Show us your Mosaics

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Very well done with little custom content!
Although I would recommend changing that overpass on the rail to an earthen ramp. 

[Durfsurn 539]

After 5 hours in Photoshop I got this monster (6240 x 3440):

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5514/9718669681_7717047514_o.jpg

I know there are some cuts in the image, it was badly pieced together, and the building repetition is not great plus the trees can block your view significantly!

[Janbiya 71]

Doesn't everybody agree it's about time that this topic was revived?

Today I have for you not one but three mosaics. They all come from my Yakutat Bay region, a 37.5 by 47.5 mile endeavor to take my SimCity 4 play to the next level of realism and organicism. The region is still very rural but has begun to develop some interesting towns and great overall character. I've been at it for seven months now, but most of the progress including these three mosaics has been in the last month.

Click each image for its full sized version (each around 5000x3000 pixels)

This is Lakewood, Yakutat Bay. It was the first "big" city in the region, and despite growth concentrating elsewhere more recently the city remains the region's most populous today as well as its most walkable. Downtown hosts a CBD more than twice the size of the nearest competitors, but its presence has never yet threatened the city's overall working class character and old fashioned charm.

This is Emonds Field, Yakutat Bay. It's a rural center less than half a mile northeast of the ocean shore and some of the region's more expansive sandy beaches. The completion of a new high speed coastal highway in the area brought considerable growth to the small city, even though local business owners fought it because the access road was to be built parallel to instead of running into Main Street.

This is Annapolis, Yakutat Bay. Located on the same large lake as Lakewood about three or four miles upshore, this is one of the most scenic places to live in the region to date. With very little open land suitable for building left in the city's vicinity, the city government is staking its hopes for economic growth on attracting more wealthy residents from across the lakeside metro area and tourism.

Hope you enjoyed!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Janbiya; those are some incredible mosaics!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Here is my first ever mosaic made with GIMP.

 

[MilitantRadical 2,844]

Nice mosaic Ln X.

 

This is one of my favs for some reason.

 

[Fox 1,444]

Ooh .. It's been so long since I looked at this thread.. lovely mosaics everyone!

 

Here's one from me..

 

[Lost Realist 762]

The parks are just wonderful, especially with the straight retaining walls. I love it.

[Ltw 401]

My first mosaic!

 

[SounderBruce 173]

Here's one from my new CJ, featuring Redwood Island

 

[jmsepe 2,039]

Uhm, just a question. I hope I'm not being rude. What is a mosaic? Is it the arrangement of the lots or the color? 

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Uhm, just a question. I hope I'm not being rude. What is a mosaic? Is it the arrangement of the lots or the color? 

 

A mosaic is a type of picture.  Originally, the word meant a picture made up of many small objects, like glass, cloth, etc.

 

On the internet it has come to mean a simple compound picture--in this case, several screenshots edited together to form one large one.

[Haljackey 17,355]

Old school highway

 

Click for full size

 

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Nice buildings in the area, but you have a bit of dilapidation 

 

Uhm, just a question. I hope I'm not being rude. What is a mosaic? Is it the arrangement of the lots or the color? 

 

A mosaic is a type of picture.  Originally, the word meant a picture made up of many small objects, like glass, cloth, etc.

 

On the internet it has come to mean a simple compound picture--in this case, several screenshots edited together to form one large one.

 

 

Yes, it's like taking a panorama. It shows a large picture of someting you can't capture in just one shot.

