Mass Effect:The Milky Way BAT Project | Satellite Dish

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Just an idea. You could find these pictures interesting, to make for your future Vancouver projects. Style-wise inspiration. The shape of the buildings would be interesting.

[Huston 5,799]

Just an idea. You could find these pictures interesting, to make for your future Vancouver projects. Style-wise inspiration. The shape of the buildings would be interesting.

 

I'll try to take in some ideas from them, but most of my inspirations will lie to Mass Effect's version of Vancouver (which is quite the mix of present styles (current buildings) and futuristic-reminescent designs). It is an Mass Effect BAT thread

 

THIS BUILDING IS ONLY FUELING PROBLEMS. (IT TOOK SOOOOOOOOOO LONG). I'm just getting use to curved bldgs but my gawd, trying to get the frames done one by one is tedious. Especially on an uneven surface. (Not yet scaled to 133%)

 

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Overlapping 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

I hope you continue it, looks like a very beautiful building.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Are those protrustions at the bottom supposed to be balconies?

[jmsepe 2,039]

Something is wrong with the base of the right tower but it looks promising.

[Finnbhennach 161]

How dare you awake me from my slumber for this schmecksy!  Om nom nom.... off to go smoke a cig

 

Hmm, soft shadows aren't extensively visible for this project but from what I can see they are a bit jittery.

These settings should come in handy for any current and future projects. And, of course, it's been

extensively tested and will give you silky smooth results 

 

Also, more on the filter used for this particular setup. Lanczos is definitely a good filter; however, Mitchell

excels at interpolating transparencies (i.e. glass) and straight edges, which most BATs include. Now, if

you're doing work that require no transparency or have a lot of patterns (i.e. curves, checker, etc.),

definitely use the Lanczos filter. Yet again, keep it up! 

 

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Now that looks like it'll be quite an impressive building! Love the positioning of them

[OmniBLACK 48]

 I can't believe stuff like that can be done in Sketchup. You must teach me your methods XD anyways very cool looking building. 

[Huston 5,799]

Thanks guys

 

 

 I can't believe stuff like that can be done in Sketchup. You must teach me your methods XD anyways very cool looking building. 

 

I'm here if you need any questions answered

 

 

How dare you awake me from my slumber for this schmecksy!  Om nom nom.... off to go smoke a cig

 

Hmm, soft shadows aren't extensively visible for this project but from what I can see they are a bit jittery.

These settings should come in handy for any current and future projects. And, of course, it's been

extensively tested and will give you silky smooth results 

 

Also, more on the filter used for this particular setup. Lanczos is definitely a good filter; however, Mitchell

excels at interpolating transparencies (i.e. glass) and straight edges, which most BATs include. Now, if

you're doing work that require no transparency or have a lot of patterns (i.e. curves, checker, etc.),

definitely use the Lanczos filter. Yet again, keep it up! 

 

Thanks. I'll keep this in mind and try it out

 

 

Something is wrong with the base of the right tower but it looks promising.

 

Rearranged the tower. Guess the placement wasn't to popular with the crowd

 

Overlapping 

 

I'm not the sharpest BATer in the drawer. I'm one of the more inefficient, cheaty ones

 

More progress...

 

 

 

 

And a sneak-peek at North Vancouver

 

[SimCoug 5,973]

Very cool!

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Outstandingly fabulous work as always, Huston! 

 

Dat sneak peak 

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Windows look perfect to me. But some metal texture finetuning would be great. 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Keep up the good work!

 

Fantastic buildings! That's how the future looks like!

[Finnbhennach 161]

Have you tried out the settings yet? This looks great!

 

Hmm, another suggestion if I may. You can get a more realistic effect with the concrete material by lowering

the reflection's glossiness to about 0.25 - 0.5. The glossy samples will depend on what you use. As a general

rule, use 16 samples for 0.6 - 1.0 glossiness, 24 for 0.4 - 0.6, and finally 32 for anything lower than 0.4. In some

cases you may have to use 48 samples for the ultra-low glossy brushed metal materials to get good results.

