sky scrapers for your worlds

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:02 pm

i'm going to make a bunch of skyscrapers over the next week or two....or until i get bored of doing it, probably after a week or two. i am starting with the worlds tallest and will work down to smaller towers. they wont be high detail at all, mostly just going for the rough shape and appearance of the actual building. they will also be roughly to scale.

unless scaled down, the games normal 2x2 ground smoothing wont be enough for most of these towers if your world uses the default or smaller tile size, so each one will also have a below ground foundation so they can be placed on mildly sloped terrain without them appearing to be floating. this 'basement' will also render the buildings heights less accurate due to it being included in the overall model height. the posted heights do not include the basement.

First up is the Sears Tower: **remade, redownload if you had the old one** [/b]

with a height of around 1450ft, this 178 poly building has a 5x5 default tile size base.
its modular. so later on i will post a dozen or so smaller towers that use its texture as well.
(btw, the little gray box next to its base is the standard small store model)

model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... -sears.atm
texture, 661kb 512x1024: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... -sears.jpg
'rough' template, 1.5mb: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... plate1.bmp
'clean' template, 1.5mb: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... plate2.bmp

changes: by sacrificing the polies a bit, the texture was able to be much smaller. its still just as modular, if not more so as a result of the change. it also looks much more like the real building now too.

also soon to come:
shanghai world finance center - 2nd tallest - 1614ft
patrona's towers - 3rd tallest - 1483ft - going to make a single one, and two with abridge between them)
jin mao tower - 5th tallest - 1381ft
TWO International Finance Center - 8th tallest - 1362ft
empire state building - 9th tallest building - 1250ft

possibly will get made:
freedom tower - 1776ft
simcity 2000 arco's

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:22 pm

worlds tallest is some thing in dubai now. i dont know what its called. tapei 101 is yesterdays news, but good job. these will come in handy for earth-world landmarks!

any possibility of a statue of liberty?

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:05 pm

your probably thinking of the Burj Dubai, and yes, your right, it is the tallest.
or, it will be once its completed. its estimated completion date is this september and it will be roughly 2683ft tall.
it's another building i plan to make, its not in the list since its not a completed building yet.
the Freedom Tower isn't completed yet either, but its a sept 11th memorial.

as for the statue of liberty...ehh...people aren't my expertise. fhko could try that one.

some other things i might make later are the theoretical Japanese mega-towers sometimes seen on discovery channel. the 13,000ft tall X-Seed 4000 for example.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:31 pm

next up is the Taipei101: **remade, redownload if you have it already**

also with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 277 poly building is 1670ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... pei101.atm
texture, 643kb 512x1024: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... taipei.jpg
'rough' template, coming soon
'clean' template, coming soon

Changes: nothing much. just a remodelling and remapping so it can use a much smaller texture file.

Post by **Fooli** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:01 am

Unnecessarily massive textures zar... can't you repeat mapping with whatever tools you're using? When every bit of the tower's the same, just map different faces to the same part of the uvmap and texture it all once. Lets you play with nicer textures with more resolution and not have stupdendously long but very plain jpgs ;)

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zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:02 am

had origionally thought about doing it that way, but decided against it so people could but text on the sides of buildings if they wanted.

might remap them that way anyway. they are quite large.

Post by **Fooli** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:10 am

With the new model format and MC, that's what the override texture is for. Must confess I haven't used it yet, but the basic idea would be to identify some polys where you'd allow people to add text (or whatever); in your "standard" texture you'd just make those polys flow with the normal windows or what have you; and then an override texture could be used optionally to replace it, thus giving everyone the choice. Normally this would mean adding a bit of poly detail to the model but that's fine, especially when they're such low poly models anyway; and much better than a 4mb jpg texture :)
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flametard · Post by **flametard** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:21 pm

taipei101 looks awesome zar!!

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:12 am

started to remake the above towers. the sears tower has already been remade and reuploaded and the picture etc updated. almost done with the taipai as well.

also ready are the following towers made from pieces of the sears tower:
Sears Tower knockoff 1:

with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 138 poly building is 900ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... rsmod1.atm
uses the same texture as the Sears Tower in the first post

Sears Tower knockoff 2:

with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 258 poly building is 1450ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... rsmod2.atm
uses the same texture as the Sears Tower in the first post

Sears Tower knockoff 3:

with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 138 poly building is 1200ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... rsmod3.atm
uses the same texture as the Sears Tower in the first post

Sears Tower knockoff 4:

with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 188 poly building is 1450ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... rsmod4.atm
uses the same texture as the Sears Tower in the first post

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:48 pm

Taipei101 knockoff 1

this small tower is 60 polys and 50ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... eimod1.atm
uses the same texture as the taipei101 in the post above

Taipei101 knockoff 2

also with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 239 poly building is 1470ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... eimod2.atm
uses the same texture as the taipei101 in the post above

Taipei101 knockoff 3

also with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 201 poly building is 1270ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... eimod3.atm
uses the same texture as the taipei101 in the post above

Taipei101 knockoff 4

also with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 163 poly building is 1068ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... eimod4.atm
uses the same texture as the taipei101 in the post above

Taipei101 knockoff 5

also with a base of 5x5 tiles, this 125 poly building is 870ft tall.
model: http://www.tuwr.net/tuwr/~miscstuff/mod ... eimod5.atm
uses the same texture as the taipei101 in the post above

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:54 pm

great job. makes me wish i could work on some of our recent world ideas. cant wait to see some of the new TU cities with these models!!

Bipper · Post by **Bipper** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:31 pm

the plain blue bit at the bottom looks weird, put some texture there?

also wheres the helipads at the top lol

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:06 pm

I need a tall building that sits on the footprint of a right tranglular block. kinda like this:

Mishka · Post by **Mishka** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:29 pm

Too bad I don't have these anymore, old Zion-Themed Claden, best skyscraper modelds we've ever had on my personal experience:

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:20 am

they'd look a lot nicer if the textures were fixed on them

if you have shots of them from any other angles i could try and remake them if you want.
hmm....i might even have them in my client still, if so i could remap them so the textures aren't all screwy on the 2 of them.

on friday i'm going to make some more buildings.

Mishka · Post by **Mishka** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:12 am

If you still have them in your client make sure you can send them to me, that'd be great!

And, if you can fix the textures, that'd be even better.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:14 pm

finished one so far, the other 2 are close to being done. but have to go to work now.
gave it concrete siding, a tar roof, and glass...glass.
could easily give it other textures if you want.

model: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower1.atm
texture: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower1.jpg
blank texture: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower1template.bmp

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:21 pm

next one done:

model: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower2.atm
texture: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower2.jpg
blank texture: http://www.tuwr.net/~newmodels/mishtower2template.bmp

morbydvisns · Post by **morbydvisns** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:27 pm

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:32 pm

that is a neat looking tower morb. looks like flames or a plant.
i'll have to try and make it.

doesn't look like it would be too hard either, just bent octagonal cylinders