Krioworks

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Wow. Actually I'm rather surprised how much depth that sunken part - in combination with the antenna mast - added to the roof. There seem to be some dark smudges under the railing in some places, though - could this be the consequence of overlapping geometry? I also think the ladder is too wide - it looks as if it was a good metre wide in reality. Half the width would do, I guess.

The railing looks great, however, and so does the antenna mast! You could even add some guy ropes to it, and you'll already have even more detail. This image could serve as a general inspiration. Then again, such a lattice structure could also do without maybe.

Regarding the modding, I guess I could do that. It's been a while, but I won't have forgotten everything.

[Krio 624]

Finn: thank you, thank you

TWrecks: the smudges are from the texture apparently. And thanks!

Anyhow's after making the T's suggestions and lighting I found old file from PC. Old Anttila dept. store from Kuopio was basis for this when I started this years ago. According to logs I'vent touched this for almost 4 years and I gave a facelift and making other changes to building too. Its not that long anymore, because IRL it has huge parking lot at the roof and office tower -part isn't L-shaped but it would look so, so empty in SC4 with original design. And I replaced old metal parts with more modern tiling but kept the concrete parts. Nowdays it has been renovated to all white because it was so hideous in original design. And Anttila has been replaced by Tokmanni dept store as main tenant.

Must say that ramp is so oddly lookin, its 6 metres in width. Don't know what's the average width for the cars but if I remember right the tunnel has safety railing in the middle which takes space. Could take one metre off?

[Gn_leugim 853]

Soo good and refreshing to see some new and good bats rendered in gMax (as opposite to 3dMax's mental ray) Welcome back Krio!!

[Krio 624]

Gn: thank you!

Tahvontorni / Metrobank Offices are now finished. Don't mind missing textures and that gray box.

Not my best, but good face lift for older bat.

[Gn_leugim 853]

the  only drawback I see is the repeatedness of the floor texture. some variations woulnd't hurt  

[Krio 624]

Well, it's easy to fix but too...lazy...zzz

[Krio 624]

Finally back in BAT. Red arrows show what are missing, upper floors from the sides, the penthouse floor and lower backside. Also lighting of course.

 

Other news, going to export more bats and do landmark and growable versions, because I can't get updates to PIM-X from BSC's site. 

[catty-cb 4,392]

Great to see you back again ... am having some problems over at my site so am going to send you a PM with a dropbox link to the files you had over there, also PIM-X was last updated back in Sep 2010 so if you still have the program it hasn't changed.

-catty

[Krio 624]

Well some reason it doesn't work. Needs updates I guess, so so far THIS ONE is a static landmark. Finally exported it after 10 years. 

Plaza Mall, based on whole city block taking Forum Shopping Center in central Helsinki. Not all buildigns are from Forum, e.g that round tower building is based on Old Gymnasium  and yellow in the first one is actually my old Petersgatan

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Like where this is going. I assume it's still not finished?

I think this is an optical Illusion but the doors and windows on the HBL building look bigger than the rest of the building.

[Krio 624]

4 hours ago, DavidDHetzel said:

Like where this is going. I assume it's still not finished?

I think this is an optical Illusion but the doors and windows on the HBL building look bigger than the rest of the building.

They are actually like that on that building, where I based that. Well might little smaller, but a little. And its quite finished, because it has beend 10 years in making and I dissed skylight on SimPeg. 

But good points, I must check those because its so damn old and hard to handle.

[edwardjeria 503]

Krio, You are back?

Azome...

I like this mall... And.. The kojak Tower???

[catty-cb 4,392]

20 hours ago, Krio said:

Well some reason it doesn't work. Needs updates I guess ...

you must have a WIN7 or WIN8 computer as they need the PIM_X_Win7SP1_Patch.zip to work, according to this post here

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=14216.msg408710#msg408710

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Install Instructions
1. Unzip the attached file
2. Place the file named 'multiarray.pyd' in your C:\Program Files\SC4PIM directory (or C:\Program Files (x86)\SC4PIM if you're on a 64-bit system)
3. If it asks to overwrite the old file, click YES.
4. That's it, you should be able to run SC4PIM flawlessly now!

hope that helps 

[Krio 624]

Has it been 0,5 years since I last touched updated? What the : D anyways, here is something new. 172 meters tall highrise, though I'vent made the base yet. 

Dunno will I ever finish this like other projects, though I'm trying to finish everything like Kojak Building. Modding is the biggest problem though, so I won't export and when no exporting, no BATting. 

[Krio 624]

Again months since last done anything really. Well during christmas I started making a church in old Karelian style, but dunno. It looks somewhat boxy so it gave me inspiration to do this:

Based on Fortum HQ, built as Neste Tower for Finnish national oil company, then largest energy company in the country and was first highrise building in the country since 1930's when finished in the 70's. Currently being transformed as apartment buildings because Fortum apparently moved to old Nokia House and is planning new headquarters near that old one. 

[Krio 624]

Almost ready, but few things to do: green smudge area in the back will house one floor high wing. In real life's Fortum HQ wing houses cafeteria and auditorium. Green arrow will show the place for roof entrance which will be either "hole" like in Roxxon Tower or basic additional room, which would mean that wall goes a little taller so it would fit better in the building. 

As said, this is only based on Fortum HQ and actually its residental conversion plans, that lower roof with gray door holds observation deck with views to Helsinki city and the Baltic sea. And gave it Helsingin Energia's logos (while company is Helsingin Energia, they use name HELEN in advertising). Actually was planning to give it some old, defunct energy company logo but couldn't find any from Wikipedia so maybe I do some googling.

[Krio 624]

Now I just need to make nightlights and then this is done. Started to think how many hours I spent this and less than five. Not bad, not bad. Only if I could BAT always this fast. And one minor thing to fix when doing lights is that texture glitch near skylights.

