Hatchet999

I had the same problem, turned out I missed a left hand drive tick box on the euro textures install. Does the cars turn correctly despite the markings, if they do its definitely the road texture

I have a plugin zzz-No Road street stop which I will try and find the link to. Have you seen this?

I think proportion wise it looks good and we have quite a lot of these billboards with platforms in the UK as it gives the bloke somewhere to put his ladder when he climbs up to paste the poster on. I know you said you weren't going for realism, but if you were i'd replace the steps with a ladder to reduce the footprint as this would be up against the wall of a building and so you wouldn't want steps coming into the sidewalk. If you wanted to try folding up the edges of the actual paper billboard and add some dirt so it looks a little less perfect. Again I know you weren't going for realism, but I think if you did you would have a very popular Lot for the STEX. Add some good nightlight and you'd have a really good model, well done.

@Jasoncw Thank you so much for the excellent Blog, it is really helpful and straight forward. Unfortunately I am working all week, but fingers crossed i'll have some pictures of work so far by the weekend, even if it is just the first block! @Ed thanks for dropping in, street-view makes live so much easier if you can't visit the actual place. Unfortunately this one I visit most days!

Josh, these are three images I found in a couple of minutes with a simple Google search, use Google Earth to look at the building from all angles including above to get dimensions. Regards

I couldn't find enough pictures of the building I wanted to BAT so I have decided to do this one instead. Dimensions are 96 metres by 12 metres and it has a nice mix of concrete and brick and I have front elevation and ariel shots from Google Earth. and here is the start of the BAT

Jasoncw , Simfox thanks for the words of wisdom. I could have flooded the STEX with my brown concrete box, but that wasn't the plan, it was to learn and develop my skills, so this box will only grow in my cities! @Jasoncw I have photographs of a building very similar with corners and angles so i'll start on that using the skills I have learnt so far. Its still going to be ugly and concrete though! @Simfox yes this was my first ever attempt modeling and I don't think i've let myself down too badly. I learn new skills every-time I use it and listen to what is being said. I really appreciate that you make time to comment , thank you

Time for version 3 of the Vodafone office. I have corrected the height issue, hopefully. Tweaked those nightlights making them look better I feel and added toned down the Vodafone sign a touch. Firstly some pictures of what I was basing the building on, precast concrete, brutalist low rise office buildings: And here now is v3.0 As usual guys all comments appreciated.....

Hey Josh, good to see your enthusiasm is still maintained If you are looking at doing modular docks take a look at the work of PEGASUS in their CDK series of lots, thats the level of BATting in the dock sector already. It may be easier for you to BAT your own buildings and then utilize their Props and others, only last week the STEX had container port props rather than starting from scratch.

Josh, I think they are just to display the scale of the crane. The crane is the main thing here and will be a good addition to any construction scene. RQ are you thinking of putting on some night lights, red airplane warning lights or maybe some lighting up the internal ladder, would be a nice finishing touch to an excellent BAT. The base and counterbalance still look a little odd, but I cant put my finger on why? Keep up the good work so far.

Hi guys, thanks for all the feedback, really appreciate you taking the time to view and comment. I definitely think now I overdid the height when I doubled it, it looked better height wise i thought when i compared it to the houses around it, like a proper 4 story building, but then the doors at the back especially look massively out of proportion. I'm going to pull the height back down a bit and hopefully that'll reduce the stretched effect! I need to add something to the roofsign, as everyone has pointed out it looks way to bright. I'll photoshop it and dull it down a bit, and maybe add some grime as it looks a little too perfect. I see your point with the sign on the roof not really being visible Harishna, but i kinda like it now and i think if vodafone did have a regional office like this and a bare expanse of wall on the roof they probable would stick a sign on it! There may be an elevated railway or freeway running next to it, possibly! There are comments about the front being bland, boring, repetitive etc. Thats exactly the look i'm going for pre-cast concrete block all stuck together forming a really dull, but functional office building. The only thing that worries me is that it looks too repetitive and as each block is textured separately and then arrayed i think i may add some varying shades and grime etc to the blocks just to break it up a bit. I'll update with pictures once i'm done. Please keep the helpful suggestions coming.

I think the scale is better height wise, need to work on the base and practice with the LE. Should I have some dependancies and use others props or stick to Maxis only?

Here are my updated shots... I have doubled the height of the building, which seems to have worked out OK This has led to the vodafone roof sign actually looking in proportion. I also decided to night light both fire exit stairwells, could be helpful if the fire was at the other end of the building! Josh, this has taken three weeks so far and i'm still learning to do new things every time i switch GMAX on. Plenty of things to improve and then I've got to work out how to use the Lot Editor! You'll be much better with practice too.

There was a place in Liverpool, Quiggins, it was called. It was a collection of fashion and jewelry market stalls within an old five story building. Not really a shyscraper though...