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Several weeks ago I presented you my new creation, the Ringturm. Today I can show you this tower more or less finished. Some answers: @KonstantinII, so far i see no reason to chance it. @Ferrt, thanks. Here it is: I hope for some feedback! Roland

Hello. Thank you urielgarcia. And many thanks to all the people that wrote a message to me and offered to help me with modding. I organized it via Simforum, but I keep you in mind. Thank you. And sorry that I didn't answer. Today I have something completely new for you. The tower in the first district of Vienna is already 60 years old, looks many grey and isn't my favourite building. But it is - together with the Great Wheel - a symbol for the modern Austria after World War II. Here are the pictures: Roland

After more or less 2 month I say Hello again in this thread! So: Hello. Thanks for the nice answers. I would be very happy with uploading one BAT, so please don't expect a high tech library. Sorry. At the moment time for SCbatting is very rare. But I can show you nightlight for Domenighaus: And I would be very, very happy if someone can do modding for me so I can release by finished 3 BATs. I dislike modding, I don't like to learn it, but I don't want to let you wait some more month till release. So if someone can do that for me I say THANK YOU! I wish you a relaxed week and don't work too much. Roland

Thanks to all of you. @ andisart: no, I am not. The tutorials here and on youtube are my friends! @ Girafe: I tried it without specular, I keep it. And here is the ingame pic:

@all: thank you! @ T Wrecks: here is my new version. It still not really fads away, but isn't so intensive anymore: Wish you a great weekend and I think I will start rendering on Monday.

Oh! That looks like Shanghai Tower. Great. I love the city and the tower.

My short statement from Austria (500km to Ukraine). Mainly I answer here because of the youtube video posted by Captain. This man, Ewald Stadler, is from Austria and he is one of the most conservative politicians here and extremly religious, anti-islamic and nationalistic and for sure not a "great" speaker. You see this in his interview, when he for example says that it is so terrible that "Christians" are killed in Saudi Arabia. I mean, yes it is terrible, but not because they believe in Jesus. It is terrible because they are humans. You shouldn't believe what he says, even if there are some things that are okay. At the moment I recognize that the Nazis in the Ukraine movement become more and more important, but maybe just in the media. Yes, there are extrem nationalistic people in the government, but I think that the huge amount of people on Maidan aren't. Mainly the aggressive ones are nationalistic. And to say that the Ukraine is "controlled" by Nazis or the whole movement was just a nationalistic idea is wrong. People started to protest against the old regime and for more rights, freedom, more EU and a better economy. And the nationalistic organisations in the Ukraine used this movement. Here in Austria we have a nationalistic party in the parliament and some years ago we had them in the government! And in Hungary? It is even more extrem. Putin should remember that it isn't Russia because there live people speaking Russian. And the Russian speaking people on Crimea shouldn't fight for a free or Russian Crimea, they should work and protest for more rights IN the Ukraine. So far on Crimea there was no problem for the Russian people. Ukraines and Russians live there together for more than 20 years in peace and still do so - no killed russians on Crimea so far. Russia has no reason (and no right) to bring the army there. It is the opposite, according to the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances from 1994 the Ukraine had to destroy all there nuclear weapons (finished 2001) and Russia has to accept the souvereignity and border of Ukraine. And when Putin tells the world today that there are no Russian soldiers on Crimea and two days ago I say the first pictures of military cars with Russian licence number - I have to say I can't trust in any word Russia says. I see here the possibility of a bigger war - but a larger one for a peaceful solution. But I also see the restart of a new Cold War (if the Cold War really ended for some years?). The USA isn't that strong anymore like 1989, Europes army is not strong at all and a little bit less organized when it goes about foreign politics. I hope that the West doesn't accept a Russian Crimea without huge protests, political and economic sanctions. The Ukraine is a state and if there are Russians or not shouldn't be a problem or a reason for a military invasion. Many states include areas where people speak another language than in the rest of the country. And what the Ukraines should do in a new Russian Ukraine? Because then they are the minority and maybe unhappy with the situation. Where is the point where you say it is Russian or part of Ukraine? 50-50? It is a way without a solid solution. I wish ALL the people in the Ukraine all the best with their new government and in their current borders. I wish Putin a ego that doesn't need military to feel good.

