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Hehehe, I HAD to do this 

First is a single administrative building, that rapidlyn grows into a full community.

Then you can see a semidetached igloo, here lives the major, and due to new heating systems, he'd rapidly grow a love for exotic animals, such as monkeys, he has at least 8! This leads me to present next townhall upgrade. A bit larger and somewhat peculiar.

The final hall is an impregnable snowfort.

All in 5 minutes, oh yeah

tell me you didn't think this was serious

An arctic igloo set would be somewhat awesome...

Bring on the penguins and polar bears!!1

I have a funny picture at home about a penguin and a polar bear. I'll show it later

I made semidetached igloos!, maybe that's not an issue

@raven: True... 

@packer: I had considered adding "exept maybe in zoos" but decided against it. Guess I was wrong there...

Further studies conclude that these igloos are made from a material called "Material".

Our scientists are trying to obtain its chemical composition. We've considered this material could be useful to make white lettering, even some components of the outer body of Shinkanshens. The most optimistic of us even wonder about the disguise capabilites this material would provide to buildings above the snow line.

We'll keep you informed.

this is a snapshot of the process of snowcovering a building. Igloos are stolen from northern regions, then cutted into sections and brought to the construction site by truck. Then are raised to the exposed areas via fixed or mobile cranes. Then they need to be adapted to the surfaces they're covering, and since 'Material' seems to be very rigid at T=20ºC, special Termic Teams cut the sections into appropiately sized plaques and fix them to the structure.

It's a very expensive process, more when it has to be done every winter. This, together with the fact that little or no houses are available for sale in tropic or desert areas, make me think of some kind of high scale conspiration leaded by Material Manufacturers Inc.

Hmmm

I don't build them, just chop them out for my winter set. Tell the Iglooians about Pykerete.

Enough with the Pykerete obsession already!

Incase you didn't get raven's "joke(s)", let me explain:
Raven created the igloos in Blender
Igloos need to be white
Default surface in Blender appears as white and called "Material" (as shown in the screenshot).
Hence raven just left the models untextured - with the "material" surface.

The pictures of snow being added to the buildings are another joke, and Iglooians are fictional, in case you hadn't realised that.

Yeah, I was talking to one of the snow job guys the other day, and we got to talking about da biz.... I think he said it best:

"There's snow business, like show business, like no business I know."

And I agree. Neither show business nor snow business is like any I am familiar with.




(and now we see how far that movie and song have made it! hehehehe)

Uhm Raven,
which 3D rendering tool do you u currently use?
Maybe you can also send the adress where I may find further informations?

See also:

http://wiki.simutrans.com/tiki-index.php?page=Using+Blender+3D