Waterfall Gardens

[Man-kk 0]

Hello people, welcome to my first CJ! I hope you like it ive tryed my best and will continue to do so! Ok well im Mankk I will try and update as much as possible about once every two days mostly more than that though ^^. Well waterfall Gardens is a Region which will be well hopefully eco-friendly and have lots of flora to increase its looks! The first updates will be on the city: Waterfall Gardens Central

This ofcourse like in the name is the central city of waterfall Gardens and is the start of all of Waterfalls gardens. I have got about 18 pictures which took me ages to make into JPEGS but there you go. Finally found a good image hosting site too which is great so off to a good start I hope. All I can say is I hope you like it and Ive tryed the best I can do!

Sorry before I start I just want to say that I will try and reply to as many of you as possible though the course of this CJ so wish me luck and lets begin!

DAY 1:

These are pictures of WGC(Waterfall Gardens Central) before it has been incorporated.(Sorry about spellings)

Finaly after some interesting terraforming I have setteled down and founded the city here. The city has now officially started construction.

Here the first roads have been layed.

The start of a nice new residential neighbourhood called SpringDale! (All animals and habitats were carefully moved into a new area which has been made especially.

The leveling has started for SpringDale.

...and zoning has begun.

Flora is starting to be added now, so all the animals can move back in!

The last bit of Flora has been added to SpringDale.

SpringDale has now been completed.(Resedential areas anyway ^^)

Construction has started on a nice new powerplant. (Eco friendly ofcourse)

The Dam has now been put into place. (Some leveling happens behind the scenes later)

Heres the leveling ready for the resevoirs to be erected.

The resevoirs are now in place and the flora is beginning to be created.(Flora is plopped as growing takes too long sorry)

The first trees are in place. I enjoyed doing this bit and I think the dam looks more professional with the open grass.

More trees have now been added to make this place into a nice habitat for the animals we had to move for a while when I created SpringDale.

Here is the day shot of the dam being finished.

The dam is fully completed and heres a nice little night shot.

Well thats the end of my first day with this CJ and I can't wait to update again. If Im free I might start that this evening, although give you the update tommorow.

I hope you enjoyed it I know I did and I look forward to your comments. Tips welcome.

A quick note sorry, but Develpoing macedon by sorchin really inspired me to make this although alot of my own ideas came into it aswell and I hope I have gone of in my own..what should I say...style. Anyway thankyou sorchin for a great CJ.

Thankyou Mankk...

[jacqulina 162]

excellent start and intro i love the dam very nice work my friend

[Deever 23]

Hey, guess what... This is my first comment on CJ's (after a very long time, anyway)! It looks good, so far. Very scenic! I am very interested in the eco-friendly results of this CJ.

wish me luckquote>

And good luck!

[Man-kk 0]

Thankyou very much for you comments so far! I didn't know that people reply that fast. Thankyou!

Eco-friendly should be good I hope Deever and Jac Thankyou very much especially as this is my first CJ! Thankyou.

Mankk

[Qnznative 0]

Woww Thats Nice How Can I Do That? aND hOW dO u Get The Sand So White? And How Can I Do The Dam Wit The Water Coming out of no where lol

[homeandaway 1]

some very interestind, and nice shots you have there!, the Dam is the most realistic one i have seen in Sim City 4!.

Take care and welcome to the site, PM if you need anything

~AleX~

[Man-kk 0]

Thankyou Very much for all your comments! Very much appreciated! As I said the next proper update will be tommorow but I will give you about 3 teaser pics later this evening!

Qnznative: Thankyou and, as far as your questions go you can do what I've done I started playing properly about 2-3 months ago and finnally downloaded a few mods and things (Whiet beach mod and PEGS dam+water) this is how I got started and begun the making of WGC.

homeandaway: Thankyou for your comment, and I only hope the J will get better and better.

I will hopefully be adding something more interesting than just the pics next time so you will all have to wait and see.

See you soon.

Mankk.

[Krio 626]

Nice "tutorial" type start, but download some terrain mods.

[Soapy 1]

Nice start!

Ill be watching this to see where it ends up

Looking forward to your next update

[IDS2 3,429]

Glad to see there' still nice people on ST. Great job! Beautiful dam.

[jacqulina 162]

your welcome my friend and as allways i am waiting for more

[infinitum19 0]

Nice. I also have that dam in my CJ. BTW, I would suggest that you also use Columbus Textures for Jeronijs Mod. Its a nice terrain. Just remove the beach dat so you still have the fine white sand

[daniel01 0]

welcome friend, good job mate.

keep up the good work

daniel01

[patriots_1228 51]

hey just want 2 say now. you may have seen some stuff about the recent flame things on new Cjers. If someone says somthing mean, just ignore it. everyone gets criticised at one point in there CJ career.

your CJs really good love the sand. Im making sure no one else joins the " I cant take it, they said my transportation needs fixing, Im leaving for devotion" side lol

great job keep it up

[Man-kk 0]

Day 2!

