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[Fatjuice 253]

7 hours ago, rsc204 said:

Whilst we're on the subject of your parking... I've also used the idea of expandable parking, using your great textures for some re-lots of Ill Tonkso's stations:

 

quick question - Those streets texture? Where can I find that?

[rsc204 21,866]

That's Rivit's Urban TSR streets, although I've a custom version with TGN grass which is as-yet unreleased.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Some pictures from the City of Brimley.

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

@kingofsimcity Thanks for the suggestions and solution to my problem!  and your parking lots are sweet (I've downloaded ) - you really made that stadium feel alive and real.

@gviper Thanks! I thought the same thing and took up you and king's suggestions, and realized that I overlooked Paeng's ped mall mod.  Added much needed variation and greenery. 

@matias93 thanks, I like the white as well - I may explore the Japanese street mods in the near future, but this region I am building is based in the tropical area of Asia, and not only do I like the look of the white, I also thought it would be "cooler" due to the amount of heat sucked up in darker paves.  

Thanks to all the others who liked the post! Saw that a lot of my favorite BATer's did as well - for now, here is a new picture.  I'll hold off until I get this city finished up.  

[feyss 1,981]

Working again on Yvoir, an industrial neighbourhood at the edge of the city.

My idea is to create something that will look like a Belgian industrial neighbourhood with low-health housing directly built next to factories and abandoned plots.

[_Michael 2,681]

51 minutes ago, feyss said:

Working again on Yvoir, an industrial neighbourhood at the edge of the city.

My idea is to create something that will look like a Belgian industrial neighbourhood with low-health housing directly built next to factories and abandoned plots.

Looking good already. Where can I find those blue railways sheds?!

[Themistokles 134]

On 2/26/2016 at 8:00 PM, 9gruntsand1hammer said:

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Really like dense greenness of the place... What avenue median mod are you using? Never mind, found it.

  Edited March 1, 2016 by Themistokles  

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

I've finished an area of Passau known as West Illford, it's primarily large retail and social housing with the odd private residential development thrown in. It's also adjacent to the University of Passau's new sporting complex, that's been finished also and will be shown at a later date  

 

I know I'm using the maxis highways but I haven't quite found the patience to build compact RHW just yet in my urban areas. I will however be using RHW in some new city tiles this year.

 

 

 

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

The madness never ends .

[Dreadnought 8,231]

On 3/1/2016 at 5:13 AM, Belfastsocrates said:

I've finished an area of Passau known as West Illford, it's primarily large retail and social housing with the odd private residential development thrown in. It's also adjacent to the University of Passau's new sporting complex, that's been finished also and will be shown at a later date  

 

I know I'm using the maxis highways but I haven't quite found the patience to build compact RHW just yet in my urban areas. I will however be using RHW in some new city tiles this year.

 

 

 

It looks pretty good to me. 

Don't apologize for the highways. 

Just because they are the newest evolution of a game function -- does not mean they are right for you. 

Remember -- the game is SimCity.  NOT SimHighway.    

[feyss 1,981]

@michae95l It's from a japanese website, but I can't find it anymore :/

[TakemeThere 5,834]

My first application of MGB's pedestrian bridges;

I'm working on making use of it in some other unintended, but interesting ways.

 

[Ke|is 3,337]

feyss

I like your progress. I find a lot of places that you mentioned when I was living in Antwerpen during the last year. I think those places are really cool. Maybe you can try to create a small dock somewhere in that river, it will gives a nice touck to that area.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Great, great work shown in this page. With so many mods every post looks so different and unique.

[feyss 1,981]

How can I finish something if I always begin to work on something else ?

I worked a little on the city centre. I just need some ideas to build a park (with all this concrete jungle, the city really needs one) on the top right corner, but I am really bad at building parks

@kelistmac Thank you! They are actually doing a great job in Antwerp by revalitizing the old docks near the city centre. But here, it's became too neat for me, I'm actually trying to build something grungier like some industrial neighbourhoods in Liège or Charleroi. Like this:

The idea is also to give each city district its own identity (as an example, this post's picture is from the same city tile than the other): poor houses there and rich people on the other side of the tracks for instance.

And your dock idea is great. I will keep it. As you can see on the other post, I was planning to build another river coming from the south. I would maybe build the dock here.

