Show us your Small Towns

[The British Sausage 5,449]

1 hour ago, mattb325 said:

Looking down from the hillside towards the edge of town

 

Your pictures are so good you should start a CJ!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[mattb325 28,891]

3 hours ago, The British Sausage said:

Your pictures are so good you should start a CJ!

Thanks! I do have one, over on SC4Devotion but I have been a bit slack in co-ordinating entries....often it's much easier to post a single pic than a CJ entry....such as this:

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

 

 

[mattb325 28,891]

A small farming hamlet

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[The British Sausage 5,449]

2 hours ago, mattb325 said:

A small farming hamlet

 

The seasonal trees elevate these pictures many multiples. Nice one!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[art128 4,622]

A more wealthy area of Karuizawa, just on the hills along the lake shore not far from the city center.

[Chungo 3]

On 1/12/2021 at 8:56 PM, SIM-ple Jack said:

 

I'm really loving that sunken railway thing!! Beautiful. Where can I find close-up pics?

[City_Slider 2,716]

I asked many Times, how to make those Screeny´s, but i never got an answer from this User (guess he is mad with moi, or i´m on his ignore List). Now i´m asking the Community... how do i takle this kind of Shoots?

[Chungo 3]

6 minutes ago, City_Slider said:

I asked many Times, how to make those Screeny´s, but i never got an answer from this User (guess he is mad with moi, or i´m on his ignore List). Now i´m asking the Community... how do i takle this kind of Shoots?

I'm guessing like he screenshotting the game normally, and then played around with skew/transform tools in photoshop or somethin? I haven't played any of the SimCity games in ages but i never thought that old 2D games could be made into 3D? It's the only way I can think of....

[art128 4,622]

52 minutes ago, City_Slider said:

I asked many Times, how to make those Screeny´s, but i never got an answer from this User (guess he is mad with moi, or i´m on his ignore List). Now i´m asking the Community... how do i takle this kind of Shoots?

Image manipulation.

It's just a normal screenshot which was opened in an image manipulation software like Photoshop or GIMP and the user most probably changed settings like the perspective etc.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Thank´s a lot for explaing this. Now i can rest well ;-)

[CorinaMarie 29,894]

An handful of small towns in the countryside:

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 3/2/2021 at 4:07 PM, City_Slider said:

I asked many Times, how to make those Screeny´s, but i never got an answer from this User (guess he is mad with moi, or i´m on his ignore List). Now i´m asking the Community... how do i takle this kind of Shoots?

Or maybe I just didn't see this post until today(May 11th, 2021).

On 3/2/2021 at 4:15 PM, Chungo said:

I'm guessing like he screenshotting the game normally, and then played around with skew/transform tools in photoshop or somethin? I haven't played any of the SimCity games in ages but i never thought that old 2D games could be made into 3D? It's the only way I can think of....

 

On 3/2/2021 at 5:01 PM, art128 said:

Image manipulation.

It's just a normal screenshot which was opened in an image manipulation software like Photoshop or GIMP and the user most probably changed settings like the perspective etc.

 

Or maybe I just took 6 screenshots at Zoom 2, pasted them together, cropped the edges, sharpened the image, deepened the contrast a little, and sent this little piggy to market. No mystery tricks...sorry.

[CorinaMarie 29,894]

Another small town. This time on the edge of the world.

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

And a little over one tile to the east, now with a new computer I've been getting back to SC4 also...

(City sides are Style 4 from Raymond's excellent Cutaway Mod 2.0 set.)

As can be seen, I've been experimenting with the SAM street curves as well. (Thanks Cori for helping me with learning those drag patterns!)

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

@Cyclone Boom How honored I am,  After enjoyed these enjoyable sights by you and Cori, I was drafting blueprints for wind farm (correct English?) and Depot No.2. 

Yours,

-- Raymond

[RobertLM78 1,598]

3 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

And a little over one tile to the east, now with a new computer I've been getting back to SC4 also...

Like the tourist trap at the top of the hill

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

13 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

@Cyclone Boom How honored I am,  After enjoyed these enjoyable sights by you and Cori, I was drafting blueprints for wind farm (correct English?) and Depot No.2. 

Yours,

-- Raymond

Glad to hear about your inspiration, Raymond.

And yes, that is correct for a wind farm where windmills (or wind turbines) are built.

 

10 hours ago, RobertLM78 said:

Like the tourist trap at the top of the hill

Thanks!

Here's a close-up pic of it, which features a small selection of custom content:

[RobertLM78 1,598]

30 minutes ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Here's a close-up pic of it, which features a small selection of custom content

Nice detail shot.  Don't recognize the castle - but good spot for it on the hill too. 

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

1 hour ago, RobertLM78 said:

Nice detail shot.  Don't recognize the castle - but good spot for it on the hill too. 

Thanks! This happens to be Broadway Tower that I was inspired by, since it's located on the aptly named Broadway Hill in Worcestershire, England.
 

Spoiler

Since I'm from England, I visited this in person on a trip around and about a few years ago.

Here's a pic I took of it:

It really is quite the impressive panoramic view too from up there. I was amazed to see someone had already made the BAT of it for the game.

A couple of links if curious:

• Main site history
• Wikipedia page

 

 

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

A few scenes from my continued development:

Firstly here is Yayton which is a town comprised of an intriguing monument of Noble Stones Henged as the centrepiece:

 

Next up is Snaketon, which is named such because the shape of the development rather resembles a snake's belly:

 

Spoiler

This name came about when a certain 737259 made me aware of something:

Cori said:

I see your road designer was following a drunken snake.

 

And here is the town of Diagonalville which got its name because it is, well, built on a diagonally shaped coastline!

(Pictured thundering across the trestled bridge is the 13:47 train to Bug Tussle.)

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Woww! it's pretty rare to see CB's CJ,  Snaketon is so creative, also looks like a fish, Noble Stones Henged makes me thinking about some British style stuffs, A bold plan appeared in my mind…

Yours,

-- Raymond

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

More preview shots from Wisconsin-

Winter Population 233

Ojibwa Population 267

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Here's something silly which reminded me of the Wise and the Foolish Builders parable...

Best not build one's house on the sandy land:

 

Because it's much (much) better building on a rock:

(Providing one doesn't mind waking up to a 1,000 foot drop out the front door in the morning.)

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Last free previews from Wisconsin. In a few weeks, you'll have to pay...in the CJ.

Port Wing Pop: 164

Cornucopia Pop: 98

[CT14 2,486]

Those new wooden trestles are putting in some serious work! Thanks for sharing, everyone.