The University of Clayhurst

[rooker1]

Good luck.  I hope it all works out for you.

Robin 

[Sciurus]

I hope for you that all will work again!

Guillaume

[Jack_wilds]

Hey JB

...that really sucks     

Here is hoping that all will work out well and good... 

perhaps a lesson can be learned here back-up, back-up, back-up BUT to where    a desk-top, and a portable HD, and/or an off site storage site    a cheeky effort at being chuckles 

So during the 'experiencing technical difficulties -please standby', I will be  standing by 

Jack

[Andreas]

Looks like we all get our share of bad luck lately. At the moment, I don't have a car, since I collided with a deer, causing quite some damage (and killed the poor thing). After months of grey-in-grey, we have some really nice weather since about two weeks, but I can't enjoy it at all, having to deal with all kinds of RL stuff. *sigh*

[JBSimio]

Guillaume:  Thank you!  And you're welcome!    I'm glad you found the mini-tutorial helpful.  I'm looking forward to seeing what you've come up with.   

Thedonclark:  Welcome and thank you for your kind words!  I also appreciate the suggestions and ideas.  I hadn't thought of a specific Rec Center exactly, although I like the idea either as a stand alone building, or perhaps combined with the idea for a larger student union type building.  Some of your "College of..." ideas are definitely on my list.  Since I plan to skip additional classroom buildings for EP2, I will hold off on printing that list until later.

Matt:  I'm glad the close up pictures helped!   

Peter:  Thank you!  Happy to be of assistance. 

Robin:  Thanks!  Things seem to be back on track.

Guillaume:  I think it all works again. 

Jack:  It was indeed a tense moment here at the headquarter's building, but I think all is now well.    I'd been backing things up to my laptop, but I really need to find a simple to use program to make it a bit more automatic and not so manual.  My methods have been fairly "labor intensive" in the past and I think that's why I wasn't quite as regular about it as I should have been.

Andreas:  Sorry to hear about your car and the deer!  At least your weather is on the upswing.  Ours has been very stormy as you soon shall read...

Well folks, there is good news and there is bad news.  The good news is that the old hard drive was perfectly fine and I have spent two evenings salvaging and transfering things to the new desktop.  In fact, after a few weeks to make sure that I haven't forgotten anything important, I will probably wipe the old hard drive clean and leave it installed as an internal back up for the operating system, etc.  I've reinstalled the game, BAT, and all the nifty content creating tools as well as copied my original regions, plugins, and model files over.  Everything is proceeding at a wonderfully tedious and mind numbing pace.   

The bad news is that I was unable to do anything today, despite getting home already at 1:00 due to the fact that the power had been out since late last night and only recently came back on.  We've had some pretty wicked storms here in the Bay Area and camp is littered with downed trees, branches, and other things that just seemed to move in from elsewhere.  (We passed 10 inches of rainfall for March last night and 3 or 4 of those have been this weekend.)  In fact, things are such a mess here that I actually got lost walking to work today!     I'm not just talking about being a little disoriented and thinking, "Well this path doesn't look like it usually does."  No... I mean to say that while trying to climb over some downed trees across the trail, I somehow lost the trail completely and got so turned around that I didn't know where I was anymore!  (Keep in mind that, although it's very dark and I have a head lamp flashlight, I walk this route every morning)  I actually had to call (and wake up) some co-workers to come find me and help me!  I knew I couldn't have gotten too far off the trail... so it was mostly a matter of waiting until they could hike in and get close enough to see each other's lights.  All worked out fine in the end, but it was a miserable, wet, embarrassing, and above all scary hour or so.  Then of course, I finally made it to the kitchen and had to feed the group without the benefit of electricity.   

So anyway... in conclusion... I just wanted to stop by and let everyone know that things will pick up right where we left off with no setbacks.  But in the meantime, I was apparently getting too bored with such an "easy" life and felt the need to keep things interesting!   

JB

[Jack_wilds]

Thanks for the updates JB...

as I was really wondering what would become of the latest computer drama -a simple Thank-God for small wonders and continued Clayhurst developments

Concerning the weather reports and subsequent camp damages -holy cow whats going on over there  then the walk-about adventure to boot... sounds like some happening  and alls well that ends well too

Here it been rather quit weather trend slowly making it way towards spring... the snows this past winter broke numerous records; going over 30"...the robins are back and demanding their annual bird seed binge but I was too slow, they moved on and the chickadees are gorging themselves instead... however the weather prognosticators are talking up a storm mid-week from the north with snow and rains and whatever else makes it sound all the more sensational...

Andreas: as for the hitting a deer... I can relate, the dumb deer of WI are so...dumb, I've struck five deer since having a license with one being painfully expensive occurring at a bad time of events in life (dad passed away, finals were happening, ran out of funds and gas, etc) so I for one am a deer hunter, with a cause  ... as well as an active deer conservationist...  trust that every thing will come round and be 'at peace' so you and yours can breath...

glad all is well for the most part... keep the rain gear handy...

Jack

[JBSimio]

Jack:  The rain gear is certainly still needed.  The newest batch of rain moved in last night and is set to continue through Saturday.  The heaviest rain (and wind again) are expected tonight and tomorrow.  Here's hoping the trees stay where they belong! 

No textures yet, but in all the computer confusion, I failed to give the final modeling update.  I added a couple other utility machinery type of things around the back of the building.  One is a fairly simple, yet large, electric service panel.  The other is... well, I don't really know.  I just thought it might look cool. 



A have an actual weekend off coming my way     and am hoping to get the textures started and/or finished with the free time.  I may also start exporting some of the previous bits I've shown here and get a little lotting done.  Of course this all depends on the power staying on and the creek leaving my house intact!   

