JulioC's Oficina

[JulioC 2,580]

Hey there guys

This here will be the place where I'm gonna post pics and progress of the things I'm working on - BATs, LOTs, MODs and else

Also a index of already published plugins on the STEX - I will decorate this place better later

So, stay tuned 

[JulioC 2,580]

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[JulioC 2,580]

Hey there guys

So, you must be wondering: what kind of BATter am I? Well, besides being a bad and noob BATter, I am not a megalomaniac builder too. My goal is to create buildings that would be useful for my style of play - a mix between eastern europe and finland - the biggest city of my region would/will have something like 250~300k inhabitants, and if you follow my Karelian Republic city journal, you will see I have a predilection for small, rural and scenic places 

The first BAT I will show - and problably release - you guys is this small and generic finnish rKioski convenience store:
(I chose that because I have many smalltown buildings of slavic style, but almost none of finnish/scandinavian, so I want to chage this)

You can notice two things: 1 - I'm just a starter BATter  and 2 - I don't know how to nightlight my creations.

I don't use the night time in my gameplay, and when I learned how to BAT I simply didn't mind to learn how to nightlight since I wouldn't need it to my personal use - the problem is, if I want to release to the public, I will need to do it rightly since other people like to play the game with night settings, and well, as you can see, I'm still learning how to do that

Also I'm planning creating one or two more versions of it, changing the colors to give us more variety.

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I also found an old .sc4model of a residential building I created two years ago - unfortunately I don't have the .3ds file anymore, so I can't improve it, meaning this one will not make it to the STEX  ☹

This is one have many errors that unfortunately I can't fix, so I just made a ~pretty LOT to it and I will keep it with me to fill some gaps in my W2W finnish towns.

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And last but not least, I'm working on this here too:

This is not a terrain mod

 

So, thank you for your time, and as always, suggestions and criticisms are welcomed

[JulioC 2,580]

Hey there guys

Well, it's basically ready to be published:

4 colors in 2 versions. All tests dones and found no issues - they are growing just fine, not appearing all over your city and they dont stand out between other buildings. You just need 2 dependencies to make it work: BSC Commom Dependencies Pack and SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures.

Unfortunately I'm not a superb LOTter so the 2x2 could be a lot better. You're totally free to LOT it as you want to make it prettier 

I will problably release it later today 

[art128 4,618]

Looks good! Not a fan of the night window used for the front of the store though, I think it's a bit too "washed out" but nice nonetheless.

[JulioC 2,580]

2 hours ago, art128 said:

Looks good! Not a fan of the night window used for the front of the store though, I think it's a bit too "washed out" but nice nonetheless.

I totally agree! It's my achilles heel, something I really need to improve in my next productions

[Dead_End 1,622]

Nice! These would be a great addition to my Scandinavian cities!

[sejr99999 8,351]

18 hours ago, JulioC said:

Hey there guys

Well, it's basically ready to be published:

4 colors in 2 versions. All tests dones and found no issues - they are growing just fine, not appearing all over your city and they dont stand out between other buildings. You just need 2 dependencies to make it work: BSC Commom Dependencies Pack and SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures.

Unfortunately I'm not a superb LOTter so the 2x2 could be a lot better. You're totally free to LOT it as you want to make it prettier 

I will problably release it later today 

looks good  I appreciate your efforts to nightlight even though you don't need it for your gameplay   very happy to see new content for that part of the world too

[sejr99999 8,351]

On 10/18/2023 at 7:57 PM, JulioC said:

Hey there guys

So, you must be wondering: what kind of BATter am I? Well, besides being a bad and noob BATter, I am not a megalomaniac builder too. My goal is to create buildings that would be useful for my style of play - a mix between eastern europe and finland - the biggest city of my region would/will have something like 250~300k inhabitants, and if you follow my Karelian Republic city journal, you will see I have a predilection for small, rural and scenic places 

The first BAT I will show - and problably release - you guys is this small and generic finnish rKioski convenience store:
(I chose that because I have many smalltown buildings of slavic style, but almost none of finnish/scandinavian, so I want to chage this)

You can notice two things: 1 - I'm just a starter BATter  and 2 - I don't know how to nightlight my creations.

