Bournemouth

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

Oh man! This is one awesome CJ!I like how you made the region-All non-grid and RL looking....

[_marsh_ 1,117]

Beautiful work on this danny. It's a lovely recreation.

[grstudios 188]

Loved your CJ so far... How can you lay your roads so accurate accordingly to the RL towns? Two Thumbs Up!

[Paulobergonci 673]

it looks very similar indeed ^^

one Q, is this going to be an eye candy or a functional city? because there are a lot of angles there and the zones won't grow.

[The Avatar 1,088]

Very nice progress. I can't wait to see more; I love re-creation CJ's.

  Edited January 9, 2012 by MamaLuigi945  

[kovak 204]

i love the jet photo!!

[Shingure 56]

That region view is beautiful! I love the effect of when roads are done in this manner.

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

The map isn't made in SC4, is it.

Are these real cities or are they fictional

And what do you use to edit your pics?

[emperordaniel 1,281]

WOW D:

[Ninjasaur101 1]

Looking really nice! This, I can tell, will be awesome!

[Andrey km 304]

Wow!! Brilliant. I do the same question that Paulobergonci did, "is this going to be an eye candy or a functional city? because there are a lot of angles there and the zones won't grow."

[packersfan 666]

I love recreations! And I love the non-grid...that is the plus of a recreation, the most realistic road systems!

[cacks 41]

simply amazing danneh, those roads are picture perfect - with all of Bournemouth to re-create all I can say is good luck really!

I am anticipating more

[ee99 150]

Cool! Good replication of the layout!

[FlyHigh 174]

The layout of the roads in your region looks very organic and really similar to how a town would develop. Keep it up!

[TMorgan 19]

The roads are amazing, I can't wait to see the Sim City version of Bournemouth. My only experience of Bournemouth is the airport.

[Vlasky 1,803]

Very kool. MORE

[Benedict 3,119]

Congratulations, you're number one on Ben's Top ten again this week!

[Dannibee 138]

Towerdude - Thanks Dudu, but it’s not just countryside :-p

Samerton – Cheers Sam, I hope this time I can actually get somewhere with this...

Jotauveefe – Thanks Javier, but it definitely won’t be finished for a while D:

Nathanthemayor – The grid must be crushed, muahahahaha

_marsh_ - Thanks marsh, your work is always a large inspiration

Grstudios – I will show you with this tutorial..

Paulobegonci – Well, to be honest, there is room for mostly 1x2 lots, everything will be plopped except for residential...

MamaLuigi945 – Thanks :-)

Efkin – Thank you Efkin

Shingure – Yup, the end result looks good but it does take a lot of time D:

Skyscraper241 – Um... Well the region is SC4, and it’s a recreation, the map is Mapquest and I edit it in GIMP

Emperordaniel – D: Thanks

Ninjasaur101 – Thank you, it will be awesome, I hope...

Andrey Km – Already answered, thanks for viewing

Packersfan – Thanks, Wenzel is a big inspiration to the non-griddyness in places..

Cacks – Thanks cacks, more you shall get...

Ee99 – Cheers J

FlyHigh – The trick is, it is a real town :-p

TMorgan – Well as a matter of fact I’ll be moving onto the airport fairly shortly I think..

Vlasky – Thanks and kisses :-P

Benedict - Wow, this is another surprise, thank you..

Anyway, here we are again, this week I have a tutorial on how I build my roads to not be on angles. This requires Google Earth which most people have, and this is basically how I do things, it's a bit too complicated but I hope you can get the jest of what I'm trying to do:

So this our start point of our street, and we need to find where it ends so we can link it up. We need Google Earth for this, so lets open it up!

So, here's our street in real life; Google Earth. To find the end point you will need to use two axis's; Y and X. This is because the games method of handling Diagonals is odd and it is mostly inaccurate. First I measure from the bottom of an equivalently SC4 tile until the end of the street, making sure to keep it 100% straight for the accuracy. I can see it measures around 253.93m, which we can find the SC4 equivalent with an easy sum:

253.93/16 = 15.87 = 16 SC4 Tiles. If you want to be really accurate I could've multiplied 15.87 by 1.024, seeing as this is the games way of enlarging tiles to fit with it's scale, this is mainly useful with large stretches of road ect.

So now we have the Y value of the street we can mark it in game.

So now we have the 16 tiles marked in game on the Y axis, we can go and find the X values. Lets go back to Google Earth, be sure to keep your old measuring points, otherwise it won't work D:

Now we can measure across to find where the street properly ends, kind of like a method of triangulation if you like. We can see it is 20.32m across, which is rounded down to 1.26 SC4 tiles, so we need to go 1 tile across to find our end point. Use the same sum again for this..

So now we can see it is 1 tile across for our old 16 tiles, just join them up on a suitable route and you're done.. Yay!

Sorry if that was a bit complicated, but this is how I do all my roads, measure in straight lines first, find the two values of the end and start points, and then join it up.

I do however, have a teaser for what's to come

See you all next week in my project

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Interesting

How did you get that street tunnel D:

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Really cool update

[kakado_to_save 514]

ohhh i like

i cant wait for your project!

[Vlasky 1,803]

Awesome!

[AdoxxBE 289]

Nice job, really like your effort. Going to follow this CJ!

[packersfan 666]

Wow, great teaser there...I love the old rail tunnel...I really need to get some ploppable dirt paths like that so I can implement something like that where old rail once stood! Keep up the great work.

[MTT9 187]

This is great. The image is really good and your region view is awesome. One question, how did you made that tunnel?

Matt

[rewright 804]

This is a very nice journal you have going with a lot of good detail. Nice job on the maps too.

[Kavaeric 50]

I see you got around to working on it now, Dan :3

</latebyaneon>

Love the tutorial, as well as the actual progress on this town recreation. Looking forward to it

[jotauveefe 24]

Seems so difficult... Calculator and all that stuff...

Can't wait for seeing some buildings!

[Forthwall 1,118]

Excellent