Burj Khalifa

[Skyfire2275 23]

Yeah! I hope to see it on the STEX soon!

[SimFox 802]

Well, I hope to give it a good light first. and may be, together with Andisart a bit more of a decorations

[MayorTim 16]

*Bump*

Hopefully now this will be out within 5 days.

[SC4Noobie 5]

I hope it'll be out tommorrow, because tomorrow is the first day of school, the only day with no homework....

[MarcosMX 222]

Two Burjs, one download and one STEX. I don't know what to choose.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Choose both!

[SimFox 802]

Hold your horses, boys and girls!!

5 days - may be. Tomorrow/today - definitely not!

There are some options how to do the render and I want us (Andisart and me) to explore some before making decision on which one it will be. and this will take some time.

And then again there is a LOT work!

[mightygoose 92]

i hope you do something cool with the lot cos the skyscraper one just seemed to lack something being that plain....

[AndisArt 2,066]

SimFox,

I just retunred from a trip and found all these news here...

PUNKROCK!!  Rendered in one piece!! SimFox I love you!!

This is truly the best news for the project ever!   Yahoo!

That question was  there from the very first day and now there is FINALLY an aswer to it thanks to your great groundbreaking research and work!!

I feel happy and grateful :-)  

To answer your question: For the test render for the nightwindows I lit up selected floors with one huge, the whole tower covering Spotlight, with shadows turned off and with only the floors to be lit up "inlcuded".  

T Wrecks, the old way of nightwindows isn't possible with the model the way it is right now, since the windows are not single pieces but one large object. I can't change that because I have applied a fake-raytracing map on it and that needs to cover the whole glas segment from bottom to top. 

For the discussion on the question of whole floors being lit up instead of single windows I agree that it is more realistic for offices to have larger areas lit up at once.  I won't use the method of lighting up the floors for the shown issues.  I might light up some floors seperatly with stuff like tables and such. At least this might loog better at points were the light of the nightspots of the outside walls is fading out completely and would leave only a dark surface. I will make some tests.

Another question:  Is it possible to make some transparent textures for the reilings that will still be transparent and show ingame scence through the glass? I know this wasn't possible so far but I heard someone talking about some news in that area.

So this will not come out in the next days. There is NO way, sorry guys.

There is still a lot of detailing and finalizing the tower itself before making a final render and then there will be the lot which will be HUGE and will take some weeks to do I assume. 

With the time I've invested in this project, a span over one and a half year, it would be a shame to rush to the end now.

But with SimFox great news of the solution of the render question we are BIG step further towards the release!

Stay tuned!

[MayorTim 16]

Weeks?

Ah well, I guess I can't always be right!

[SC4Noobie 5]

That's too bad, but good news also! I can't wait to get it done!

[mcarch 15]

Bad MayorTim... Bad Bad!

[MarcosMX 222]

Take your time Andisart and Simfox. Projects like this can't be rushed.

Times passes fast people.

[yoder7652 21]

I agree...don't be hasty with the project, the community has waited this long and we can continue to wait....I choose quality over speed any day

[MayorTim 16]

Any new updates for us Andy?

[yoder7652 21]

mayor tim...not sure you're going to see success with your bump....but I could be wrong

[MayorTim 16]

You know you want to post an update for us Andy....

[JDRCRASH 53]

I think its Dead

[MayorTim 16]

I doubt it's completely dead, Andisart did take a 6 or so month break, and then come back and pick it back up again, but lets hope that this next break he is apparently taking won't last quite as long

Or better yet, he could be adding the final touches to it, and hes just too lazy to update us! (but I doubt it)

[MarcosMX 222]

Let's pray for an update guys
Projects like this, can't be dumped into the dumpster of the forgotten.

[JDRCRASH 53]

Yeah like Shanghai WFC and AON Center(L.A.) and others too.

[yoder7652 21]

I thought he was having troubles rendering this beast...

[AndisArt 2,066]

Of course this project is not dead.

From the beginning I've been working on and off on it as my real life allows.

It's been that way and that won't change. And at the moment I don't have time to spend for it.

I told you in the beginning: I WILL finish it before the real Burj will be done! (which is, by the way, end of 2008)

So you see, I'm very well on schedule...

[MarcosMX 222]

Thanks for an update Andisart. Real life comes first as always. We will wait...

[JDRCRASH 53]

@Andisart:Well i should've paid more attention

Alright i was just wondering because sometimes other big projects were abandoned too....even when people promised to death that it would get done.

And i was also interested because you didn't reply for a while....i mean each reply doesn't have to be specifically about the project.

We could talk on how the REAL Burj Dubai is coming along!

@MarcosMX:Yeah your right real life is more importent.

[MayorTim 16]

I knew it, but it is nice to hear from you every once in a while Andy. Real life, of course, comes first.

Thanks!

[MayorTim 16]

Come on Andy, update us!

[SC4Noobie 5]

Stop bumping the damn thread!! You bump more than a $%&^!. I should report you lol.

[AndisArt 2,066]

Time for an update!

After spending the last 2 months solely working on SimMars, I needed a break. So the last 4 days I've been working on creating the base lot for my precisous *little* tower, hehe.

I can tell you: It is going to be huge, probably around 22x18 tiles!

Good thing is that just recently in December pictures showed up in the net that show the design of the base in detail, making it possible for me at all to start working on the model.

So here's a little breakdown of the last 4 days of fulltime work:

• day 1:  Creating Side Building A, creating initial Main Plaza piece
• day 2:  Layout testing, creating first plaza details
• day 3: Creating the garage... (that almost drove me nuts!!)
• day 4: creating avenue details and ramp, more layout tests

So here, have a look on the workbench:

I'm pretty satisfied with the result, I just wish I knew more techniques in Max so it wouldn't take that long to creat shapes the way I want to...

The tower itself is done, I added some more plants and refined some detail arrangements.

Have a look on an ingame test, model rendered by SimFox :

[tag_one 133]

wow wonderfully done! the details are very nice. can't wait to play with it