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Xenon wrote:Grey textures because all it building maked from TITAN
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i not think what buildings in 2100 year have brick material
Ah, I'm glad to know you didn't run away with all this misunderstanding here! About the grey, there is no problem at all in using it. But I must make my personal addendum to this:
As I've already mentioned twice or thrice somewhere else in the forums, I'm almost graduating in a construction course. It's been 4 years studying diverse subjects, and 3 years of them had a specific subject, 4 hours a week, about construction material.
After all this, I couldn't help but be fussy about the coherence of my models. Not that I'll make designs by calculating the possible resistance for each element, and the dimensions of the columns and beams and pillars and slab and so on.
But I must say that I go all-in on the following: Concrete will be the most cost-effective structural material for impact-resistant structures until our world collapses. Because concrete is cheap, is easy to apply, and after applied, is as sturdy as rock! But of course, only concrete doesn't make up for all resistance types, as any metal as well. Concrete is excellent for compression resistance, but not good at traction and shear resistance. Mettalic alloys, such as steel are the opposite to concrete in these two factors, and that makes for the creation of reinforced concrete: you add an intricate grid of mettalic beams inside the concrete while casting it.
Synthesizing the thick info, It's not good to have only metal or only concrete in a structure: the ideal is to blend both, so that you can get the best of each, making for nearly-perfect structures. The problem is that the result is a very heavy material, and that's why they're not commonly used in buildings taller than 35 floors
But our average military base buildings are
bunkerish, therefore they are meant to be short, heavy and sturdy!
In my late "New Structure Models" topic, the conclusion I ran into, asking the community, was that the most "warzonish" feel is that of
Bunkerish, rough & sturdy, metal-clad structures. I've then started to work on new structures that would have a cohese style (so that the base would indeed look like a base, and not just some buildings put together), but my work ended due to a long series of events.
But oh, well, even if you take a look at the technology tree, you'll see that the materials are concrete (mostly fictional) variations! The ones from the base structures are not mentioned, but the ones from all the defensive structures are. But thinking about it, it'd make sense that the structural materials are similar, since the base structures need to be resistant to attacks as well.
In the end, I think that it's okay to keep 'em grey, but should work a bit more on the reinforced-concrete concept, because the technology info really points towards it!
Sorry for the long post, I've got inspired
