Offsite Retail Mega Pack 1.0

This looks/sounds good and all, but you most definitely need to add some images please.

 

Everything does not look so good, unfortunately. I can use nothing. Almost everything looks bad.

 

Based on what I've read so far... I think I'll pass... your work seems to draw a lot of controversy...

 

Your textures are not perfect, but I say that they are more than good-enough. Yes, it is almost the same pack that you added last fall, so I already have most of this added, but keep up the good work on these mods. We need more people making stores and hotels!

I do have two recommendations, though. First: For buildings like PetCo, Office Max, HyVee, and other big-box stores, maybe make the walls so they can connect and make a plaza Second: Please add a base to your buildings!!!!!

Also, if you ever do add any mods to your pack, then please add a mall with even more department stores -OR- multiple malls. Both would work out fine. Here is a map of a mall that is a town over from me-it actually does pretty well.


Here is some more information for you-in case you actually decide to make a mall like this, or you are just curious.

http://www.perumall.com/
http://www.perumall.com/pdfs/directorymap.pdf
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5222/5826528536_7089a44b30_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8482/8270868915_8d98903e8f.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/PERUMALL01.JPG/250px-PERUMALL01.JPG

 

"This pack is for high-end machines"
what is that suppose to mean?

 

Probably there are no lower detail Lods (L4, L3...). Could be only L1.

 

thx, i see most of these aren't look so good also

 

@Nick: Why, WHY have you uploaded beta-files on XLEX?

First, this isn't your work, so you shouldn't be allowed to upload them. Moderators assigned it to the "real" author.
Second, beta-files aren't XLEX material. It is like trying to sale a car without an engine. People will be able to push it around, but the car can't be used as it is intended to be.
And last, I don't understand what you can find good in Lextacy's work. When you see what a REAL model is, as delivered to us by experienced modders, and you compare it to the crap that Lextacy made you can't tell me that you find this good.

Lextacy has been working on this for at least a year (When he has time) but since he praises "quantity over quality", he will never deliver a good model to us.

Cities XL is the first citybuilder which has what is the closest to photorealism. Models like Petronas Towers, Old Trafford Stadium, Shibuya series (and so much more) are realistic.
When you open a City Journal like Tayra (Miguel is my only reference, I know... ), with his photoshopped pictures, you can believe that this is a real city.
There is no other game that gives this sensation.
Mods like Lextacys' don't give this sensation.

 

The first warning signs that this is not a good mod should be the fact there are no actual preview images of the mods in the thread. IF THERE ARE NO SCREENSHOTS DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

 

I agree that /u/Lextacy_2008's textures are not very good, but these work as a placeholder until somebody like /u/Nogerivan or whoever made the All-American mods makes better textures. To be honest, as long as there is a base and a sign, I am good, but I understand that not everybody here on XELX is like that. I would just feel stupid posting nine hundred billion commerce and T1 residential mod requests, so I will use this comment here to make another request.

His "Cub Foods" model would have been really good if there was a base to it, and one of his plaza's was pretty good. Then again, his LOD count was way too high on all of his buildings. That really lagged up my game.

LAST: I am TRYING to make mods, now. I am doing pretty bad, but maybe I can get there one day. Hopefully, I can make these buildings with slightly better textures. I am using EasyModXL. Is that what a lot of mod makers use?

 

When I am done with what I am about to do, I will!

 

some one should really remake all of this, these mostly looks like sketchup model
not a problem for the small stores, you can place it between other great building and cover it with trees or sth XD
but for the big box stores, they are looks very wrong. can't compare it with similar mod like superstore. and the huge one will cause sudden crash when you select it on menu.

here some screenshot mixed with other buildings


i don't see bullying the author would help, but remake it will surely do

 

Exactly! The small buildings WITH BASES are great! Why has a modder not remade some of these buildings?

 

to be fair,u shouldve take picture in high quality setting.
you can do it by set these to very high. texture quality, ambient occlusion, building detail, and number of corpses
and toned down the saturation on ps

 

Because they're high poly, graphical intensive models, as Lextacy said. That means the game will slow down as soon as you place a bunch. The whole process of 'reverse engeneering' a mod is tedious and won't grant you extract the model as it is. Modding takes time (specially if you make mistakes on the way ). Eano was doing an stunning all-americain retail pack...damn...it was going to be a really great mod.

 

Please tell me more about this /u/Eano...