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[tankmank 853]

1 million sims, i have never come close to that figure, 250,000 odd was the largest i had ever gotten, on one tile. 

I've gone back to an older region i had, been playing around with a mix of different building styles as can be seen. The area is far from finished but has a population of about 15,000 already. Need to do some more lot editing for more diversity of buildings. Will try add some green space somewhere in there as it is pretty urban at the moment. 

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

That looks excellent! Some of your best work so far and I really like the lot edited pieces!

 

[Abrams 1,744]

A new video in the making?

[wournos 53]

During the past 3 days I've been working on a forested area in Farms, my agricultural map. After mapping out rail and roads it looked like this:

Rail, roads and 3 small gravel road rail stops.

After 2 days of heavy work planting spruces, red cedar and broad leaf trees (and developing a shoulder version of carpal tunnel syndrome in the process), building a rail depot and water mill with stream, and last but certainly not least, cow and sheep paddocks, this is what the area looked like this morning:

Since then the houses and farms have grown. A small commercial shop opened in the area and a previously forgotten area with a single track rail and loading station was discovered to the west.

Cow headache paddock

GAH! Maxis TREES!!

[Compdude787 916]

Looks nice!! With the highway, though, I think you should just keep it at 2 lanes in each direction instead of three. It's not a full-fledged freeway with those at-grade intersections, and it's rare that you see an expressway like that where you have more than 2 lanes. Usually rural Interstate highways have only two lanes in each direction; the only place where there are three lanes in each direction is where it connects two large cities together and there are many small to medium-sized towns along the length of the freeway; for example, most of I-5 between Seattle and Portland is 3 lanes in each direction, with only a fairly small stretch being only two lanes (and some of it has been widened in recent years).

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

Insane Parking Guy strikes again...

[wournos 53]

20 hours ago, Compdude787 said:

Looks nice!! With the highway, though, I think you should just keep it at 2 lanes in each direction instead of three. It's not a full-fledged freeway with those at-grade intersections, and it's rare that you see an expressway like that where you have more than 2 lanes. Usually rural Interstate highways have only two lanes in each direction; the only place where there are three lanes in each direction is where it connects two large cities together and there are many small to medium-sized towns along the length of the freeway; for example, most of I-5 between Seattle and Portland is 3 lanes in each direction, with only a fairly small stretch being only two lanes (and some of it has been widened in recent years).

That's something I've been thinking of. I'd also like to get rid of the roundabouts. They are mainly the work-around because I couldn't get proper intersections and/or FLUPs. I ran into so many issues (both technical and aesthetical) that I just decided to go with whatever had function and no graphical glitches.

 

Edit 7 hours later
Today I took the time to learn how to build what I think is a diamond interchange using FLUPs, MIS, filler pieces and stuff. It's 20x10 square large and it made me realize there's no way I can justify the removal of my roundabouts to fit 4 of these interchanges. Farms was mainly built in Vanilla, and to make the change the entire west side rail track has to be redrawn, stations have to be moved, the "main roads" through farmland be adjusted, not to mention demolishing parts of my Rural Forest.
I did remove 2 roundabouts on either side of the map (I had eight) and made use of 2-lane RHW instead of the previous 3-lane.

Maybe I should start a CJ for this?!

  Edited March 14, 2016 by wournos  
No double post

[Lost Realist 762]

17 hours ago, kingofsimcity said:

Insane Parking Guy strikes again...

 

 

Need this.

[TakemeThere 5,834]

I think it's time to reveal just how much of a SC4 fanatic I am. Here's something radical that shows the deeps of my devotion to this game.
It's not a new project but rather something that I'm always working on. I call it the Building Height List.

It's a folder containing an image of every highrise or midrise commercial or residential building(above 100ft in height) that I've downloaded along with additional information such as the buildings height(both roof and pinnacle) floor count and capacity(jobs/residents). I think I started the list around 2006 and as long as I keep downloading buildings it will keep growing. Apologies to those who like metric in advance, but I like feet and I don't like using decimals so it helps reduce the number of buildings at the exact same height.

Here's what the list looks like today, first in 'details' view;




And icon view;

With this folder I can sort through every large commercial and residential building in my plugins folder either by name, height, floor count or total jobs or residents with the click of a single button. In the future I plan on adding a content creator category too. The Building Height List is a tool I use to help me quickly reference information, search for a particular file based on what it looks like without know it's name in the pluggins, selecting what type of buildings to place where and to make my 'top 10(or more) buildings in a city list'. But it only touches the surface on the actually modding that takes place along with this list.

Another reason as to why I created such a thing was because one of the first things that really captivated me growing up(in the 90's) was the World Almanac. I especially liked going through the lists of tallest buildings for individual cities in the US. Before sites like emporis and the internet in general became widespread this was one of the few ways to gauge how big of a skyline a city had. This and a few other books which had actual images of the worlds tallest buildings was no doubt where my love for statistics, skyscrapers and SimCity itself originated from.

Now you'll have to excuse me while I add about a hundred more recent downloads to the list, phew* it never ends does it? And that's why we all love this game so much.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

True dat. Found your way in the game? Well, prepare to get lost in the meta game...

[Abrams 1,744]

How to Elon Musk:

[Compdude787 916]

Tunnel overkill much?  

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Do you folks know how helpful takemethere's post is? We now have a very useful list with related images. His list open in one window and the STEX in another.

