-KingLeno's assets: Sears opens!

[kingleno 197]

If you have any of my other shopping center assets, it fits in with them. or the At Home and Walmarts as well

[gfvsims 169]

YES! We definitely need more schools.

[Matthias King 348]

Speaking of shopping assets, one popped into my head that I'd love to see, if you have any desire to do it.

Costco.

It seems to fit in with the others you've released so far.

Either way, I'm enjoying all the assets you've done.

[kingleno 197]

Took a detour today to create a Police station that fit into my shopping center. 

 

[kingleno 197]

This is why this next asset will be my last one for quite a while. I spent probably 6-7 at work and home learning to use the illumination map with randomized lights and ranges to create shadows, finally tried it with the blue lights in the asset editor and absolutely hated the way the lights looked with the blue light. Spent about 5 minutes to create an illumination map using the diffuse color and it looked 1,000 times better. Before calling it a night, I decided to compare the two side by side in-game on my desktop (i use a laptop to design and with workshop turned off), and....my game is frozen on the Paradox logo. So f*n time consuming. Spent another hour troubleshooting.

 

*seems like the issue was that I unsubscribed to Improved assets panel mod so I could use the Don't Crash mod, when I resubscribed to improved assets, everything loaded without a problem. 

[mutton noir 170]

Excellent work as ever thanks for creating so much great content- it really improves my cities! Greatly appreciated

[gfvsims 169]

Sorry to hear you had troubles with your game. I had the same thing recently - and couldn't find a solution for two days. Majorly frustrating. Sounds like you really need a break.

EDIT: Just wondered if you are planning to release the police station before your break?

[Robban040 1,091]

Noooooooo hope you will be back soon!

[kingleno 197]

On 3/22/2016 at 11:57 PM, kingleno said:

Been a minute since I've posted here, but here's a few things in various stages that I've been working on lately. 

*update for my Macy's

*Dillard's

*couple of seafood restaurants

*Riverboat that never got off the ground that i'm thinking about reviving. 

 

 

update

[Matthias King 348]

I'm looking forward to these.

I got your Express and Barnes and Noble. They look really nice, though I haven't gotten them put down in my city yet. When I loaded up an older city, for some reason a bunch of my uniques were locked. I had them all unlocked before. I don't know what's up with that, but anyway. I'm be on the lookout for these.

[kingleno 197]

Preview of future shopping center. The pic is only duplicates of the first store which is pretty much finished. 

[kingleno 197]

New Beale Street asset that I've been working on since before MoveIt. Still got a ton of work texturing and creating props for this one. Next time I do a set of these buildings, i'm going to do them separately instead of by blocks, too many different textures. 

[kingleno 197]

A couple of beach props. The tube and ball I made last summer but never uploaded and some Beach Towels I recently made. Still trying to get the color variations half decent looking. 

[Matthias King 348]

1 hour ago, kingleno said:

Preview of future shopping center. The pic is only duplicates of the first store which is pretty much finished. 

I'm really looking forward to this. I love run-down assets and I need more of them. Feel free to throw some graffiti on there too.

[kingleno 197]

4 hours ago, Matthias King said:

I'm really looking forward to this. I love run-down assets and I need more of them. Feel free to throw some graffiti on there too.

There is some....but I love to use small overlapping textures so a lot of graffiti on one building creates issues. 

[Avanya 2,605]

Looking forward to those shopping center assets especially!  

[Matthias King 348]

17 hours ago, kingleno said:

There is some....but I love to use small overlapping textures so a lot of graffiti on one building creates issues. 

Totally understand. I wish we could get more graffiti 'billboard' props so I could make my own. The ones on the workshop are great, though they flicker a lot. Not sure what causes that. But I'd always love to have more. Like I've said before, nothing says run-down like some ugly gang graffiti.

Can't wait to see these hit the workshop. Your assets are seriously invaluable. Thank you for all of them.

[kingleno 197]

Released Urban Outfitters a couple of days ago. It's one of my favorites, and I think my best texturing job to date. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=887836774

[kingleno 197]

and in continuing the trend of low level commercial, I'm in the process of making a grocery store and (hopefully) a couple of used tire and auto repair shops 

 

[pclark06 11,828]

Just want to say I am a fan of the diversity of your latest assets, @kingleno. A small-med grocery store, a fancy cosmetics store, and the new car center. Really nice!

[kingleno 197]

On 4/3/2017 at 7:31 PM, pclark06 said:

Just want to say I am a fan of the diversity of your latest assets, @kingleno. A small-med grocery store, a fancy cosmetics store, and the new car center. Really nice!

Thanks, more like ADHD creation. I can't stick to one theme for more than a couple assets. 

[kingleno 197]

Just released this small tropical beach house. I did make a couple smaller ones, but wasn't quite satisfied with those, so I uploaded this one solo. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=911882638

[kingleno 197]

I've also been working on this Children's Hospital texture upload for since December. Haven't been able to focus on closing it out though. And this Cheesecake Factory has been in the works for just as long. I've been intimidated by the amount of different textures on there, but finally made some time this weekend to make some huge in-roads towards completion. 

[Matthias King 348]

Very nice. I'll be on the lookout for those on the workshop.

[Sparks44 92]

Did you make the cheescake factory logo yourself?

[kingleno 197]

On 4/23/2017 at 7:56 PM, Sparks44 said:

Did you make the cheescake factory logo yourself?

kinda, sorta, not really. the outline of it was on the sketchup 3d warehouse, but I basically had to trace over that one to create a new one to get the triangles down. 

[kingleno 197]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=913582837

I just published The Cheesecake Factory. This was months in the making. The black umbrella in the picture was uploaded too to KL-Umbrella http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=645035459&searchtext=umbrella

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

That made me hungry! Nice work as always.

[Miccrosshill 367]

Where is Penny ? where is sheldon ?? thats where i know the Name "cheesecake Factory" from.

 

nice work kingleno - i like your buildings - have them on my maps

[Matthias King 348]

Love the Cheesecake Factory. You're killing it, as always.