Any opinions?

[catty-cb 4,392]

8 hours ago, Krio said:

Any opinions?

I think I need new glasses as it looked OK to me

[Krio 624]

2 hours ago, catty-cb said:

I think I need new glasses as it looked OK to me

Hope you'll like more after lighting is done!

[Krio 624]

And now for something different!

Won't be total re-creation of the tower, but. Dunno if this ever gets done, it has as much detailing to do as Kojak Tower has.

[Krio 624]

So I exported Helsingin Energia HQ, updated PIM-X with catty's link but I guess it doesn't work with W10. So it will be plain growable and static landmark. Here is what PIM-X says (actually it says check PIM.exe so)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SC4PIM.py", line 1, in ?
  File "SC4PIMApp.pyo", line 93, in ?
  File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 45, in ?
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 4, in ?
  File "wx\_core_.pyo", line 12, in ?
  File "wx\_core_.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SC4PIM.py", line 1, in ?
  File "SC4PIMApp.pyo", line 93, in ?
  File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 45, in ?
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 4, in ?
  File "wx\_core_.pyo", line 12, in ?
  File "wx\_core_.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

[catty-cb 4,392]

Hi Krio

Had a rummage over at SC4 Devotion and in the PIMX Support topic it says to try this if the patch doesn't work

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If you have a problem running SC4PIM:
-Download the GLU32.dll and GLUT32.dll from http://www.dll-files.com/ and put them in SC4PIM folder
-Download the GDIPLUS.dll from http://www.dll-files.com/ and put it in SC4PIM folder
-Download the MSVCP71.DLL  from http://www.dll-files.com/ and put it in SC4PIM folder

[rsc204 21,808]

Indeed, you must not only have those .dll files installed, but they must be somewhere PIM-X is able to find them. Most likely, you already have these files on your PC, just in a location where PIM-X doesn't know they are. Do a search for each file on your computer, for those you find, do one of the following:

• Copy the .dlls into the PIM-X install folder
• Copy them into a system folder:
  • for 32-bit systems that's "C:\Windows\System32"
  • for 64-bit systems, use "C:\Windows\SysWOW64"

The benefit of the latter method, is that all programs on your system will find .dlls here, not just PIM-X. The whole idea of .dlls was supposed to be that only one would ever need to exist, regardless of how many apps used them. DLL = Dynamic Linked Library, a small chuck of code that applications can call and re-use. However, it's rare such files are released on their own, they come with larger suites such as C++ runtime libraries. When installed from the correct package, they will be placed in the system folders correctly.

Of course if one or two is missing, you may need to manually download/install them.

[Krio 624]

4 hours ago, catty-cb said:

Hi Krio

Had a rummage over at SC4 Devotion and in the PIMX Support topic it says to try this if the patch doesn't work

The last one is only for 32 bit-systems, I downloaded first two for 64 bit and doesn't work. Should I dl the third one as 32 bit and put it System32 folder?

 

[rsc204 21,808]

All of these are 32-bit .dll files, so if you've downloaded the 64-bit versions, you'll still need the 32-bit ones for this to work. As such, on a 64-bit OS, such 32-bit .dlls must always go in the SysWOW64 folder.

[Krio 624]

2 hours ago, rsc204 said:

All of these are 32-bit .dll files, so if you've downloaded the 64-bit versions, you'll still need the 32-bit ones for this to work. As such, on a 64-bit OS, such 32-bit .dlls must always go in the SysWOW64 folder.

I'll do that. Hopefully it works so I can once again flood the STEX.

[Krio 624]

Didn't do anything for PIM-X thanks to hangover but I whipped up something new again in couple of hours. Based on tallest tower of plan Trigoni, to build mixed use highrises to Central Pasila, Helsinki. About 180 metres tall as the towers have these kind of weird designs of different "boxes" just piled on each other. 

This is shopping mall -> offices -> residental floors and observation deck with a bar. 

[Krio 624]

Well Civilization 6's latest add-on was released and been busy with it. But update on that one building. Making roofjunk to it and those curvy pipes need to go. After looking the pic several times they don't look as good as they do in the gmax.

[AndisArt 2,066]

On 11.2.2019 at 2:37 AM, Krio said:

Didn't do anything for PIM-X thanks to hangover but I whipped up something new again in couple of hours. Based on tallest tower of plan Trigoni, to build mixed use highrises to Central Pasila, Helsinki. About 180 metres tall as the towers have these kind of weird designs of different "boxes" just piled on each other. 

This is shopping mall -> offices -> residental floors and observation deck with a bar. 

This one looks like a great candidate for a diagonal lot! You should make an option for a diagonal road. I can help you with that if you want.

 

7 hours ago, Krio said:

Well Civilization 6's latest add-on was released and been busy with it. But update on that one building. Making roofjunk to it and those curvy pipes need to go. After looking the pic several times they don't look as good as they do in the gmax.

I would suggest look up photos of real-life rooftops and what stuff looks like up there and emulat that in your models. Takes a bit more time but looks great. I have a whole folder of images of roofs for reference save on my computer for that purpose

[Krio 624]

Oh great Andisart comments my works! I am not worthy! (Though not sure did you comment my stuff when I was active years ago here). 

1. Didn't thought about making it diagonal, though I'm most familiar with diagonal stuff. I mean, it's why I became "famous" years ago. Usually I just do a blank lot but I could do flowers etc. 

2. Yeah actually I did for that, if people did guess its based on Embarcadecrosgorosogof-building complex in San Fransisco and Google Earth showed it has a sunken area for large AC-machinery and then pipes there and there, but I need to rise that sunken part up, its sunken 5 metres actually and it looks too deep.