This thread is for building design:

Cantina (pub) - happiness, commerce?
Smuggler's guild - commerce
Food replicators - +
Holographic centers - happiness, xp
Barracks: Military Station
Granary: Mushroom Farm
Temple: CO2 Laundry
Market: Public Library
Library: Observatory
Courthouse: Mission Control
Walls: Permafrost Barricade
Aqueduct: Water Recycling
Bank
Cathedral: Instant MessagingTM System
University
Mass Transit: Waste Dump
Colosseum: Biodome Park
Factory: Manufacturing Plant
Manufacturing Plant: Electrolysis Plant
SDI Defence: Ion Shield
Recycling Centre: Trade Unions
Power Plant: Havonic Reactor
Hydro Plant: Gravitic Turbines
Nuclear Plant: Fusion Plant
Food Synthesizer
Recycling Tanks (like SMAC)
Power Cells
Anti-asteroid Beams
Hospital
UV shield

I really need some suggestions for the buildings, can anyone think of a few? I want to brainstorm some ideas as I want to add buildings next.

Bear in mind, some of these ideas might already be in game, but I'm not home to check. Maybe you could list which ones are in game in the first post? I'll avoid simple ones like banks, spaceport, ect.

Cantina (pub) - happiness, commerce?
Smuggler's guild - commerce
Food replicators - + :food:
Holographic centers - happiness, xp

I'll look at my SotM building list and see what we can borrow.

Cool that would be nice. Also if you could get some building graphics as well it would help as we need new models for buildings.

I think we used barracks for everything. :p Building Art is now on the to-do list.

I might have some older buttons that the Duke made for us laying around as well.

Cool, you should do that, and try to use some vanilla reskin stuff as well.

Is this thread for a listing of buildings or new artwork? :confused: I know it's early... ;)

Is this thread for a listing of buildings or new artwork? :confused: I know it's early... ;)

Both I want to get the art and the buildings together, not in seperate threads.

Not really a building, but here's a model I made of a starting space colony/base/city. I don't know how to manipulate the CityLSSystem so there's no pic in game, just this render shot that is sort of boring looking. Also, there's no Main building since the Palace would be added later on. So basically a tower, landing pad, and some connected buildings.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/3280/spacecitypiczu4.th.png (http://img54.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spacecitypiczu4.png)

Some c/p building ideas:

Barracks: Military Station
Granary: Mushroom Farm
Temple: CO2 Laundry
Market: Public Library
Library: Observatory
Courthouse: Mission Control
Walls: Permafrost Barricade
Aqueduct: Water Recycling
Bank
Cathedral: Instant MessagingTM System
University
Mass Transit: Waste Dump
Colosseum: Biodome Park
Factory: Manufacturing Plant
Manufacturing Plant: Electrolysis Plant
SDI Defence: Ion Shield
Recycling Centre: Trade Unions
Power Plant: Havonic Reactor
Hydro Plant: Gravitic Turbines
Nuclear Plant: Fusion Plant

More:

Food Synthesizer
Recycling Tanks (like SMAC)
Power Cells
Anti-asteroid Beams
Hospital
UV shield

Here's a render shot of a Water Reclamation plant. I suppose it could act as an improvement of sorts as well.

http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/4334/waterplantpicnf9.th.png (http://img284.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterplantpicnf9.png)

If this sort of simplicity is good enough I can start doing more buildings. (It's not like you see them that close up anyhow.)

That looks good to me and it will get squished in the cities if it is a building.

Here's an unskinned shot of some Recycling Tanks. Basically you go in the first set of doors, get recycled, move to tank 2, and then out the spigot into a waiting truck as fertilizer. :)

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1360/recyclingpicdl2.th.png (http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=recyclingpicdl2.png)

That looks good to me and it will get squished in the cities if it is a building.

Thanks. I'm just messing around now, but we need artwork and beggars can't be choosers. :)

Thanks. I'm just messing around now, but we need artwork and beggars can't be choosers. :)

Don't worry. Artwork will come soon.

One more for now. A simple city laser battery/cannon.

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1387/citylaserpiclo6.th.png (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=citylaserpiclo6.png)

One more for now. A simple city laser battery/cannon.

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1387/citylaserpiclo6.th.png (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=citylaserpiclo6.png)

Cool, Can you send me this stuff in a file? They look great but i might want to do skin them a bit if you don't mind.

PM me your email and I can zip these up for you no problem.

And I never mind if someone else reskins my stuff. ;)

PM me your email and I can zip these up for you no problem.

And I never mind if someone else reskins my stuff. ;)

Just try to post them here, so that anyone else who wants to can take a look at them:)

Just try to post them here, so that anyone else who wants to can take a look at them:)

Upload them to filegone then post a link to it here.

Dammit, I missed this post and now I'm at work. :mad:

Later today I will guys. Sorry about that.

Updated the first post with your suggestions Woodelf

I keep trying to upload 2 of my roughly skinned buildings, but Filegone isn't cooperating. :mad:

I keep trying to upload 2 of my roughly skinned buildings, but Filegone isn't cooperating. :mad:
Then Try http://rapidshare.de/

Thanks Hadrean. Try this. Remember these are rough skins....

http://rapidshare.de/files/27967818/BuildingSW.zip.html

Thanks Hadrean. Try this. Remember these are rough skins....

http://rapidshare.de/files/27967818/BuildingSW.zip.html

Good. Now we can keep stuff secret until it gets released in the mod.

Any luck making those look decent?

I need to get back to buildings at some point.

