Maloskero's Brazilian BAT's

[Maloskero 436]

Stunning details!  This is going to look phenomenal in game - great progress!

 

Thank you very much SimCoug! You're always welcome in this thread! 

 

Maybe reddonquixotes long lost twin?

 

Hahahaha, no no no, Reddonquixote is miles ahead of me, he's a true monster in BATting. But I thank you for the complimment 

 

Hellooooooo everyone, just wanted to show how my housing project is comming along, hehe

I've tweaked alot of stuff and made some small props for the Lots. I hope you guys enjoy it, as this is finally coming to final stages of development. Thanks everyone!

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Oh Lord have mercy this..is...amazing! Great job as always my friend!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

That's amazing indeed! So much variety, and the overall look is absolutely realistic as far as I can tell.

[SimCoug 5,976]

Variety is the spice of SC4

[Harry's Place 918]

amazing work

[Maloskero 436]

The STEX seems to have received two major Latin American uploads, so I think I should also contribute to this, hehe.

Long time no see, I know! Real life has been extremelly demanding in 2015, but things are starting to improve to me. I have returned to BAT houses from my home region (Northeast of Brazil) and I would like to say to all of you that my low wealth house pack is almost done, with only the Loting process remaining. I would also like to show to you a little preview of sometinh I've been doing for the last few days.

The 7 buildings from the left to the right are Low Wealth Medium Density houses, representing the typical urbanization process of the region (and pretty much of all Brazil), a process that was conducted very rapidly in a short spam of time, based on the forced migration of the rural people of Brazil into it's poor, infrastecture-less and overgrown cities. The 2 buildings in the right are Low Wealth Low Density Commercial, showcasing what usually happened in the region in the first moments of urban aglomeration (the process began slowly in the XIX century and boomed from the 1960's onward): most buildings that functioned as houses for subsistence farmers started to also function as little comercial buildings as more farmers started leaving the deep countryside of Brazil; usually the main hall of the house was turned into a little shop, bar or restaurant where the kids and the female members of the household worked while the grown adults went to the fields.

Hope you guys like the preview! I'm glad to be back again!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

It is very good to hear you, Maloskero!!!
Your models are looking very realistic and are representing very good your proposal! Really beautiful work!

[Bastet69008 1,102]

[SimCoug 5,976]

So glad to see you are still around - the new models are looking fantastic! 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Is there some South America conspiracy going on? All it takes now is harishna coming back suddenly... (wish he did :/ )

[matias93 7,535]

7 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Is there some South America conspiracy going on? All it takes now is harishna coming back suddenly... (wish he did :/ )

It is called 'austral summer vacations', roughly two months of free time to do custom content _{(i wish i have such free time to learn to bat)}

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

I guess Odd perfectly shows the reaction of most users seeing you comming back

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

The houses aren't something I'd use in Perseus but they are truly wonderful and the detail is impressive. Wonderful work!

[Maloskero 436]

On 10/02/2016 at 0:09 AM, JP Schriefer said:

It is very good to hear you, Maloskero!!!
Your models are looking very realistic and are representing very good your proposal! Really beautiful work!

Muito obrigado meu amigo, I only wish I known to BAT as beatifully as you do. I've been away for some time, but I'm following your recent BAT (altough I don't have the habit of comenting) and I've got to say that you're trully a master at what you do, and I'm proud to have such an talented artist as you are be Brazilian! Falo sinceramente, Parabéns cara!

On 10/02/2016 at 10:41 AM, Bastet69008 said:

Cabra macho da peste, always a joy for me to see you in this thread! As the accordion player and forrozeiro that I am, I say Viva o Forró e o Nordeste! Thanks for showing up, man !

On 10/02/2016 at 2:23 PM, SimCoug said:

So glad to see you are still around - the new models are looking fantastic! 

Thank you very much, SimCoug! I can assure you that I'm more than glad to see you visiting my modest thread. You're more than welcome here 

On 10/02/2016 at 6:54 PM, T Wrecks said:

Is there some South America conspiracy going on? All it takes now is harishna coming back suddenly... (wish he did :/ )

Me too  I really wish that the new LBT team (there's a new one, right?) can deliver us some high-quality mods as they old team used to. I believe that no one is replaceable but as you already know yourself, we have a new latin-american in the roster of the top moders now, JP Schriefer. The nice thing about an game with such easy modding capabilites is that the group of modders is always refresing itself with new artists, right? Thanks for stoping by T Wrecks! Please do return!

On 11/02/2016 at 2:26 AM, matias93 said:

It is called 'austral summer vacations', roughly two months of free time to do custom content _{(i wish i have such free time to learn to bat)}

Hahahaha, summer vacations certainly help, yeah. The three months away from college really made me return to BAT. Only wish my boss at the office would also give some free time  But I guess that's asking too much. Hope to see you back here, matias93!

