Plaza Mall project

[Krio]

Great work, best mall what I've seen  as good as Goober's work 
Only thing what's "wrong" is brown colour, it makes it looks so boring but I guess it's the real colour in North American malls 

[Pat]

Hab i love it and i cant wait to start to work on it....

[XiahouDun]

I must say, absolutely amazing

[rickmastfan67]

That looks amazing!!

[bat]

Wonderful progress on that fantastic looking building!

[FromTheAshes]

Really good work on that. It's not that huge but it's pretty big, so almost perfect size for SC4 

[Diggis]

OK, where is the fainting smilie?  That is amazing, love it.

[Andreas]

I don't think so, the model exceed the 16 squares limit, so there will be two lots for this 

What do you mean by "16 squares limit"? You can make growables of virtually any size witout any problems, so this could be easily fitted on one lot, including a massive parking lot.

I have to agree that the whole model looks a bit too brownish, and you might try to reduce the saturation of various textures a bit. Some of the roof look a bit like they were made of sand or dust, without any visible structure. Apart from that, this is an amazing model, though, and with or without CAM, this will be an excellent addition to the game.

[JosefBrisko135]

That is ah-mays-ing.

[Pat]

Hey Hab what you think after reading what andreas said?  Do you think we should see if Barby would set a growable for us, i think it would be great to see this go cam and that would all the more challenging for me
and i love a good challange - pat

[autoVino]

it isn't really a 16 square limit, but a 16 texture slab safety limit.  There is a maximum bat size and this bat may reach it.  There is a fix for this in the script and it seems to work sometimes, so huge bats are possible, but generally its rather dissapointing when after many hours your bat has been rendering and then it crashes...  If it doesn't work it should display that the bat is too huge, but for some reason it causes and error 6.
If that doesn't happen and an error occurs then you have reached the gmax ram usage maximum (which is primarily for working with the rendered textures), and unlike in 3ds max, I don't know how to change that.
But this has nothing to do with lot size, its a script thing.

[Pat Riot]

WOW! this is incredible. nice roof junk.

[Andreas]

@autoVino: Ah, thanks for the information. I guess it would be possible to slice the model into two or more parts, and render them as separate props, if necessary. SimGoober's large RLS Mall also uses props for the three large department stores, and there is no visible seam due to some tight LODs (I assume he adjusted the LODs to avoid any visual glitches). Anyway, I modified the RLS Mall lot for myself and made it a 18x11 growable, which works just fine.

[figui]

wow Heblem. this is great, can't wait to see the lighting.

[jeronij]

Excellent model indeed 

[bat56]

Heblem...   it is imposing, I find it just a little clean and white texture is a little too clear.

But otherwise, it is brilliant!   

[Heblem]

BigSlark: I dont know if this will be CAM grow, but it will be normal comercial grow too

Bengt: thanks, about the brown color exactly like that is the mall in RL that im basing

patfirefghtr: thanks pat, you will se above a bad new

XiahouDun: thanks!
rickmastfan67: thanks!
Bat: thanks!

FromTheAshes: yeah i think thats a good size...

Diggis: thanks!

Andreas: thank you, i dint know about that, thank you for you explanation

autoVino: i dont see a problem about that, i will divide this BAT in more than 6 pieces, for every departamental store and the main mall in 3 pieces...

figui: thanks!

jeronij: thank you!

bat56: thank you!

:::Bad news::::

I dont have enough ram to continue in making lights for the model and not sure for exporting this whole thing... (in pieces as i said)

Soon (not sure when) i will get new ram for my computer, and probably i could continue working at this mall 

After that Pat will make me a favor in lotting the entire mall then i will upload this soon at CSC   

[Pat]

Have you tried to break it down a bit to finish the job?  About how long do think it will be before you are able to get ram? Just some question - pat

[Heblem]

About 2 weeks  i tried it but still slow, that was i was doing...

[Pat]

LoL sweeeeeeeeeet just in time for me to be coming back from my vaction then almost... im leaving monday and will be gone for 2 wks and no internet and no Devotions    but when i get back watch out lol