thecarl3

I started a new building to practice getting the fundamentals down instead of trying to create the ultimate right away. I am creating a simple building and going to finish it all the way. I want to learn how to do nightlighting so that's what I am practicing on this building.The problem is I don't know how to do nightlighting and/or how to get light to shine through a window texture. If that is possible. Also sometimes I put the word night in front of the UMV map on the window and there is no night light. As you can see I have put up interior walls, I heard this helps for night lighting windows. Can anyone help me with this???? Thanks.

*Update* here is a new picture of the building I am currently working on...Incase you are following my progress hahha. I added some window textures to the windows as you can see, to see what they would look like. I dont think I like them though..... I dont know how to create light shine through a texture for night lights. I put a texture on the UMV map for my window.. Is that what I am suppose to do??? Well here it is..

I think its very good!!!!

Im sorry I can't figure out how to post pictures I upload them to imageshack but I cant get them to appear here!! I apologize once again

Since I have learned to BAT somewhat I decieded to show you guys what I am working on and what I have done so far. Keep in mind I learned to BAT only about 5 days ago so PLEASE critique my work and, well tell me all the problems. I was afraid to start this thread after seeing what others have created. They are so amazing! Well here is some of my stuff---Enjoy haha and tell me the good and bads! And here is what I am working on now (SEE BELOW) its the colored building Thanks,<---Here is what I am working on next! No textures yet sorry.........Dont know how to render without the goofy color shapes

WOW!!! That building is so amazing!!! The water is amazing looking and so are all the other details. The light posts and fence though--did u create those or add them to the building with like lot editor or something?? Wow I wish I could create buildings that cool Great Job!

I am a new BAT creator and I want to know how to post the rendering on the forums. If anyone can help me with this just tell me! Hahha I am going to show some of BAT's that I have done and hopefully someone can help me improve. I have much to learn with Gmax. I have plenty of ideas.....I just dont know how to create much detail using Gmax. All I have learned so far is pretty much boxes, I dont even know how to create say a house roof! So someone please help me--How do I get my building renderings on Gmax! I posted the pic on word but can't convert it so the computer sees it as a picture and not a text doc. Thx!

I am learning to create buildings using gmax but right now I cant figure out how to texture very well. I figured out how to draw a texture onto a shape and thats about it. I was following the BAT essentials tutorial which helped a ton but I can't understand the texture part. I am lost on how to do it wih a UVW map. Also I found a brick texture and placed it on my building but the bricks were huge!! Only about 5 showed on the building. They were bigger then the windows. How do I scale that down!! or what do I do?? Can't find any tutorial here or on the web really, can anyone help me!!

I really want to learn how to use the program Gmax so I can creats SC4 buildings and contribute to the site. Mainly because I have lots of good ideas but have no way to share them. I havent been able to find any tutorials to help me get started. Can anyone help me or direct me towards a good tutorial. I know nothing about this program, so just learning to create a simply box with mabye a window would be a start! Thanks!

Well so far from the screenshots I think the game is already going in the wrong direction. All the ideas to create a great city building game are there from what I have read but from what I can see the game isnt looking so great. I think by creating everything in 3D the graphics will be more childish, so to say and unrealistic. I think what will happen is the game will turn out to look like, yes City Life, or Sim City Socities. (which is bad) I think the camera set up should be similiar to SC4 with varying zoom levels and rotation. This allows for more detail in the city. Mabye Monte Cristo will do an amazing job and prove me wrong. I hope Also to add, look at a real city and see how it looks. Even go on MSN maps and look at NYC from the birds eye view. They need to look at a real city and see what it looks like and make realistic features. SC4 was limited but so far the best city building game ever. If SC4 would have came out with so more expansion packs they would have sold more of those than Sim City Socities. Thats my thoughts.