JB

[Yoder7652]

I pass this on my way to work everyday....

[banditp61]

Impressive. 

[Sciurus]

Excellent my friend, excellent!!! And in parallel of my project, I'm working on the "guest BAT"

Guillaume

[Jack_wilds]

JB...

the field-house -excellent, well executed prop choice, like the 'newer' dishes... it ready to go for texture and then...

weather report... after the last post that 'sensational' mid-week storm dumped over 18" of snow in parts hour north of me and I got 14" of wet heavy snow 'to play with', however my driveway drifted in over 3' for most of its length so asked a neighbor for help about that... according to wbay records, this winter has broke numerous records placing 6th in the snowiest of over 80".  No wonder my back aches...  .  The storm was something as TU evening-night it thunder snowed  -loudly too, the light effect of lightening in snow was really neat... it took awhile to dig out and now its 'back-ache' time at Tom's drive-in...  its funny that it happens that way  .

keep dry and I hope that the canoe will stay tied up...

Jack 

[JBSimio]

Ryan:  I keep forgetting that you're in Ann Arbor now.  Obviously this is nowhere close to a "recreation" but I always liked the overall look of Yost Ice Arena and wanted to put it to use somehow.  Nice to see you lurking around a little bit again lately. 

Guillaume:  Thank you!  I've been poking my head in at your thread from time to time.  I really need to take the time to comment there soon.   

Jack:  Thanks!  The rain continues here in the redwoods... 

Did I mention I had this weekend off?!?      I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon and again this morning making and then adding textures.  There are a few tweaks needed, but first here's a look:









The sloped portion of the roof is the main thing that I need to fix.  I know it doesn't look right, but I can't quite decide why... which naturally means that I'm not sure how to fix it yet.    A couple other minor tweaks here and there on some other areas should pretty much do the trick for everything else.  Lighting for this one should be fairly simple as well.  Athletic facility #1 is almost finished. 

More to come...
JB

[jgehrts]

The only thing about the roof that kind of threw me off personally was that it looks fuzzy. Otherwise, the building looks fantastic - but that shouldn't be surprising to anybody.

[Jack_wilds]

super...super; luv the direction it is taking...    The name appears to simply say 'Clayhurst field house' -like it, and the UC on the garage door excellent job -keep it...

is the letter color choice of the UC to some sort of brown, intended  ... thought the intended school colors were red/white... change of mind, or just a change in 'decor' choice   

weekends off always make for a good morale boost 

[sumatra82]

I am absolutely loving this addition. Aside from the roof, the textures and details are great. While watching the progress of the field house, I was constantly reminded of a similar field house here in Providence RI, Marvel Gymnasium. It was owned by Brown University and has since been torn down, but I believe the structure had slate on its roof...
http://artinruins.com/arch/?id=rip&pr=marvelgym#top1 

Maybe something smaller with deep textures for the roof?  Such as slate tile... This appears to be an older building, therefore, anything modern such as metal sheeting or asphalt may look out of place?

[cammo2003]

The angled section of the roof should be either (slightly rusted) corrugated iron, some sort of shingled roof, or some sort of glass roof (the latter would be good if you did end up making some sort of station out of it later - it's pretty common for stations to have such things). The current texture just looks like insanely oversized bricks, which is probably why it looks wrong. If you're going to go with a brick-like texture (which might work if you do it right), orient them the other way so that they're running on the roof line. it'd look much better IMHO.

Other than that it's looking fantastic. 

[JBSimio]

Jgehrts:  Thank you!  Yes, the entire first pass at the roof struck me as fake looking.   

Jack:  Thanks!  The colors on the UC logo have been adjusted... I got a bit carried away with desaturation on the first pass.   

Sumatra:  Thank you!  I've reverted to shingles for the roof after many (failed) attempts to "fix" the other idea.

Cammo:  Thanks!  I tried corrugated metal, but didn't like that look either.  I might go back to that combined with large skylights for a station version though.

Well between the suggestions here and on the BSC board, I flat out gave up on the roof idea I originally had.  It just wasn't working no matter what I tried.  So, along with the more traditional shingles as seen on many of my other university buildings, I made a few other texture adjustments here and there.  Here's the new look:



Afterwards, I got the lighting done:





The deep red of the main entry doors (front and sides) don't look very well lit here, but they will definitely show up better with a night mod such as Gizmo's.  Unless someone sees any other last minute show stoppers, I'm ready to call this finished!

More later (perhaps!),
JB

[Jack_wilds]

Hey JB,

thanks for such a quick update...

the logo letter color is better... too bad about the 'tin' roofing as that would have been a good look for this project BUT the shingle-look suits it also... I think it turned out very well I don't see anything obvious to pick at  ... the lighting is just right, so I say it ought to be good to go... 

Have you gotten any ep1 updates of late or is rl still keeping things on hold...

Jack 

[JBSimio]

Jack:  Thanks!  Nothing new to report on EP1 just yet, but I know Andreas is a busy guy even at the best of times.  All in good time...

Well, it's later.  The rain continues and the power went out for a couple hours again, but fortunately that happened in between projects.  I got the second tower lit and was staring at pictures for the arena when things suddenly got dark.  (Well "darker than usual" would probably be more appropriate for my house!)  Anyway, in addition to lighting the tower, I thought it might be fun to have a mosiac tile type version of the UC inside the tower.  It's very easy to get rid of if need be, but then there will be nothing to show the light beneath the tower.  So what do you think?



Needless to say, I didn't get as big a start on the arena as I had hoped, but here's a brief teaser anyway:



The upcoming week may be a little busy again, so I'm not sure how quickly this will progress.  We'll see how things go.

Until then,
JB

[Sciurus]

Really well done, I love And I like the beginning of the area

Guillaume