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

[ethansprang 41]

Re: backyards vs. front yards, in a lot of US suburbs from 1965 onwards, the lots are actually more than four cells deep.  Pre-1920 suburbs may have 5-15 foot setbacks (up to 4m, half a cell).  Modern suburbs have setbacks of 50' (16m)or more.  If measured from the centerline of a 2-cell road, that puts the house one cell deep on the lot.  If measured from the street edge, a 30' setback might be farther.  A typical post-war 0.25 acre lot would be about 80' wide and 130' deep, or 3 cells by 5 cells.

If players want realistic suburbs, they'll need to make 10-cell deep blocks and just landscape the unzoned terrain themselves.

[Turjan 1,048]

I'm really looking forward to these. I already know exactly where they are supposed to go first .

[DethKwok 238]

Some new L3s:
Slowly but surely!

Edit:

I adjusted some uvs to prevent some lines from showing up, its visible in this photo. 

[Turjan 1,048]

This is shaping up nicely.

[Vals Loeder 27]

Beautiful houses!

[hitzu 139]

So cute! ^___^

I wish I had more RAM to handle so many assets.

[DethKwok 238]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=603235689

So, Level 1-3 for house 5 is released to start of this theme. Download and test it out!

Requirements: My path decals, and False Lucidity's Garage Prop, all included in the collection

Each lot has been prop randomized for maximum variety

No theme file yet, I'll get the understandings of it and create my own as a mod.

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

2 hours ago, DethKwok said:

No theme file yet, I'll get the understandings of it and create my own as a mod.

I'll make a district called Kwokland, and make a theme placing only your buildings in the list for now.

[Feindbold 1,190]

Just build a whole district, they are perfect!

[Judazzz 1,936]

They look fantastic!

Yesterday I was touring Google Maps a little in search of inspiration for my city, and now that I've seen your L1-3 buildings I wonder, would it be an idea to make the L4/5 buildings wall-to-wall houses using the same wood textures. Buildings like that are quite common in many US cities (like these in Bushwick, Brooklyn - there are entire neighborhoods with buildings like these), and would supplement both the L1-3 buildings and Feindbild's (and other's) Brooklyn building collection. It's already possible to create pretty realistic American inner cities with all the Americana assets from the Workshop, but imo. one of the things still lacking are houses that bridge the gap between sub-urban detached and low density urban wall-to-wall.

[Simulanten 681]

1 hour ago, Judazzz said:

uildings like that are quite common in many US cities (like these in Bushwick, Brooklyn - there are entire neighborhoods with buildings like these), and would supplement both the L1-3 buildings and Feindbild's (and other's) Brooklyn building collection.

I'd go with that! I lived in Brooklyn just around the corner from that spot on the map for a while...

Anyway the new assets are great! Thanks

[Turjan 1,048]

Lovely little houses. I had them grow in my city. There still seems to be that issue with white seams though.

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[Koesj 659]

51 minutes ago, Turjan said:

Lovely little houses. I had them grow in my city. There still seems to be that issue with white seams though.

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I'm seeing the same problem in my own little project 

[DethKwok 238]

3 hours ago, Koesj said:

I'm seeing the same problem in my own little project 

Do you mean your assets or mine?

3 hours ago, Turjan said:

Lovely little houses. I had them grow in my city. There still seems to be that issue with white seams though.

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Cool! Ok, i'll try to minimize the effect of white seams.

the uvs tend to shrink or enlarge depending on camera position. I'll see if i can reduce the effect

[Koesj 659]

My own assets yeah, I'll check out the UV trick!

[Feindbold 1,190]

Hey, as mentioned before, I love these houses!

But while checking some stuff for my farms with meshtools, I noticed something about your LODs. They are with 280-380 triangles very high. I looked at them with the LOD toggler, and they are allmost as detailed as your mainmodels. For small houses like these, it should be possible to reduce them to around 40-50. I fear 300 triangle LODs on small buildings like these will affect the framerate, especially on a weaker pc. I allready noticed framerate drops in comparison to a theme with ~30 triangle LODs on an samesized (big) district.

Pls dont get this wrong, as said I really love them,.. but you should reduce your LODs to the basic shapes of the building, something like this:

[DethKwok 238]

Thanks! I Will be fixing them. I didn't want to lose the basic shape of the object by doing so. I'll see what I can shave off. 

[DethKwok 238]

I Updated L3 House 5 with a new LOD and reduced white lines, test it out guys.

[Turjan 1,048]

Looks perfect now! Thank you!

[DethKwok 238]

Updated L2 House 5 (all lot sizes) on Steam : Lower LODS, and lowered the tris across LOD and regular model. (It turns out I left an old model of smoke stack inside the roof :p)

[DethKwok 238]

L1 House 5 all updated with lower LOD!

L2 House 6 uploaded on steam:
1x1 Lot shown:

 

[Turjan 1,048]

So the family got bigger. Very nice!

[DethKwok 238]

Hey Guys!
I recently uploaded L3 House 6, but I'm trying to fix a wierd bug with its LOD

When I load the new model in the Asset Edtior, the LOD looks like this:

However, when I load it in game, it looks like this: 

When I go back in to the editor, its now different then the first time!

I re-imported the new models, and they look fine! So i repeated the process, believing i made an error somewhere, Save as a new asset, LODs look normal, I exit the Asset Editor and re-entered and loaded the new lot again, LODS look fine. I deleted the originals. When I go back to my city, the LODS of my new lots are bugged! I exit out of the city, reload my new lots and the new models are displaying the bugged LOD!

Whats going on?

[Feindbold 1,190]

I would check the LOD texture resolutions, at least the last 2 shots look like an unsupported resolution.

[DethKwok 238]

They are all 384x118

Should they be divisible by a certain amount?

Still confused why It looks normal until loaded in the game.

118, is only divisible by 2, might change that to 128

[DethKwok 238]

Well, it seems like not having my texture resolution divisible by more than 2 can cause problems. Not sure what the exact number is (possibly 32, 64?) , but 128 works! I just stretched all my textures from 384x118 to 384x128, and it loads fine in-game.

Steam Version has been updated 
L3 house 6 includes 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2
view my collection to download:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=603235689

Some pictures:

 

 

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Your 1x1 houses look great! I really like your attention to detail with multiple lot sizes and aesthetically-pleasing yards.

[boformer 3,169]

Textures must always be a power of two.

better scale them to 256x128 or something like that.

[Matthias King 348]

These look great.

[wallacet 336]

They look great. However, that brick is REALLY saturated and bright...I think your buildings would only benefit by toning it down a bit. Otherwise I've only got positive things to say!