Gernot66

That looks very interesting.

Llamas are quite popular, hm? They are welcome as shepherds (their size). I'm working on the roofing ridge you asked forand for this i used the BAT lighting, but i already expected this the result i get in blender isn't what it turns to in the bat, neither for the final rendering or the display in the bat. It needs some tweking even if i'm now pretty close to it. Excerpt bat.ini [Lights] ; There are six lights in the 3DS scene Ocean set up for 3K buildings. ; All lights are "free directional." ; ; 1) pointing in the +Y direction, RGB 98,98,133, multiplier=1.3 ; 2) pointing in the -Y direction, RGB 98,98,133, multiplier=1.3 ; 3) pointing in the +X direction, RGB 255,249,232, multiplier=1.3 ; 4) pointing in the -X direction, RGB 255,249,232, multiplier=1.3 ; 5) pointing downward ~15 degrees off of vertical in the -Y,+X direction; RGB 198,198,198, multiplier=0.75 ; 6) pointing downward ~15 degrees off of vertical in the +Y,-X direction; RGB 198,198,198, multiplier=0.75 ; These lights are only used in construct mode ConstructNorth=164,164,164 ConstructWest=72,72,72 ConstructSouth=164,164,164 ConstructEast=72,72,72 ConstructTop=141,141,141 ; These lights are only used in paint / detail / placement modes TextureNorth=190,174,164 TextureWest=71,71,91 TextureSouth=190,174,164 TextureEast=71,71,91 TextureTop=141,141,141 ; These lights are used in file mode, and ; to preview and render the result for SimCity. PreviewNorth=190,174,164 PreviewWest=71,71,91 PreviewSouth=190,174,164 PreviewEast=71,71,91 PreviewTop=141,141,141 What i use now is something in between the rendering lighting setup and the colors for the paint mode. Indeed it's already pretty close - but not close enough for a fabrics technician One set i will make using the roof textures of the bat another i started using own textures they must not fit in lighting setup but it won't harm them. A third which i need the lighting setup for is a blank object one can apply a texture and when blending it using a multiply mode the artificial shading will be as close as possible. like this (lighting as the original ocean scene), below the ridge using an own texture, exists already in red and orange and more different textured will follow.

I guess you will like this new addition, A smaller sized is planned but recently i need a break from chimneys, i'm not sure how i will solve it for a smaller size, the copper edging is alright but if the chimney is smaller i need a different idea. The shading isn't ideal the reason is the small size of the object (32 pixels wide) everything bleeds into the other and a slightly darker area easy looks like wrong lightened. Of course the other rooftop objects are ready as well and are now textured (and branded a.t.d).. If you use a temporary pole of bricks and work from top down you can stack up the tubes, but i guess the hats are more useful as the tubes. The neon hangsign is a leftover from the "neon glyphs" i made, this one i made first using only a paint program and a suitable font (since it's "unreadable" it won't matter so much if it appears several times in the city). The aircondition block(s) can be combined as well. Since these are mostly rooftop objects i dropped them all into one zipped folder "rooftop1". Looks like i like to create "LEGO" bricks, it seems to be in my venes daddy worked as engineer for a injection machine factory which elaborated the standard bricks, it took some time until they reached the needed precision that's why i had standard bricks en masse (either to loose or to heavy bound) and if i would still own them they would be absolute rarities (pink and blue melange, semi transparent and whatever was at hand) since i've read LEGO doesn't likes reject to be spread and this makes them quite rare, but who cared back then for such? No one liked them one could say, they wasn't "original". --- Looks like i forgot to post this - never mind you will have noticed the new rooftop props. I revisited all cars and added a few more color variations plus a new set of cars. I also sorted them new though that all vehicles from Streets of SimCity are in an own zipped folder. Mainly i did this to have a uniform scale by using a groundplate in the size of the bounding box, the same method as i already use for the other props. Streets vehicles are to handle seperate since they have a non metrical scale and also vary in scale (i.e. the "traffic mercury" (unused sine i have a better mercury) is far to small compared to the "Streetrat" (beetle), the "Sedan" (a sort of dodge charger i assume) is a giant even compared to the "Northtown J57", it seems each has a different scale, dunno why perhaps to make it harder for the faster cars (as wider as harder to take the turns). Most of all the dummy helps me to position the object already when rendering. Before i can post the new set and the revisited old i have to make sure they work fine, it will take until tomorrow. But i have an appetizer for you, i've read that the farms look very "U.S." (indeed they do), further if you click on a field you hear a clear "muhhh", quite strange crops which make such a sound. Streets has a cow model (just as target, it counts how many times you shot a cow while it has no influence on the game but one could use it as a condition in a scenario) thus i thought, "let's get the streets cow into sc3k". Overall i made four variations, the "original" dark brown black-spotted, a "holsteiner" (white with black spots) and a browns (Swiss) plus a calf which is simply 2/3 of the brown. Of course i already planned to make european (swiss) style farm buildings. It's a bit to crowded but it's just a test. Since this is only a prop you can assemble your own cattle or use them otherwise. What could suit better as SimCars? To the cars i added almost all Streets models (with exclusion of the mercury). for some i used the minimal textures they have, for some i revisited the ones i made for the game or used them as they are, the "Azzaroni" (prob. a Ferrari GTO, it's not to clear for this one) has a complete new texture based on what i made for Streets (i removed the artificial shading on the texture because it looks better without, resp. when i leave it up to the raytracing). volvo pickup cop cow northtown j57 gangster azzaroni kraft durch freude sedan utility The Beetle, Sedan was until present in "vehicles1", the Utility Van (orig. blue) in "utility vehicles". Therefore i added a couple of new cars to "vehicles1", they are from the same low-poly set as the ones which i already used in "vehicles 1", corolla civic riviera (pops: "a baroque church instead of a radiator grille", it must be a buick) mercury, i hope it's not completely wrong since the colored skin for this model is very lousy and it was not to figure out where the enamel ends and the chrome or woodgrain-imitate starts, since i have no web at home it's based on what i remeber and a brief appearance in a crime story i watched not to long ago. The Stretch Limo is now in scale and one cell shorter To the utility vehicles i added the cube van (truck) But as i said i need a day to make sure that everything is as expected, "vehicles 1" is broken in the version in uploaded it, some .met files have errors in it (wrong listing). The cars are still somewhat larger as the standard ones, but i oriented myself on the buildings and the sims (compare the mercury in the BAT to a Sim, you would have to fold a person to have enough space in it, while if you compare my schoolbus to the schoolbus in background it's quite good in scale). However, even if a pixel or two larger they are as well a little smaller in scale as the sims or the buildings, it's a compromise.

