping I-75 is something that many people would like to see, but it's not happening. The possibility of capping (actually just making the sidewalks 20 feet or so wider on Woodward and possibly adding a super narrow storefront) was proposed by the owners of the new arena that's adjacent to the freeway, in order to gain support from the urbanism crowd. But it's not in the works from either MDOT or the city, and the arena owners are not paying for it either. Not only that but the bridge was just rebuilt a few years ago.

Thanks for the update. I knew there were several "ideas" that they had for 375, but didn't know they had settled on something. As for 75, that's disappointing.

On 3/4/2019 at 12:00 AM, ByeByeBayou said:

Really? That's interesting. I've been doing some research on Detriot because I'm visiting this weekend, and just from a map, it seems like the downtown/midtown area is very segmented by freeways. Hopefully, they follow through with this! It made a big impact in downtown Dallas. Do you know if they have renderings of a landscape architect on board, or is this just a wishlist item by the city?

Funny thing is, there are a couple of renderings (more like concept art). One of them is actually from the early 90's. It was included in an article called "unbuilt detroit", which is quite fascinating . The more recent one I believe was included with the district detroit proposals that were put out by Illitch holdings, so that follows with what Jason said above. 

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On 3/4/2019 at 9:04 PM, Goldman Sachs said:

I give up.

That sucks canal water -- I feel really bad for you.  You do such fine work on these historic vessels, but they just don't seem to render properly.

I'm not even remotely capable of producing such a masterpiece -- but have you tried the suggestion to eliminate some of the detail from the bat model ??

It might produce a very fine model even without some of that spectacular detail you provide.

To paraphrase......"PERFECT can be the enemy of existing".

Good luck, my friend.

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15 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

That sucks canal water -- I feel really bad for you.  You do such fine work on these historic vessels, but they just don't seem to render properly.

I'm not even remotely capable of producing such a masterpiece -- but have you tried the suggestion to eliminate some of the detail from the bat model ??

It might produce a very fine model even without some of that spectacular detail you provide.

To paraphrase......"PERFECT can be the enemy of existing".

Good luck, my friend.

From what I got, Robin had the solution: fix the LODs of the model to help bat4max to assemble back the full images. I'm expecting the results though, it may be another issue, maybe?

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11 hours ago, WolfZe said:

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Ooooh. Tell me you'll upload that one, pleeeze !

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On 3/5/2019 at 10:35 PM, ByeByeBayou said:

Thank you! Very informative!! That seems like it would do a lot for downtown Detroit.

I know in Houston, they're looking into taking down the Pierse Elevated (I-45) and expanding I-59 while burying a part of it underground building a park on top. This would connect downtown to the southeast and southwest neighborhoods which are walkable and growing very fast. It's a great idea but it sounds expensive and dealing with congestion during construction will be a huge issue. I don't see them doing this without assistance from the state or federal government (especially considering they're interstates), so it might be more of a "wishlist" item at the moment. Although, it would be really good for the city if they went through with it.

Hopefully they're able to do something about it because I-45, especially over the park and river, really spoil that spot.

7 hours ago, ericexp said:

Thanks for the update. I knew there were several "ideas" that they had for 375, but didn't know they had settled on something. As for 75, that's disappointing.

Funny thing is, there are a couple of renderings (more like concept art). One of them is actually from the early 90's. It was included in an article called "unbuilt detroit", which is quite fascinating . The more recent one I believe was included with the district detroit proposals that were put out by Illitch holdings, so that follows with what Jason said above. 

Here's the MDOT page: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9621_11058_75084---,00.html

Right now the "Advisory Committee Meetings" has the most up to date information about the project.

The unbuilt detroit article is a lot of fun although I think some of the "unbuilt" buildings are more credible than others! A lot of them including the cap and that big circular park are very conceptual looking. And just myself in the last 15 years have seen plenty of flashy but completely uncredible renderings that if the article were updated would probably be included.

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Here it's time for billboards on STEX.

Thanks.

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8 hours ago, tariely said:

Ooooh. Tell me you'll upload that one, pleeeze !

Alright, by way of exception..........

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Small 2x2 GASOLIN gas station

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14 hours ago, WolfZe said:

Alright, by way of exception..........

Thanks !!! 

I availed myself of the opportunity and downloaded all your ships (and the dry dock !) I hadn't seen them float by...

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And a petrol station where those who like it rusty, dirty and cheap can refuel.......

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Another rural track!

And another preview of Madison Plains.

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2 hours ago, WolfZe said:

And a petrol station where those who like it rusty, dirty and cheap can refuel.......

This is my favorite activity 

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What a fare market.