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Hi, this is a tutorial about how to use and make your own dam using my set
You can download the beta dam set here (outside simtropolis)... (http://descargas.capitalsim.net/?sitio=csc&descarga=3446)
SETEP 1, make sure to get the next tools:
OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES:
-Substation Pack 1 (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/15877-substation-pack/), required for power pylons to appear (eyecandy)
Optional files for building the dam:
I suggest to have the next files that will help you in making the dam easier in game.
-Hole Digging lots (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/3599-hole-digging-lots/), which will help you in making small hills using the "ground lifter"
-NHP Ennedi Slope Mod (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1512), the diabolical mod will be useful to easily expand the terrain.
-Extra Money (http://descargas.capitalsim.net/?sitio=csc&descarga=1415), trust me, you'll need this cheat...
-God Terraforming in Mayor Mode (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/20092-god-terraforming-in-mayor-mode/), in some case will help for fully terraforming.
-JRP Core Lot Pack (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1674), (OPTIONAL), in my preference this looks great with this setspecially for the reservoir. Watch for dependencies needed for this set (Requires to register in SC4Devotion)
-JRJ Rural Culverts and water effects (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=125) (OPTIONAL), esthetically for water effect at the bottom of the dam. (Requires to register in SC4Devotion)
STEP 2, knowledgment of making a dam.
At this tutorial were making a real dam, if youre wondering how real dams looks like you can read this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam
What we do is the reservoir, the shape of the dam and downstream. The reservoir usually are above sea level, because of that situation, it is hard to do in SimCity 4 because the game takes just as water areas at the sea level. It is recommended to use "ploppable" water so you can recreate the reservoir. You can choose any ploppable water you like.
In this tutorial I will terraform manually the ground, if you place your dam on a region, made sure the reservoir behind your dam is reasonable placed, i mean is there is no city behind or sea. It is recommended that the reservoir remains at the edge of the region. Is recommended to download a map of real life with an existing dam, hopefully this modular set can fit with the terrain, unless you do an extensive adjustment.
The modular set that I designed, is based on Folsom Dam, Sacramento, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Dam) is not a recreation as it is, I exaggerated a little height and design is slightly different than real. The height of the dam in game is 240 meters, which I explain how to make the exact height in the game.
STEP 3, place your dam in your city.
To begin, make sure to start in a big city, is not recommended if you make the dam in small or medium cities, for now use the "Ground lifter" to help us raise the ground 15 meters each time.
Try to locate the ground lifter in the center of city land if you're lucky to see the fireworks in the beginning, plop nearby.
STEP 4, make the wall with ground lifter
The tool works by plopping the lot then drawing a road over the ground lifter, automatically, the land rises15 meters.
Demolish the street and lot, and again plop and draw over to repeat the process...
Repeat the process 16 times, if you already did it twice you have 14 attempts, ie 15x16 is 240, 240 are the meters that needed to reach for the height of the dam, 15 meters are used by each lot and 16, the number of times to put the lot.
When you think you've reached the height, take a test and place a piece of the dam to make sure that it fits as shown below ...
STEP 5, extend walls using roads
In this tutorial we will shape the dam using the roads of SimCity 4 and diabolical mod by Ennedi...
At the edges of the wall you just made, draw a one-way road to the wall over, note that you must have Ennedi diabolical mod to achieve this effect.
Repeat the process at the other side...
Destroy 4 sections on both sides of the roads, as shown in the picture...
Place 3 pieces of road in the middle. Watch out! first place the first piece in the center of the grid, on the flat, then the other two on the sides, if you make a mistake, you have to repeat the whole process again.
Destroy it, only served to flatten...
On the flat you just made, draw a one-way road on the back of the dam, along ...
Draw another two roads behind the dam...
Destroy everything again...
On the flat top, make squares of roads to flatten most of possible along... until you get the red square.
Until you get something similar to this...
In the back, start to flatten between 10-15 squares back, the more father back better ... (my mistake here, then corrected it, if you like to save this error start back at 15 squares or behind)
Cover the entire area as possible, until the red square appears that doesn't let you build.
Destroy all squares made...
As like with one-way roads, draw over the side, as shown in the picture ...
Make some more roads at behind to cover the flat you made earlier, which are about 5 spaces...
Repeat the same at the other side...
Make some more road squares behind the dam, for the reservoir, try cover the most possible area.
Until you get something similar like in the image...
At back, place road squares as far as possible ...
Destroy everything, you should have something similar to this...
STEP 6, terrain modeling using God mode tool
Use the God mode tool, to shape the dam entirety.
First use Quick Level Brush, which will help quickly level up the whole terrain, you must be extremely careful with this tool, try not to "miss" the dam you did before ....
In the back of the dam, level on the "peninsula" that you had done before ...
Carefully level up all the land behind the dam ... that will be the reservoir of the dam ...
Until you get something similar like in the picture...
Level up with extreme caution the sides of the dam, make something like a canyon around the dam.
You should get something like this...
STEP 7, refine modeling and make mountains...
Refine the top to avoid "losing" the details of the dam in a future edition.
Shape the bottom of both sides if needed ...
Destroy any road you have made before...
Select the mountain tool...
Make some mountains in a few clicks (without pressing), at the edges of the dam, to give a more realistic shape ...
Same at other side..
Now smooth sharp edges near the dam ...
Until you get something like below...
STEP 8, placing modular set pieces of the dam
Finally you can freely place the pieces you want on the dam...
The first piece that I plopped is located 4 blocks away from the original wall at the bottom, if you did everything right the piece should fit exactly at top.
The next piece, is called "Ending", is to be placed on edges of canyons, if your dam is flat, ie not located in a canyon, you should use the transition and filling.
Put the opposite pieces on the other side, as like central pieces as you wish...
At this image we clearly see an error...
To fix this, you must level the terrain below ... for this, destroying the parts that look bad, flat the ground with roads, destroy and put back again the pieces ...
Finally you should get something like this... (note the zoom 4 and zoom 5 errors on top of the dam, theres nothing i can do now for fix it, sorry)
STEP 9, finalizing details
At this step, I show essential details for building your dam ...
At the bottom, be sure to have a flat ground to put the pieces of the dam base, It can be placed in any position of your desire, here an example of how I did ...
In the back you see the detail or the mistake I made, as I said ....
To fix, make a hole in the mayor mode, then flatten the whole area with roads...
When you flatten like this, destroy everything...
use quick level brush to flat the area rapidly...
And the final result fixed...
By the other side, add some power lines for realism to your dam...
Add some water drop effect by jeronij for visuals and realism...
Making an effect similar like below
Back to the reservoir, as like I said its optional what ploppable water you use, in my case i will plop MAS71 waters at the entire flat area...
Giving a result like this one...
At the bottom front side, its optional if you wish to use ploppable water or even mayor mode ploppable water... here an example of what i did...
You should have a final result similar like this one...
With some more custom plugins and other eyecandy mods, you can get results like below...
I hope you enjoyed reading or even following this tutorial and I hope you can show here your dams or any other dams!
Attached PDF file for a local copy: HBS Dam Tutorial.pdf -CB Edit: Restored the pics uploading directly to the ST server, and attached PDF file.
A big thanks to @CaptCity for reporting and providing them from his backup.
Attached PDF file for a local copy: HBS Dam Tutorial.pdf -CB Edit: Restored the pics uploading directly to the ST server, and attached PDF file.
A big thanks to @CaptCity for reporting and providing them from his backup.
Very useful tutorial with pictures on how to create a dam.
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