Project Taipei 101

[Tunafish 48]

I can't get enough of taipai 21 thats my new name. instead of 101 floors its 21 floors( a guess)

[kd5rax 82]

lol. good guess.  It gets to about 25 floors, but taipei 21 has the same ring as taipei 101, so taipei 21 it is.

[kd5rax 82]

I got a crazy idea.  since this is a rather nice building, would it be ok to put a park on top of the roof of what will become the mall so that workers can go there to wind down (and I dont have to worry about all that stinking roof junk).  This idea is just for the tiny taipei.  the actual big one will have the same mall roof as in real life.

[kd5rax 82]

here is a preveiew of the niteliteing

[jtportland 184]

the park isn't a bad idea for tiny Taipei. i can't wait to see the huge crazy flower thing for the mall! and please use green night lights! because aren

[drewz15 0]

I really love that you're releasing Taipei 21 to keep us restrained be kind while we're waiting for the big 'un to be finished. coolness it is, coolness.

[kd5rax 82]

jt: tiny taipei is going to be blue.  My computer is working on a preveiw render right now.  It looks absolutely wonderful with the cool little park.  Unfortunately, it took 30 minutes to render the day shot on low quality zoom 5, but the night render seems to be taking a lot longer

[kd5rax 82]

 

a simple, but beautiful pagoda fountain.

The layout of the entire plaza

 

 

[GaryGerbrandt 6]

Cool! I love the taipei 21 idea; it'll look better in smaller cities.

[zero_eclipse 3]

I found a bunch of night shots which show Taipei 101's bottom section with yellow bar lights, at the same time with green lights, sometimes with just the green lights lit...etc I think the yellow lights are just for show? Anyways... I just scanned most of google image search
more daytime shots,
http://public.fotki.com/apjung/vacations/2004/taiwan/taipei/elsewhere/taipei_101/

roof shot (not that great)
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/002801.jpg

top
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/028a01c.jpg

top of edges
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/0014-01.jpg
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/0013-20.jpg

night view
http://web.mit.edu/dchou/www/gallery/03-12-29taipei101a.jpg
http://bbs2.cis.nctu.edu.tw/content.php?id=yhchen&album=F842E416&photo=56A827535B.jpg

http://www.sbpnet.jp/bisista/img/sita.jpg
http://www.simplisticpictures.com/TW03sights08.jpg
http://taipei101.textamerica.com/ (some good night shots, not too clear)







mall night view
http://www.sbpnet.jp/bisista/img/ent.jpg

mall entrance
http://manotaka.web.infoseek.co.jp/DSC00039_123.jpg
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/image035.jpg
http://www.2bangkok.com/2bangkok/buildings/taipei101/taipei101-02.jpg

mall side
http://www.luckycircle.com/TWFirm/Taipei/TP101/026c01c.jpg
http://www.josef-gartner.de/images/podium.gif
http://www.2bangkok.com/2bangkok/buildings/taipei101/taipei101-12.jpg

connection of mall/tower
http://foto.schee.info/albums/album28/Image_24.jpg

mall roof
http://foto.schee.info/albums/album28/Image_tp101h_001.jpg

*edit
Oh yea I love the taipei 21 idea my sister thought it looked cute

[kd5rax 82]

thank you eclipse.

Here is a prerender shot of tiny taipei

[Tunafish 48]

Thats awsome. is it finished?

[kd5rax 82]

yeah, only one problem, my computer could not render it.  I left it running over night and it ran out of ram and was still on zoom 5 south. I am sure that it would render with no problem on a little better computer.  Would any on like to try to render this for me?

[kd5rax 82]

If all goes according to plan, the tiny Taipei should be posted on the exchange by Monday evening.  I plan to post a growable and a ploppable.

[Equinox 1,209]

I think the tiny one's a nifty idea.    I might also stretch it vertically a bit and make a large ATC tower out of it for my own use ... does that sound interesting to anybody else?

[Tunafish 48]

How many polys is it?

[annoyingdan 42]

As long as the building is not huge in size, I can probably render Taipei 21 for you, If you still need it.

[kd5rax 82]

equinox has it, but thanks for the offer.  and it has about 180,000 polys tuna.

[DuskTrooper 314]

180,000 polys- thats not too bad, but still, even my system struggles to render anything over 100,000 polys , even with 512 MB of RAM. EQ's machine should fare better.

[dudyconstructor 40]

Its getting better!. i loeved it.

Keep the good work

[Quest 0]

This is AWESOMELY AWESOME! Great job and keep up the good work !

[kd5rax 82]

I have not posted an update, and i fell i am way over due for one because i have changed a lot, so tommorow, i will post some updates

 

[sorochak333 0]

Cant wait!!!

[kd5rax 82]

first, improved base geometry, vastly improved texture colors to mimic the real building accurately, and improved lighting to make the window panes look much more real.

[zero_eclipse 3]

Didn't think it could look any better than it already was... you sure proved me wrong

[SpartanBadger 4]

I think I can speak for everyone when I say we have all been waiting so long for this project to hit the STEX. It's good to finally see some updates on this project, so keep them coming as you can. BTW, this is incredible.

[kd5rax 82]

i got another update, nitelites, i am going to work on them more though.

[kd5rax 82]

here is an update for the mall.

I need to work a little more on the roof, and a much more on the walls, but it is taking form

[SpartanBadger 4]

Looking sweet. Are we nearing completion? (I hope so!)

[Superstar 69]

Wow, this is going to be a truly amazing BAT, can't wait for it