CAL's BAT Cave

[callagrafx]

Thank you Jacky, always nice to hear from you...and there are more to come too...I have to package the Pedalos and the Statue reward parks, get them checked so I can release them, then I have the Terraces to get ready too, plus the Aqueduct...In the meantime you have to check out the stupendous work Barby has done with the new canalside LOTs using some of mine, D66 and RP's stuff and Citynut's gorgeous new ASC canals.

[mightygoose]

i was taking a look at your canal piece, its interesting. why do you use editable meshes so much??

anyway, just a little something im playing with....

its kinda inspired by the river walk they have setup in dublin....



basically means you can use SG/CAL brick canals in downtown areas and have the pretty bits too...



started with a start piece.



although im not amazingly happy with the sc4 view results.

[callagrafx]

I don't...Simgoober created the original models in GMAX, so I had to export to MD3, convert to 3DS and import into Max...I guess somewhere along the line one of the file formats cannot handle extrude functions 

My construction method of choice is extruded splines and Lofts, oh and a few shapes, booleans and lots of modifiers 

as for the game view, there are too many horizontals to show up...try reducing them by half...SC4 is not subtle and everything requires exaggeration a bit.

[vester]

mightygoose: Try to lower the numbers of members in the railings to 1/3 and make the width of boards double in size.

[mightygoose]

yeah i dont like sc4 exaggeration though, i mean on the models the "bricks" are 1mx0.5m front faced, but hey.

[callagrafx]

Tell me about it 

Anyway, I've been playing, in between work related stuff, with the Aqueduct and I have a final model:



Now to mod, package, test and upload.  Keep watching....

[BarbyW]

Can I say "Wow"?

[Pat]

Barby i think Wow is understatement... its more like OMDG - oh my dear god!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yoder7652]

that is sweet Lee...I love that the moss is varied on the supports...great work!

[mightygoose]

that is awesome work indeed, btw would it be possible for me to get hold of some of your other models for the canal's?

so far i have four pieces based on the straight.....

[Andreas]

Cal, you missed some water ripples in the canal (caused by the wind) that occur naturally at that height. But seriously, this is among the best eye-candy pieces ever! 

[Diggis]

Psst, thats not Cals work.  Mightygoose has hijacked the thread. 

[callagrafx]

I'm hoping Andreas was referring to the Aqueduct 

[Patriots1228]

canal aqueduct is a great idea, and it looks spectacular
and the new peice looks great too.

[zero7]

That aqueduct is looking very good ... I imagine some nifty terraforming is needed to get it sitting properly in the landscape and at the same level as the canal at either side.

[callagrafx]

Actually, not really  ... If you terraform the height you want, then make a land bridge to the other side (it's a 20 tile span plus 2 each end) to give you the correct height at each end, as it's an overhanging prop you can cut away the landscape underneath it without fear of destruction...the game only sees the 2x2 LOT.  This way it's simple to place transit and other stuff underneath it without any special modding. 

It's in beta with BSC at the mo but hopefully I've learned a few things from Barby and have managed to mod it properly.

[Diggis]

Sorry, that is probable as it is a very lovely piece.  Nice work.

[bat]

That is looking fantastic, callagrafx! Wonderful work!

[Schulmanator]

That is truly impressive work! Thank you for such an awesome new piece! I am eager to see it in action. 

[Andreas]

I'm hoping Andreas was referring to the Aqueduct 

Yes, I was referring to the aqueduct.