MarcosMX BAT thread

[MarcosMX 222]

jglei701: well I will use the white concrete and i will add more on the top. And how about the blue roof nobody is talking about it.
 
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edit:
Quick update:
I haven't played with this BAt too much, but this what I have for now.


Suggestions and comments are welcome

 

[MarcosMX 222]

The final product.


I just need to put the night lights and it will be ready to export

C'mon guy, please take a few minutes of your life and post.

[Kwakelaar 92]

A nice simpel BAT with good textures, but personally I found your first project much more interesting and original.

[MarcosMX 222]

A little update

Here is the FedEx Kinko's at night

and the Mexican restaurant

Kwakelaar: I know my last project looked more interesting. I wish I had a better computer to make skyscrapers.
Im very good at those.

[tag_one 132]

looks really great, especially the nightlights of the restaurant is great

[cammo2003 20]

Nice work. I could easily see this becoming a modular sort of thing too.. Is that your intention?

[Metropolis 11]

Nice buildings I'm not trying to rush you or anything but i am just wondering if there is any update on the Binghamton State Office Building.

[MarcosMX 222]

mmm that thing is messed up, if you plop it, it makes your game crash to the desktop.
I will probably redo it.

Edit:
My next project: Mexico city w2w project

In the next few day, I will focus on many w2w building from Mexico City.

Right now Im working on a 4x4 bank.
Picture coming soon

[jt_144_2004 0]

I love these small offices and shops...its one thing that is often ignored by BATers

[MarcosMX 222]

jt144 2004: well it's your lucky day, because today I will start working on small offices, shops, etc

I will try to recreate this bank

but I will make it wall 2 wall and 4x4 lot

[Metropolis 11]

Ohh, That stinks. All that wonderful work you did on it and it doesnt work. Thanks for trying.

[MarcosMX 222]

Are you kidding me.

I don't know what are you talking about.

please explain

[tcx 170]

Hey nice you would try to BAT Mexican buildings, but please find another pic of Banamex, that one is ugly.

[mightygoose 92]

yeah go mexican bats, that hispanic style is very rare round these parts

[MarcosMX 222]

Tcxalapa: Sorry that's what I found on the NET.One day I will do the headquarters of Banorte. But if you have a good image please post it and I will BAT it.
Mightymouse: Thanks, I hope you like this

A front view

and a left view

That's all for now
 

[tcx 170]

Oki I searched and there are not good pics of banamex, anyway looks good.

I found this one, more mexican style, I'm thinking you could use the idea for the textures on the one you already modeled.

[tcx 170]

Maybe I'm tired of see a lot of BAT in a box-shaped form. But thats the way many real buildings are :S.

[MarcosMX 222]

Yeah I will use that picture. After I finish this I will work on a little "tiendita" so I hope to find good images.

BTW What happened to the Torre Latinoamericana

[tcx 170]

I'm modeling the first floor, the stores, as soon as I finish that I will upload it to the STEX.

[MarcosMX 222]

Im not sure about the textures but if you have suggestions please let me know them.

Here my new 2x2 small shop

I hope you all like my new creation

Tcxalapa: ah Ok.

[sloppet 3]

MarcosMX: so far - so good! You're doing a really great job here!

[Cjah 15]

The top building looks familar.I think it looks really great!

[debussyman 1,348]

Nice to see someone is doing these BATs!, so far it looks good, but here are my thoughts about the Banamex building:

-Try to make the stripe not to go all the way aroud the building but only in the front.

-The texture of the stripe is too red, try making it lood a little more purple (I recommend looking for the tutorial for calibrating photoshop to ge the right color).

-(not sure) but check how would it look with wider columns.

-Use a larger roof texture, preferably tileable, the one you're using now is too blured when rendered. I'm thinking some concrete tiles perhaps.

-I don't know what it is, maybe my imagination, but I see something wrong with the roof junk. Maybe the air conducts are too low, try rising them a little and applying a metallic texture, or maybe making all the air conducts the same wide.

Apart from the said, I think it looks fine. The small shop looks very promising too. Keep up working.

[Metropolis 11]

Marcos, didnt you say that the Binghamton State Office Building doesnt work? You said when you plop it it crashes back to the desktop. All I was saying is that you put all that work into the building and it doesnt work.

[6459978. 106]

Looks good. My suggestion for the roof texture on that one would be to photoshop on a layer of a grainy gravel-ish texture in order to increase the resolution because as it is now, it clearly looks stretched.

[tcx 170]

this is an old version of banamex, I believe the colours have change to blue, white and red, check the new logos, or maybe you are making a retro version. anyway, the roof looks bad, why don't you put the same or similar texture you used in your other BATs, this one looks really bad.

But hey, who am I to talk about textures?

[MarcosMX 222]

Thanks for your comments Sloppet and Cjah

Debussyman: One thing I don't have photoshop. About the textures I will change the roof texture to something more realistic. How about if I put a "tinaco" or Rotoplas. I will make the air conducts more bigger they look small.

Metropolis: I currently having problems with the model, so I will start over as soon as I upgrade my graphics card.

6459978: thansk, I don't have any copy of Photoshop. But is it possible to use Gimp to do what you are telling me?

tcxalapa: The problem is that there aren't any good pictures on the net. 

Edit:

I have done what you told so here is the result.

And the 2x2 shop

[tag_one 132]

wow, the banamex shop looks fantastic! great roof and wall textures. my only concern are the roofjunc textures. you could make them nicer by adding a more metal like texture(or something with a bit more color variaty if you know what I mean).

check out this site: http://www.grsites.com/textures/ at the metal section (somewhere near the bottom of the page) there're some very good metaltextures.

about the 2x2 shop. I love the shape, it looks very interresting. esspecially the windows above the entrence are very cool. I hardly can't wait to see it textured

keep up this great work!!

[spa 968]

Looks good. We need more small commercial shops and offices. The only thing that I would say is that you might want to rethink the ducting on the roof of the Banamex. It seems a tad excessive, but that could just be me.

[6459978. 106]

Yes, it should be possible to use Gimp for that -- just add an additional layer on top of what you have with some sort of gravel texture. Try that and see how it looks.