My own Simcity game framework,written in C# & XNA

[samima 92]

Looks nice!

[nuyokcity 22]

Hello cnlazylu, I have linked to your game project in I've made about modern city building games. Hopefully this will create more interest and inspiration for your project, as there are many talented people and creative ideas behind those projects.

I don't know much about the technical aspects of gamemaking but your project looks interesting and I wish you the best with it

  Edited August 19, 2012 by nuyokcity  

[cnlazylu 21]

Hello cnlazylu, I have linked to your game project in I've made about modern city building games. Hopefully this will create more interest and inspiration for your project, as there are many talented people and creative ideas behind those projects.

I don't know much about the technical aspects of gamemaking but your project looks interesting and I wish you the best with it

it's so great! thanks so much~~in fact, i'm trying to learn something from the games in your list. some of them i've never heard before, thanks agian from the info you provided!

[cnlazylu 21]

so sorry for being disappeared for such a long time because my new semester begined and got a lot of works to do.

now i'm free again, and the development continues!

i promised to make a release, sorry again for the delay, but in fact, i did make a release in august, now you may download the programme and the source code from

http://ultraurban.codeplex.com

here're some updates:

1.improved skydome, added the sun

2.terrain modification is now availiable, i used the dig tool to dig a river

3.import some models from google 3dwarehouse for test, i'll try to avoid any copyright problem so they may not be included in the final release.

4.making the forest more realistic by placing the same tree model with different size/orientation randomly

some new screenshots

  Edited October 30, 2012 by cnlazylu  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Better and better. Keep going, you are doing well.

[jzmajor 1]

Hah, I thought those were sheep at first glance. This looks really good!

Keep up the good work.

[lew1984 231]

This is a fantastic effort... To look through this thread and see the incredible progress you have made is amazing, you truly do have a talent for this and to do it along side Uni work takes alot of dedication :-).

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I hope everyone realizes that to get these kinds of views the city will be very small. There is only so much a computer can do, and to simulate anything with these graphics will mean a huge program.

[cnlazylu 21]

I hope everyone realizes that to get these kinds of views the city will be very small. There is only so much a computer can do, and to simulate anything with these graphics will mean a huge program.

you're right!!!! it's the hardest thing i've been working on- to balance between graphic effects and performance.

to answer you question i've build a demo city, with only buildings and some trees. as you can see, there're hundreds of buildings there and to my scale definition, the map is 8Km*8Km, actually, i'm going to make a 8KM*8KM terrain. the framerate of these scenes is between 28~30FPS before i added the trees, and 25~27FPS after i added some trees.

(my computer is E7200 dual core, 4G ram, 9600GT with 512M memory)

the performce by far is acceptable on my machine because nearly no optimization were done.In my estimation, to display a complete a city with lots of furnitures would cause the framerate to drop 40%, but after i make some optimization, e.g. the basic view frustum culling, i'm sure there will be at least 100% performance improvment, especially when you're walking around.

anyway, thanks to A Nonny Moose, pointing out the problems is the best support for me and for this game!

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Wow, this is going along really nicely....

[cnlazylu 21]

small updates, for beautification, the sunset

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Very nice. Now you need some variations on that with various masks for clouds, etc. that can appear randomly, and you'll have something really gorgeous.

[cnlazylu 21]

dear everyone! i'm back! after a 3 years silence, i picked this game up again....sorry for the dead link, some new screenshots are here

and a new demo video is here

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI5NDUwMjY4OA==.html

 

your attention and suggestions would be appreciated!

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Welcome back.  Sorry, I didn't view your video.  I have no character languages.

[cnlazylu 21]

Welcome back.  Sorry, I didn't view your video.  I have no character languages.

i've uploaded it to youtube!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Very nice example of Bauhaus architecture.  It is really too bad, but we've all been conditioned by this 20th century style.  I'd like to see a break away from "form follows function" to something more artistic in buildings.