Ocram's Buildings UPDATE: Midwestern Apartment Complex released

[Ocram's Razr 964]

My Surface Pro 3 cannot handle the Asset Editor so I will just have to leave what I would have imported over here:

 

ImperialCityTower.zip

[Koesj 659]

That's really unfortunate! Is it the only piece of hardware you have that you can play the game on? Have you tried the -noWorkshop switch as a launch option to streamline the process?

I think our workflows are too different for me to take up your work, but I'd rather have you be able to do it yourself anyway  

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Cities: Skylines freezes when textures are set to high so my building is hideous in the asset editor (but beautiful in the preview). I literally just want someone to put the contents of that zip folder in their import folder and choose the color options of white (makes silver), orange-yellow (makes gold), dark teal (patina), and saturated red-brown (makes bronze or gunmetal). I believe I fixed the UV mapping.

[Koesj 659]

25 minutes ago, OcramsRzr said:

 I literally just want someone to put the contents of that zip folder in their import folder and choose the color options of white (makes silver), orange-yellow (makes gold), dark teal (patina), and saturated red-brown (makes bronze or gunmetal).

You might have wanted to say so before?

Anyway, first of all, I can't get the color variations to work  I added roughly the colors you mentioned in the asset editor but no variations show up if I plop the building many times even. Does anyone know how this should work out for a unique?

Second, your LOD is bugged. I think you put an older version in that .zip.

Third, there's funky stuff going on with both your geometry and your textures. Near the base it looks like the walls have been UV-unwrapped as lines since they show mondo pixel streaking. Also, those window panels on the shaft look like they're on alternating vertex normals? Then there's a couple of places where duplicate geometry is showing through the model via tearing.

 

Honestly I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate here. Do you want your asset sent back to you in its .crp form?

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Thanks. Now I know that I need to fix it and why I need to fix it.

BTW, that's not duplicate geometry, that's lazy UV unwrapping that catches the black of the empty texture and white of the roof. I could make the building an office but it seems a bit big for an office. How does ploppable RICO work with color variations? @boformer

I will add an entrance and maybe some triangle or sunburst accents near the roofs. I will also replace the black with a desaturated monochrome tan to avoid these problems.

  Edited March 6, 2016 by OcramsRzr  
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[boformer 3,169]

I guess it does.

[boformer 3,169]

4 minutes ago, AJ3D said:

You'll probably lose your color variations when the RICO mod swaps out the AIs on scene load. Its not something that's crossed my mind yet, so I need to look into it.

Aren't those stored in BuildingInfo?

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I think I will do a series of 5x5 buildings next week. I will try to have each size have 2 or 3 wealth levels

Residential (1-storey single family home, 2-storey duplex, 6-storey condominium, 8-storey condominium, 1 cookie cutter house on a 5x4 and 3 on 5x12)

Industrial (1 floor warehouse with a chimney, 2 floor factory with shallow diagonal roof windows and 2 smokestacks, 3 floor factory with diagonal roof windows and 3 smokestacks, 5 floor heavy industry with a giant smokestack, a big tank/vat, and 3 small steam/exhaust pipes

Commercial (2 floor shop with oversized sign out front and oversized awning, 4-storey corner market with oversized awning and big billboard sign, 1 5x12 strip mall with a supermarket in the middle)

Office (9-storey office, 12-storey office, 24-storey office, 30 story office)
 

my original (ugly) models from last year for a digital boardgame

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I decided to work some more on Purity Tower. I want to give it a post-modernist look.

 

 

 

This building will be Art Deco on steroids:

The green part is placeholder geometry (I'll give it extruded columns like the base) and the textures are placeholder materials. The shiny grey will be the windows, the orange and dark yellow diamonds will be brass sunbursts, the blue will have a subtle triangular texture and look like cement painted with semi-gloss paint. These patterns will be carried up to the top. The completed geometry is almost 11k triangles and I expect the total triangle count to come out to between 16k and 20k.

Update: The triangle count ended up being under 13k.

 

As always feedback and suggestions appreciated.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Here is the tropical Art Deco mixed use skyscraper mostly completed (final geometry, placeholder textures):

 

Dimensions: 64x64x298.8
Triangles count 10 832

  Edited May 1, 2016 by OcramsRzr  
improved building model

[boformer 3,169]

Not bad! Now it just needs an awesome detailed texture

 

[Ocram's Razr 964]

22 minutes ago, boformer said:

Not bad! Now it just needs an awesome detailed texture

 

I can make one but I dislike UV mapping and my Surface will compress the texture to "medium" quality. Volunteers for help?

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I had great difficulty with finding good texture sources so I'm going back to low rises and mid-rises.

 

First I will do townhouses (I will do ploppable RICO housing divisions for Cities: Skylines and rerelease once Medium density is implemented)

Afterwards, I will do some mid rise buildings inspired by Radiant City (Le Corbusier) and The Imaginary Metropolis of Tomorrow (Hugh Feriss), with plenty of green space (always on the ground, sometimes on the roof, occasionally inside or on the side of the buildings.

