peterycristi

Hi all together, some may know me from sc4 as i released some buildings there together with the good old german SFBT. But now i focus the little spare time i got on playing cities skylines, as this game gives you all the possibilities that we always wished to have in sc4. Unfortunatelly modding buildings for skylines is a completely different thing than to do for sc4 . So i started to play around a little bit with blender and some weeks later i had a first model. But now what? Anyone out there to give me some advices for texturing or at least a good tutorial? Every help is welcome to get this model where it belongs... The model is a lightly changed version of the main building of oslo university. I've never been to norway, but as this building follows the architecture of karl friedrich schinkel i like it a lot and by the way i thought that a european university building could be needed... saludos Peter

[quote name='VicRusty' timestamp='1325615369'] I always feel nostalgy about Berlin. Peterycristi, I really have to say that your pictures are BRILLANT!Congratulations! And also happy new year! Could you told us what are you using to make this cannals? Are they the parisean canal set? Thanks. [/quote] thanks! Well, the canal set is my own work. But there are still a lot of parts missing, so that you all need to wait until it will be published.

Sylvester Update: "Happy new year to all of you!" ~ Hey guys! It's time to start in a new year, full of adventures, new sights and scenes! Even here in Berlin we are very excited about what the new year will bring. But we should rush to get to the party, it's just 5 to twelve!~ ~ Happy new year 1925 to all of you! I hope you enjoyed the party! Wasn't that fun to celebrate the sylvester party here in the capital? Well, for the next year i have some really great sights for you to watch. So take a look, of what will come soon!~ ~ We will have a stay at the "Museumsinsel". In five different museums you can enjoy tons of cultural goods like the great works of the german romantic in the old national gallery... ~ ~ ...or greek and agyptian arts in the old museum next to the cathedral.~ ~ Later we'll have a walk through the historic center of old Berlin and Cölln. ~ ~ And of course we can't miss the imperial palace! Now, that the emperor is gone, we can take a look inside and watch all the luxury he was living in! ~ ~ So i wish you all a happy new year 2012. Thanks for staying in touch with my MD. I hope you will enjoy the updates of this year and go on visiting me here. Take care all of you, may your wishes for the new year come true! ~

Update 5: "Gendarmenmarkt - The most beautifull place of the capital" ~Hey Guys! Here we are again! I listened about that Gendarmenmarkt should be the most beautifull place in Berlin. So I decided, that today I’ll take you there and we’ll have a look by ourselfs.~ CLICK ME! ~Look at these fantastic churches and the Schauspielhaus! On the left that should be the German Cathedral and on the right the French Cathedral. This is really impressive!~ ~Here in my travel guide it says, that in the 17th century a lot of french hugenotts settled down in this area. King Frederick I. gave a piece of land to the lutheran and hugenott community to build their churches. But again is was Frederick the Great who gave the look of today to the plaza. From 1780 to 1785 two identic towers were added to the churches.~ ~It’s name Gendarmenmarkt got the plaza, because in the years from 1736 to 1773 there were located the stables of the Kurassierregiment “Gens d’armes”. In the center of the plaza was built a new national theater by Carl Gotthard Langhans which burned down in 1817. The plans for the Schauspielhaus, which dominates the plaza until today, were made by Karl Friedrich Schinkel himself and the construction was finished in 1821.~ ~Until 1888 every week there was a market on Gendarmenmarkt. Just later the plaza was greened up an got it’s flower and plant ensembles.~ ~It is also a important spot for the democratic movement in Germany. In 1847 a first sign of the upcoming revolution (1848) was the so called “Kartoffelrevolution” when some people demonstrated here because of rising food prices. The victims of the march revolution in 1848 were bared on the steps of the german cathedral. And from september 1848 the Prussian National Congress used the great hall of the Schauspielhaus for their reunions.~ ~This is really a beautifull place, isn’t it guys? Well, I hope you liked our trip of today and we’ll see more of the city center soon. Take care!~ Special Thanks to Kelis who shared his Props and his modells for remodellation!

Looks very promissing! Waiting the next update

The Sculpture Creating Tutorial Hi folks, after some requests i decided to try to write a short sculpture creating tutorial. Sculpturing often seams to be one of the hardest parts of batting a building. But at all it's not that hard a lot of you might think. Here i'll try to explain how to create a simple sculpture in just 15 steps. I just hope with a satisfying result. Our testing object should be this logia from munich i did some time ago for a CJ. As you can see, we need two sculptures on the left and the right. The material should be bronce. But lets figure out, how to create them. Let's start with a simple sphere which we scale a little. The radius in our example is 0,955 but that should not be so important. Just select a size in which it is confortable for you to work with the basic bodies. Go on scaling down the y-axis by clicking with the right mouse on the scale icon above. This is our torax. Now just clone the sphere to go on modelling our sculpture. Next we'll do the head. Just scale the sphere down to 100% on all axis and now change the z-axis to get the shape of a head. Next you should scale down the "head" a little. Now we'll change the x-angel of the head, so that it fits better with our torax. In our example we choose the value -15,5, this is always a good value. So this were two of the essential steps. Now we go on modelling our sculture by repeating this three steps. Just change the angels and the scale of your spheres to simulate all the parts of the body. For the legs and the arm should always be the scale on the z-axis higher. For the lower parts of legs and arms the z-scale should be almost three times the x and y-scale to get a good reasult later. Just go on cloning the spheres and put your sculpture together until you got all parts you need. At next, well do the shapy dress of the sculture. Let's create a cylinder first. Now we choose edit mesh in the modyfier menu and the symbol for the polygon connections. Now go on moving every single point of our cylinder. Just think, that you don't need to work so exactelly, it's just to create the impression of a organic body. But it's not so important to really create a perfect copy of the real thing. After creating the dress of our sculpture just change the angels as you like and copy the modified cylinder as often, as you need it to create more variety, in our case two cylinders should be enough. At next, just select all the bodies of our sculpture and group them. Thats just more simple for the future steps. The next important part is the texturing. The combination of the simple sculpture modell and the right texture is the secret of creating scultures in my opinion. For our sculpture we choose a texture from a picture of the logia. By clicking on apply all the bodies of our sculture are pasted by the texture, but that still doesn't look so well. Thats why we put a UVW-map on our modell. As you see, the taxture now covers all the sculture. Now we just modify the hole thing a little by selecting cylinder for the UVW-map and change the values of the cylinder so, that it covers the complete modell. And here we are at the last step. Just move the sculpture on it's position and scale it down until it fits good in it's place. As you see we got a nice result in our render. I hope, this was usefull for you and it blows a little bit away the fear of creating sculptures. Just try it your own and you'll figure out that it's not so hard at all. saludos Peter

Update4: "The government in Berlin is deposed!" - The Hitler-Putsch 1923 ~ Well guys, i'm sorry to interrupt your city tour, but i think, you should read the newspaper of today! You woun't believe what happend the last morning in the bavarian capital! The leader of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, and General Ludendorff (he was one of the leaders of the german military in the great war and a war heroe) tried to take the power in Munich! ~ ~ For god sake they didn't suceed! In a fight with the bavarian police the Putsch got stuck. But read it yourself. ~ ~ The Defenders of the Republic ~ ~ Gustav Stresemann - Reichschancellor 1923 to 1923 ~ ~ Friedrich Ebert - Reichspresident 1919 to 1925 ~ ~ Well guys, hope you liked that short history lesson. Who wants to know more can google for beer hall putsch. See you soon, back at the capital, visiting the city center... Take care, guys. This are very dangerous times... ~