Lost Gecko's projects

[Lost Gecko 481]

Pack of forest beech trees now on the Workshop.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1089035056

Tall and with leaves ony on top . In addition to looking more realistic the lack of leaves also helps with the tris count, which is nice because they are meant to be used in large quantities To help with diversity the main tree has 3 random variations. I also made a full one for forest edges but it can work on its own of course. A shrub with 2 variations is also included to add a bit of variety under the tall trees

I had a lot of fun making those and I'd like to make more forest packs like this one...

 

EDIT: update: brighter and less saturated

[Lost Gecko 481]

2 more Belgian rural houses:

 

Updated salutolive's 12 Place Vendome asset. Mainly mesh optimization, addition of nightlights and custom LOD. I'm planning on updating his 3 south of France houses as well.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1104329732

 

Made the pharmacy from Conwy, Wales as a small clinic with 1 ambulance. It shold be enough as it's meant for small towns and the game wiki states that sick people will try to walk to healthcare buildings if no ambulance is available.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1105401461

 

And finally, just finished a half-timbered house from Lavenham, England that I started some time ago. I'll try and finish other buildings also waiting for a long time.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1109285713

[Lost Gecko 481]

Hello, long time no see! I've expanded my list of growables of different categories (Belgian, French, contemporary). After mostly rual stuff I'm slowly switching to denser densities...

Belgian collection for the Feluy and Nivelles houses:

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=951738766

Rouen half-timbered house:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1121444675

And Lübeck Corner shop:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1119054009

Also some assets created for PugGaming's The Walking Dead and Skibbith and two dollars twenty's Osahra YoTube series:

Alexandria Church:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1117631889

Alexandria Burnt Tower:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1117637868

Osahra Castle Walls:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1139641439

 

And finally, I released yesterday a pack of 6 generic European suburban/rural houses of French inspiration. There really isn't much European suburban stuff on the Workshop so these are basic fillers that share the same texture. It's more of a placeholder than anything else.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145810789

 

[mntoes 270]

Love them, especially the polytunnel in the generic pack.

[Lost Gecko 481]

8 hours ago, mntoes said:

Love them, especially the polytunnel in the generic pack.

That prop isn't mine, the houses come undetailed, this polytunnel is on the Workshop  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=469646141

[mntoes 270]

Ah ok thanks. Still love them though.

[Lost Gecko 481]

Back with more of the same!

Second townhouse:

 

Osahra Prison:

 

And a modern mid-rise housing project from London. This is the growable variant but a modular RICO one following Jerenable's modular buildings concept is planned.

As happens every few months my interest switched back to modern stuff, and more of similar buildings might come after that (before I go back to old stuff again!).

The Green Cities update came with great new opportunities so I started messing around with roads and canals. No precise project right now but I've got a couple of ideas.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

I would love to have that road. Is it possible to give the cobblestones in the middle a normalmap so that they look kinda 3d?

 

The quays looks great too 

[Lost Gecko 481]

2 hours ago, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

I would love to have that road. Is it possible to give the cobblestones in the middle a normalmap so that they look kinda 3d?

 

The quays looks great too 

Thanks. As I said this is more of an experiment than an actual serious project. I just made a diffuse to test things quickly but yeah when (if) I get to make such a road I would give it a normal map

[mitch1238 9]

Another hand-raiser for that road here. 

[bap 4]

Two hands up for the cobblestone road and the narrow canals  ... The latter one would be wonderful for city streams and narrow rivers  .

[Lost Gecko 481]

As usual I'm all over the place (and cities) with 2 new growables:

 

Brussels house (level 3 high-density residential): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1216753063

 

York corner restaurants owned by 2 CS content creators... (level 2 low-density commercial): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1228245347

 

Instead of using Street View textures like I did for most of my last old buildings I took the time to mostly create them from scratch and it's worth it! I also put more detail than usual into them, so the tris count is a bit higher than usual as well. I personally think the overall better quality is worth it!

 

I would like to be able to say I'll be focusing more on one single style instead of changing all the time but I just can't help it, so who knows what the next ones will be... Not to mentions there's also a lot of monuments, trees, props and networks in a corner of my head...

[mntoes 270]

Really nice. You can see the work in the textures.

[Lost Gecko 481]

And one of my favourite little houses from Nivelles, Belgium, from around the 30s

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1231062649

[Lost Gecko 481]

France now with this corner house from Le Mans. I decided to go with the back/side garden so it works best between 2 roads spaced by 3 tiles but as a result it's not very versatile... I might make a more standad 1x2 version with the building only, and a non-corner version while we're at it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1254775963

 

My unfocused Starting-1-New-Project-Every-Day rampage has been worse than ever recently so there are a looot of new projects waiting to be completed... I won't even try to make a New Year resolution for being more focused, but I'll still try to finish as many as possible before starting new ones. So normally there should be (mostly) a number of French growables coming in the near (?) future.