On 11/02/2016 at 3:20 PM, Toothless Stitch said:

I guess Odd perfectly shows the reaction of most users seeing you comming back

Hahahaha, good one! Thanks for showing up, Toothless Stitch, I hope I can live up to all this joy hehe. Muito obrigado !

Just now, Belfastsocrates said:

The houses aren't something I'd use in Perseus but they are truly wonderful and the detail is impressive. Wonderful work!

Well, I wouldn't ask you to use them, hahaha. Altough those are my houses, my children, they wouldn't fit the theme of your CJ, and the available custom content that fits your european setting is of much higher quality than my stuff. I thank you for the compliment and I hope to see you back in this thread again ! 

 

I've got to admit, I felt a great joy to see there's still some interest in my BATs, specially from those Simtropolis Titans that supported me in the past and that are still showing support. Thank you very much, guys! Muito obrigado mesmo! Most of you are also modders, so you already know that recognition and support is what brings most happiness to a modder.

Anyways, here's a little preview just to keep you guys warmed, hehe

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The 6 buildings from the left to the right are Low-Wealth Low-Desnity commercial buildings that I have made recently and the last one in the right corner is a Low-Wealth Medium-Density commercial building. Soon I will get back to my Igreja da Penha for the Project Rio as there's not much left for me to finish that cathedral. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it and please come back for more, guys! Many thanks!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

You don't need to wish that, you're already an incredible batter, we can confirm that just seeing your models, amazing textures and very well modeled. The Igreja da Penha you're doing is also one of the most beautiful models I've ever seen, sincerely. People who know how cities are in Latin America know how accurate and realistic your models look.
In this last preview, looks like it will be a 2x1. Or 3x1?

[SimCoug 5,976]

Looking good!  Let me throw an Idea at you... To take full advantage of the variety possibilities.... what if you rendered the store fronts separately.  You could mod them as props and put them in a prop family.   Since they are all the same width, all you would need to do is lot them so they line up with the rest of the building (which you could also combine into prop families) and you could make a few lots that would grow in random combinations (for example, if you just used the 6 store fronts you have shown, combined with the 6 buildings you would have 36 total combination possibilities!)  

I'd be happy to help on the lotting/modding end if you would like to take something like this on.  

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Warmed? Oh yeah, I start sweating already! See? That's why I only have a towel on. 

Btw, It's clearly noticable how you used the same roof tiles pattern for the first and the third building from the left. 

 

[matias93 7,535]

23 hours ago, SimCoug said:

Looking good!  Let me throw an Idea at you... To take full advantage of the variety possibilities.... what if you rendered the store fronts separately.  You could mod them as props and put them in a prop family.   Since they are all the same width, all you would need to do is lot them so they line up with the rest of the building (which you could also combine into prop families) and you could make a few lots that would grow in random combinations (for example, if you just used the 6 store fronts you have shown, combined with the 6 buildings you would have 36 total combination possibilities!)  

I'd be happy to help on the lotting/modding end if you would like to take something like this on.  

In fact, those storefronts could work very well over other buildings, even higher in prominence (I'm thinking in Le Corbusier-styled  3-4 storey 'placa' buildings aside high rises)

Torres de Carlos Antúnez, a local example of a building which could match those storefronts (google maps link)

[SimCoug 5,976]

6 minutes ago, matias93 said:

In fact, those storefronts could work very well over other buildings, even higher in prominence (I'm thinking in Le Corbusier-styled  3-4 storey 'placa' buildings aside high rises)
*snip*

Absolutely!!!  Maxis did a great job with their storefront prop family... it's really an under-appreciated trick for compounding variety. More storefronts in this vein will be greatly appreciated by lotters everywhere

[Bastet69008 1,102]

I second SimCoug on that one! And btw, it's awesome meu amigo!

[SimCoug 5,976]

17 minutes ago, Bastet69008 said:

I second SimCoug on that one! And btw, it's awesome meu amigo!

Thanks

Here's one quick example of using the storefront trick on other custom content... subtle, but fun

[Maloskero 436]

15 hours ago, JP Schriefer said:

You don't need to wish that, you're already an incredible batter, we can confirm that just seeing your models, amazing textures and very well modeled. The Igreja da Penha you're doing is also one of the most beautiful models I've ever seen, sincerely. People who know how cities are in Latin America know how accurate and realistic your models look.
In this last preview, looks like it will be a 2x1. Or 3x1?

Thank you very much for the kind words, JP Schriefer, they mean a lot! Nah, those houses are all individual props to be used in 1x2 or 1x3 lots (or bigger ones, hehe). Thanks for coming around and make sure to come back!

