BoldlyBuilding's Assets (Update & Harold Washington Library)

[Darf 1,439]

Pff how did you create that crown, it's magnificent! It's a ton of tris, but really well done!!

[alborzka 66]

Your work lately is of *huge* quality and attention to detail, it's absolutely amazing and I cannot wait to see more.

[boldlybuilding 873]

I keep coming back to this library to improve or add to it. I suppose partly because I see it as my biggest thing (aside from maybe the WTC), and because I'm probably not gonna be able to work on anything else again for a while after this month.

I didn't like how the low-detail winter garden looked. It was too low-detail for my taste. So, I redid it and expanded it. I also didn't like how the lighting looked on the huge flat windows at the top, and wanted to further experiment with glass things. It resulted in an additional sub-building with a far more detailed Winter Garden. Aside from that area and the basic event halls, there's actually just pretty plain corridors and walls running behind these glass windows, so I didn't have to do too much there. I also fixed some colors on some stonework detailing, as well as their normals, and used the space freed up on the sculpture texture to make a better base for the street-level wall lamps. The asset has already been updated, so that should update in your game, too. You can also see the new stuff in the SketchFab preview: https://sketchfab.com/models/05c0ac39b61f403ba3693a2a8c6498b7 Anyway, here's a bunch of screenshots...

[alborzka 66]

Holy cow that is amazing ????????????

Hope you included a spawner/gathering spot on the winter garden (where the tables/chairs are, I mean) so we can see cims sitting on them and milling about?

[mntoes 271]

Truly stunning, my jaw dropped so fast it hurts!

[boldlybuilding 873]

 

I just can't stay away - I have to do at least one more building. Or in this case, two or three buildings. I haven't decided how exactly to split up the set, but that's not a concern right now. The buildings are part of Chicago's Federal Center. This will include the Kluczynski Federal Building, the Dirksen Courthouse/Federal Building, the Chicago Post Office/Loop Station, Federal Plaza, and the Flamingo sculpture by Alexander Calder. For the most part, it's an incredibly simplistic set of modernist buildings. Even their roofs are barren and lacking in any real detail - in fact, the tallest of them had their window-washer tracks removed at some point. The biggest details will just be the Post Office and tower lobbies using clear glass and low-detail interiors again, with the hardest part being the sculpture.

My main motivation for making this, though, is an incident I remembered from 2010: I was in Chicago taking photos in Federal Plaza - a public space - of the Flamingo sculpture, when an officer or agent (Chicago Police, Homeland Security, guard, not sure) came up to me, stopped me, and questioned why I was taking photos "of the Federal Buildings," that I shouldn't do that because the FBI or people in them or whatever will come out and confiscate my camera nad question me. He then escorted me away from the plaza and left me on my way, in a rather pissed off state, I might add. I still haven't gotten over that, as I did nothing wrong and it's not illegal to photograph Federal building exteriors from public space, even though I wasn't even doing that really, and hundreds, thousands, many more, take photos around there of the buildings and sculpture and each other and themselves on their phones and cameras all the live long day.

So instead of merely taking photos, I'm going to make wonderfully detailed models of these Federal buildings and stick them right up in Cities: Skylines

[Badi_Dea 476]

It's bland, boring, and soul crushing, but somehow you'll make it look amazing.

[K141 19]

Oooh! Stop making me excited about such a drab building! Haha

[boldlybuilding 873]

A little update. The Kluczynski building and the post office along with the Flamingo will be one asset (made of sub-buildings of course). The Dirksen building will be its own asset so it can be placed across a street as it is in real life or wherever.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

I appreciate the origin story

[Ewerton Pires 1]

Awesome assets, BoldlyBuilding, congratulations. 

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