Reddonquixote's BAT thread

[tonyr 926]

I think the BAT looks better than the real thing.

[weixc812 509]

Aha...I am visiting Melbourne JUST at this moment and I paid special attention to this building when I walked across the Yarra river this afternoon through Webb bridge! I took a picture and bring Tower 2 to you. Is the building on the right side you're planning to make, Reddon? Btw, it really looks better than it is in reality! Melbourne is such an incredible city

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Superb BATting of St.Paul's Cathedral, you've done this country proud!! Are you planning on doing Melbourne's older buildings too?

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Before I was involved into Simtropolis and SC4, I used to have a steryotypical assumption that Australia is a thrird world country with kangaroos and beach hut settlements.

[cmdp123789 710]

Before I was involved into Simtropolis and SC4, I used to have a steryotypical assumption that Australia is a thrird world country with kangaroos and beach hut settlements.

That's exactly what almost all the developed countries think about the rest of the world. I remember watching bugs bunny going to South America, only to find native Indians trying to eat him. Such a shame that history isn't enough, specially when almost all those countries are the reason of that conception based on their egocentric desires and greed.

[__A 792]

Aha...I am visiting Melbourne JUST at this moment and I paid special attention to this building when I came across the Yarra river this afternoon through Webb bridge! I took a picture and bring Tower 2 to you. Is the building on the right side you're planning to make, Reddon?Btw, it really looks better than it is in reality! Melbourne is such an incredible city

Wow, I hope you're enjoying you're stay here! Webb Bridge has such good views, the Bolte Bridge, CBD, Southbank, Yarra's Edge and Docklands. How long are you here for?

[weixc812 509]

Aha...I am visiting Melbourne JUST at this moment and I paid special attention to this building when I came across the Yarra river this afternoon through Webb bridge! I took a picture and bring Tower 2 to you. Is the building on the right side you're planning to make, Reddon?Btw, it really looks better than it is in reality! Melbourne is such an incredible city

Wow, I hope you're enjoying you're stay here! Webb Bridge has such good views, the Bolte Bridge, CBD, Southbank, Yarra's Edge and Docklands. How long are you here for? Yes, I'm enjoying everything here. I've been to Flinders Street Station, Federation Square, St Paul's Cathedral, St Patrick's Cathedral, Parliament House, Royal Arcade, Melbourne Central, Chinatown, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum, Shrine of Rememberance, Royal Botanic Gardens, National Gallery of Victoria, Etihad Stadium, Harbourtown Shopping Centre, Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, Melboune Zoo, Captain Cook's Cottage, Southern Cross Station...Reddon's BATs make me familiar with everywhere! Now I'm having dinner at Hophaus Bar inside Southgate Shopping Centre. I'm leaving Melbourne for Sydney tomorrow, putting an end to 3 day journey here. I'm gonna miss everything.

Sorry for being off topic a bit, Reddon.

[__A 792]

 

 

Aha...I am visiting Melbourne JUST at this moment and I paid special attention to this building when I came across the Yarra river this afternoon through Webb bridge! I took a picture and bring Tower 2 to you. Is the building on the right side you're planning to make, Reddon?Btw, it really looks better than it is in reality! Melbourne is such an incredible city

Wow, I hope you're enjoying you're stay here! Webb Bridge has such good views, the Bolte Bridge, CBD, Southbank, Yarra's Edge and Docklands. How long are you here for? Yes, I'm enjoying everything here. I've been to Flinders Street Station, Federation Square, St Paul's Cathedral, St Patrick's Cathedral, Parliament House, Royal Arcade, Melbourne Central, Chinatown, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum, Shrine of Rememberance, Royal Botanic Gardens, National Gallery of Victoria, Etihad Stadium, Harbourtown Shopping Centre, Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, Melboune Zoo, Captain Cook's Cottage, Southern Cross Station...Reddon's BATs make me familiar with everywhere! Now I'm having dinner at Hophaus Bar inside Southgate Shopping Centre. I'm leaving Melbourne for Sydney tomorrow, putting an end to 3 day journey here. I'm gonna miss everything.

Sorry for being off topic a bit, Reddon.

 

Well you've been all everywhere! You've probably crossed the Southbank Bridge which has the love locks if you're at Southgate Hope you enjoy Sydney as well although we all know Melbourne's better 

 

And yeah sorry about it being slightly off-topic

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

This is the Melbourne BAT thread after all so not really off topic. Besides, Weixc's list of places reads like the front page of my BAT thread  .

 

Weixc, I think you have been to more places than I have!

 

Glad you enjoyed your visit to Melbourne. You will have an amazing time in Sydney. Sydney is a great place to visit (just wouldn't want to live there :P )

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Double post!

