Zero7 - BAT studio

[tag_one]

Very nice work Richard I like the details around the windows. I'm looking forward to see how this will turn out 

[art128]

very good work Richard  like tag_one say awesome details around the windows 
looking foward to the progress 

[zero7]

tag_one - There's quite a bit of detailing on the house windows - window boxes on all windowsills and ironwork to be added to the lower windows.  Still quite a way to go yet.

arthur - Thanks for your continuing interest.

Here's another bit of progress:



At the moment you can see a lot of plain expanses of roof and wall, but that will change as I start detailing.  There is a lot of roof junk on this building and the back wall won't be as plain as it is currently either.

[art128]

that's look good my friend 

[paroch]

Hmmmmmm,

You've got me intrigued Richard.  I'm trying to work out what it might be.  The front/facade of the building seems very "Georgian Town House" with a big chunk of late 19th/early 20th century utlity office building chucked on the back.  And there are many examples of such building scattered through London, for sure.

I'm wondering if it's something like the Conservative Party HQ (or any political party for that matter), all respectable and full of charm on the front, only to have a big monolithic machine behind it!  And of course a hidden roof terrace would be a great place to sip champagne without the masses seeing!!  Sorry, so I sound cynical??!!

In all seriousness, this is a great looking creation and it really does make me think of certain areas of the West End of London.

I'll look forward to seeing it develop more.

Paul

[callagrafx]

think "The Beatles" 

[toxicpiano]

ah abbey road! I had suspected it was something like abbey road or something

[zero7]

Arthur - Thanks (again!)

Paul - I wasn't sure what Abbey Road looked like until I went looking so the size took me a bit by surprise, though it shouldn't have knowing that studio one was capable of accommodating a full orchestra and choir with ease.  I can't say I recognise anything in your description of a political party HQ that could possibly relate to our parties in the UK   

Lee - So did you recognise the building, or deduce it from the description and the fact that I used 'AR' in my image names?    The former Apple building on Saville Row is also a tempting one - where the famous rooftop gig in the 'Get Back' sessions happened.

toxicpiano - That's it!  Like I said originally, somewhere that everyone's heard of but you don't necessarily know what it looks like.


Getting pictures of the studio part of the building is difficult so it will be an interpretation rather than an accurate reproduction - in particular the back wall will get some windows rather than being plain.  It'll get named in a similar way to Trellick Tower becoming Trellish Tower.

[Fatsuhono]

Wow zero7 san! How did you learn to modeling that car?

[callagrafx]

Lee - So did you recognise the building, or deduce it from the description and the fact that I used 'AR' in my image names?    The former Apple building on Saville Row is also a tempting one - where the famous rooftop gig in the 'Get Back' sessions happened.

Beatles fan...and I used to live not too far from there 

[zero7]

Wow zero7 san! How did you learn to modeling that car?

My modelling isn't good enough to make cars.  I downloaded the car models from archidom.net.

[Sciurus]

Very beautiful, good work!

[Simpson]

Very good, Zero7

[zero7]

Long time since I last posted ... but I have been chipping away at my Abbey Road inspired model.  There's still a lot of detailing, lighting and lot work to do, but here's an in-game preview of the current state of the building.

[callagrafx]

Did you use Bat4Max or GMAX?  It looks a little dark and I know from bitter experience the existing B4M script ignores gamma settings and uses a default 1.0 value when using MR, FG and GI (don't you just love acronyms?  )

[zero7]

This was rendered using BAT4Max - I haven't used GMAX  since 2005!  You're right about it being a little dark - since I switched to Mental Ray getting the tone to match the original lighting has proved difficult.  Any hints welcome.

[callagrafx]

Until Chris releases his B4M scripts, you could do what I did and manually alter the gammas of the source BMP files in Photoshop (set up a batch action), run the bat file to convert to FSH again and manually insert these FSH files into the model using Reader.

Whatever you try within Max, apart from reverting back to the standard lightrig and not using Global illumination, will come out darker than the preview.

[zero7]

New building time! 


Here's what's coming next ...





Another Cs$$$ on its way ... this time the Hotel Pacific.

[zero7]

I've done a little work on the rear of the hotel.  Rooms this side all have a balcony and the pool area is beginning to take shape ...

[EDGE4194]

richard- looking very good  we can always use new hotels.