Tokyo

[Wheezy 23]

The closeup views of the commercial districts are my favorite, but the shot of your old region view made my eyes pop out of my skull.

Do you lay all your transit networks out in advance, then build around them, or just take it neighborhood-by-neighborhood?

As others have mentioned, the city doesn't look crowded enough, but I can't complain about that. Giving your cities personality is the hardest part of working with SC4.

BTW: There are numerous wall to wall buildings here that I'd like to use for my CJ, if you don't mind. What were some of your best sources for finding them?

[tepodon 29]

Reply:

Wheezy: I do lay out my transit networks in advance, but before I do that I set up the terrain. Then i lay out infrastructure. This time however, instead of working from the corner up ive decided to work from the main train terminals/neighborhoods and then link these stations. Ive noticed that laying out the basic infrastructure first makes it much harder to set up an accurate neighborhood around it.

for the wall to wall buildings; the ST-exchange by far, and try this https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3976.0 its on SC4 devotion, and a lot of the links are in Japanese, if you need help just ask or try using babelfish or something. One site is SC4 Central, i think its a french site, theres a dude called Jsteed that makes amazing Japanese buildings. But if you speak japanese theres nothing more useful if u intend to use Japanese BATS, most of the stuff out there are in Japanese, of course some sites are kind enough to post in English as well.

This man is my all time favourite, http://tokyo-urbanlab.jpn.org/Sim-Home.htm , he also made the Venetian bell tower that was up on the STEX a while back, its down now, and ive asked him if he could post it again, but was basically ignored. He also had a good Showa-era series working, but I think thats down too. Too bad he doesnt keep his old works for us to see again.

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[Tomasneto 20]

Nice pictures again!!! Your CJ is fantastic...!!!

[suplado! 23]

wow -- nice overview of the city, looks like the real thing

[tepodon 29]

Akihabara Station

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Akihabara station is a major transfer station (not to mention the mecca of all things concerning the Otaku culture). Here you see the Sobu-line cross from top to bottom, the Yamanote and Keihin Touhoku/Negishi Line, and the Jouetsu, Touhoku, Yamagata, Akita, Nagano Shinkansen Line crossing from left to right. This is a transfer station for commuters heading in from north easter Tokyo region into central Tokyo.

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Preview

Next up... Tokyo Station?

[Haljackey 17,303]

Wow amazing! Simply outstanding! You're doing such an excellent job with Tokyo tepodon!

I can't wait to see Tokyo Station complete!

[flyinbird93 2]

That looks great!  Your doing an amazing job with this, a lot better than i predicted.  Keep it up!

[Zelgadis 638]

Tokyo is a very, very difficult city to recreate in SC4.

That said, you're doing a superb job with the tools that you have been given.

ISF

[tepodon 29]

Replies:

haljackey: thanks, Im not sure if i can do a good job with Tokyo Station, but I'll give it my best shot.

flyinbird93: im glad im doing beyond expectations, lol how bad was i before, orz

zelgadis: ya Tokyo is pretty hard, but a lot of the downtown area is on a grid, unfortunately the grid roads wrap them selves around the river or bay, which is not just a bunch of horizontal diagonal lines.

[starrychelx 0]

wow

[thinboy66 6]

Great work there my friend. I really loved the canals(or whatever) and Asian buildings!

[tepodon 29]

Akihabara Station... Revisited

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Sorry its not Tokyo Station just yet, I was working on Tokyo Station then all of a sudden my computer froze and the game crashed, aaaaaaargh. But I did manage to build more stuff around Akihabara Station.

I'll try and get the trains running pretty soon, so far theres only one other station connected to Akihabara right now (Asakusa-bashi), and theres nothing around that station yet. Ive also started to lay down tracks in the direction of Ochanomizu and Ueno stations from Akihabara. The difficult part about connecting Akihabara to Kanda to Tokyo is that the tracks arent on a clean north-south axis, but instead is kind of curved, I may just have to make a good portion of the tracks into a nasty long diagonal (how i hate diagonals!).

ps: response wa nihongo demo okay desu

[Tomasneto 20]

Wow..., nice night in your city! Great pictures...

