Imaginary City Design

[Dac150]

It doesn't get more realistic than that.

[Pingyao]

Thanx for all the nice comments

Aleks0001 in answer to your question, I use Cinema 4D which has its own built in render engine. Its pretty good, I use a medium kind of setting, as the more detailed you go, the longer it takes to render. The most important thing though is the radiosity pass, as I find that really increases the semi-realistic feel to the renders.

The other key thing is to render multipasses i.e radiosity, shadow, reflection etc and then bring them into photoshop to tweak and adjust.

[Austin55]

nice! sorry to go off topic,bt is cinama 4d free? Anyway,I like the renderings

[Mocholate]

Nice i have seen your city in SSC also , but it looks nicer here
How long have you worked on your city?

[Aleks]

It's nice, so realistic, and I haven't seen your city in SSC because I never visit it!

Anyways, you should have a master plan or something similar before the city goes out of control!!! Have a plan, that way if you need big blocks you just get rid of some small streets which just confuse the city.

[Pingyao]

Thanks.

Cinema 4D is unfortunately not free. I first played about with it using a free version on a cd with a magazine (Do under-estimate free software with mags), that was a good intro. I have the semi-pro version, I think it was £800-1000. Theres a hell of a lot on the software, I've only just touched the surface.

The city has been under construction on and off, for about 8-9 months.

The cities masterplan is vague, although there is now stricter control on where towers are built. They are designated to three areas, Midtown (what I've posted so far), Downtown to the south and the Al Hamed area to the north. It is planned rather chaotically, but that kind of makes it more interesting.

This is the early construction pics of two new towers on the shore in Midtown - Ocean Heights.

[Dac150]

The scenes are so realistic. Its like I'm actually viewing a live construction site.

[FREKI]

Awesome - very realistic looking!

[Aleks]

So wait. You bought a 1000 dollar-ish program to satisfy your mind? That's hella money for that program but it's really good. My camera cost 1,000 dollars but I take pictures that can be sold!! Did you pay for it yourself?!!!!!

Oh, by the way your city is really nice and like Dac said, it looks like a real construction site!!

[Pingyao]

Well technically it is about £800-1000, but thats the point I don't know exactly, as I spent - ehem - significantly less. Lets just say if I went to the shops here it would cost that. Have you ever been to the electronic's shops/markets in Bangkok. £5.00 a CD!

[Aleks]

What happened to this city? I liked it.

[Goothrey]

Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

What happened to this city? I liked it.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=489499&page=8

[verticalextropy]

I SAW IT IN SSC AND I LOVED IT!!!
Actually it was one of the first citie I've fallen for, before I knew sketychup. I actually donwloaded Cinema 4d just because I wanted to make PC cities after watching yours!"!!
Best thing's that ever happened to Baluchistan.
Congrats again and again.

P_D_: I believe there's a foreign Chinese Army statiuon on that peninsula IRL but google maps covers it (at least that's what says on globalsecurity dot com)

[Aleks]

hmm... I saw it on SSC too but I don't think it turned out as I hoped it would. The supertalls look like existing towers, they are way too block and go straight up. The quality is nice but the architecture isn't as good as I hoped it would.

[Peter]

the realism of this city is unbelievable. awesone job Pingyao!

[sfguy]

Very cool! The buildings in this look so realistic.