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Title: North American Stadiums
Post by: teemu_om on October 06, 2007, 10:11:03 AM
Time to start posting here... I'm starting a new NFL stadium project: The University of Phoenix Stadium - the home of the Arizona Cardinals.

Here's what I have done so far:

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg402.imageshack.us%2Fimg402%2F4091%2Fuopcl1.jpg&hash=8460e79fd2931214c32e489212d2927e3cf7e104)
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Antoine on October 06, 2007, 10:12:43 AM
Wow !! excellent start !  &apls
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Travis on October 06, 2007, 10:14:37 AM
Hey, it's great to see you over here, I've been following your work for a long time.  :) Can't wait to use your Reliant Stadium, once I figure out how
to install it.  ;)

New stadium looks awesome so far, by the way.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Filasimo on October 06, 2007, 12:11:56 PM
welcome to SC4D teemu! Ive always loved your stadiums and you really make the vanilla stadiums look like something you would find in a cracker jack box cant wait to see this new one done and please oh please do LP Field home of the Tennessee Titans  :D
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: RippleJet on October 06, 2007, 12:28:56 PM
It's a pleasure seeing another devoted countryman of mine! ()stsfd()

Tervetuloa Teemu, I'll send you a PM in a minute! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat Riot on October 06, 2007, 01:35:38 PM
WOW this is beautiful! my favorite stadium (by design). cardinals would definetely be my second favorite team after the pats, great work teemu.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: DFire870 on October 06, 2007, 07:19:27 PM
I'm glad you decided to post your work over here too. I love your stadiums, and especially Reliant Stadium. I'm glad you're doing more NFL stadiums, because we need some good American football stadiums.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: teemu_om on October 22, 2007, 10:54:44 AM
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg135.imageshack.us%2Fimg135%2F1176%2Fuopcb2.jpg&hash=7c4795341aa81e248daf1b0484e4a0a631db4a04)

Not much progress can be seen in this pic, but here's what have been done since the last update:

- added windows in those vertical slots around the exterior walls
- put some work on the roof
- made about 70% of the lowest bowl (this is a bit tedious because the colouring of the seats is very asymmetric)
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat Riot on October 22, 2007, 12:20:09 PM
O man this is just incredible. good work teemu!
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: autoVino on October 22, 2007, 04:35:32 PM
that looks beautiful right there  :thumbsup: &apls
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: teemu_om on October 29, 2007, 10:32:42 AM
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(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg132.imageshack.us%2Fimg132%2F1632%2Fuop2ab1.jpg&hash=fb265d9a003b32b0888c91cbf495a586de69a474)
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Krio on October 29, 2007, 10:41:13 AM
Ooh.

And same in Finnish:

Aah.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat Riot on October 30, 2007, 12:37:33 PM
whats wow in  finnish?


great work teemu, the renders are incredibly professional. If the guys who developed madden had any brains at all they'd kidnap you and make you model all the stadiums  ;D
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: rickmastfan67 on October 30, 2007, 02:01:53 PM
Dang!!

That is just sick!!!

Awesome work there teemu!!!!! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Sim Shady on October 30, 2007, 09:03:33 PM
Amazing job on this  :thumbsup:

You come here to escape all the noobs requesting stadiums from over at Simtropolis? :P i dont blame ya :P
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat on October 30, 2007, 10:17:28 PM

OMG WOW (in english) lol that is simply smokin teemu_om.... Keep Up the great work  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: &apls
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Shadow Assassin on November 02, 2007, 02:10:39 AM
QuoteYou come here to escape all the noobs requesting stadiums from over at Simtropolis?

Unfortunately, people still will request them.  :D

Someone's got to make Stadium Australia (the stadium for the Sydney 2000 Olympics) :P
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: cammo2003 on November 05, 2007, 05:23:29 AM
Quote from: Shadow Assassin on November 02, 2007, 02:10:39 AM
Unfortunately, people still will request them.  :D

Someone's got to make Stadium Australia (the stadium for the Sydney 2000 Olympics) :P

*nods in agreement*  :P

In all seriousness, though teemu, this is excellent work. The ONLY request I would make would be perhaps a covered version of this one -- it could easily pass as a league stadium in covered form (there are very few stadia that an pass as such).
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Kitsune on November 05, 2007, 05:30:56 AM
Quote from: cammo2003 on November 05, 2007, 05:23:29 AM
*nods in agreement*  :P

In all seriousness, though teemu, this is excellent work. The ONLY request I would make would be perhaps a covered version of this one -- it could easily pass as a league stadium in covered form (there are very few stadia that an pass as such).

