MFP 1

[mrbisonm 1,620]

This is really off-topic and in response to something from the original post. But "custom log house designer" is one of the most awesome, as well as the most oddly-specific profession I have ever heard of.

 

May I ask why it is oddly-specific? There are quite a few "Custom Loghome Designer" around, epecially in North-America, both east and west. we are more of an artist than an architect though, not going by standard plans, but have the same principals and basics as an architect and the responsabilities that come along, except that we carefully listen to the owner/customer and create exactly to their specifications, sometimes adding an artistic and /or practical idea here and there of our own. Believe me, it's fun (has been for the last 41 years for me).....

 

Fred

[darn42 1,268]

It's just such a very specific job for people that want something very specific. I can't imagine asking anyone but a log-house designer to build a log-house.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I was working on some Lighthouse models last week, rendered them and they were sent for some LOTting. Then I came up with another idea, to make them sitting on a rock isle and ploppable for gamewater, but.....looking at the first model in game, I saw that the base that I added in gmax to the original lighthouse model, has a different shadow.........pointing into the opposite way.....What the heck happened there?

 

Does anyone have an idea? Thanks

 

 

Fred

 

 

Edit: Thanks, but found the solution elsewhere.......

[mrbisonm 1,620]

This is posted on all 3 of my favourite SC4 sites.....SC4D, ST and SimPeg.

Ok, here's a serious update on what's happening with my MFP1 (Modern Farm Proppack 1) from Nexis, now that it is finally coming to an end after all these years.

Finally, there are 8 sets in this Pack, but don't panic, some are smaller than others, but I had to separate them for those who only want parts of this Gigantic propset.
The pictures below each description of the Sets contain only a few examples.

So, the Final sets are:

MFP1 Set 1  Mainbuildings
Main-Buildings, that includes all the barns, stables etc.....The set is finished and will be in FrankU's mailbox before this coming weekend end. It has changed only a little. I have deleted one type, modded 2 or 3  and added 2 or 3 more models. It is pre-tested and ready to go and now only needs your approval. It is datpacked. Some of these may be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 2 Manure
This includes everything to do with manure, whether it is solid or liquid manure, so, we have tanks of different forms (square to rectangular to round and oval) for the liquid and the solid and also bassins for the solid, again of all sizes and shapes. You will surely have something to do your own manure combination. There are also pumps, carriers and "montée de fumier". This set is ready to be used, but I will send the file with the building set this weekend to FarnkU, just to make sure we both have the same set. It is pre-tested and ready to be approved by FrankU.


There is something wrong with the roof of the manureshed in this picture, but be sure that it is on the uploaded image only.

MFP1 Set 3 Groundsilos
All you need for your silo creations. These include ONLY the groundlevel silos in different sizes and shapes, from round to rectangular and sunken to groundlevel. Some are inside sheds and other buildings or simply covered or open-air piles to be placed outside. Finished and almost all pre-tested, they will be ready in the beginning of next week and will follow the building and manure set. Some of these may also be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 4 Vertical Silos
These are the silos that we see from far away on farms. They come in all sizes and shapes/textures, from grain silos to semi-dried silage. Some of the models can be seen on my last picture in this thread. It has a lot of variety, big and small and tall and short. Finished and pre-tested and will be send together with the ground silos this coming week. Some of these may also be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 5 Sheds
Mostly machinery sheds, but also contains a lot of different sized sheds and shelters, some are empty and can be filled with anything you would like to. Special LOD's make this possible. Some have open doors, others are closed and even some have no doors nor walls. Finished, partially rendered and pre-tested. This set will be ready and shipped before Easter. Some of these may also be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 6 Machinery and Implements
This set will contain tractors, machinery, wagons, implements and all kinds of other "farmthings" such as elevators, tanks, dryers, storagers, Mixers etc. This set is almost rendered and pre-tested and will also be ready and shipped before Easter.
Attention: There will definitively be an Add-on to this set, MFP1 Set 6A, later on, which will contain more implements and machinery/tractors etc. This one should be ready during the summer. I have already started several models, such as disc harrows, plows, rockgatherer, seeders, more wagons, drainage layers, Harvesters, etc...etc. Some of these may be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 7 Hay/Straw/Cereal
Everything that has to do with the hay, straw and cereal production will be found in this set. It contains barns, sheds, piles and stacks of both hay and straw, also grainheaps, bags, barrels, haypiles and bales of all kinds and shapes. Buildings are either filled, partially empty or closed. Quite a divers category and quite big also. This set is finished and only needs the rendering and pre-testing. Should be ready in a week or two at the most and probably is the last set to be send. Some of these may be interesting to use for Industrial Lots.



MFP1 Set 8 Farmstuff
This is the last set of the MFP1, actually a very small set and may have an Add-on coming later this year. It has a few fences and gates, but also some simple posts and "stuff" a farmer has for his fencing needs like wagons, rolls of wire, fencing post piles, stone walls, hedges, trailers, and just "stuff" etc. Some fences are simple wire, others are with double and triple wires, boards of different shapes and colours. This set is not yet finished and yet has to be HD rendered and pre-tested, some models are still in the making, but this shouldn't be long, since it is a small set of props. The set will be ready sometime around Easter or at the latest the week after.





