Trivordam: The Source of Opportunity

[Damastius 5]

Hello everyone, this is my newest creation: Trivordam. Located in Gregory Valley, it is the city with the highest population - even higher than Grigoria, the capital.

I will work on this city from the CBD on, as I have worked on a quite rarely seen grid method. The city will thrive on Offices, Industry and a bit of Agriculture.

Most of the first pictures were taken in the '60s, to give a small first impression of the CBD. This city will build on realism, so no 100% paradise city - sorry!

Here are the pictures, expect an update about once a week or so, because I do not have much time.

An overview

The stadium

The bridges going over the sunken expressway:

I decided to add a few skyscrapers, to make the city look more realistic and make the few left really pop out.

One of the older, poorer, parts of the city.

I hope you enjoyed the first update!

Damastius

[DICK60 0]

Very nice pictures , love the sunken highway. How do you make it?

[zwr100 2]

This might be an odd thing to like, but I love the parking lots by the stadium.  I don't personally like to use custom content, but parking lots seem to be a major urban land use completely omitted from the game.

I've played around with the plaza tool, and the euro pack plaza tool to make something resembling parking areas...  I was thinking decreasing the quantity of ornaments or whatever might help, but it's simply not the same.

I look forward to seeing more.

[ACEH 0]

Awesome!

How did you get the parking lots? And can you make some tutorial abaout how this expressway is made?

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Wow great expressway there!!!! Nice street Layout so far, not many curved roads !

[waldenbg 0]

NIICEE!! how'd u do the highway?

[jazyje 1]

Very impressive.. Although personally I'd prefer untouched pictures -- these are a bit too grainy for my taste

[Damastius 5]

Thanks for the comments guys! I'll explain you how to make the sunken expressway later.

@ ACEH: the parking lots come with the unlocker mod version 3.

@ Jesse Swiss: Yes I plan not to use that much curves for a part of the downtown area. Later on I will use them, though.

@Jazye: I know I made them grainy because I got distracted by the unfinished areas when making the pictures. Next time I'll keep that in mind!

Expect an update at the end of the week, or maybe a bit earlier.

Again, thank you for the nice comments, I put a lot of effort in it.

[ACEH 0]

But does Unlocker v.3 works with Cities XL 2011?

[Damastius 5]

Nope

I have Cities XL 2009

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Here's a small tutorial on how to make the sunken expressway.

[DICK60 0]

Thanks, gonna try it.

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Worked for me! Good Job!

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Cool!

[Damastius 5]

Hey guys, I've been working a bit on the south side of downtown, and I tried to make a bit of a good, easy transition from grid to a free-road district. I am finally satisfied, so I'll show you a couple of pictures.

Here's the progress so far. You can see the area of south downtown being almost complete, and a downtown park. A name will follow

What do you think about the transition of building style?

Hopefully I'll put a bigger update online somewhere in the weekend, so see you then.

Hope you enjoyed update 1, and see you soon

Damastius

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Awsome , really lovin how its comin out!

[Damastius 5]

Thanks, it took me a lot of precious time

[MTLT_17 27]

Very nice! Love the way it is shaping! ALSO LOVE THE HIGHWAY!

[1.21_Jiggawatts 4]

Wow! Thats pretty awesome. I'll definatly have to keep my eye on this one

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Lets hope we get another update then

[Jorov-84 0]

Finally a city that shows some innovation regarding realism, wonderful...I was getting bored of city journals with cities everybody can *plop*.....

[Hyronymus 56]

This looks stunning so to say. Very nice street layout and the sunken highway looks very good.

[Damastius 5]

Thank you for the Replies man, I am currently having problems with Trivordam because I removed the mods and installed only those which I like. Now it seems I forgot the one important mod, so it crashes instantly. Wish me luck on finding it, I have little hope

[Jorov-84 0]

Originally posted by: Hyronymus

This looks stunning so to say. Very nice street layout and the sunken highway looks very good.quote>

You're right, especially the roads construction!

Hope you can fix the mod-problems Damastius.....

(@ Hyronymus: BTW, 5 years ago, only 15 days difference between us subribing to Simtropolis, was it not  the high point of SC4?)

[Hyronymus 56]

Originally posted by: joverbeeke

Originally posted by: Hyronymus

This looks stunning so to say. Very nice street layout and the sunken highway looks very good.quote>

You're right, especially the roads construction!

Hope you can fix the mod-problems Damastius.....

(@ Hyronymus: BTW, 5 years ago, only 15 days difference between us subribing to Simtropolis, was it not  the high point of SC4?)quote>

Indeed, it was 'back then' joverbeeke. And I have too little experience with Cities XL to tell if Sim City lost its place (only played the demo of Cities XL). But times change and 'freeform' has been the magic word for some years.

Damastius: good luck in restoring your mods, doesn't the game create error logs with names of missing mods? Some games do i.e..

[Damastius 5]

I am working on a new 'Trivordam' at the moment. Though it is at another map and so, I think it will be as good. Keep your eyes open the next couple of days..

[Damastius 5]

 The new Trivordam has arrived. Click here (Redirection to the new City Journal Section)

[DazzaDazza 35]

I love that road that goes though the city and the over passes look so realistic, very nice indeed

[Damastius 5]

 A new update has arrived..

Click here for the full update with the story!

Damastius

[Damastius 5]

 New in update 4: Overviews of the city.

For the full update visit the journal here.

[franky_83 8]

This is one cool CJ. Thanks for all the updates and looking forward to more in the future.