City of EDMONTON

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

 

I'm making Edmonton to an exact scale over the next few years. First by hand terraforming every square ft. of the city. The river valley will be as deep and wide as the real thing. The region will run from (winterburn rd. in the west to Highway 14 in the east, and around 190th in the north to baseline rd 0ave in the south). For anyone who knows the city they should be able to realy apprieciate the work put into the region and later the building of nearly every building in such a large city. And for those who dont know Edmonton its a great region to build in which includes a 45km river valley that is miles wide and lined with parks. Please enjoy the progress and leave what you think!

 

[+Guest]

Isn't Edmonton the city where the world's largest mall is located? I'm looking foward to see your city. Good luck.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

This is a picture of the SW end of the city. And yeah Edmonton has the largest mall in the world. I'll have to create that with LE somehow....Its the size of a small city lot.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Edit / fix :

This is a picture of the area shown above as seen from somewhat the same angle but on Google Earth.

[Minotaur420 2]

you did that all my hand?!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

I did.....I divided a map up and made a scale...So when I work on each lot I know how many sqaures to move before making ravines and what not.....Each one takes 20min to a few hrs. The map above is only SW Edmonton.....I have alot of the city to do...away from the river valley the city doesnt gain much hieght. But in SC terms to get a road out of the valley you have to make it 13 sqaures long.....To give you a bit of scale. Edmontons river valley is the largest area of parkland in a city and is 21 times the size of central park!  

 

 

 

[Timmie19 0]

He i spoke to you on msn chat
Nice region looks great to built on.
and alot building space, keep up the good work, cya next time in chat, byebye

Timmie19

[eppisgood 6]

I've visited Edmonton 7-8 years ago when my marching band flew to Calgary to play in the stampede, and we took a day trip to the Edmonton Mall.. they could've made it a week trip and we still wouldn't have seen it all.

 

Beforehand, the busses drove us around on kind of a sight seeing tour for the chapparones (sp?).  Most of my fellow students didn't really pay attention but I thought it was a great looking town and I tried to make it on SC but gave up because it couldn't even come close. 

 

 

 

 

[ALTX 40]

hey so when do we get to see some screens TJD?

 

and whats with the little devil after the River Valley SS?

 

err.... or the park thats bigger than central park ss

[brett_131 0]

hehe...i live in edmonton, here are some pics of the mall, (West Edmonton Mall)

 

thats the waterpark

 

thats the lake, you can see the submarines and the dolphins

 

for more pics and maps and stuff go to:

 

http://www.westedmontonmall.com

 

(hey i just noticed, the closest indoor shopping center to my house is the largest in the world)

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Thanks for your post......I have some more work to do before my next post.....The river valley takes alot of time. And ALTX the river valley is 21 times the size of central park. A few km wide and 45km long threw the city! Key feature for the region.

[SkyTearer 10]

Real dolphins??? In Canada??? or sculptures?

[brett_131 0]

alberta is landlocked, there in an aquarium in the mall...lol

 

there is some dolphins that do live in the oceans however, we saw some on a ferry from st.john to some little town in nove scotia

[beebs 129]

Nice...I live in Edmonton as well. I noticed that you have riverbend as a seperate area...are you gonna tax the low wealth like mad to keep em out?

[brett_131 0]

Riverbend is crazy nice...i love it there, i live in the callingwood area on the map, and i would like to tax out the R$ but there is some super huge $$$ houses in the same area right near me, that are going up right now and a bunch of new $$ houses (thats me!!!), a bunch of older $$ houses and some $ closer to callingwood shopping center and to the whitemud

[heraldiii 13]

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I would really REALLY like to hear any tips you have learned on hand-terraforming as you go. Especially with regard to fine-tuning the river beltway. Seems the hardest thing to accomplish is using the valley tools to create accurate river beds...