[Huston 5,799]

There are some really great mosaics here! I particularly like MilitantRadical's, Fox's and LnX's. Very impressive
 
ME:TMW's episodes are almost always containing at least one mosaic. It tends to be like that when I either get an interesting idea, or I generally feel like slapping an entire update in one horrendously large picture A few are quite long and each are radically different from each other which is why I find it difficult to say which is my favorite. I don't want to pollute the thread, so I might just list my favorites in no particular order (too many to count lol)
 
Caleston
Elysium
Unknown
Earth/KA
Earth/KG
Tuntau
Sirona
Rakhana
Tiptree
Polus #1

Polus #2

Lera Station

Eden Prime

Kanaze #1

Kanaze #2

Kanaze #3

Virmire

Salacia

Intai'sei

Mars

Feros

Israfil

Feylos

Austra

Ferust

Citadel

Pragia

Tarith

 

Is it too many? This isn't even my entire ME:TMW collection of mosaics, but it's pretty close huehue. It's a lot of images, so it's upto you if you want to have a look at all or some of them

[BlazingHound 3]

Wow, wow, wow!!! Absolute Amazing! Unbeliveble nice Guys! I just start again with Sim City 4. Here a Pic of my City:

 

 

 

Im not finish. What you think?

[Ltw 401]

Wow, wow, wow!!! Absolute Amazing! Unbeliveble nice Guys! I just start again with Sim City 4. Here a Pic of my City:

 

 

 

Im not finish. What you think?

 

Looks nice! I like the massive development you've got here. Just some tips to improve it further. Maybe it would look better if you use underpasses at the highways instead of bridges. If you use bridges it might be worth thinking about a sunken highway. There are really cool walls you could use. I'm using there are other downloads of these same walls, I would recommend to download them as well. 

[BlazingHound 3]

 

Wow, wow, wow!!! Absolute Amazing! Unbeliveble nice Guys! I just start again with Sim City 4. Here a Pic of my City:

 

 

 

Im not finish. What you think?

 

Looks nice! I like the massive development you've got here. Just some tips to improve it further. Maybe it would look better if you use underpasses at the highways instead of bridges. If you use bridges it might be worth thinking about a sunken highway. There are really cool walls you could use. I'm using there are other downloads of these same walls, I would recommend to download them as well. 

 

Thanks for the Tips! I wish i would know someone in my Homearea, to show me all the "sim secrets" At the moment it is not so easy....

  Edited February 18, 2014 by BlazingHound  

[Durfsurn 539]

Here's mine. First pic is the 'raw satellite image' and the second has some quick area annotations.

 

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Here is my first ever mosaic made with GIMP.

 

Where in the bloody hell did you get Fox Plaza from!? I will love you in an appropriate way for all eternity if you give me a link!

[Fox 1,444]

Fox Plaza .. perhaps this one from Ill Tonkso?

 

 

Here's another one from me.. sorry for the load time

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Fox Plaza .. perhaps this one from Ill Tonkso?

 

 

Here's another one from me.. sorry for the load time

 

Thank you so ridiculously much!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

It's time to BUMP this thread and bring back the mosiac LOVE!

 

Note: Use this link from Imgur if the mosaic goes blurry- https://imgur.com/a/gMhgj

[Compdude787 916]

Well, that's weird. The resolution of the mosaic is super low, so everything looks blurry. Might wanna fix that...  

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

It's fixed! I also provided an Imgur link to in case of further problems.

[rsc204 21,836]

@Ln X Wow, that's simply stunning work. Everything from sidewalks to grasses completely unified, even the RHW textures don't stand out. Great use of unmolested terrain textures where appropriate, with some superbly detailed flora and fauna. Then there are the diagonal houses in all the right places. In this one picture you've captured the essence of what SC4 can be with enough effort. Hat's off to you sir.

[Toby Ferrian 875]

here are a few of mine

click for full resolution

[Artimus 485]

The mosaics here are very good so far! 

Its a two picture mosaic put together in Windows Paint. This bridge took out over 100,000 dollars to create, straight out of the mayor's wallet! 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

The bridge itself looks great, and so does the mosaic!

If I had built this bridge, I'd probably obsess over the placement of the pillar and the main bridge arches now: I'd try to get the wide arch spanning the river, or at the very least to avoid the double pillars right where I suppose the shipping channel would be. However, you are not me, and I don't even know if that river will ever see commercial ship traffic, so that doesn't need to concern you. I'm just rambling a little...

[matias93 7,535]

Considering the rail bridge pillar span is so narrow, maybe the arch wouldn't be so useful to center over the riverbed...