Hopefully you like this one: The Great Operahouse La Scala of Milan. It's done as Nahuixtelotzin's request.

Decided to do a rare (perhaps first) night time pic, since city view doesn't restrict buildings in other places. Opera is after all a night time entertainment. In production queue you will see a fat lady singing.

Guess what it is used for? Happy faces! :lol:


Ukas


La-di-daa:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/LaScala.zip

The preview:

cool, did you just take a real picture of the house and cut it into the pic?

I wish I could have, since my goal is to produce a believable pictures and I 'm only happy to use existing stuff. But if I do just that, like with Ziggurat and some of those Roman buildings I make a point saying so.

As you know in Civ buildings are drawn, not photos. If I cut something I usually go through the whole cut recoloring it and making new lights and shadows with a one pixel brush. For example with bathhouse I did it twice since the first one just didn't look right and I also changed the perspective manually. After I was finished there was little left from the cut I had. The Ziggurat is the only building which demanded practicly no work, the pic I used was already a drawn computer model.

As I see it there is some rules for believable building graphics: It must be close to the Civ3 perspective and color so you can imagine it to be a part of the city. Then the building has to look heavy, like it really lays there.

Sometimes when I do a building completely from a scrath like it looks kind of light, like it is floating one feet above the ground. Sometimes I manage well like with the Slave plantation. But if there's a simplest structural cut to be used I'll use it for the outcomes sake. Unlike Mr. Adolf Hitler, I'm a painter not an architect. :D

And that is clearly visible when you look at my statue wonders, I draw the statue always but use that same pedestal every time :lol:

La Scala took time. I used the two pics you can see below. From b&w one I took the cut and pasted that on the grass. The night pic I just looked at and painted the whole thing on top of the cut except the roof which I colored with the photoshop.

The fast answer grew to be a whole monologue about my work as Civ3 constructor! :crazyeye:

ukas

:goodjob: Thanks Ukas, you're the best[dance]

Heeeeey, you suppose you could do the Hagia Sophia? I'm working on a scenario on the Byzantine Empire, and I need all the help I can get. BTW great stuff you got there

It would be great if someone could convert the city view to night time view. I may try it for my 20th century mod. It would look great for the blitz with search lights etc...

What would really be awesome is the Sydney Opera House. That is one awesome piece of architecture

The Sydney Opera is available in Kal-El's DyP mod, IIRC.

When I saw "La Scala", I immediately thought: Who would want to make a wonder graphic out of one of the best Italian restaurants in my city? Then I saw what you were talking about and had to laugh. Nice work, by the way.

A new splash for Ukas...

"Sono bravissimo, son come il fulmine, sono il factotum della città!"

from Il Barbiere di Siviglia

preview

ah... err... mille grazie? :D

Yes, "grazie mille" is the italian "thanks a lot"...:lol: