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[mitsos 12,909]

5 hours ago, andrew13511 said:

What are your computer specs that allow such a massive region, if you don't mind?

AMD A-8 6600K

RADEON RX550/550 SERIES 2048 VRAM 

16Gb RAM 

and recently i changed the hard disk . Microsoft gives it 7.3 out of 7.9

[Haljackey 17,354]

Ring Of Fire progress - Feb 2021.

7 years in the making thus far.

Click images for full size

 

Also @blunder to see what's becoming on your mega-region. Fantastic place!

 

[blunder 1,079]

@Haljackey My word has it been 7 years since i posted that map?! Jeez where does the time go. Your region is looking fantastic. I see signs of a highway in the mountains; you get a chance to run any transit lines through mountain passes up there?

It almost shames me to say my region is pretty barren. I haven't really fired up the game since NAM ....32? came out (for hobbies i've taken up landscape photography, and since covid: painting ). I've got a farm grid in the northwest sector to bootstrap the industrial jobs demand for the region, but other than that and foresting up the same area i haven't done much. I'm going to have to fire it up soon.

[Haljackey 17,354]

On 2/10/2021 at 9:44 PM, blunder said:

@Haljackey

I see signs of a highway in the mountains; you get a chance to run any transit lines through mountain passes up there?

Oh yeah I got a railroad that heads up into the mountains. This vid, while on a highway, parallels the railway for a good chunk of the way down if interested.

 

 

[kschmidt 6,178]

On 2/11/2021 at 3:44 AM, blunder said:

@Haljackey My word has it been 7 years since i posted that map?! Jeez where does the time go. Your region is looking fantastic. I see signs of a highway in the mountains; you get a chance to run any transit lines through mountain passes up there?

It almost shames me to say my region is pretty barren. I haven't really fired up the game since NAM ....32? came out (for hobbies i've taken up landscape photography, and since covid: painting ). I've got a farm grid in the northwest sector to bootstrap the industrial jobs demand for the region, but other than that and foresting up the same area i haven't done much. I'm going to have to fire it up soon.

Devotion is hard to keep up ! Since 2015 I continiously worked on two regions, summer and winter during 5 years with both little developing customs wich afther so long time want to replace with a new fresh look. Mountain´s of new came out still mostly older added still not new. Finaly I am about finished with these regions I am asamble an new fresh custom plugins you have the hard task select those customs mods wich will make a difference. Illiminating the maxis stuff by using replacement HD trees, replacement alternative houses for low density area´s and agriculture. Airport, harbour, rail alternative sets and textures. Regional terrain, road, sidewalk idea´s, parks. Theme tropical, temperate, rural, city or both. NAM 31.1 and 32 I aswell stayed for a longtime as 33 and 34 wheren´t very great yet. Nostalgic I now have 31.2 so some features wich wheren´t working got corrected, I now updated to NAM 36 the last of the old installation format line, wich now is fully ready for the next new region to fire up. Except gameplay, hardest part of the SimCity experience is sellecting the custom content, not choosing to many old stuff, not to much new, yet have some basic growable lots and plopables to make it stand out from anything made !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[RobertLM78 1,598]

4 hours ago, Haljackey said:

This vid, while on a highway, parallels the railway for a good chunk of the way down if interested.

Music reminds me of the  style of music in the F-Zero series...

I really enjoyed the vid... i've always wondered though, how do you do the transitions between city tiles? 

[Haljackey 17,354]

17 hours ago, RobertLM78 said:

Music reminds me of the  style of music in the F-Zero series...

I really enjoyed the vid... i've always wondered though, how do you do the transitions between city tiles? 

Thanks! The music from this video is actually from Mario Kart 64, Paper Mario and Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past. It does give me thoughts of F-Zero now thinking about it lol.

As for transitions, it's fairly simple. End the recording when you reach the end of a city. Load up the next city. Drive to the edge of town, and then continue. That's why you often see police stations at the edge of the city tile so I can spawn a car there.

Once it's all done, stitch the recordings together in a video editing program (I use Sony Vegas). Add some tunes and whatever other effects you want and you're good to go!

[RobertLM78 1,598]

5 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Thanks! The music from this video is actually from Mario Kart 64, Paper Mario and Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past. It does give me thoughts of F-Zero now thinking about it lol.

I was mostly thinking the first tune -- definitely recognize the Zelda tune (you've used it before) -- that one is awesome (you got good taste in general there I might add, having kept a few of your vids not only for SC4,  but for the music as well)

5 hours ago, Haljackey said:

As for transitions, it's fairly simple. End the recording when you reach the end of a city. Load up the next city. Drive to the edge of town, and then continue. That's why you often see police stations at the edge of the city tile so I can spawn a car there.

Once it's all done, stitch the recordings together in a video editing program (I use Sony Vegas). Add some tunes and whatever other effects you want and you're good to go!

