Maloskero's Brazilian BAT's

[Maloskero 436]

Hello everyone. Well, I have been BATing for a while but I think that my productions could improve if I asked some help here in simtropolis, so I decided to start this thread in order to show some of my recent work and to receive some tips on how to improve it. So here is a house that I made last week, it's based on a house found in my home town in the countryside of Brazil, I would really aprecciate any comments. Sorry if I made any grammar mistakes.

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Great start !

[libellibicus 396]

Very nice BAT. I don't really see what you could need help to improve. I particularly like the roof slate textures.

[jason leo 485]

The roof seems pretty flat, but outside that, very good job.

[Gn_leugim 858]

well, first, bemvindo

 

secondly, i'm going to ask, for better and easy visualization of your pictures, that you host them on a web site outside ST (like photobucket or imageshack) and post here using the image posting function of the forum

 

now the Bat, I have some consideration on it. first the colors. they are to my point of view a bit oversaturated. but not that much, as they are would be ok. the major issue is the roof. It stands too much from the rest. Let me ask you to make an exercise. take a look at the game's houses with a tiled roof as yours. you will notice that, not only their color is a bit more faded away, as also blurred. there are no sharp textures as yours. So I would or replace the texture for other more smooth or, take this one, scale it a bit down and blur it a lot. this second option I dot know if is the best though.

 

you have fallen into the same mistake as everyone who starts BATing, pick a texture and drop it into the BAT and it's done. that's not the best way to proceed. Good textures are not found, are made

 

I hope I made my self understand clear and good start and good luck!

[Za 164]

Looks like a promising start indeed I'll have to echo others with regard to the roof if the tiles will remain that large, I'd suggest modelling them. They're surprisingly not that hard - just a bunch of tapered, sliced tubes achieve a convincing result. I'll be sure to follow this.

[Maloskero 436]

Ok, thanks very much for everyone's comments!

So you are all suggesting me to scale down the roof tiles, but I don't know what is to "blur" an texture as gn_leguim mentioned so I would be very gratefull if someone explained that to me. Also, I don't know if mentioned, but I make my models at sketchup and render them with BAT4max for 3dsmax 2012. Here are some minimal changes I have made. Sorry about the picture again, when I tried to use imageshack I received this message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community."

Thanks for the help! 

[Gn_leugim 858]

well, about imageshack try to use .jpg files or maybe .png

 

(Gaussian) Blur is a graphic effect you can apply to an image to smooth it out. I cant really explain in english so I leave an image that speaks for 1000 words

 

 

Nevertheless, I am not sure if this will be good for your roof. Also, it would be good if you would add a gradient effect on the roof. i.e make the roof darker on the bottom and lighter in the top.

 

Given this may I ask you, how good are you with Photoshop or Gimp (or other image editing software)?

[Darknono35 3,138]

Very good start Maloskero    . Have you already modeled a BAT for SC4 ? It's good if you're a rookies

I want to see more about this small house, keep it up man

[Kruness 176]

it looks cool, i would definitely use it

[Maloskero 436]

Thanks for the comments, especially gn_leugim for his short explanation  .

Well, I was in vacation this week so I had plenty of time to work on my house models. I have 12 new houses with reworked scailing and new details to make them a little more realistic, unfortunately, the house that I was working on felt a little out of place when I tested it with my new props so I had to discard it, for a while at least. Sorry gn_leugim, but I really don't have slightest idea on how to add such effects on my houses as I have little knowledge on how to use 3dsmax properly and it is really difficult for me to understand all the technical language they use in their tutorials, but as you guys suggested I scaled down the roof tiles and tried not saturate the wall's textures too much (I addmit they are a little saturated but that's a characteristic of the local architecture). Please tell me your oppinion as I intend to make a set of little commercial buildings to go along with these and I'm plannig on using the same methods as I used so far. Thanks

 

[libellibicus 396]

I really like the distressed roof texture on the pink building. Very well done.

[mntoes 271]

I would say that the saturation of the textures is perfect for this style of building. Looking good.

[zahrul3 472]

I would say that, at this state, the buildings are releaseable to the ST Exchange

[Bastet69008 1,102]

QUE MASSA CARA!

 

Muito Legal! My personal favorite is the 4th one from the right. The wall texture is great and the tiles are awesome. As I told you I've never been to Brazil (what a shame) but I've seen tons of photographs from the Nordeste and most of the the time the walls didn't look that clean, especially on the side of the buildings. 

 

 

Also, are you planning to make corner buildings like you did on the Casebres Coloniais pack?

Otherwise great job! Keep up the good work

[Darknono35 3,138]

Good job so far

[jason leo 485]

I will take it as it is, but one question left, how is the nightlight ? I can't believe that you are still new to this one, the BATs are just very good.

 

Wonderful job, buddy !

[Maloskero 436]

I really aprecciate all the comments, especially Bastet's for his posted pictures of my idol Luiz Gonzaga, who is undoubtedly the biggest name in the whole history of brazilian music and a major icon of the Northeast region, and the beatifull city of Olinda. Well Bastet, I made the textures look clean because I wanted them to look like they were recently painted, I didn't want to make those houses feel so run-down nor old as those colonial houses in Olinda. I will make two corner houses for this little set, I hope to post a picture of them by tomorrow.

 

I wanted my houses to look clean as the green one on the left or as the red one in the right. Thanks for the comments everyone, I will soon post more pics

Sorry for double posting but I just saw jason leo's comment. I can guarantee you there are night lights, when I finish the two pending corner houses I will show the lights for you. Thanks for the comment

[flunight 98]

Great job!

[SimCoug 5,976]

Wow! These little BATs have so much character. I love the fact that you are taking the time to put together a set. I'm looking forward to your future progress.

[Maloskero 436]

Ok guys, I got a little excited and decided to make some new houses, so now I have 20 pros, 4 were designed for use on corner lots. Once again I aprecciate everyone's comments and I ask once again to feel free to make new comments and critics. So here are the pictures, I will soon start my work on commercial buildings as I am still in my vacations.

 

 

 

[libellibicus 396]

That is a fantastic set. The attention to detail is superb.

[Bastet69008 1,102]

 Simply awesome! Love those corner buildings  Great job!

[SimCoug 5,976]

Beautiful. And a set of commercial too? It just keeps getting better. Have you considered rendering you models as diagonal versions too?

[Darknono35 3,138]

Yep ! it's beautiful. Your small Brazilian houses are lovely and amazing 

I love the color variation and the roofs textures

[mntoes 271]

These are really good. Can't fault the in any way.

[Delecto 941]

[Za 164]

Those are looking quite nice; the illusion of the textured roof is working much better now.

[Maloskero 436]

Thank you all for the comments, I am really glad you all liked it! So I am guessing I can officially start my development on my small commercial set! Once I finish both sets I will release them here and at simcitybrasil.com, but this may take a while. I also have some few projects in my mind, like doing middle class modern buildings as well and a tiny set of historical houses, wich would contain houses in art-deco, neoclassical and neocolonial houses, and as matter of fact, I already did some

 

The left would represent low wealth, run-down historical houses, and the one in the right would represent middle-class, recently restored houses. Please tell me what you think

[libellibicus 396]

They are really good. Your attention to detail is fantastic. I can't wait to see this progress.