Big buildings are just too much work to texture.

[Judazzz 1,936]

Do you have any WIP screenshots? I'd love to see what kind of townhouses you will come up with  

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I changed my mind after I became super busy though I have tons of my old rowhouse models on my hard drive (I just don't like how they turned out).

 

Anyway, I decided to finish making Anne Queen's Tenement, based off L1 2x2 Detached 4 (made semi-detached)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=767174221

 

Here are renders from 2 angles:

 

 

 

I might need to invert the color mask and darken the roof further.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I'm not sure why but the only map that works is the diffuse map. Am I supposed to attach the normal, specular, and illumination maps within the 3D program (I use 3Ds Max 2012 student but many use Blender)?

 

I already fixed the UV map to make the basement/foundation brick. I also created a LOD from the provided LOD. I might need to make some adjustments to lower its triangle count. I don't want to update my asset until I get all the textures maps, and masks working.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Did you name the files correctly ? They should be in the same folder with the other textures and if diffuse is _d those others need to be _a _s _i _c _n 

[Sobern 30]

No need to set any material inside 3DS max, it all depends on the naming inside the /import folder. 

Read "Saving textures" http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500036497

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I honestly don't know what I did wrong. I tried renaming everything. Deleting all old versions and different imports (I tried to make a wheat field) but there are no lights.

 

If anyone wants to upload it either as is or with inverted colors (or tweaked to their liking), they may do so. Since this is merely an alteration of a default building, there is no need to credit me. Texture-wise, I removed the welcome mat and darkened the roof by 40 points (with the 'Brightness and Contrast' tool). I also fixed the mapping for the basement. The biggest difference is that it's now a semi-detached building instead of a fully detached one. As low wealth medium density housing, it belongs in high density (L1) with the realistic density mod.

MM_AQueensDecliningTenement.zip

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Anyway, I'm moving onto a new project now. Unfortunately, all my 3Ds Max files got corrupted on my "external" SSD somehow so I have to remake everything I wanted to complete from square one.

 

I ended up making 2 variations (in geometry) of my art deco tower and might eventually make a shorter hotel and taller Wren Insurance-esque version.

Realize that the triangle counts are for both buildings combined and that I will be able to shave 10-30k triangles from each building by optimizing (columns don't need to be segmented like windowed walls do) so they won't be horrendously high poly.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I gave the buildings placeholder materials in order to optimize them. I will give them proper textures within a week using roughly the same color palettes; the Miami style one will have the blue get a color mask to come in different colors (I'm thinking cream, purple, green, and the current sky blue).

 

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What do you think? Do you have any suggestions, reference photos, or other feedback to help me finalize these buildings?

 

EDIT Oct 7, 2016

I made a hotel and found (but have not yet applied) textures.

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  Edited October 7, 2016 by OcramsRzr  
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[Ocram's Razr 964]

Do you think this is a good texture or should I replace the sandstone with whitewashed stone, limestone, or marble?

 

Here is how it looks with the texture

  Edited October 15, 2016 by OcramsRzr  
Updated texture, included render

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I decided to make the main blue more of a pale color (to allow for recolors) and have most of the gold part be solid gold, without the copper MARCO decoration. As soon as I finish my domed Art Deco building, I will begin on midrise 8x16 Ploppable RICO buildings including L1-4 condominiums, offices, clean industry, and (if possible) specialized industry shops (farmers' markets, processed food stores, furniture stores (takes processed wood), and garden centers). These are inspired by the works of Hugh Ferriss and Le Corbusier.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I changed my mind and decided to make a Tier 2 and Tier 3 industry series.

Attached is a screenshot of the first factory (If wealth and density are separated, this would be I$$, Lv1, 4 wide, 2 deep)

 

EDIT: I went ahead and uploaded my old block of 6 dormer row houses:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844006688

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Texturing these factories is taking longer than I thought now that I have to do it myself.

 

Here are the untextured models:

[Darf 1,439]

Yeah texturing and Uving is always a pain to do.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I tweaked the texture a little and worked a little more on unwrapping the UV. I will release this (incomplete) today, in hopes that someone will pick it up. The windows are tinted because I wanted to introduce randomness in the arrangement of the nightlighting.

 

 

Here is a zoomed out version with more UV unwrapping completed:

  Edited April 7, 2017 by OcramsRzr  
update with new picture

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Miami Office is officially released (no low-quality April Fools version)!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=901428152

 

Let me know what you think about my most ambitious asset on the workshop!

[boformer 3,169]

6 hours ago, OcramsRzr said:

Let me know what you think about my most ambitious asset on the workshop!

The model looks great. The colors are too bright for my taste, especially the color of the sphere and the gold accents. I would like to see a grey/beige version of your building.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Here is what it looks like without any filters/LUTs. Do you recommend I use a stone texture instead of copper patina? Do you recommend I use a dull bronze instead of bright gold? Feel free to retexture and redustribute instead. I grant unlimited permission to remix to everyone.