[Mocholate]

Project dead

[FlyersFan118]

sounds like an interesting project! can't wait to see more.

[Mocholate]

:D yes me too :haha:
i made a typo , its 5x5 km not 50x50 oops :D

[Imperar]

OH HOW COOL!!!!!!!!!! a pretty project you have there

[Mocholate]

My first ,,, um,,, building?haha Fort Denison - Middle of Sydney Harbour

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/SYDNEYfortdenison.jpg

[Mocholate]

:previous: in its original form :D

[Mocholate]

I will do Centrepoint tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge next
because they will be a pain in the ass

[Mocholate]

Then i will follow in order of height

1. Sydney Tower 309m , 19f, 1981
2. Chifley Tower 244m , 53f, 1992
3. Citigroup Centre 243m , 50f 2000
4. Deutsche Bank Place 239m, 39f , 2005
5. World Tower 230 m , 73f , 2004
6. MLC Centre 244m , 60f , 1977
7. Governor Phillip Tower 254m, 54f , 1993
8. Latitude World Square 222m , 45f , 2004
9. 33 Bligh Street 219m , 27f Proposed
10. Aurora Place 218m , 41f , 2001
11. AAPT Centre 193m , 42f , 1982
12. AMP Centre 188 m , 45m , 1976
13. John Boyd Tower 188m , Proposed
14. Century Tower 183m , 50f , 1997
15. Capita Centre 183m , 34f , 1988

In Sydney the height restriction is 235m for future development , we do have another 134 towers over 90m though

[Patrick]

Cant wait to see more!! :banaride:

[Bergenser]

This is a big project, but I think you can make it! Go on! :yes: :rock: :tup:

[foxmtbr]

Sweet! I can't wait to see more!

[Mocholate]

:cool: Thanks for the support

[Mocholate]

I had to start again because the first one wouldn't fill in some areas

:hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell:

[foxmtbr]

Woah! Nice job restarting! That's a great map you have going there, are those roads on there? Very nice!

[Mocholate]

:cheers: thanks , doing that was so mind numbing and monotonous , i started hallucinating :haha:

they are all the main roads almost scale thanks to the google earth ruler :haha: , i might have to add some of the smaller streets to fill it in when its near ready but i will pass on making painted lines

[Mocholate]

edit:This one is just a doodle which i deleted :haha:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/StarPlaza1.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/new.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/StarPlaza3.jpg

:cheers:

[FREKI]

Nice work!

[foxmtbr]

Woah! Great detail there! :tup:

[Peter]

wow that grid you made for the remake is incredible! i can imagine it was tough to make all those streets so perfect. the grid in the city i am making is so basic compared to yours. Great work, please keep the updates coming!

[Mocholate]

thanks :cheers:

Hi Peter where my streets are more to scale yours have more detail which was a compromise i made as i have no lines marked
I'm going to do this one slowly while i practice more terraforming tricks on my other city (which has also changed ):haha:

[Mocholate]

Edit : Just another doodle which has been deleted

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/111222.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/eedddd.jpg

[Mocholate]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/99999.jpg

[Derek]

Nice detail!

[foxmtbr]

Sweet!

[Mocholate]

:D :cheers:




another day another building:banana:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/nbnbnbn.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/dsdsdsd.jpg

[Mocholate]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/8888.jpg
spacious :haha:

[Mocholate]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/nbnbnbn.jpg

[foxmtbr]

Nice!

[Peter]

that new building is real nice :cool:

[Mocholate]

:D fanks ,

images should look better now i worked out how to change the lighting :D

here is my place, just because
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/mine.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/house22.jpg

[Peter]

cool! :D

maybe you could eventually model every house in Sydney? :yes: (just kiddin. i know that would be impossible.... :haha:)

[foxmtbr]

Sweet job! The rendering looks awesome!

[Mocholate]

Merita Island
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/333333333333333333.jpg

[Peter]

very cool! i really love the spires on those twin buildings :tup:

[foxmtbr]

Awesome!

[Mocholate]

thanks , i think i pinched them from somewhere :haha:

does anyone know how to get the little dimension box in the bottom right corner to come up? mine disapears whenever it wants to

[Peter]

Try maximizing the SketchUp window. I also had the same problem until I realised that when the window isn't maximized, the dimension bar doesn't appear.

Sometimes the window may look like it's maximised, but it's really restored down but at the size of a maxed window!

[Mocholate]

ahh , lifesaver - thanks


---Merita Island---

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/1112222222222222222222.jpg

also i have found someone to help out with the Syadney model who has been designing for 30 years :haha:

[Mocholate]

thats the second time i spelled it wrong ,,SYDNEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :haha:

[foxmtbr]

Nice work! :tup:

[Peter]

There are some interesting buildings and structures in the new city. I like it!

[Patrick]

Yes, nicely planned out.

