Harry Potter Project

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

 

 

 

I opened this thread to put into practice the designs of the places of the books and movies I intend to do from Harry Potter.

I started alone but now andisart and reddonquixote are also part of the project, then we will be posting here about the progress of some BATs. I hope you enjoy.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

 

 

 

This is how Dursley's house is looking. Still not finished. Probably I'll make only this house as growable, and Privet Street as plopable (with Dursley's house with something special). 

[jmsepe 2,038]

Sugoi! 

 

I like how much you have improved in Batting Schriefer... can't wait to make one myself soon. 

[AndisArt 2,066]

Cool, yes! We need more fantasy stuff! But dang, you got me with Hogwarts, that was on my list too...

It would be a huge project for sure.

Hogsmead and the Weasley house should be fun!

Nice job on the Dursley house, only two things: I think it needs to be wider and the nightlights are too strong on the window frames and the door (am I right you are using lights inside that shine through a transparent glass?)

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Wow! Epic! Just remember to change it's name to 4 Privet Drive before release.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Sugoi! 

 

I like how much you have improved in Batting Schriefer... can't wait to make one myself soon. 

Thank you, jmsepe, I'm glad you like the improving. I'm waiting you to start too!

 

 

Cool, yes! We need more fantasy stuff! But dang, you got me with Hogwarts, that was on my list too...

It would be a huge project for sure.

Hogsmead and the Weasley house should be fun!

Nice job on the Dursley house, only two things: I think it needs to be wider and the nightlights are too strong on the window frames and the door (am I right you are using lights inside that shine through a transparent glass?)

 

Great! Nice to know you want to do Hogwarts too, you are better prepared to do it than me. There are a lot of buildings from HP to do, I think there's only a Quidditch field available to SimCity.

About the house, thank you . The width was off the scale, already fixed it. I will test weaker light, and you're right, there's a light inside the room, that's passing through a glass. The effect is not good =/ can you give me some tip to do it better? As it stands it seems that there are no glasses at night.

 

 

 

Wow! Epic! Just remember to change it's name to 4 Privet Drive before release.

Thank you, Borg. I have a great doubt about the name. Like I said, I'll do a version of this house alone as growable. And I will make four terraced houses like Privet Drive as ploppable. So I guess I'll call the terraced houses as Privet Drive, but the alone house I don't know, Dursleys or 4 Privet Drive? That's the question.

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Nice little house. Fits just about anywhere.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Thank you, Konstantinll. 

 

The model is 99% ready, I'll just dark those glasses behind the house and improve the texture of the bricks to look more like this, and, of course, improve the lights). With this model I'll do a version in the Lot Editor (for lotters not kill me) and another version, original, of the full Dursley house (house, gardens and yard, all molded). In the end two versions will be available.

 

Click in the image to see it in the original size.

 

 

 

[JulioC 2,580]

Very good, I want see you making Hogwarts 

 

A Beautiful house.

 

[IDS2 3,344]

Model looks really nice! I'd check that roof texture, though - it seems to be tiling quite a bit.

[AndisArt 2,066]

looking good Schriefer! :-)

I assume the pic shows zoom 6, right?

The base for the roof texture is good, tho you could remove that one darker brick that seems to create the tiling effect.

What version of Max are you using? Depending on the version you can create composite maps with noise maps overlaying the bricks to create more nuances of different subtle shades and color. That's how I made the roof and walls for the SC13-style homes.

I can show you, how to do it if you want, it's not very difficult.

[Seraf 1,238]

I have this feeling like the roof is too steep...but I could be wrong here. Anyway, it is a really nice model, I wonder if you could do also that little terrace-like area which was behind the house with benches and plants. It would make the back of the house more interesting Also - some furniture in the conservatory would be nice

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Very good, I want see you making Hogwarts 

 

A Beautiful house.

 

(Because you don't post in CB too?)

Thank you, Julio. You mean why I'm not posting on CB, I'll do it in a few minutes.

 

 

Model looks really nice! I'd check that roof texture, though - it seems to be tiling quite a bit.

Thank you. I think that darker tile is messing with my roof texture as andisart said.

 

 

looking good Schriefer! :-)

I assume the pic shows zoom 6, right?

The base for the roof texture is good, tho you could remove that one darker brick that seems to create the tiling effect.

What version of Max are you using? Depending on the version you can create composite maps with noise maps overlaying the bricks to create more nuances of different subtle shades and color. That's how I made the roof and walls for the SC13-style homes.

I can show you, how to do it if you want, it's not very difficult.

Thank you again, andisart. You're right, it's in zoom 6, I'm doing it in HD so we can see some details

I'll remove the darker tile, it's really messing with my roof texture.

I'm using Max 2014. I can't use a few things in the right way yet, like these maps, I'm waiting to start BAT School, but since you said it's not hard, I would be very grateful if you show me how to do

 

 

I have this feeling like the roof is too steep...but I could be wrong here. Anyway, it is a really nice model, I wonder if you could do also that little terrace-like area which was behind the house with benches and plants. It would make the back of the house more interesting Also - some furniture in the conservatory would be nice

Thank you, Seraf. I'll fix the roof. You wonder and you hit As I said I'm doing a version with the gardens and yard of the Dursleys and it's almost done too. I'm doing a version without the gardens and yard just in the case some lotter want to improve and do something better with the model.

