SIRs Viennese BATs

[sirroland 119]

Hello,

my name is Roland and I am from Vienna. For several years I am already playing Sim City 4 and 2010 I started to make BATs with gmax. But 2011 I stopped for 2 years and started again this September with gmax and 3dsmax. Three of my buildings you can find on the STEX and it is possible to look at all these projects, the new ones and the "dead" ones on simforum.de. I don't want to write here too much and show you the pictures:

 

Fresh water for the south of Vienna and your Sims:

 

You can listen to the New Years Concert all over the world:

 

James Bond was here:

 

Many books, cds, movies and comics can you find here - for more or less no money:

 

 

A museum for modern art:

 

 

An old bath from the 1920ies:

 

 

 

 

I hope for a lot of feedback! Thanks.

 

 

[edwardjeria 503]

very nice my friend

I liked this Seller

is good reading and knowledge

[MandelSoft 2,769]

With these beautiful BATs, I can only think of one thing:

 

"Where have you been all this time!?"

 

Truly marvelous work, Sir Roland

 

Best,
Maarten

[T Wrecks 10,209]

"Where have you been all this time!?"

Over at www.simforum.de, for example.

[Delecto 941]

Absolutely superb projects!

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Gruess Dich, siroland, it was about time that you show up here too, been watching you on the German site for a few years. Great BATs, keep it up.

 

Fred

 

(Ja, ich sprech' Deutsch, kann auch den Oestereicher und Schweizer Akzent gut verstehen. )

[delija21 295]

Some really awesome projects...looking forward to seeing amalienbad on the stex

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Nun is der Roland also doch noch hier angekommen! Weiter so!

[Darknono35 3,137]

Wow, great job ! Congrats for those beautiful BATs

[weixc812 509]

It's so great to see such an experienced BATer open a thread here.

[Mpir 4]

the library look wonderful, cant wait for it's release! 

[Bipin 3,402]

You're well on your way to being the next BATing god.

[sirroland 119]

Thank you for all these answers and the friendly welcome!

 

At the moment I am working on two new w2w buildings that I show you another time and I try to get all the other projects ready for rendering. So I can show you the library with new textures and new windows. Especially the windows are very difficult for me, because I am new in 3ds Max and so all the reflection-possibilities are new for me and I have enough to learn. So at the moment some windows are too noisy - at the second floor for example, some others are more or less without reflection (the big windows at the backside). Lets see. The rest, I hope, is finished - but if you have some ideas, feedback and so on: please tell me.

 

 

[Bipin 3,402]

The roof grime is excellent. You're without a doubt along the right track. My only recommendation would be to go a bit easier on the wall grunge and/or wall saturation. Right now I get an abandoned vibe, which I don't feel suits the structure. It should be very easy to fix though.

[Mpir 4]

the original version had colors, this one look dull and as bipin said, il looks a little abandoned, you should keep more orange!

[KonstantinII 1,106]

^ I agree with him, please make it bright orange

[weixc812 509]

I also think a little brighter will be better

[sirroland 119]

Hello and thank you for your feedback. As bipin said, your wishes aren't very difficult - easy to change with photoshop. But the rendering time is too long to show you a new preview, so I just have two new possible textures for the facade at the moment.

 

 

I don't want to make the colour as colourful and bright as on my first picture of the library here, because the building is situated in the middle of a street with heavy traffic, called Gürtel. So pollution is high and that makes the facade durty and grey. And it is a public building and to borrow a book is really really cheap there - for children and students it is free - so there is no money to keep the building looking completely new all the time. And exactely that I want to show with my bat. But both new textures are absolutely okay for me and I think that they should be orange and bright enough.

 

That's enough for a nice saturday like this. Wish you a great weekend.

Roland

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Its very unusual. I like it a lot

[Bipin 3,402]

Give +20 Saturation, +8 Lightness a try.

[Gannet 34]

I think the first version with orange wall is nice.    Second version is too dirty walls.   

Surely the first version is way better. It brings out the building's shine and inner character... unlike the dull second version

[sirroland 119]

Thank you for your answers. My answers you find in the text below.

 

I changed the texture to +20/+8 like bipin said, because it is in the middle between simforum.de (dirty please) and simtropolis.com (brighter please). Also the white walls got brighter as you can see at the groundfloor, the entries and the triangular roofs. I worked on the windows too and I am happy so far, just the big window at the end needs more work. I have for you two unscaled renders and one scaled and photoshoped ingame pic.

 

 

 

 

The other building I tried to get ready for export is the house 21. Just a few changes like seats and walls inside and a more transparent white glass for the main hall you can find in two renderings (unscaled) and one scaled ingame pic. With the tower I am still not very happy. I think the tower itself looks not to bad but it doesn't fit to the main building. The reason is that i created the main building in gmax and the tower in 3ds max. And yes, one side of the tower is so red by night, because it is the side near the main building.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like it.

Roland

[jaredh 195]

That color change is spot on IMHO.  Very nice.

 

On a side note, that building looks like it should either be a boat, or have wheels underneath it.  I suppose that was what they were going for when they designed it?

[KonstantinII 1,106]

I can use dirty version of the library for low income districts. Latest one looks good.

I think it is better to remove the tower and export it separately as 1x1 w2w such as this

 

Really need more buildings such as that one

[AAA90 6]

^^^^

Those "dirty" library walls look a bit like made of corten, I think it fits modern, rich city centre. Great work, anyway!

[weixc812 509]

Wonderful model

And it looks just proper to sit in a 2*10 lot.

[sirroland 119]

Good evening,

I have some answers for 

 

jaredh: Thanks. I always think that it is a huge whale. Maybe it is just the consequence of several facts, like the the location in the middle of a street with a lot of traffic and the need of quiet rooms with more than 400.000 books, cds etc inside.

 

KonstantinII: The tower is cancelled for the moment. I don't know if I make a new building out of it. Let's see ...

 

AAA90: I don't know the material of the facade. The location isn't really the rich city centre. It is in a very urban area, but not in a rich one. For SC4 I think there are many possible places to use.

 

weixc812: Thanks. And yes, that is the idea.

 

Now some words and pictures about House 21 and Amalienbad. Both of them - I would say - are more or less finished. The House 21 needs just some pictures or other artwork in the first floor and a better brick wall. I changed the colour and transparence of the windows and worked a little bit with the lights. As I said already there will be no tower for the moment.

The Amalienbad has light now and some more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sirroland 119]

Hello and good evening,

after a little longer break I can show you two new creations, both are W2W. The other 3 BATs have to wait a little longer for release, but next year they will come.

 

 

 

I hope for some feedback!

[edwardjeria 503]

good ideas

[RepublicMaster 428]

Very interesting designs! I look forward to seeing more of them.