 

EDIT: Made a 2-storeys Level 3 and 3-storeys Level 4 wall-to-wall version.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1262518350

  Edited January 8, 2018 by Lost_Gecko  
new asset

[Lost Gecko 481]

Another house from Le Mans, France. 2x2 level 4 low-density residential. I think I'll make RICO free-placement individual variants of each house with irregular footprints for gaps and weird angles. Not sure what's next, either those, some belgian houses I started recently or something else entirely like trees or draggable walls...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1273465168

[Lost Gecko 481]

Time for some networks now, the first one being a conversion of my concrete retaining wall props. Its simplicity made it ideal to start figuring network modding out. The trickiest part is to get the angles to look right. It's not perfect as I haven't been able to disable smooth shading and there is a bit of z-fighting on top, but it's not too visible. It follows the terrain and has a 2m default height but it can be raised up to 32m or lowered at leisure with the Move It mod! because it doesn't take the ground with it. Hopefully this should make using those retaining walls far more convenient while sparing some props in the process... I'll probably be converting the stone version as well down the road.

EDIT: I've also started released a brick wall with the same properties (2.5m default up to 3.5m) and more types are likely coming.

[Avanya 2,605]

These are really awesome  

[Lost Gecko 481]

Wow I hadn't realized it has been such a long time since the last post... A certain amount of stuff has been released since then but at the same time nothing out of the ordinary...

I have mostly made a number of houses from Nivelles which benefit from custom pictures used as textures... We're still very far from an entire building style but rather a small town block, which is a start... Many more are planned and I do have plenty of texture material for them at least! The most noticeable one is a tiny free-placement RICO filler that is thiner in the fron than back (so works well to fill gapes on the outside of street curves). I'd like to make more of such irregular fillers which add a lot to the organic feel.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=951738766

We also have a generic wall-to-wall French city shop which hopefully is only the first of a small series, but as usual my lack of focus can be in the way of achieving that quick...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1335918515

... And a generic modern shop based on and compatible with @Jerenable's Modular Buildings. Which means it's wall-to-wall and RICO. It uses a Green Cities growable texture because growables from that DLC look fairly nice and it makes the asset so much faster to create. Again, I hope to make a bunch of them as well as top parts based on residential assets. I know that in a way it is free redistribution of paid DLC content, but the meshes are either custom or heavily modified, and the assets are RICO and only for a specific use (in a modular setting). I'm making sure not to re-use DLC content in a way that would make it a very similar replacement to the original paid content, which would make buying the dlc redundant to some.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1341869223

Other stuff includes some Monaco balustrade props made for PugGaming's YouTube series (possibly network variants coming? Not sure yet) and an old stone wall network.

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1357762231

 

Plans for the future? More Belgian and French houses, a number of sustainable buildings for Yuttho's Astergea YouTube series (to be released as the same time as his episode, there are some teasers on his Twitter account), a former convent from Nivelles (with personal pictures too of course!), getting back to the canals I briefly experimented with directly after the Green Cities update,... I recently went to Paris so I now have a bit of good texture material for French stuff!

So that was long... That's what happens when you forget to post regularly Thanks for your attention!

[vitusweb 25]

The Monaco balustrade is very nice, I was really missing it! A network version would be even better.

[Lost Gecko 481]

More growables, and still so many more to create before reaching fully fledged building style level! This time a town shop (storefront desaturated a bit since the screenshots were taken!) and a couple of narrow houses sitting on a 1 cell wide plot. Those are from Mons in Belgium, which has architecture I really like, so I'm planning to make many more from there! As always, that's the plan at least...

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1368920804

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1375157863

(front and rear)

 

I've also been messing with custom "pavement" and "asphalt" textures that I both turned into cobblestone. This is just for my personal use (since I'm not making an entire map theme), but when I'm satisfied with the textures I'll share them for those who are interested . However I've also started making custom "old town" cobblestone streets that will be released when ready (a lot of testing and tweaking needed to prevent issues!). This one is a very simple one-way low-intensity "shared" street. It's designed to be 8m wide, but the vanilla zoning system only supports widths that are multiples of 2 cells. Maybe a mod will someday take car of this like NExt2 is doing with tiny roads, but it will have to be 16m wide for now. Fully pedestrian (only with service and emergency vehicles) streets are planned too. Also depending on how the Parklife DLC and the mods developed for it turn out, it might even be possible to keep those vehicles off those streets! Which would of course be less realistic functionally but way more visually since the game simulation creates a constant flow of those vehicles on all streets...

 

Here is also a quick preview of some tests for medieval wall networks. It's pretty hard to work around the stretching of segments with such crenelated walls, but it's possible to make them kinda work with a bit of messing around. However walls with a simple parapet will be much easier to work with. And of course some destroyed parts are planned too... I'm also making some towers and gates to go with them. It's high time I finally made a decent replacement to my first medieval walls, which are completely obsolete after almost 2 years of creating assets...

  Edited May 2, 2018 by Lost_Gecko  
+ medieval wall network

[Lost Gecko 481]

Made 2 other houses from Mons, Belgium sharing the same textures, and another one is slowly on its way!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1385738555

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1386540957

 

2 French half-timbered RICO filler houses:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1388621913

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1400734458

 

More houses from Troyes are coming:

 

Shop from Cork, Ireland to go with a more unique pub to be published very soon, made for vokepasa's awesome Cork recreation!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1416547300

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I have to build me a European city. I know where to shop first