[Mocholate]

just a quick image of my second Sydney building

Deutsche Bank Place-268m tall but only 39 floors , completed 2005

the top tiered to allow sunlight to reach the offices of parlimentry scumbags


http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/1234567.jpg

[foxmtbr]

Looks great!

[Mocholate]

fanks :cheers:

[Mocholate]

i cant get the edges to look neat when i do a far away shot
any suggestions?
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/why.jpg

[Mocholate]

close up is worse
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/defff.jpg

[foxmtbr]

I like the wide octagon one, it looks awesome! Great work! :tup:

[Mocholate]

thanks fox ,i will add some more detail to it all when i get a new ram and video card -

so what setting do you guys use when you adjust the shadow setting with the light and dark slide bars?

[foxmtbr]

Mine is always set to June 21st, and I adjust the time depending on which way I want the sun to come from.

[Mocholate]

:cool: thanks

[Peter]

it's looking great mo' :cool:

my edges also do stuff like that otherwise i'd tell you how! :haha:

i find that when the sunlight is set to hit the edges directly the most happens

[FlyersFan118]

Good work, interesting buildings!

[Mocholate]

thanks

I was wondering what you guys think of the colours i used on this one , i tried gold on the fins but it looked worse :haha:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/fullcity.jpg

[Mocholate]

the one on the left is not staying like that , i just filled the bottom so it wasn't white

[Mocholate]

----Merita Island----

residential zone - my god !! this takes FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:haha:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/fer.jpg

[Peter]

thanks

I was wondering what you guys think of the colours i used on this one , i tried gold on the fins but it looked worse :haha:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/fullcity.jpgkeep this exactly how it is right here!! that is a nice deco building!! the clock just makes it awesome :cool:


the residential area is really nice too. i know some stuff takes forever to make and can get frusterating i know just what you mean!! :haha: but it looks good keep it up!

[foxmtbr]

Yeah, that looks very nice just how it is. :) I'm digging the residential area. ;)

[Mocholate]

:cool:thanks ,, leaving it sounds easy , will do :haha:
the PC is running slow now , i'll have to start building things in seperate files :D

[Patrick]

Yes, very deco styled.

[foxmtbr]

the PC is running slow now , i'll have to start building things in seperate files :D

Ouch.

Good luck with the lag. I wish I had some (of the good luck, not the lag). :haha:

[Mocholate]

:haha:

----Merita Island----


http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/sex.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/sexx.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/sexxx.jpg

How much more fun is it without lag !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :haha:

[Peter]

very cool :cool:

[Mocholate]

cool: thanks


I was wondering if anyone was interested in doing a city collaboration using all of your existing favorite buildings ? ?
whoever has the fastest PC can take boss status

[foxmtbr]

Awesome building!

I was wondering if anyone was interested in doing a city collaboration using all of your existing favorite buildings ? ?
whoever has the fastest PC can take boss status

Perhaps, what do you mean by this? Make a mini-city? Make a diagram like the one Patrick made recently?

[Mocholate]

yeah , a city like we are doing here with all your best buildings merged on one map like the Dubai model but using our own designed ones

i only have a 156mb video card and 578 ram tho , so i cant set it up + 1 of you guys would be better experienced to take control of putting it together .

Its probably been done before and i noticed in the other SSC forum they had one going but it seems to have died

I had a look at Patricks diagram btw , very cool (excpt for missing 2 aussie buildings that rival Q1 ) :haha:

[rbowk]

i love it i like your detail in the buildings great work

[foxmtbr]

yeah , a city like we are doing here with all your best buildings merged on one map like the Dubai model but using our own designed ones

i only have a 156mb video card and 578 ram tho , so i cant set it up + 1 of you guys would be better experienced to take control of putting it together .

Its probably been done before and i noticed in the other SSC forum they had one going but it seems to have died

I had a look at Patricks diagram btw , very cool (excpt for missing 2 aussie buildings that rival Q1 ) :haha:

Sure, I'm up for it if other people are. Perhaps we'll get 2 or 3 of everyone's best? I have an insane computer, so I'll do the hono(u)rs of putting it together, unless someone else would prefer to.

[Mocholate]

:cool: I guess we would have to check the SSC thread to see what probs caused theirs to die , i know the building requirements they set out may have caused it as they asked for to many things like shading rear faces differently- so they dont have to do shadows i think , the main idea i was thinking is just to get a HUGE instant city

[rbowk]

i will help

[Mocholate]

:cool:rbowk , very :cool: :tup:

[Peter]

i will donate some of my buildings to the city. :D

so what will it be called?

where will it be located?

someone should start a thread! ;)

[Mocholate]

:cool: 4 so far , we should wait until we have a few more people and then put all our ideas on the table i reckon , hopefully all the SU doodlers here want to join in


so does anyone have any ideas on map , map layout etc ?


this one wont make it in. #1. cos its a bit UGLY and #2. its 4.6 MB :haha:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/tert.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/hugeeeee.jpg

[Mocholate]

that one was more of an experiment i sketched the outline onto a vertical rectangle and used the follow me tool to make the shape , took about 30 mins , the render took 2 hours tho :haha:

[Patrick]

4.6mb? YIKES!