Welcome everybody to day two of my journal, waterfall gardens!

Replys:

Krio: Thankyou mate im glad you liked the start, and im sure I will have forfilled you idea of terrain in this update! (I hope)

Soapy: Thankyou soapy glad you liked it too. I tryed to make this update interesting.

IDS2: Thanks IDS2 I tryed hard on the dam, and it fits nicely with the eco-friendly system I think.

Jacqulina: I hope you get 'more' today. ^^

Infinitum19: Thankyou for your comment friend I hope I have added something you will like this time...(*cough terrain*)

Daniel01: Thankyou for your comment and I will try to keep this CJ interesting!

Pariots_1228: Thankyou, for your supportive comment. I will try not to be put down but comments which are just there for help purposes, and the other ones I'll just ignore if there mean! ^^

Well enough of this chatter I bet you want to know....

Whats in this update?

Well today, I have gone to the green side of waterfall gardens and added, and nice waterfall nature park. Although as you will see things did not quite go as planned!

Day 2!

Ok day 2 lets begin!

Ok here im starting to erect the nature park.

I've added some water.

Here I was leveling out the top half of the land and adding the first two waterfalls.

The rest of the waterfalls are now being put into place.

Here a visitor center is being created, then...

A change of plan, it didn't look quite right...

This is an aerial shot of the new plan.

Here im leveling out the place where the water will go.

The water and part of the new visitor centre is in place.

I've added waterfalls and changed the visitor centre a bit.

Heres the whole thing finished.

Heres another shot of the bottom half. (with waterfall above it.)

Here is now a place close to springdale resedential, this is the new commercial district.

Leveling has started for this new district, it is now nearly ready for zoning.

The first bit of zoning has been added. More leveling needs to be done in the middle though.

The SpringDale commercial district is finished!

Here is the powerplant I did on day 1 but with more flora all around and the power plant now has some wind turbines to help. (Still eco-friendly)

Well thats the end of day 2 I hope you enjoyed it, although day 3 I can promise you will be more interesting.

Lets see whats...

Coming next:

In day 3 you should look forward to see alot more civic buildings, more zoning, and a few other things. A new resort too. (I will post a teaser pic sometime before next update. See you then!)

Mankk WGC

[homeandaway 1]

looks very fantastic, this is going to be one eck of a national park my friend!. - cant wait for more!.

Take care

~AleX~

[football_fever 6]

A very nice start indeed. Using the terrain mod was a great thing. I like how it feels like it's in the middle of nowhere. It's going to look great once it starts growing. I'll definitely be following.

[Man-kk 0]

Thankyou for your as normal kind and quick comments! Just been reading the thread about people flaming bashing and other bad things, well feel free to comment constructivly if you find something you think needs improving. If you don't like the whole CJ though please don't post! As it doesn't really get you anywhere. Like I said I have only just started but I aim to be a kind a caring CJ'er and member of ST. So people who have posted before and after this comment please help stop any flamers, bashers or any other kind of UNKIND crit. WE/I (I hope its we lol) WILL NOT TOLERATE IDIOTS WHO ARE HERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF TAKING AWAY ARE FUN!

Hehe thats my bit done but yeah I know Im new but I will try and help you lot and I hope this CJ will progress really really far!

Look forward to the next update and Ill talk to you all soon goodbye!

[homeandaway 1]

LOL, anyway if you need anything, im here to help me, so just leave a message on my phone via PM!. and cant wait to see more of this great Cj!

Take care

~Alex~

[patriots_1228 51]

dude i just thought of an amazing idea- waterfall skiing. whose with me? lol.

everything looks great but some pointers. to get rid of those zots hit ctrl-x, then a box comes up. type tastyzots and they should go away. if you want 2 get rid of the green color that represents the zone, type zoneria. also your signature pic is too big for simtropolis(300x50 is the limit) i dont no if those zots and zone colors are there for a reason, so i wont judge those, but overall it looks really good.

So hows my easy acess cliffside house going. Do you think regular skis will work for this or do i need to design waterfall skis?? lol

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend now yes im glad you changed the first idea with the waterfall the second one looks fantastic,i like the way you get it all ready for laying out all the good stuff,thats what i do too,fantastic work and pics,i had a little pc prob but im trying to get an update done.thanks

[Man-kk 0]

Great! Thanks for your replys this is just a short reply but Im going to work on Day 3 now . I think I will remove the zots but other than that I will probs keep the zones in so that I am you can see where they are . Thanks for you encouraging updates again and I will get back to you fully later!

