Future Canadian Skylines - Page 263

MonkeyRonin · #**5241** Posted **Mar 6, 2020, 2:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by travis3000

I miss the days when we had the actual real life depictions of future skylines, especially in Toronto. The lego block look is cool don't get me wrong, but if you really want to impress people you have to make it look as realistic as possible. I wish I knew how to make those! I guess the user that did it before isn't on these forums anymore.

You prompted me to do a retrospective of one of Maldive's old future Toronto skyline renderings from the mid-late aughties (he still posts here, though probably not any future skylines anymore). Behold, Toronto of 2015!

https://torontoist.com/2010/01/the_future_is_now_1/

Not too far off from reality, actually.

The big advantage of the 3D models though is that they're a lot more accurate insofar as actual building dimensions go. Photoshopped visualizations in comparison, require a lot of guesswork based on perspective.

The ideal of course, would be to have detailed 3D models rendered within Google maps' interactive 3D view. Which would be a whole lot of work for little to no reward beyond SSP brownie points. Any takers?

Black Star · #**5242** Posted **Mar 6, 2020, 3:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

You prompted me to do a retrospective of one of Maldive's old future Toronto skyline renderings from the mid-late aughties (he still posts here, though probably not any future skylines anymore). Behold, Toronto of 2015!

https://torontoist.com/2010/01/the_future_is_now_1/

Not too far off from reality, actually.

The big advantage of the 3D models though is that they're a lot more accurate insofar as actual building dimensions go. Photoshopped visualizations in comparison, require a lot of guesswork based on perspective.

The ideal of course, would be to have detailed 3D models rendered within Google maps' interactive 3D view. Which would be a whole lot of work for little to no reward beyond SSP brownie points. Any takers?

From big city to mega city..... Quite astonishing really.

Gresto · #**5243** Posted **Mar 6, 2020, 3:03 AM**

There was also a guy called Traynor who made very good realistic Toronto renders, but I haven't seen him around in years.

koops65 · #**5244** Posted **Mar 6, 2020, 5:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by ericmacm

I feel like you're forgetting that this is a hobbyist and enthusiast forum, and these skylines are being made for fun, not by industry professionals.

I'll address some of the points you made about total city building. The computer resources needed grow and grow when more buildings get added to the total. At some point you have to sacrifice detail for more resources and then the whole thing becomes unwieldy. The number of individual objects on my model is approaching 3000 and I am near the limit of what Second Life will allow me to use at once. That's why I don't have balconies on my buildings for instance. I can't afford to, even though I would love to put that much detail on all 1300 of the buildings...

koops65 · #**5245** Posted **Mar 6, 2020, 6:29 AM**

A zoom-in to Church and Wellesley:

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koops65 · #**5246** Posted **Mar 7, 2020, 8:52 AM**

The East side:

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koops65 · #**5247** Posted **Mar 8, 2020, 6:04 AM**

A zoom-in and flyover of Teahouse:

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koops65 · #**5248** Posted **Mar 10, 2020, 5:35 AM**

A zoom-in and flyover of Sugar Wharf:

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ericmacm · #**5249** Posted **Mar 10, 2020, 7:20 PM**

Updated model of Hamilton's future skyline:

koops65 · #**5250** Posted **Mar 12, 2020, 4:35 AM**

A zoom-in to Westin Harbour Castle:

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koops65 · #**5251** Posted **Mar 14, 2020, 4:35 AM**

A zoom-in to 250 Church:

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koops65 · #**5252** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 4:36 AM**

A zoom-in and flyover of 8 Cumberland:

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TorontoDrew · #**5253** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 3:52 PM**

Good work Koops.

Maldive · #**5254** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 5:17 PM**

Thanks Monkey for conjuring up that ancient render.

Here's the update (same angle) I did with Koops for Toronto Life's 50th birthday a few years ago.

koops65 · #**5255** Posted **Mar 16, 2020, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Good work Koops.

Thanks

koops65 · #**5256** Posted **Mar 18, 2020, 5:17 AM**

A zoom-in and flyover of The United Building:

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G.S MTL · #**5257** Posted **Mar 19, 2020, 7:09 PM**

so i only inserted towers over 185m MTL BY 2023... lets not forget the other towers under construction over 140m.

pretty drastic change its crazy !! wish i had a bigger more better quality photo to do this!

here Victoria sur le parc, Square philips, maestria towers and NBC bank tower is added.

MisterMillionz · #**5258** Posted **Mar 19, 2020, 7:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by G.S MTL

so i only inserted towers over 185m MTL BY 2023... lets not forget the other towers under construction over 140m.

pretty drastic change its crazy !! wish i had a bigger more better quality photo to do this!

here Victoria sur le parc, Square philips, maestria towers and NBC bank tower is added.

This is awesome!! Even with the hight limit, spreading these tall towers out more east doesn't make it too bad. Great work man