Mushy's Random BATs

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

I love it. 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

The trucks look amazing!

[raynev1 1,886]

The trucks look marvelous . You and Simmer2 are in cahoots with some wonderful stuff there . 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

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[MushyMushy 3,617]

On 2/5/2017 at 0:40 PM, matias93 said:

Just by the way, I don't want to be picky, but I remember that the oil tanks that have mobile covers also have retractile stairs to access the cover surface. And considering there will be several versions differently filled, it would be nice to see them used as timed props!

No worries, it's not done yet and that's something I still need to add. I'm actually most excited about replacing the storage tanks because NBVC's tanks are probably the part that shows the 'gmax bleaching' effect the most. His set is very useful and versatile but the brightness of it has always bugged me.

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Different view of the truck with the pipes to better show some of the other details, as well as the little set of employee's cars and the 5-to-2 pipe transitions (2-pipe pieces will serve as the connections to stuff). The employee vehicles gave me a little trouble because I needed to mess with scale. They came from my full set I'd like to release at some point, and having discovered that there were some scale discrepancies, I'm going to go back and scale them all properly in relation to each other at a uniform just-a-bit-bigger than reality.

[matias93 7,535]

Five to two!! That's sorely needed in NBVC's set!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks great!!!! 

[Simmer2 23,786]

Excellent work @MushyMushy!!

I recently gave a once over to the SM2 Oil Depot lots and the only thing missing is this prop pack

Thank you

Simmer2

[Ceafus 88 1,794]

It's looking really good so far, keep it up!

[Fantozzi 4,067]

I'd like to point out the textures. Going through the picture piece by piece for me its like ... ah .... and ... oh ... and... wow. Only the concrete pipes on the truck I wasn't shure, if they would need an even more grainy, granular texture to prevent them for looking metal or plastic like. But difficult to judge from the picture on my monitor. I found myself - small grey props (concrete) are difficult to texture as if they are to plain they very quick look like "you forgot to put a texture on it." But then look on those pipes! Very realistic, not blotty but seamless, some rust on the yellow, every puzzle piece different with no repetition on the surface. Great.

[matias93 7,535]

In any case, consider that concrete really looks that clean when recently poured. Maybe, just maybe, a way to show the material would be to add a trademark stencil on one of the pieces, something they usually do to use their delivery truck as a moving ad. I'm on the phone right now, but I could came wth a reference photo if the idea sticks

[MushyMushy 3,617]

I really need to get back into this on a regular basis...

Had the desire to work on something today. I ended up rescaling all of the cars for the US set so they are all 100% proportional now. Some tweaks here and there on other things are probably needed on some of the cars. I still have quite a few cars I'd like to add to the bunch (some more SUVs, sedans, and a muscle car or two), but before I fall down that rabbit hole I really need to finish the models for Simmer2's oil refinery.

And no, I didn't intentionally put the Honda Fit next to the Ford F-450, though I do admit that it is an amusing comparison.

All in all, this is turning out to be a massive pack of cars. Variety will never be a concern ever again.

-Mushy

[philforhockey51 4,211]

I see JEEPs

[Silur 3,304]

Hi, Mushy (MushyMushy)...

This convoy looks like a line of attack on OPEL

  

Good Luck to You and SM2!!!

 

[SimCoug 5,972]

I call dibs on the F-450 

[raynev1 1,886]

They look very nice . 

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

This pack will be awesome *_*

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Wonderful work.

[tigerbuilder 131]

When you have time...we win! Those are awesome looking..thanks so much

[airman15 4,111]

Ooh! The CRV has a sunroof! 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Thanks for the replies!

I suppose it's worth mentioning that not all of the cars will actually come in white (although the majority of them will); certain cars that are more popular in "loud" colors, like muscle cars, most likely won't have it as a choice. I'm just making them all that color in my lineups and wip scenes for consistency. Some cars won't have a lot of color options simply because the number of colors will technically determine the car's frequency in prop families.

Not too many things left to add at this point. A few more "meh" sedans and SUVs (and maybe a wagon - for some reason they aren't very common in the States), and that'll be the set. I suspect I'll make a smaller pack later on that's intended to function as a "high wealth" car pack.

This is one ugly assortment of cars... from top to bottom: Ford Escape, Cadillac CTS, Nissan Quest, Chevrolet Camaro, Hummer H2 SUT, Dodge Caravan, the absolute worst generation of Ford Mustang, Infinity G37, GMC Sierra 1500 CCSB

I'm looking to add a Blazer and yet another Suburban generation to the lineup before I call it quits with SUVs. I can also confidently say right now that the Hummer will only be yellow. Don't want too many of those monstrosities in your parking lots.

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In other news, I cleaned off my desk for the first time in a year and a half. I suppose it could be considered "work," since it took close to an hour to dispose/store/sort all of the paper I had piled up on it and to dust the whole thing down. Having a clean work space is refreshing. Maybe I should think about doing the same to my computer's desktop. Those who've seen my two posts in the desktop thread (current) will know what I'm talking about there... Looks better than it used to but I have a long way to go. Unfortunately, properly cleaning up and organizing the files would take far longer than I really want to devote to it...