I figured it might be something like that but then I was thinking you need to get the same vehicle *and* be able to get to the location easily.  So the police station can have any vehicle spawn there?  That's good to know.  It'd be cool if there was a mod  that did all this automatically (closed the city when you reach the edge and load up a new one, placing you were you should be).

[Haljackey 17,354]

6 hours ago, RobertLM78 said:

So the police station can have any vehicle spawn there?  That's good to know.  It'd be cool if there was a mod  that did all this automatically (closed the city when you reach the edge and load up a new one, placing you were you should be).

The police station just spawns police cars, and vans if you have a larger station.

So I just have a mod that replaces the police van which I use for most of my UDI videos.

As for a mod, it would be a nice to have, especially for non-road networks. It's hard to do a rail UDI video for example since you need a train to spawn right at the edge for best effect. That is harder to pull off.

[CorinaMarie 29,771]

4 hours ago, Haljackey said:

As for a mod, it would be a nice to have, especially for non-road networks. It's hard to do a rail UDI video for example since you need a train to spawn right at the edge for best effect. That is harder to pull off.

I've no idea if this would help or not, but if you used SW77 Train Generators would that then let said train spawn at the edge of the city tile when using the udriveit code?

[blunder 1,079]

On 2/12/2021 at 8:43 AM, Haljackey said:

Oh yeah I got a railroad that heads up into the mountains. This vid, while on a highway, parallels the railway for a good chunk of the way down if interested.

 

 

Nice, thanks for sharing.

~cheers

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

     Slowly but surely, the Kingdom of Borike readies for its formal debut! Just need to render the northeastern city districts!!     

 

[JojiTX 765]

Well, I created my region about a year ago and finally I'm getting to work on it. Above is just the road map so far. Most of it will be based on modern suburbia with some freeways in between and a bunch of connecting arterial roads. I think it's coming along well although, as unnatural as it sounds, I kind of want all or most of the roads and infrastructure to be made before I start zoning/building. And I'll probably start out with a small town out west so that the often neglected agriculture demand is met.

[Haljackey 17,354]

Updated region view- June 2021

Click em for full size.

https://i.imgur.com/0ETNYMk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UxsyDjC.jpg

[JojiTX 765]

So... I'm finally about to kick-start the economy of this region, but that caused me to get a little caried away...

The shape is odd because that's only just what's been terraformed. The original region was roughly 154 square miles... the updated region is 677. I decided I wanted to do some small towns out west, but I wanted them to actually look and feel far away, so I expanded the region and moved everything to the southeast. And I also decided I did want to do a big city with a downtown area, a ghetto and more so yeah. All worked out. I'm about to start a town out west based on Fredericksburg, TX. And once everything is connected, I can start building up the suburbs without having to go through the annoying early processes of starting a city with small shacks and shops.

[art128 4,618]

90% of the coastline is now developed. Only left are the harbor, the navy base and some shrines.. And with that the region just checked the 300K inhabitants mark.
 

[Karma Fiend 30]

[matias93 7,535]

Impressive how much foresting improves the look of terrains!

[Haljackey 17,354]

Even with 40 million sims, I am continuing to terraform my region as I continue to expand outwards.

2018

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2021

 

*BTW the 2014 interchange challenge tile is almost fully integrated in my region. Just need to carve out a corridor to get the N/S rail line hooked up.

[JojiTX 765]

Population just hit 20000. 7500 from Lindenburg to the northwest, 12500 from Colony Lakes.

Sprawl could be going quicker but I'm too obsessed with finishing out each individual neighborhood one by one. But I did finally get a freeway started. Time to watch a whole bunch of tutorials because I'm definitely not trying to cut corners with that LOL.

[Odainsaker 2,135]

Greater Tokyo.

My current region plaything is not really developed yet and only a few cities have so far been properly rendered and tree-filled, but still...

I'm so far just trying to get a feel for making such a region and testing to see if my older computer cooperates with its extreme size.  This is a scale-accurate region of 30 x 46 large cities, around 1380 in all, representing an area of 188.416 km x 122.880 km of the southern Kanto Plain and Yamanashi Prefecture focused around central Tokyo and Mt. Fuji.  Terrain comes from somewhat dated 30-meter ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map Version 3 data processed in MicroDEM-64 2016.4.28.199.  A 7681 x 11777 pixel, 16-bit PNG image largely edited in GIMP 2.10.18 was imported using SC4 Mapper 2013 with applied 4 GB Patch, as SC4 Terraformer cannot handle such a large map.  As Region Census also cannot handle the map, the region view shown here was exported by the SimCity4 StartupManager Version 3.0 also with the 4 GB Patch applied.  The config.bmp is 120 x 184 pixels.  Naturally, SimCity 4 also needs the 4 GB Patch to use the region.

