Seraf's Atelier

[zurrabear]

Seraf, just want to say how much I like your work.  I'm very late to the thread but have been using your Kew Gardens and NY Supreme Court for some time now and really like them both.  I look forward to the completion of the Bethesda Fountain!

[seraf]

Ok, update after long time. In fact I'm working on exposition in my city and I have no time for other projects lately. I uploaded some announcement of the exposition buildings





Big render, I don't want to break the page proportions







and beautiful unfinished gazebo which I started long time ago:

[io_bg]

Wow, this is stunning!

[thingfishs]

some gorgeous work there seraf

I am very excited by the rotunda base I see there. If I'm not mistaken that's the one from Adelaide, great to see it's in the works.
So have you been able to find suitable images? I pass this rotunda all the time so if you want I can get any photos you need.

[CabraBuitre]

Awesome!  Would it be possible to do the fountain apart from the plaza too?  It'd be really good as a stand alone.

Can't wait to see more!

[Girafe]

Seraf your work is amazing   

you pay so attention to little details 

[Ehanson]

A wonderfully detailed BAT.  This looks inspired by buildings from the White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

BTW, is there any progress on Bethesda Fountain?

[seraf]

io_bg - Thanks.

thingfishs - Yes, I found some shots and I think they're sufficient to make the model Thank you for your offer ^^

CabraBuitre - Of course, if there is demand for stand-alone fountain, I will upload it

Girafe - Thank you

Ehanson - Correct Some buildings on my exposition are the buildings from Columbian Exposition Bethesda Terrace is close to finish but I have much work with exposition buildings in last time.

And some new shots:



(HD render, in game it will be SD)

[starfinder9659]

wow this is really good work seraf 

[Aaron Graham]

WOW!!! you are a hero. you work is breath taking. I have to say you have a great, great, great, great, gift. Work like this need to be put in a museum.  

[Girafe]

It's really an amazing work 

what a pity that you have decided to not export in HD with the quality of details you bring in your BATs. Anyway  I hope you will share these jewels with the community 

[CabraBuitre]

Wow is right...!  Keep it up!

[RebaLynnTS]

Your Bats always blow me away.

[seraf]

Thanks all for comments

Girafe - to tell the truth... it's not my decision to not export that building in HD It's VERY big and when I tested the LODs, gmax showed me export error. After some experiments it seems that the only way to export that building is to divide it into three parts and export in SD


Update:

Main building of the exposition is close to finish





Glass still needs some work

[SimFox]

Impressive building... But it looks a bit like gamma had been applied twice...
also you would be better off it you'll put MR Physical Sky as a background map, particularly if you gonna have glass (or warret) or anything else reflective and facing up in your scene...

[seraf]

SimFox - Gamma is ok, ttextures are very bright, even white. It's because these buildings are from Columbian Exposition also known as White City.

In my native sc4 site (simcitypolska) there is something like SCJU. My country is the host of exposition in this year, and some people may guess that I try to recreate Columbian Exposition in SC4.
This task at this moment is impossible for me. Buildings are too big, as well as main basin. Splitting them into smaller parts and rendering in SD is useless, as I lose most of details and merging process itself is inconvenient in LE.

I don't know if this makes any sense, but maybe someone will be interested: a segment of main basin:



and unfinished peristile:



Please remember max size of pics, 1024x768.  I have resized your pic for you this time.  Robin - Global Moserator.

[seraf]

After some hardships I'm back to work I decided to divide the main axis of basin into two parts. Also, I put MR Physical Sky as a background map as SimFox advised, but I don't see any difference..

(Of course this smaller roof on the right will be also glazed later.



Update from works on Main Basin:





_{I have resized your picture as it was breaking the page for me (it was about double my monitor's resolution). You can still view the pic in full size by clicking on it. (CasperVg - 06/22/10 CET)}

[DCMetro2834]

Wow....that is spectacular! All the detail has me stunned!! 

[CabraBuitre]

Looks good!  I had always pictured it with SG's canal sets... but that's what I usually use, so it made the most sense to me!  That's really ambitious to create one all your own!

[manchou]

Some graet work