Show us your Futuristic Creations!

[47ply 1,100]

wow not my style but these look great awesome work.

[Huston 5,800]

I made a recreationg of the 2012 remake of Total Recall, and its set location in London, UFB. I'm gonna try working on a scene to represent The Colony, but that'll come later

 

 

[Terring 6,476]

Guess who's back

[Terring 6,476]

It's been such a long time since I could play the game. But now I'm back. And my lotting projects will be back too

[Terring 6,476]

Just the beginning of something bigger

[AsimPika3172 1,155]

Welcome to SimCity vision 2020 or maybe 3000!!!  

[Terring 6,476]

Overview from two small cities.

An attempt to break the grid.

And a small industrial park.

[Terring 6,476]

One of my favorite kinds of future cities is what I call 3D cities. It's cities made by buildings so big that can hold buildings, roads and even avenues, airports, whole neighborhoods, and even entire cities on their roofs. Keep this going and you'll have buildings on top of bigger buildings, which are on top of even bigger buildings, which are on top of even bigger buildings! The next old concepts can give you an idea.

This is the kind of cities I'm now recreating at SimCity, and this is the very first one. As you can see, this city is actually an arcology surrounded by industries, which is big enough to support a residential zone and a smaller arcology, which is still big enough to support a commercial zone and the central core.

More 3D cities are coming soon.

[Terring 6,476]

More 3D cities.

[Terring 6,476]

This is my first city that takes the concept of 3D cities into a more practical way, by becoming a multi-level city. Based on Francisco Mujica's 100-Story City, a 1929 concept about multi-level city...

...I made a city with a big ground level and a smaller one above. The result is having 2 cities over each other, independent from each other but also connected to each other. As you can see, the upper level consists by a few and smaller buildings, connected to each other by bridges and by the ground level by stairs. Of course those buildings are on the roof of bigger buildings, so we can imagine that Sims can just use elevators to change level, or "city roof" as we can call it. The next experiments will have larger and even more city roofs and a much larger variety of combinations and designs . For now, this is what I've made.

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Thank you Terring, I didn't reply you in that thread since don't want to ruin there with a personal Thanks, well, Thank you! I'm very glad that you call me Ray, it reminds me that series 'everybody loves Raymond'

I like enjoying your futuristic CJ, they are so unique, Frankly I'm kind of classical, I thought since I didn't know much about it in a different way. Nevertheless, I thought maybe i could model some futuristic Lots for you someday, I think it's also all because of inspiring by your CJ.

Yours Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Thank you for your kind words, Ray . Judging by your BATing skills, I'm pretty sure your futuristic lots will be truly out of this world. If you're doing some of them, I have plenty of ideas to provide to you.

[htharker1 15]

Truly fantastic work, I love the unique take on the quintessential futuristic city perhaps not too far from our very own time.

One type of city I would LOVE to see incorporated is the style of Fifth Element. Basically your idea to a T, but extended upwards very high. It would truly be a sight to behold!  

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Dear Terring, @Terring Just a sudden and random thought, Today I saw a scene of advertisement, Then I thought is there possible (or maybe somewhere had one) to create a futuristic road, I mean that road is full of some technology symbols, I couldn't express more precise, It's just like some plus&circle&minus&etc signs connect each others in some specific style, and those signs and the border of the road could be luminous as neon lights, is that possible? with my part what I know is make props of T21, those could entirely hang or lay on the road end to end, But it would be difficult to deal with the corner parts, Then I also thought of the CAN-AM, if we tweak a canal, it would be more convenient to do that, and also we could make some science fiction vehicle of automata, but it will be hard to deal with the night light.

Anyways, I just want to talk about that idea with you, as I said, it's too random and kind of like a daydream.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

I found out it 

[Terring 6,476]

@Raymond7cn: Those Tron-styled roads looks like the roads from SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow when you evolve your cities into the future, with neon lights instead of dash lines. Of course your roads will be way better and more awesome than that

Re-texturing the entire road system will be a serious project with all those bits and pieces you need to change, especially if you take NAM into consideration as well, and obviously you'll have to do it. I also believe that you can achieve that by changing the textured and by adding transparent T21 props with nightlights as well, but I'd suggest you ask a NAM member for more details and help.

As about tweaking CAN-AM, this reminds me an old topic in SC4D that I was asking if it's possible to have streets, roads, one-ways and avenues with flying cars hovering around. Theoretically it's possible by making invisible elevated roads, so that the cars "look" like they're flying, but to the game they're just on an elevated road that's invisible. Alternatively, instead of making an entire new road system, we could make a new generation of automata with the ability of flying a few meters above both the road and the ground vehicles, making the roads multilevel, looking something like this...

