New City Building Concept

[Heblem 600]

Hello,

Would you like to make a city like this?

Or either like this?

You might wondering, how I did it, ok, i'll explain to you here how...

-The entire city is LE, nothing of moding here, neither transit enabled, everything here are props and textures, nothing more, by doing this city with lots, you need to make special lots for these, a lot that doesn't generates, pollute or does anything, once you have the lot, you need a map plan of what youre going to do.

-A map plans helps you to manage your lots and how you going to build up your city, thats why when you do lots, you won't be able to do huge lots (due props limitation) so you do your city with repetitive lots of different small sizes (from 8x to 20x max) thats up to you how to manage your city/town plans.

-When you do a lot, is like doing a mock, use your favorite prop pack (you must know what every prop is) these props are misc stuffs as like parking lot lights, signals, mail boxes, etc etc, but  i'll list here some stuff:

For homes, you can either use maxis props, or download some off the stex, by downloading you dont need the lot, either desc file, just the model file to continue. Its recommended to make your own desc (props) files, with an initial tag, for example your initials, HBS_LightProp, etc this helps you to manage quick and pick anything you like, do the same for trees, commerces and some other stuffs what u need. If you know how to bat, you can do your own props for anything you need for the project.

-Now the hard part, doing base and overlay textures for your project, this what might consume a lot of time on working on the project. Doing textures is easy with SC4Tool, you need your own texture range for doing so. The best way to do so, is make an entire draw of what you going to do, this works better if youre good at photoshop or fireworks, (in making realistic streets) after you done, you have to consider in divide your draw into pieces of 256x256 pixels, doesn't matter what angle, but you need to get in mind when putting every texture at LE, basically it would be as like doing a puzzle.

Now whats the purpose of this thread?, to inspire many people possible to play the game like this way, its simple, easy and you don't need to download tons of stuff just to get what you want.

What im gonna do is to work in different sets of textures and put em for download (and maybe props) also ill be making some lot sets right here for you to use in game and try to create your own small town. to recreate anything you'd like to create, this thread is for create most realistic detailed cities only, not for doing huge cities and so...

The first project is the mock town, ill do again some lots and put these for download right here, hope to gain some interest in this project, not only by me, just by many people would like to cooperate with me.

Thanks!

[Heblem 600]

Mock Town - Lot number 1º

This is a basic piece lot for doing residentail (middle class) suburbs, i'll do some more variations.

Global Dependencies for this residential set:

Please install all the files into a EMPTY plugins folder...

-Mock Town project files

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=20561

-LBT Mega Prop Pack vol01

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=21770

-LBT Mega texture pack vol02

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=21771

-BSC MEGA Props - SG Vol 01

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=746

-BSC Essentials

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=443

-American Four Square

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=12661

-American Four Square v2

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=15880

-BSC Mega Prop Pack jeronij Vol05

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1586

-BSC BAT Props Mike Seith Vol 01

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=13257

-Simgoober Residentials Vol··

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1044

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1045

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1046

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1047

-SFBT Stollhouse by Stolloss

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=15084

The extra mock file:

http://www.fileden.com/getfile.php?file_path=http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/20/800718/Extrafiles.zip

The lot file:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/20/800718/Lot%20one.zip

The lot should be located at your landmark menu.

Notes: dont use the question tool into the lot or youll get a CTD.

Enjoy! thanks!

[_Atticus 10]

This is a very interesting concept Heblem. I'll wait to see more of this project.

-Pinagangster

[kiwispanker 1]

is there a way to convert buildings into props?

[AtkinsSJ_ 7]

Hmmm, an interesting idea, but I take it this sort of city is non-functional. A pity really, but still very nice looking. Must take you absolutely ages!

[The_sanderson 6]

Very cool ideia.

But i used it last year, and have some small problems...It

[TheSixCents 0]

Totally LE'd as well

Cheers

[The_sanderson 6]

Good, TheSixCents, old friend!

Good work.

[Darkstonejrs 0]

Gooood

[froelich131 13]

 Well may not be as time consuming but I like to stick to the good old fashion way of building a city, zoning, puzzleing, plopping, and draggin' 

[DJ-Print 0]

if any of you have seen his video how do you get the fire trucks and the fire department i need some good looking fire trucks in my citys (the origanl ones are like 1950's style)

[froelich131 13]

 Again i have to say the LE'd is a sort of city building but i don't think you will get so much people to want to make a city that way, since it completely rules out the basics of simcity. 

[3dpuzzlemaster 20]

Is there ANY way you could make these into mods? Like the road textures, the houses drive-ways connects to the roads, and the street-side powerlines? Any way, this is an interesting concept.

[thepokemaniac 18]

This is so amazing. Those YouTube cities were great, man! It would be really cool if you made your road textures into functional ones. I like the LE, the thing is though, I always lose patients with it when I use it, but I guess its a good way to make the city look exactly how you want. Anyway, good job!

[thepokemaniac 18]

This is so amazing. Those YouTube cities were great, man! It would be really cool if you made your road textures into functional ones. I like the LE, the thing is though, I always lose patients with it when I use it, but I guess its a good way to make the city look exactly how you want. Anyway, good job!

[thepokemaniac 18]

This is so amazing. Those YouTube cities were great, man! It would be really cool if you made your road textures into functional ones. I like the LE, the thing is though, I always lose patients with it when I use it, but I guess its a good way to make the city look exactly how you want. Anyway, good job!

[Simguy228 0]

What are the names of the Mock Town project files in LE?

                            -Regards

                                               Simguy228

[Keegan V50 15]

@The SixCents: wow great work there!,those lots looks great!

all the best

victor

[kingdiz_55 12]

This is a good idea. The only downside to this is actually the lot editing phase which takes some time.

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

I'd ask if you were planning to release the lots, but I have a feeling I already know the answer.

[fefenc 77]

this is like world editor?

[Slashback 136]

Does it take long time to make a city?

[Jeffmaster223 24]

very realistic...

[LILCHRIS5X 5]

Are you going to try and do this for a reasonably sized city or would it just take too long because that town on YouTube is brilliant. I subscribed.

[Money 1133 0]

Where do you download the LE file?

[GioAc96 7]

 Hi, today i'm gonna show you a particular transport system.

When i saw my ol cities i noticed that there were a lot of black roads everywhere and i thought: "how can i replace that?" and the answer was "GRL!!!"

watch this!

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/cdc21544e8_0.78MB

(i'm sorry if my english is not perfect)

oh, and i thought to do the same thing with canals!

[kricsmark 0]

This is cool and all.... But when I see beautiful stuff like this, I always think: If I wanted to place my buildings manually, I'd play Societies (brr), and not Simcity 4. :V

[tonyr 926]

Nice work guys!

[+Guest bmn]

I INSTALLED THE New City building concept but it won't appear so can you help me?

[Pikaplayer12 1]

Wow You realy did a freakin great job!!but those links don't work!!The extra mock file:

http://www.fileden.c.../Extrafiles.zip

-Mock Town project files

http://www.simtropol...ls.cfm?id=20561