I started to render some more of by my already used properties which i made for my buildings. An aircondition unit (3 different sized, all in one aircondition "monobloc"), a floodlight (or large spot, two sizes), a thingy and another thingy (sorta turbine inspired by the industrial thingy of sc2k and a tripod of which i have no idea what it is but i looks cool i used it in a smaller version in opposite colorizing as smoker or barbecue, it's anything you imagine) and a speaker/horn to put on a policestation, railroadstation or similar. Latter is a very tiny object and it might not be much left of it in the game, also i expect that the lamella of the monobloc will vanish. I will derive some more before i upload them, they are all more or less untextured because it allowed me to use for some only 4 sprites instead of eight, i.e a texture on the monobloc would need 8 sprites because of the texture which will be rotated by 180° if you look at the object from back. Perhaps the "hairdryer" (a rooftop object from simcopter, what about a classic analogue tv antenna? it looks so "historical", fun fact when i was about 5 in '71 i drawed many pictures with parabolic antennas on buildings and even cars and ppl asked me what i think will be the use of - even this is now history since quite a while). Perhaps something "stupid" like a stackable tube for whatever purpose, i still have some rooftop objects which i can use i.e. hats or caps (dunno how you name them) for aircondition tubes, the typical ones which cover usually the top of a tube to hinder the rain from dropping into the tube, some cover them completely and have slots on the underside usually a cap for a cylindrical tube others cover a quadric tube in the opposite manner with a funnel larger in diameter as the tube. Of course dishes. The "monobloc" is maybe useless especially the large one (it's only three cubes long, i stacked one on the other) since this would be to reach by use of the bat, texture and details for the lamella. --- Unrelated to props. I noticed a weird behave of the bat when you add details which use a .plt file, if you put such in your custom details folder they will be reaload each time you select "details", means each time it adds the same images, to avoid this such should placed in "..res/BA/Details/..". If you leave the .plt away it's no problem but it's stupid to leave it away for to a building arranged details. Somehow sad that the .plt is disregarded resp. leads to a wrong behave in the custom folder. The advantage might be that you can move details and the directory will be refreshed each time you select it (unlike for props). Some i collected back then, i can't tell if you already own them if not upload them to the stex. As far as i can judge three are EA/Maxis and one is a custom made house. Most probably you own them already. baroque_federal_brute3_haus1.zip

"Burn Baby Burn" Whole SimCity 3000 has no fire escapes thus i made one. Something was messed up, never mind i assume you will have noticed already the fireescape in in the STEX (i forgot to submit my last post and made a new one, as it looks the above post turned to a mix of both, that's most probably why the image links didn't worked and the posts was messed up). STEX: Fire Escape OhKeh, that's a little extra (a left over from the full comment, find out yourself what it is) parking_fields.zip