Skyliner's BAT garage

[skyliner]

Hello I began my BATing adventure a few days ago and thought i should show case here also to get more feedback and criticism. So I began with simple homes from my area and transformed one of them to a shop.



I also was wondering how can i get the sign to light up as i attempted many times. And does anyone have any great window textures? They are really hard to find sufficent ones online!

THANKS!

[autoVino]

It's a great start  !  I would reccomend adding some roof junk though.
To make the sign glow, unless you're using 3ds max, the only I know is to add a night window to it.
For the textures, I think there are a few textures that came with gmax and bat, but if you need more, simtropolis has some to offer on the stex:
http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?page=1 and just search window texture.

[skyliner]

Thanks! I added a night window to it but it made the whole canopy white. Also i cant seem to find roof junk for just homes its more of office buildings and such. I want satellite dish, aluminum chimney, skylight.

[skyliner]

I felt homes and small things werent my cup of joe so i went and began my next project, the Citycorp Center in San Francisco. There are almost no San Francisco BATs and well i hope to change that with my new series of continous downtown construction. Ill do the older buildings in the beginning since the latest modern ones are more complex

So without a further adew, heres the Citycorp Center; so far


A lot of ways to go but this isnt too hard of a building to BAT. just the rounded windows will be tricky.

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[SimFox]

Is it a just a perception trick or is it true that some of the windows ( 3 lowest row of them) are not aligned to the rest of them?
Generally it is better to start with smaller things to learn technical basics stuff like snapping and so on without being overwhelmed, but God did I do the same thing? Yes I did.
I wish you luck, patience and perseverance with this one!

[skyliner]

Yea the windows are not aligned. i created three rows of windows and then cloned them. Unless there is a better way to do that i will just have to move each piece until it fits nicely.

[autoVino]

Looking good so far!  lol, you do the same as me, go for the big stuff first!   As for the windows, you could always use the array tool... under tools > array.

[Patriots1228]

good start, realign those windows though.

[skyliner]

I put skyscrapers away for the time being to make some neon Tokyo blocks i really need for my CJ! So here is the progress so far. Comments and criticisms accepted!



Anyone know how to make the neon effect? Similar to wat Krio did on his Panasonic Building?

[Krio]

I simply used a nightmap and placed Panasonic text on it. There are many nightmaps on STEX, e.g NDEX's and XDesignTeam's and you can always do them your self, like normal textures. You can use only ONE nightmap at time, but you can use many omni-lights in different colour to light up indoor spaces. You can't light up normal sign with omnis.

[Patriots1228]

Looks nice, what krio said should work, or you can give the texture 100 self illumination so it glows at night, thats what i did with my shaws supermarket.

[skyliner]

I downloaded the night maps but not too sure on how to use it. Also patriots can you please elaborate on how to do the teture illumination thing? Well i began work on building number 2! Its based off of Sakura-ya in Shinjuku so i call it SHINJUKUYA!



Progress after messing around with the model for about an hour.

[Krio]

There are advice on ST, pm Jasoncw if you can't find it. I'm not gonna start saying it all over again  This new building looks good, keep up the good work. Work with the details, and you became even better than now. The thing is in the details 

[skyliner]

Hi all, ive recently picked up the BAT tool again and went ahead and tried a somewhat simple typical Tokyo box. This one is modeled after the Kogakuin University building so i'll call it Kogakuin Center.

Im having problems in the preview mode, it doesnt center and this is the only shot i can get of the actual building. This is zoom 3.



After i finish modeling though, ill need someone to help export it because my computer most likely cant handle it. When this building is done, probably take a while; i'll continue making more Tokyo Blocks. There have been lots of iconic towers but most of normal cities are just box towers and im going to try to capture that.

[skyliner]

Current Projects:

Kogakuin University; Tokyo, Japan



Ordway Building, Oakland, California, USA



Marunouchi KS Building; Nagoya, Japan



More updates soon!

Comments and Criticisms welcome!

[skyliner]

Heres some new work:





Comments and critiques appreciated!

[Pat Riot]

nice! I would uvw that map on the interior, its too stretched out.

[skyliner]

Thanks Patriots i fixed that problem. It will probably be up on the STEX before Friday.

Heres my new project:



Skylark Restaurant, these kind of designed restaurants are common in Japan.

[RebaLynnTS]

I need to figure out exactly how you do the enterrior maps
Great work. The new restuarant should be really nice.

[Pat Riot]

I need to figure out exactly how you do the enterrior maps
Great work. The new restuarant should be really nice.

They are just simple textures. I can send you them if you'd like.

Skyliner-fantastic start! you've improved alot!