non-asian branch of SimFox' pixel torture chamber

[SimFox]

^^


Shadow Assasin:
Hm... am I missing something? Is it possible to make 60 degrees roads in the game, because the base of the tower is equilateral triangle...

[Une_ame]

Is it only  me, or does it appear as if that bird is crapping on the building?   

It appears that it was badly sick!!

[mmorales2]

Hey Fox. I hope you dont plan on changing the way your grass looks for the lots. I like how your grass looks lush and dark green than that of the maxis grass. Oh, how is the Russia Tower coming along?

[SimFox]

RT progressing slowly, literally ...
I've applied metallic, sort of material for support rays and render had come to the crawl speed - from 1hour per Zoom5 view to 2hours 30 min. Situation isn't normal.. there must be some bug somewhere. I'm better find it.

[Une_ame]

I hope your PC will survive such a huge BAT !

[SimFox]

well, I've managed to "squeeze" it under 1 hour30 min per Zoom5 view.
Here is a result:




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/Tage

[mightygoose]

damn that looks sweet.

[CasperVg]

Hell, that looks huge, and really sweet. The underground parking (or that's what I think it is) is a very realistic detail aswell, I love it.

[Shadow Assassin]

Indeed, that looks great... (LOL, I almost said "grate"... it does look a little like a cheese grater...  )

It looks kind of empty inside... are you planning on doing something about that or are you going to do the nightlights now?

I'm looking forward to the nightlights, though... I know they'll look awesome.

[SimFox]

yeah! it's big and brash like Russia itself.
I just came from the reception for National Day in Russian embassy. It is quite funny really... most common attire is military uniforms - Russian, naturally, American (oddly second in numbers), Finnish (naturally too), English, French, German, Japanese, Chines etc, etc,etc... and religions robes... It says something about new Russia though and it's place in world dance. All those discourses between big powers do seem to be a big charade played to blind rest of the world. Behind closed doors those few big ones are cozy together...

There is still quite a bit of work on it... That is a problem with structures of this size. when you go into details the very scale is immense... so there is NO way to get detailed enough. Still, there are plenty more there already then on average skyscraper on stex - most of those are just barely textured boxes ...
Observation decks will have people, I mean low poly models, office floors... well those may get something with textures...

Night lighting. We'll see. I have some interesting ideas, but not quite sure as to how to bring those effects to the game. But I'll try. Lot will have some landscaping and vegetation and more detailed public areas. Also the Pyramid will house mini shopping mall. Naturally it will only be visible at night view.

The real tower is multifiunctional complex - so called vertical city for 25 000 people, it has offices, apartments, retail, sport facilities (including swimming pools on some 80th or so floor), hotel. Such a variety of function will make tower very colorful at night. but I'm not sure I would be able to recreate such a scope. Actually it would be particularly difficult in day view. So I decided that SC4 version will be plain office tower, but I may still try to "make it so" for a night one.
Problem is that already as is the day view at zoom5 takes 1,5 hours to render... Not sure how far I could push it...

[mmorales2]

Hey Fox. In my opinion it looks fantastic. I am kind of excited about what you are going to do for the night lighting. I think the detail you have now is just wonderful. Keep up the good work and I can't waite until this bad boy is ready for download. 

[Une_ame]

 

Sorry, no words....

[SimFox]

been doing some gardening:



I know it isn't quite right from the point of the architecture of the tower, but I think it would look better from games point of view, plus it would hid some issues with the lot...

what do you ting of foliage color? too yellow?


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[Une_ame]

Nop, just right!!!

I hope you'll be able to do the nitelight the way you want (and not the way your PC wants! ) I'm thinking about a mixt between your 2 last pics (the Tower zoom5 pic and the garden) and I 've got thefeeling that they're gonna blend pretty well .

[pilotdaryl]

That is not CGI.

[mmorales2]

Wow. That is going to look so nice with the tower. It is just perfect. The trees almost look real. Keep up the good work and hope to see more.

[CasperVg]

I hope you know CPR, since you've just taken my breath away.

[Shadow Assassin]

Oh good, you're using the medium wealth grass texture.

The trees look fine... if anything, the colour offsets the tower quite nicely. It adds a little bit of extra colour [there isn't much yellow, it's all blue and grey, etc...].

[Pat]

WoW!! Is all I can say simfox... 

[SimFox]

...from site rules:

You can post any dimension image and video files. However the files must be hosted off site. Direct file upload to this site is severely restricted. Also a maximum width of 1024 pixels is highly recommended ( but not mandatory) to keep a balanced monitor view in most of the members' computers.

I'm really curious what is that rush of administration is really motivated? I'm not an anarchist and welcome rules. But in reasonable societies rules have explanations and justifications and not simply pushed top-down...

IMHO, such a system of thumbnails is counterproductive (particularly the way it is implemented by TAGE) viewer is still downloading the full sized image (time) and then only seas reduced and distorted image. Opening image separately isn't too comfortable either. it removes it from any text that accompanies it and generally reduces cohertion of the message.

I don't post big pictures just for the sake of it. I go for proper Zoom5 renders as to give viewer accurate impression with minimum effort. So I would appreciate if they were not distorted. And if there some questionsthat those would be addressed to me...

PS
did they say Russians don't like NATO too much?