[CrybKeeper 32]

Some of you veterans may remember me as FrndofYaweh. I gave that name up. Of course, I also preached about the efficiency of gridding all your cities, for maximizing every aspect of the build. This is my current region, with one capital city about to hit 1 million simizens.

Things of note: Not using any traffic mods, such as the NAM, because it will actually destroy the games algorithms and grids will become less efficient and the population will stall. Industry should NEVER be put in your residential city - You may notice, that I have surrounded my capital city with industry only cities. My mayor rating is above 100%. Transit is all avenues in the core city and only using buses for mass transit, which garners $7000 a month profit, above other transit costs. traffic is always manageable using this method.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

15 hours ago, CrybKeeper said:

Some of you veterans may remember me as FrndofYaweh. I gave that name up. Of course, I also preached about the efficiency of gridding all your cities, for maximizing every aspect of the build. This is my current region, with one capital city about to hit 1 million simizens.

Things of note: Not using any traffic mods, such as the NAM, because it will actually destroy the games algorithms and grids will become less efficient and the population will stall. Industry should NEVER be put in your residential city - You may notice, that I have surrounded my capital city with industry only cities. My mayor rating is above 100%. Transit is all avenues in the core city and only using buses for mass transit, which garners $7000 a month profit, above other transit costs. traffic is always manageable using this method.

 

Very interesting !!

I like a guy that does everything that everyone else says won't work -- and then comes up with a 1 million population.

I find of special interest the statement that Nam causes city populations to stall.  I have experienced this "stall effect" on numerous occasions.

I am about to embark on a large map more than capable of holding 500k in a much more realistic and artistic layout.

Anyone got comments on how to avoid "the stall" ?? 

[matias93 7,535]

Some useful references:

• Big city tiles have 16 sq kilometers of available area, assuming they are 100% emerged land.
• I'm not sure about PIM-X, but I've observed that maxis residential lots follow a trend of triplying the population that their real life counterparts could house
• Considering cities (and not metro areas), european capitals (relatively dense urbanizations) goes from 20.000 to 8.000 people by sq. km. 500.000 sims in a large tile would be close to 10.500 by sq.km, and that is a reachable population with the NAM, in a well mantained city. So, the stall is close to real cities' densities, even if with a more extensive use of high-rises or very dense mid-rises you could reach more population (consider that in-walls Paris is almost uniformly built in 12-15 storeys residential buildings, and the CBD is outside the traditional limit of the city).

[blunder 1,080]

So i made this beast of a map:

Now I'm working on rendering it out.  All 900 tiles.  I just might get it finished by the end of the year.

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

I can already imagine the RAM requirements in order to even run this monstrosity. 14,400 sq km of space ...

[raynev1 1,887]

@blunder OMG , 900 tiles . Your image is not showing for me , but I can still imagine how massive it must be . My PC would probably start to smolder just after the game intro . 

[Fatjuice 253]

8 hours ago, blunder said:

So i made this beast of a map:

Now I'm working on rendering it out.  All 900 tiles.  I just might get it finished by the end of the year.

Can't see the image - i'm late 8 hours, show us!!!

 

[Abrams 1,744]

On 2016. 03. 04. at 6:43 AM, takemethere said:

My first application of MGB's pedestrian bridges;

I'm working on making use of it in some other unintended, but interesting ways.

 

That looks very nice!I downloaded theese bridges too,soon i'm gonna start using them!

May i ask a linkie for the wall lots?

[Odainsaker 2,137]

blunder's was an awesome 30x30 large map region of Portland, Oregon, including the Cascadia peaks of Mount Hood, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens.

I am curious as to what it takes to render such a region:  which mapper/terraformer, did it need the 4gb patch, how much RAM, how much time?...

I've been sizing out a similarly scaled region of Ōsaka Bay, and skirting some previous megamap sizes I can reach from Akashi eastwards to Ōtsu and Kyōto southwards to Wakayama with 24x24, similar to drunkapple's incredible San Francisco region.  Spanning 30 I can reach past Akashi westward to Himeji and include the Naruto Strait, all of Awaji Island, and the eastern tip of Shikoku.  Of course, with 900 cities, we could build one city a day and still take somewhere between two and three years to touch them all!

[Bipin 3,403]

Fantastic work everyone!

