Reconstruction: January 30, 2011
Hello everyone,
I apologize for no updates for the past few months. The last few months of 2010 were especially busy for me.
First off, I have good news. I have uploaded my Central Pacific Plaza lot on the STEX. You all are welcome to download it at:
As for the LEX, I haven't heard a word from the LEX scrutineers in months. I could have uploaded my lot as far back as September of 2010, but I've been waiting since. Anyways, please do share your questions, experiences, criticisms, and experiences from using my lot.
In other news, I have obliterated and rebuilt my downtown city tile. I tried to do it last year by just bulldozing, but I had the problem of "bad decisions" that screwed up various simulators. This time, I used two instances of SimCity. One had a backup copy of downtown, and the other was the post-obliteration city tile. I simply traced lengths of roadways. It took me several hours over two days. Surprisingly, there was not much of a performance slowdown. Here are the results:
As you may have guessed, I am rebuilding my region. I have been inspired to BAT. In Google Earth, there has been a huge addition of new Honolulu buildings, created by various people. Although many of the buildings (highrise and lowrise) aren't that good quality, these people have shown Honolulu can be done, and with speed too.
I have been creating basic (untextured) models of numerous buildings in the Liliha, Chinatown, and Downtown areas. I'm gaining experience on how to BAT faster. A lot of the effort is in creating the model with accurate dimensions, while textures, nightlights, and lotting is more point-click-choose.
Here is the Google Earth reference shot:
Here is the old downtown in SimCity:
Here are the basic building models:
Note the differences in height. Some of the buildings are still just placeholder boxes with the general dimensions. I'm surprised there are a couple of buildings I used back then that are fairly close to the new models.
Again, I apologize for the long gaps between updates. But, do expect to see updates throughout on this year. Besides the BATing I want to do, the real Honolulu is on its way to rail transit groundbreaking in March. I may do a few updates on the planned route and extentions, using the old Capitalis region as a backdrop.
By the way, should I just keep things all in here, or should I make a separate thread for BATs?
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