Show us your Region!

[blunder 1,079]

Started with blade2k5's Somewhere In the World #6 back in 2010, then decided to splice it together with #7 for fun a couple years back. Current population is ~7.2 million. For some reason Region Census cut off the lower left hand corner.

 

 

I love both those maps, and i love what you've done with them. 

 

funfact: a lot of those SWITW maps of blade's are of parts of alaska.  here.

[Toby Ferrian 873]

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Wonderful region! Great work with the trees, how'd you do those?

Meanwhile here's Redwolf at 850,000 sims...

[Toby Ferrian 873]

Wonderful region! Great work with the trees, how'd you do those?

With the

I carefully painted trees along the edge of every beach and then filled in the rest of the terrain, keeping the beaches (mostly) empty.

[timmie 988]

Wonderful region! Great work with the trees, how'd you do those?

Meanwhile here's Redwolf at 850,000 sims...

 

Dat sprawl!

 

How do you do that thing with flipping the image?

 

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Vloesem, 1.17 million inhabitants

[TPB 562]

Howdy guys, I learned how to make animated GIF's, this is my first one:

 

 

Click here for full-size. (large file)

 

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About the trees, let me share my method for quick-planting. Most credit goes to Vortext for teaching me.

 

You need Standalone Flora Brush which turns your god mode tree brush into a massive circle that can cover your whole tile.

 

Then you need to activate ClickLock in your mouse settings. Google can help you if you don't know how : )

 

Now, with those two things ready, open a city tile, zoom all the way out and center your mouse in the middle of the tile, then click and hold down the click for a couple of seconds.

 

Now release the click, and ALT-TAB away to another window. Now you can continue working on whatever else you are doing, or browsing the internet, or go make some coffee, etc.

 

After a few minutes, ALT-TAB back, click once to unlock the click, save and exit to region (remember to keep focus on Simcity 4 until it has exited to region or you'll get a flat green tile in region view.)

 

Rinse and repeat for every tile, once done, remember to de-activate ClickLock as it is annoying as hell.

 

Enjoy : )

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Wonderful region! Great work with the trees, how'd you do those?

Meanwhile here's Redwolf at 850,000 sims...

Dat sprawl!

How do you do that thing with flipping the image?

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Skew the image by 33 degrees, rotate by 12.5 and then resize as you see fit. :3

[vortext 573]

Very nice regional seasonal gif TPB! You might want to add cross-fades in between seasons but I'm nitpicking really, it's awesome! 
 
And while I'm here, might as well show the current views of my region. Just passed the one year mark of RCI development and the population is a mere 17k. 
Click pictures to see full size, opens in new tab.  
 

 

[TPB 562]

Very nice regional seasonal gif TPB! You might want to add cross-fades in between seasons but I'm nitpicking really, it's awesome! 

 

And while I'm here, might as well show the current views of my region. Just passed the one year mark of RCI development and the population is a mere 17k. 

Click pictures to see full size, opens in new tab.  

 

*snip*

 

 

Cross-fading?! Yes please! I'll start Googling right away sir. 

 

That road network's gotta be the most realistic looking I have seen yet!

[panerai1 27]

 

And while I'm here, might as well show the current views of my region.

 

 

Probably my all-time favorite map. I could stare at it for hours. Really great job with that.

[AdoxxBE 289]

1st tile almost completed.

 

[Toby Ferrian 873]

1st tile almost completed.

[snip]

What terrain mod is that?

[AdoxxBE 289]

 

1st tile almost completed.

[snip]

What terrain mod is that?

 

from SimPeg

[89James89 1,169]

This is the region of Garton so far. Garton Island filled and more rural sprawl just waiting to happen!

 

 

 

Feel free to click the link in my sig to check out more of the CJ surrounding the region.

 

Cheers

 

James

[SimEMS38 246]

Hello everyone!

 

I'd like to show off my latest project, Southland. The map is called Humbolt on the STEX by panerai1 and with all the flora placed, it weighs in at 1gb!!

 

 

I plan on creating a CJ here within the next month or so, once I get a few city tiles filled up to show off.

 

The City of Hastings will lay down its roots here along the western bank of the Hastings River.

 

 

While the main core CBD will reside further west and to the south east of the reservoir. This map along with all it's neighbors will consist heavily of dense row home neighborhoods infused with industry and commerce. I'm going to be starting at the bigining of the 20th century and go on from there. Major inspirations for this region are the cities and burbs of Philadelphia, Detroit, and Los Angeles.

