MarcosMX BAT thread

[T Wrecks 10,209]

What do you mean when you say that you hate how MS Paint saves JPG files? Is the quality too low? If so, then you should get IrfanView - that's a free image viewer with editing and converting features which will allow you to adjust the quality / compression ratio of JPG files. Moreover, it's multilingual, and you can simply download a Spanish translation.

As for the ploppables question, the properties you need to delete from the landmark's building exemplar are:

- Query Exemplar GUID (take the one from the growable instead)

- SFX: Query Sound (take the one from the growable instead)

- Landmark effect

- Mayor rating effect

- everything that starts with "budget item" (4 properties at the bottom).

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Oh great. Another pageflip, another bug.

[MarcosMX 222]

I will start using Infarview.
When you save a picture as JPG, it looks glossy.
Thanks for helping me out. 
Edit:
Well Today I learned to make flora and I gave it my first try.
Hope you like it
Day Pic

Night Pic

I hope to release BANAMEX tonight, Im still testing and checking if it grows right.
Cheers.

*Banamex is already on the STEX*

[MarcosMX 222]

I hope you like my new creations (well some of them aren't new at all)

I hope you like them.

[tcx 170]

Hi, the last ones look great, the only thing I don't like is the roof junk, I think buildings of that style don't have that pipes on their roof.

[MarcosMX 222]

Tcxalapa: I will change the roof junk to something else.

Every house will have a diffrent roof junk.

By the way, today I was looking for pictures of Elektra and Salinas & Rocha but today isnot my lucky day.

So I will try to remember how they look and I will BAT them.

[GaBoR 7]

Great work with the Banamex building, by the way are planning in realising a series of Mexican Branches of the major banks?

[Yisginlasvegas 5]

Good luck with your work.

[tag_one 133]

wow they're great. I love the bright colors they make me feel happy

[MarcosMX 222]

the net is filled with alot of pictures but I can't find what Im looking, so I will give up with my Mexico city project.
But I will upload my Soriana and the three houses.
As I said on my previous post(s)
I will remake or remodel the One Shell Square from New orleans.
Edit:
Here is what i got


I decided to do something special to nightlightning. But why red lights? Thats because the Red Corss helped alot during the Hurricane Katrina. Also to remember those who died

When I finish this I might start with Frost Tower from San Antonio Texas
Thanks
BTW Does any know how long does it takes to render a 200 meter BAT on a 2GHz 504MB of Ram

[MarcosMX 222]

Quick Update:
Here is what Im working on, it is a COMPUSA
here is a what Im basing on

and this is what I got for now

(Note: I have added some extra stuff so it looks more detailed) And thanks to Deadwoods for telling me how to make Custom LODs
phew that was quick
Anyways thanks for reading my words and sentences.

[cammo2003 20]

Although I don't like that sort of architecture, your representation of the COMPUSA looks good (and even these styles don't look SO bad in-game).

Great work.

[tag_one 133]

great buildings, I think your tower needs somewhere between the 10 and 14 hours to render, depending on the textures and the amount of poligons.

[MarcosMX 222]

As I request of someone from the official BAT request thread, i decided to start a Logan Roadside, I will have pictures later.

Cammo I don't like that type of architecture too.

Tag_One: what.. Last month I rendered the Bimgingham Office building, and it took 30 minutes, and it was just 120 meters.

[6459978. 106]

No need to make custom LODs for the COMPUSA -- Any non-rectangular LOD decreases performance significantly since the game actually renders the LODs in real time.

[tag_one 133]

in 30 minutes!! do you have 3ds max or am I doing something wrong?

[subedei 3]

Your CompUSA looks great. More PCs for sims to play SC4 with. Keep up the great work.

Subedei

[sloppet 3]

Your CompUSA looks great. quote>

I agree! Really well done!

[MarcosMX 222]

well I guess I will have to add some flora. I didn't know that Custom LODs slows down the game. I figured out why the Bimgingham Office building took only 30 minutes. It only had 5,000 Poly's.

[MarcosMX 222]

I finished modelling the Logan, here is a pic


 Hope you like it

[sloppet 3]

Hope you like itquote>

No, I don't like it... I love it!

It's totally awesome!

[tag_one 133]

wow nice shape and lovely rooftextures!

[subedei 3]

the Logan looks really nice. Keep up the great work you are doing.

Subedei

[MarcosMX 222]

Hi, thanks for your comments
this is what I have been working on.

If you don't know what Michael's is click here

I was having problems with Soriana, but I fixed those, so it will be on the STEX today(Sunday) or tommorow.

[shivsood 5]

the logan is realli gd!

[MarcosMX 222]

Phew, exams are over, but school is not, so I will focus more on the BAT now. I found this image of a bank on the internet, so I will use ir as a guide for my next BAT creation

Also I have toned down the wood texture of the Logan's

Thanks for your comments.

[tzotzil99 2]

i really like your little colored houses, you should upload them. i hope to try modeling similar buildings myself. i have a great book with wonderful photos of colored houses from guatemala, brazil, and other parts of the world. i know these kinds of buildings don't always fit into people's cities but i think it would be great to have more variety in simcity. there are so many fantastic european bats of different kinds, and great japanese and east asian bats now, but it would be nice to also have a good selection of more bats with a latin or middle eastern or south asian flavor. wouldn't it be great to be able to build something like Oaxaca?? so many beautiful buildings there. and San Cristobal too. keep up the good work

[MarcosMX 222]

As a request of Goldfish, I have started a little project (5 Bank Project). I will make about 5 diferent models with diffrent names and Pack them togehter to release them into the STEX.

Here is the first model.

Day Pic

Night Pic

My second creation, SunTrust, night pic coming later.

tzotzil99: Maybe one day I will upload those col houses. so just wait til I fisnish this little project.

[MarcosMX 222]

Here is my third creation.

[jt_144_2004 0]

Looks great, good textures! im not sure about those plants tho...they seem a bit plastic