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West Virginia State Capitol

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About the model
My largest project to date. Both in size, detail and resources. The building is 20 squares wide and also 20 squares in length if you place the departments. The set is modular. This consists of the main building, the departments and the connection buildings. Divided accordingly. You can place them how you like. Use Move it to move the departments and connection buildings in place.

This model has been created through my new work flow. This workflow is more detailed. This means it can also be used in first and third person games. This model has a 8192x2048 texture. The building has about 95.000 (Main) tris, 3.600 (connection) tris, 25.500 (Department) tris and a lod texture of 1024x512, 512x256x2, 256x256 and a lod model of about 1.300 tris. Normal mapped, alpha, illumination and specularmapped. They all share the same texture. Because it's quite a heavy model I had to split this in 4 parts. That's why it makes use of subbuildings. You should be able to save a lot of RAM through use of LSM.

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RICO
This is a unique building. You can always use local RICO settings if you want to use the buildings in another way for example police.

About the building
The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, the building was dedicated in 1932. Along with the West Virginia Executive Mansion it is part of the West Virginia Capitol Complex, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A Capitol Building Commission, created by the Legislature in 1921, authorized construction of the present capitol. Architect Cass Gilbert designed the buff limestone structure that was to have a final cost of just under $10 million. Construction began in 1924, the cornerstone was laid on November 5, 1930, and, after the three stages of construction were completed, Governor William G. Conley dedicated the capitol on June 20, 1932.

Gilbert liked his design of the West Virginia chamber's interior so well that he reused part of the design for the United States Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court chamber is a larger version of the one found in the West Virginia Capitol's East Wing.

The front of the building faces the Kanawha River, and the entire capitol plaza is bordered by Kanawha Boulevard East (also known as U.S. Route 60 and the Midland Trail), Greenbrier Street (also a part of Route 60 and West Virginia Route 114, where the latter terminates), California Avenue and Piedmont Road. Formerly, Washington Street passed through the plaza, but was closed off for pedestrian use. Beside the main capitol, there are two wings which lie perpendicular to the east and west ends of the building, forming an open-ended quadrangle centered on a fountain, one of three in the plaza. The two wings are connected by low causeways on the basement level. The Governor's mansion, and buildings housing a cultural center as well as several state departments and a parking garage, all occupy the area of the plaza, with several other state departments lying east of California Avenue.

The grounds include several statues, including Abraham Lincoln on the front plaza and Stonewall Jackson, a native of the state, near the southeast corner of the plaza. The Lincoln statue, known as Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Fred Torrey, depicts the President, who was in office at the time of the state's incorporation, walking at midnight, head bowed, wearing a robe over his clothes, and is located in front of the main entrance of the building, facing the river. There are also two large fountains on the grounds, in the quadrangle just behind the rear entrance of the main building and one to the northwest, between the cultural center and the Division of Motor Vehicles building, just east of the Washington Street entrance to the plaza. Also at the complex are the historic Holly Grove Mansion and the West Virginia Governor's Mansion.

Across from the Capitol complex, between Kanawha Boulevard East and the Kanawha River, lies a plaza around the Zero Mile Marker from which all highway distances in West Virginia were measured. The plaza also includes flagpoles with the American flag and the West Virginia flag as well as staircases down to the banks of the river.

Tours of the Capitol are arranged through the West Virginia Culture Center.

Changes
- 05072022 - Inverted Y axis of normal
- 05072022 - Duplicated alpha surfaces (so they are visible on both sides)
- 05072022 - Decreased specular level on most surfaces (gold should be offset more)
- 05072022 - Rotated dome, so it lines up