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[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Very happy with how I managed to get these apartment lots integrated using the RHW disconnector

[matias93 7,535]

Every time I use the disconnector, got more convinced that the NAM team unadvertdly invented their own swiss army knife

[CT14 2,486]

@Thin White Duke can you please explain like I'm five? I can't tell from looking, how the disconnector comes into play. Thanks in advance.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

@CT14 The street junctions I made that make it seem like the residential lots are connected to the rest of the infrastructural grid in my city. Here's what it would look like otherwise:

[korver 27,686]

In the heart of the jungle lies a beautiful city..

You can see Manaus and the rest of my CJ update "The Amazon" here.

 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

[rsc204 21,866]

On ‎08‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 10:08 AM, Thin White Duke said:

@CT14 The street junctions I made that make it seem like the residential lots are connected to the rest of the infrastructural grid in my city. Here's what it would look like otherwise:

Cool... I couldn't quite work it out either, this is much simpler than the trick I normally use with rail viaduct pieces, very useful.

[Compdude787 916]

I'm not exactly familiar with the whole fake street junction method. Do you have to do it before zoning, or can you do it after things develop? If so, how?

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

I pride myself on my realistic commercial centers!

 

 

 

[CorinaMarie 29,891]

I suppose this could go in the industrial area thread, but my intent was to create the residential homes as if the factories's soot was all over them. I first had to convince medium wealth to move in. And then to move out.

(Yes, it's just the vanilla game.)

[SecretMbr_735754 2,158]

This is a picture I like because it is what SC4 can generate in simulation (gameplay) with its stock buildings and props.  All I plopped here was the landmark museum and the roads, SC4 did the rest automatically.  Sometimes its interesting to see what amazing organization can happen at random.  This picture is from a large city tile that I recently completed as a demo of playing SC4 in complete stock (vanilla) mode without using any cheats, mods, or tricks.  I wrote a journal as I went along describing how I managed the gaming aspect of SC4 to realizing a successful large scale city that is functional, balanced, and attractive.

  Edited September 23, 2017 by RandyE  
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[rsc204 21,866]

On 10/12/2016 at 9:19 PM, Compdude787 said:

I'm not exactly familiar with the whole fake street junction method. Do you have to do it before zoning, or can you do it after things develop? If so, how?

Make either a T or 4-way junction, use the disconnector on one or more sides and it leaves behind a street connection that appears to be running into a lot. It should be done before either zoning or plopping a lot, because you need to drag the connection out before you can use the disconnector. Otherwise the stub won't appear and dragging it will either mess with a grown lot or simply not be possible in the case of a ploppable. 

[TakemeThere 5,834]

A little close-up mosaic I stitched together from a couple pics

[art128 4,622]

That lone Countach on the bridge is neat.

[matias93 7,535]

Ciudad del Lago's Plaza de Armas.

Literally "square of arms", it was common on colonial latin america to store arsenals on the main city square, where usually the town market was held, on front of the gubernatorial palace. In this case, the 18th century refurbished Palacio Colorado ("Red Palace") dominates the scene, now occupied by the municipal government; at the east, the Orthodox-styled Catedral Mayor separates the square from the homonymous avenue, while the south and east blocks host commercial buildings: the 1880s Galería Francia at the west and the headquarters of El Tribuno newspaper, the oldest standing media company in the country.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

I just like this picture

[simmytu 605]

A random picture from Staatsbergen. On the right side of the picture you can see the remains of Leona square and Leona clock tower. Some 40 years ago this area was filled with the classic grachtenpanden (Dutch canal homes) but during the reconstruction and city's rebranding1 years most of them got torn down to make room for high density multifunctional towers.

1 That's what the city counsel told to its citizens.

[korver 27,686]

Pisa's Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles).. featuring the world famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

You can check out the rest of my "Scenes From Europe" update here.

 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

The densest neighbourhood in Quigley.

A typical downtown block in Quigley.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Not too much of a closeup but it's about the details of everything on slopes.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Hooray for custom foundations! The slope game would be so different if we had the possibility in the LE to line out areas that must remain level so that the game engine would adapt the remaining lot to the situation. Look at the swimming pool in the garden of that building halfways towards the bottom left - that would be such a case. Even turning off the "Orient to Slope" property for that prop (family?) would have helped a bit, but then again one edge of the pool may be floating in thin air... So yeah, drawing a "level box" around such assets would have been a great feature. Well, we got SC:S and SimCity instead because EA had moved themselves into a cul-de-sac with SimCity 4 and there was no way to get more out of this direction of the game concept, right? Right?

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I love it when people spot sloped swimming pools and turn it into a rant about how Maxis has failed us. Way to go, Kriechtier König!

[philforhockey51 4,220]

So I put together some pics of what I did for a little uneven area

Add some buildings that overhang

Reverse view, adding some Paeng PedMalls

Some more PedMalls and stairs

Flip it back around, start adding MMP landscape

[Compdude787 916]

Nice work!!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Diswaye, Datwaye

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

West Erinsberg.

[tonyr 926]

Eamonn Isle.

[raynev1 1,887]

@tonyr Nicely composed , I like the fountain surrounded with those plazas and that is an interesting street layout in that scene . Sweet .

@Ln X The park above the Staple Center and the parking below looks fantastic . Nice job .

A wonderful mosaic and some incredible SC4 scenes . Bravo guys . 

[Edvarz 1,985]

A couple of scenes from west Aurora's Centro Urbano.

I love how this area turned out, with lots of details to be seen everywhere, and this is just a small part of the whole district (which I will show later, when it's completed).

[T Wrecks 10,210]

One thing I particularly like about this scene is how you managed to integrate that smooth curve. Neat!