Sycamore Valley

[Breeze 0]

Welcome fellow cj'rs to  Sycamore Valley.    I've had one other cj before but was awhile ago and short-lived, but Im Back!

I dont use photoshop or any other program to highlight my cj unfortunately, but my main purpose  is to share with the community the picture's that I do have of my cities.

It is because of all the wonderful pictures of other peoples journals and to all the awesome baters out there that inspire's me to still play this game today and that is why Im here, to show you what I have done...

 

   and for the region view...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  if your wondering why that river on the right looks differently colored, its because its peg's pond kit    In this cj it will be known as pegs river kit

 

 More pics to come soon.

[Traffic_Jam 0]

Very nice region pic!

The terraforming is very well done

[Breeze 0]

 as promised, some pics...

 

New Kensington Dam:

 

 

 

New Kensington Picnic Area:

 

 

  Local Church and cemetery:

 

 

One last shot for the night:

 

 

that's all for tonight, hope you liked. 

[sorchin 18]

Beautiful landscape Breeze.

And I love what you have done with PEGS pondkit. I'm looking forward to this CJ.

Keep up the excellent work

[cityplanner82 0]

Great region, i especially like the teraforming and the rivers.  Great Dam!!!  Keep up the great work

[newy2 0]

Amazing terraforming work you've done, great regional view too New Kensington Dam looks superb aswell as the town itself, keep up tha great work

peace

[ramvid01 0]

i like your terraforming, and your liberal use of parks gives it a really nice feel to the area, keep up the good work

[GingerBlokey 30]

PEG Pond Water

It matches the sea water to the colour of PEGs Ponds and Streams.

Oh yeah and good CJ by the way

[jacqulina 162]

excellent region so nice and green,awesome use of pegs things love the dam,great pics,keep it coming great work so far

[texanpride786 2]

hey this is one awesome region... keep up the good work and i will make sure i follow it. AND please keep posting more pix.

[sorchin 18]

Hello again breeze:

I forgot to ask:

In the picture below...How did you get the grass to look so lush and green? Is it a terrain texture download or something because it looks amazing

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Kensington-Oct.%208,%201.jpg align=baseline>

[ganja728 0]

Wow, that looks amazing. Great pics and great city

[Iknowu 0]

i lone the mountain great job

[Kryten 0]

Great CJ! The region overview is BEE-OO-TEE-FULL! The pattern of erosion on the mountains combined with the rock texture makes it look amazing! How'd you get that great erosion?

One question... I haven't tried the dam yet and I can't tell from the photos - is the water behind the dam at the same level as all the other water?

 

Thx. K.

[Breeze 0]

 Hello all again, thanks sooo much for your great comments everyone.  

  Some info on New Kensington Dam, that part did take some time to build, but its paying off  to the small town of New Kensington. It supplies the entire town for all its power needs and aswell brings in a small income from the neighboring town Imperial. It also is a very popular place to just get away and relax, lots of fisherman enjoy the dam's abundance of fish, which is kept fully stocked. 

  GingerBlokey:  thanks for that link, I tried to plug it in and see what happens but I still had the same texture, will have to look into that a bit more.

 

  Texanpride:  thanks for the comment, and yes, more pics!!!

 

  sorchin:  the mod used for the texture is Cycledogg's Terrain Mod, the mod itself is hosted on another site but you can find link's for it in the general discussion thread, I dont have a link atm but will search for it, and thanks for the comments!

 

  Kryten:  Glad you liked the mountains! For the rock texture I used Peg's Rock Mod II, which you can find in the stex, and I do believe that Cycledogg's mod will also make some nice eroded slopes built into it aswell. And for the dam, the water behind the dam is not the same level as infront of it, you have to do a bit of terraforming to create the right way to place the dam, maybe I will do a tutorial on how I did it soon.

 

 and a couple more pics for the night of New Kensington:

 

New Kensington H.S. Area:

 

 

Residential:

 

 

Small shops:

 

 

Passenger Train:

 

 

as I was taking this shot, simgoober's Waldoff's Apartments shot up:

 

 

the good news for the residents here is there a Starbucks just across the street, cant have enough Starbucks!!

 

Thanks again for the comments everyone, I will be trying to post new shots each night.

[sorchin 18]

Another great update Breeze.

Thanks for Cycledoggs terrain mod info.

I can already tell this is going to be a great CJ

[the_crispbread_witch 0]

Very beautiful region! Looks fantastic.

Good job plopping all those Peg Ponds!

And great town layout with perfect residential area.

I'll try to keep an eye on this one. =)

[sirgeoj2 1]

Wow, this is really nice!  Very realistic land layout, nicely laid out city.  Great work!

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

Wow amazingly realistic. Good job.

[utora 0]

Wow! Spectacular terrain, beautiful city-layout! This promises to be a marvelous journal!

[Traffic_Jam 0]

Nice update!

[Red Hawk 0]

amazing region! i cant wait to see some more! oh and the terrain mod can be found here:

http://www.clefsdeschampsserrurier.com/CyclePuppy/CyclePuppyColumbus.htm

[Glenni 1,444]

hehe nice CJ love the nature!!!!!!

[Breeze 0]

 Thank you Thank you for the comments .  Red Hawk, thanks for the link also.

 

  Just a quick update for tonight, it seems since the new High rise in town that it has sparked new demand so the town decided to build a new train station to accomadate the new arrivals in town, a much more modern station was needed and thus the pics.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Kensington-Sep.%2023,%203.jpg align=baseline>

 

as you can see the new high rise has direct accest via pedestrian walkway.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Kensington-Sep.%2023,%204.jpg align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Kensington-Sep.%2023,%202.jpg align=baseline>

 

as you can see the sims love the new station, what do you think? 

 

 

[Traffic_Jam 0]

Very nice,

 

One question though,

 

Where'd you get that combined rail and elevated rail station?

[Red Hawk 0]

yeah like Traffic_Jam sad where did you get that staion from? i dont think its on the stex.

[Jerebannus XVI 7]

i love that reservoir and the dam, it looks very realistic.

[Breeze 0]

  http://www.bripizza.net/sc4/index.html#bat  

 

  There is the link for that station. Once you get to that site, look towards the bottom of the main page for Bat's, look under that for the word Station in it, it is there you will find it, unless you can read Japenese well then heh, you wont have any problems.   

 

   There is actually 2 versions of that station, one with the EL and one without it, just a train station, both look great imo.

 

Jerebannus, thanks for the comments, glad you liked it.

[oroen 0]

The landscape is stunning and very beautiful, and the development seems just right for its environs.

[Breeze 0]

  Good evening everyone, just thought I would post a couple screenshots from simgoobers new canal lots, I think they look fabulous..

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Imperial-Aug.%2027,%203.jpg align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Imperial-Aug.%2012,%201.jpg align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Imperial-Aug.%2012,%202.jpg align=baseline>

 

 Thanks once again for a fantastic idea simgoober, I plan on making alot of use out of these lots.