The Random Project: SC3KU - Kuruptz Inc.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

YES! YES! YES! I love it! I think the "fancy glass window" should be reflectie.

 

Meanwhile...Stitch is the only one who's complaining...

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Stitch isn't complaining. I've never seen a post where he complains. A lot of his posts are sarcasm which took me a while to figure out. He does give good criticisms on these types of projects and you should never take his sarcastic posts as something negative.

[RipRap 4,400]

Looks great David!

[TCD 123]

YES! YES! YES! I love it! I think the "fancy glass window" should be reflectie.

 

Meanwhile...Stitch is the only one who's complaining...

 The poor guy is toothless! Give him a break.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

The poor guy is toothless! Give him a break.

 

This one was awesome anyway xD. However, I don't know if you side with me or Konstantin .:/

 

Really, I can't understand all those critique of my comments, isn't it obvious what i mean ... (If I could, I would ready this with a starnge voice ....)

 

Meanwhile, something interesting: Did you know people created a substance which is considered the blackest substance in the world. It's called Vantablack and absorbs about 99.9 % of radiation in the visible spectrum

 

 

Interesting how a building coloured like that would look like.

 

EDIT: Just realised this could also be a metaphor for something I spoke about in this post ....

[Huston 5,800]

The poor guy is toothless! Give him a break.

 

This one was awesome anyway xD. However, I don't know if you side with me or Konstantin .:/

 

Really, I can't understand all those critique of my comments, isn't it obvious what i mean ... (If I could, I would ready this with a starnge voice ....)

 

Meanwhile, something interesting: Did you know people created a substance which is considered the blackest substance in the world. It's called Vantablack and absorbs about 99.9 % of radiation in the visible spectrum

 

Interesting how a building coloured like that would look like.

 

EDIT: Just realised this could also be a metaphor for something I spoke about in this post ....

The Aquilina ASC bldg,p certainly isn't going to be colored that way But don't worry, I'm picking up on your sarcasm. Especially after your status a while back

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

 

 

The poor guy is toothless! Give him a break.

 

This one was awesome anyway xD. However, I don't know if you side with me or Konstantin .:/

 

Really, I can't understand all those critique of my comments, isn't it obvious what i mean ... (If I could, I would ready this with a starnge voice ....)

 

Meanwhile, something interesting: Did you know people created a substance which is considered the blackest substance in the world. It's called Vantablack and absorbs about 99.9 % of radiation in the visible spectrum

 

Interesting how a building coloured like that would look like.

 

EDIT: Just realised this could also be a metaphor for something I spoke about in this post ....

The Aquilina ASC bldg,p certainly isn't going to be colored that way But don't worry, I'm picking up on your sarcasm. Especially after your status a while back

 

 

At least two who understand me or at least they try to xD

[jmsepe 2,039]

This what happens when you have so much free time, everything gets done in a flash. Way to go.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Great work!!!!!    

[Huston 5,800]

Thanks everyone for the comments. It's greatly appreciated

 

So an update for Aquilina. I'm kinda pursuing other things (non-BAT related) so this is probably gonna take a little longer. I'm even thinking of creating color varieties which is as follows

> Commercial - Single Color (SC3KU original)

> Residential - 4 color options (Cause I can. Thank daTs for giving me the idea to turn this into a residential too. Gimme suggestions)

 

Other than that, at first glance, I thought "hmm, this should be a piece of cake".

 

 

 

 

...I'm sadly mistaken.

 

I don't even know why. I feel like I'm all over the place with this mid-rise. It shouldn't be all that hard, but turbulence persists. The glass I'm not sure how to handle for some reason. This building is just turning into a fugly nightmare.

 

 

And while the ASC logo never existed on the game original, it does here. It's a bit of a signature I leave behind to give it my special trademark. It's one of the two corporations and organizations that I have and use on my BATs. (Huston Corporation and the ASC which I depicted on one of my rejects in page one. It's gonna be on this bldg now, and a few others).

 

So compare the above renders with SimCity 3000 Unlimited (images courtesy of petahhhhh)

 

[tonyr 926]

Wow! Looks cool to me...

[Sabretooth78 808]

Looks pretty good to me, even if it appears to have more of a "brutalist" look than the SC3k original did.

[Reddonquixote 4,339]

Yeah, seems to have a very dystopian feel about it, not there's anything wrong with that. Personally I think it looks pretty good as is. If you want to give it a bit of a lift, I'd suggest make the glass lighter, transparent and reflective and potentially add blinds. You could probably lighten/desaturate the facade colour as well just a little bit. Have you got a RL building in mind that you could get style inspiration from?

[MushyMushy 3,618]

Love it!

[Huston 5,800]

Yeah, seems to have a very dystopian feel about it, not there's anything wrong with that. Personally I think it looks pretty good as is. If you want to give it a bit of a lift, I'd suggest make the glass lighter, transparent and reflective and potentially add blinds. You could probably lighten/desaturate the facade colour as well just a little bit. Have you got a RL building in mind that you could get style inspiration from?

