Reddonquixote's BAT thread

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Actually I was just thinking I could make some Brisbane Towers only (or Australian Towers)... That's the one thing that gets really tedious with making Melbourne BATs is the bases are always huge and complex, but I'm going for a recreation so I'm kind of stuck with having to make them. I could make a side project of Brisbane towers with standalone made up bases that are more US-like and SC4 lot compatible, plus Brisbane has some great modern buildings.

 

Towers take next to no time to make, Infinity tower was a day, but that's only because I painstakingly attached each one of those white line things on the bottom left corner exactly as they are in RL, then I got jack of it and made the rest up . Plus scouring for references was time consuming

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Beautiful and different tower, I liked it. Looking great!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

The Brisbane Tower looks really snazzy and those blue outer lines snaking up the building look kind of sexy, I'm thinking ribbons...

[Darknono35 3,137]

Infinity Tower is awesome, keep it up buddy

[Xander Dax 310]

If you are considering Brisbane Red here's a few Recommendations

Soleil

Aurora Tower

Waterfront Place

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Thanks for Aurora Tower, I had seen it but wasn't sure what it was called. Not sure about Waterfront place.. its a bit of a behemoth (although I haven't seen it from the other side). The other one I was looking at is One One One Eagle Street. Thanks for the suggestions

[Xander Dax 310]

Welcome Red, Waterfront place may be a behemoth but is one GOOD LOOKING building  .

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

 

 

Great work once again Red! You have just made what exactly I was hoping for, towers with shopping malls...

 

To be honest, that's about 70% of Australian Skyscrapers. Few are properly standalone like a lot are in most of the US.

 

I'm loving Infinity Tower! They took ages to build it. I was in the city a few weeks ago but didn't see it, I used to see it from the Train nearly every day when I had to go to Uni.

 

 

Is that so? I've learned something new today. Hahaha. I don't often see skyscrapers with malls in Manila or around the Philippines, more often than not, malls are a separate entity. 

 

It's true. Even my suburban shopping mall has a six storey office tower attached to it!

[Roger51 381]

Hahahaha sorry Red for being away should be able to get few nearmap refs for infinity, hope you have checked skyscrapercity for pics already, as for 111 Eagle, wow!!! Hope you do consider it, night lighting is stunning from what I have seen

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Yes please!    (and State Library as well if that's not being too cheeky? )

[Xander Dax 310]

Oooh what about these two from the Gold Coast Red?

Circle on Cavil

Hilton Surfers Hotel & Residences

[jdenm8 362]

Yes please!    (and State Library as well if that's not being too cheeky? )

 

You sure you mean the State Library? That's an old, ugly monolith in Southbank. Basically the same complex as QPAC, the Science Center and GOMA. The big tall building at the top of Queen Street has the City Library if I'm not mistaken.

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Brisbane or Melbourne? I mean the in Melbourne. (The BAT I'm currently working on)

[__A 792]

Oooh what about these two from the Gold Coast Red?

Circle on Cavil

Hilton Surfers Hotel & Residences

Oh yes! They're my favourite buildings in the GC, quite Docklandish as well apart from the height

[Xander Dax 310]

Yea Circle on Cavil would look right at home in Melbourne i think.

[Roger51 381]

Incoming.......

 

 

 

Infinity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Library of Victoria:

 

 

 

 

 

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou :thumb:   This is very helpful. I can hopefully get some idea about the tower's footprint size as well now. I can't believe how quickly they update their images.. quite amazing really.

 

Now.. anyone within actual visual distance of the tower (Lindsay? ).. can you please tell me whether that long strip down the white-stripey side of the building, is that there on completion, or was it just there during construction? I saw another image where it looked like it was being filled in. Its definitely a difficult building to make good sense of!

[Roger51 381]

Sorry Red, should have put the date on them, the infinity pics are from 29th November 2013 (seems Brisbane doesn't get updated that often.....)  and the state library pics are from the 4th march 2014

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Lol... well, Google maps is still showing a carpark.. so November is pretty good by comparison   

 

- oh, I must not have checked Bing Maps, I just looked then, Infinity Tower is actually there, albeit under construction... maybe I only looked at Google maps... oh well. these are much better

 

Edit: Ah.. it's there on Bing in aerial view but not Birdseye view... !

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wonderful work as always.

[Lindsaygaskell94 13]

 

Now.. anyone within actual visual distance of the tower (Lindsay? ).. can you please tell me whether that long strip down the white-stripey side of the building, is that there on completion, or was it just there during construction? I saw another image where it looked like it was being filled in. Its definitely a difficult building to make good sense of!

 

Not sure what you mean, but how you have it there looks pretty much how it is now

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Well, after what I thought was going to be a couple of hours work to finish it off actually ended up being a couple of days - mostly due to sloppy modelling work at the start

 

A couple of issues have revealed themselves in the last render, mostly overlapping model pieces protruding where they shouldn't, and the roofs are a bit barren but I'll dress them up as I go.

 

State Library Victoria:

 

 

 

 

 

Time to start on the textures

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Oooh! I like this one.

[__A 792]

What a beauty!

[Durfsurn 539]

This looks great

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

*O*

Stunning!! So detailed, great job you're doing.

[John A. Rivers 109]

The state library of Victoria will probably be one your most outstanding bat! I can't wait to see it over 

 

As always, what a wonderful job you did. I'm really impressed.

[Charlie_Zane 963]

As always red, another amazing bat in the works! I can't want to plop this beauty in my cities.

[dubaidude303 1,119]

Looks awesome!!!

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Thanks

 

Here's the garden area. I'll need to recheck the saturation levels once the building is attached - I'm really happy with the texture of the grass but the colour is so hard to get right