praiodan's workbench / general discussion

[CasperVg]

That looks great, will the LVR Building have a custom LOD, so that props can be placed inside the 'patio' of it?

[praiodan]

That looks great, will the LVR Building have a custom LOD, so that props can be placed inside the 'patio' of it?

Thanks! Sure it will have costum LODs 

[praiodan]

Long time, no see, eh?
After a long break, I've taken up BAT activity in the past few weeks again and I thought it might be appropiate, to tell you of the things that might be to come for you... 

First of all...
 
As you (hopefully!  ) notice: The Semperoper from Dresden. The model is pretty old actually and has mostly been created by curby, who also crafted the Frauenkirche from Dresden. He gave me the unfinished gmax-model when he quitted anything SimCity related for me to finish and I thought it was about time to give it ago. Added some details and had a major overhaul on the textures. Many many thanks go to callagrafx, who helped out on the nightlights and the rendering, as my computer was too slow to handle it anymore! And also thanks to Andreas for giving this Baby a try concerning the Lot (it's not the final Lot yet, though). 

Furthermore... As I've been into Bauhaus stuff lately a lot, I began tinkering with its kind of architecture in particular. So I had a go on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Erdmoebel made a recreation of it, many, many years ago, but I never liked it too much. Pretty underscaled, badly textured and rather heavy, so I just had to do it.


(Lot is not finished yet)

Hope you like them.

[simbourgeois]

Oh my goodness, I am speechless... The Semperoper looks so magnificent!
These two will be great venues for our culture-savy simcitizens 

Best regards,
Simbourgeois
Mayor of Belleville

[praiodan]

Thanks, simbourgeois! And so you have some room for your culture loving simcitizens, I've began working on some more of Ludwig Mies van der Rohes creations. This time it's the Geschossbau from the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart.





Not textured yet and the roof is bare still. Also thinking about some variations considering the number of storeys and the length.

[baconrocky]

Cool apartments! It would be neat if we could built them in an L-shape.

[Girafe]

It's a pleasure to see you batting again, your work is fabulous especially the gallery 

[praiodan]

Guess this is some kind of a comeback. Started working on this baby like three years ago already, had to take a break from it for most of the time though, cause my old computer couldn't handle it any more. Have a new one now, and so I finally came to continue working on the Staatsbibliothek found Unter den Linden in Berlin. A lot is done, a lot is still to do... Nevertheless, here's a preview for you.


 

[vester]

Welcome back.

.... and what a comeback 

[DebussyMan]

Great news! it's nice to see you back after so much time...
Your model is fantastic, but that renderer... 

[kelis]

Amazing job !! you're tempting me to do another recreation of Berlin 

[Girafe]

Good job,

Nice to see you again batting 

[art128]

A beauty!

Welcome back, nice to see you BATing again.

[praiodan]

Thank you all for your kind words and the warm welcome!

@Debussyman
Yeah, I know, the renderer doesn't do any justice to this model right now, but I haven't managed yet to rearrange that (also because I got a little rusty tweaking things like that). What would you recommend? Scanline renderer with Catmull-Rom filter activated? Right now it's merely default mental ray.

@kelis
Gotta say, I started the Staatsbibliothek as a contribution to peterychristi's 1920's Berlin recreation in first place.

[vortext]

Great comeback indeed! 

It'll be interesting to watch the progress! 

[bap]

Welcome back, Praiodan! It is always good to see the return of great, talented batters as you. I will be following your work and looking forward for the release of your new creations.

[praiodan]

Thanks a lot, vortext and bap! I hope I won't disappoint your hopes for more stuff to come. 

Been progressing a bit: Created new materials for the roofs, the bricks in the curts and the glasses, as well as began to start with some minor detailing, like creating the ornamental vases, the balustrades ontop of the cupola, the balcony way, etc.

   

More detailing on the roofs, reworking the attic, adding statues, create a new stoneworks material and of course nightlights are to follow...

[FrankU]

It is already almost perfect at this stage! Really stunning.

[kelis]

It's really beautiful building and you are doing an amazing job !! The model is almost done and is perfect, so congratulations for this piece of art !! What would be the next one ? more stuff from Berlin ? I hope so !!

Greetings 

[peterycristi]

unnecessesary to say that i love it!