Show us your Small Towns

[11241036 5,115]

Very good work with the diagonal housing. I've already seen SimCoug's Diagonal residentials in the download section, but as of now I haven't found a way to actually use them. BTW, are these grown or plopped?

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Most are grown, but after spending just over an hour growing, demolishing, growing, and on and on, I just lost my patience. About 1/4 houses are plopped.  

[simlink 1,098]

Nice work, _B. The diagonals look super all together there. The trees along the shore are looking good, too.  

[CT14 2,486]

are those secure farms available anywhere?  LEX, STEX?  It looks amazing

If I ever have the time I will make it my first lotting project... thanks for the kind words!

And thanks T-Wrecks and Pegasus for the bits and pieces! IRM filler lots add a lot of realism.

  Edited September 14, 2015 by CT14  

[Lost Realist 762]

[_Michael 2,681]

I love all the roundabouts, and the pylons, and the lake, and the diagonal home and well I could go on!  

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Here's a picture of one of Manitou's (now renamed Manilow since I noticed, rather embarassingly, 9gruntsand1hammer's town beared the same name) neighboring towns. Settlers didn't have seem to have much fantasy left when naming it. 

 

Actually the city was called Sault Ste. Marie but the neighbourhood was called Manitou. I based it off of neighbourhoods in my city such as Manitou Park because I'm not good at coming  up with my own names.

Anyway you town looks really good.

[Abrams 1,744]

That's a lovely town there!I like it!

[CT14 2,486]

Nice use of ploppable water and other MMP. That countryside looks very relaxing.

[SteveMSim 275]

I usually start my cities as small towns.  Here are a couple:

Cedar Lake.

Meadowcrest Oaks.

[vortext 573]

Though Traelonisk is offically the first proper city in the region, it's still small enough to show in this thread, right!?  

 

[raynev1 1,887]

@vortext That image looks fantastic , though I think it would fit in the "Show us your farm land" thread as well .  And it really does look great . No grid to be found there . Awesome .

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Though Traelonisk is offically the first proper city in the region, it's still small enough to show in this thread, right!?  

 

Damn... that's just beautiful.
I have a hard time reconciling that this was something that was made in SC4. It looks more like the terrain map of a RPG game.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

OHIO CITY, INDIOLA

Located on the far southeast side of Waukeagan, Ohio City is a popular tourist destination and a manufacturing hotspot.

Though Traelonisk is offically the first proper city in the region, it's still small enough to show in this thread, right!?  

 

Whats even more amazing is that there's nothing in that photo that's original vanilla SC4 content. Which I find interesting.

[vortext 573]

Thanks for the kind words! 

On 03/12/2015 at 11:44 PM, DavidDHetzel said:

Whats even more amazing is that there's nothing in that photo that's original vanilla SC4 content. Which I find interesting.

Well technically the smoke effects are vanilla content.  In addition I use the Castle Set quite a bit so. .  still some Maxis after all. 

Here's another small town which afaik haven't shown here yet. 

 

Gaellithorp is one of the oldest settlements in the region – both in terms of fictional history and actual development. This spot right in the middle was rather difficult to fill. I wanted some kind of communal building however, none of the churches I tried were a good fit. More so because I imagined Christianity didn't reach here quite yet. Rather the villagers would still be pagan, mixed with some Roman influences. A proper temple, on the other hand, was way too exotic. Then one evening I suddenly remembered this particular BAT by Swi. And as it turns out it's actually called 'Dutch Forest House', which I took as a sign this was the appropriate building for the spot. 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

So much medieval-ness, so much awesomeness!

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

9 hours ago, vortext said:

Thanks for the kind words! 

Well technically the smoke effects are vanilla content.  In addition I use the Castle Set quite a bit so. .  still some Maxis after all. 

Here's another small town which afaik haven't shown here yet. 

 

Gaellithorp is one of the oldest settlements in the region – both in terms of fictional history and actual development. This spot right in the middle was rather difficult to fill. I wanted some kind of communal building however, none of the churches I tried were a good fit. More so because I imagined Christianity didn't reach here quite yet. Rather the villagers would still be pagan, mixed with some Roman influences. A proper temple, on the other hand, was way too exotic. Then one evening I suddenly remembered this particular BAT by Swi. And as it turns out it's actually called 'Dutch Forest House', which I took as a sign this was the appropriate building for the spot. 

Ah, I thought the Smoke was photoshopped. Also since I never really used the Maxis Castle, I was wasn't aware of how it looked.

 

That Dutch Forest house looks like something out of LOtR!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

The straw roof on that cottage in the middle is looking a little plastic, but apart from that, it's an amazing shot!

[Drack 616]

Kanase, Izuna State

Population: around 300

Northernmost island in Taliara

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

@Drack That airport is genious!

[Drack 616]

17 hours ago, DavidDHetzel said:

@Drack That airport is genious!

cookies for you for noticing the airstrip

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I like the zoomed-out view best. Great combination of water/beach mod, underwater flora, boats, and other MMP assets! Just like looking out of the airplane window on a flight to some tropical country and looking forwarding to lying in the shade of a palm tree and swimming in the sea... a very welcome association on a grey January day.

[Sabretooth78 808]

I have an alternate set of tropical terrain probably identical to that datpacked together that I could just swap in and use but it looks a little ridiculous in a continental region setting.  That, and my primary region already contains probably about ten million (yes, that's a reasonable estimate) temperate climate trees and you kind of need the flora to match the terrain.  Therefore I always enjoy seeing when others post these island settings!  (Now I just want to see somebody try to recreate an island like Saba.)

I'm assuming the airport is intended to be a combination airstrip/seaplane base?

[Revyzer 252]

Washington City, which is WIP, is a small town/small city south of Bristol Bay, inland on the Pontum River, instead of Bristol, one of California's (fictional) largest cities, being the county seat, it's instead all the way at the southern end at the edge of Washington County, in the city of Washington City. It's 1930s-1960s styled downtown, makes it feel like (especially when it is done), like it is stuck in time. I do apologize in advance that the picture is at night, with well, no lights on. The buildings didn't feel like cooperating with me for the picture it appears. 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Sorry, but...

Unfotunately, that small and almost entirely dark picture is more food for imagination that candy for the eyes. I'm sure you can take a better one.

[Revyzer 252]

I can, and I shall when I get more done

[Wallibuk 1,966]

Somewhere in South America

[antsel 841]

Great towns everyone!

I'm trying my hand at a remote fishing town. Still a WIP, I haven't gotten around to the MMPs yet.

[Compdude787 916]

Wow, that looks awesome!!!

[Toby Ferrian 875]

Very loosely based off similar communities you'll see all over the Norwegian coast.

I really need to remake this in a higher quality some day...