The exported region view was originally 17594 x 10560 pixels.  To overcome the horizontal scroll issue that begins impacting maps at 31 x 31 in size, leaving the furthest right-hand corner tiles unreachable, this map instead stretches 46 tiles vertically and is rotated 90° clockwise such that north now points towards the lower right side.  This orientation is unusual in that it puts the westward Mt. Fuji visually above central Tokyo, and, in usual map conventions, to the north of Tokyo.  However, this was actually a common way to depict Tokyo and old Edo in historical Japanese maps and panorama scenes, which often arranged orientation based on social, geomantic, and artistic hierarchy before later adopting modern conventions.  The looming sacred mountain, the direction of the distant imperial seat in Kyoto, and the castle of the governing shogun would all thus be depicted above the city of commoners in the drainage lowlands.

Juggling Google Earth Pro shows that the area of interest roughly looks like this:

 

Noteworthy cities that would be in this map include Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Chiba, Funabashi, Yokosuka, Saitama, Kawagoe, Sagamihara, Hachioji, Kamakura, Odawara, Atami, Hakone, Mishima, Numazu, Fuji, Fujinomiya, Kofu, Chichibu, Tsukuba, Tsuchiura, Narita, Kisarazu, and Kamogawa.  It is possible to not rotate the map and instead choose an area of interest that cuts out Mt. Fuji in favor of showing more of the northern Kanto Plain, but, after some comparison, I thought this region view was more interesting.

 

Just to be sure that this is really working and that I can load between two such regions, here is a similarly-sized Greater Osaka...

I have not yet really drawn out the many above-sea-level rivers and other waterways in either of these maps, but, I did start tree-filling Kyoto just to see it with all the red autumn foliage.  Cities here include Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Sakai, Amagasaki, Nishinomiya, Otsu, Nara, Asuka, Fujiwara-kyo, Nagaoka-kyo, Fukuhara-kyo, Uji, Iga, Wakayama, Tokushima, Akashi, Sasayama, Himeji, and Ako.  This region map still needs a bit more jostling as to where it is cropped along with some tweaking to the config.bmp, so that certain significant features fit neatly within certain tiles.

The area of interest:

This map is rotated 90° counterclockwise from conventional depictions to fit the longer vertical dimension of the region.  Once again, this orientation can similarly be found in historical maps of Osaka, which typically depicted its great lord's castle with visual precedence above the common commercial city and its drainage.  This region map similarly maintains Kyoto and various sacred mountains in their own visually higher positions.  Feng shui and onmyoudou geomancy must be auspiciously maintained, even in SimCity!

In truth, I don't really expect these to ever be really playable or fully developed.  Even at the rate of diligently playing 1 new city every day, it would take years to touch every city in these maps.

[Ssaidd 1,325]

Region name: Willburn
Cities: 5 cities

just a standard terrain/region 
one photo from each city

[CarstenB 660]

Here is the City of Aberdeen.

[Pedjica 43]

Here is one of the regions I am working on. 

I downloaded Arsheesh Islands from the STEX, here is the linkie: 

 

I am making this without any concrete plan, I build what I seem to be interesting.
I do have a rough Idea where to zone. Since SC4 is based on euclidean zoning type, buildings are either commercial, residential or industrial. No mixed use building.
So I marked the areas how I will build based on density, not the specific zone type SC4 allows you to build. The areas will be all mixed zones with mostly commercial and residential, with industry placed in specific parts of the islands. I marked blue as high density, green as low to mid density, orange as industrial and sea port areas and yellow agriculture.

Here the regional view 

Transportation layout so far.

The zones based on density (blue - high density residential and commercial; green - low to mid density residential and commercial; orange - industrial/port; yellow - agriculture)

I am always open to suggestions, and would love to see your suggestions and ideas. 

[Haljackey 17,354]

Updated region view as of today (sept 21, 2021)

Click images for full size- they are quite large

Click me for high res

 

Transport

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[monkeywater 910]

That region is masive!  what map and how many population so far?

[Leo -- 186]

26 minutes ago, monkeywater said:

That region is masive!  what map and how many population so far?

Its a modified Ring of Fire.

 

[Haljackey 17,354]

23 hours ago, monkeywater said:

That region is masive!  what map and how many population so far?

Yep ring of fire.

 

Here's a larger breakdown from the census repository

 

[Leo -- 186]

29 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

 

Wow only High Tech?! Are you going to add any ID/IM to your region?

[Haljackey 17,354]

18 hours ago, Leo -- said:

Wow only High Tech?! Are you going to add any ID/IM to your region?

You're looking at the stats for this city only which is 99% commercial, 1% industrial. There's more industry elsewhere in the region. If you look at the bottom right of that region census screenshot, there are 650k industrial jobs in the region. There are only 6.5k industrial jobs in this city (all high tech) and that represents just 1% of the total industrial workforce in my region.