Reddonquixote's Melbourne BAT Thread

[seraf]

Those look wonderful! I also would like to see them released separately so I could switch them around in game but I will be happy with any option, pack or not

[Simcoug]

You know I am already a huge fan of these types of buildings!   
One more vote to render them as separate buildings... you could even just release them as props and let some crazy lotter turn them into growable or plopable lots 

[noahclem]

Just wow    I couldn't not give a KP for those beauties

Somehow I share your trouble with PIM-X. I know it should be relatively easy but I use it too rarely to ever really get comfortable with it. Doing Arthur's buildings last month was actually kind of nice once I got started though. There were five of them and the practice from repeating the work helped reinforce things but what really helped was actually sitting down and reading most of the PIM-X manual which is a really nice resource. I also finally got around to trying out the PIM-X lot editor which seems a bit less intuitive than Maxis LE but I quickly decided I liked it more. I'm happy to try to help if you get stuck but there's a lot of people much more knowledgeable with it than I am, like Matt, who sent you the PM.

Those look wonderful! I also would like to see them released separately so I could switch them around in game but I will be happy with any option, pack or not

Ditto that 

[Vizoria]

Are all these buildings individually W2W? Regardless they still look amazing! Top notch (mid-rise) / (high street) filler. You should do more of these smaller buildings.

[cmdp123789]

I second the comments in here.. more mid-rise/high street style, and of course, separate buildings. The thing with blocks is that you get too much repetition if you wanna use them, instead, with separate ones, you can go crazy and have them anywhere you want making sure that they are well spread around the city.

But regardless of the decision you make, amazing work! You have always been an awesome batter and always have provided us with top notch work!

[reddonquixote]

Thanks everyone - just a quick reply to mention these are 9 separately BATed buildings, but unfortunately they aren't all wall to wall except when they are lotted together.

I haven't really thought though all the modding for the release, definitely they will be individually exported as props at minimum.

Lot sizes in order of posting, left to right:
1. 162 Collins Street 16x48 (W2W)
2. 170 Collins Street 8x48
3. 178 Collins Street 16x48 (W2W)
4. 182 Collins Street 20x48
5. Georges 20x48
Total 80x48 = 5x3

6. The Sebel 21x48
7. Customs House 21x48
8. 333 Flinders Lane 11x48
9. 335 Flinders Lane 11x48
Total 64x48 = 4x3

Unless anyone has a good suggestion, I'd say they would be exported as props but modded as W2W blocks. Let me know?

[MushyMushy]

I certainly like the idea of more midrise buildings, as people said earlier.
As for the odd footprints of most of these buildings, rendering them as props makes sense to me. I was thinking maybe it would be possible to remedy the issue with the ones that don't work as W2W by themselves by BATing (later on down the line) other Melbourne buildings whose footprints would make them work as a W2W? Like for the 8x48m one, another 8x48m building could be found and modeled so they would work together as a 1x3 tile W2W lot. With that in mind more could be made over time with that dimension for variety. Keeping that going, the 20x48m ones could have a 12x48m BAT paired with them, and the 11x48m ones could possibly have one or two buildings paired with them to get a 32x48m lot. I'm really speaking in the long term here, since just making one of these from start to finish is likely not a quick and easy task.
For now I'm sure just exporting them separately as props and lotting them as they are currently would work. I know I'd be happy to get my hands on 9 more of your BATs regardless of the lot setup! 

[Simcoug]

Yep, exporting as props would be wonderful.  There are actually a good number of odd shaped (as in frontage width) W2W buildings floating around the SC4 universe that could be used to fill in the gaps, but I certainly won't complain if Reddon decides to create a few additional ones 

[Bastet69008]

Wow that's a very nice set of buildings! 
Never thought you would go back to work on them

As for the Nauru house, that's an ugly piece of concrete, but it stands for something bigger. You should check the history that's behind the construction of this tower

[noahclem]

I think your plan to export as props and mod into wall to wall blocks sounds great    There's a bunch of options for other lotting with those props and it could quickly turn in to a lot of work. Better to keep things simple and leave the door open to future possibilities.

On the subject of keeping things simple I have an idea of how not to do it: 16- or 32-m-wide buildings don't work overly well as diagonals but several combinations of these bats are very close to the 22.63m of a typical diagonal W2W   

[reddonquixote]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments very much 

Noah - Yeah, I know diagonal would be much desired but due to the number of exports required, diagonal is pretty much out of the question. I think its something like 144 individual exports. 

Maybe sometime in the future I can go back and do a specific 'diagonal series'.

Now, continuing the theme of finishing abandoned BATs, here's the Crown Metropol resurrected from my hard drive:

[compdude787]

Looks fabulous!!

[Bipin]

You've resuscitated a big, shiny glass monster from your hard drive! ...and I love it! 

[mattb325]

Caw...it's well shiny, innit? 

I love the style 

[Alan_Waters]

Top class!

[belfastsocrates]

Glossy loveliness! 

[Themistokles]

You're hard drive apparently falls into the category 'treasure troves'

[c.p.]

There's some intense reflection going on there.  It's a beauty

[Swordmaster]

How old is this? Astonishing you could leave such a beauty gathering dust! (But then I'm guilty of similar practices )


Cheers
Willy

[noahclem]

I remember this one--looks even better now than I remember it 

Sounds like forgetting those diagonals, at least for now, is the way to go