Plaza Mall project

[Filasimo]

hey DFire congrats on making 200th post here in the thread  I had no idea it was going to get to where it is now. Anyways as promised I have more zoom in pics to show and a backdrop of the backside of the mall. That one was a PITA bc i had trouble filling in the gaps of white  . Anyways I will have to adjust some props bc apparently as I was taking pics i noticed sims skewing the building walls. I also may scrap the lot being TE enabled due to fully utilizing the lot's item allowance. If you guys would like to add it in SC4Tool be my guess and you can use it for your own use. Also as Dfire had mentioned, sometimes its not good to have TE lots due to the shortcut issue that was mentioned. Also if you lay that mall and it grazes another TE lot it may CTD. Also whats left is those additional textures from Chris who is working on them I will add on when theyre ready.... so anyways without further ado:

The Mall's backside....sexy isnt it?

Malls front right corner:

Malls Midsection:

Malls front left corner:

Malls rear right corner:

Malls rear left corner:

Well thats all for now. As mentioned by Heblem, I would like to thank the following:

Heblem for modelling this beautiful mall and for giving me the honor to lot it for him

Patfirefightr for staying up and keeping me sane during the late nights while working on this

RippleJet for all his wonderful help in the technical development of this mall and also for giving me some great pointers!

ChrisAdams3997 for making additional parking lot textures to blend perfect with Walkingsnake's parking lot textures which he has the best parking lot textures i have ever seen

The BSC Team for developing all these great props that were used in the mall lot

LBT Team for using some props and support at CSC and private threads

NHP Team for support at this project

CSC Team  for support at this project


And most of all to:

The members of SC4Devotion for stopping by and also for participating in that survey I had about what base texture to put around the mall area

Everyone, lets give these great people and the community a round of applause!
Without everyones help and support, this mall would not have been possible!

[RippleJet]

Good to see it finished!
Now, just some testing, a readme and an installer, and it should be ready for the LEX.

Also if you lay that mall and it grazes another TE lot it may CTD.

More precisely, the CTD occurs if you hover with a NAM puzzle piece above a TE lot.

[Filasimo]

hehe thanks for clarifying I knew it was something around that 

[M4346]

OMG! YAY!!! 

Great job Ryan! I can't wait to have this baby in my cities!    

[Adept2Rock]

Very good!!!I find a place for it!!!And i know when i put it, in my French city!

[Pat]

Ryan my hats off to you my friend you have done a great job on this...



       

Ryan keep on chuggin on this and thank you for the mention even though
you didnt need to but thank you again my friend....

[Frankie]

That is amazing fila! You sure have got a lot of lotting talent..You managed to match and blend all those textures perfectly!

[Soapy]

Simply amazing, you really have captured the realism that is suburban American malls, sure is one sexy backside (I could say more but I don't want to be banned, hehe) the krispy cream makes it all the more sexy 

[Heblem]

again Ryan, those pictures are perfect, no words to describe this beuty   

[autoVino]

oh wow! that is sexy! 
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

[Pat Riot]

great great great (x100) work. An incredible combination of great BATting, ideas, and lotting. If its not too late, i would suggest rerendering that parking garage, it is too white, unless its meant to be like that.

[DFire870]

Great job! This mall will be an awesome (and needed) addition to SC4 and the LEX. Hopefully this'll inspire other people to create other malls.

-- John

[figui]

perfect, excellent..

[Schulmanator]

This has got to be the awesomest, rockinest, coolest, bestest mall ever in world history!!!

You are THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Filasimo]

Hey guys,
Just a brief update. Currently we are developing the readme and final arrangements and testing for the lot. All I can say is I hope you like dependencies!    Also Chris has delivered the last 2 textures I need for the lot so I will get on that today after I get home from work. As for the malls release to the LEX....itll be released when its released hehe.....but its sooner than you think!  Anyways keep posted in this thread for further updates and developments.
Ryan

Also coming soon will be a smaller version of the plaza mall for your urban areas, and also some of the department stores single lot.....the smaller version will be done by me and -M- while the single lots will be done by me so yes, There will be other goodies to come out of this bigger version. STAY TUNED!

[Pat]

Ryan you are a true stinker lol..........

[Adept2Rock]

Yeah!!!Good!I'm hurry!!! It's possible, for European citizen, you realise European malls or perhaps French malls? Like Carrefour, Auchan and other big brands!?

[DFire870]

Oh boy, lots of dependencies! Well, from what I've seen, most of the restaurants and other stores on the lot I already have, so I hopefully won't have to download too much.

[Filasimo]

To reassure some of them are mega packs so most likely you already have the majority of them 

[bat]

That Mall is looking really wonderful! Fantastic work!