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Lt_Gable's graphics tryouts

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 11:46
by Lt gable
hello, after a few time off, i'm finally back with a building.
it's still work in progress but before i finish it i need to know what you think about and what can i do to improve it. this building is inspired by my own house. (here's a pic of it IRL)

thanks in advance!

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 13:20
by Purno
Needs texturing, and the color is a bit wrong, IMO. The shape is very nice tho. Keep up the good work.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 13:20
by Hyronymus
Ah, great. Altough people (may) loath this building we're slowly moving towards responsible architecture on this forum. Time to ask a question about living experience: is living in a Unité d'Habitation as marvellous as Le Corbusier said it would be, lt gable?

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 13:27
by Aegir
Excellent shape, I look forward to seeing what you can do with texturing and shading the thing!

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 13:33
by Lt gable
well living there is pretty strange because it fits to 70's style of life, so in 2006 it's slightly outdated but the building itself it in a pretty good condition (inside and outside) but this is not a complete unité d'habitation because it doesnt contains all the infrastructure as the orginial project: school on the roof, shops at ground level. here it's only residential building for low cost rents (you can also buy a part of em which is my case) but the system needs oil to work prefectly... this building is a part of utopia by itself.

EDIT: added a newer version!

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 14:26
by m4rek
looking good so far...

can u plz tell me the dimensions of a ground square? (and if theres a height limit...

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 14:39
by Zimmlock
Looks nice from a distant, but your scale is way to small, you have used 3 pixels per floor, 5 to 6 (6 is my minimum) ll fit to the game.
I know that with 6 pix floor levels your building doesnt fit (it ll look to high), so be creative and delete some levels, it ll still look like the original :wink:

@M4rak:
There is a hight limit, i have reached it once and had to correct the building.
Maximum hight is 255 pixels, but them we talk about a massive skyscraper.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 14:42
by Lt gable
yeah it's stange scale but i think a building can't fit more than 2x2 squares otherwise i would have made it bigger, maybe i'm wrong but i havent seen any building bigger than 2x2 other than an industry in TTD

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 14:47
by m4rek
i believe that 2x2 is the limit of buildings....if it wasnt then HQs would be considerably larger

EDIT:and plz, what is the dimensions of a single ground square? its a bit hard to work on a building if you dont know the base...

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 15:04
by Dave
It's 64 pixels... I think. Someone will confirm or correct that.

Buildings can only be bigger than 2x2 if they are industries.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 16:15
by m3henry
Dave Worley wrote:It's 64 pixels... I think. Someone will confirm or correct that.
Buildings can only be bigger than 2x2 if they are industries.
i think he means in meters?

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 16:15
by Lt gable
I added noise to the roof and grass areas and changed the scale of the windows to fit to TTD scale, let's hope it's better!
the roof still needs more things on them but yet i try to get the right scale before detailing. waiting for your constructive comments.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 16:33
by Redirect Left
oh well done!
Excellent work! 10/10

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 16:40
by Purno
Needs more texturing IMO.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 16:56
by lifeblood
The original window pattern you had was quite better. Now it just looks rather plain. Good work though!

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 17:11
by Lt gable
well the windows werent shaded hopefully, now it's done! and i've shaded the concrete parts of the buildings and i've added the techincal locals on the roof and some funnels. it now looks slightly better i think,but you're the judges!

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 17:34
by Hyronymus
Lovely, lt gable! Looks very good imho.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 18:42
by Purno
The road needs texturing too IMO.

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 19:03
by m4rek
nope, i meant pixels

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 19:25
by Dave
Purno wrote:The road needs texturing too IMO.
You're demanding enough this evening.
m4rek wrote:nope, i meant pixels
Use the quote button so we know which bit of the thread you refer to.