Mushy's Random BATs

[T Wrecks 10,209]

[X] Awesome progress shots by @MushyMushy

[X] Insightful and semi-educational contribution by @Odainsaker

[_] Useless bickering

...This thread has everything I need and comes without anything I don't.

[Girafe 1,729]

Nice project.

I really love your attention to details and the work on texture

[markussaage 762]

Love the work you're doing with your projects, all of them! Stunning, to be honest... Keep it up!

Kind regards!

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Really informal update, 4AM and I'd very much like to go to bed... site is also running slow as molasses... replies tomorrow or something.

Also that brick texture is a stand-in. Just wanted to use it to get some ideas as far as colors go... everything else (that has a texture) is pretty final. Catwalk doesn't have a texture yet. More details to come....

[metarvo 710]

Nice work!    The reflectivity of the windows adds depth to this building, and speaking of depth, the underground section looks promising.

[Harry's Place 918]

gorgeous <3 <3 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Haven't had a huge amount of time lately, getting caught up in classes and all... Decided to mess with something a little less intensive as a time-waster...

RHW-10S 10x3 tile toll booth. Essentially RHW-"20S" at its widest point. I've already gotten offers to handle the custom pathing it would require. Heavily inspired by riiga's RHW-4S and 6S toll booths. As far as I know, nothing larger than RHW-6S has ever had a toll booth, so I believe this is a first.

I had a fair bit of fun with the signs... can actually still see a fair bit of detail at Z6.

Here's a shrunken down version of them...

 

[SC4L0ver 394]

Wow!! That toll booth looks fantastic!!   Are you planning to do it in different widths (8S, 6S, etc.)?

[MushyMushy 3,617]

On 2/2/2018 at 5:59 AM, SC4L0ver said:

Wow!! That toll booth looks fantastic!!   Are you planning to do it in different widths (8S, 6S, etc.)?

Yeah, I do hope to do some other widths. Will have to toy around on paper with the number of lanes used (versus the number for the corresponding RHW size) at the actual checkpoint though.

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Tinkered around here and there, with the result being a custom prop for one of @kingofsimcity's new sports fields. You may remember his big tennis complex, which had a unique curved parking lot. This would obviously be a challenge to fill up with the props we have at our disposal so...

(second image credit: kingofsimcity)

-Mushy

[SC4L0ver 394]

Those car props are fantastic. So much want 

Regarding RHW toll plazas, you can have a look at these ones. Albeit being non functional (that's why the kinda low ratings), I think they're quite realistic in terms of number of lanes, etc. 

—SC4L0ver.

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Those who keep up to date on Discord know that I have been working on some buildings for the SC3K project. Bear in mind that I am a realism guy, and SC3K is generally a bit sillier than SC4 (open vats of green goo...), so artistic liberties will be taken, potentially including size and many other factors.

My big start has been something primarily rooted in Armpit Central, but will likely take queues from some other dirty industrial burners from the game. It's main hall will be the same as Armpit Central, just elongated considerably. Based on some research, this will likely be a zinc smelting plant, and will sit on a fairly large lot, hearkening back to the days of massive Jestarr industry. There will of course be tanks and a ore pile... it'll be fun. Some SC3K-based buildings put in a more realistic light. Keep in mind that while many of the textures are at their final state as far as colors go, many of them need fitting and grime variations (especially the brick). This will likely shape up to be a landmark (figuratively speaking) in your industrial zones, as well as your pollution map.

Credit to Jasoncw for the original brick texture.

The dump trucks aren't new but I haven't shown them on the forums yet, only on Discord. They are based on an old 80's model Chevy Topkick/GMC Kodiak. The one with the yellow cab can easily have different cab colors swapped in, while the white one is meant to represent an all-white paint job.

At this point it kind of goes without saying since you all know how I work but: it's not scaled up by 133% on the Z axis currently

-Mushy

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yay for industry!

And yes, I totally agree: many of SC3000's industrial buildings just looked silly and unrealistic - similarly to what I've seen from SC2013, actually! Picking up the general vibe but taking it to a realistic level is an approach that's right up my alley. And with you on the job, I already know the outcome is going to be top notch.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Wow all your works are wonderful! I'm especially excited about 504 Union Center and you SC3K recreations cause I love buildings

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Thanks for the replies!

504 is still in the works, it actually has more progress than I have shown on the site, although it is taking a bit of a backseat in favor of this current building... I'm such a Discord-dweller that sometimes I forget to actually update the thread now.

Still kind of squished due to no Z scaling, but the resemblance of the main hall to Armpit Central should be a bit more defined now with the approximate roof line defined.