Sadly I can't help you in the practical mode. I'm not a modder and I know nothing about making T21s, textures and cars. I can only give you ideas and support. That's the only thing I can do right now

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

7 hours ago, Terring said:

Alternatively, instead of making an entire new road system, we could make a new generation of automata with the ability of flying a few meters above both the road and the ground vehicles, making the roads multilevel, looking something like this...

Yes Terring, That's exact what I thought before, Actually, Your experience is very important to me, if it's relevant to automata's LUA script, it's hard to me, @CorinaMarie @Cyclone Boom are specialists, Nevertheless I got this:

 I'm not very good at modeling blimp, and I don't know how to make it has a night light, but you can see it floating on the sky.

About the road's texture, I was still thinking a appropriate way to achieve that, I will talk about with you when I have a better idea.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Judging it by the size and the shape of the vehicle, it looks like a small truck that carry supplies. Very cute. It's a prop and not an automata, right?

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Haha, Terring, Your word really amused me, Actually and Frankly, I'm indeed lack of talent of artist, I'm pretty sure I didn't create a truck, I don't know how to discribe it, I just saw it from some movies, like The Fifth Element? I could only get a name 'blimp' from google, After your reply I used little time to create a simple polygon model, well you know, we just wanna a test, so I just made it with my limited imagination, it's here in max :

Then I modified the CAN-AM's PassengerFerry Lot, I changed the model with the one I rendered

Then I got those pictures, so It's an automata Lot which can moved and behaved as an automata.

Anyway, I want to give my strange thought more try, I have some ideas to model the road and the station, even though I haven't been able to add night light to the 'blimp' yet, however I think I could make the road light up at night, I will show you when they come out.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Ah, I see. So it's an automata? Cool. From this point of view, your "blimp" looks more like a General Atomics Avenger without it's main wings.

So you're going to reskin CAN-AM into ANT-AM (Antigravity Addon Mod)? I'm really curious to see what you have in your mind and I can't wait to see what you have next. Keep it up

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Dear Terring, @Terring I'm still working on that floating vehicle, May I have your suggestion here about the colour of night light, Or you could share some pictures of movies or comics to me, I'm really lack of imagination about that, I have succeed in night light modeling, but not satisfied with the orange colour now.

BTW, I just noticed that ANT-AM mod which you were referring to, I really never heard of this before, Do you mind describe more info about this, Thank you.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

23 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

May I have your suggestion here about the colour of night light, Or you could share some pictures of movies or comics to me, I'm really lack of imagination about that, I have succeed in night light modeling, but not satisfied with the orange colour now.

Everybody has her/his own taste, but I believe that the best color for futuristic roads is cyan in neon style, just like Tron. It gives a strange, advanced, technological, out-of-this-world, but still familiar feeling. Not too safe and ordinary, but also not too exotic and alien. Something in the middle, the best from both worlds. No surprise why plenty of futuristic interfaces and abstract designs use a mix of cyan, blue and black. You just can't get wrong with that.

Since we're talking about night lighting, another idea is using red color. Red doesn't contribute too much to light pollution, making it the ideal lighting color for astronomers.

You can also go for a variety of colors, where each color represents/replaces a specific part of the road, like cyan color for the dash lines that allows passing, yellow for the solid lines to prevent passing, and red lines at the intersections that replaces the stop lights. Check the roads of this picture to get the idea. You can even bring the roads of SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow in SimCity 4, for antigravity cars this time.

Tron-style cyan lines and coloring is pretty cool and futuristic, and you can use them to customize your roads even more by adding information and "rails" above which your flying cars will be flying.

But roads with lines might not be necessary on the future. The cars of tomorrow, like your, will be all installed with sensors and AIs that allows them to communicate to each other, obsoleting the need of traffic sights and lines on road. If you want to simulate this and still want to have night lights, add just a few of them, making your roads like those in this paint:

The choice is yours

1 hour ago, Raymond7cn said:

BTW, I just noticed that ANT-AM mod which you were referring to, I really never heard of this before, Do you mind describe more info about this, Thank you.

