Vintage Downtown Buildings and Apartments.

[mdurdan]

WOAH.....

[jpetersjr]

Hi,

This building is another great choice for a model! If you keep going like this you'll soon have an entire early 20th century downtown in RW!

If I may add a bit of constructive criticism, this model looks like it will have a massive polycount (many thousand). That is, if I interpret the screenshot correctly and you used the SketchUp draw tool (lines & rectangles on faces) to add details to the facade. Generally, every object should use as few polygons and textures as possible -- especially since RW uses quite a lot of high detail rolling stock, so the graphics engine has quite a lot to deal with anyway.

What you could do to avoid having to add new lines (faces) for all the windows and also to avoid breaking up the facade into individual 'segments' is to paint all that on the texture. This way it would suffice if a single rectangle is used for the entire facade, with a brick texture with a few painted on windows that tiles across the facade tile so that you'd get multiple floors and rooms. You would end up with less than 100 polygons on that building, with the same amount of detailing.

Cheers,
Michael

PS: Here's a small-scale example of what I mean by "windows on texture" vs. "windows as 3D parts":

Left: windows only painted on texture, 2 triangles. Middle: windows as faces, created with SU draw tools, 22 triangles. Right: the same, but with windows extruded inwards (push/pull tool in SU), 46 triangles.


Now imagine that on an object that has hundreds of these wall segments and you can get a picture of the polycount you'd be looking at.

Alright, I'm going to try it your way. I'll just have to make a new texture when I'm going to repaint it in Crafter later, but hopefully this will make the model work better in Crafter.

[jpetersjr]

I've finished redoing the building and now have started on the texturing.

Once finished the building will be the biggest I've ever built.

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And on floor 24 and 25 are the inclosed balconies, where the person would stand inside and look out onto the citym surrounded by fence.

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[jpetersjr]

Some more slow progress on the new office building for RW, from the late 1930's.

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[jpetersjr]

Worked on the 2d columns and put on the name of the building.

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[mdurdan]

Thats....a lot.....of windows......

[jpetersjr]

Some more slow progress this morning. I expect that I should be able to put it into the game very soon. Last will come the sidewalk for the base.

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[jpetersjr]

The new NY Office Building 1 V1 in game and compared to the size of the other buildings.

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The NY would stand for New York Office building. I'll do a couple more versions of this building and a couple more buildings of similar size for the new set. Hopefully I'll be able to release it soon, the entire set.

[jpetersjr]

Just put some more buildings into RW today, Miscellaneous Buildings, these would feature some of the many unmarked businesses that often reside in a big city.

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[dejoh]

Looks fantastic. Remember, each building had roof access for repair and maintenace.
Also, each building had incinerators with chimmneys and boiler pipes.
The side of the structures are begging for wall painted signage, if viewed from a street corner.
Great work, you've come a long way.

[jpetersjr]

Looks fantastic. Remember, each building had roof access for repair and maintenace.
Also, each building had incinerators with chimmneys and boiler pipes.
The side of the structures are begging for wall painted signage, if viewed from a street corner.
Great work, you've come a long way.

Of course, it would be nice to have people repaint the buildings. They can add paint on the sides and even make them look old and full of Graffiti.

So far, haven't seen very many repainted buildings in this sim.

Of course, some times I leave out chimneys and roof entrances to save on poly. I probably later will make some clutter items including chimneys, roof entrances and water tanks for use on the buildings.

[mdurdan]

Heres what the new building looks with TSX and RS completely maxed out
I give this my golden seal of approval and two thumbs up!!!

[mdurdan]

Heres a few more with TSX and RS graphics maxed out

[mdurdan]

A few more

[jpetersjr]

Working on a new version of the NY Office Building.

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