 

This is just to advise I have fixed and re-uploaded on the STEX if anyone wants to get a fixed new version. It was reported by Mister-La Te that the night lights were sinking into the ground but I didn't understand what he was talking about until I just noticed the same thing last night. I think it was a LOD glitch, but has now been fixed. Not sure where else to post this notice as the upload is buried a couple of pages down on the STEX.

 

As mentioned in the description, I've only fixed the non-diagonal versions as the diagonals ones won't light up for me. If anyone has managed to get them to light up and there is a rendering problem please let me know? Thanks

[Shadow Assassin 336]

 It was reported by Mister-La Te that the night lights were sinking into the ground but I didn't understand what he was talking about

 

Probably a side-effect of Melbourne's crappy soil.

 

And yes... I do agree abotu Sydney being a nice place to visit but not a nice place to live

 

 

Love your BATs, though - what are you going to do when you've recreated everything in Melbourne?

[APSMS 1,892]

Hey Reddon,

I was wondering if you could make us an HD render of St. Paul's Cathedral, so we could really see all of the little details that you've included in the model. I know you typically do SD BATs (which are HD quality), but I didn't know if that was for technical reasons or if you just didn't like waiting for the render to finish on the high res textures.

It'd be ashame to have all that detail be lost on a standard render.

[darn42 1,268]

I can't really speak for reddon, but for the most part, we do SD renders because HD looks out of place. It effects the quality of the zoom 5 renders in-game, and makes them look worse. The benefits they get are marginal, as well, because zoom6 is not a popular zoom in the game just because the vast majority of details are completely gone. Very small things like props are rendered HD because they really are only seen at all in that zoom level.

[noahclem 262]

The new building is looking awesome!! And if you're looking for another project that unique bridge would be great to see....

 

I'd also really like an HD render of St. Paul's (and anything else you could be arm-twisted into doing, as you know ). And I take exception to benefits being marginal and zoom 6 unpopular. Furthermore, the effect if HD renders on Z5 vary widely, from significantly detrimental to negligible. SD renders are fairly necessary with the kind of large buildings reddonquixote frequently makes, especially since he makes MN & DN renders to keep everyone happy. I don't think it'd be fair to say he sees HD as only appropriate for small props though.

[Bombardiere 591]

A vote for HD from me too. I don't use level 5 zoom that much. It doesn't give a good overall view. (I use default monitor display settings) and it doesn't offer much detail. My zoom levels often are 6 and 3 or 4.

 

I am new to batting and I don't have a firm knowledge on HD 5 Zoom distortion. I don't use DN or 3DS Max, so perhaps nightlight are prone to this. The little I have done has given me an impression that HD 5 Zoom distortion may depend on texture used. Repetive patterns such as brick may show a high effect. I have made only small houses, so possibly this HD 5 Zoom is more noticitable on tall skycrapers.  

 

Anyway, only a small portion of a really big building can be seen on 6 Zoom, so it makes sense to use SD on huge buildings

[KonstantinII 1,106]

 

Before I was involved into Simtropolis and SC4, I used to have a steryotypical assumption that Australia is a thrird world country with kangaroos and beach hut settlements.

That's exactly what almost all the developed countries think about the rest of the world. I remember watching bugs bunny going to South America, only to find native Indians trying to eat him.

 

That is to be expected. People eat rabbits all over the world, not just in South America.

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Thought its time for an update from me. Thanks for the comments and Feedback on Tower 1. I've made a couple of changes, including replacing the white noise texture with a proper texture and I've remade the palm trees from scratch... and tweaked a few other things.

 

Here's what I've been working on. I've been sitting on this for weeks... months maybe..? I made the base in about 2 days, the whole 2nd tower this morning.. and weeks and weeks on the first tower. I found it so tedious I could only muster 15 minutes a day before I'd had enough. I've persevered though, and here they are:

 

Yarra's Edge Towers 2 & 3:

 

 

Let me know what you think so far. Oh, thanks heaps to Roger51 for providing me with some rooftop images that enabled me to complete them

[MushyMushy 3,617]

That's fantastic!

It'll surely add some nice building shape variation to modern cities.

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Woah, those are just what the community need! Another masterpiece!

[Xander Dax 310]

Holy mother of!, brilliant

[tonyr 926]

Oh ... !!! 

[weixc812 509]

Great work again, reddon. I think it turns out really satisfying. Can't wait to have a set of them!( And I thought it would be nice living in them too) 

[__A 792]

They look stunning!! Can't wait for Tower 5, my favourite of them all :3

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

I just cant get along with that 3D rooftop effect. This is .... weird 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Those two apartment blocks are amazing!

[SimCoug 5,972]

That would be an interesting loting challenge

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Great job!! Fantastic as always.

[Huston 5,798]

What did I just see?

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wonderful work!!!!!

[sencillo1 47]

its perfect.