European House Add-on (EHA) by Gn_Leugim

[FrankU]

In Dutch it is almost the same as in German. Billige means cheap and arme means poor. In Dutch arme means poor, too. In Dutch cheap is goedkoop. I would say goedkope appartementen in Dutch, because arme appartementen sounds a bit weird to my ears; and I would go for billige Apartments in German.

It looks like a nice project, so keep it up.

I can agree with that. But...

Another option, in my eyes a bit better, is: Goedkope Flatjes.

Why not Appartementen? Because Appartementen has a hunch of luxury in its name. For many years we called apartments: flats. When people thought (somewhere in the 1980ies) that this sounded too common, they took the word appartement for their flats. Especially for the higher priced ones. And this hunch of luxury is not what you want here.
Flatjes is a word derived from the English word: flat, meaning an apartment without stairs or other kinds of differences in floor heigth: the floor of the apartment is flat. When we put a lot of them next and on top of each other we get a flat. A highrise apartment building.

So that is for flat. but what does jes mean? Well, we the Dutch are fond of diminutives; words to say that something is small. A huis is a house, a huisje is a little house. A flat is an apartment building or an apartmanet, a flatje is a smal apartment building or a small apartment.
So this small building of yours, with cheap apartments, I'd say: Goedkope Flatjes. Cheap small apartments. But it also tells us Dutch that the building itself is small too, although the words do not say this explicitly.

Language is a very tricky and intriguing thing! The more detailed you look into it, the more complex it becomes.

Nice model by the way.
As an architect I have one question: how many apartments are there in this building? I see only one door in the narrow facade. Where are the stairs? Is there a corridor along one of the long facades in order to make all apartments accessible?

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Re: Frank's comment above: In Belgium we don't say flatjes, we still say appartementen to refer to social housing, so yeah, Goedkope appartementen or flatjes, it's up to gn_leugim to decide really.

Xander

[gn_leugim]

So that is for flat. but what does jes mean? Well, we the Dutch are fond of diminutives; words to say that something is small. A huis is a house, a huisje is a little house. A flat is an apartment building or an apartmanet, a flatje is a smal apartment building or a small apartment.
So this small building of yours, with cheap apartments, I'd say: Goedkope Flatjes. Cheap small apartments. But it also tells us Dutch that the building itself is small too, although the words do not say this explicitly.

well, this kind of explanation will be very usefull latter when I come back to older models I need to check language before uploading (I'll bring it up here then)

so, so far it is like this:
Default: Poor Terraces
UK/US English: Poor Terraces
French: Appartements Populaires
German: Billige Appartments
Italian: Appartamenti Popolari
Spanish:Balcones Pobres
Dutch: Goedkope Flatjes (went for this one has I like the way the word Flatjes describes better the place )
Portuguese: Varandas Pobres

meanwhile I know what is the next target to BAT. the spamming "R$16x30_4EuroBoxyApt6_0202"

As an architect I have one question: how many apartments are there in this building? I see only one door in the narrow facade. Where are the stairs? Is there a corridor along one of the long facades in order to make all apartments accessible?

Well although I do look to the building architecture, for realism sake, (usually) I don't follow a blueprint, just some sketches made on paper for a general idea. but yes, the idea is pretty much that, a corridor running all along the long side, with a stair case in the middle, that ultimately ends up in a trap door (that thing in the middle on the roof)

And btw, thank you all for the support

[DebussyMan]

Seems like there's a lot of discussion over something as simple as a name.  But I think the name "Terrace" is misleading. In english, I believe "terrace" means the same as "row house" and not so much to refer to an appartment with balcony. I think Poor flats, or poor appartments would be a better translation. Same goes for spanish (I don't know if its common in Spain), but here i've never heard "Balcones" as a term for appartments. Departamentos pobres (or "populares" as well) sounds better.

[gn_leugim]

@DebussyMan: thank you, I'll have that in consideration and yes, quite a argument on names alone, wonder what will be when I bring on new models :p

speaking off...



a R$16x30 block apartment ^^ textures to come next

[Sciurus]

It's a very nice building, I wait for the texures, I know they'll be very good.


Guillaume

[Flatron]

nice model, but I have a question: will the buildings grow if I have a maxis-blocker installed?

[gn_leugim]

@Sciurus: thank you. I guess I will have them ready by tomorrow maybe, worst case scenario Saturday :p

@Flatron: I am afraid not. there are two kinds of blokers if I remember well, one of them blocks by setting the maxis lot stages to 255 (or other ridiculous number, can tell for sure) so they never grow. As these buildings grow on them, if you have this blocker you won't see them growing.

EDIT:

Ok, I went to a search and I found them both.

this one made by Dusktrooper bloks by tile setting, so no change on the lots themselves so my buildings should grow. However, this is incompatible with CAM mod.

this one here, by BSC team is the one that messes around with the maxis lots. with this one on, you wont see them growing.

[kbieniu7]

Hi! If you would find it useful, I could help with translating to Polish 

[gn_leugim]

Hi! If you would find it useful, I could help with translating to Polish 

that would be nice, one more language to add (and I couldn't do it on my own ) thank you

edit: the building is pretty much textured, just making scale adjustments and lightnings

edit2:
after finishing here it is



The last one as you may know is the maxis counterpart, for reference

Name suggestions, anyone? (only in english for now)

[art128]

Nice work on both modelling and texture, my friend.

[gn_leugim]

thank you

a small update to fix the oversaturated red part of the walls

[FrankU]

Very nice building!
Why not: lousy apartments or lousy terraces?

[Sciurus]

That's great. The red texture is indeed less satured, and it's better like this!


Guillaume

[gn_leugim]

Lousy Apartments, sounds good thank you!

that was the point thank you!

So, I thought, maybe I could make some more variation, so I made 3 new textures ^^

[jmyers2043]

Cool! These look nice. What is the scale? A three story building should be the same height as other 3 story buildings.

[gn_leugim]

thank you

well, they are at the same scale of their maxis counterpart 3 story hight, but I have to admit, in the euro tile set, the maxis buildings are not very consistent with the scaling. don't know if the other tilesets suffer from the same, but as I wanted to make something to blend in with the maxis buildings, I follow that particular building scale. in this particular case, it may be a bit tad overscaled.

[jmyers2043]

.. I follow that particular building scale. in this particular case, it may be a bit tad overscaled...

Very good. I am pleased that scale is a consideration for you. As I said, nice buildings. I think what caught my eye in the first place were the variations of color.   

Good Luck

- Jim

[Sciurus]

It's nice to make colour variations! It gives some diversity!


Guillaume

[gn_leugim]

thank you both

now, can you spot the one thing wrong right on this picture?



Did I heard custom fundations?? I guess you are right.

I just have one doubt, I will make two color variations. shall I do it on the base colors (blue or red) or on the plaster color (beige or grey)?