Pat Riot's BAT thread

[Krio]

I agree with kwakelaar about the yard, custom lod is better option and I can replace trees with statue of me 

[JosefBrisko135]

I could've used a little more cowbell.

Amazing modeling bro.

[Pat Riot]

Park-Ready for upload
Dorm-Ready for Render, i decided kwakelaar was right and deleted the park (kept the trees)


So whats next?

The monkey island Capitol Building and this

Wolverine Tower

60+ floors. Can someone please tell me why it looks like theres no windows on the side or the back when i render the front? the thing in the back is the beginnings of a base.



josef-cowbell?

[autoVino]

hmm. can't quite tell but my best guess would be that you first made the planar windows on the front and one side and them duplicated and moved them over the the back and other side and then applied a twist modifier to the whole thing (or at least this is how I would do it).  You probably forgot to flip the planar windows (so that the normals would face outside) and as a result of that the windows on the side and back have normals facing inside, not outside, allowing light/visibility to go through them.  To fis them you can just add a normal modifier to those windows and check flip normal. (if that's what I think what you have)
hope that helps! Great building btw, looks really cool 

[Pat Riot]

yea, that was the issue. what i did was i detached the faces on the back, flipped the normals (like you said), then arrayed them again, and it worked!

[Pat Riot]

too lazy to censor so i deleted this post :p

[Krio]

Awesome BAT, grater P. This will be more awesome when you add nightlights 

[dogfight]

A very good job of not "over twisting" Pat. Some people (just go to turbo squid web site) tend to do too much. 

[Pat Riot]

decisions decisions...as you look, i need you to think of two three things

Red or Blue?
Should the ground reflections stay? (the reflections where the object being reflected is not visible, because its an invisible image from google earth).
Is this ready for nightlighting?





no that is not green, it is a turquiosy blue 

[Krio]

Turquise is better. I would make billboards coming from the wall and not as 'props on the roof' because wall-billboards would be more realistic

[Diggis]

Yeah, the billboards look a little tacked on at the last minute, where as they would probably be designed in at this scale.  Can you do both colours?  I can't decide.

[Pat Riot]

yea, billboards definetely need fixing. Diggis-Thats kind of were im at. Im going to darken the blue a bit then decide.

[Pat Riot]

ignore the billboards, ill fix those.

would you guys agree that this is the best so far? or do you think i should stick with turquoise. I like them all, so i need your help.

CENSORED 

[dogfight]

Hey Pat. The new color is by far the best. It's a keeper no doubt
I gotta ask how do you get those amazing glass reflections. I'm assuming a reflection and gloss map?
It looks great

[Pat Riot]

ive made a new base, finished nightlights. I cant get any good pics because all the spotlights and stuff are there. Once its rendered I will show it.

[JosefBrisko135]

which blue building do you want to BAT?
There's Element (U/C)

It's Sister Skypoint (Left end of the picture)

Verizon Tower and Hyatt Hotel

[Pat Riot]

 sister point. thanks!

[JosefBrisko135]

Aite here's some info on it
Residential, finished early 2007. Novare Development Group. It is on a 4x4 lot.
http://oxblue.com/client/rjgcameras/skypoint/ (live cam)
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=skypoint-tampa-fl-usa (emporis)
110 Meters
32 Floors, 380 units (should be about 500 people?)
The Parking Garage roof has a pool on one side, and a pet walking/park area on the other.
if you need any other info lemme know
Its sister building Element is under construction now. Element is taller, and more upscale. Looks almost identical though.

[Pat Riot]

Progress:

ive got 3 BATs ready in the final stages (rendering, uploading, modding, lotting, etc.)
Im starting a few new ones

-MI Capitol Building-should finish hopefully by the end of the week
-Gas Stations with Krio-making lots of gas stations fora  pack with krio, should finish by end of week.
-Skypoint (HA! i thought it was called Sister point)-starting when i finish above^

[Krio]

Pictures, pictures