So.....what do you think? It is almost the end of this all, after all these years and very soon the Beginning for FrankU of his immense job to do the LOTting. (Good luck!) lol

All these Sets will be available separately, in 8 different dat files, so you can download and use only the ones you like. There will also be one datfile containing all 8 sets.
The files will be uploaded once FrankU has finished his Dutch Farm sets and can be used to make your own lots for your personal use or for your public uploads. (Permission granted) You can do whatever you want to with them.
I will make my own lots later, mostly North-American type farms, growable and ploppable, which will use all these props and the upcoming Add-ons, and if you're nice with me, I will upload them. :thumbsup:

A detailed list of every model of these sets will also be available with pictures on my Nexis Works thread before uploading. There are several hundreds of propmodels of all sizes.

Once this is all done, the support thread for the models and the lots will be
this thread, which will continue to function to serve the MFP1 of both FrankU's and Nexis' behalf.

There will most probably be a MFP2 coming later, I have no idea when,(maybe this year or next) but the developpments have already started more than a year ago. Just to give you an idea, it will contains "other" and/or futuristic farming ideas, such as fish, crab, oyster, seaweed, artifical farming, waterterrace farming,vertical and horizontal, underground and underwater farming, industrial  and many more, you name it, it will have it. So be ready to do some very serious farming soon.

Preview....Understand that these models are still under development and nothing is final.



The Main thread and Support thread, where the detailed development of the Nexis Models and FrankU's Dutch Farms are discussed is on SC4Devotion:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=14150.msg479302;topicseen#new

Thank you for your comments.....

Fred

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

That's great! Nice job.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

These look to be a must-have for hardcore agricultural players.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

One idea is a Japanese indoor vertical farm, but instead of being a "conventional" vertical farm with levels of crops, it contains aquariums for fishes and seaweeds. They are proposed to replace Japan's fishing business ever since Fukushima infected Pacific Ocean.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Thanks for the comments, I started to wonder if ST members were still interested in my BATs.....lol.

 

For the vertical farms, it is already planned.

 

Thanks

 

Fred

[dirtguru 24]

Yes!!!!!

 

This ST member is so interested that I have your thread over at SC4D bookmarked and have checked daily since I discovered this project late last summer I believe.

Your "farmstuff" will complete my numerous large (make that very large) cattle, dairy and hay farms throughout my region.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

dirtguru, glad to hear that my models will be a part of your regions. The choices of farms will be quite extentric, I have made several Mainbuildings for Beef, Dairy, Sheep, Pork and Chicken farms.

FrankU will make the lots for a big Dutchset (European) first and I will do a North-American growable farmset later this year, especially concentrating on bigger Family or industrial farms.

 

Thanks for the interest.

 

Fred

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Although I am still finishing the MFP1, which I am about to end and send out for LOTting, I have started or continued other Nexis BATs.

My BAT projects are more than 1000 strong, meaning I probably have more than a thousand of models that I have either started, half finished or about to be finished.

 

Under these many projects. I have a few solar energy models that I am working on when I have seen enough barns, silos and manure from my MFP1 (gives me something else to see and keeps up my Batting mood) and which I am also close to finish in a few days/weeks.

I started both of these some years ago, (like so many,) and only a few touches of details and texturing has still to be done. This will be Solar Power at its pourest and most modern.

I also would like to bat a building that will come with this lot. I will have to look around in my gmax folder if I can't find such a building that would fit with these solar mirrors, maybe I already started one.

 

Here is what they are like sofar.........

 

Model 1....

 

 

....and Model 2

 

 

 

Any comments or suggestions?

 

Fred

[Droric 99]

I like the solar panels.  In the first image though the blue reflection looks much too deep for a normal sky.  I would desaturate and maybe add some green to the deep blues.  The second model looks great.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I like the solar panels.  In the first image though the blue reflection looks much too deep for a normal sky.  I would desaturate and maybe add some green to the deep blues.  The second model looks great.

 

 

I guess you're right, with a little desaturation it would look a lot better. Tnx.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

There will most probably be a MFP2 coming later, I have no idea when,(maybe this year or next) but the developpments have already started more than a year ago. Just to give you an idea, it will contains "other" and/or futuristic farming ideas, such as fish, crab, oyster, seaweed, artifical farming, waterterrace farming,vertical and horizontal, underground and underwater farming, industrial  and many more, you name it, it will have it. So be ready to do some very serious farming soon.

Preview....Understand that these models are still under development and nothing is final.

The Main thread and Support thread, where the detailed development of the Nexis Models and FrankU's Dutch Farms are discussed is on SC4Devotion:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=14150.msg479302;topicseen#new

Thank you for your comments.....

Fred

 

Maybe you should make like aquarium lots where are the fishes, clams, shrimps, and alges like spirulina.

 

Something like this

http://myrovp.fromc.jp/SimCity4/ACI.htm

 

I don't really like the texture you have for the water of your current aquariums, perhaps you can use

[Terring 6,473]

Damn, I must follow this topic more often. The solar panels are badass and I can't wait for the aquafarms. Way to go

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Thank you Konstantin for those pics and recommendations. Always glad to have some feedback on my projects. I will surely make use of some of the textures.

I am back on finishing the MFP1 for the moment, doing mostly the testing part and of course try to get organized with those hundreds and hundreds of files all over the place on my computer.

 

Thanks Terring for dropping in, glad to know that some players are still interested in new models.

 

Fred

 

 

Btw, I should be back on some updated models in a few weeks...

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

What you are doing is creating -- IMO -- a must-have, essential agriculture template for creating custom agriculture. If you should ever release these lots/MMPs on the STEX I will definitely recommend you for mod of the year, or bat(s) of the year or something.

 

So there's an incentive for you.