Under Bridge Scenery

[Lord Kronos 0]

Hey Buddybud,

I was wondering what the chances are of getting our hands on a beta version of all this stuff (especially the highway on/off ramps tunnel portals) as I the city I'm building at the moment I'm designing with these lots in mind, and well... I'd love to get it to all work together so I can start a CJ and showcase your creations.

regards

LK

[mightygoose 92]

too awesome for further comments (*eats hat and most other apparel*)

[DJGspinNhitz 7]

Buddybud your work is amazing as always. Looking forward to the release!

GQ

[rooker1 4]

Very incredible as always. 

Don't spend too much time on this during this festive month.  

Great work!!!

[buddybud 63]

i decided to test a more extensive system today....thought id share the pathing results

below is the area i built.

the road to the upper left is a ring road that maintains a non tunnel conection....it is also the longest route and in theory should not be used by the sims.

the area is broken into three industrial zones.....

1.is a direct route. we want the sims to go the long way round. up the road to the avenue and back across the highway....

2. is the most challenging section for the sims...it requires the sims to take a weaving multiple portal road route to get to their location...

3. requires the sims to use the highway...

here is the paths that travel through portals that we want the sims to follow to work..

these are pieces required to build the system

green=portals

blue=director lots

red=eycandy sunken conduits

test for area one

test for area two

test for area three.....

and the same area with the conduits removed....more of a tunnel feel to system..

essentially this is all to show the extent that these pieces can be used. but also how many pieces are needed to fully realize what im doing...but its coming along...

cheers

[TinySim 4]

Still, amazing ^^

Looks like they work like they're supposed to...

And they sure look good too

*drools over keyboard*

[LBraden 14]

okay, when this is released, along with a few more sci-fi bats that I hope will be, and me trying to get sci-fi bats out, I think I can start my long awaited region

[GMT 389]

damn, can't tell ya how cool these look!

really gotta get them when they're out

[mightygoose 92]

woah god damn your good

[buddybud 63]

remember this....

wll i applied the same technology to sunken highways with elevated overpasses....take a look

and with a highspeed train

heres how its done...its essentially an uber highway portal.....needs a bit of work ;P

edit...the automata will dissappear as it passes under the bridge as usual

[Alfred.Jones 2]

Woah. That is extremely useful!! Great work Buddybud!

[metasmurf 705]

Oah That thing is really really usefull!

[TinySim 4]

*blinks*

*blinks again*

*pinches self*

...amazing, and very useful.

[Sim shady 12]

suhweet! that looks amazing, and im already drooling over the possibility that you are expanding the best eyecandy set in SC4. too bad about the automata disapearing, maybe if somehow swamper were feeling super generous he'd help you with that like he did with Blahdy on the big dig 2.0 ramps. say...whatever happened to your partner ship with Blahdy?

keep up the amazing work!

[bearmans 0]

I've slipped in and out of this thread a few times. What can I say?!! Absolutly incredible. The basis of this stuff has been needed for a long time but i don't think any of us not even you could have predicted how far it would come. Can't wait for the release.

[bwatterud 7]

I've been lurking around this thread for a while, but haven't posted for some reason. weird...

First I want to say that the work you're doing with underpasses is fantastic.

Second, I have a question about your rural sunken highway walls. I downloaded the set (all of 'em), but for some reason, they don't show up in my power menu, or any menu for that matter. I tried with and without the MML, still nothing. Am I the only person who's had this problem, and is is fixable? Never mind, I found the problem. 

[DJGspinNhitz 7]

simply amazing!

[pilotdaryl 25]

Holy motherfu**

Can you make a more urban style of these lots (aka downtown stuff other than the Big Dig)?

[tommiej 0]

this is totally awesome!!!!!!!! extremely nice work, i can say!! looks very good, especially the HSR-overpass looks very realistic!!

i agree with pilotdaryl, those urban style lots looks very nice

keep it up

[LP 1]

Hey there buddybud. Great work your doing. I know you got a lot on your plate, but I was messing around today and found an opportunity for you to expand your rural highway wall set. Something that should be simple, but when you get to thinking about it, it really isn't.

I'll start with the pictures:

Now, with the new NAM on ramps, 2 new possibilities open up. You can have them on one side like I did here, or on both sides. As you can see, the problem with having it on one side is that the fences block the cars, and theres a big open gap among other things. Problem with having it on both sides is basically the same. Now, I'm sure pieces for this would be far from easy to make, but probably quite fun to think of, until you realize what you've gotten yourself into.

Anyway, just an idea, be nice if you'd make em though.

[ardecila 124]

I hate to steal a tiny bit of the thunder here, but I thought it was the most appropriate place.

That's real, guys - and there's no retaining wall lots on either side.  The train is actually 10 meters below grade.  This is just 1, 1x6 open cut lot, connected on the ends to an upcoming puzzle piece (which will not be in the new NAM, unfortunately).  The only defect is that the ground plane occasionally covers up the train - toggling underground mode fixes it.

[Ryan B 35]

ardecila:  Very nice! 

[bwatterud 7]

Looks sorta like NOB's sunken GLR. I like it.

[tommiej 0]

very nice, i like it as well!! looking forward!

[It 0]

That sunken rail looks incredible!

[bearmans 0]

Love that sunken rail peice. This whole thread has so much potential just cannot wait for it all to be released.

[jacqulina 162]

as allways excellent work going on here

[Moshi 61]

*is speechless*

[Filasimo 1]

Hey buddybud been lurkin in your thread for a while and wanted to say that youre doing a hell of a job and ur walls are widely used in my CJ i was able to play around with it and got some lovely results, I love your split highway underpasses and i need them badly. If you need any testers I would love to be one of them, my region consists of split highways and I would love to test your stuff out on them. One other thing hows that split highway transition going? If you can make that im sure you can make a split highway curve piece so the split highway can finally curve and such now that would be amazing!!! Keep it up man!

[opiq 0]

errr...where to download? i look allover in the STEX but couldnt find anything... thanx..