Show Us Your Suburbs

[beachfrontproperty 0]

nice burbs,' like the one on the first page with the nice houses

[starrdarcy 4]

New Road Textures and "walkable" suburbs

Part of the project i failed to mention was that i was also working on new road and street textures for SC4. Well after toiling after 4 days, i finally managed to replace the basic road and street tiles! I decided to go a different path - walkable suburbs and new urbanism designs when building my cities and layout for my city.

This has resulted in some interesting results. While i will not go in to details over this experiment here, i decided to show ST a few glimpses of some soon to be released beta form road and street textures!

First of... lets zoom into this maze of homes and streets. You will notice that many of the buildings are the same - i'm working on that.

Zoom in even closer, i have on purpose made the roads more darker, however after close analysis, i have decided to tone down them in the final version1. Most of the buildings have trees on them. I will be trying to find out if i can place them on the roads/streets themselves.

I made this set of road/street textures considerably more "Square" so that i can imatate real life road layouts. you will also notice that both roads have the grass strips, in higher wealth levels, the grass will be replaced by brick and eventually tiles.

Heres another picture with a soccer field in the middle. The roads combined with this buildings utalize almost all of the space. Alowing for more density. Parks also help to break up the scene as well.

This set of textures and buildings can also work well with forested areas - the quiet areas plus parks will make your sims feel like living in true suburb - warm and quiet.

And finally, this is the textures used by themselves. You can see that the land is maximized and will fit well with compact communities.

That is it for now.

This texture pack along with the set of buildings in this map will be placed on STEX next week for a few days. No further details will be posted here, this experiment will be further studied in a new thread.

Thanks

-starradrcy

[LordoftheWise 0]

@starrdarcy; I like the textures, but the layout is a little too uniform for me; it need a bit more diversity. Here are my two cents;

Evening in the suburbs

Train running through suburbs

Hope you like m.....

Greetz

[____----____ 37]

oooh looks real cool starrdarcy

[jacqulina 162]

wow some excellent suburbs you guys

[emilin 2]

My suburbs for the rich:

And for the poor:

[Camaron 1]

Nice suburbs.  A very interesting layout starrdarcy.

[Giligone 10]

Here's a pic of one of the suburbs of my city.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

[MasterPie 0]

I just started a new region. My first region I am planning to comeplete Usualy I just make cities with skyscrapers and just have a lot of fun but this time I am trying to make a realistic region. I started with a suburb. I am using a New York City region but I am not planning to make it all look like the real thing. Manhattan is going to be a farmland and the skyscrapers will be in the north

Have a look. Comments are welcome because this is my first try creating a suburb.

How do you take pictures without the HUD?

Thanks in advance

[Giligone 10]

Hey Masterpie, Im not sure of the exact resolutions of your pics... but they should be less than 800x600 or else the mods will delete them. But they look good. How come you put your big stadium out in the burbs? Not enough room downtown?

[hym 358]

Some excellent work there! I like the planning that appears to be going on with this.

[MasterPie 0]

Yes I'm sorry. I forgot to resize the pics.

I have also added some more. There is plenty of room downtown for the stadium.. because I haven't started one yet

I have also just completed the harbor section north of the suburbs (as you can see on the region shot I was just getting started, but now it's done) and now I'm going to start to work on the Downtown.

In my city is a stadium too in the middle of the suburbs. And I thought it looked kinda cool with a highway going underneath.

Thanks for the comments

[jacqulina 162]

amazing work you guys beautifull pics

[MasterPie 0]

Hey,

Does anyone know where I can download better houses?

At the moment I am using the Urban Housing mod, but that mod only changes R$$ houses. I keep having a lot of R$ houses and I don't the standard R$ houses. I can't seem to find any low density mods which changes R$ and R$$, giving my suburbs a better look. Any tips?

Thanks in advance,

[Duvad 26]

Random shots from my current region, from days to months old shots.

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/newcastle-26_mar.__231161914073_386.png

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/mulgrave-23_mar.__101161600382_109.png

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/newcastle-5_apr.__181161071330_206.png

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/preston-4_aug.__121160124957_271.png

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/preston-15_sep.__101159437354_948.png

http://forum.toaoclan.net/files/preston-13_dec.__071159332864_822.png

[jacqulina 162]

great suburbs very nice pics

[hamsterTK 93]

Nice work Masterpie.

To be honest, the almost euclidean street layout and the stadium seem a bit out of place but thats fine it doesnt have to be perfectly realistic.

but thats no big deal, You have managed to grow just the right kind of houses in an even fashion, and that is what really matters when doing a suburb, not to mention the toughest. My suburbs tend to get messed up when rich sims build gigantic 2*3 mansions that ruin the blocks and look stupid

[MayorTim 16]

Heres some suburbs from Astoria, my city journal.

[Menotyou 0]

Amazing suburbs MayorTim!

[Giligone 10]

Great suburbs mayor tim! They are almost rural they are so spread out.

Here's one of the suburbs of my new city. This pic is right out of my CJ... Im too lazy to post a new on, lol.

[Hawkeye9 0]

Here is just a random pic of one of my suburbs.

[GreekMan 246]

nice everyone

[storms991 0]

het is goed

[David12345678 0]

This is my new Suburb "Marina del Monte"

[Camaron 1]

More great work.  I like the way you have used walls to step the hill David12345678.

[Kayean_Henser 2]

Beautiful work, everyone....I'm certainly intrigued by your suburban layout, Masterpie.

I have a question for you, Lordofthewise (or for anyone else who can answer it): where did you get these wonderful Scandanavian-looking apartment blocks? I love this picture, by the way!

Evening in the suburbs

[Shiz 0]

In an effort to post in every "Show us your" thread... Here are my lush high wealth suburbs of West Bullhorn, just outside of my Downtown Area.

[I-275westcoastflorida 1]

Here are some suburbs from several of my cities.

[Menotyou 0]

Nice pictures I-275westcoastflorida, but they are too big, please resize them to 800X600.