Building the Chinese Empire!

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:55 pm Post subject: Building the Chinese Empire!

Other then posting here I haven't done any mod related stuff since October. To get back into working on D-day I thought I'd finish off the last thing I worked on, a Chinese Factory. Well it actually started as the Japanese factory but I didn't like the direction it was going in & instead of scraping it I made it defect to the enemy!

Anyway I'm still not happy with it but I'm unsure why, so I'm looking for any suggestions before I finalize it & make the damage frames.

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MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

I like it. Especially interior.

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I like it too.

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

Interior could use more machinery rather than boxes, but other than that I can't see anything bad about it, very professional looking building; Nice work as always.

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:28 pm Post subject:

wow, very nice!

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Vefbl4 · General **Joined**: 07 Feb 2007

Pretty cool!

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Zero18 · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:26 pm Post subject:

Beautiful!

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Steve_1993 · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:59 pm Post subject:

Nice work!!!

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Orac · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:36 pm Post subject:

It has RA2's stereotyping syndrome. IMO, it needs to be toned down towards being a more functional building rather than pure aesthetics.

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:29 pm Post subject:

Orac wrote:

It has RA2's stereotyping syndrome. IMO, it needs to be toned down towards being a more functional building rather than pure aesthetics.

what does this mean? It might help me or other people making models

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Exley · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:47 am Post subject:

impressive & nice

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Volgin · Commander **Joined**: 07 Mar 2009

Agree with Orac. The Chinese style roof is very stereotypical. It looks bad when the German, Soviet, and other factions are played straight.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:34 am Post subject:

I actually spent some time researching late 19th & early 20th century Asian architecture. The design of this building is the result of picking bits & pieces from multiple buildings of the era, my main inspirations being the Tokyo National Museum & the Kaichi School.

The German & Soviet buildings on the other hand are fictional designs based on the usual stereotypical styles.

Edit: I darkened the base, desaturated the roof & changed it from tiles to beams.

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:06 pm Post subject:

Mig Eater wrote:

I actually spent some time researching late 19th & early 20th century Asian architecture. The design of this building is the result of picking bits & pieces from multiple buildings of the era, my main inspirations being the Tokyo National Museum & the Kaichi School.

The German & Soviet buildings on the other hand are fictional designs based on the usual stereotypical styles.

Edit: I darkened the base, desaturated the roof & changed it from tiles to beams.

Its WW2 so it fits.........'sides Yasukuni Shrine has this look. And I believe Daniel Tosh said "Its not stereo typing if its true."

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject:

Are those hanging red things (lanterns?) supposed to be transparent? IMO it looks pretty odd. Also perhaps it would look better with something more substantial around the side than just scattered boxes and such. You could give it a pipe or ventilation system or something instead.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:44 pm Post subject:

The lanterns have been bothering me too, they need a proper texture & transparency map.

The Chinese building of that time where mainly built with wooden frames & mud walls, there where only a few brick buildings in the whole country. So pipes & ventilation systems would be way to modern.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

It looks really good. The only major design thing that bothers me is the roof.
It looks like a pagoda roof with multiple layers squashed down into one. Maybe it would look better if there is actually a little space between the steeper and flatter roof, even if that goes even more into the stereotypic architecture direction. The problem imo is the pagoda like front with a clear border between lower and higher roff, while the side shingles are seamless.

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Orac · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:13 am Post subject:

Errrr, roofs can be like that, LKO.
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