Oceanside, CA: Google Sketchup City - Page 2

CGII · #21 Posted **Oct 21, 2006, 1:43 PM**

With regards as to whether you should leave that block open...

My philosophy with City City is that if I find a viewpoint that would be ruined by the development of a city block, I make it a park, which is almost always the best thing you can do. I'd recommend the same.

FlyersFan118 · #22 Posted **Oct 21, 2006, 3:11 PM**

I do the same thing - I'm very detailed with parks. If I like a view from some spot, I make a little park out of it.

Patrick · #23 Posted **Oct 21, 2006, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by BoiseAirport

Ok, that's it!!!!

I've tried time and time again, and I just DON'T see how you get your streets so perfect without overlap! Is there something I'm missing? They always overlapp, and end up looking awful. It's this very reason why I dumped Hampland. It was a GREAT city for skyline shots, but the streets were awful.

By the way, Oceanside looks excellent! I like it even better than Staunton so far!!! Keep up the jaw-dropping work!!

Anthony

I dont get what you mean, have you tried getting your streets to snap on to the axes?

Thanks Everyone. But Still Whats your favorite building?

I decided to turn that spot into a mall, its such a prime peice of real estate, its surrounded huge headquarters skyscrapers.

Inside The Mall

New Building: The CoCal Gas Company Tower
- 704 feet High (214.6 Meters High)
- Construction Start: 1994
- Construction End: 1997
- 53 Floors High
- Loosely modeled off the Gas Company Tower in Los Angeles (the building in the beggining of the movie Speed)

The Backside

The Frontside

Another look at the Skyscrapers in the Southern part of Downtown.

A closeup on the World Entertainment-AlpineFinancial Plaza. The idea was inpired by the raised plazas in Downtown Los Angeles, due to the hilly terrain. I tried it and it turned out great, plus you can but buildings over streets filling in gaps in the skyline.

Perfect Example of buildings filling in the gaps. So far this is a new yet, unnamed building.

Skyline Shot, West View

East View

BoiseAirport · #24 Posted **Oct 21, 2006, 10:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Patrick

I dont get what you mean, have you tried getting your streets to snap on to the axes?

Sorry, I should've made it more clear. lol, sorry if I sounded harsh too, I was just a little frustrated.

I have 2 problems in designing my streets:

1) I can't get mine as perfect as yours. The width is always different for each road, the lines don't match up, and it's just so dang difficult.

2) The textures look really weird, all in all, because when I paint, the road lines don't go in the direction of the road itself. Sometimes the lines go diagonally on the road, it depends on the direction.

I'm sorry i can't make this less conufsing. I don't exactly know how to explain it, but if you still have trouble understanding me, I'll provide screenshots next time.

Thanks!
Anthony

BTW: My favorite building would have to be the PalmBank building, Very well done!

danvillain · #25 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 2:14 AM**

hawt. so, when are you going to present this idea to the city council?

Patrick · #26 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 3:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by danvillain

hawt. so, when are you going to present this idea to the city council?

Ha, I forgot about the Real Oceanside

, although

there was a

Staunton, Illinois
Staunton, Indiana
Staunton, Virginia
Staunton, Gloucestershire
Staunton, Nottinghamshire

also there is a

Oceanside, California
Oceanside, New York
Oceanside, Oregon
Oceanside, New South Wales, Australia

Patrick · #27 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 4:01 AM**

I found some more

Sun City, Texas
Sun City, California
Sun City, Arizona

Alex, Oklahoma,

Northport, Alabama
Northport, Maine
Northport, Michigan
Northport, Nebraska
Northport, New York
Northport, Tennessee
Northport, Washington
Northport, Wisconsin

foxmtbr · #28 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 8:10 AM**

That's funny!

Bergenser · #29 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 11:34 AM**

My favourite building in Oceanside is the Comworld world headquarters.

CGII · #30 Posted **Oct 22, 2006, 2:30 PM**

I've got the most original name here.

Patrick · #31 Posted **Oct 23, 2006, 4:28 AM**

Thats True

Heres something new: Photoreal Trees! I made them, suprisingly they arent that hard

Plus I'm looking for clearer textures, like the one on the building in the picture. Both make more realalistic City Life Shots.

What do you guys think?

BrandonJXN · #32 Posted **Oct 23, 2006, 4:31 AM**

Better than Stauton that's for sure.

My only complain is some of the names for your towers. Like Dubai, you have cool buildings with boring names.

foxmtbr · #33 Posted **Oct 23, 2006, 4:35 AM**

Awesome trees, and I've been looking for clear textures too, they aren't easy to find.

Oh well, keep up the good work!

Patrick · #34 Posted **Oct 23, 2006, 4:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

Better than Stauton that's for sure.

My only complain is some of the names for your towers. Like Dubai, you have cool buildings with boring names.

Most of the names are just based off of real ones:

COMworld: Comcast
PalmBank: MetroBank
RegionBank: CitiBank
Jefferson Stanley: Morgen Stanley
JC Summit: JG Summit
US Airlines: United Airlines
Mace: Chase
Sunset Trust: SunTrust
CoCal Gas Company: SoCal Gas Company
Horizon Wireless: Verison Wireless
The Zap: The Gap
Abacruble & Flintch: Abacrombie & Fintch
Lacy's: Macy's
Olympuis International: Olympus Corporation
BurgerZone: Burger King
Cola Cola: Coca Cola
Derril Flyntch: Merrill Lynch
HITtv: Mtv
Kondak: Kodak
Lloyd International: Trump Organization
Nexxon Oil: Exxon Mobil.
N Hotels: W Hotels
Orange Financial: Mellon Financial
WorldNewsNetwork: CNN
Trinity Global Investments: Barclays Global Investors

The ones I didnt base off of:

Galviston Enterprises
World Entertainment
Staunton Airlines
MetroCard
Cosmopolitan Records
Jenkins & Associates
AlpineFinancial
Koster & Associates
Javis Shoes
Jetstar Corp
Planet Love
Staunton Square MegaStore
Palmetto Clothing
Zinthon Inc.

What Names where you thinking of?

(sorry for the long list, I was bored)

BrandonJXN · #35 Posted **Oct 23, 2006, 5:08 AM**

If you ever design a condo tower, I'll give you a cool name. I think a name is very important. The more eye-catching the name, the more important the building can be.

Either that, or just use the real names.