gottago to BAT

Sciurus · November 11, 2009, 05:10:02 AM

This is a wonderful BAT, congrats!!

Guillaume

gottago · November 13, 2009, 01:24:23 PM

Tomas Neto, Earth Quake and Sciurus, thanks very much for your heartening comments! (and btw Earth Quake, there is a night view on the bottom of p.1.

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Well, I finally managed to get a clean export without ghoulish holes or distortions and could begin lotting and prepping for my LEX candidacy.

Here's a view of the lot, which I've tried to make as close as possible to RL:

kwakelaar · November 13, 2009, 04:26:24 PM

That is a very good 60ies building, very well made, and a nice simple lot perfect fit for the building

Earth quake · November 14, 2009, 02:11:05 AM

Wow this bat it's just stunning.

The lotting is just perfect

zero7 · November 14, 2009, 03:20:00 AM

Really excellent building and as colleges aren't the most popular of buildings for BATters to make it gives some extra variety in a category of building that needs it.

Tomas Neto · November 14, 2009, 08:35:49 AM

Awesome!!!

art128 · November 15, 2009, 08:51:55 AM

The lot is quite nice, you've put some nice effort in it, and that's good. The front mosaic is one good touch and give something more to your building. I will certainly use it ! Maybe, if you put the black wall texture a little bit brighter it will be even more excellent !
Take care,
-Arthur.

spa · November 15, 2009, 09:41:58 AM

Quote from: art128 on November 15, 2009, 08:51:55 AM
The lot is quite nice, you've put some nice effort in it, and that's good. The front mosaic is one good touch and give something more to your building. I will certainly use it ! Maybe, if you put the black wall texture a little bit brighter it will be even more excellent !
Take care,
-Arthur.

I had that thought too. I would brighten it just the slightest of bits (say about +5 in photoshop). Nothing too major though as the dark walls are part of the look.

gottago · November 25, 2009, 06:27:16 AM

Arthur and Spa, thanks for your comments--I've tweaked the VHS a bit lighter.

And here's a new model, just beginning textures:

It will be a CS$$ 4x2 W2W corner--another boxy Cologne postwar commercial, this one is on Rudolphplatz @ the Hohenzollerinring.

It's got a funky little railroad track on the roof for the window-washing equipment, which I modeled. It's as faithful to RL as possible within the lot constraints, so no more roofjunk will be added this time

Here are some RL shots:

And a great old postcard:

Hope you like!

Yan077 · November 25, 2009, 06:36:04 AM

Yes I like

A bit massive architecture, but it's natural, it's a "Bosch bat"

thingfishs · November 25, 2009, 08:36:09 AM

really nice work

great attention to detail

citymax · November 25, 2009, 09:40:37 AM

Very nice, the details are perfect, you have a great talent !!

Earth quake · November 25, 2009, 09:56:29 AM

Splendid W2W.

The details are just impressive.

io_bg · November 25, 2009, 10:23:57 AM

Great modelling, looking forward to seeing the textures

Sciurus · November 26, 2009, 09:45:37 AM

Very beautiful! And I hope you'll succed for LEX, because you deserve it

Guillaume.

gottago · November 26, 2009, 10:06:52 AM

Hearty thanks everyone for the wonderful comments! I'm glad you all like the model--I hope to do a whole series of these "boxes."

Texturing is moving forward but it takes as long as the model itself--endless tweaks of color and scale and luminosity in Photoshop, and tons of preview renders. Then windows and nightlights. Unfortunately I don't have much free time right now so progress is slow--I steal an hour or so in the morning and late at night, but wanted to thank you all for dropping by and commenting on the work so far.

Update to add: the VHS Cologne BAT is now on the LEX, you can DL it <a href="http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2279>here.</a>

metasmurf · November 30, 2009, 03:41:32 AM

You don't take requests do you? My hometown is filled with ugly postwar lowrise office buildings that would suit your style. Just let me know

alj · December 11, 2009, 08:54:42 AM

gottago,

Just wanted to tell you that the VHS is a wonderful building and that your current project from the Rudolfplatz would be a very welcome addition to our downtowns, too. What makes it even more exciting is that I know the real world models to your bats, since I live in Cologne. Right now I´m on a hiatus from playing SC4, but once I return to playing, your bats will be among the first I will download.

I absolutely agree with you that there is a lack of bats of the type that you chose to recreate. Myself, I have been planning on starting to bat for 2 years now. Worked already my way through tutorials, then got distracted by other things and gave up eventually. But your achievement is an inspiration and an encouragement to give it another shot.

Keep up the good work.

gottago · December 12, 2009, 08:29:04 AM

metasmurf, thanks for asking for requests, but I've got a number of projects I want to pursue that will keep me busy for a while; I hope you don't find the buildings I'm modeling ugly, though--they're chosen to be a step between "fillers" and "stars."

alj, thank you very much for your comments--they're really appreciated. I know Cologne well and its a wonderful town, and its great to learn that these projects have inspired you to take up the BAT as well. Good luck with it!

Well, textures and nitelights for the "Bosch BAT" are finally finished and the render is running as I type. The model fills an entire 2x4 lot and so there's no lotting to do this time.

Here are some preview renders; I spent a lot of time on nitelites this time, learned about neon, and here are the results:

Luke09 · December 12, 2009, 09:10:43 AM

Nice job!Will you release it on LEX?