Ah, my pleasure. ANT-AM is a brilliant mod that aims to reskin CAN-AM and replace the canals with epic antigravity roads. Right now is under development by one of the coolest folks on Simtropolis, named... @Raymond7cn. You can't get wrong with this great guy and his awesome creations

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Ah, I see, Actually I got more inspiration than i desired from your wonderful pics, Thank you very much, and ANT-AM…haha, I got it, it turns out that, Thank you Terring, You do me too much honour, I just try my best and I thought I couldn't have this idea without you. Frankly even now, I still couldn't believe I will do this, There are still too many problems those seem like a mountain to a newbie, nevertheless I still want to give this thought a try, since I have many friends here.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

2 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Dear Terring, @Terring I'm still working on that floating vehicle, May I have your suggestion here about the colour of night light, Or you could share some pictures of movies or comics to me, I'm really lack of imagination about that, I have succeed in night light modeling, but not satisfied with the orange colour now.

BTW, I just noticed that ANT-AM mod which you were referring to, I really never heard of this before, Do you mind describe more info about this, Thank you.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

I would take the grunge approach myself, Raymond. It's highly unlikely that humankind will ever evolve to such perfections pictured above. And even if it did, there'd be some swine throwing trash out their spacecar window.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Terring 6,476]

We have holograms now!

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Hiya Terring, @Terring 

As you know I have started many projects in parallel, And I couldn't find out in which thread you shared this picture above, I have modeled a crude model of cortana, However when I want to get more angles of her for reference, There were many of her on google but didn't look as a same one, some of them even seems to come from another game, I just want the same cortana with other angles, so May I ask how could i get them, Does this picture come from that game 'Halo'? Thank you Terring!

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

BTW, I never played this game before, but this picture seems has some... some magic. There is a spell, I mean since my eyes fixed dead at the picture for couple of hours during modeling, I'm afraid that i was beginning to fall in love with this picture, or her. Well Fortunately, This is not real.

[Terring 6,476]

Hi, @Raymond7cn

Halo is a series of games and each game has a different version of Cortana, so my suggestion is to find the version you like the most and try to search and find for more about it, something like "Halo 4 Cortana" for example. With so many variations you might want to stick with one of it. YouTube can help you on that, because many gamers upload there scenes from various games, such as Halo. Since you've never played Halo, use those videos to get more angles.

 

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

1 hour ago, Terring said:

Hi, @Raymond7cn

Halo is a series of games and each game has a different version of Cortana, so my suggestion is to find the version you like the most and try to search and find for more about it, something like "Halo 4 Cortana" for example. With so many variations you might want to stick with one of it. YouTube can help you on that, because many gamers upload there scenes from various games, such as Halo. Since you've never played Halo, use those videos to get more angles.

 

Ah, I see it Terring, that's make sense, I guess that picture is HALO 4, right? I shall go to have a look it on YouTube, Thank you Terring, I will show you when it's very close-to-complete one. Please be patient.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Yes, it's from Halo 4. Looking forward and with patience

[Terring 6,476]

A futuristic solarpunk society. Consider it a teaser for the upcoming entry of my CJ

[Terring 6,476]

I found some very old pictures of some of my first creations and my first attempts to build cities of the future back in 2010. Many things have been changed during this decade, but my interest in how things might evolve into the future is still refusing to move away. So, instead of looking forward into the future with new exciting projects, how about a short but nostalgic trip back to the past, were things were more simple (too simple in some cases) and our community was just exiting from the Wild West Age?

By the way, you can tell those pictures are old by the size of them. 800x600? In the modern world of 1920x1080? Oh boy!

OK, here we go. Here is a very small settlement. It's so small that I'm not sure if you can consider it as a village.

A bigger town on a mountain. I guess we can consider it as the distant ancestor of the solarpunk towns I'm creating nowadays in my Welcome to Fairview city journal.

An even bigger one, this time onshore. This is one of my first attempts to build a seaport. You can also see here the reason of why I never use the Maxis-made beach.

Some close-ups. I took these pictures when I was working on my Memories of the Colonists mod, the first part of my Barsoom series that was supposed to do even more things by using the SimMars goodies. I really need some time and motivation to keep working on this project.

Today I connect my villages with subways, but back then I had the idea of regional tram lines that contribute to the commute between separated villages and towns. The idea is simple but unique. Just bring a main road in your mind and add tram lines and small trains in the middle of it. The only reason why I haven't use this idea yet in my recent towns is because subways are much easier to build and they don't use a lot of space, while regional tram lines must be placed piece by piece and you need to prepare the town for the stations and the lines. But don't worry. I'm gonna bring this idea back.

And this is my very first attempt to build a big spaceport back in 2009. I'm pretty sure I was very proud of myself back then

10 years has been passed since then and we've definitely come a long way in so many things. We need to keep evolving and changing, but only to the best. Cheers to another 10 years