Show us your Region!

[jacqulina 162]

what fantastic regions

[mightygoose 92]

sir duskington 152 million, your seen to be approching the 200million milestone, i pray thou doth reach it. splendid accomplishment sirs.

[psteverific 8]

mambomumba: Yeah... thats the one, but I'm only using part of it.

Wish I could remember who made it, it's a brilliant map, in my opinion

Pixelrage:  I know what you mean, i almost cried when it happened, but... no, I don't want to tell you the name of the mod, it was never the mods fault, it was entirly the users.

I mis-read the read me, plain and simple. Basically, every single city tile is covered with a layer of hundreds of invisible trees, and when an invisible tree gets destroyed, either by my building something over it or a zoned tile containing an invisible tree grows a building, the game crashes. But here's the stupidest part... I managed to paint each and every city tile with three diferent brushes before i figured out the problem!

The lessons to be learned here are: >Read carefully the read me files with mods , and

                                                                >Back up your cities when trying something new, especially a global mod.

Although, I must admit, I'm still a bit timid when it comes to terrain and water mods

[shivsood 5]

DT do you have a cj?

[mambomumba 8]

psteverific: You did the right thing using only parts of it, it's too big to be filled, just look at my city, it only covers a tiny corner! 

I guess it's this one we're using: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=10945

[owenluby 1]

all very good! Theyre all looking really cool. I love that one with 151 million population. That looks awesome DuskTrooper!

[Battlecat 14]

Hey, might as well join the fray here!  Here's a shot of my current region, Terra:

[Pixelrage 34]

Battlecat, are you using a terrain mod? It looks a lot greener than the default texture

[mambomumba 8]

What a great region, Battlecat! I love the volcano and the farm mosaic. CJ?

pixelrage: I'm pretty sure he uses Cycledogg's...

[Battlecat 14]

Originally posted by: Pixelrage Battlecat, are you using a terrain mod? It looks a lot greener than the default texturequote>

 

What you see there is Cycledogg's Olympic Terrain mod, one of the three new ones he released.  Plus there are a lot of trees on top of it all.  

Oh and yes that is from my city journal Mambomumba, the link is in my signature. 

[Pixelrage 34]

It looks nice!! I'll have to try it out. I hate sacrificing the colombus terrain, though.

[mambomumba 8]

Battlecat: So you had a Cj! Sorry for not being attentive enough to see your link..   I'm off for a visit right now!

ThePeoplesPerson: Holy, Holy! I guess I'm off to visit your CJ too! That pic is really great!

[sanantonio 0]

An early start to a small region

Maximum image size is 800 x 600 - MM

[Dark_Jedi06 13]

Full, up to date region shot of the Rhineland-Pfalz area from my City Journal:

Not alot...but hey, I build slowly.

[_Enzo_ 0]

wow ! these are really greats regions views. serious work over there...

Dusktrooper, Battlecat, ThePeoplePersons could you tell what is the size of your region in term of pixel for instance in config.bmp ? they seems very very big.

Mambomumba, your config.bmp is 32x32 isn't ?

I've thought we have to stay under 16x16 in config.bmp.

thx

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

My config is 64x32 (Yes, its an absolutely massive region, took about an hour to render on my fairly powerful computer). Mind you probably about 1/3 of that is water surrounding the island.

[DuskTrooper 314]

Spa: AFAIK, the sprawl will just keep going and going and going...

Mightygoose: Thanks, and I shall see about that..

Shivsood: As a matter of fact, I do.  Search for Montaukshire.

_Enzo_: My config .bmp is 100x125.  It used to be larger, but, I cropped it, to reduce loading times.  Most of the image bck then was empty space.

[capitol1 1]

Holy cow poke dusktrooper. How long does it take to load a city tile with all of that stuff???

Heres my region. Not that spectacualar and not even finished yet.

Population:403,700

[_Enzo_ 0]

argh ! 64x32, 100x125 what kind of computer do you have guys ?

BTW, do you terraform with in-game tools or do you use some mod ?

thanks for sharing the view of your region really great.

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

I always grab the great regions made off the stex, and then do minor terraforming as I go. I find the maps on the stex can be awesome templates, and there's so many that you're bound to find one close to what you're looking for. Then you can just add mountains, rivers, lakes, whatever you see fit to suit what you're going for.

As for my computer I'm using P3.4, GF 6800, and 1gb of ram.

I couldn't see loading a 100x125 region, especially when a 64x32 took my computer 1 hour to render. Must have left it overnight lol.

[Joe 90 358]

Originally posted by: ThePeoplesPerson

I always grab the great regions made off the stex, and then do minor terraforming as I go. I find the maps on the stex can be awesome templates, and there's so many that you're bound to find one close to what you're looking for. Then you can just add mountains, rivers, lakes, whatever you see fit to suit what you're going for.

quote>

It's a good way to go. There are some awesome maps on the STEX produced by some very talented people and it'd be wrong to just leave them there.

With my region (shown somewhere back on the first page), I actually started with about a dozen downloaded maps, and created a frankenmap out of the bits I liked. It's not exactly easy to match up all the seams, and there has been significant in-game terraforming to make things look right, but I was really pleased with the number of different landscapes I ended up with in my region.

Maybe something for those with photoshop and some spare time to try sometime...

[kaploosh 0]

I thought psteverific's farm region was cool. Lots of impressive curved roads.

[mambomumba 8]

Originally posted by _Enzo_: Mambomumba, your config.bmp is 32x32 isn't ? quote>

Nope. It's 32x24, but you we're close!  

[Battlecat 14]

Terra is a very large region, sized about 80x80 or so.  The screenshot I showed earlier is less than 1/4 of the region.  

My new region, Isthmusthi is much smaller at only 32x32.  Here is an early region shot:

[joe_dirt 2]

just some classics here, but with a major difference, for a long time i've always wanted to develop these regions and with this mod, its now possible.

now a 4x4 large tile region, in my opinon, much more playable than before

now a 16x16 region, the increase of size, actually makes it easier to appreciate the terraforming in the region, quite impressive in retrospect.

this tile for instance covers 8 times more than the original maxisland (in mayor mode)
i pulled this one off using the sc4terraformer and some new config files

[mattc005 2]

Here are some pics from the region that I've been working on.... all I've done so far are some of the suburbs (downtown will be on the peninsula)... if you have any ideas, please tell me!!

Sattelite:

Transport:    (dots are tunnels)

[szarkoz 8]

I love the road layout in your region mattc005, very realistic.

[MayorHawk 0]

oh my..... HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE REGIONS!?!?!?!? plz tell me!

[Bill_Gates 2]

Here's my region, New Alexandria (pop 6,092,328). I've been working on it for quite some time. A lot of work still needs to be done still, mostly the suburbs and the farms.

[dedgren 830]

Hi SimTropians:

Here's a couple of pics and larger images of my region, Three Rivers Region, as it stands today at the end of my most recent SC4 session.

Clicking on a pic will bring up a much larger verson of same (the first two run about 250-300kb, the last is almost 870 kb).

3RR is on hiatus over the next few weeks, but you are welcome to visit there in any event by clicking on the link in my sig.

#1 - Satellite View (click pic for larger image)

#2 - Transport View (click pic for larger image)

#3 Regional map (I created this a few weeks ago- it's already out of date.  click pic for larger image)

That's it.  Enjoy.  See you around in a few weeks.