I remember there is a Japanese Bat Stadium that has a movable retractable roof, it opens and closes depending on the month, would something like that be possible with this?
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat Riot on November 05, 2007, 12:44:43 PM
wait a minute...the plural of stadium is stadia? learn somthing new everyday  ;D
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Serkanner on November 05, 2007, 01:02:59 PM
Call me silly for English not being my first language, but as far as I know the plural of stadium is just stadiums.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Kitsune on November 05, 2007, 04:08:54 PM
Quote from: Serkanner on November 05, 2007, 01:02:59 PM
Call me silly for English not being my first language, but as far as I know the plural of stadium is just stadiums.

Stadiums is right, Stadia is more of slain/short hand form of saying Stadium, but its not technically correct - I got scorned on that last year from one of my university professors, but still commonly say Stadia instead of Stadium  $%Grinno$%
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: M4346 on November 05, 2007, 04:17:19 PM
Actually it would be an acceptable form for the plural, my dictionary gives it as an acceptable form.

In Afrikaans we have this (as a legacy from the Latin I assume) with Museums / Musea and numerous other words ending on -ium and / or eum.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: cammo2003 on November 06, 2007, 07:49:21 AM
Yeah, both are accepted. IMNSHO, though, stadiums just sounds clunky. Stadia is a much smoother sounding word.  :)
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: teemu_om on November 06, 2007, 09:34:53 AM
Thanks for the comments everyone!

About the roof... My plan is to make the roof opened at daytime and closed at night. Also, as you probably know the stadium has a retractable field and I intend to include it too. At day it will be outside and at night it gets rolled in. These two features hopefully create the illusion that there is a game going on at night.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Serkanner on November 06, 2007, 11:35:13 AM
( confused  %confuso ) ...but a Stadia is something completely different:

sta·di·a 1  (std-)
n.
1.
a. A telescopic instrument having two parallel lines through which intervals on a calibrated rod are observed, used to measure distances.
b. The parallel lines in this instrument.
c. The calibrated rod so used.
2. The technique of measuring distances with this instrument.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: M4346 on November 06, 2007, 11:55:39 AM
Maybe because you checked only under Stadia 1

Quotesta·di·um [stáydee əm]
(plural sta·di·ums or sta·di·a [stáydee ə])
noun
1.  arena with tiered seats: a place where people watch sports or other activities, usually a large enclosed flat area surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators 
2.  ancient hist ancient Greek racetrack: in ancient Greece, a racetrack for footraces that had tiers of seats at each side and one end 
3.  measurements ancient hist ancient Greek measurement unit: in ancient Greece, a unit of linear measure equal to about 185 m/607 ft 


[14th century. Via Latin < Greek stadion "racetrack, unit of measure"]
Microsoft® Encarta® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

And

Quotestadia 2 

sta·di·a [stáydee ə]
noun
surveying technique: a method of measuring distances or differences in elevation using a telescopic instrument calibrated to correspond to distances from the surveyor 


[Mid-19th century. Directly or via Italian < Latin , plural of stadium (see stadium)]
Microsoft® Encarta® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Pat Riot on November 06, 2007, 12:56:49 PM
lol its amazing what a simple off topic remark can start...
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Serkanner on November 06, 2007, 01:12:37 PM
QuoteMaybe because you checked only under Stadia 1

M - That must have been it then ... learn something new every day.  ;D

To be honoust I like stadiums better but thats simply because I am used to use stadia in the way as definition 1 tells us. In Dutch the use of stadia as plural for stadiums would be considered "hyper correction", because the plural of stadium is stadiums ( in Dutch ).

Thank you for getting it fully explained. I hope Teemu_om had enough time to get another update of his marvellous stadium in the meantime because that is why we are here after all.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Kellydale2003 on November 21, 2007, 12:18:22 PM
Ok, I kind of need something to clear up. Is it only North America as in USA or North America as Canada. People use both terms to describe the same country or another.

Just confused. Thats all.

BTW, it would be great if there is some Canadian Stadiums in there.
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: DFire870 on November 21, 2007, 12:24:24 PM
I think he means any stadiums on the North American continent, so that would include American, Canadian, and Mexican stadiums. ;)
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: Kitsune on November 24, 2007, 01:29:21 PM
although so far hes only done American Stadiums - in Canada all of our Stadiums are just plain ugly imo........
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: DrPepper on January 16, 2008, 12:50:01 PM
OMG, finally someone does these stadiums. This Model is so high quality! ;) Good work, Keep it up!

Btw, Do you do Canadian Stadiums, because idk why were considered to be North America too. :S Ah well, Awesome Work!
Title: Re: North American Stadiums
Post by: packersfan on June 10, 2008, 02:36:52 PM
How is the stadium coming?  I'm looking for more of your work!!!