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The Empress  1.0

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Actual Landmark in Victoria Canada. Hotel/ Conference Center designed by Francis Rattenbury. A very detailed recreation with a careful eye to minor details. Sadly I couldn't recreate the peaked roofs. Enjoy!

 

Created using Ilive reader, Gimp, Lot Editor.

 

P.S. This took a LONG time to make. If you have any problems with this please post before you bash and I will try to fix them.

 

Take a look at the real thing:

 

http://www.disordered.org/travel/CA/Empress.jpg

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omg. I regonized the building before even reading the name! Good Job! Too bad the trees werent wierd shaped in the front, lol
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velazquez1983, you need to unpack the file in c:\My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins. If its already there, delete it and try again. Remember that it's a zip, and won't work without being unpacked. Also check out the new and improved madmax center if you're interested.
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I admire your attention to detail, and appreciation of realistic perspective of space. Keep up the good work, I'd like to see more than 2 lot creations next to your name!

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Hey, Never thought I'd see a landmark created for Victoria, BC Canada! I live blocks away from the Empress Hotel! Thanks!
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Guest jbreweral2or

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I'm using the Mac version of the game and when I use this lot I'm only seeing a small hotel and airport terminal. Is there something I'm missing?

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I'm not really sure about mac (no offense). Are the lot editor and prop plugins available for the mac version? I designed the lot on a PC, so my be a mac-PC thing. If you do have lot editor, mybe you could try opening the lot and re-saving it with the editor. That might take care of it...

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Guest jbreweral2or

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I don't think lot editor is available yet. It took them a year just to port the game. Here's a question, though. Is the lot editor a plug-in or a standalone program? If it's a plugin I could probably use it, though I'm not "allowed" to download anything from Maxis.

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Guest jlin5

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Bravo building. Appreciate your hard working

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Guest mayflower20

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This looks great, and plopped into my city just fine!

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I have been going through the Lex for I don't know how many times and just realized this one now.Man, that's GOOD.I usually don't rate anything , but I had to give this one an 8,one of the highest.

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I'm from Kansas, but I just got back from Canada, I walked by that place wondering what it was. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THAT'S A HOTEL!!! But what does it do?

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Love it. used to ride my bike past it everyday on my way to work. Keen eye to detail. Maybe try Hotel Vancouver next?

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