Bad Peanut sometimes makes things: [RELEASED] Solar Freaking Highways

[Bad Peanut 826]

so I've been waiting for sub buildings to become native so I could finally finish off Flinders Street Station (from Melbourne) here's a quick WIP look - probably will release sometime soonish - maybe next week.

Let me know what you guys think!

[Ronyx69 2,413]

That looks like a lot of modeling work.

I checked out some pics of the irl station.

I think it could be a little darker and less vibrant, and maybe accentuate all the little details, because I can see they are there just not very visible so it makes it looks flatter.

And the roof has more rust or whatever that brown thing is on the copper roof, it's not that clean green.

Also the entrance corner looks a bit weird and broken where it connects to the ground but I assume that's wip.

[R3V0 909]

Needs more nopes. 

Like spiders, snakes, human sized bats and etc. 

 

But so far it looks freaking fantastic. 

[Bad Peanut 826]

9 hours ago, Ronyx69 said:

That looks like a lot of modeling work.

I checked out some pics of the irl station.

I think it could be a little darker and less vibrant, and maybe accentuate all the little details, because I can see they are there just not very visible so it makes it looks flatter.

And the roof has more rust or whatever that brown thing is on the copper roof, it's not that clean green.

Also the entrance corner looks a bit weird and broken where it connects to the ground but I assume that's wip.

I should say that everything but the heritage looking part have no normal maps as of that picture haha so hopefully they're the only flat looking parts (yellow and red brick buildings do have all their maps)

and I'm still playing around with the ground connection bits

With the roof -  it uses one texture coordinate for all 8 sides of the dome, if i add a browning affect it could look a bit too repetitive? do you think i still should? - I was trying to save on space in the diffuse by only mapping one face and repeating them.

In terms of darkness - it could go darker (and I agree) but i'm thinking that it does get that bright in direct sunlight but most of the time melbourne is overcast like the european map theme (which it looks much better in) - what do you think? make it darker and risk it being too dark in other themes?

Also just a a general query: the road that's on the short end (the tram road in the pictures) should i embed that in the model (because it's actually 2m higher than the terrain) or let the player figure it out - first means i would set it to be a tram road and the asset would need snowfall to work, the second option would mean a bit of confusion for subscribers but more choice in terms of road placement... I'm torn

[gfvsims 169]

Holy crap - that is awesome! I remember walking past it when I was in Melbourne once - such a beautiful building.

[mrsmartman 200]

It would be good if more facades could be added to the station.

[Bad Peanut 826]

8 hours ago, mrsmartman said:

It would be good if more facades could be added to the station.

what do you mean? It's got all the facade of flinder's street station - there's no more to add??

[donoteat 478]

I like big stations and I cannot lie.

 

 

Can we use it like a through-station like the real thing, or is this a stub-ended terminal? 

[barcasam7 185]

LOVE IT! I'm a huge fan of Melbourne and this station is such a beauty to look at. Thank you for doing this. I'm blown away. 

[Bad Peanut 826]

9 hours ago, donoteat said:

I like big stations and I cannot lie.

 

 

Can we use it like a through-station like the real thing, or is this a stub-ended terminal? 

it's through  the tracks turn into tunnels at the swanston bridge end so you can continue the tracks and bring them back up to surface whenever

[mrsmartman 200]

13 hours ago, Bad Peanut said:

what do you mean? It's got all the facade of flinder's street station - there's no more to add??

I always think that is an unfinished station without a canopy due to budget constraint.

Moreover, the owner of the station can take advantage of the air rights attached to the station.

[Bad Peanut 826]

On 03/12/2016 at 2:36 PM, mrsmartman said:

I always think that is an unfinished station without a canopy due to budget constraint.

Moreover, the owner of the station can take advantage of the air rights attached to the station.

hahahah I'm just recreating what's current - i was debating doing the original design but it makes more sense for people to have what's there at the moment if they want to try and recreate melbs a bit.

[Bad Peanut 826]

So I finally managed to get some spare time to finish this off! Enjoy!
 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=832651326

[Strechnitz 12]

Subbed and rated! Thank you for this great  station. 

[Darf 1,439]

Brilliant work!

[Bad Peanut 826]

So I've been working on a new thing - will be finished soon!

A Modular Elevated Station.

you can see that as well as being placed ALONGSIDE a road, a road can be built UNDER it too! any road, without needing anarchy (as long as the road fits within 8 tiles width)

As usual, 3 Modules will be released, a front, middle and back module. Release TBA

Station with a highway (!) going under it!

[accapulco 132]

Magga cammara, that looks good! I love that mesh roof. I think this could make a really good main metro station as well.

[Avanya 2,605]

Looks great! That brick is just gorgeous!

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Excellent stuff. This is exactly the kind of model that we need more of in the workshop. Looking forward to it!

 

What inspired your roof structure, or the whole station in general?

[odrzutowiec 5]

I can already see another train/metro station below this one, awesome crossing, thanks! 

[Bad Peanut 826]

And here's the release!
 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862251323

Please rate it if you like

[Jewish_Banana 9]

This is a great looking station, BP. Thanks for this release.

[Avanya 2,605]

Subbed and rated - now to overhaul a train station in one of my cities

[Darf 1,439]

Looks great!

[mutton noir 170]

Looks awesome! I'm amazed that to date no one has attempted to create any of the iconic London stations- St Pancras would be amazing

[Bad Peanut 826]

21 minutes ago, mutton noir said:

Looks awesome! I'm amazed that to date no one has attempted to create any of the iconic London stations- St Pancras would be amazing

i think it's the effort that goes into it haha - a little daunting - flinders was hard enough

[mutton noir 170]

22 hours ago, Bad Peanut said:

i think it's the effort that goes into it haha - a little daunting - flinders was hard enough

I can only imagine! I'm in awe of your skills and talent. Respect!

[CityOfTokyo 3]

How can the elevated track would be the cross point to about midway of the station, Mr. BadPeanut is what measures?

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Your awesome station as Friedrichstrasse S-Bahnhof in Berlin

 

[Bad Peanut 826]

Hey guys, just a quick screenshot of the trains I'm working on now, this is my first vehicle asset and by god they are a hell of a lot more difficult to do - what a learning curve. Still I think they'll turn out ok  they'll be released in 3 car set and 2x 3 car set (6 car set). These are the B Class trains in Perth, WA. Still working on getting the UV mapping ok and making the textures.

Here's a reference picture:

 

and here's my WIP model: