JP Schriefer's BATs

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Wow! Huge improvement!

[jmsepe 2,039]

Nice work, how big is the lot? That looks like 5x5 or 6x6 to me.

[NielsC007 499]

Oh, I love that!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

toothless would love it

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

The Park Avignon, the Bank of Brazil and 4 Privet Drive are 99% ready (I'm just correcting some small errors), so, as they were demanding more time, I am now almost free of them. So on Friday I started a new project, build the school that I studied since childhood, and the result for now is what I will show in this short presentation.

 

 

This is the block where the school is. What is inside the red line are the houses of the priests who rule the school. I, probably, will not make these houses, I still thinking what to do there. What is in the blue circle is what I'm doing until now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm trying to make the building very detailed, though the game details will be imperceptible, I can use this model to other things besides SimCity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I rendered in zoom 5 to test and it looks horrible, got better in HD, but due to the size of the building at the end for sure will not be in HD. Someone have a tip to make it look better in zoom 5?

 

 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I can't wait to use your soon-to-be uploaded content on the STEX.

[darn42 1,268]

Its just the render quality settings, don't alter them yet, but in the rendered frame window you can change the quality. Also, if you go to the actual render settings, you can manually set your own render quality and sample count.

 

The render settings are under the teapot with the document in front of it (hotkey f10) => renderer => quality/minimum/maximum settings. Experiment with it a bit if you want. The higher any of those numbers go, the longer the render will take, and vice versa.

[Huston 5,799]

A bit of an ugly building, but the actual BAT's looking impressive! Awesome job there so far

[Bastet69008 1,102]

oh yes this is looking great!

[jmsepe 2,039]

Wow, nice looking BATs are coming up!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

So I finished the model of the main building, then comes the things that will require hard work, modeling windows and other details, you know. Now I'll start  to model the other building to connect the bridges (see the photo I posted in the previous post to the original building).

I left the replies to the comments of the last update below the pictures because my replies were too big and it was looking weird in the post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't wait to use your soon-to-be uploaded content on the STEX.

 

And I can't wait to release them

Already told several times that I was almost finishing some BAT, but what happens is that I learned to do things over time, if it depended on my willingness early versions of BATs I did would have been released because I thought them good. So here the batters started giving the tips and I've been learning, I look today my early versions and I think "my God, what a rubbish BAT I did"

Anyway, I still have much to improve. So my BATs are slow, but some are, yes, out soon

 

 

 

Its just the render quality settings, don't alter them yet, but in the rendered frame window you can change the quality. Also, if you go to the actual render settings, you can manually set your own render quality and sample count.

 

The render settings are under the teapot with the document in front of it (hotkey f10) => renderer => quality/minimum/maximum settings. Experiment with it a bit if you want. The higher any of those numbers go, the longer the render will take, and vice versa.

 

Thank you really much, Darn! Now looks better indeed

I wonder if it only serves to preview or it will increase export quality too, did you know?

And you are just a God in the BATs I would like to know which configuration you use to the render, can you tell me? I just increased 3 in each one (quality, minimum, maximum) and it's better than before as you can see in the images I posted now.

 

 

 

A bit of an ugly building, but the actual BAT's looking impressive! Awesome job there so far

 

Thank you!

Yes, I would call a bizarre construction, actually. But I think worth leave some information. The building is from the 1940s, at that time Oscar Niemeyer had built several works in Belo Horizonte and was already planning the capital of Brazil, Brasilia. He was simply a phenomenon, and due to be plotting several works in the city, people started asking different things from the ordinary buildings, including priests of my school, new construction began to take different models, simply following the fashion of the "different" from Niemeyer. And the idea was not necessarily do equal to those of Niemeyer buildings, with curves and etc, it was just to be different than we ever saw. 

It might even be ugly, but it's still different

 

 

 

oh yes this is looking great!

 

Thank you, Bastet

 

 

Wow, nice looking BATs are coming up!

 

I hope so!

Thank you, jmsepe!

 

 

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Toothless approves:

 

 

Poly modelling looks promising. Don't ruin it and take your times with textures.

[Huston 5,799]

The rest of it is looking really great! I can't wait to see this completed -- It's gonna be a real winner

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Your work is awe inspiring! Hope you finish soon, not only do I want more, but I also have a few suggestions, if you please...

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Thank all of you!!

 

Suggestions are always welcome, Borg! Please, give me them

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Well, 150 North Michigan in Chicago is a very beautiful building. It's on the STEX, but it's not as high a quality as I crave. Then there's NYC's One Financial Plaza building, that I tried to BAT myself earlier, but it just didn't work out that well.

