[Metatron]

Hurray!

Presumably it's possible to fly beneath the Eiffel Tower?

[canonuk]

I'm not sure if these buildings would be accurate for Paris, but they are spot on for about any other big city.

Whilst the city buildings are a little generic, they're not that far off some of the Parisian townhouses:





Metatron - yes, you can

[chris455]

Cannon how the hell are we supposed to watch our six like good fighter jocks with all this beautiful scenery around? :wink:
Seriously, this is superb work my friend-

[Guest]

Canon, that Eifel tower is something that I will enjoy bombing! :twisted: :wink:

[RRuger]

You just do what you do Joe and make it how you want it and we'll use it! Great looking tower mate, make it optional tho because it's just something else for me to crash into Really good job, we're all pulling for you, want me to send you a case of Red Bull or Monster???

[canonuk]

Got to go to bed now, but tomorrow I'll post pics of my newest additions - Arc De Triomphe, Battersea Power Station and Gasworks, and Buckingham Palace.

Joe

[Triad773]

Got to go to bed now, but tomorrow I'll post pics of my newest additions - Arc De Triomphe, Battersea Power Station and Gasworks, and Buckingham Palace.

Joe

OUTSTANDING hock:

Thank you 8)

[COBRA19]

wooow, Thank you! hock:

[changai]

Canonuk, you're doing a fine job !

One tip for your parisian buildings: tiles are (were) very rarely used in Paris, slates or zinc almost exlusively. Dominant color from above is (was) grey with blueish/greenish patches: Google maps shows it well.

Your current texture set would be just fine for Normandy and northern France (Lille, Abbeville...)

Just my two cents

[MSDomino]

Changai, living in Paris, I can not do anything more than saying +10000

Roof in paris are mainly covered by zinc which gives the city this particular blueish ambiance under the midst (which happens too often for many of its inhabitants). Those zinc roof being dated from Haussman great job at the middle of 19th century, they did exist during WWII.

CanonUK, do not hesitate to create similar buildings in Haussman style.

Anyway, many many thanks for your great job on this wonderful map, can't wait to fly on its definitive version !

Have a nice week end

[canonuk]

changai, MSDomino - so, you think my Parisian blocks should be exclusively grey/zinc roofed? Lose the terracotta completely?

What about suburbs? Do you have examples of typical suburban houses from the period?

Thanks

[magot]

Really pleased to show pics of the Eiffel Tower, modelled completely from scratch in a couple of evenings.

Hi canonuk,
you have really amazing work!
btw try use in Aiffel tower alpha channel for transparent parts,it will look much realistic ;-)

mag

[changai]

changai, MSDomino - so, you think my Parisian blocks should be exclusively grey/zinc roofed? Lose the terracotta completely?

What about suburbs? Do you have examples of typical suburban houses from the period?

Thanks

Canonuk, the fact is terracota was (still is) very rare within Paris city boundaries, as MSDomino stressed.
Suburbs were far less extended in 1940 than they are today ( http://www.landkartenarchiv.de/michelin95_1940.htm ), mainly individual houses (see http://histoire-sociale.univ-paris1.fr/ ... obigny.jpg ; http://www.amtuir.org/06_htu_bus_100_an ... _tn6c1.htm ), sometimes shags ( http://histoire-sociale.univ-paris1.fr/ ... ixsept.jpg ). Terracota was quite common in Paris suburbs - probably because it was cheaper.

Hope this helps.

Now, you certainly don't have to change your textures if you're happy with them - your job is already far above out-of-the-box city textures. But if your goal is that in-game Paris roofs "feel" like real Paris roofs, then you should use very little or no terracota.

One last thing about Paris: building regulations have for a long time limited the heighth of city building walls to 16 meters (ground to top cornice), total heighth (ground to roof summit) could not exceed 37 meters. This explain why ancient Paris buildings have this very distinct "look-alike" feeling, all sporting the same number of floors. Just have a look there ( http://opccool.blog.lemonde.fr/1-limmeuble-haussmann/ - don't forget to browse through left menu items, you'll find some treasures), you'll see what I mean.

[canonuk]

changai, that's fascinating - thanks. I had no idea that Paris was so regulated and uniform. I was vaguely aware of the Hausmannian redevelopment but didn't realise it was so prescriptive.

I really want to get the feel of Paris just right, so I'll use my existing city blocks for any cities aside from Paris. I'm going to make a couple of new objects that are purely Paris - Hausmannian all the way!

Many thanks

Joe

[canonuk]

How's this?