 

 

A shoreline that'll eventually be filled in and become a weekend getaway resort for tourists, factory workers, and white collar execs alike.

 

 

Finally a few more eye candy shots!

 

 

 

 

A big thanks again to panerai1 for uploading this map!

 

Stay tuned as Southland will be at a CJ near you in Spring 2015!!

[panerai1 27]

Hey SimEMS38, nice to see what you're doing with that map so far. I like seeing it rendered differently. What terrain mod are you using? Is it Pyrenean? Looks good man, especially in that last pic. Cascadia TC is looking good too; it seems to be the one that works best for me as well. Thanks for posting those pics. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you continue to come up with.

[SimEMS38 246]

Thanks Panerai1 and thank you for caving in and uploading the map! I'm using Lowkee's Appalachian Terrain Mod, Loch Lomond Water Mod from Gobias at SC4D, SHK HD Rock Mod #3, and the River Beach Mod by _marsh_.

Yes I'm digging Blunders Cascadia TC mod, I can't believe I missed that when it was released!

I took the weekend off from it and pretty much drooled non stop on all the lets play streams of C:SL, I'll be starting back up on it sometime this week though.

[ZeusAV 20]

Been working on this region on and off for about 10 years.  Actually had a setback on my old Windows machine back in 2005 where the computer shut itself down while I was saving and the main city tile would no longer load and I had to start it over.  Made me quit playing the game for a good 6 months because I was so upset.  

[mrsmartman 200]

^ Some density reduction might help.

[watercitymadero 804]

Isla Nublar.

 

The Island before the InGen and Masrani Projects.

 

[antsel 841]

I haven't shared pictures of my cities in a while, thought I would share the region I am currently working on.

[citycowboy 183]

how do you take a picture of the region?

 

[timmie 988]

how do you take a picture of the region?

 

You can do a normal 'Printscreen', with the dedicated button on your keyboard. Or you can use an application called 'Region Census' to make a picture of your whole region.

  Edited June 17, 2015 by timmie  

[jmsepe 2,038]

That regions looks good to me. Perhaps some tree mmps beside the river to add more aesthetics. 

[OrientBasil 15]

Eaton_Jhipolito-1433934226 by Qu@n_DN, trên Flickr

[Artimus 485]

Hey there! To give a little background history, I have started this region since February, and ever since it was born, it has gone through many terrain and landscaping revisions ever since. At this state, I am (mostly) happy with the way it is coming along so far. However, I am still planning where to put my city location... and it's gonna be a small one, that's for sure! 

[art128 4,618]

Nice! I like when farms aren't just sqares next to another and another for kilometers.

[antsel 841]

That regions looks good to me. Perhaps some tree mmps beside the river to add more aesthetics. 

I agree! It takes forever for me to paint MMPs. I tend to go full-on detail on one tiny section, it takes forever and rarely give the same effort for the rest of the rivers! 

 

Hey there! To give a little background history, I have started this region since February, and ever since it was born, it has gone through many terrain and landscaping revisions ever since. At this state, I am (mostly) happy with the way it is coming along so far. However, I am still planning where to put my city location... and it's gonna be a small one, that's for sure! 

*snip*

Nice region! I don't know why but I could never get away from the rectangular fields, I really like what you've done with yours.

[Artimus 485]

That regions looks good to me. Perhaps some tree mmps beside the river to add more aesthetics. 

I agree! It takes forever for me to paint MMPs. I tend to go full-on detail on one tiny section, it takes forever and rarely give the same effort for the rest of the rivers! 

 

 

Hey there! To give a little background history, I have started this region since February, and ever since it was born, it has gone through many terrain and landscaping revisions ever since. At this state, I am (mostly) happy with the way it is coming along so far. However, I am still planning where to put my city location... and it's gonna be a small one, that's for sure! 

*snip*

Nice region! I don't know why but I could never get away from the rectangular fields, I really like what you've done with yours.

Thanks antsel!  It is really just thinking about the shapes in an organic fashion, as if the farms expanded in different directions with varying degrees of expansion. I also try not to make them too big, otherwise it'll look ugly and it is inefficient/wasteful in terms of zoning costs and tax income.

[timmie 988]

A small side-project I'm working on. The region is called Akalla (yes, like the Stockholm suburb) and it has 523.000 inhabitants at the moment.