Show Us Your Suburbs

[Sparks1176 1]

Originally posted by: JayStimson This is a great thread. Awesome and inspiring.

Here's a pic from my Old Saybrook region. Not possible without all the great residential BAT's from the STEX. Such wonderfull variety.

I'll try and post some more in a few days.quote>

 

Where can I find this parking lot texture, I have the PEG Scenic drive but am looking for the plain texture like you have here....

[JayStimson 211]

Sparks1176:

They're included in this mega pack:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=12646

[Sparks1176 1]

JayStimson:  Yea I already have that, but what I was wondering is.....did you plop them down yourself or is that apart of Lot Editor or what?? 

[Bodom 1]

nice lake but... try mansions not 2 story houses

[Sparks1176 1]

Some shots from one of my towns Abbeville.   Features some neighborhoods from South Shore, Centre Grove, Industry Acres and Independence Park.  

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work you guys

[____----____ 37]

i like the alleys Sparks nice idea

AK

[Camaron 1]

Sparks1176: Nice, I like the beach's and street layout.

Looking forward to more accomplishments.

[st louis dude 6]

I usually tend to make my suburbs full of houses and stores and public services.

[cnystrom1 1]

wow what a great bunch of suburbs! if i werent out of town, id go to my computer w/ sc4 and immediately try to re-make parts of those.

[sanantonio 0]

@ jamezz_2005: Click on the signature - your questions will be answered, and your eyes will be happy. Just dont wander into uncharted territory.

[masochist 111]

Most suburbs I create are really cramped and closed in by streets, but after reading this thread and seeing all the good stuff here, I went and tried to make some more open, freer-flowing suburbs.  Here's the result:

An overview of the area (facing south...that avenue just falls off the bottom edge of the region):

And the three separate communities:

[Camaron 1]

masochist: Good, I like the branch style layout of the roads.

[harshbarj 1]

Here are a few of my nicer looking neighborhoods. I've always before built my cities like hong kong (pack em in as tight as you can) so this is a bit of a change for me.

[Camaron 1]

harshbarj: Good, to inprove I would recommend you put more trees in the area of the first picture and make the buildings a bit more individual.

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

Here is a picture of some of my suburbs on the very outskirts of Basin City, in my new Journal Sin City Chronicles.

[capitol1 1]

wow thats flippen amazing TPP How did you get that overhead view??

[luker91 0]

whoa.... that is flippen amazing! .... i can only repeat what capitol1 said in how did you get that picture?

[cityhawk 12]

TPP, it looks great (as I said in your CJ), and I, too, would like to know how to do those type pics. Great job, though!

[U3D 6]

haha, its just like Google, I saw a tutorial on how to do that somewhere where, in Photoshop, you change the prespective, I would give a link but I have to look for it.....

[Camaron 1]

ThePeoplesPerson: Very good use of skill, I am also curious to see how you did that.

[MidwestSimGeek 0]

Peoples Person -- AMAZING design with the suburbs... incredibly realistic. Reminds me of a couple of subdivisions in Savage and Rosemount, two Twin Cities suburbs near my home (the curvy Road about a quarter-mile south of the Avenue is a dead ringer for South Park Drive.)

Also, from this distant view, it looks like you have quite a large swath of exclusively single-family residential on little gray streets... how on earth does one keep commute times reasonable in that sort of setup? Inquiring minds would definitely like to know.

[starrdarcy 4]

not to mention the copyright infringement...

nice work!

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull suburbs i like the road layouts great work you guys

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

The shot was done playing with the perspective options in photoshop. These suburbs in particular were inspired by some in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). As for commute times, they're long. I was actually wondering where they were going myself, turns out most of them take the shortest route to the road, then take that to the avenue dividing the 2 'burbs. From there almost all of them travel west for half a large city tile into a neighbor tile, where I assume most of them are working on farms.

I do have a huge, one county block (avenues on all sides, about the same size as this area here) shopping mall complex, which I imagine will employ quite a few people as well soon. Not to mention some very large factories.

[capitol1 1]

I did this once accidently with as region picture in ms paint...I jsut opened the picture and it was overhead viewed...

[RushHourFreak 1]

This is the EAST ($$$$) part of my city:

North Part ($$)

[capitol1 1]

Its alittle to spread out. The commercial buildings ruin the idea for a small town so it cant be that either..Whats your idea for this?

Ionno if this is any better

[David12345678 0]

These are the "Dawson-Hills" with a gorgeus Downtownview

[a0z1 3]

From a country club gated community in one of my regions