So today ended up being a rather productive day and I have loads of pics to post. I finished building the waystation and decided it needed to be walled in. There were too many wild dinos running around and getting stuck on things so I started a wall. Which became many walls. I kind of got carried away and ended up making a wall sampler. Now I have to note that its not all finished yet but its WELL into the construction.
I'm going to start with this pic. Obviously a night shot but gives a rough look at all the diff wall types I made. I also made one entranceway (the other will be placed on the left of this image where there is currently no wall). The I didn't want the entrance to have a gate as such so I build a bridge structure with sloped trapdoor 'drawbridge'.
I've used this kind of 'drawbridge' in the past to great effect. I like it because gates can often detract from designs.
I'm extremely happy with how the lighting turned out on this one. I cheated and used two glass walls at the front. I could probably have managed some funky snap point connections but this was far quicker and less fiddly to deal with.
As I've said before I'm not a big fan of ceiling thick structures and like a little bit of something to make them look more sturdy. In this case I decided I wanted a halfwall above and below. For those of you that don't know how to achieve this kind of snap here is the basic idea. You simply add a wall under the ceiling and a railing will happily snap into place.
Its not a hard snap to get in fact it seems to rather like this exact position and doesn't jump around as much as other snaps often do. Simply remove the wall and hey presto you have a halfwall above and below.
You can sink the top railing so it snaps to the bottom one or keep it sitting on top of the ceiling. I kept it on the ceiling as I wanted the nice line that it produces.
This is the first section of wall I did. I wanted to see if I could add some basic scrolls to a wall. I could have made them 3d but I wanted something more in line with being an actual wall. When building a wall as long as the first couple of layers are solid small dinos can't get through. The top doesn't have to be solid because bigger dinos sure as hell can't fit :)
It looks far better at night but then again I think most things do in this game :)
This is the second section of wall that I did and its far from completion. I had an idea for the next section of wall so I didn't finish this one off. Its missing its capping on the right as well as the entire outside.
I need to work on the lighting on this one but I had only chucked a few random torches in for the night shot screencap. I will repost when its complete.
Now this is my favourite! Zig zag walls and an entrance that looks nice and grand! This leads onto the walkway that I posted up top. This is why some of the walls weren't completed before moving to the next. I had an idea for this side and just went with it. If I have a good idea I often will stop what I'm doing to pursue it while it was fresh. And in this case it worked out perfect.
Here is the day shot on it. Not quite so awesome without the 'mood lighting' but its definitely got presence!
This wall I tried something new. Alternating sides I snapped tri ceilings into place and built up off them. It allowed me to make structures that didn't quite touch which shows glimpses of the outside.
It looks great at night especially as your moving around it. Lighting really makes a difference. There are times where I wish the game was all night time. Then I run into troodons and wonder what I was thinking lol.
I went with a checker board design on this wall. It was remarkably quick to put up in comparison to the other sides. Probably because its mostly just a few lines of ceilings across with some wall seperations. But again it turned out looking pretty good. I had originally thought to cap the top but I think it looks better that I didn't.
Here is the night shot. Again it needs some work done in regards to lighting so that there is better coverage. Another I will repost once I get it sorted.
The waystation was completed although looking at it now I think I may have forgotten to add the extra round of ramps to the foundations. I must check into that lol.
This sides of the waystation supports are now capped and as you can see the sections that have no support have a hollowed out groove. I wanted it to look like it just slots together :)
Here is the top telepad. Nice and basic!
And while I was up capping the top telepad I looked down to see this. I really really like how this is looking! Views like this are why I enjoy building in Ark :)
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