Building an entire city

[malika]

Some more new updates:


Top view


What are those big tubes?


What are those tall structures in the background?


INDUSTRY!

[malika]

For now this city is more or less finished, all I might do it play a bit with the shades, fog and those kind of things, but the construction of the buildings is done.

I might try to make it look more like an interactive map.

After this I am very tempted to take a closer look at those towers surrounding the city...

But yeah, pictures:

[MrBojab]

Amazing, simply amazing.
As a fellow user of sketch up, I understand how difficult and time consuming this venture would be. If it helps at all, I believe there is a mod that will allow you to view larger objects without extencive computer crashes. It uses a system whereby it saves each portion of a structure as a separate file. Then, it creates a collage file that feeds off of the others. This allows the system to micro manage its use, reducing the chance of a crash.

Unfortunately, when I updated my computer, I lost the mod and have been unable to find it since. However, I wish you luck if you try to find it. Although, it may not improve performance by that much.

All that aside, I congratulate you on an absolutely fantastic job, it is great and you should be proud of such a work.

Cheers
MrBojab

[malika]

First of all, could one of the mods maybe move this thread to a more fitting place on the forum, maybe the artwork section or something?

Secondly:

Started working on a new city, the previous map and this one will just be two different worlds, might be used for RPG's:



Retook the industrial towers from the previous design and placed them here as well:


Note that this is still veeeeeeeery WIP.

[BigWill]

Looks really good.
What program do you use to make all of that.AutoCad?which one?

[malika]

Sorry for the very late reply. This stuff was all done on Google Sketch up.

Started working on a new city a while back, the first shot can be seen here and here is another close up.

[malika]

Been working on something slightly different. Sadly enough my laptop isn't strong enough to go full crazy here...

LINK

[malika]

[Fulgrim]

Dude, as an architecture student, I think what your doing here is excellent. Actually, it makes me what to give it a go myself. Seriously, keep up the work

[BigWill]

Screw the outdoor shots you are really onto something with gigantic interiors
Last pic is really really cool,you need to start photoshopping statues into the nooks

[malika]

My ambition will be to draw the interior of an Ecopolis, but my main problem at the moment is my laptop. Normally it isn't that great at handling detailed sketchup models, but now that somebody dropped beer in it goes even slower, making sketchup an ever harder challenge.

So...erm...anybody willing to donate a new Macbook Pro for the good cause?

[BigWill]

Just spill some coffee on it,your laptop is drunk is all

[Gagoc TheAncient]

Malika have you tried anything with software to ry and speed up your laptop?

You'd be amazed at how much dross actually slows down you computer through Startup and by leaving useless bits in the Registry.

[malika]

What software upgrades (free ones, since I'm broke) do you recommend for Macbook?

[malika]

Just started on a new project, namely to create a complete Ecorium Hab-Unit. More on that here and in the Sciror section of the forum.

First two WIP pictures.

Living / working section of the hab-unit. In the back the first of the rackfarm sections can be seen.


Here is the first version of the rackfarm. Each rackfarm section will include 96 of these babies.


More to come soon!

[malika]

The hab-unit is almost done. I've even made some textures based on your floorplans.



The Villa, storage unit, processing plant and workplace need some serious work. I want to create a sort of nasty rural factory feel for it, but still fitting the aesthetic of the rest of the space.

The feel of live inside the Ecorium, at least in this one, to me is similar to that amphibian game system factory in eXistenZ or life in that city in Avalon. People live their lives, life seems to pass them. They work, but then spend most of the time plugged into alternate/virtual reality just to avoid the mundane boringness or every day life.

[Dave_1972]

Ever play X-Com? The floor plans remind me alot of the X-Com base layouts from X-Com:Apocalypse.

Great work, btw. Gonna be awesome.

[malika]

The idea was to create a complete Ecorium, but I think my computer would never be able to handle each. A complete Ecorium has 45 levels, and each level has 6 of the hab-units I'm working on.

I might try to create a single level of an Ecorium, with 6 hab-units, public area in the middle which would contain a small market, conveyor belts, rails, and trainstations outside the block.

Here a picture by Philip Sibbering of a complete level in an Ecorium, just so you have an idea what I'm talking about:

[malika]

Update!

[malika]

A new project: