madhatter106's BATs

[peter007]

Wow nice. You're texturing skills are really great 
I want more! 

[SimNation]

Huge fan of your stuff hatter good to see you doing a little venturing into some industrial but I hope you continue strong in commerical 

[madhatter106]

Here's another for the office mega-pack - Landsburg Media Productions...



And here's Napier & Long, LLC...



I'm finding this pack might be a mix of older office buildings and more "modern" looking ones.  All to dilute the pool that includes Bennett Music and other dreadful Maxis creations...

[jmyers2043]

Bennett Music

Yep, that buildings needs competition.

Catching my eye is the parapet of Napier & Long with that double line. I don't think I've seen that done before. I also like the brown marble or polished granite facade on the Landsburg building. Great roofs on both. Thank you, thank you for these bats.

- Jim

[Aaron Graham]

Look great!!! I love that Roof Junk pieces.

[Sciurus]

Very nice BATs, as always

Guillaume

[mrbisonm]

I just love office buildings like this, not too tall nor too big, just perfect for my uses. Well chosen roof textures and details. Great job.

Fred

[madhatter106]

jmyers2043 - yes, indeed Bennett needs all the competition it can get.  The double parapet was the result of a way that I modeled the facades, and it was something that I decided to keep once I had finished; it was sort of a happy accident that I don't mind at all.  As for the roofs, I think I have the most fun doing the roof textures.  Thanks for stopping by and commenting, as always it's a privilege to read your remarks about my stuff...

Sciurus and Aaron Graham- thanks!

mrbisonm - thanks, I prefer mid-rises, too - plus my cities never get large enough for high-rise structures in my commercial districts...

Here's another one for the pack - Wallace and Beck...



As I said earlier, Bennett is pretty weedy.  Hence the next three are what I call -



These three are modeled at exactly the same LOD size as Bennett Music, and will be modded and have stats identical or very close to Bennett; this way, the simulator has more to choose from, and hopefully will choose these more often than it chooses Bennett - more to dilute the Maxis pool...from top to bottom, they are Cayce Communications, Berlitz International Travel, and Taylor Consulting Group...

[alj]

Hehe, cool label. Great buildings, too.

[Sciurus]

Waow, wonderful

Guillaume

[cogeo]

What can I say? I'm working on a similar project. Take a look at this thread. So I can only... appreciate this. 

We should at least avoid making the same buildings. I will subscibe to your thread, and I would propose that you do the same with mine.

As for the buildings that are the most annoying (growing all over the place), for CO$$ I would add La Vine Management. At first you may think that it doesn't grow as much as Bennett, but it actually does. And to make things worse, it's very "persistent". It may grow in large numbers before being able to get something bigger (eg Leong Accountants), and this is quite expected, as it has the largest number of occupants (jobs) in its growth stage (ehmm, of the lots it can grow in). On the contrary, Bennett may start growing here and there, but it's quite short-lived actually; it's usually soon replaced by La Vine, or a CO$$$ building. Often this takes place in a massive manner, eg two Chalmers' (CO$$$) replace two Bennetts and then some of the remaining Bennetts are upgraded to La Vine, or even Leong, to make up for the "lost" CO$$ capacity (due to the upgrade to CO$$$); so 4-5 Bennetts can go almost simultaneously. Another building to consider is Fennel Corp, a NY midrise, and the only member in its family too. If you want to do some work with residentials too, I have some ideas, but I'm going too far, I'm afraid.

Again, excellebt job!

[seraf]

Very nice buildings  I don't know why, but they remind me japanese style of buildings from some old animes 

[Jack_wilds]

I like the 'taylor consulting group', now seeing details and colors -not shown at the other thread, like it even better

[peter007]

Wow. That's great work.
I surely like your CO's

[madhatter106]

peter007, seraf, sciurus, alj and jack_wilds- thanks.

cogeo - I'll comment at length in your thread; I will check out La Vine, I can't remember what that one looks like at the moment.  And I will look up Fennell, too.  I also hate Chalmers, it amazes me that Maxis made that one a CO$$$.  Thanks for the comment

Two more - Shipton Enterprises is the first, and the other is something I haven't named yet...

[Aaron Graham]

Looks great, I love how you do with the inside of the building.

[Zaphod]

You know what the worst Bennett cousin is? Dieckmann Consulting. Those horrible light blue glowing windows 

These are great. I'm always looking for BAT's like this to help spruce up my organically grown cities. Lots of great creations never actually grow in my cities or not at the rate I'd like.

Anyways, I'm a fan of the arched concrete elements on Shipton enterprises. That's a common theme in many of the mid-century buildings I see everyday. It would also be perfect for a university campus since they have those kinds of buildings everywhere.

The only thing is some of these look rather tired-not necessarily a bad thing as buildings of that age tend to be pretty sad looking. But maybe adding some signage on a few would bring color?

As for the buildings that are the most annoying (growing all over the place), for CO$$ I would add La Vine Management.

yep. I can sort of tolerate LaVine because it one of the few decent glassy boxes Maxis made but there is a limit...

[Evillions8]

Your BATs gave my inspiration for my next plugins set. 

Thanks! 

[DaveN]

Very interesting work.
Especially the industrial buildings fell to my liking.
But they are all well done.
Congratulations

DaveN

[kapete]

Wow  Those low density CO's will sure have place in my region as soon as they are available for download!
Keep up that great fulldetailed work