BAT Showcase

[art128]

That's a very nice building. It will fit nicely in my city I think.

No idea you could mod the queries like that. Interesting.

[mattb325]

Thanks art, in one of my old prop packs I gave a lot of the statues and sculptures 'silly' hover queries...you can basically force a prop to display anything you want with just a couple of steps.

While testing the stations (I give them about 100 years each in different scenarios interacting with both my own stations plus those with the NAM plus other stations that are in my plugins to make sure that subways/bus stops/rail/ el-rail/ HSR and so on are utilised and all do as they say they should - hence why it is taking some time to release each one)  this grew:





I made it as there are so few buildings with 'green' roofs in SC4...and it has that god-awful clunky modern style with protruding timber-framed light-box style windows that you see everywhere now-a-days.

Add it to your mattb325 plugins garbage pile here: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3584

[brick_mortimer]

If you want to make a building with a plant roof, it should almost always be in this modern mix-and-match style.
Very fitting!

Allready downloaded

Recently I drove past the new distribution center of Nike in Laakdal, Belgium and it has a plant wall, looked really nice:

[Tyberius06]

Oh, very nice BAT Matt! Thank you very much. It could be a nice a modern library as well, I maybe give it a relot with that function!
Can you tell me what is that dutch-looking building on the first pic next to your building? Is that yours?

brick_mortimer: Wow nice catch, I like that building now that I know its existence. Really nice modern building!

- Tyberius

[manga rivotra]

Any reproduction of modern European neighborhoods require this kind of building.
Perfect as always and extremely useful. 
The "Troll Factory" is superb too. 

[brick_mortimer]

brick_mortimer: Wow nice catch, I like that building now that I know its existence. Really nice modern building!

The very first time I drove by (it's near the motorway) I did a double take and asked my wife if she saw a plant wall as well 

If you google "nike" "laakdal" and look for pictures you'll find some overview photo's as well.

Cheers!

[mattb325]

Can you tell me what is that dutch-looking building on the first pic next to your building? Is that yours?

This is a really old BAT by Born78, a prolific batter in my early days who, along with Xannepan, sw21 et al., championed the W2W standards for European Bats.

It was quite the hunt as many hundreds of individual BSC files were pulled/erased from ST in protest many years ago and nothing is available referencing his name except via google searches.
It is now available in this prop pack: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=465, the lots for which can be found by searching under the 'BSC' name, such as: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=570, but there are others under BSC/CSX or the 'BLS' name.

[fantozzi]

Strangely I immeditaly imagined this building as a workshop for theaters or operas (or film production), facilities sometimes not located inside the theaters itself.



This would be the first of its kind in SC4, I guess - and therefore very, very wellcome.

Thank you mattb325. You may see: you inspire so many people with your work.

[belfastsocrates]

Yay! Green roofs!

Desperately needed as they're popping up more and more in cities. I also really like the building itself given it's versatility and 'generic modern' style we see in a lot of cities.

[eugenelavery]

A great BAT which will work well in most style cities.

[mattb325]

Thanks guys. Fantozzi, I do like the idea of a workshop/production space for movies/theater and operas. 

For now, meet BoB....not quite ready for release (modding + nightlights to be done) :

[art128]

What a beauty!

[kbieniu7]

Indeed, a wonderful model!

[brick_mortimer]

Oh, a nice modern building to house all the red tape 

[YouBet]

The weight of bureaucracy is driving it down into the earth.

[matias93]

Wow, I love bureaucracy AND sunken buildings! And the details on the structure are simply great, particularly what transluces through the windows!

Even though, I guess this will be some newly created minstry of sorts on my city, because the style and density won't match nicely with the W2W environment where the others stand.

[mattb325]

Thanks guys...if I've done my job correctly, looking at BoB should be ever so slightly disconcerting and the relationship between the building and the lot should feel alienating...at the very least, I want this one to be a little less 'disney' than most of what I have made to date.

At any rate, nothing new to show: but another set of 4 stations has been put through its paces:



Available here:
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3585

[Alan_Waters]

Sumptuously! 
Troll really like it! 

[Akallan]

Beautiful work!

[noahclem]

The BoB model looks excellent--great job on the sunken plaza    And it's great to see another station from your set! I haven't looked through the prop file so each new one is completely new to me