I don't use the night time in my gameplay, and when I learned how to BAT I simply didn't mind to learn how to nightlight since I wouldn't need it to my personal use - the problem is, if I want to release to the public, I will need to do it rightly since other people like to play the game with night settings, and well, as you can see, I'm still learning how to do that

Also I'm planning creating one or two more versions of it, changing the colors to give us more variety.

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I also found an old .sc4model of a residential building I created two years ago - unfortunately I don't have the .3ds file anymore, so I can't improve it, meaning this one will not make it to the STEX  ☹

This is one have many errors that unfortunately I can't fix, so I just made a ~pretty LOT to it and I will keep it with me to fill some gaps in my W2W finnish towns.

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And last but not least, I'm working on this here too:

This is not a terrain mod

 

So, thank you for your time, and as always, suggestions and criticisms are welcomed

I would be happy to download your unfinished building to see if it can be made to look good with just some lot work and a few props   I've seen worse on the exchange and have managed to make them more presentable (at least for my uses)   and Iam glad to se a new batter willing to share their creations

[JulioC 2,580]

Thank you guys for the comments, suggestions and criticisms, they are very appreciated 

I uploaded that convenience store, it's available here:

Soon there's gonna be better BATs from me in the STEX, and of course I will show you guys here beforehand 

On 20/10/2023 at 11:19 AM, sejr99999 said:

I would be happy to download your unfinished building to see if it can be made to look good with just some lot work and a few props   I've seen worse on the exchange and have managed to make them more presentable (at least for my uses)   and Iam glad to se a new batter willing to share their creations

I will not publish it since it's far from the standard that I want to keep in STEX, but I will leave the .SC4Model attached here for you and anyone else who wants to download 

LukkarinkatuV1.SC4Model

[sejr99999 8,351]

20 hours ago, JulioC said:

Thank you guys for the comments, suggestions and criticisms, they are very appreciated 

I uploaded that convenience store, it's available here:

Soon there's gonna be better BATs from me in the STEX, and of course I will show you guys here beforehand 

I will not publish it since it's far from the standard that I want to keep in STEX, but I will leave the .SC4Model attached here for you and anyone else who wants to download 

LukkarinkatuV1.SC4Model

I think your model looks just fine in game   thanks for letting me try it   I enjoy collecting first tries 

[JulioC 2,580]

On 22/10/2023 at 10:37 AM, sejr99999 said:

I think your model looks just fine in game   thanks for letting me try it   I enjoy collecting first tries 

You did a great job in that LOT, far better than me lol - and happy to see you found it useful

I don't really have update on uploaded BATs - even though I'm working on a 2x2 finnish smalltown barber shop/commercial store. Maybe later in this month it will be on STEX - with better nightlights than my last plugin 

 

Buuuuuuuuuuut I want to show you guys something I'm working on to help me in my new entry on my city journal The Karelian Republic:

I'm creating (but not recreating) a city based on the russian city of Priozersk - and in that city there's an old fortress turned on a museum. When I was creating that city I first thought I wasnt going to build it since I wasn't finding a nice and suitable asset to use as that museum. But well, I thought the city was a bit empty and with no distinct landmark so I tried to make my version of that fortress.

