The view inside is much more stricking now - too opulent?

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As mentioned a specially made fountain - needs bigger based and the animation is slightly off direction. Might be more of these around

Want to create three levels - the front walkway, the back beach and a raised dance under the stars zone (and fountain)

Each blocks creates different sounds as visitors wander through the gallery and it has a centre piece that rotates wildly

It is accurate based on an aerial shot and mapped onto the greyscale terraform files I use

Seems to work well. The white controller will be built into a large sim control panel eventually. This lets you choose ice or lagoon.

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This is useful signage for other areas - will fiddle with words to stop walking on the track

The basic single image ad - clickable to boot web browser to that specific page. On request and in advance of a short progress video of much the same sort of thing - here is Pond's very own Very Mulberry posing around - the ads are all placeholders but many actually work as clickthroughs already - to give a look feel..

I was also soak testing by doing some camera recording and tracking shots as he sped round the course, but also playing the video around the track

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Creating the pool above ground before sinking it as it is easier to use the natural water level for this

Web Page & Promos - Aussie Bar 3

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OK we decided for the moment not to have a VIP blocked off zone - so I am going to turn it into a lovely place to chill - with a nice palm swimming pool

I added some dance balls and soon to add some music streams to the land

Ads in them thar hills. I decided to place these from a camera friendly viewpoint - a tracking sequence of two whole laps of Les White earlier made me think that the ads also serve the purpose of being caught in the camera shoot

Also the pillars need texturing work as each face is not showing correctly

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Added some prefab shop modules for scale and discussion

OK back to the problem grandstand. Will work on textures and other things later. Notice the slip road added for pit type operations and collecting awards etc

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same at sunrise, now added rivers to join with future sims and boating access to sea

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Also the ad banners below are transparent from the reverse angle to reduce clutter from long distances

Ads in the shopping entrance, the hoarding surprisingly works here, the track, the welcome area and in the vegetation - who knows even against uluru! not

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Built some bespoke look and feel dome modules and added some palms for feel.

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The side of the booths made more 'sit in here' feel - egyptian obviously. Also the trees and signage nearly finding their final homes

The textures here are actually a shot of red earth I took in WA outback mapped onto the landscape

Automatic sliding doors on the viewing rooms

I am getting ready to build the race control centre on the central mountain. A cambered glass affair with seating for race officials and so on. Will take a couple of hours to get effect I want. Similar to an airport control tower.

Also prefab small builds for bar and clubs

This just came out of the blue but a direct link from the welcome to the shopping on a lovely 2 degree sloped walkway - I opened up a part of the dome and it works very well