And, of course don't ever use 0.0 for glossiness as you probably know what that implies (aka dividing a

number by 0). Have a good one, Huston.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

I love it, did you hear what I said, I said I love it!!!!!

[OmniBLACK 48]

I have a few questions

 

What's an approiate height for a base if I were going to make one?

 

Do you use a plugin for SKU to model the beams for the windows or is that done seperately in 3dsmax?

 

And is that building in your last pic available yet, I really like it

[MushyMushy 3,618]

It's gorgeous! The metallic stuff looks really good on the building too!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Fantastic models!

[Huston 5,799]

zzzzzzzz....

Have you tried out the settings yet? This looks great!

 

Hmm, another suggestion if I may. You can get a more realistic effect with the concrete material by lowering

the reflection's glossiness to about 0.25 - 0.5. The glossy samples will depend on what you use. As a general

rule, use 16 samples for 0.6 - 1.0 glossiness, 24 for 0.4 - 0.6, and finally 32 for anything lower than 0.4. In some

cases you may have to use 48 samples for the ultra-low glossy brushed metal materials to get good results.

And, of course don't ever use 0.0 for glossiness as you probably know what that implies (aka dividing a

number by 0). Have a good one, Huston.

 

I tried it out and it's been applied on this building. But I did keep the render filter on Lanczos, purely because Mitchell's gave a very blurred effect in comparison to Lanczos filter. I don't know why, but I wasn't too fond of the lack in sharpness. But the other settings seemed to have made the shadows a lot more accurate.

 

Also, can someone give me a heads up on a good floral generator? The ones on Max are okay, but they're not as good as I've see on everyone else's BATs (Aaron, Reddon )

[Charlie_Zane 963]

:o I am loving this tower more and more, great work on the base!  

[Huston 5,799]

Now I've checked this link here on how to make transparent bases for lots. But the images disappeared and going by words alone isn't really helping me understand I don't really have a clue as to how to tackle this and I've given it a try, but there's still a base on it (just not the one I initially used). Can anyone give me a run through on how to do it? (I'm applying this to seawall lots)

 

Also, how do you allow for seawall type lots to be built on water/coastal areas, similar to these nbvc seawalls. I've tried, but have failed

 

 

Would really appreciate the help so I can move this project along

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Well this is in French, but at least you have the pictures

http://www.toutsimcities.com/threads/view/367556

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Well this is in French, but at least you have the pictures

http://www.toutsimcities.com/threads/view/367556

 

Google translator is your best friend.

[Bastet69008 1,102]

 

Well this is in French, but at least you have the pictures

http://www.toutsimcities.com/threads/view/367556

 

Google translator is your best friend.

 

Or in some cases your worst enemy. When I was younger, we used to translate with Google translator the posts from Celebrities' facebook page..I remember it was from rapper T.I.'s facebook page he said:

''Today is day 11 of the AKOO 12 days Xmas giveaway and we have another dope prize! Who wants the new Beats by Dre HTC phone?! That's right...We're giving 2 lucky fans the new HTC Sensation  phone with Beats by Dre Technology built in!''

 

We translated that into French and the English version of the translation would be:

''Today is the 11th day of Itunes Xmas giveaway and we have another cocaine prize! Who wants heartbeats again by HTC phone? That's debt ... We're giving 2 lucky A/C units girls the new telephone HTC Sensation with rectal examination heartbeats built in!'' 

 

I mean..we sent someone on the moon in 1969 and in 2015 we're still not able to properly translate a text!

 

Anyways Huston, you already know the procedure, use google translate if you don't speak French, the tutorial is clearly written so the translator shouldn't mess the whole thing. If you still have a problem, I'll translate it for you

[Huston 5,799]

Thanks Bastet, this looks a lot better and a lot clearer than the SC4 devotion one. Hopefully I can get it to work

[Harry's Place 918]

amazing

[Huston 5,799]

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*damaged building base - yes, this is still Vancouver.

[Xander Dax 310]

My God i am LOVING that Twin-Tower building!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

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