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[JulianMIA 1,592]

One of the public spaces in the new South Yards district...

[Arn71 802]

The East Gate and surroundings.

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

@JulianMIA are those concrete retaining walls your own creation? They're fantastic. 

[Terring 6,476]

Lot's of green, huh?

[nycsc4 5,250]

Beach Avenue in Downtown Vancouver:

[nycsc4 5,250]

Hornby Street Greenway:

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,048]

We once again visit the small charming towns north of Cameran, they've been neglected for a long while...

 

 

֍ BRIXEN ֎
TOWN CENTER SCENES

 

 

֍ MAYFIELD ֎
TOWN CENTER PANORAMA

[nycsc4 5,250]

A more residential portion of downtown Vancouver:

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

A pleasant day in Cori's Castle:

^ Horses! (and Carriages) by @justforfun

[nycsc4 5,250]

Some shots of Vancouver:

A school complex at 16th and Granville:

16th and Burrard:

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

On the main plateau in Mighty Mount is a curious monument named Zenith Capitis Quadratum.

Archaeologists claim it was formed dating back to 1370 BC (give or take a few billion years). No one knows how it got there, or what purpose it serves overlooking the settlement. However, it plays a prevalent part of the local history, as with the discovery of nearby secret tunnels and passageways. During some total solar eclipses and certain other natural phenomena, the stones glow a radiating blue. They can audibly be heard to play peaceful music which mysteriously echoes around the island.

Here it can be seen in the middle:

 

Looking from the other angle:

How the shadow of the mountain creates the sharp contrast between light and shade I thought was quite cool with the visual effect.

[Edvarz 1,985]

Closeups of streetlife in downtown Aurora. It took me ages to build my plugins folder, but it's well worth it.

 

 

 

[matias93 7,535]

This amounts to an experiment: I'm trying to get high residential densities without dilapidation, and knowing that traffic affects negatively the quality of residential lots, I guessed: what if we buffered the traffic?

So there it is, sandwiched between the lots and the road, a row of grass lots with dedicated street stumps for access. Up to this moment, I've been seeing good results, specially when sprinking some trees in there.

[Naomi57 2,985]

And who wouldn't want to live in a green leafy area with wide open spaces and reduced traffic noise.    I think it's a good look, @matias93.

I've got a slightly different set of experiments in my Brownsville, seeing what 1x1 street stubs can do for industrial zones right alongside a RHW-2.  I've also been experimenting with SAM-1 (carpark streets) lately, and 1x1 plops of SAM-1 streets look quite good.  I wonder if you'd like them for your city, too?

That is, if you do the NAM?

9 hours ago, matias93 said:

This amounts to an experiment: I'm trying to get high residential densities without dilapidation, and knowing that traffic affects negatively the quality of residential lots, I guessed: what if we buffered the traffic?

So there it is, sandwiched between the lots and the road, a row of grass lots with dedicated street stumps for access. Up to this moment, I've been seeing good results, specially when sprinking some trees in there.

[matias93 7,535]

Cool idea! I'll surely try it when zoning some new industrial areas (I'm a bit limited on space for it by now)

And when I say "limited space", I do mean it: I'm squeezing each possible terrain from this hillside, and resorting to some desperate means to move the sims up and downhill.

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

[Arn71 802]

[Don_Pato 528]

Beach and Highway in Luquenz.

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

[Haljackey 17,380]

Community centre

 

[Haljackey 17,380]

Llama merging

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

Looks like this little town is about to become urbanized as the gravel road approaches:

 

The Mayor of Corillion retired the old construction crew and replaced them with the unused subway tunneler thinger.

 

Ofc, she's driving along behind to supervise their work.

 

Here it is in SimCity_1.dat in case y'all are curious:

[carlosmarcelo 982]

55 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Here it is in SimCity_1.dat in case y'all are curious:

One minute! Did it always exist in the game and have I never seen it going around the city? 
Your magic is getting better and better! 

[Arn71 802]

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

12 hours ago, carlosmarcelo said:

One minute! Did it always exist in the game and have I never seen it going around the city? 

Tis always been there in the .dat file, but unused in the release copy of the game.

Based on some code reading, intuition, and logical theorizing, the subway tubes were originally built slowly just like above ground roads and rails and such. The tunneler is what would lead the construction crew for said subway routes. I suspect during beta testing everyone complained about the slow construction since there's nothing else to do or watch when underground so Maxis did a quick edit on the .exe side and made the subway tubes build the instant they are drawn. And ever since that tunneler has been sitting lost in the .dat file collecting electronic dust.

[JulianMIA 1,592]

Some mood lighting for the close-ups...

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

[JulianMIA 1,592]

This is still one of my favorite creations -

At the south edge of all the lead tracks that go into the huge central railway station complex there is a set of tracks that has broken off to drop down and pass under the station so trains can cross over to the eastern side of the city.  As the bullet train leaves its station it too has to tunnel under the valuable reclaimed commercial real estate to continue to the airport and points east...

I have begun going back and adding lights to many lots, realizing I neglected lighting early on in the development of this city.  I think it makes a big difference!

[JulianMIA 1,592]

Scenes and dets from around West Yards, a new integrated development on the west side of the city that I am just trying to finish up...