ART 0085 - SHOP [MODULOR] Modular Buiding System (boxed) Version 1.00

I'm not a builder and most likely never will be so I rely on finding unusual and original items for my home sim. As a fan of dystopian environments these builds tick a number of boxes and I am, at the moment, using them extensively. I have bought stuff the creator has nade in the past [ a large cubed gallery space for instance ) and have much appreciated his willingness to go out on a limb. Hopefully he will make more of his work available.

There's a lot to like here. For example, the Materials normal- and specularmaps are good, the faces well-chosen, and the UV mapping smartly enable repeated (unbaked) textures. The projected lighting is also a nice touch (although lose the Ambiance to avoid artifacts).

But a couple quibbles are bad enough I won't be using this product after having bought it. Most problematic: although the mesh appropriately includes degraded LoDs (and incurs the corresponding Land Impact), the degraded LODs don't extend to the full dimensions of the sections, so big gaps appear between mated sections; that could have been easily fixed in the models, and should have been. Second, some of the sections ("balcony", "front door") are *almost* bilaterally symmetrical, but not quite (one side tapered to points, the other to eased corners) which is just weird (and unlike the "back" modules for no apparent reason). Also, the textures are all 1024x1024 resolution, so it would be nice if they were included (or available) full perm so we could selectively downscale them (especially the nice repeated surfaces) to improve rendering efficiency. (The textures are quite easy to replace, though, which is a plus.)

Excellent! Examples of ready-made constructions and a folder with the different parts of the buildings in kit to create its own structure. The design is neat and realistic.
Excellent ! Des exemples de constructions prêt à l'emploi et un dossier avec les différentes parties des bâtiments en kit pour créer sa propre structure. Le design est soigné et réaliste.