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City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Well ... I uh, forgot to detail the Fan Deck. Heh ... I will get that done here in a few. -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Every building is made up of a number of 80X cubes like this. MagicaVoxel can handle a cube of 128X so, I use either a cube of 80: 16x5 or 60: 12x5. In the case of Wellstone Plaza, I needed 24 of these. I have the white alignment pips in here but as a flat image without anything else going on, still looks good with default shading. However ... It was fiddly work that took an hour to do, but my goodness it looks so dang nice! Next time I will increase the number of colors in my limited palette. I'm going to skip displaying all the buildings in one file and will just export them into some 3D viewer when I want them to stand next to each other. Also, I am going to try getting this printed out at Shapeways. I hope IDS2 doesn't mind me benchmarking these builds on his building. -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Thanks! This one is a bit of a pain. Usually, I get an image and do a little magic in Photoshop. Then, I take that Black and White image into PiskelApp and then use my limited palette to colorize what I need. Here, I needed the office stuff and the window shades to show up here. It's not perfect but it's something I will keep refining for situations like this. After all, check out how the Voxel build looks below: -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Using the "Mango Smoothy" Finders-colors on the left, I can pick out the portions of the original image and reduce the total number of colors present. This way, as opposed to building a base graphic for the windows and working that until it's palette is limited, is pretty dang intensive but renders roughly the same effect. Ended up with only 28 colors here ... had been shooting for 32. Oh well ... -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
It's been a year! Well, back to messing about then ... This was created by me after seeing IDS2's gorgeous Wellstone Plaza. I have a TON of optimization to get through for this girl before I can make it into Voxels but I look forward to it. Congrats to them for their build! -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Well then! Work on the Lobby/1st Floor is moving ahead. I want to take my time with the rest of the furnishings here before I compile the whole she-bang. See you later Builders! -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Blasts! I got busy over the holiday and now it's Fair-week in town. (Lots of work at my job for this week too). Here's a little side project I worked on. I'll have more on the hotel soon enough. Certain "Black Square" buildings have a fetching level of beauty. I'm a Breton-Brut boy in my heart but sometimes, when the glass tinting is just right, these are the loveliest buildings in the city ... -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Who likes Bumps-and-Greebles? The Fan deck is my favorite part. Most of it is cubes and pipe-shapes that are all linked together in interesting ways. The original image was using Lego Bricks to achieve a semblance of HVAC equipment and a couple of "Penthouse" regions on the roof but I filled in with some cables and pipes of my own. I don't know if I can get the building to light at night but will look into that too. Now I can get the main floor going and delete my alignment pips. I love sharing this with you guys! -
Holy cow. Done up in that striking black facade, this building stopped me from snooping through the omnibus. I don't even remember what I was looking for now. This is a gorgeous office building! I love the night shot you included. It's a very comely shaped building given that it's just an extruded rectangle. You managed to take the boring and make it exceptional! "I tell everyone. I smile just because I got a city love." -John Mayer, Room for Squares
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City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Oh I think I like how this is turning out! -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Going to have to add lights at some point. After all, Fan Deck will be solid ceiling for the building. Love looking up here! -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Still working on the project I started before the Condos. Here's a look at the generic floors from 2-8 in my Lego MOC Business Motel conversion. Working with a limited palette is hard so, no way through it but straight through. The yellow voxels are alignment pips that will be removed in the final model. More coming in the week. -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Sometimes you have to draw the box it came in. Onward! -
City Love - Voxel recreations of Beloved buildings from SC3000 and 2K
Mighty_Borlaug replied to Mighty_Borlaug's topic in SimCity 3000
Alright, so this building full of Condos from SC3k is going to be a bigger job than I expected. Can't use Piskel.AP which is a browser based Pixel Art program I can use on any computer with internet. Trouble is, it gets angry if you try to do work bigger than 360px. So, I am starting that project in Aseprite which can handle some larger form sprite sheets. The Fan-Deck of that building will take me some time to create but getting one side done hastens all other sides. So, to have something to show for tonight, lets take a look at a project I just finished: ... again, 1px-1vox-1foot. This image has been doubled in size to help it all show up but what I have here is another LEGO MOC that I've converted into a scale building of roughly the same shape and size. I was thinking business Hotel with a lovely atrium that goes up to the 8th floor. The Fan Deck is mostly covered entities though I plan to have step paths and conduits going around. Because I could, I also wanted to divvy out the individual floors so I could take pictures out of some of the rooms I will furnish, as well as the interior. Now that this is all finished, I am putting this whole whatsit into MagicaVoxel piece by piece. Ill show that off then. Thanks!
