Bipin's BAT Boutique

[nos.17]

Looks great so far! 

As for the storefronts, and keeping with the sort of dilapidated outdated theme, how about some cheap little restaurants? I can already imagine some sort of small family-owned Asian eatery (Bon's Chinese, Peking Garden, or Lulu's Rice & Noodles). Sorry for the crappy images...they're the best I could find quickly. 

Also, I agree with one of dyoungyn's posts: a 'For Lease' sign and an empty storefront would be cool to see too. Unfortunately, those are all too common.

[metarvo]

Almost every small town has at least one of these vintage shopping centers, and many larger cities have several at key intersections.  These older centers tend to have spaces which are either abandoned or filled with fly-by-night stores which no doubt replaced something better.  Alternatively, they may still have local hardware or drug stores, and the anchor store is typically a supermarket. 

It looks like the anchor is already taken here, so as such I will suggest "Barnes Hardware" (red on white) and "Wilson Drug" (black on orange) as potential tenant names.  Of course, the other suggestions are fine, too, including "For Lease."   

Nice work, Bipin. 

[Bipin]

Thank you for the kind words everyone. Turns out I've exported the building!





Here, we've got Fabland - the anchor store - which is either a grocery or a fabric store taking from the Fabricland and Foodland brands. To the left, we've got a Chinese market of some sort, and to its left we've got...



Well, I... I just don't know.    For the next few buildings (this will be released as a modular set) I'll be sure to add some Chinese restaurants that failed to pass their health inspections, some drug stores with filthy washrooms, vacant lots for lease, and a Home Despot, err... I mean, Home Depot sort of store.  Meanwhile...





Thanks to me, your overpasses are about to get renovated!



Thanks to Samerton and I, your MHW is about to as well!



Enjoy! 

[Catalyst]

O yeah, the overpass I like a lot, well done 

[GameFrog]

This overpass is sublime! 

[vortext]

You got potatoes! 

The new texture for the MHW looks a bit off the me though, the gradients especially. Why doesn't it have the same wear and tear as the overpass, that looks a lot better imho.

[reddonquixote]

Ah, yes, classic Bipin Please don't stop 

[belfastsocrates]

Those look absolutely superb! I probably wouldn't use them as I favour asphalt (tarmac) for my roads but they do look absolutely fantastic.

[Bipin]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I'll be releasing the overpasses soon, along with some retaining walls and whatnot.

You got potatoes! 

The new texture for the MHW looks a bit off the me though, the gradients especially. Why doesn't it have the same wear and tear as the overpass, that looks a lot better imho.

The texture is close to being done, but it's still preliminary. Things like wear and tear on the edges of the road (currently visible on the inside shoulder) are still being worked out. What do you mean by the gradients though? I'm not sure if this answers your question, but since the left lane isn't really supposed to be driven in, except for passing, the right lane sees much more traffic, thus why its darker. Unfortunately I can't use the bridge texture since it is not tiled. The texture has been rotated or mirrored throughout the length of the overpass. Without these subtle changes, this texture looks quite bad when tiled. However, I do plan to add some grooves in the concrete, and separate it into slabs.

[Vizoria]

That's great news! One can never have enough grungy concrete bats and lots.

[mattb325]

These look brilliant - the grungy stores turned out brilliantly 

[kei00051]

Looks brilliant!
Sorry if I'm talking like an idiot but can we possibly make "starter pieces" for those concrete highways?

[romualdillo]

Your last works look fantastic! 

[mgb204]

Looks brilliant!
Sorry if I'm talking like an idiot but can we possibly make "starter pieces" for those concrete highways?

If by that you mean making them an optional override so multiple styles can exist, such as the SAM networks, then no.

[Bipin]

Looks brilliant!
Sorry if I'm talking like an idiot but can we possibly make "starter pieces" for those concrete highways?

If by that you mean making them an optional override so multiple styles can exist, such as the SAM networks, then no.

Unfortunately, that is beyond our control. Now now, I know what you're going to say... Despite what you may think though, Samerton and I are not modding gods, we're geniuses at best. 

This, however, is completely under my control:



So let me know what you think!

[compdude787]

Ooh, that looks like it's gonna be a nice, fancy, expensive house!

[vortext]

Looking at the textures quite a few times, it suddenly occurred what's nagging me: there're no discernible tire tracks, which incidentally the overpass does have. I get that the right lane gets more usage, however, atm it look like it's only driven on by huge motorcycles. 

Strangely the same issue (i.e. no tire tracks) doesn't bother me on the default RHW textures, probably because it's black-on-black and both lanes are equal in appearance. The light concrete in combination with the unevenly darkened lanes, however, make the texture seem unhinged to me. But that could be just me. 

New houses looks very nice indeed. 

[Girafe]

New house sounds promising and quite luxury R$$$ as per their volume

[Bipin]

Thank you for the kind words on the houses everyone. I am working on procedural shingles, and they're coming along well.

Looking at the textures quite a few times, it suddenly occurred what's nagging me: there're no discernible tire tracks, which incidentally the overpass does have. I get that the right lane gets more usage, however, atm it look like it's only driven on by huge motorcycles. 

Strangely the same issue (i.e. no tire tracks) doesn't bother me on the default RHW textures, probably because it's black-on-black and both lanes are equal in appearance. The light concrete in combination with the unevenly darkened lanes, however, make the texture seem unhinged to me. But that could be just me. 

New houses looks very nice indeed. 

Ah, good catch. I agree, something didn't look quite right with those textures. Tire marks must be the answer. Consider it done.

[matias93]

Consider also that rightmost lanes usually have more tire marks due to exits and cars stopping to the shoulders. It would be great (and most surely really difficult) to have random diagonal tire marks caused by emergency braking.