Xiahou's BAT Showcase

[XiahouDun]

This new BAT looks to be very interesting - are you basing this off a real building?

Look forward to the progress

Yes indeed, its my work place actually


HD details:

[zero7]

The entrance promises much ... I'll be keeping eye on development here.

[XiahouDun]

While I'm on this spree, I finished my neighborhood props also

Correction: In my haste, I forgot to make one prop, which I have finished modeling now and just need to texture it:

[XiahouDun]

Progress report, to show I have just gotten distracted with something else now

HD shots are too large to post in the forums, so here you go:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/phoenixcaptain/SC4/08-09front.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/phoenixcaptain/SC4/08-09back.jpg

[DCMetro2834]

Very nice job so far, can't wait to see more progress! 

-DC

[XiahouDun]

Currently in California, so away from my files. Doesn't mean I've stopped working on things though.

First building in a project I've wanted to do for a while. Still has a lot to be done though.

[XiahouDun]

Proof I'm not dead and still very much working on things:



And a teaser from my secret project


And now the bad news. All work on my theater building has been lost Catastrophic Hard Drive failure, lost most my files. Luckily I had my GMax folder backed up on a disk, so I still have everything else.

[XiahouDun]

Update

Movie theater project is back underway, and almost back up to where I had it before. Made a few cosmetic changes to the foyer area of the building. My render in BAT4Max is being a little wonky, so no preview images just yet. Now for the fun part

I've been wanting to get the community involved a little bit, so I thought "Hey, how about movie posters?" If anyone would like to have their poster creation/movie title visable on the building's finer details, post it here. I'll be picking my favorite ones and adding them to. They should be 270 pixels wide and 400 pixels tall.

[XiahouDun]

Ah, being reminded that it has been over 90 days since the last post makes me want to work more 


Progress on my theater after losing the last one Needing to figure out the render error on that south west wall...

[SimFox]

Well! Don't despair (the loss of old file). At least now you have your gamma sorted!

What would be an error you're talking about? The mesh like section of the wall of the left building?

[XiahouDun]

Indeed. Plus Gmax's limited lighting ability wouldn't have worked with the theater lighting.

And indeed, the mesh on that wall.  It had been doing that to the entrance way when I was working on it, but once I added the left half of this building, it started appearing there instead. I figure I missed some easy step that I can just correct later 

[XiahouDun]

Someone got their act together and worked on their model some more 



Still having an issue with my preview renders, hopefully that is an easy fix or only effects previews. I still have the roof junk, poster cases, and textures to make. Original idea was to have people design posters, but had no takers If anyone wants to get in on that, post your made up movie posters here

[Traff]

The work on the model is surely paying off.
It looks great!!

A couple of posters 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68230900@N02/6233255324/#/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68230900@N02/6233255272/

[XiahouDun]

Thanks

I thought about using real posters, but I want to do fictional ones instead.

[XiahouDun]

Setting a goal for myself since I don't like to eat my words. Aiming for a new preview by the weekend. I want to get the roof junk completed. The actually building has 24 HVACs, along with various other roof junk. I know the make and model of 1 of those units, trying to find out the other 3 models they use. Luckily the one I do know is the one used most, with 14 of that HVAC unit present.

[XiahouDun]

Medium HVACs are done (with rough textures). Needing to do the details for the small and large HVAC still, along with some piping and other roof junk.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/phoenixcaptain/SC4/Movies14withMediumHVACs.jpg

Still having an issue with my preview renders, not sure what is going on there.

[harris14]

This is looking quite good and realistic.