 

At this point, no. I'm just really styling it as close to SC3K's version as possible. I just feel like a few things are off. Chiefly, the windows. They're arch & design material, an reflectivity up to max but there's hardly anything reflecting (versus my windows on HuCo. which reflected a little too much in some respects). I'm thinking of just replacing them with a solid glass material, but the interior itsn't fit to work that way without blinds to distract people from the lack of objects. Is there a fast way to add blinds to a building (a randomizer maybe)? It's a bit tedious doing by hand one-by-one. Any techniques you'd have would be helpful. I'll desaturate it as well and possibly make it lighter.

[Reddonquixote 4,339]

On there's quite a bit on making transparent glass and a link to the blinds script I use.

 

fyi - there's also a ground plane image I often use, and on page 10 there's the night version of the ground plane I still always use.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

It turned out great! There's not much that needs significant change IMO. That protruding exterior elevator and the corridors connecting the elevator shaft to the main building are the only area where the modeling is noticeably different. Firstly, the elevator shaft has different windows on the original building, and secondly the corridor glazing seems to be set back a bit from those concrete "balconies". I suppose that roof junk and finer details aren't finished yet. With regard to these modeling differences, I could totally accept this as a new (and slightly altered) interpretation of the old SC3KU building, so if you don't feel like fixing it all, it's probably not worth bothering - at least not as far as I am concerned.

 

Another aspect is colour, brightness and hue. While aiming for a close resemblance, don't forget that this is for a different game and that SC4 uses a different colour palette in general. Making it too dark and greenish will result in a building that would have looked great in SC3KU, but will stand out in SC4.

 

I guess this post sounds much more negative than my actual impression - make no mistake, though, I really dig what you've accomplished so far!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Only one thing. The light blue window side on the back of the building (third render)! The frames seem to have the same texture applied like your glass. It looks reflective. 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Looking great!

[petahhhhhh 76]

Very impressed!

[KonstantinII 1,106]

This is amazing! Only I would have put some furniture in those rooms, behind the big glass windows if I were you.

[Huston 5,800]

Thanks guys. And for those with critical suggestions (Reddonquixote, T Wrecks, Toothless Stitch, KonstaninII), I've taken on board your concerns

 

Of course, I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with this bldg.

 

 

Guess it looks okay so far. I'm just trying to think of roof junk pieces that I could put on the uppermost point of the bldg. Not much so far yet. The rooftop plaza looks pretty reasonable to me. Got another easter egg on there.The rooftop textures themselves I really enjoy since I applied the same techniques I used in HuCo.

 

And before anyone mentions any irregularities with the blinds, the randomizer kind of screwed up on this file, and I've just made do with what I managed to create. The glass looks way too dark and strong, chances are someone will point that out and tell me to brighten it up, but for some reason, it's just for the side with the massive ornamental window. The texture's been slightly desaturated, and I gave up on coloring the windows to match the original. I went with T Wreck's and decided to ditch and make the windows with a solid glass material and tinge them instead with the original colors.

 

The fact that this is looking increasingly more brutalist than the original is completely on accident. I guess the texture kind of gives it that strong vibe. But hey, there's always a need for more brutalist type bldgs.

 

Progress is progress.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks great, I'm happy to see the blinds in the windows. Looking at the bushes on the roof I think the leaves need to be scaled up and the leaves are to dark to me.

[Reddonquixote 4,339]

Yeah, wow, what a difference that glass makes. This is really great work :thumb:

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

This is a huge step toward the realease I think. Simply shanging a texture can change the whole building, the same reason why texture can ruin a whole building. I like the look, so unbelievably scabby and ghetto-ish. I think it won't be an actual recreation since the textures are giving your building a whole new look but that's ok I think. That's what you problem might be and why you're unsatisfied.

[tonyr 926]

Wow!!!  Stunning!!! 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wonderful!!

[MushyMushy 3,618]

It's great!

I like it more than the original style from SC3K, because yes, we need more brutalist buildings.

[Terring 6,476]

I'll be honest. Your previous version was way better, mostly because it's not so brutalist. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the geometric architecture of brutalist buildings. It's their pure gray color that I can't stand watching. But if you're happy with it, go for it.

[Huston 5,800]

Thanks again for all the supportive comments!

 

Aaron Graham

Thanks In terms of the bushes, I've made them a little lighter, so hopefully it's looking a little better.

 

Toothless Stitch

I'm actually not too pressed about the texture. Tbh, it seems quite nice. Although I'm starting to come around with this bldg, and of course there's never really gonna be such a thing as directly making an accurate copy of the sc3ku version, especially since the techniques and colors applied to the building probably won't reflect well in SimCity 4's higher definition and more detailed environment. Think of this simply as a ressurection of the building, revival if you will, with seamless improvements that can make it compatible for SC4.

 

Terring

Hmm, I see. I'm not really looking to make this completely gray, especially since it's not like it in SC3KU, so hopefully you'll still enjoy the less saturated version of the Aquilina

 

Okay, I think this is my final version. I'm saying this, not because I'm not looking for anymore critique, but that the night version is getting extremely laggy and is almost near impossible to work with. And I kind of grew fond of the night views, but if it's not really good enough, I could revert to illumination maps instead of room/enviromental lighting. Another worthy note that you might notice is that I've added people on the rooftop.

 

EDIT - I'm gonna have to increase the brightness or decrease the refraction on those windows for the lighting to actually show up better. And increase the reflectance to show the ground plane. But the general idea is there. Hope you still like it.

 

 

I missed the glare in the middle render. But there you go, a completed ASC Aquilina Building.