Your vision of what Simtropolis 1000 could look like

[joerg 281]

Ok so basically I think we need a guage to kind of see what people are expecting.

This is my minimum expectation.  Simply an image from google of a realtime city viewing software.

This is in my opinion a decent level of complexity and if rendered in real time with shadows and lighting it could look amazing.

[schooner2 2]

I think it should look like these pics posted in another thread:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=367&threadid=89513&enterthread=y&STARTPAGE=3

[Goldfish4209 9]

I think it should be SC4 taken to the next level. It should have 3d graphics, better game mechanics like non radius services, better scale, and at least an improved grid.

[Explodingsims 3]

I think that it should look similar to either the 1st picture here or like GTA IV

[the olive 0]

It should look like this.

http://www.turisticanada.com/images/toronto_night_skyline.jpg

http://community.iexplore.com/photos/journal_photos/Toronto_From_CN%20Tower.jpg

I know thats hard, but just think how that would be, AMAZING

[patriots_1228 51]

this looks nice. its from tycoon new york

 but i dont want the roads as big and cartoony looking. I think the roads are what really could make a difference.

[Godzillaman 21]

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 this looks nice. its from tycoon new york

 but i dont want the roads as big and cartoony looking. I think the roads are what really could make a difference.quote>

thats city life, ive seen it somewhere on the web.

[Hanson784 165]

I was thinking something along the lines of Google Earth.

Or something like Scream Point's digital model of New York.

[david1314 44]

I've had this thought for a while, but I'll post it here because it's more relevent and won't get burried.

There is no reason that an LOD-style shell could not be placed around ALL buildings as an overlay for lighting effects...much the way ray-tracing is faked in gmax....and make the brightness of it a globally set variable that is a function of the z variable. All buildings will render from raw textures making texture-matching much easier....no more guess work on how to make a wall that conforms to maxis defaults.

I think transparent windows could be a monsterous problem...lighting compounds this. For nightlighting to be 'dynamic' in that it behaves like real light, it must be rendered...and this is murder on game play.

Night lighting could be faked in much the same way it is in SC4....

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

This would be amazing.

This is another shot from GeoSim where joerg's pic is from.  Some more bells and whistles and we've got a winner!

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

something like this with some better textures would look very good:

[patriots_1228 51]

isnt that windows live?

[Sc4jeeks 35]

Can't we keep this to one thread? I mean, I support ST1000, but I come here to talk about Societies, and this is a forum for Societies.

[patriots_1228 51]

uhh well personally i think this game will be much better so i think it deserves more threads!

[BurroDiablo 222]

Cities should be able to be built atthis kind of scale-

That would be epic!

[Alakazam 3]

God I can't even image the nightmare for the computer. People, we gotta stay realistic! All these stuff you've shown are rendered and static stuff. Something as dynamic as SimCity couldn't handle these graphics. We're not in 2015!

[elle_driver 2]

I agree with Joerg's idea/image of how I'd like the game to look. With 360 views plus an optional 'skyline' view to see what your city's skyline actually looks like from a distance. DIAGONALS!! Lord knows it's about time Sim City could allow us to place buildings along angled streets. To be honest, I'm not all that fussed about street level shots and it would destroy BAT's as I doubt the BAT's could be converted to street level views but maybe, who knows. I also think the game should come with a few pre-built DETAILED AND ACCURATE real-life cities. Obviously New York would be top of the list ;-) The God-mode needs sorting out. I'm no terrorist but when I want to destroy my city, I want it done properly! A puny tornado or fire won't cut it. I want an Armageddon!

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Some pics like the ones joerg and I posted or Hanson's Google Earth-esque pics might be doable in a few years. The only thing I'm concerned about is the scale of the game with those graphics. I've always wanted scaling to be near-perfect which we haven't seen, yet... and an improvement in graphics or the shift to 3D can hinder that.

[patriots_1228 51]

elle-you can have diagonal buildings. i just uploaded one and will upload another within a week. Glennis made a lot of them too.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Originally posted by: elle_driverI want an Armageddon!quote>

I've been suggesting Nuclear Holocaust on the official SC4 site since 2002, maybe this could be it

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Virtual Philadelphia is great. If Simtropolis 1000 could look like that, I'd buy it. Even if it was exactly the same as SC4 otherwise, I'd still buy it.

Of course, there will be a lot more new goodies with ST1000. That just sweetens the deal!

[elle_driver 2]

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 elle-you can have diagonal buildings. i just uploaded one and will upload another within a week. Glennis made a lot of them too.quote>

 

Thanks, patriots. I like your BAT's. But the SC4 game makes placing diaganol buildings difficult and growing them impossible[?]. It needs to be made just as easy as placing a 'straight' building and allow buildings to grown on diagnonal plots.

[vgcpapa 5]

I always envisioned games to be like a drawing, artistic, realistic cartoon like. I like things to look like a realistic drawing that is unique from "real life" because every now and then I like to be reminded that it is still a game.

Sketch up example: posted in other thread

Saint's Row Xbox360

I always like the opening of the BAT

[RooRocz 0]

Threw this together in 30 mins in Trainz:

(There's about 6 miles of that in the route.)

If I, a 14-year old with ADD can do that, then surely an entire publishing company like Tilted Mill can do the same.

Simtropolis 1000 will be another blow for Open Source Software. w00t!

[SpecialEddie 3]

Originally posted by: Godzillaman

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 this looks nice. its from tycoon new york

 but i dont want the roads as big and cartoony looking. I think the roads are what really could make a difference.quote>

thats city life, ive seen it somewhere on the web.quote>

 

It's Tycoon NY.

[Cjah 15]

Go for a similar style of GTA 3...like evryone says...this game can be real...but were not in 2020....

try even Vice City...but GTA3 would be smooth enough i bet...make the buildings shells...like they did...

[Pixelrage 34]

I'd hope it looks exactly like SC4, except with buildings that can go on angles and along curved roads.

[6underground 11]

Forget the lackof detail in some places, as these are just some early  concept images for my  upcoming CJ. But I always imagined SC5 like this:

and I know what some are thinking, but I don't mean futuristic cities, i just mean the graphical style of it.