[Krio 626]

How nice!

[belfastuniguy 18]

Fantstic start, I know what's it like when you do your first CJ, it can be worrying how people will respond. I like these so far, has good development potential, I like the idea behind it also. So far I'm pleased and will look forward to seeing you do more. Good luck with it mate

[Deever 23]

Feel free to do what you want dude! I'm ready to see some development.

[Amerikaner 42]

cool city it will be neat to see it totally developed and such...gives me inspiration as im working on first city journal too

[UnkleS27 24]

well you certainly picked some challenging terrain to work with. You're doing a good job so far!

[DarkEldar 6]

You have one hell of a good CJ coming here looks awesome with the terrain mod, you've also created good terrain to build an green clean sort of CJ

[daniel01 0]

Beautiful update my friend. keep up the good work

daniel01

[Man-kk 0]

Day 3!

Replys:

Krio: Thankyou mate I tryed my best.

Belfastuniguy: Thankyou so much yeah I was/am still a little nervouse about comments I might get, but so far they all seem to be really supportive and kind.

Deever: Thanks Deever I hope you get your development starters today!

Amerikaner: Great yeah well as were both really in the same place all I can say is keep at it, if you compare mine to some other peoples its really nothing but just try your best and people will recognise that.

UnkleS27: Hey thanks yeah the terrain is doing my head in but hey, im trying lol. I think the next city in the region will not be quite as hill driven but still some good terrain I hope!

DarkEldar: Hey man thanks! Im glad you like the terrain hehe although its a bum to build on but you get used to it. Im glad you like it however!

Whats in this update?

Ok well im not going to say much about this update accept I think I could do better. I think however it is ok and have alot of room for improvement! Also a litle something i've also added...(Wait and see)

Day 2!

Lets Begin!

Here as you can see I have photographed a small area, which will be turned into the main civic buildings I need!

Here is a day pic of the land, a bit more leveled now I think.

Now im leveling it out properly.

I have added a basic road network although this gets changed later.

I've added in some civic buildings.

Completely random? Or is it...

Ok here i've moved just a little to the left and just sorted out the SpringDale residential area a little bit.

Here you can see SpringDale new resedential and the civic buildings alltogether.

I decided that I would change the road layout in the civic buildings area to make it easer to navigate round.

An evening shot of the finished civic buildings area.

Heres some piping I put in so that my medium resedentials would grow properly and dense when I get it!

Just to show you where the pumps are in connection with the main city...

Here I have completely decided to refurblish the commmercial district. Leveling has begun.

Zoning and basic flora is in!

All flora is in and finished.

Well thats the end of day 3.

More will come soon I hope like the development of that area I showed you earlyer. Also a much better transport system!

but now, I present to you my most ambitious plan yet! (Well not really but...)

I give you...

Waterfall Gardens Newspaper issue 1

A welcome note.

Yes hello and welcome to the first issue of the Waterfall Gardens newspaper! We hope to give you all the latest gossip and news going around town. New building projects planned for the future and interesting storys. Don't forget and overview of what has happened in the history of Waterfall Gardens.

How it all started out:

It all started when a man now to be called our mayor, had a dream. He dreamed he could create a haven for many and provide a secure home and work enviroment for us all, while letting mother nature run its course. Our mayor (Mankk) is a very creative and calm man and just loves nature, and being a millionaire ofcourse he had the money to do something with this dream. His dream became Waterfall Gardens!

He hasn't let us down since, with all his ambitious plans he surely is amazing. However his most ambitous plan awaits us yet...

History of Waterfall Gardens:

Waterfall Gardens started out a island which was just perfect for mankk's plan to become realality...

Gradually more and more parts of the city started to grow...

Untill we have it as it is today!

New developments:

Here are some pictures of a new development at the back of the dam...

A night shot and it has a nice waterfall...

Some more leveling out I see...

Ahh finally it's done...

Mayor Mankk's Speech:

"People of Waterfall Gardens, thankyou for all your encouraging support and im sure the future developments which are planned will satisfy your needs and comforts. Thankyou for all your support again and I shall reward you all with these new developments!"

Finishing note:

Ahhh...well all I can say is it looks brilliant and im sure Waterfall Gardens has alot of potential.

END OF UPDATE!

Well thats the end of this update...I hope you liked it! Oh just one question I wish to ask you all...do you think I should speed things up a bit and take say 2 screenshots of each development section...a before and after screenshot as I think this could speed things up a little bit plus make things more interesting. I could also go into more detail where I think its needed.

Thankyou

Mankk