[whiterabbit2015 0]

This is amazing. Even better than the other two journals you've done on this city. How are you recreating the terrain? I've found some nice maps of the region, but they're all made so that everything has to be built on a diagonal. I'd love to try doing this myself, I just need a map where I can build properly.

[tepodon 29]

Reply:

whiterabbit2015: Actually I made the map myself, and its far from finished. Basically what I did was, I would take one large city, raise the terrain by x10, then start lowering the terrain where the water is. Basically its just a massive project of lowering land using the roads to flatten out areas and make detailed corners and turns. Also one tile is about 15mx15m in real life, so I took that into account when making the map, like using google earth, measuring the distance of a road on google, then dividing the length in meters by 15, which gives you the number of tiles needed to recreate that same distance in sc4. This requires a lot of using google earth and a calculator at all times, and its a lot easier if you build the terrain first, then build roads and rail before you do anything else, then u fit the city into your infrastructure. The water is Mas71's ploppable water, but theres also a bunch of other ploppable water u can use. Also you can never have too much Asian style/Japanese style low rise structures, you'll need a ton of those. And when you build something like rainbow bridge or bay bridge what you'll have to build a bridge over dry land. Its not too hard, just build a pair of mountains on either end of where u want ur bridge, then build a bridge between the two, and then use the roads to flatten out the area around the mountains you just made to make it look more artificial.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

This is great work you have been doing! These past few pics have that dense low rise style nailed especially well.

Again, great work,

-Todd

[Theirishnintendonerd 13]

Great work teodon ! The high seed rail line is impressive In youre city!

-Trevor

[Theirishnintendonerd 13]

Great work tepodon ! The high seed rail line is impressive In youre city!

-Trevor

[tepodon 29]

Notice the cars drive on the left hand side now, Yaaaaay!

[blue sinjid 7]

Wow tokyo really looks awesome!~ Such a chaotic station !

[whiterabbit2015 0]

Wow, that sounds like a lot of work. I'm impressed you can take on such an endeavor. Thanks for explaining it in detail for me, and I'm sure it was pretty informative for a bunch of other people as well. Great work.

[Haljackey 17,303]

Hehe, just take your time with Tokyo Station .

Awesome update BTW, I enjoyed all the networks in the pics and the urban cityscape! It looks a lot like Tokyo, oddly enough .

Best,

-Haljackey

[shaylan221 0]

Your rail system is beautiful. Do many sims use it? What's your secret.

[Mtg2192 0]

it's beautiful. it even has the palace grounds park area!

[tepodon 29]

Replies:

First of all thank you to everyone who has replied to Tokyo.

Haljackey: you may be dissappointed to hear that some of the roads may no resemble what Tokyo actually looks like. Its mostly because the roads in the downtown area have this very gentle curve to it, which makes it hard to set up straight, and if I do i tend to have a lot of extra space I need to fill up with something, usually just a bunch of asian buildings. But since the area around Akihabara is on a nice grid it was pretty easy, the area east of Tokyo station is a completely different matter.

shaylan221: actually no one uses the train networks... yet. orz. What I'm doing now is infrastructure, and theres only about 8000 ppl that actually inhabit the region right now. So I have no idea as of now whether or not the lines will actually carry the massive amounts of ppl as of now.

mtg2192: I dont remember posting a pic of the palace grounds yet? in fact I have yet to start work on that, im not sure what ur talking about...

[futurama2506sim 7]

Wow, this is awsome! It looks like it's gonna be huge, I'll definitely come back to this one.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Originally posted by: tepodon 

The region pic is gonna suck no matter what, theres nothing in it yet, its just blank terrain.  so ive decided not to show it until I've at least gotten the water down on the ground. quote>

 

Oh, sorry. people have different approches to how they start their CJs, so I didn't know that your region picture wasn't done.

By the way I really like your old Region Picture! Hope you can make it as good as last time!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

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lol, apparently st doesnt recognize japanese characters, thats what you get ^^

lol

anyways, this is a good recreation cj, this is my favorite city in japan

[tepodon 29]

souiu toki wa romaji de kakebaii

[ptanks 0]

This took detail, time and expertise; a fine job!