Thank all of you for the nice answers! @ T Wrecks: I recognized the thing with the light too and I have no idea why it is like it is. When I look on the building before rendering, and all the lights are turned on and it is night or darknight activated, the light fads. When I render it, it looks like this. I am not sure if I want to change it, because the light on the ground in this special form looks interesting. And it is 2x11 tiles big, when I am right. Here is the darknight view, with the same interesting light around the restaurant:

Thanks to urielgarcia, Schriefer and Cool_Z. I will upload Amalienbad and 21er Haus together with the library, and for the last one I can show you new (and final) pics now: by day: please zoom a little bit out, if the two images aren't shown right. by (maxis) night, a darknight version will come too! I hope you like it! Have a nice weekend. Roland

Hello, today I can show you more about House 21 and Amalienbad, but before I have some answers for you: @ Cool_Z, TekindusT, Schriefer and urielgarcia: Thank you. @ jdreece: Gaudiish is maybe right. As I was told on simforum, Domenig designed his buildings during construction and in some parts you can compare him with Hundertwasser, another Austrian architect, artist. The logo on the side doesen't exist in reality, there is another building. But it is the logo of Zentralsparkasse, the bank was bought by Bank Austria just during the time of construction and for several years a office of Bank Austria was inside the building. @jaredh: Thank you. I am still working on the library. I hope I can show you in the next days a new rendering. @Jasoncw: Thank you. I think you are right. Especially the two big walls are very brown. Okay, here are the pictures: I wish you a great week. Roland

I start with the answers to edwardjeria: Thanks. RepublicMaster: Thanks too. urielgarcia: Today I show you the Domenighaus, Hass Haus looks still the same. And thank you for your second answer! Jasoncw: Such words from a BAT master. Thanks. T Wrecks: I try my best. Today I can show you the Domenighaus with textures. There is a lot of metal and glass and I tried long with reflection, colour and so on. I am not sure if reflection is sometimes little too high and also with the first floor glass at the street side I am not completely happy. Here is the picture:

Hello, around New Year I presented you two new buildings and I can't show much progress on one of them. All in all I had a lot to do during January and no time for SC4. But since last weekend I work on Domenighaus and slowly the textures look like I want them to look. For new renderings you have to wait a little bit. With exporting my old files like 21er Haus I have still some problems - the rendering doesn't work well. During the time you have to wait for new pics of my buildings I show you pics without connection to SC4. I like to draw and sometimes paint and I think this thread here is a good place to show you some of my works. Not very often - for sure SC4 will stay the main part of this thread - I will show you this pic here: And when you click on it the main picture will open. Today you find a little collection of fast drawings of Vienna. One of them you know already (Haas Haus). Roland

Hello and good evening, after a little longer break I can show you two new creations, both are W2W. The other 3 BATs have to wait a little longer for release, but next year they will come. I hope for some feedback!

Good evening, I have some answers for jaredh: Thanks. I always think that it is a huge whale. Maybe it is just the consequence of several facts, like the the location in the middle of a street with a lot of traffic and the need of quiet rooms with more than 400.000 books, cds etc inside. KonstantinII: The tower is cancelled for the moment. I don't know if I make a new building out of it. Let's see ... AAA90: I don't know the material of the facade. The location isn't really the rich city centre. It is in a very urban area, but not in a rich one. For SC4 I think there are many possible places to use. weixc812: Thanks. And yes, that is the idea. Now some words and pictures about House 21 and Amalienbad. Both of them - I would say - are more or less finished. The House 21 needs just some pictures or other artwork in the first floor and a better brick wall. I changed the colour and transparence of the windows and worked a little bit with the lights. As I said already there will be no tower for the moment. The Amalienbad has light now and some more details.

Thank you for your answers. My answers you find in the text below. I changed the texture to +20/+8 like bipin said, because it is in the middle between simforum.de (dirty please) and simtropolis.com (brighter please). Also the white walls got brighter as you can see at the groundfloor, the entries and the triangular roofs. I worked on the windows too and I am happy so far, just the big window at the end needs more work. I have for you two unscaled renders and one scaled and photoshoped ingame pic. The other building I tried to get ready for export is the house 21. Just a few changes like seats and walls inside and a more transparent white glass for the main hall you can find in two renderings (unscaled) and one scaled ingame pic. With the tower I am still not very happy. I think the tower itself looks not to bad but it doesn't fit to the main building. The reason is that i created the main building in gmax and the tower in 3ds max. And yes, one side of the tower is so red by night, because it is the side near the main building. I hope you like it. Roland