You can see my "cable management" peaking out at the bottom of the picture there...

Guess I've just been in the mood to change up some stuff. Changed my avatar for the first time in at least a year as well.

-Mushy

[Fantozzi 4,067]

1 hour ago, MushyMushy said:

In other news, I cleaned off my desk for the first time in a year and a half.

Does it happen to you too, that after cleaning your desk you don't find the notes, the papers, the stuff anymore – and therefore you don't like to clean it up as chaos seems the best form of organisation for a desk?

[watercitymadero 804]

Lol

I made the same organization you made, and with the wallet on the desktop too.

[korver 27,685]

Can't wait to use these props in some of my scenes. Excellent work!

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Thanks for the replies!

Some of you may remember that lumber warehouse from Osaka that I started a while ago. I've been messing with that again - nothing too interesting on that front yet so I'll skip posting any pics of it. However, it was an adventure to start working on that thing again. I lost all my bookmarks back in Sept/Oct when I had to reinstall my OS due to HDD failure. I had a bookmark for the warehouse on Google Earth... but obviously that had been lost. I spent about 20 minutes trying to find the stupid place (keep in mind it had been so long I didn't remember which city it was in). Eventually I remembered it was in Osaka, but that city has a massive industrial/warehouse district so it took ages to find landmarks that I remembered. In doing so I found a neat little lot with a very uninteresting building (though the yellow roof did stand out).

What actually got my attention was the overfilled parking lot. It's not anything special in Japan (or big cities all over the world), but such things aren't really represented in SC4. I decided to take the opportunity to start a quick project, which has the added benefit of making me diversify my Japanese truck collection. I can't really tell what the company is by the name. The part of the name that would actually tell me what it is is unfortunately not a word I know in Japanese, and online translators are useless as usual. My assumption is that it is some kind of waste management company, as there are garbage trucks, dump/flatbed trucks, and some tankers that may be for servicing sewers.

Considering how dense the lot is, I went ahead and decided to just BAT the whole thing, including the ground. It's not always the right choice, but it works better in some cases. I spent the afternoon and evening getting to where I am now. All that's left is some assorted clutter (most of which I've made before so I can just pull junk from my library) and the building itself. The Japanese seem to have a way with designing exceptionally featureless buildings, so that should be pretty straightforward. I'll likely add a bit of weathering to the roof. The building won't have any visible (at SC4 scale) Japanese characters on it, so it should work in whatever situation, though the truck design lends itself to Asia/Europe.

This is rendered in SD, and that's going to be how it's released. I'll look at making an HD version as well, but the file size would most likely be excessive so I'll probably not end up offering that. Darknite and Maxisnite will be included - and of course nightlights are one of the biggest pros to BATing the whole thing in one piece. They can end up looking really nice due to the reflections and ambient occlusion.

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Nothing much has been going on lately, though it's a miracle I have electricity right now. A pretty bad storm blew through here last night and close to a quarter (140,000 currently) of the people in my city don't have power! Some people may not get the power turned back on for a week, even though they've called in trucks and crews from 4 surrounding states. Lots of trees down is my guess.

-Mushy

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Nailed it! I welcome the addition of new vehicles, too - especially because these are not just restricted to a Japanese environment, but act as a good representation of modern trucks in general, especially European ones. They'd also lend themselves to a few colour variations - orange, a medium green and white/light grey come to mind, for example.

It's amazing how you managed to pull off making yellow vehicles that clearly look yellow, but without any annoying glare.

If I had to nitpick one tiny thing, it'd be that bigger bright splotch on the loading floor of those open trucks, which gives away that the texture has been recycled. However, this is such a minor observation that it would be overkill to re-render just because of that.

Splendid work!

[SimCoug 5,972]

I understand rendering the whole thing as one BAT, but please tell me you will make those wonderful vehicles available as separate props!  Excellent modeling!  

[T Wrecks 10,209]

On 29.5.2017 at 7:31 AM, MushyMushy said:

I decided to take the opportunity to start a quick project, which has the added benefit of making me diversify my Japanese truck collection.

(Highlighting by me)

This text passage makes me think that the vehicles will be made available separately. And it would be a shame not to do so, too!

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Yeah, I intend to get around to releasing those as separate props. I'm not even done, actually. I still have (I think) one truck to make for this lot. Really my goal with lots like this is to give myself easier goals to reach with prop packs. Prop packs are incredibly tedious and boring to make (and especially to mod), but it's made easier if I can make the models for the prop pack for a different project, and eventually accumulate everything I need that way. I just need to find some neat little lots that I can use to "grow" my prop packs on.

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First off I suppose I'll stick a picture of the front of the building here...

And now, here's the progress. Keep in mind the white-ish wall texture on the building is a placeholder. I'm not totally done with the roof yet, but what's the opinion on the current roof texture? I'm using the same view angle because this is the only view of the building that doesn't show the gaping holes still in it.

Also... some people might like this. Containers getting the 3DS treatment? Whaaat?

-Mushy

[T Wrecks 10,209]

TBH, I don't have a clue what that roof material might be on the original building, but judging by the Google Maps screenshot, I'd say you nailed whatever it may be pretty much. Those containers look great, too - I guess they're of the 20ft variant?