[blunder 1,080]

16 hours ago, raynev1 said:

@blunder OMG , 900 tiles . Your image is not showing for me ,

 

14 hours ago, Fatjuice said:

Can't see the image - i'm late 8 hours, show us!!!

 

 

Hmm weird.  I can still see my image in fatjuice's quote.  Looks like it's time to adopt some new image hosting. Link to file image.

 

@Odainsaker   It takes 8 gigs of RAM and the 4gb patch on all the programs involved: sc4, mapper, and tf.  I have to use all 3 for a map this big. Terraformer chokes first because it renders out that 3d view of the whole shebang, which causes problems making maps this big. 

Basically for my workflow, everything that i would normally do in terraformer, i divide my PNG in half in photoshop and then perform the identical set of operations on both halves separately.  So when you first get your satellite DEM into PNG, divide the map in half and use terraformer's compressor function on each half-map to get the scale right.  Then when the watermask is all drawn out, recombine both halves in photoshop, do your operations so your watermask is complete, then divide it back into halves to do whatever touchup work you need to do in terraformer (all the while working in PNG).  Recombine the PNGs again and use Mapper to Save it to /Regions, and/or convert a .SCM.

Performance wise in-game: this sized map is brutal even with 8Gb ram.  The game will load it and run, but the initial load will be very slow.  Also, when exiting a city tile it will frequently crash instead of successfully reloading the region if you have any kind of playing-level /Plugin load at the time, but it is playable (you can just never ever ever use save&exit.  which people shouldn't anyways to prevent file corruption).  This also means that when you switch city tiles you always have to reload the game unless just rendering out with your terrain/water/beach/rock mods and tree controller.

With my 8 Gigs of ram performance is just as crappy down to 104x120km.  Below that things start improving and the game seems to run fine for me at 88x120km or lower.  This is true on both my desktop, with a 3.8GHz AMD quad core and my laptop with a 5th gen i5 2......point something. 2.7? something like that.  Both have 64bit OS and 8 Gb of ram.

Oh, and the final PNG for this region is 118 Mb. 

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Thanks for that info.  Though I am running with 12GB RAM on an i7 with a 64-bit OS, I was indeed also concerned with play/loading, and there are so few players that can dare try this size that it is hard to know all the lurking pitfalls.  Though I had originally sized Ōsaka for 22x22 large maps (88x88km), had settled on 24x24 (96x96km), and was tweaking the alignments to make sure map cutoffs did not cut through important features (ie, no castles cut in half across two maps), seeing your Portland/Columbia River map suddenly made both 24x30 (96x120km) and 22x30 (88x120km) very tempting.  I will admit, a large part of me just wants to see the map, even if I never plan to spend three years exactingly recreating such a huge city, and so on a free day I may have to just do a few dry runs without finishing a fully detailed watermask just to see if and how poorly my system performs.  Still...building a rail network from Himeji to Kyōto...

It's also mildly entertaining seeing Photoshop along with some of my older GIS programs groan at the zoom sizes of the original satellite DEMs.

 

[blunder 1,080]

53 minutes ago, Odainsaker said:

 suddenly made both 24x30 (96x120km) and 22x30 (88x120km) very tempting.  I will admit, a large part of me just wants to see the map, even if I never plan to spend three years exactingly recreating such a huge city, and so on a free day I may have to just do a few dry runs without finishing a fully detailed watermask just to see if and how poorly my system performs.  Still...building a rail network from Himeji to Kyōto...

It's also mildly entertaining seeing Photoshop along with some of my older GIS programs groan at the zoom sizes of the original satellite DEMs.

 

 

Do it! Getting the DEM in game is the easiest part of the process, and you can test it just fine before taking the time to draw the water.  And you can always slice off parts if it tests too slow.

[CrybKeeper 32]

Just so everyone knows - I made it to 1 million with room to spare. No pop. mods. SC4 was designed to get you to one million and if you did this with no cheats, then you solved the games algorithmic numerals - This constitutes, "winning" the game, in my opinion.

 

[Compdude787 916]

16 hours ago, blunder said:

 

 

Hmm weird.  I can still see my image in fatjuice's quote.  Looks like it's time to adopt some new image hosting. Link to file image.

I clicked on that link, and all I got was a blank page...