Government Secondary School [Type A] – Hong Kong

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Authors: Dennie Mok, LaiKanAsahi

Last revision: 26 Jun, 2021 at 04:51 UTC (1)

File size: 5.78 MB

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Description:

Abstract: This is an ideal secondary school for your city! With high capacity and coverage!





Hey! Are you looking for a secondary school asset that will fit well in your city? If so, then you’ve come to the right place! This 1970s Hong Kong-ish school building has a very iconic mid-modernist facade. One of the highlights is that it can entertain a lot of students right in the middle of your city so that with just one building you can already provide good coverage for the area. So if it convinces you, click the subscribe button and try it yourself!

What? It can hold a thousand students?! Yep, that’s how it works in real-life too! Consider the current situation in Hong Kong: 6 Grades (Y7-Y12) x 5 Classes Per Grade x 30 Students Per Class = ~1,000 Students. I know it does look big from the outside, so I guess most of you will also expect it to hold more students, like 2,000 or something. Just to remind you that although its size is thrice bigger than a primary school, it doesn’t necessarily hold 3x the amount of students. Please consider that the subjects in Secondary Education often require the use of special classrooms, like the biology labs, physics labs, etc. That’s why, even with the school size getting a lot bigger, it can barely hold more students.

If you want to know more about the design of public schools in Hong Kong, we’ve prepared a very informative page here[www.planetminecraft.com] on PlanetMinecraft that may interest you.

Architectural Style 建築風格

This asset presents you the very functionalist boxy complex that many public schools in Hong Kong were built of. To better describe style like this, we may use the these architectural terms: Modernism, Minimalism, Functionalism, International Style. Thanks to Le Corbusier who had formulated such a functional form for schools.

Real-life Reference 參考自…

– N.T. Heung Yee Kuk Yeung Long District Secondary School
– Sha Tin Government Secondary School
– Homantin Government Secondary School
– Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School
– Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School
This asset is not necessarily an exact recreation of the real object. I made a lot of adjustment to make it suitable for use in-game (and because of my limited capability).

Texturing 材質

I just got the time to apply some simple and plain textures on this asset. Though that doesn’t mean it will look bad. I did tweak the saturation and coloring so it looks kind of similar to Valex ‘s Russian projects here on the workshop. But still, I’m planning for a rework on the texturing. It’s on my schedule!

Coloring & Variations 顏色及變化

This asset includes 4 color variations: Green, Red, Orange, Blue. They’re typical paint colors for public schools in Hong Kong. For it to work you don’t have to install anything because it’s completely vanilla! Just place it and you’ll see the effect. If you want the colors to be something else, like pink, then you’ll have to install the Repaint Mod, which allows you to change the colors live in-game.

This asset has a color mask pre-defined . That means, only part of the building will have the color changed. Even with the Repaint Mod installed, you won’t be able to change the color of the entire building unless you clicked the "Colorize" button in the mod panel that overrides the mask.

If you feel that the colors are over-saturated / under-saturated, you may as well install the repaint mod to fix the issue. To do so, you simply select a shade of grey as the color overlay.

Model Stats 建模統計

The following values are bench-marked by the Mesh Info Mod. They’re good indicators for you to evaluate the performance of this asset in-game.

Triangles Count
Texture Size
Texture Component
Loading Weight

Main
~16,719 Tris [WARNING]
1024x1024px
Diffuse, Illumination, Specular, Color, Normal, Alpha
100.11 – Yellow

LOD
~700 Tris
512x512px
Diffuse, Illumination, Specular, Color
4.22 – Green

Dimensions & Scale 尺寸及比例

This asset has a footprint of 6 x 12 with the longer side facing the road. It’s designed to be placed in a 1:1 city.


This asset can be found under the Education Tab in-game. It serves as a high school under the category of Education – High School. Below are the values that may impact your gameplay. Compared to a vanilla secondary school, this asset has a better student count and coverage.

Values Summary 數值一覽
Category
Value

Construction Cost
50,000

Fire Hazard
0

Fire Tolerance
20

Garbage Accumulation
10

Maintenance Cost
1,250 ($200/w)

Sewage Accumulation
25

Water Consumption
25

Unedcuated Workers (Workman)
10

Educated Workers (Clerical Assistant)
15

Well educated Workers (Teacher)
45

Highly educated Workers (Senior Teacher)
15

Education Accumulation
100

Education Radius
1,000

Student Count
1,000

Customization Service On-Demand 客製化服務

I can attend private requests for minor adjustment. It depends on the situation whether I would apply the changes globally (to everyone) or privately (to you). Just feel free to comment below and I’ll see if I could do something for you.


This’s my second asset. You should expect this asset to be something experimental.
I’m very open to feedback and is available for free talk. Feel free to comment below and I’ll try my best to reply to each of you.

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