Any luck making those look decent?

I need to get back to buildings at some point.

I tried cleaning the building skins up but since they are very rough I can't really get it right.

I'm looking through these, and I'm trying to skin them, but I always hate skinning because of the long process of doing it. Hopefully I can get something worthwhile at the end of the week.

I'm learning to unwrap better guys so if you have concept art or basic structures you want built I'll do a better job of unwrapping them to make it easier to skin. :)

I'm learning to unwrap better guys so if you have concept art or basic structures you want built I'll do a better job of unwrapping them to make it easier to skin. :)

especially for me.;)

Any Concept Art, pics, links, ect to buildings that guys think we need would help. Also, someone is going to have to investigate the Civ4LSystem XML file to add new city sets and make them work properly. Kael said it was tough so I've avoided it.

We really need a nice sci-fi Palace pic. But not too difficult. :p

http://www.dutch-starwars.com/database/locaties/pics/theed_palace.jpg
Here's a pic of the naboo palace, it's not that difficult since it's a bunch of hemispheres :)

That's exactly what I need. Even if we use Industrial city set graphics it would be nice to have a different Palace at least.

More, more, more.

http://psychography.home.insightbb.com/Ultarama/Coruscant2-Left.JPG

http://www.chinese-starwars.com/roystarkiller/Roystarkiller/gallery/artsofsw/ep1/019.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Coruscantsunset.jpg

A few Skyline images of Star Wars Cities

A couple of those are way too busy. :crazyeye:

I will try a Naboo palace soon hopefully.

Here's my version of a Naboo Palace along with some other sci-fi buildings in a city.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1521/palace0000pi2.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palace0000pi2.jpg)

Here's my version of a Naboo Palace along with some other sci-fi buildings in a city.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1521/palace0000pi2.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palace0000pi2.jpg)

:eek: It's official! woodelf is now 3ds max noob lvl 4!

Thanks Hadrean. Now I need to figure out to swap out the default city sets.

Thanks Hadrean. Now I need to figure out to swap out the default city sets.
Or just replace the current city set files with new ones:D

Or just replace the current city set files with new ones:D

I'm not real sure how that works to be honest. How many buildings do you make for an era set? It seems more complicated than simply making 7-10 buildings and skinning them. I've tried in the past and couldn't get them in game. Maybe I'm missing something?

I'm not real sure how that works to be honest. How many buildings do you make for an era set? It seems more complicated than simply making 7-10 buildings and skinning them. I've tried in the past and couldn't get them in game. Maybe I'm missing something?

Maybe you might want to look in the art files.

The art files have X number of buildings, but depending on how many buildings you actually build while playing the city set evolves. It's quite confusing or else I'm sleep deprived.

The art files have X number of buildings, but depending on how many buildings you actually build while playing the city set evolves. It's quite confusing or else I'm sleep deprived.

No, it is confusing.

I'm going to try one quick test and then hit the hay, but I'll know if I can pull this off or not soon...

Aren't the files in the Art/Structures/Cities folder? I seem to remember the city sets in there

I'm finding it isn't as easy as that... :(

Here's an in game screenshot of a city with several "sci-fi" buildings (except the water tower). I removed every thatch building and changed the city plot terrain to that white sand look. That can be further changed. The yellow circled building has been altered to look less ancient since I can't find a way to remove it completely yet with CTDs.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5189/spacecity0000cb9.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spacecity0000cb9.jpg)

What's all the white stuff around the city?

I think that's a temporary thing.

What's all the white stuff around the city?

I got rid of the "tile" that the ancient city set had. I can paint it any color, most likely choice would be whatever or most prevalent color is in the mod.

I think silver, glossy look would make it look very much like a futuristic city

For the ground? I can do that easily enough.

I give you the Hoth Generator.

:mad: stupid Imageshack is acting up again so here's the thumbnail.

This one I'll just drop in the database (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2421) as well.

Very Nice Woodelf! Soon we'll have all our building models!

For as simple as that model is I was shocked at how well it looks in the white tile. :D

I found a pic of a secret "lab" that was tucked away on the moon so I made this building to act as a space library/lab/science building.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4106/lab0000mh6.th.jpg (http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lab0000mh6.jpg)

Files found in the database here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2432).

Quite nice! We can definetly use all of this stuff

One last building for the day, a futuristic subway ala the SMAC maglev system. I have no idea if we need it, but we might.

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/2953/mag0000dc0.th.jpg (http://img122.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mag0000dc0.jpg)

File found here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2441).

Looks like something else, I think it could be used for something like a warehouse

Use it for anything. :p

Finding good Space City concept art is next to impossible, unless it is so detailed that Civ4 would chooke on it.

Yeah, I can always find a use for something :)

A year later I bring you Mos Eisley. 8 different models/nifs on 1 dds file.

This is just a render shot. If you want the cityset you'll need to ask Chamaedrys or someone else to put it together. Let me know if you want the files.

I like, I like.

Just edit the .dds and add an extra overlay layer which is sandcolored.. the grey isn't great for Mos Eisley

A year later I bring you Mos Eisley. 8 different models/nifs on 1 dds file.

This is just a render shot. If you want the cityset you'll need to ask Chamaedrys or someone else to put it together. Let me know if you want the files.

Nice, looks great.:)

Wookiee unique building: Wookiee tree

Just a hint, do some research please. No offense, but you are drawing on to many real-life sources to make this star wars like.

Instant messaging? How about a Jedi/Sith Temple, like religion in Civ4?