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Aurora Melbourne Central

Aurora Melbourne Central is 269 meter, 88 floor residential skyscraper currently under construction in Melbourne Australia. If you enjoy this building, please hit the like button!

Asset Stats:
Main Mesh: 6634 Tris
Custom LOD Mesh: 1951 Tris
Lot Size: 13x6 (Blank space on the side)

Main Textures: 2048x2048 (Diffuse, Specular, Normal and Illumination)
Custom LOD Texture: 512x512 (Diffuse, Specular, Illumination)

RICO Settings: None, decided it was easy enough to add settings. May add if there is enough demand. Should be found under Level 6 Unique Buildings. For reference, Aurora will have 941 residential apartments and another 208 serviced (ie. executive) apartments.

About:
Ququee͠ suggested trying a couple of towers in Melbourne. Aurora piqued my interest enough to try although I think this may be the last for a while as UV mapping tall towers is quite boring. I tried to stick to the plans as close as possible although I didn't add the balconies on the lower floors as it was going to be a hassle to map properly and I wanted to dedicate the larger texture space to the main windows.

The building will feature LED lights that are multi-colored and are animated. While that may be theoretically possible to emulate using Ronyx69's Custom Light Effects, I was a bit over with this project, so I added a few "purple" strips up the tower that I have illuminated as well at night.

I may get up some furniture and a pool decal on the workshop to put up on the Stratus Club deck that is thematically similar to the renders that I found online on what it should look like, but in the interim I would recommend checking out the furniture pack by Polygon as I will be emulating that style for the larger couches.

As a final note for those re-creating Melbourne. The Eureka Tower by Adamdabuilder appears to be a bit smaller than my model of Aurora Melbourne Central. I realised this after placing them side by side that my building is taller although in reality should be about 20 metres smaller, but given that they aren't in the same suburb, should be fine :-).

For those interested, this is the Australia Coast HD map theme by pdelmo.