Berlin Reichstag
There are 3 structures in Berlin that I absolutely love — Brandenburger Tor, the Fernsehturm, and the Reichstagsgebäude. The latter best represents Berlin’s tumultuous history. The Reichstag was constructed in 1894, burned in 1933, ravaged by war in 1945, neglected destitute in ruins from 1945-1989, and finally restored to its current state in 1999, featuring a glimmering glass dome by Norman Foster. It wears its history on its sleeve. You can still see pockmarks on its facades created by artillery, tanks, and small arms fire from WW2, whose European theater ended on its doorstep. Today it houses the German Parliament (Bundestag) and attracts around 3 million visitors per year, offering the best free bird’s-eye view of the city, open every night until midnight.
AleX_BY made the first Reichstag building for Cities:Skylines in 2015. He has given me permission to update his model with a glass dome that features the semi-transparent rotor-shader.
Features:
- Scale: 1:1 (47m tall)
- new dome with detailed interior and glass exterior
- new roof textures and lighting
- separate flags and front ramp as props to allow user customization
- multiple extra glass parts: roof oculus, spiral ramp barriers, square roof barriers
- internal cubemap for Parliament seating and Adler
- original normalmap and illumination map updated
- custom LODs for all parts
- minimal props for maximum customization
Info:
Plot: 16×15 (main asset + 8 sub-buildings)
Main building TRIS: 31,982
Main building maps: 2048×2048 diffuse, normal, specular, illumination
Main building LOD tris: 113
Main building LOD maps: 1024×1024 diffuse, normal, specular, illumination
Dome internal TRIS: 8,503
Dome internal maps: 1024×512 diffuse, normal, specular, illumination
Dome LOD tris: 283
Dome LOD maps: 256×256 diffuse, alpha, spec
Transparent parts (dome floor, dome railing, square roof railings) all have low tris and small textures. The dome external glass is highly detailed at 1,728 TRIS.
Recommended plop technique:
Draw a straight vanilla road. Plop the asset. Raise and curve the road with MoveIt! so that it sits just under the prop ramp. Convert the road to an invisible road like this one by nico_oas.
This was a labor of love. Please upvote if you like!
