BAT Showcase

[Gugu3]

Lovely buildings!

[mattb325]

Thanks guys

@giraffe - the hedges are just a box with a noise modifier, but that's a great tip which I'll use for some of the trees that I use in scenes sometimes

I've made & released a lot of large lots before, but this one is the largest so far. Despite that, I was still able to complete it under the 1000 objects that can be used.

Maybe now its purpose will make more sense:










It will fit in with other modular golf sets, but I will make a few additional pieces to add to it to make a full golf course.

Unlike the ingame country club, this one has quite a number of jobs and provides health benefits to the city

Also, as an extra benefit - the banks of the pond and many areas of the lot have sufficient space to use MMPs to personalise it (the bulk of the trees are JRJ's CP prop exemplars which have only a small footprint)

[Andreas]

Wow, now that's an impressive lot alright! Looks like I have to download the modular golf set as well now. I wonder if someone created golf ball MMPs already, there must be hundreds of them in that pond already.

[vortext]

That's impressive indeed! 

And speaking of golf mmps, are there any golfcart props available somewhere?! 

[mgb204]

Yes I believe there were some golf carts included with the FLOG set somewhere.

[FrankU]

Yes there are golf carts. As I do not have my sc4 stuff at hand I advise you to take a look at the dependencies list of my Dutch golf courses. One of them contains the golf carts. I believe it is a Simgoober indutrial file, a weird file for finding golf carts.

Impressive lot by the way!

The golf carts:
Found it: Simgoober Industry pack 2
   

[Simmer2]

Nice complex 

[Girafe]

looks huge 

[mattb325]

Thanks - i'll make the modular pieces so you won't have to download any other sets - of course if you already have them, then they will work.
I remember the other golf carts, but rather than add another download (I am going to limit this to approx 8 dependencies) to the list, for now a golf cart is very easily done (and a resort like this would probably have bespoke ones):

[FrankU]

Hmmm, so you are going to make a new one? Nice! 

[mattb325]

Not too much progress with the golf course lots - I have added 4 modular ones (3x3, 5x5, 6x4 and 8x4) but I find lot-work quite a lot slower than batting...especially when it is on such a large scale

So I took a little break.

Over at Simtropolis, a user posted a picture of a Liquor Barn in the "buildings-many-people-didnt-even-know-they-were-existing" - which is a nifty little forum where people post unusual real-world buildings:



So, with a little bit of artistic liberty (IRL the building is approx. 70mx70m which is far too large to be useful in game), I turned it into a car yard:




It grows on a 3x3 and 4x4 lot.

Get it here: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30865-car-yard-by-mattb325/

[FrankU]

Nice BAT, matt! 

[2b2gbi]

Very nice BAT 

That building works perfectly as a car dealership, it looks like the kind of buildings many dealerships around here have. They seem to try to stand out from other buildings in the area as much as possible.

[art128]

Nice one.

Just a question though, why do you upload some of your BATs at the STEX and others at the LEX?

[JP Schriefer]

Very good job!

[romualdillo]

Those last buildings look fantastic!! Really a great return!! 

[compdude787]

Nice job with this car dealership! It's a great addition to this game.

Just a question though, why do you upload some of your BATs at the STEX and others at the LEX?

That's what I'm wondering too!

[reddonquixote]

You're a BATing machine!

Great new release, congrats 

The country club complex is looking amazing too   

[mattb325]

Thanks guys

I've always uploaded BATs randomly to both sites: I have found over the years that while almost all users on SC4D are have an account on Simtropolis, it doesn't necessarily work the other way around....

It is almost always a given that a request is made upon any upload. One such request was for a Chevrolet dealership. 

I checked out a number on google...despite a big USA-wide refurbishment recently, they are all really bland, boxy things but are uniform in blue and silver Aluminium composite panels (anything else on the building such as bricks, plaster or cinder blocks are just painted white). That makes for a super ridiculously simple BAT, so what the heck....




It's available here: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30866-chevrolet-dealership/

[compdude787]

That looks nice! I just downloaded it too! The only other auto dealership in the game is Honest Carrie's Used Cars!