It also has no nightlight since I'm not planning on releasing it to the STEX, but of course, if anyone is interested in these 4 models (maybe I will create some "damaged walls" to add more personality to it or that other building between the two "houses" that I dont even know what it is lol) I will attach here to you 

[sejr99999 8,351]

thank you   I am definitely interested in those 4 models   there really isn't a lot of historic buildings from that part of the world in SC4

[JulioC 2,580]

15 hours ago, sejr99999 said:

thank you   I am definitely interested in those 4 models   there really isn't a lot of historic buildings from that part of the world in SC4

Ok, when I finish the pack I will upload it in this thread 

I had a bit of free time today so I finished my first version of that commercial building I talked about last post:

Its a generic small town commercial shop. There's a beauty salon, a small market, a thai restaurant and a free slot there. This is the real life reference: 

https://www.google.com/maps/@62.2995621,27.1540458,3a,75y,334.75h,82.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snNEiP3CwPhP3-zMpBwpR-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu

I'm asking you guys opinion about the colors, the textures and the LOT cause i'm not sure about them. I didn't make the nightlights yet since I want to make sure the rest of the building is "perfect" which is not at the moment - so I still can change these things.

See you guys 

[sejr99999 8,351]

I like this little business building      it could be low wealth or med wealth commercial services (restaurant and salon)   I see you worked to recreate the RL lot as well

I like the details like the ladder to the roof and the AC units on the rear wall    would be nice to have a little weathering on the roof but I also see some of the buildings in the neighborhood seem to have fairly clean roofs so maybe just a small bit of fading?   thank you for creating new content for SC4

[jestarr 3,416]

I agree, this is a nice little building. I would apply a medium brown gradient to the roof texture to weather it a bit, but other than that, I really like it.

[nos.17 5,177]

The lots look very nice - sometimes simple is better.

[JulioC 2,580]

Thank you guys for the feedback

I'm busy with rl stuff, I'll only be able to continue this next week, but I want to show what I did in that building after my last update

Put a gradient on the roof texture and add a new color variation - I like doing two or more versions of a single BAT since you just need to change some textures and this helps you to have less repetition in your cities 

But again ran into problems with the lightning LOL - since I need to the edit the Lot anyway I will try to fix it and render it again - but the building is 95% done and will be in the STEX next week 

[JulioC 2,580]

23 Keskuskatu commercial building is available on the STEX now

Hope you guys enjoy it - In my next BAT I will show the development phase here so if I ran into any problems I will ask you guys for help here, so hopefully I will have better nightlights 

[JulioC 2,580]

Hey guys

I'm working on a new W2W building - a very generic commercial to fill your european neighbourhood

Its a 2x1 lot, very simple, no props or custom textures in that one, just the building. Not much to show yet, I'm gonna create some alt versions of it changing the colors to give us more variety.

[JulioC 2,580]

Hey guys

I've basically finished this building - with three color variations

The thing is: as you can see, it's occurring a weird graphical bug in the sides of the windows in my computer. But after talking to BATs experts (ty madhatter), it turns out this glitch may not appear to everybody, just some people, and even maybe just for me.

So I will share it here, and if its possible for you, I would like for you guys to download it and see if this glitch happens in your SC4

Thanks in advance 😉

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ps: if you use the cheat "buildingplop" you can search for the buildings very quickly, they are named "JCP_VarkausGenericRed/Green/Black", and you wont need to wait it to grow naturally by zoning

Varkaus.zip

[JulioC 2,580]

I will problably release the BAT I showed you guys above in a pack with 3~5 different models in 3 colour schemes each = resulting in something between 9 and 15 different BATs to your european cities!

The second BAT of the pack is the one Im posting the preview below

 

Hope you guys like it 

[JulioC 2,580]

Third model:

testing new nightlights methods. What do you guys think?

[nos.17 5,177]

Loving the new light lights, especially the ground floor!

I wonder if you could add a bit more texture to the walls of the building though. As is they look quite plain.

[JulioC 2,580]

JCP Varkaus W2W Commercial Buildings is out now 

[JulioC 2,580]

On 03/11/2023 at 10:06 AM, sejr99999 said:

thank you   I am definitely interested in those 4 models   there really isn't a lot of historic buildings from that part of the world in SC4

Here we go:

CasteloKorela.rar

Just 4 models, no nightlights, just landmarks, so I won't upload on the STEX. I just used it to create this scene for my city journal.