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Alright, let's do this Harry Potter project something  BIG!

 

I am very happy to announce that two excellent batters are now part of the project: reddonquixote and andisart. Yes, exactly the ones you read. Now we will have some great stuff here

[Bipin 3,402]

Promising as it was, but with the addition of Reddonquixote and Andisart, this could be especially great!

[Seraf 1,238]

 

Thank you, Seraf. I'll fix the roof. You wonder and you hit As I said I'm doing a version with the gardens and yard of the Dursleys and it's almost done too. I'm doing a version without the gardens and yard just in the case some lotter want to improve and do something better with the model.

 

Silly me, I should've paid more attention to your post, but I was too excited by new render ;D

Great to hear that the team is bigger and good modelers are onboard, I will certainly watch your progress here, I'm a big fan of HP series

[Larks2242 251]

Oh wow I must say, excellent attention to detail!

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Thank you all for the kind words, guys But now we have an enemy to fight.

 

 

 

 

We will have some updates of the BATs soon

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

Just so you know, you don't need to model Hogwarts. Someone alredly has its avalible to download for free here

 

If you want  I could check to see if he would let us use it for SC4 and give him credit and all that. I'm checking out the model now! (Its really big)

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Wow! That's a great model! I'm seeing here. Andisart is caring of Hogwarts, so he decides what to do about this, maybe he wants to do one by himself, but if he wants that model would be nice too.

Thank you really much to share that with us

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Hmm Good idea

[shinkansen1 84]

That link goes nowhere. "Page is unavailable."

 

But seeing Hogwarts in SC4 would be incredible!

[Reddonquixote 4,338]

Hi everyone, this is my debut post in the Harry Potter Project BAT Thread. Thanks Schriefer and Andisart for having me on the team. I don't come empty handed...

 

The first project for me is going to be Hogsmeade Station (aka Goathland Railway Station). I'm not overly familiar with the Harry Potter stories (yet!), but I love these olde worlde fairytale style buildings, and I'm looking forward to doing something a bit different from Melbourne based buildings

 

I've tried a bit of an experiment with the brickwork, so before I go any further let me know what you think so far?

 

Hogsmeade Station

 

 

[JulioC 2,580]

It's very beautiful, remember-me UK, Very good, the stairs, very good.

[Vitoraju 675]

Good job, and good luck with the project!

[APSMS 1,892]

That's some nice progress. 

 

For this project on the whole, my only concern is that so much of the Wizarding world is hidden from view. All we might get of the ministry of magic is a phone booth and a public lavatory. St. Mungo's isn't much better (a store front iirc, and it's not even shown I am the movies). 

 

Any ideas on how to tackle these (and maybe show us more than other muggles might see?) 

[AndisArt 2,066]

For this project on the whole, my only concern is that so much of the Wizarding world is hidden from view. All we might get of the ministry of magic is a phone booth and a public lavatory. St. Mungo's isn't much better (a store front iirc, and it's not even shown I am the movies). 

 

Any ideas on how to tackle these (and maybe show us more than other muggles might see?) 

Actually we've made a list of all locations and there are many more than you would think! You'll see ;-)

But we have thought about the major indoor locations too, most prominent the Ministry of Magic. Nothing decided yet, but options would be to have the phone booth for sure and then maybe a cut-open scene of the interior. We'll see.

 

So I'm starting the prison of Azkaban... Uuuuuuahhh, did you get a chill as well when reading that name, Azkaban?

It frightens me! A place that sucks all the happiness out of you and forces you to relieve your most painful memories, leaving you without any hope...

Sounds like hell to me!

 

Azkaban is only shown in film 5. I used screen caps for reference and it is HUGE! Maybe too big for Simcity actually.

I used the shot with Bellatrix to estimate 2 meters distance, then multiplied that to get an estimate of the hole in the wall, then compared that to the full lenght of the tower.

If I am correct, and I cant be off a big lot, the sides are 145meters and the tower should stand at around 200 meters (the height is a guess, since the perspective shown in the film is too distorted to apply the meassurments).

 

 

As you can see, the tower would be 9 tiles long and sit on a 10x10 at least, probably more.

I think this is too large and am tending to decrease its size.

 

These are the references I used:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55084462@N05/13466324375

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55084462@N05/13466324115

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55084462@N05/13466324605

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Great job on Hogsmeade Station, reddonquixote! The textures are perfect!

 

Andisart, very interesting the way you measured the prison hahaha and it's nice, I think is really something about that, really big. I think there is a base under it too, in this picture we can see it, but not so well. Just curiosity, it is going to be placed in water?

[AndisArt 2,066]

yes, it sits on a rock island in the water.

I was going to make it a BAT to be placed in the water (tho I dont know yet how to do that), but now that it is so huge I'm not sure yet. We'll see.

[PBGV103 729]

A 10x10 lot is definitely not too large.  I recently exported a 7x19 tile model that is over 1000 meters high after 4/3 vertical scaling.  You just need to make sure your LODs area little more custom fit to avoid the max size barrier.