I want to make a somewhat scale version of Dallas/Fort Worth, but i haven;t been able to get the USGS map to do what i want. We have a "river," the Trinity - it's actually a very narrow channel that winds south of downtown, with lots of marshy land on either side (i.e., it only looks like a river when it rains a lot) - SC4 doesn't seem to know how to deal with this low land...

thanks in advance

[beebs 129]

Brett: Meh...its kinda boring with all the plain stucco houses

[ed_diaz 10]

i wish you alot of luck with this man!.. Q. if your from canada, why does your nick name say Jersey? lol.

 

i wanted to recreate Saint John here in New Brunswick , but i was like "Nah".. it only has a city pop. of 79k and a region pop. of only 121k. and theres only like 4 high rises lol.

[brett_131 0]

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On 8/30/2003 10:38:50 PM beebs wrote:Brett: Meh...its kinda boring with all the plain stucco houses

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riverbend, or callingwood?

[RobledoRessainance 36]

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On 8/28/2003 10:50:32 PM brett_131 wrote:

hehe...i live in edmonton, here are some pics of the mall, (West Edmonton Mall)

 

thats the waterpark

 

thats the lake, you can see the submarines and the dolphins

 

for more pics and maps and stuff go to:

 

http://www.westedmontonmall.com

 

(hey i just noticed, the closest indoor shopping center to my house is the largest in the world)

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Beautiful mall! I can't imagine what I can do there! I love shopping! I'd never get out from that place!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

-Thanx for all the replies. Keep them coming -

Too answer a few questions....

-I'm the JerseyDevil becuase I'm crazy about my hockey team! But I love Edmonton.

-And some tricks about doing the whole region by hand. I find using the valley tool hard for persision. What I do is use the level land then I found the proper hieght of the raised lands of Edmonton. On a map of Edm I messure to the edge of where the valley would begin and end it with cliffs. Now I end up with a large gap between the top and the river valley. To soften these edges and to give it the look of the real thing I use the plains tool. But to do it as it looks you need to know what areas are cliffs cut by the river and parts that slowly roll into the valley...Luckily I've lived in Edmonton all 23yrs of my life so I know the city very well.

-Please keep the questions coming

 

[beebs 129]

Brett: Riverbend...its all the same, if you know what I mean. Its like "Oh look a white house....my god is that another white house? And another?"

JerseryDevil: Man, I wish I had a copy of that region do you think you could put it up in the exchange when your done?

BTW, how do you guys do the quote stuff?

[brett_131 0]

riverbend is still nice (the layout and the wealth level ($$ $$$) and the river nearby), tho lessard, where i live is right across the river and has pretty much the exact same thing.

 

to quote, click reply on the post you want to reply to, than there should be a quote option somewhere

 

he cant put it over the exchange if hes hand drawing it, he wont have the greyscale image

[jbbry232 87]

WOW, that looks great, keep posting

[beebs 129]

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On 8/31/2003 11:30:34 PM brett_131 wrote:

riverbend is still nice (the layout and the wealth level ($$ $$$) and the river nearby), tho lessard, where i live is right across the river and has pretty much the exact same thing.

 

to quote, click reply on the post you want to reply to, than there should be a quote option somewhere

 

he cant put it over the exchange if hes hand drawing it, he wont have the greyscale image

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You have to have a greyscale image to put it onthe exchange?! Poo....could you email me a copy then?

[brett_131 0]

ooh dear, i cant wait for this to come out. i wanna see how m house turns out lol

[beebs 129]

Lol! We'll be able to scout out to find our houses
I wonder how you'll be able to do West Ed. and Southgate and other such large malls...

[Warsz 0]

For those of you from Edmonton you may enjoy this one.

I took this a few day ago.

It's a picture of LRT (Light Rail Transit) crossing the river valley.

[brett_131 0]

sweet waoh...where is taht looking from, is it from the glenora to the high level bridge and the garneau/university area?

[+Guest]

Simce there is NO LRT,you might as well use a subway/EL rails as a semi-Light rail system.