Will the kingofsimcity parking ever end? ...hope not

 

[Abrams 1,744]

14 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

Do you folks know how helpful takemethere's post is? We now have a very useful list with related images. His list open in one window and the STEX in another.

Will the kingofsimcity parking ever end? ...hope not

 

Super helpfull.every sc4 veteran can recognize that 

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Had to redo this residential area thanks to a save file corruption. That area is complete and the large blank space is going to be a large hospital site. I need to plan how to arrange it and create some new lots for the site. 

 

 

This area is almost complete also, I just need to fill some blank space, mainly on the diagonal roads and some other tweaks such as flora. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Right now -- I'm experimenting with raised terrain areas and embankment walls. 

At the same time, I'm fooling around with improving my tree mix. 

I'm also making a special and frustrating effort to find some MMP grass that will help me create more "open" areas and "clearings" on the map.  Too much space taken up with trees, trees, and MORE trees.

 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

2 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

I'm also making a special and frustrating effort to find some MMP grass that will help me create more "open" areas and "clearings" on the map.  Too much space taken up with trees, trees, and MORE trees.

I think this might be what you're looking for, many nice items: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886

install and test out so you can see all the items

I like your tree mix and ohh don't forget girafe everything they make is beautiful https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3001

 

[tankmank 853]

@Belfastsocrates Shame about the corruption. In the first image, i notice you have Gascookers Tesco, have you been able to lot edit it and get it to grow?, as i have had trouble with it getting corrupted after i lot edit it. And the second image nicely shows how your recent update fits in with Passau and what you have shown before. 

@Dreadnought I particularly like the MMPs in the first image, not too much use of trees or rocks which some people tend to do. 

Some more from me again, same city but different tile. I would just like some thoughts and advice on some things. These are raw SC4 images here. 

This first image just shows the region and allows you to place yourself for my upcoming images in comparison to the CBD. The images i uploaded at the top of this page are from the northern area of development in the region just for comparison. 

I just wanted to know what people thought of this area so far. What with so many large residential complexes. I am not going for any particular city style here but it is based of multiple cities on multiple continents, but a general East Asian vibe is most prevalent. 

And here i am not 100% sure what to put in the area behind the temple like building, i was thinking of MMPing with flora, or should i remove the temple all together, it doesn't quite go in that location and i'm sure it will find a better one. 

Thanks for any input 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

@tankmank

I would suggest moving the temple to the space near the water on the bottom of the second picture, then put in a couple of park or path lots for a little outdoor area and then MMP the rest of the area.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

3 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

@tankmank

I would suggest moving the temple to the space near the water on the bottom of the second picture, then put in a couple of park or path lots for a little outdoor area and then MMP the rest of the area.

I agree with phil --

Move the temple near the seashore.  I'd surround it with a forest and put some sort of ornamental park paths around it then landcsape with MMP's.  Temples should either be on hilltops or shorelines -- places of peace and contemplation. 

4 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

I think this might be what you're looking for, many nice items: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886

install and test out so you can see all the items

I like your tree mix and ohh don't forget girafe everything they make is beautiful https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3001

 

The tree mix took several attempts before I got a mix that looked good.  It's amazing how a couple of "wrong" trees stand out in a crowd.  You CAN see the bad tree for the forest!!

I may already have the RRP flora stuff -- I'll have to check.  But thanx for the tip !!

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

@Dreadnought have you tried the dry grass brushes that come with the JENX POSEIDON Water Effects? (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3077)

[Dreadnought 8,231]

1 hour ago, Belfastsocrates said:

@Dreadnought have you tried the dry grass brushes that come with the JENX POSEIDON Water Effects? (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3077)

Yo, guy --

I will investigate "Poseidon" and see what I can use out of their pack -- dry grasses sound interesting !

Thanx much for the tip --

Here's another attempt at losing the trees and opening up some terrain a bit --

 

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

They're located in the Water Utilities menu. 

It's what I used to create the dry grass for my playgrounds in my recent updates. 

 

@tankmank I relotted the Tesco and changed a few things, it's a plopped lot as well. Haven't had any issues with it so far

[tankmank 853]

Thank you for the suggestions, i will look at moving the temple. 

@Dreadnought I like the pasture area, the sheep just add that little something extra. 

@Belfastsocrates Ok thanks for letting me know Michael, i just have not been able to get any of Gascookers works to successfully be lot edited, will look into it. 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

@Dreadnought  You nailed it, the grass area in the first is exactly right, a simple mix of mmps to blend to breakup the pattern. The sheep pen is all around great, location next to interchange is realistic in that it doesn't get used often and there is some buildup of vegetation other than grass including the trees within the fence line, the dirt patches(heblem sand mmp I assume) all look great 

[matias93 7,535]

Tracing the 'backyard' of my new CBD, with a modular railyard, some small interchanges and underpasses. The idea is to get most networks to converge to the CBD itself.

And a bigger picture...

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Hospital site progressing...

I welcome any comments, positive or negative, on how it looks so far. I will be adding 'activity' to the storage/workshop area as well as the sandstone walkways. 

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

Marina in a new unnamed city, big thanks to NVBC for most of what's pictured

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Just about ready to put the finishing touches(mmp's) on my most elaborate interchange to date.

[Artimus 485]

Great, the spaghetti interchange is back!