January Entry: Dead and Still Standing

[ukgpublishing]

Hi all

Following the changes I made yesterday I have now completed the three buildings on the right of the courtyard. These are the autorepair shop, the deli (added fridges and boxes to the storeroom) and the adult bookshop.

Now I know one or two of you have a thing for spotting details so I will say that the magazine covers are based of real images. If you are anyone else thinks this is too much I will happily change them (although I don't think you can pick out any details which are too compromising).

I've also added the roofs of the two building (one to the top of the map and the other to the right of the map) which are not going to be interior mapped.

Finally, I have started work on the warehouse/aid station. I have had the main warehouse area converted into sleeping quarters, with boxes hastily pushed to the edges of the room and in the case of the two main doors used to create some crude defenses should the risers break through. A single forklift is also in the room.

My next moves are to finish off the rest of the interior of the warehouse and then I can work on the courtyard and road defenses.

Hope you all like.

John

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[MarkusTay]

I only have one question, how do they get the car in there without it falling into the pit (or am I misreading where the garage door is)?

They built the shop around that truck?

[ukgpublishing]

Hi Guys

Thanks for all the comments, I missed that door and truck problem hehe.

Anyway I've narrowed the pits, and change the doors to have two, so hopefully thats the problems solved there.

I've moved on and sealed tha alley between the autoshop and the deli with a metal spike fence and also added garbage and and a dumpster.

The deli has now got a cold cabinet, work surfaces, sink and some stools for customers to eat at. The bread basket needs work but that will do for a holding image until i get round to improving it.

The snag I have now is finding a decent 3ds model of a cash till. I have found plenty of 3dmax images, but my 3dmax is playing up so until I fix it or find an alternative format I'm screwed on that one

Anyway more as it comes.

John

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[RPMiller]

I believe you typically would have one door per pit. At least that is the way its been for all the mechanics I've been to over the years.

[Nomadic]

I believe you typically would have one door per pit. At least that is the way its been for all the mechanics I've been to over the years.

Yea, they do that around here too. I would say, 2 doors but still narrow the pits (they're a bit wide).

[RPMiller]

Looking great! Ok, here is a short list of "issues":

• Tire in the top left corner of the garage seems to have a "chunk missing" possibly an image overlay issue.
• The magazines in the office appear to be floating above the table and desk. Maybe reduce the drop shadows or remove them entirely.
• Those are some seriously big cans of soda in the cold cabinet! Might want to reduce the scale of those a bit.

I can't quite make out the magazine covers. Are those women's mags in the garage office on the side table, and is that a D&D module on the desk?

[jfrazierjr]

One thing that may not really be an issue, but at least in my state, any food place with seating is required to offer restrooms for it's customer use by the health department.

[Ascension]

I can just picture those husky mechanics reading Redbook and Woman's Day Can't quite make out the 4 cars on the covers...looks like an old white Jag and orange Vette in the office and some type of lowered truck and Honda in the shop (I love hunting for details). Nice job so far, other than the 40 oz cans of soda and chopped tire.

[Nomadic]

Nice work. I have a few things as well to point out though.

• One thing that is still bugging me is the toilet water. It looks really fake. Is there any way that you could make it a very light transparent blue (showing some of the bottom of the toilet bowl beneath it)?
• The computer monitor is awfully long. I mean, my big ole CRT monitor is pretty dang long but it's still not much longer than it is wide. Your computer there is almost twice as long as wide.
• A minor thing but it looks like the keyboard is backwards (unless you are modeling it off of a type I am unfamiliar with).

[bryguy]

uh... the Latest WIP is VERY very tiny....