Seymour Shore, BC - A Sketchup City

[wtncffts]

Originally Posted by Dac150

That last building complex really resembles Rockafeller center......................

heh, yeah, if you look at the url for the pic you'll see the temporary name that it was saved as ...

[Derek]

love it!

[foxmtbr]

Wow, so much detail! Great job.

[Patrick]

Nice! thanks

[wtncffts]

Some skyline pictures:





And an aerial:



Enjoy!

[foxmtbr]

Nice!

[Rural]

The skyline views look great, but the aerial view makes it look a little too spacious. The roads seem too wide in comparison to the city block sizes. Just an observation; maybe I'm the only one who thinks that. Oh, and I really like the hill that is the large city park, it breaks up the flatness of the rest of the city. The Harriman Center Complex is awesome.

[Patrick]

Yes its pretty spaced out, but I still think it looks great. Where those rendered in Kerkythea? Because I need to know, how do you display the fog?

[wtncffts]

Yes its pretty spaced out, but I still think it looks great. Where those rendered in Kerkythea? Because I need to know, how do you display the fog?

Yes, these were rendered in kerkythea, but alas, the 'fog' was added in a photo editing program... It's not actually a 'fog' effect, I was just twiddling with the brightness and contrast and it turned out that way.

As for the spaciousness, most of the streets are 70' wide. It's the blocks, I suppose. I know real city blocks are usually much larger, but I don't like having 'megablocks' with a dozen or more buildings on each one. Just a personal preference, I like to keep the blocks to the size where you might have two or three fronting the street.

[foxmtbr]

^ I understand the small block thing, I do it myself. I don't like having huge blocks, because the buildings have to be really deep to reach the center of the block, or else I end up with a space in the center. I guess I make up for my small blocks with my 30', 3-lane roads. I assume that they are one-way roads though, so I suppose it makes sense.

[Patrick]

70 feet woah. My streets are usually 35 feet wide with two lanes.

Oh, EDIT: it looks like you havent used the reflection tool yet. Just simply select the texture you want with reflections and edit it. (On the left side all the textures appear in a box, the one selected will have a star next to it, right click it and edit it, a screen should pop up, torwards the bottom you can see the reflections tool, you can ajust how much reflection you want)

[wtncffts]

Hello all, I added a road texture, right now it's only in the Historic District. Here's a couple shots (also a few buildings completed downtown):





And some panorama type shots:

[Dear Leader VI]

WOW!

[foxmtbr]

Oh dang.

[Rural]

Wow, it looks great. Great detail. I am looking forward to more of Seymour Shore.

[Patrick]

WOW! Speatchless.

[Derek]

looks great

[wtncffts]

Hey all, I've actually done quite a lot of work on the city... sometime soon I will have a mega update, perhaps in the form of a travel guidebook of sorts, just for fun. Right now I just want to show you a few pictures taken from sketchup itself, without rendering. I can't display the textures in sketchup if I want to see the whole city, so these are textureless, but they turned out pretty good, I think. Just to give an idea of what the city looks like as of now:



As you can see, I've built some things downtown and in the city centre, and laid out the entire street grid. You might also be able to make out the university, which I am quite proud of.



Here's a shot from the Frederick Harper Bridge,looking south towards the city. You can see Mackenzie King University in the foreground.



a closer shot of the university, I'll have a detailed aerial layout of the campus soon.



a final shot for now. thanks for your attention.

[Tanster]

wow thats really good
Like the Mackenzie King University

[foxmtbr]

Wow!! What a great University and bridge! I really like them!