City of EDMONTON

[arm_zerox 0]

Do live in edmonton its great to know that someone in edmonton and has this game actually builds it! (i live on the north side by 50th st)

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

 

You Live right by me if your on 50th. I'm right by Londonderry mall. 50th Street will be hard because Avenues and curves dont work to well. 144th Ave was no fun.

Just finished the NOrth Area of Groat Raod...LOL Not easy. I'll have more pics on the way of Diff areas....Moslty all roads are being worked on know then I'll just fill in the blanks..

The big problem is...I want and need a plop mod. BUt with the curent one that is out I was getting dumped from the game on occasion. Even in cities I never used it in. So until I can get a working plop mod I may not build much.

 

Keep posted

[beebs 129]

Ack! I want Riverbend now, looking at the Londonderry area!

[skyscraper_man 1]

Canadians rule....and they make cool regions...thats all i have to say ehhh

[brett_131 0]

Be sure to show the lessard area when done it! this is so exciting!!! it looks great!

[SkyTearer 10]

I really like the terrain in this region! I cannot wait to see what you do with it!

[KSolomon 3]

Hey jerseydevil!

How's the work on edmonton coming?

Did you fix your mod problem?

Keep up the good work!

[JBSimio 152]

Looks great so far!  I'm anxious to see how the Yellowhead Yards look closeup.  In the meantime, I sit eagerly awaiting more!

[n74704 21]

alright some transportation. that means the city will come next? eh? hint-hint? good luck with the region, looks good.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I've been working on this region on and off mainly building the trans network out first.

I would do more of the city as I go but there are so many buildings in Edmonton that I want to look as they are. For this I want a plop modd. But i had used the new RH plop modd with randomly crashed my game....So I had to take it out which in hand caused even more problems to any cities I had used it in.

Now in the meantime I do a little bit of the transportation at a time...The reason it takes so long is I hand measure every road on a map then transfer it using an equation to get the accurate placement of every road as good as I can...So laying even every side street can take its time....

 

As always keep posted and your eyes open for another one of my projects "Myst Valley"

[beebs 129]

Hey, jersey, I was just rootin' through SimCity Centrals stuff, and a certain bus skin (I suppose thats what their called...) caught my eye, and lo and behold! Edmonton Transit Buses. I haven't gotten around to using them yet, but from the picture they had there, it was pretty accurate. Just thought you might wanna use them

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Thats cool to see an Edmonton transit skin....but...The Busses on SC are nearly the same....The LRT is different though

[zeke12 49]

Is it time for me to fire up 3DS MAX? It is? OK! Let's get going then...
Really, I will see what I can do.

[beebs 129]

True, but see, then you could have the Blue & Silver ones and the old style mostly Blue ones

[ipsolip 0]

its good to see ppl remaking famous canadian cities.

 

oh no the bunny is on acid agian

[jbj0614 0]

Great job so far. I'm more than a little impressed. I've been considering trying the same thing with the Metro Toronto region. The terraforming should actually be somewhat more straightforward due to the relatively "flat" nature of the area, although still perhaps beyond my capabilities. As an aid to my attempt, what is the equation you speak of that you use to get accurate placement of roads/rail/etc.? I assume the same equation aided you in accurately placing waterways and other terraforming details.

Keep up the good work.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Well the scale I speak of is from a map I baught.

What I did was buy a map. All maps are divided up into grids. So I chose the area of the map I would use to build on. Then I took a square which is equal to a small city square. Then I worked out by trial and error on an area I'm familiar with, then fit it to the best scale. So every city block would have the right amount of houses or what not.

Heres a quick example of the scale. One square equaling again one small city map would be 4.6cm across. And in SC 64squares across. So now when you load a new city/area to work on...lets say you have a major road 1.5cm from the edge of that area on the map it would equal 21squares from the edge of the map. Now you know the scale for laying out the road.

 

The reason this region is taking along time is just to lay raods for a small area can take forever. And in the newer areas of Edmonton alot of the smaller side streets are at all angels....To change that into the right curves in SC just can't be done so It'll lose alot of the proper  look. Aswell I've been working on Myst valley which I should release for show before the new year. I've also been very busy at work lately during the Christmas season.

[plasticsim 9]

Here something I thought might make a nice addition to your city...
Edmonton's CN Tower



It's still in it's infancy, but I hope to complete it soon. I haven't added any textures to it and a lot of detail is still missing, also I haven't completed the lobby and the first 4 floors.

[Minotaur420 2]

Wow you gmax people are amazing, spitting out so many new buildings.

 

And I'm sure everyone can't wait to see the progress on Edmonton

[insane clown 0]

when you gonna start build something

[GoneWacko 0]

Must...See...Edmonton!

So stop drinking coffee with you family this christmas and spend some time on your PC!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Unreal that is the CN tower right down to every curve. Amazing....and you'll be able to make this into a lot. Have me more excited then the region itself if you could make the buildings. If by anychance you could make West Edmonton Mall I'd be willing to pay good money to see that.

Edmonton is coming along and it'll be some time before buildings start popping up. Still laying roads as always. If you read my prior post you'll understand why its taking so long. In the new year I will have more time to work on it. I build big spurts at a time.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

The CN Tower is one of the older buildings in Edmonton and was at one time the tallest building here. Not the nicest building but is a sentamental landmark of sort for some here.

Here is a picture of Edmontons City hall with the CN tower in the back ground.

[Dereko 0]

So does the fountain convert to a skating rink for the other six months of the year?

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

LOL It is a rink during the winter. From November-February. Never skated on it but its a nice place to cool off in the summer when its 95F-35C.

[beebs 129]

Ugh...the CN Tower just makes me gag...is there any way to make the CN sign on top do the light changes like it does? JerseyDevil should know what I'm talking about.

[A Killer Ewok 2]

i love edmonton. been there before during winter and there is A LOT OF SNOW!

 

when are you going to post some ingame pictures?

[n74704 21]

wow, three pages and no city...

[brtlrt 0]

This is cool I just signed up to post about htis topic I live here. Everything looks good! Are you getting the whole city? Everylittle building? Naming every building? Will you have a safeway and tewilligar town ? That would be absolutely insane if you did!

Dont forget about the ICE rinks!

and snow valley

andmovie theaters

and the mall

and the bus routes

and churches

and will you put in extreme detail for each neighbourhood? Like each hill or bump exactly the same. Like the big hill where I live and everyone ssleds there?
and the skyreach center (rexall place)


By the way the cn tower that that guy built is insane. I couldn't build anything if my life depended on it.

[brtlrt 0]

So do you send it to me by hotmail or something else?