At this point in time I'm kind of leaning towards it not being a growable, and relegating it to ploppable status... the size is shaping up to reach the point where it's kind of stupid to even make it a growable. The current model pretty much fills up 6x4 tiles, but it will need extensions on both the front and back (probably a tile each), and much more significant addons to both the left and right, especially the left. The final product is looking like it will be >10 tiles wide and 6 tiles deep, which is pretty huge. If it became a ploppable, what if it was offered as some kind of Industrial Reward lot? Kind of like how we have the Advanced Research Center, but this could be fueled by a city and/or region's I-D population, and perhaps could increase demand and caps for I-M and I-HT... It's a zinc smelting facility, so without trying to copy SC2013 (barf) too much, it's kind of like it would be providing refined materials for use in the manufacture of actual products.

Of course those would be benefits on top of excessive pollution and a healthy serving of jobs jobs jobs.

Still just a concept.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Well, y'know... with the Extra Cheats DLL being available for Mac users now as well, anything can be plopped anyway, on any system. If you assign some particular function to it that can only be achieved by ploppable buildings, that would be a good reason to make it ploppable, of course. But ever since we have the DLL capabilities at our disposal, making regular RCIs ploppable might only be a slightly more comfortable method for inexperienced users.

By the way, some of the IRM buildings I have prepared for upload will also sit on pretty huge lots. Since these can be hard to grow if their depth is pretty common (e.g. a 12 × 4 will likely split up into several n × 4 lots), I usually make sure that the depth is the bigger value - a 4 × 12 lot is nearly impossible to split up. However, I must concede that laying out such particular lots at fixed sizes is almost like semi-plopping - with the advantage that freight trips actually work.

In any case, to say that the building is shaping up nicely would be a gross understatement because everything looks spectacularly good thus far.

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Those who keep up to date with the Discord may have seen this little thing. I've been distracted with other things so as a "getting back into BAT" thing, I wanted to make something small...

Still needs roof junk, some stuff in the interior office, and nightlights (aside from the neon sign, which I already did).

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yaaaaaaaay, he's back!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Welcome back, I love the HVAC. 

[raynev1 1,886]

Nice .

On 5/9/2018 at 9:41 PM, Aaron Graham said:

Welcome back, I love the HVAC. 

Killed it , right .

[Fantozzi 4,067]

On 9.5.2018 at 7:14 AM, MushyMushy said:

Those who keep up to date with the Discord may have seen this little thing. I've been distracted with other things so as a "getting back into BAT" thing, I wanted to make something small...

Still needs roof junk, some stuff in the interior office, and nightlights (aside from the neon sign, which I already did).

 

As far as I can judge from the pictures this is very beautiful textured. You know, to cook something delicious it needs a certain talent - indipendent of what it is you cook. A big dish, a small dish - this says nothing about how delicious it is.

And this one made me great appetite. This one looks very delicious.

 

 

 

[Tyberius06 12,189]

Hm... I'm wondering now, how I did miss the last couple of updates with the industrial-ish building and with the Defacto Alignment... Both of them are looking fantastic!  I'm afraid of looking back in the last 15 pages, to see what else you are hiding from US...
For example your car packs...  

- Tyberius 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Long time no post

Those who keep up with the Discord may have seen these that I posted recently:

[Fantozzi 4,067]

I imagine this a former car garage now abused as cheap and dirty talent agency where they attract young people with big advertisings in the newspaper "become a star" and then they arrive there and get in the shiny office where a lovely well dressed lady sits and they wait there for the casting all nervous but then they are brought in the back office where the jury waits – that's the old garage part – and they have to perform, to sing and dance or recite, between rusty old stuff and dusty shelfes and rotten oil cans.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Oh, another random BATs thread  

You buildings are at least as random as your update frequency 

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

OMG!!!! I love it, wonderful work on the textures. 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Well, my little garage should be downloadable now.

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/32553-defacto-alignment-inc/

I am very rusty on the modding side of things, but it should work properly. It at least showed up in-game for me. Of course, please update me if there's anything wrong with it!

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In other news I dug this out a few days ago and made some decent progress fleshing out parts of it...

[CT14 2,486]

Heyyy that new industrial you posted in the megathread looks great. It would also make an awesome anchor for a farm lot!

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Little bit of progress I made earlier. Probably won't work on it any more today at least.

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1 hour ago, CT14 said:

Heyyy that new industrial you posted in the megathread looks great. It would also make an awesome anchor for a farm lot!

Funny you mention that, here's the actual surroundings of the building. They don't appear to actually own these fields, though.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Looks great man. 

[MushyMushy 3,617]

Well, finally finished tidying up this little guy this afternoon.

Haven't totally decided what I'm going to make next.