Citigroup Center Downtown Los Angeles

[dudyconstructor 46]

Date:10/25/2004 1:31:03 AM
Author:DuskTrooper

Nice work, N!  But one question- Green?
(inside joke)

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Green w00t??

lol

[dudyconstructor 46]

anyways...i have figure out, the funitures not to make shadows on the light...

does anybody know something that might help?

[n74704 21]

update time!

 

Phase 5 - included

>> including the new office furniture

>> intensifying the lighting to combat the new furniture's shadowing effects

>> playing around with the citigroup sign on top (i think Citigroup's font is Arial Unicode MS)

 

and here is the progress pic

 

bear in mind that ive only done one side, as i get this side perfected, the others will run smoothly.  thanks for all the response on the project.  i didnt know it has this much of a following.

 

Phase 6 will include

>> furniture on all sides of the building

>> mullions on the back two sides

>> maybe a retexture of the building, as it looks too aqua right now

>> and start of the base lighting

 

see you then!

[dudyconstructor 46]

OMG!! that loooooks sooo great!!

thanks!!!!!https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/17.gif width=85>

[crazyarchitect 7]

cool very cool and yeah it is a little aqua lol

[n74704 21]

sort of a mini update, but i need your help

 

recently i added the last 3 sides for the night shot, and when i came back to preview, the building got a bit brighter!  tell me, should i go dimmer, or should i keep it at this intensity?

 

myself, i kindof like it intense, but its up to you guys!

 

BTW - pay no attention to the missing textures, just a BAT burp or somtehing.

[dudyconstructor 46]

looks good indeed...i dunno whats better?

i think the intensity looks good!

[frogface 354]

the brightened nightlights are fine, keep it

[SpartanBadger 4]

Wow that looks awesome guys! Thank you for remodelling the sign, it really needed to be changed! The nitelighting looks awesome, and the model looks better than the first time, keep up the hard work guys.

[greedygreg 1]

Two thumbs up on the night lighting and the sign.

 

what's the footprint of this buiding so I can reserve a spot for it in my city?

[dudyconstructor 46]

This is another update

but i dunno what happened with the logo cause its not lighting up!

the logo will be the last thing to be fixed...i hope

[subedei 3]

Looks awsome dudy. This will be a fine addition to the STEX.

 

 

 

Subedei

[dudyconstructor 46]

Thanks to N74704 and his ideas this project is alive again.
its going to take a while untill it gets done! but i guess its worth to wait a little bit more for a great looking project like this one

[Superstar 69]

Great work dudy, looks so much better than at first, you and n7 both did a SuPeR job

[crazyarchitect 7]

That looks much better than before, you guys did a grand job on this building

[dudyconstructor 46]

thank you, but i give half credit to n74704. he actualy revived that bazilion primitives grouped together.

[n74704 21]

believe it or not, this is an update.  although it may not seem like it, i uncovered the biggest problem on this tower, and now that its resolved... im much happier.  i had hid roof junk till i was gonna reattach it back on the tower, but i failed to realize that it was in fact 120K polys.

 

BTW - got the sign back up!  also, i decreased the amount of lights in the tower, as it was frying my machine!

[SpartanBadger 4]

Wow...words...can't...find the words...
Holy smokes the nitelighting looks so awesome, it is really great, everything looks great! 2 Thumbs way up!

[dudyconstructor 46]

n74704:

Its looking great! i passed by 2 days ago at night the building doesn't have too much lights on..just few floors do! now it looks really accurate, i think you should take a little bit of   furniture off, but its looking great indeed! thank you!

and guys... Thanks for the nice comments i appreciate it 

[crazyarchitect 7]

wow, that's alot of polys for a building like that, but it looks pretty cool now

[airmale007 3]

Wow... looks just right!

[jtportland 184]

lookin great n7! the reduced lights look better anyways, are you using omni lights? what are the stats to it? intensity, decay... (unless you've used the resizing tool on them, then the numbers would be dif). also, how did you get the windows to be dark at night, but see though durring the day? reduced opacity?

edit: also, i liked the bigger sign earlier, which one will you use?

[n74704 21]

omnis are fairly easy to use when in a building/room

 

i generally use an omni of 3-6 intesities but the beauty of the system is in the Attenuation parameters.

 

under Attenuation i use the near setting - 0/40 usually.

then i stretch the verticalness of the omni area down so it only lights one floor.

 

decay is used in conjunction with Attenuation.

 

and yes to get the windows dark in the day and see through at night i use an opacity of...60-80

 

the sign needed to be put back on, and i mightve made it too small, no worries though, its an easy fix.  the red umbrella is a different story though....

[jtportland 184]

very cool, i think i'll try lighting one of my buildings like this in the near future. i have never toyed with Attenuation before, i've always just relyied on intensity and decay to get the effect i wanted.

so what is up with the red umbrella?! that's the best part of this building! haha, ok, maybe not, but it is a cool part of it

[subedei 3]

Building looks great so far. Keep up the good work on this one. 

 

 

 

Subedei

[crazyarchitect 7]

that's cool, too bad about the red umbrella though

[dudyconstructor 46]

Looks great! bah! the umbrella! well if its not possible dont do it! looks nice that way!

[abcd 5]

Is there still progress on this?

[Alkaola 18]

reviving threads isn't good , but ehr..... personally i wanna see this project finished too , dudy why you never finished it or ?

[abcd 5]

Hmmm I want to know the same!