Government Secondary School 官立中學 – Hong Kong 1970s – Type A

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.

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

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* 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).

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

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 pre-defined color mask. That means the colors will only change for part of the building only. 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 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.

The following values are determined by the Mesh Info Mod. They give you some ideas about how well this asset is going to perform in-game. As far as I know, most of the poly counts are consumed by the external beams and the balcony.

This asset has a footprint of 6×13 whereas the longer side is facing the road. If you look at the screenshots, you can see that this asset seems to fit well in 1:1 and 1:1.5 cities. That’s because it’s scaled to a proportion between the two.

This asset doesn’t include any props, trees, parking lots or air-cons. Well, it may look empty but then you’ve all the freedom to decide where to put the school and what it should have.

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 elementary school, this asset has a better student count, coverage and cost overhead.

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.