Dethkwok's Custom Buildings: Suburbia, USA: First set released!

[DethKwok 238]

Welcome To DK Creations!

Released Mods:

 

USA Trailer House Collection:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=437051479
 

39 Broadway Harriman Building

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=461378105

 

Steam 3x3 Lot
Steam 2x2 Lot
Steam 1x2 Lot


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I was disappointed by the lack of American style houses, so I began creating this little house.

 

 

It is loosely based on some of the Low Wealth houses seen in Simcity 2013 (which had a very nice roster of buildings)

 

 

Perfect houses for your rural areas in your city!

It needs more tweaks and texturing before its ready.

I plan to add proper textures, including recoloring.

I will make more residential buildings to help diversify your American Cities. If you enjoy the buildings from Simcity 2013, then you'll be happy to know I will be looking at Simcity 2013 for inspiration.

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I could see these out in the rural areas.

[DethKwok 238]

Here's an update for you guys:

Model is 99% done. Was wondering what kind of tidbits you guys would like to see. Was thinking about adding an antennae.

Textures:
-Diffuse 90% done
-Specular 50%

-Alpha 90%

-Color Map 0%

 

Don't worry, PANEL is just a placeholder

 

[TPB 563]

Definitely an antenna would look good  : )

 

Nice house.

  Edited September 28, 2015 by TPB  

[DethKwok 238]

Color Maps Done!

 

 

I Chose Red, Green, Brown and White, but for some reason, Red doesn't appear. Must be this recolor bug I'm hearing about from other custom buildings.

Heres a nice idea of what the lots will look like.

 

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I'm also having a bit of trouble importing an antenna as a prop. Any fellow modders can help me with an error? I might have to modify the Model itself and the diffuse. 

I also might darken the roofs, they stick out too much by being white.
 

Anyway, comment on my color choice or anything else you would like to see!

[Carnivorus 19]

Looks good. Will try them out as I plan playing a map with multi small towns.

The roof is a bit bright, but for me that's only a minor issue. In case you are going to change it, a good choice could be a slightly darker brown or red.

[Dazzyls 576]

Looks very good! Great for a little village.

[DethKwok 238]

Ok, so I'm pretty much ready to upload this.

I want some feedback on the choice of what I did to the lot:

I limited the amount of foliage on the yard to mimic a low wealth building.

I also wanted to have a good lawn but I wanted to create a driveway for the house.
Now it seems the yard is too barren. Thoughts?

Anyway some more shots:

 

Its a shame that these buildings rarely grow if you make a grid road layout. You have to checkerboard 1x2, 1x3, and 1x4 for them to show up. I might work on doing a 2x2 version

[DCMetro34 577]

These are really nice.  A lot of the homes in the game are really strictly suburban and then urban homes, there isn't much rural to be found at all. Great work!

[DethKwok 238]

These are really nice.  A lot of the homes in the game are really strictly suburban and then urban homes, there isn't much rural to be found at all. Great work!

Thank you!

I'm going to upload 2 different lot versions, here they are in all available sizes:

1x4,1x3,1x2, & 2x4,2x3,2x2

[DethKwok 238]

Ok, I uploaded it.

 

Steam 3x3 Lot
Steam 2x2 Lot
Steam 1x2 Lot
 

Try it out guys and let me know what you think!

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

Thank You DethKwok! These will be perfect for the suburban areas. I can't wait for us to get more tools to control what grows in our cities. I would like to see an entire development with just these in it.

[DethKwok 238]

Thank You DethKwok! These will be perfect for the suburban areas. I can't wait for us to get more tools to control what grows in our cities. I would like to see an entire development with just these in it.

Thank you!

I plan to do more trailers later.

Yeah the current way is a pain. I had to checkerboard my zones in order for this building to show up.

After my dissatisfaction on how infrequent this building grows, I have updated the STEX file to include a 3x3 file aswell. This adds 2 more lot sizes, 3x3 and 3x4 to grow this building.

Hopefully in the future Colossal Order allows us to select building styles, seeing european multi-story homes in a rural area is odd.

[Dazzyls 576]

Look great! Great job!

[DethKwok 238]

Here's a Preview of my next Project

 

[DethKwok 238]

Progress Update:

 

 

Trailer House #2 Turning out well. Really looking forward to seeings these grow with Trailer house #1

EDIT: Oh my!

 

 

 

This is starting to look quite homey.

Building is still WIP, about 70% done

[Dazzyls 576]

Maybe you could make a camping of them. They look great!

[DethKwok 238]

Trailer 2 Released!

 

Now this one includes normal maps to look great in the sun, aswell as an antenna so your cims can actually watch tv 

 

 

 

 

All that money didn't go to real estate lol

 

No upload on STEX yet.

But you can get it now on STEAM
Steam Collection
 

[DethKwok 238]

Next Trailer House 'Trailer House 3' WIP

[Carnivorus 19]

Awesome work there! Already following your work in the workshop. Can't wait to spread more trailers in my suburbs! Keep up your excellent work!

[DethKwok 238]

One of these is not like the others...

 

 

Can you spot the new members of the trailer family?

 

 

 

Give up?

 

Meet Trailer house #3

Its about 80% done, just need a normal map and some extra tweaking and she'll be ready for your cities!

[Dazzyls 576]

Lol, I read extra twerking in that last sentence. I don't know why. 

 

Anyway, it looks great! I don't have any criticism to share.

[Deed_Poll 32]

These are great! Could you use them as props to make a European style tourist camp site?

[namspopof 117]

Yes good idea, Props will be usefull.

[DethKwok 238]

Trailer House 3 Released!

 

 

Also look for it in steam workshop

 

These are great! Could you use them as props to make a European style tourist camp site?

 

Yes good idea, Props will be useful.

I can export the models as props. I will consider it. However I do not see the purpose of using them as such.
Maybe if you can give me an example in which I can use these as props for a park I will release it with the park/asset.

[Deed_Poll 32]

One possible reason as I have found when making level 1 / 2 buildings is that they get upgraded too quickly in developed cities, and short of running a small city with minimal services (and lots of ugly bubbles that clamour for healthcare and education!) it is always a shame to see them built over. What the game really needs is a 'make historic building's mod like on SC4. Fantastic work all the same! Really enjoying this thread, and very pleased with the passion of many members on here for rural / realistic buildings and mods not just ever taller skyscrapers!

[spa 970]

One possible reason as I have found when making level 1 / 2 buildings is that they get upgraded too quickly in developed cities, and short of running a small city with minimal services (and lots of ugly bubbles that clamour for healthcare and education!) it is always a shame to see them built over. What the game really needs is a 'make historic building's mod like on SC4. Fantastic work all the same! Really enjoying this thread, and very pleased with the passion of many members on here for rural / realistic buildings and mods not just ever taller skyscrapers!

There is one! Checkout this mod here. You can limit the stage of growth by district or individual building. It works really well. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410535198&searchtext=

[DethKwok 238]

Now that we have the european pack, is it possible to create a new theme and have specific buildings assigned in that theme? I want to grow these builidngs as part of a "american" theme.

[DethKwok 238]

 

Decided to have a break from small trailers and go a bit bigger...

Teaser of whats to come

[Dazzyls 576]

This is going to be epic! Is it an NY styled building from SC4?