Diagonal Neighborhoods & Blocks

[naftixe 131]

I am interested in any advice on how to build better diagonal neighborhoods & blocks. Any pictures here would be appreciated. STEX has a very limited amount of diagonal made items. I think a list here would be appropriate for other players whom are having the same issues or interest in diagonal content. Transportation is pretty well covered. Residental Low wealth is pretty well covered also, but we can talk about it too. Mainly looking for w2w ideas on diagonal and Residential High.

[JakeMD 107]

Most people just give out basic tools to create diagonal lots for themselves. It isn't that hard to create diagonal lots in the lot editor/reader, it just takes a little practice.

[Dsrwhat316 12]

Not my best example of diagonal building, but the only one I could find for now:

~ Dan

[naftixe 131]

Swat-medic: Thanks for the post. Can you give so more information on the LOT editor? Do I already have it as part of SC4 or do I have to dowload the item?

DSRwhat316: Thanks for your post. You have given myself some good ideas.

Anybody else want to weigh in on the conversation?

[MCO1254 2]

I really haven't done much in the way of diagonal neighborhoods and the ones that I have done aren't upperclass or w2w, but here's one anyways.

[naftixe 131]

MCO1254: Nice, looks as if you used a space of three tiles. One tile in the middle undeveloped, with a one tile zone on each side. Also, nice transportation layout. You have lots of low density streets that feed into a road. Very realistic feel to the diagonal neighborhood. Sometimes I use this configuration, that you posted. This is a really clean, elegant, and simple design. Thanks for the post!

[MCO1254 2]

Thanks Naftixe, It seems to be an effective layout and I think I'm going to try it again. I messed around with different spacing between the roads and three came out as the best looking, two was too tight and four looked unfinished. I threw a blank grass texture in the middle to make it look a little neater.

[naftixe 131]

Where did the trees come from? What tree mod are you using? I could use a simulair one. Is is Peg's?


From what I am seeing, it looks as if empty space is the object of realism, in order to effectively make these work. I am going to experiment some more on diagonal neighborboods and will post some here later.

[MCO1254 2]

I use cycledog's trees. They can be found on the stex.