Hope you guys liked it and can find a good use for them

[rsc204 21,836]

Some beautiful models you have here, i need to pay more attention to your thread clearly.

[Vitoraju 675]

Julio, congratulations my friend! I was very happy to see that you became another batter! The community, especially the Brazilian one, has a lot to gain from new creations! Success!!!
👏👏👏

[JulioC 2,580]

Thanks for the comments guys 

I'm not BATting that much lately, so I don't have any update in these matters, but I started a new SC4 project and people in the discord server has been interested in some custom content I did to this new region so I will upload one of these mods here now, but first a bit of context:

I started a new plugins folder based on tropical regions - more specifically south asian, a bit of Goan influence even though there's not that much indian BATs available so I can't make it as realistic as I want  - and one tropical trait are these utility poles on the sidewalks, and the only mod that gives us that is this japanese one:

http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0856.html

 

But as you can see, it adds more props along the utility poles, like (many) manholes, japanese trees, fences, gardens, etc which make sense to Japanese environment, but not latin, african, south/southeast asian regions. And it "only" add these props to Road, Street and SAM 3 and SAM 4. So I not only removed these additional props that don't really fit to tropical cities, but also created two new versions with only utility poles being added: SAM 5 (trolca dirt street) and SAM 7 (dark asphalt street)

I will leave it uploaded here if anyone is interested in my version of this mod ^^

z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2.zip

If you only want the SAM 5 and SAM 7 addon, delete every other file and just keep z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2\CoreFile\01_SAM\SAM5 and z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2\CoreFile\01_SAM\SAM7

The dependencies are the same of the original mod, Neko Prop Set 01 and 02, located here: http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0856.html

Thanks, hope I can post more BATs updates soon 

[kaimai 1,053]

1 hour ago, JulioC said:

Thanks for the comments guys 

I'm not BATting that much lately, so I don't have any update in these matters, but I started a new SC4 project and people in the discord server has been interested in some custom content I did to this new region so I will upload one of these mods here now, but first a bit of context:

I started a new plugins folder based on tropical regions - more specifically south asian, a bit of Goan influence even though there's not that much indian BATs available so I can't make it as realistic as I want  - and one tropical trait are these utility poles on the sidewalks, and the only mod that gives us that is this japanese one:

http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0856.html

 

But as you can see, it adds more props along the utility poles, like (many) manholes, japanese trees, fences, gardens, etc which make sense to Japanese environment, but not latin, african, south/southeast asian regions. And it "only" add these props to Road, Street and SAM 3 and SAM 4. So I not only removed these additional props that don't really fit to tropical cities, but also created two new versions with only utility poles being added: SAM 5 (trolca dirt street) and SAM 7 (dark asphalt street)

I will leave it uploaded here if anyone is interested in my version of this mod ^^

z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2.zip

If you only want the SAM 5 and SAM 7 addon, delete every other file and just keep z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2\CoreFile\01_SAM\SAM5 and z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2\CoreFile\01_SAM\SAM7

The dependencies are the same of the original mod, Neko Prop Set 01 and 02, located here: http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0856.html

Thanks, hope I can post more BATs updates soon 

As someone also making a tropical-themed southeast asia/india type region this will be helpful, thanks!

(And, unrelated question: I've likewise found not a whole lot of buildings from this region, and I think I've been through basically everything on the STEX and am now hunting through dependency packs for extra buildings... is there anywhere else I should look for tropical third-world type content? I already have most of the LBT stuff, + as much as I could find from debussyman, harishna, ct1999, wallibuk, maloskero, adrianor, thailand BAT team. In particular it's harder to find higher-stage residential/commercial buildings that look appropriately weathered unless I concede to having a significant Japanese/Chinese presence, but there's also a shortage of non-Christian places of worship and open-air markets)