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Thanks for announcing about this, and I hope a bright future waits for you. For the past while, I noticed that you were not as active much as before; glad to be informed of your current status.

Build 16 Released

Build 16 is now released!

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Overview
This build releases the new Doolittle Meridian Center, consisting of the existing Doolittle St. parking deck (across from Northeast Triad Convention Center) and a 19-story office tower (Tower 1) connected to the garage.  The Northeast Triad Convention Center BLD file will load this complex by default, but there is also a BLD file that loads the garage and tower, and one that loads just the tower (I'd recommend at least loading the garage and tower together).

The office tower simulates a late-1980s into 1990s facility that was renovated to keep its space attractive to modern-day tenants, comparable to suburban or "just outside downtown" office buildings in the US.  A building this tall outside of a downtown would exist in a city like Atlanta or Dallas.

This building really pushed my coding skills.  Some novel implementations I did include...

• Curved walls, exterior, and cylindrical columns
• Using SetTextureMapping to get curved surfaces textured properly
• Using SetPlanarMapping to keep texture tiling seamless (such as false ceiling tiles)
• Curved outdoor pathways
• Realistic terrain with drainage elements
• Non-orthogonal doorways (no operable doors though)
• Water fountains
• Yes, this works!  Using TextureOverride on elevator shaft doors to make the interior of elevator shafts more realistic
• The skybridge was tricky as it kinks over to avoid a column in the garage and also travels across the load boundary of the garage and the tower.
• Neat Trick!   I discovered this on accident.  Using negative wall and floor thicknesses can be used to create rooms, chambers, tunnels, insides of things, etc. using less lines of code.  Essentially, if you enter a negative number for thickness in AddWall or AddFloor, instead of creating the outsides of a box, you create the insides of a box.  The only caveat is negative thickness will flip the direction of wall and floor orientations.

Hope you enjoy!

Some of these companies are:
1. Mitsubishi (Japan) < > Westinghouse
Mitsubishi had a technical cooperation with Westinghouse USA, therefore a lot of old 1960s-1970s Mitsubishi elevators used Westinghouse's "monkey on a stick" floor selector and Selectomatic "dinner bell" chime. In addition, Mitsubishi's door tracks and white buttons were based on Westinghouse's design (the white buttons were based on Westinghouse's AE buttons)

5. Elevadores Atlas (Brazil) < > Westinghouse
This Brazilian company had a long partnership with Westinghouse and sometimes both companies would exchange patents with each others. For example, Atlas would use Westinghouse's design and Westinghouse would use steels from Villares, Atlas's parent company (Atlas was in fact a subsidiary of the Villares steel group). Atlas's elevators were heavily based on Westinghouse. After Westinghouse was sold to Schindler in 1989, Atlas went on its own until it was acquired by Schindler in 1999 and became Atlas Schindler.

7. Express Lift (United Kingdom) < > Westinghouse
Westinghouse also had a technical partnership with Northampton-based Express Lift Co. Ltd., notably on the development of Express Lift's DMR programmed elevator control for high-rise buildings. The DMR control is in fact based on the Westinghouse Selectomatic system.

Have a nice throwback to the 90's inteior design.