Project Taipei 101

[thecitiescenter 3,045]

keep on mind, that wasnt the full thing, just a growable form. It would be crazy for the worlds tallest building to just pop up at random, so this is shorter. The final version, which should be hitting the fast track to completion soon, will be full height, along with the mall/base in all its splendor.

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Ah just the words i wanted to hear!

awesome, cant wait, keep up the good work!

[ALTX 40]

Date:12/24/2004 9:46:30 PM
Author:DuskTrooper

I was explaining it to Mr Simple, aka ALTX aka Xx Brokin xX

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SIMPLE? I will have you know I'm pretty complex to understand, BTW explain what you redundant spammer? Just playing dude, besides that should be considered a compliment.

Anyways its great the hear that there is going to be a 8 sectioned landmark with a mall...

Merry Christmas kd5rax, props -

[Equinox 1,209]

I understand you pretty well ... it's really simple, actually.  Think shorthand writing, and lots of it.

haha ... Sorry for the brief OT jump there.

 

Anyhow, I'm firing up the render of the same thing as on the previous page, except with more randomized night lighting effects, 2 additional segments, and also everything conglomerated into one big Hugh Jass scene.  Wish my poor ole' computer luck, and a Merry Christmas to all!

[ALTX 40]

Date:12/25/2004 2:09:22 AM
Author:Equinox

I understand you pretty well ... it's really simple, actually.  Think shorthand writing, and lots of it.

haha ... Sorry for the brief OT jump there.

 

Anyhow, I'm firing up the render of the same thing as on the previous page, except with more randomized night lighting effects, 2 additional segments, and also everything conglomerated into one big Hugh Jass scene.  Wish my poor ole' computer luck, and a Merry Christmas to all!

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Thats great Equal, and shorthand? Where do you see shorthand in my posts?

Anyways all we need is the mall and it's complete! Merry Christmas Equal.

[Chris M 406]

EQ you has said you had started rendering the Taipei model any updates ?

[Equinox 1,209]

Yessir.  It looks good and I am going ingame shortly to take a screen or two and making sure the nightlighting works 100% properly and whatnot.  Looks like we won't make Xmas, but we'll be close ... no more than a day off if the test is successful. 

[dudyconstructor 40]

hmm, nice efford, looks incredibly nice, might be really rough to render that building...

Great job!

[Equinox 1,209]

It appears only one section got added, but oh, well, I can live pretty happily with this ...

 

 

Everything came out A-OK ... no bugs whatsoever, as far as I can tell.  Testing, lotwork, and queries need to be done, but that's not so hard.  Any comments?

[ALTX 40]

2 more sections and a mall + current version = perfection, go figure.

 

Any litenite screenshots? ( I know what I said )

[Equinox 1,209]

For goodness' sake, guys, this is what you're getting for now.  No mall base for quite a while ... unless somebody else unaffiliated wants to render it, it'll have to wait until I am back in school ... finals will be a good time to do such a thing ... Personally, I think this looks better than the realistic version (with the base and 8 segments), and I love this all around.  Great job again, kd5rax.

 

[xePh3roK 0]

Great Job!
keep it up, i thought you guys added a mall

[Xeni-2 9]

it looks greater that in the real world

[Superstar 69]

I think we can all live with that for a while Eq great work the both of you for this awesome tower!!!

[kd5rax 82]

uhh. guys, this is not the final tower. The one with all the segments and the mall is going to take a long time to get rendered.  since eq is not going to be able to render it, i am considering other people who want to render, so if you are going to have a lot of time off your computer in the next week or two, just let me know (pm me) 

 

oh, and eq, how is it going to be released?  do you want to do it?

[Equinox 1,209]

If you'd like me to, yeah, that'd be great, but you can do it if you want to ...

[kd5rax 82]

Cool!

I will be on msn just about all day, we can talk about it there.

[Chris M 406]

So you guys are releasing  the the final tower with the mall and everything later..could you release just the tower with all eight segments too..haha..I really want this tower

[chymera00 0]

Frist I would like to say ... wow!
Taipei is one of my favorite towers, altough least liked locations for a scraper that size ....

Keep on the god work ... have all eight segments and the mall and I worship you for all my simmdays

[Equinox 1,209]

heh, you guys are greedy!  At a later date I will attempt rendering the single tower, nobase version shown here (from now on affectionately referred to as the Taipei Lite ...) with all 8 segments and perhaps some fancy nightlighting ... in fact, I will shoot for doing that during finals week, along with the base of the RL version.

 

Expect the Taipei Lite to hit the Exchange within the next 12 hours, and kd5rax has been generous enough to allow it to be credited as an NDEX upload.    Thanks, kd.    I have promised to have the base rendered successfully by the end of the week of the tenth of January (which also contains my birthday...and finals.  Blech).

 

Anyhow ... cheers!  2 days after Xmas isn't so bad ... hahah  The modding is approx. 70 - 80% complete at the moment, and I plan to stay up a bit later working on it, then head to bed and finish it off first thing in the morning.

 

 

And hahha, ALTX, not in your posts - they're quite impressively gramatically sound - but in your chat transcripts!  My chat logs look like a freeking paradise of shorthanded-ness! 

[dudyconstructor 40]

woah!! looks awesome!! i'm shocked, just the efford and the rendering time, its just shocking what a great achivement!

[Chris M 406]

hehe..sorry for being so greedy....but its so cool ..cant wait to have it in my city

[ALTX 40]

Date:12/27/2004 3:22:55 AM
Author:Equinox

And hahha, ALTX, not in your posts - they're quite impressively gramatically sound - but in your chat transcripts!  My chat logs look like a freeking paradise of shorthanded-ness! 

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You actually save chat logs?  And besides, if you expect people to take you seriously you got to use sound grammar... D00D!

[ruskinator219 0]

hmmm.. will there be a lite freedom tower, kd5rax??

[ALTX 40]

Date:12/29/2004 1:55:17 AM
Author:ruskinator219

hmmm.. will there be a lite freedom tower, kd5rax??

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there is one, it's just called liberty tower, and it could be found in the STX. BTW, this subject right here should go in the freedom tower thread instead.

[yuhhaur 0]

well after nearly 1 month, and I still wonder where is the long awaiting Taipei 101 FULL tower version?

[2ch.net simplayer 180]

Yeah... I can't wait until Taipei 101 comes out!
Right now, I am building a Chinese city called Huixingcheng (

[kd5rax 82]

Well, it is being rendered right now (finally), so depending on the success of the render, it could be hitting the exchange soon...

[pitch 0]

these are good news

[ramvid01 0]

how many hours will it take to render?

[Equinox 1,209]

On my computer, I extrapolated it at over 64 hours.
On Conceptual's, probably less.

On a side thought ... I was realizing my computer is 2 GHz ...
... so it does 2 billion calculations per second ...
... so in that render it would do 518,400,000,000,000 calculations!
I never really thought about rendering that way before.
(That's 518 quadrillion, by the way.)