15 hours ago, SimCoug said:

Looking good!  Let me throw an Idea at you... To take full advantage of the variety possibilities.... what if you rendered the store fronts separately.  You could mod them as props and put them in a prop family.   Since they are all the same width, all you would need to do is lot them so they line up with the rest of the building (which you could also combine into prop families) and you could make a few lots that would grow in random combinations (for example, if you just used the 6 store fronts you have shown, combined with the 6 buildings you would have 36 total combination possibilities!)  

I'd be happy to help on the lotting/modding end if you would like to take something like this on.  

Well, your idea seems great and other have agreed on it. Someone suggested this to me sometime ago and I really didn't thought it through and just discarded the idea, but now I'm going to give some real thought. At first  see the problem of my buildings varying greatly in terms of height (that's intentional, simulating measure-less building that are quite common in poor regions), but I will see what I can do. SimCoug, can you direct me to where can I get some prop family numbers? I would greatly aprreciate your help in this endeavour. I will do some testing this week and I will come back to report my results. Thank you very much for the great suggestion!

5 hours ago, Toothless Stitch said:

Warmed? Oh yeah, I start sweating already! See? That's why I only have a towel on. 

Btw, It's clearly noticable how you used the same roof tiles pattern for the first and the third building from the left. 

 

Hahahahaha. Well, that's bound to happen, I have over 80 house models and I'm reaching 12 commercial models, so there's a lot of repetition there and I really don't mind it. Thank you very much, Toothless Stitch, keep sweating when coming here!

[elavery 1,013]

Maloskero, your work is amazing! Glad to have you on the Rio 2016 team.

[SimCoug 5,976]

On 2/15/2016 at 5:43 AM, Maloskero said:

Well, your idea seems great and other have agreed on it. Someone suggested this to me sometime ago and I really didn't thought it through and just discarded the idea, but now I'm going to give some real thought. At first  see the problem of my buildings varying greatly in terms of height (that's intentional, simulating measure-less building that are quite common in poor regions), but I will see what I can do. SimCoug, can you direct me to where can I get some prop family numbers? I would greatly aprreciate your help in this endeavour. I will do some testing this week and I will come back to report my results. Thank you very much for the great suggestion!

As for varying heights - you could create a prop family for each height (store fronts and buildings)... that way you could just match up the right store front to the right building height.
You can get a prop family range over at SC4D, but for testing purposes feel free to use some of my numbers in the mean time:

5f85c270

5f85c271

5f85c272

5f85c273

5f85c274

5f85c275

5f85c276

5f85c277

5f85c278

5f85c279

(I blocked these numbers out on my list, so feel free to use them as you wish)

[Maloskero 436]

On 16/02/2016 at 0:25 AM, elavery said:

Maloskero, your work is amazing! Glad to have you on the Rio 2016 team.

You know it's my pleasure, Elavery! Thank you for stopping by !

18 hours ago, SimCoug said:

As for varying heights - you could create a prop family for each height (store fronts and buildings)... that way you could just match up the right store front to the right building height.
You can get a prop family range over at SC4D, but for testing purposes feel free to use some of my numbers in the mean time:

5f85c270

5f85c271

5f85c272

5f85c273

5f85c274

5f85c275

5f85c276

5f85c277

5f85c278

5f85c279

(I blocked these numbers out on my list, so feel free to use them as you wish)

Hey there, SimCoug. I've been conducting a few tests this week and so far the results are not positive. The façade props and back props don't fit entirelly well. I will see what I can tweak in them so they can fit nicely. If I can't do it, however, I will have to abandon the idea. But thank you very much for the help and keep rooting for me so that I can figure this out!

[Maloskero 436]

Hey there! I've got some good and bad news,

I've tried, in the past weeks, to make the prop families system to work with my buildings but I couldn't. The issue is that the styles that I've represented are far too heterogeneous, with some being far too taller than others, and some having details in their façade that extrude into the sidewalk. Of course I could remodel my buildings to make them fit, that is indeed possible, but it would require far too much effort from my part (redoing them and testing if they fit nicely). I hope you guys forgive me and pardon me, but I simply don't have that much time yet to that kind of overhaul of what I already did, sorry

The good news is that I've been able to start tackling some medium wealth low density houses. I've also done some other stuff this week that I will be showcasing later. I hope you guys enjoy it!

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Oh those look great! I could get away using those in Perseus in some way as well  

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

These houses are so cute *_*

[matias93 7,535]

Solid fences!!! Nothing is more latinamerican than a mini-border fence outside your tiny house, even with spikes and electricity.

[Edvarz 1,985]

Yesyesyesyesyesyes!!!!

I can't wait to have these. If there was one thing missing from the game was this style of suburban little houses finally we will be able to make realistic latin american suburbs.

Keep up the excellent work!

 

39 minutes ago, matias93 said:

Solid fences!!! Nothing is more latinamerican than a mini-border fence outside your tiny house, even with spikes and electricity.

Here in Mexico people even use glass bottle shards in the outside walls to serve as barbed wire. Go figure!