[Bastet69008 1,102]

Waoow the modelling on this one is great, a significant improvement! Are you planning to do the whole complex or just the main building? Anyways, it will definitely have its spot in a San Theodoran city

 

As for the suggestions I have one (actually 2 but these are the same kind of buildings), it should be not so difficult to recreate and many people would probably use it in their cities:

 

 

 

N.B.: These are examples

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Looks like someone's got their work cut out...

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Cool!

 

Borg, 150 North Michigan you mean this one?

And I couldn't figure out what exactly you mean with One Financial Plaza building, can you post an image?

 

Bastet, I'm planning to do the whole complex, but when I almost finish it I will ask people here if they want it in separated pieces too.

About your suggestions, these buildings are really nice to do indeed.

 

So, I'll do like this, I'm planning to finish and release Central Bank and Park Avignon in the next weeks, when I do it, I'll start to make one of the buildings Borg said, and one of Bastet (or even two, because that kind of building does not look so difficult).

[darn42 1,268]

150 North Michigan would be cool to see. It's one of the few buildings that was designed to be not phallic, which is cool. You can probably research it better as the Smurfit-Stone building or the rename (which is really stupid) as the Cain Communications building. Also, you might get some other results as the "Vagina Building" cause that's what people call it around here, but you also might get some other results that are less desirable.

 

As for my render settings I try to keep them simple for BATing:

I always lower the final gathering settings a lot, down to "draft" or "low" and reduce the bounces to 2. That level of lighting detail just isn't shown in BATing so it's pointless to waste render-time on it.

 

The rest of the settings kinda depend on the building, but I keep my sampling on "Unified/Raytraced" because it is faster and more efficient, though it takes a little getting used to. Minimum stays close to 1. I always try and keep it as close to 1 as I can, but sometimes I go up to like 2. Maximum I keep at a power of 2, so I either do 64 or 128. And quality is really what matters the most in terms of how good it is and how long it takes. Right now, if you look at my Wacker renders, you can see those are a quality of .5 right now. I don't really need to up it too much for final render, either, because all of my details are coming through well, and there isn't a lot of noise in the details. Keep quality as low as you can without getting noisy lines.

 

For anti-aliasing, I like mitchell better than lanczos which is the BAT standard. I also reduce it to either 3.0 and 3.0 or 2.0 and 2.0 depending on what the renders turn out like. 

 

Everything else is default BAT settings.

I hope that helps, render settings should be tweaked based on the building you use, though. Don't spend too much time on them, however. Also, it's better to go higher than necessary than to go lower.

[jmsepe 2,039]

Nice work again Schriefer, any chance of seeing more buildings from Avenida Paulista?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

You guys are aware that 150 North Michigan has already been BATted and can be right? Now this is not to say that it would be bad to have two versions, I'm just mentioning it FYI. I always thought that ardecila's BAT was a bit small in scale, although I cannot verify that by any objective measure. It just seems small compared to other BATs when you look at the height of each storey.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

You guys are aware that 150 North Michigan has already been BATted and can be right? Now this is not to say that it would be bad to have two versions, I'm just mentioning it FYI. I always thought that ardecila's BAT was a bit small in scale, although I cannot verify that by any objective measure. It just seems small compared to other BATs when you look at the height of each storey.

 

Like I said, I know it's already here, but it doesn't have the exact quality to match the rest of the BATs I use. That's why I asked.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Whoops, my bad. I skimmed the thread a bit quickly. Looks like we share the feeling that a new version might not hurt.

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

 

Nice work again Schriefer, any chance of seeing more buildings from Avenida Paulista?

 

 

Thanks. Maybe I can do it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally released a building from this thread!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had some progress in Mineirão this week, I'm sorry about the pictures, it's too large to my laptop screen. When I get home I'll change the images. Click in the images to see it bigger.

 

 

 

 

 

Ps.: thanks to darn42 for teaching how to take the pictures inside the render Thank you.

[darn42 1,268]

Press the icon that looks like a floppy disc in the left upper corner of the rendered frame window. It gives you the option to save the full image rather than take a screenshot.

 

Lookin good so far!

[MushyMushy 3,618]

Looks awesome!

[airman15 4,112]

Amazing work on the stadium! will it just be for International Football or will it be a multipurpose stadium?

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

This is amazing. I'm really impressed

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

So sorry for the late response. I didn't notice you asking what One Financial Square looks like. Hope you'll be able to forgive me.

 

 

Note the differing window heights. A fairly prominient touch.

 

On a different note, Central Bank of Brazil looks brilliant. Keep it up!