Staunton - A Google SketchUp City - Page 71

Dac150 · #**1401** Posted **Sep 29, 2007, 12:03 AM**

How did you make that sign that said "KENT"?

Aleks · #**1402** Posted **Sep 29, 2007, 12:09 AM**

Go to "tools," click on "3D Text," choose a height and width for letters, write your word/comment. Click O.K.

Done.

Patrick · #**1403** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 6:45 AM**

Okay I never do these kind of shots anymore but I'll show the progress.

What you see is all the permanent buildings of Downtown, these are staying, as you can see the skyline is much more realalisticly spaced out.

All those empty grids, so many opprotunites. Chicago Styled Buildings to the left! Boxy Towers in the center.

Lloyd Tower almost didnt make it, not fitting into the grid, so I had to fix the area, and City Hall's odd parcel, I knew the Lloyd was a favorite so its staying

CGII · #**1404** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 12:47 PM**

Chicago styled buildings in New Jersey? I look forward to the new layout but don't think that'd be a wise option in terms of congruence.

Dac150 · #**1405** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:24 PM**

-Did you delete all the buildings that filled those gaps? I sure hope not. What about the Financial Center? I don't see it in that shot.
-Not to sound like a broken record, but I still think that the antenna on Galcorp should go. The building was much more distinctive without it.
-Also looking foward to the new grid!

Aleks · #**1406** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:36 PM**

Nice.
What's that blue and gray tower on the right side of the shot?

Derek · #**1407** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:54 PM**

I think you are talking about the Lloyd Tower Aleks.

Austin55 · #**1408** Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 11:50 PM**

not sure whats happening,but it looks nice.

sorry,dallas area was a typo,but it would give a boost to crime if you did!

Patrick · #**1409** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 1:00 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by CGII

Chicago styled buildings in New Jersey? I look forward to the new layout but don't think that'd be a wise option in terms of congruence.

Just wait till the city gets filled in!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dac150

-Did you delete all the buildings that filled those gaps? I sure hope not. What about the Financial Center? I don't see it in that shot.
-Not to sound like a broken record, but I still think that the antenna on Galcorp should go. The building was much more distinctive without it.
-Also looking foward to the new grid!

No I'm transfering them to a new file so Old Staunton still exists, I'm extracting the better buildings out of that file and putting them in this hopefully final version of Staunton. The SFC is coming back eventually, don't know about Cannery Park West.

Dac, they're staying, I still have yet to actually modify them into actual communications towers (pointy blue spires) but really not every city's buildings are perfect, you have to dislike some parts of every skyline, that just makes Staunton a bit more realistic!

Aleks · #**1410** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 3:07 AM**

Wait. That's the Loyd Tower? I thought it was the Art Deco one with the white roof.

If it is then I love it. It's the best building so far. Are you just going to fill in the city with old towers or are you going to make new ones?

Tanster · #**1411** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 3:42 AM**

hope to see the new version!
Patrick how do you find the time to do all this ....?

just wondering.

Patrick · #**1412** Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 5:57 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

Wait. That's the Loyd Tower? I thought it was the Art Deco one with the white roof.

If it is then I love it. It's the best building so far. Are you just going to fill in the city with old towers or are you going to make new ones?

No that's City Hall. Well mix it really, I'll put in some of Staunton's classics and fill in the rest with fresh new building (not new as in modern new as in new)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tanster

hope to see the new version!
Patrick how do you find the time to do all this ....?

just wondering.

Stauntons going relatively slow, my free time is only like late late nights and slow weekends.

So, Staunton Stock Exchange, anyone rememeber the old Twin Slab Glass Towers Stock Exchange? It will come back but wont be the Stock Exchange Anymore. Maybe an Annex of some sort.

Aleks · #**1413** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 12:39 AM**

Well City Hallio is my favorite tower so far.
Can I pleas get a close up?

Dac150 · #**1414** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 5:05 PM**

Very well done texture wise with the Stock Exchange. I love how the big American flag is hung on the building's facade.

Austin55 · #**1415** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 9:18 PM**

edit

Patrick · #**1416** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 3:40 AM**

Thanks all.

More city shots soon enough.

Okay skyline progressing, as you can see I'm doing less supertalls, raising the heights of Galcorp and Garden State gives the city a much more inpressive centerpoint, I'm a little afraid on how the Staunton Financial Center's effect on this view.

Aleks · #**1417** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 4:13 AM**

No, no, no, I meant the tall boxy one next to the City Hall!
The blue/gray tower, on the last shot it' behind City Hall.

Patrick · #**1418** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 4:38 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

No, no, no, I meant the tall boxy one next to the City Hall!
The blue/gray tower, on the last shot it' behind City Hall.

The Lloyd Tower

I'll show more of it once i get to the Callahan Square District.

Last pic for the night, new unnamed Gothic Tower, new sexy triangle shaped building to the right, the Gothic Tower is showing its backside, so thats not the most impressive view.

Exodus · #**1419** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 10:50 AM**

Very nice work !

Dac150 · #**1420** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 6:44 PM**

I like that close up of the facade in that last shot. Is that off the IBM Building in Manhattan?