The Hutchinson Metro Area

[Austin55]

11,000

lookin great!

[Dac150]

New Page

Originally Posted by Dac150

This only too me a little over an hour, so like I said before, expect Hutchinson to be back where it was by Friday.

-Today I just started making the grid for the city, and built 2 Hutchinson Square.
-I also put together a map to show the new layout. Not much change, except for size, and few other minor things.

2 Hutchinson Square: (All the billboards were made by me, no photoshop)




The Media Wall:






Here is a map of the new Hutchinson Metro Area:


More to come soon.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by austin55

11,000

Yeah, I know.

[Austin55]

Why do I always start new pages. arghh.

Hey,you know there is a multi qoute button you 2,000 post post —

[Patrick]

Thats simply orgasmic!

Originally Posted by Dac150

I found the problem: My buildings are actually 11188' high. So the file is HUGE!

I knew something just didnt look right, but I said the buildings where too small

[verticalextropy]

excellent on how you've manufactured all the billboards, very unique and efficient style of detailing.. and how fortuite seeing Martina Hingis next to Obama.
better spend time drawing all yourself than waiting for it to render, right?
Anyway I see a monumental future of Stauntonian proportions for your metropolis
Kudos on the 11K posts and the 11Kft buildings!
But Speaking of Hutchinson Island and of a still surviving landmark, the statue of liberty was donated by france but the base was American design. I don't know which I like best.
In the future you could hold a competition, judged only by you, and the winner can place a building/landmark somewhere in your city.
Anyways

[foxmtbr]

As for going back to SU5, as long as you never saved the file while in SU6, you can still open it with 5. That's what I did, I never saved it. (Though I also saved a backup just in case.)

That's unfortunate that you have to start over, but if it makes Hutchinson and Chamberlin even better, that's awesome!

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Thats simply orgasmic!
I knew something just didnt look right, but I said the buildings where too small

Thanks Patrick. Yeah the scales were a tad off to say the least.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by verticalextropy

But Speaking of Hutchinson Island and of a still surviving landmark, the statue of liberty was donated by france but the base was American design. I don't know which I like best.
In the future you could hold a competition, judged only by you, and the winner can place a building/landmark somewhere in your city.
Anyways

That's not a bad idea. I was actually planning something for the island, but if it doesn't work out, I could resort to the competition.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by foxmtbr

As for going back to SU5, as long as you never saved the file while in SU6, you can still open it with 5. That's what I did, I never saved it. (Though I also saved a backup just in case.)

That's unfortunate that you have to start over, but if it makes Hutchinson and Chamberlin even better, that's awesome!

I think I'll stay with 6 being that I got everything on par. Sadly though in this process, I can no longer use Chamberlin (the original) being that the scales are way too off. Oh well, thats life, but I intend to remake it after I finish with Hutch. Good news is that I have the buildings to refer back to.

[Dac150]

I have a HUGE presentation tomorrow, so I'll be spending the majority of this afternoon putting together the powerpoint. They'll be a few pics tonight.

[Dac150]

Well, I'm starting over yet again. I'm using the same layout, but the grid was way too big (streets were 200 ft wide). I've got it all worked out though, so expect a pic of the new grid tonight!

Sorry about all this guys. I just want to make everything in proportion so I never have to run into those lag problems again. I'll make it all worth the wait.

[treras93]

alright sounds good to me
cant wait

[Austin55]

make the grid,cut out a section of the grid and use seperate files!! I dont have any lag problems that way.

[Aleks]

That's what I'm doing ton a new city, I made a HUGE grid and the city is almost 10,000 feet long and 5,000 feet wide. So I chose "districts" and deleted all other block outside of the district boundary. For instance, I'm working on the Historic district because it's the oldest and the first one I finished.

Just do the same thing, that way you can add detail to your buildings even more.

[Dac150]

Thank you for the advice guys. The only problem I'm running into now is thinking up designs for the buildings.

[Aleks]

That happens to me sometimes but I always solve it by looking at pictures, books, etc.... I also try to get inspiration from various places rather than one, two, or three cities.

Look at pictures from China, they have pretty nice new skyscrapers, and Hello,,,,New York.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

That happens to me sometimes but I always solve it by looking at pictures, books, etc.... I also try to get inspiration from various places rather than one, two, or three cities.

Look at pictures from China, they have pretty nice new skyscrapers, and Hello,,,,New York.

That's the problem. I want to be as original as possible. I'll sneak a few NYC based highrises in there, but I'm going to stay away from the obvious stuff (Conde Nast, Citigroup Center, etc..).

[Aleks]

Well you can still do that, like my entry for the complex competition; the tallest tower was inspired by the proposed Girasol Tower near the Empire State Building. The medium one was inspired by the Smith Tower here in Seattle, and the Grand Hyatt was inspired by a building U/C in Philly.

[Dac150]

I was actaully palnning on using a GiraSole style building for the HWTC.