Heres my suggestion, instead of doing individual buildings, why not use Textures? They'd speed up the preformance for sure.

And I think you should put more detail in the ground, you know, Trees, Roads. Yadda Yadda.

[Mocholate]

hmm , i like the photo realism , but i prefer to sacrifice image quality for the physical quality and the shadowing it creates

[Mocholate]

i use full textures on some tho ,but generally - like the one above , i used texture for the windows

[Mocholate]

the ground detail will come when im finished also , it will help the proportions of ground objects mostly cos i am not using a square grid pattern + i am doing them now in seperate files

[Mocholate]

i'm not saying i am good at creating physical shapes tho :haha:


i will shut up now :haha:

[Mocholate]

ok one more thing , my pc is missing registry files which prevent me using any photo editing programs

[Mocholate]

----Merita Island----

TMI headquaters at dusk- A division of Homeland security which processes information before providing it to them :haha:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/tmi2.jpg

[Derek]

I like the design. :tup:

[Mocholate]

:cool: thanks , i should have mentioned that is Merita Island not Sydney

[Mocholate]

----Merita Island----
Gareene Hotel

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/stepped33.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/11qw2.jpg

[Peter]

:cool: 4 so far , we should wait until we have a few more people and then put all our ideas on the table i reckon , hopefully all the SU doodlers here want to join in


so does anyone have any ideas on map , map layout etc ?


this one wont make it in. #1. cos its a bit UGLY and #2. its 4.6 MB :haha:




i really like it! definately not ugly, just unique ;) . it can be a city-icon building for it's uniqueness. or, maybe shrink it down really small and make it a monument of some sort? that should help the filesize also.

[Peter]

ver cool TMI HQ:cool: you have made quite a few buildings lately! now how about a skyline shot so we can see it all? :yes:

[Peter]

double post sorry. please ignore :slob:

[Mocholate]

thanks ,, ok :cool: brb

[Mocholate]

ok i put these 3 up because its a bit hard to see what looks best cos i have my pc hooked up to my Plasma Tv which makes somelines distort + i think my little video card has something to do with crappy edges and stuff
I have some more buildings to put in but i cant do it till i up-spec the PC

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/city.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/f44r5.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/werty.jpg

[Mocholate]

and my lonely bridge :haha: this city is an island and after the chatty job the bridge contractors did on this bridge the city has decided to build tunnels in future :haha:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/bri.jpg

[Peter]

it looks awesome! all your buildings are unique. (the image was kinda dark but i opened it in photoshop and increassed the brightness :haha:) also i thought of something cool while looking at it. those two black twin towers that are seperated by the river, how about making a walkway that connects them? i dunno, i had just thought of that. i think it'd be cool. :cool: and the bridge is as unique as the buildings. i like :yes:

[Mocholate]

thanks , i'm rying to make them all look kind of modern

i was thinking about doing that with the twins , but the span is about 200 metres :haha:

next time i'll put the light meter up a bit :cool: thanks for the tip



Edit:the next comment by Peter does not fit because i edited this post

[Peter]

volcano explains the mountains then :D

it's like Hawaii

[Mocholate]

yeah , i never thought its like Hawaii :cool: i'll have to add some good beaches ..

The volcano formed an atol shape , the flat land is all land fill

[Mocholate]

Rawson Hotel -Merita Island - 310m to roof - 475m to top
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/RawsonHotel.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/raw3.jpg

[Patrick]

Ooh Nice!

[Peter]

that is honestly one of the coolest designs i've seen :cool: so is this a new city? if so, why another new one? i really liked the buildings in the other. :(

[Mocholate]

thanks , i was impressed also :B :haha:

sorry to confuse , all the ones here that aren't in the Sydney model i refer to as 'Merita Island' . I'll make a thread when its all done :B


Latest additions to Merita Island

Airport-City link Ferry terminal
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/99999-1.jpg

And i need a name for my coaster - although it might be incorporated into a hotel - so i'll name it after the hotel

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/99990000.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/choppdat/999888.jpg



the Hotel is at the top of the hill - the coaster's pulley part which takes you to the top is at the end of the ride


http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e589879aa7742daa1b641093ea59f78f

[Peter]

wow! i have no idea how you made that. stunning work! :worship:

[Mocholate]

thanks , i will admit ,it was a TOTAL pain in the ass , but i noticed there was a lack of decent coasters in the 3D warehouse , so i thought i'd spend some decent time on it :D
it involved extensive use of the follow me tool and protractor to create the twists :D i think i put roughly 14 hours into it :jester: