Show us your Riverside, Lakeside, or Oceanside

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Goulais Bay Marina and Coast Guard Station on Lake Superior.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

[Talla 2XLC 36]

On 27.5.2016 at 3:35 AM, 9gruntsand1hammer said:

Goulais Bay Marina and Coast Guard Station on Lake Superior.

What Water Mod is that

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

@Mikey Knox I believe it's this one. This is the only one I found in my plugins folder.

 

[kempis 18]

Lovely images everyone

My first attempt to create a river, using the in game water. You are welcome to make suggestions.

Another shot:

 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

@kempis It really looks good! Nice work with the mmps and the bike path working its way around

[Compdude787 916]

Looks pretty nice with all the MMPs! However, I would try and get rid of the cliff that starts immediately at the edge of the river underwater. Most rivers don't have that.

[antsel 841]

I had a dull parking lot at the waterfront across the street from the shopping centre. I replaced the parking lot with a vibrant pedestrian area featuring waterfront cafés.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Sounds like a much better choice! The lot of that shopping centre is pretty barren, too. Can you plop MMPs there, or would the lot need to be edited?

[antsel 841]

29 minutes ago, T Wrecks said:

Sounds like a much better choice! The lot of that shopping centre is pretty barren, too. Can you plop MMPs there, or would the lot need to be edited?

I would have to edit the lot with props, something I've been neglecting to do for a while now. But I'll get there eventually!

[korver 27,686]

 

Anakena Beach, Easter Island

Who wouldn't wanna do a little surfing here surrounded by Moais, palm trees and wild horses? Check out some of the history of Easter Island along with my other South Pacific mosaic here

 

[antsel 841]

@korverYour MMP work is stunning as always.

[nos.17 5,256]

It has been awhile since I made this, but I am pretty sure that almost all of the flora (excepting the rocks and underwater items of course) was painted with the God Mode flora brush. Praise be to @blunder.  

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

A touch of nature just south of Central Monroe.

[MushyMushy 3,618]

.... And here's the final product of the image I showed in the WIP thread. I entered it (late) into the tourism contest, so it'd be great if people who already voted went back and cast their vote for mine as well once it's available.

(warning - massive mosaic, click for full size)

I used a lot of Photoshop on this. Here's a (smaller) image of what it looked like before:

Spoiler

In addition to adding a lot of stuff and smoothing things out, I also "de-bluified" the scene. Maxis shadows are very blue. I never liked that. I personally like very contrasting dark shadows - it's not everyone's cup of tea but it's the style I'm used to as I'm a pencil artist.

[elliotwiley 10]

On 29.5.2016 at 1:40 AM, philforhockey51 said:

Phil, which Rock mod did you use?

[Starglow 45]

On 6/21/2016 at 7:06 PM, korver said:

 

Anakena Beach, Easter Island

Who wouldn't wanna do a little surfing here surrounded by Moais, palm trees and wild horses? Check out some of the history of Easter Island along with my other South Pacific mosaic here

 

Mind if I ask what water mod you're using?  This is amazing!

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

[philforhockey51 4,220]

On 7/12/2016 at 0:16 PM, elliotwiley said:

Phil, which Rock mod did you use?

Sorry was on vacation,  it is this one by Peg, check the PLEX section of the STEX(for other styles)

 

[TakemeThere 5,834]

@MushyMushy What program and effect did you use? I'm specifically interested in how you were able to make all the buildings and textures look so much clearer and sharper. The difference between the original and the modified image is like the difference between an HD & SD rendering

@philforhockey51 Welcome back, hope you got some good R&R.

[MushyMushy 3,618]

@takemethere - I didn't use anything special - just an ancient version of Photoshop (the current edition of GIMP is probably many times more powerful). As for what I did, I'll list the things I did to the original content of the image (not including adding the cars and all that). I didn't really do anything to specifically make the buildings look sharper, but maybe the other effects I did made them look sharper.

• Used sponge tool (on desaturate) to turn the blue shadows black.
• Used burn tool to add in the big deep shadows. This took a while; I also used it on the trees to give them more definition since seas of MMPs can look odd due to no shadows really showing through.
• Other than that the only thing I did to a building was I used the sponge tool (on saturate) to make the big building on the right side of the picture more orange.

[Artimus 485]

Several of these posts are well deserved; good job to all of you for sharing your moments!

For this one, I just changed my terrain mod to Pyrenean's. I was looking for something more temperate/semi-tropical. Anyway, this was taken at the beginning of dusk in-game.

Again, you guys are very good at your work. Cheers! 

[Compdude787 916]

Awesome picture!! I like how there's even cars on the beach! 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Wow, lovely evening atmosphere! I imagine they're already looking for well-dried driftwood to start a camp fire...

Btw, is that beach texture part of the terrain mod? It looks awesome!

[Artimus 485]

12 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Wow, lovely evening atmosphere! I imagine they're already looking for well-dried driftwood to start a camp fire...

Btw, is that beach texture part of the terrain mod? It looks awesome!

Ha, I was also thinking of that when those sims started to look for something to start a camp fire. I considered it a part of the theme of the picture.

Hmmm, I do believe that Pyrenean's Terrain Mod came with that beach texture, which is a major plus for me. 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I honestly can't think of anything to say, so I'll let the picture do the talking. I hope it's charismatic.

[korver 27,686]

Stunning Victoria Falls.

See the rest of my "Scenes From Africa" update in my CJ True Earth here.

 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

^ Wow

[_Michael 2,681]

Looking amazing, as always @korver; I like it @Thin White Duke - love the bridge.

[Starglow 45]

Here's my first offering for this thread, a small section of East Solaria: