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Dec 28
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SimCity New York (Movie)

By 3D Modelling, SimCity

It is interesting to see how close the Edushi (short for ECity in Chinese and pictured above) maps that we recently covered are to Sim City, see ‘Edushi.com – Possibly the Best City Maps in the World?‘

The movie below illustrates a detailed reconstruction of New York in Sim City 4 by way of comparison:

Uploaded by SimmyUK, Simmy states:

‘Population is well over 300,000, with 150,000 commercial jobs and just under 1000 tech jobs. There is a very good mass transit system my city. The entire city is covered by an underground subway system. New York has very good Health and Education systems and there is plenty for my sims to do to relax’.

If we were going to create a Edushi style maps the easiest way would be perhaps to model in 3D Max and then import into Sim City to get that all important ‘Sim City look’…

Dec 28
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Build a City in 5 Minutes: Bryce 5/3DMax/Second Life

By 3D Max, 3D Modelling, Bryce, Second Life

We love YouTube, it has opened up simple tutorials to the masses allowing techniques to be easily shared. One such nugget is a tutorial on ‘How to Build a City in 5 Minutes’ embedded below:

Uploaded by ‘FreeTutorials‘ it makes an interesting use of a simple height map in Bryce to quickly create a city. The same technique can be used in 3D Max and interestingly Second Life using sculpt maps.

If you create a city using this method, send us a screen shot and we will run a quick post…

Dec 27
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Virtual Manchester: Model by ARUP

By 3D City, 3D Modelling

The market for producing 3D city models continues to expand, from lightweight web based applications to high end tools for council usage. Embedded below is the model of Manchester by ARUP.

ARUP is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world. They have a long reputation in city modelling through their in house research teams and the Manchester model is testament to this. The transport planning section (half way through the movie) is especially nice.

Covering 4562 buildings and 15 spatial zones detail is limited to the core areas with the majority of buildings lacking roof structure but where detail has been applied it has been done well…

Dec 27
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Virtual Manchester: Model by ARUP

By 3D City, 3D Modelling

The market for producing 3D city models continues to expand, from lightweight web based applications to high end tools for council usage. Embedded below is the model of Manchester by ARUP.

ARUP is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world. They have a long reputation in city modelling through their in house research teams and the Manchester model is testament to this. The transport planning section (half way through the movie) is especially nice.

Covering 4562 buildings and 15 spatial zones detail is limited to the core areas with the majority of buildings lacking roof structure but where detail has been applied it has been done well…

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