LIst of Things Sim City CANNOT Do- Anything figured out to be impossible in the new SimCity will be posted here

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

I have been looking through the request and wish list threads, and have found some things that are going to be Impossible to do in the new SimCity. If i find it to be true, i will post a link or explain why. For now I just have one thing, but i will be adding more as i have the time.

1. Using Current Sim city 4 Downloads (NAM RHW BATs etc) in the new SimCity

This will not be possible because of a fundamental difference between the two games. The new Simcity will be full 3D, and the current SimCity is only partially 3D.

In order for a building to display correctly in the new SimCity, it would have to be full 3D. However SC4 buildings do not follow this rule, they are only fake 3D A SC4 building is basically a 3D model projected onto 5 different sizes boxes (one for each zoom). Each box size then has 4 septate angles, one for each rotation side. That makes a total of 20 different protections. Here is an example of what one would look like with the building inside it:

Looking at it in SC4 it looks just fine, but it is actually an optical illusion.if it were put into actual 3D space, like what the new SimCity will be it would only look normal from exactly the 20 current SC4 game views mentioned earlier. From any other angle, the building would look distorted like in this real life chalk drawing

Exceptions:

However, all hope is not lost. If the creator of the building still has the original 3D model, it could be converted. It would just have to be remade to work for the new Sim City

Also all automata and transit models (cars, buses etc) are full 3D, and could have the possibility of being converted over. However the texture size on SC4 cars is at largest 512x512. When you would zoom into one in the new Simcity, it would look very blocky and blurred.

[rugeley123 13]

Good one

[jacksunny 741]

Thank you for making this, hopefully now people will stop asking about it.

[Moskva 75]

Yes, in fact when you move around the map you always see buildings in the same shape, they don't follow prospective rules!

[jdenm8 362]

Yes, in fact when you move around the map you always see buildings in the same shape, they don't follow prospective rules!

No they don't because SC4 does not use a Perspective camera. It uses one called an Orthographic camera which makes the length of something 2mm away the same visible length as something 2m away.

[GMT 389]

2. meet our (too high) expectations.

well, at least most expectations for the simple reason that we come from a pretty much perfectionated... perfectionized... whatever... game with sim city 4 being that moddable AND modded the last almost 10 years.

we created stuff for the game to overcome it's downsides one at a time and worked our way to the sc4 we know now.

and with this knowledge in mind, we put up our expectations for the new title. expectations that were utterly failed in previous titles by the name of sim city.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

That building there could realistically have 16 faces. If you made that for Cities XL, you could make that a T3 building with T1 size LOD if you use furniture for the props and use a normal map.

  Edited May 3, 2012 by OcramSeattle