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[Simmer2 23,831]

While I work on completing the last 2 prop packs I managed to finish up some other work I had on the back burner.
Stones MMP !

There are now 3 different color of "Muro Secco", its a type of "dry wall"  made of local stones and are prevalent in some European countries such as Italy, France, Spain etc. The country side is dotted with them.
Used as a type on fence to mark property boundaries and to hold livestock within while out to pasture.

I also made 4 different color slate stone pathways, also seen in those countries to go with the ensemble.

And finally I made 2 different sized and colored bedrocks.

I should be able to pack them for release by tomorrow.
Here are a few sample pics I quickly put together.

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Simmer2

[peperodriguez2710 138]

On 09/02/2017 at 7:25 PM, Simmer2 said:

While I work on completing the last 2 prop packs I managed to finish up some other work I had on the back burner.
Stones MMP !

MOD Edit: Removed quoted images and bulk of quote. There is no need to repost an entire post, just to show you are commenting upon it. In fact, if the post is directly above, you really don't need to quote it at all.

Awesome work though I would "flatten" the tops a bit the next time. I say that because at least in the island where I live (a place where that kind of walls is very common) the wall tops are surprisingly flat as a result of the process the craftsmen here use to build them, and not as "bumpy" as one would expect. What I trying to explain is that wall tops look like this: 

 

My will isn't to criticize it, it's just some feedback from a guy who sees loads of walls like that every time he goes to the mountain; and I must say that even without being as flat as I said, those walls still are fantastic creations.

Keep it up with that brilliant work! 

[f3cs 1,063]

 

Region update with two new parks:

[CCXXII 79]

Ive been playing SC4 for 12 years.  Im gridding a region, but for the first time Im numbering and naming Streets, Avenues, Highways and Rail Lines.  This is the next area of development.  Not much eye candy or custom content, Im all about transportation.

 

[Fantozzi 4,068]

For creating river docks/inland ports I started to expand DocRorlach's Rural Docklands  with additional lots. I thought this is something easy to do but I ran into several problems with the seawall props which aren't easy to use as tailored for his own lots. I must confess - I'm close to shipwreck with them.

So I'm probably giving this up. Now here are two pictures with what I got so far - including all the poorness I don't get right. Ah .. *grief*. (as I used RTK4 values to offset the cranes the shadows are wrong - left side, first picture - and so on). 

 

 

 

[vortext 573]

yeah using RKT4 to offset props will result in shadow issues, you're better off using SC4ModelTweaker to offset the actual models. Other than that it looks pretty good to me, so maybe don't throw the towel in just yet! 

[matias93 7,535]

I really like the concept! And somehow need it for an inland mine... I have no idea of the technicalities, but i can say that needed much zoom to see the mismatched waterfront

[Fantozzi 4,068]

30 minutes ago, matias93 said:

I really like the concept! And somehow need it for an inland mine... I have no idea of the technicalities, but i can say that needed much zoom to see the mismatched waterfront

Look at the corners, second picture. First corner (always left to right), transit between 3 tiles and 2 tiles depth: the two fishing boats and the brown maxis building placed - totally illogical - in the middle of the wooden walkway and all the stuff I placed there on the dock - just to hide I have no inner corner matching here.  Second corner, transit between 4 tiles and 3 tiles depth - it's obvious it doesn't fit - its roundabout half a tile the pieces don't match. Look a the lamppost on this lot.. They are doubled because the outer corner simply doesn't match the tilesize, nor north, nor east - both directions. The same with those things you anchor on (don't know the english word), you tie the rope around on the dock.  Also on the original wmp lots I've found this overlapping issue.

You know, the original author passed away in 2013. Maybe I shouldn't touch his work at all and leave it as it is. That's what I'm thinking atm. I won't honour his work this way.

[MeMyself&I 379]

5 hours ago, Fantozzi said:

So I'm probably giving this up.

I'm hoping you don't give up on this because I really like them and they're not as bad as you might think they are.  A little touching up, perhaps, but otherwise they're great!  Maybe just walk away from it for a short while and then look at it again perhaps it will look different to you.

2 hours ago, Fantozzi said:

The same with those things you anchor on (don't know the english word

The big mushroom shaped ones for ships are called bollards and the smaller "T" shaped ones for boats are called cleats.

[Tyberius06 12,263]

6 hours ago, Fantozzi said:

So I'm probably giving this up.

I hope, you won't... OK, We're all different, and there are kind of personal meanings of the perfection. For me, these lots are working. 

When I made the SeaPort set, I ran into several issues, and I know, my sets are far less perfect or good enough than yours, I needed to learn a lot of stuffs, for example I don't even know what you"re talking about, when you're talking about RTK4... My fault  So, these are kind of old stuff (and jepp PEG's stuffs are old aswell), and since the comminity won't be radically bigger and won't be significantly more batter either, who suddenly start making totally new seaport sets, which could follow the present standards (or who knows, maybe @Simmer2 suddenly will decide, that after his rail/container and other projects, start making grand new seaport props - seawalls, ramps, docks etc...  , He is dangerous...  ), we have to work with these old stuffs.

I just started to make new expansion lots for my set, I will mix several different warehouse styles, and I don't know at this time, that those will be working or not. So what I want to say, that perfection is not everything.

If you eventually decided to not making a public release, please just put your already made stuff into a cloud folder (google drive, drop box etc) and give a link to us. I would like to use these lots, because, I like the concept, with or without inner corners and illogical stuffs. 

Nice work so far anyway!

- Tyberius

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

Down at the south end of the BodenSee we have a small marine recreational area that is a little more accessible than the big marina -- Brockett's Landing.  Originally a single rickety pier built generations ago by old man Brocketts, the family has gradually expanded and modernized the facilities (not by much) and turned the family home into a gasthaus on the ground floor with their living quarters upstairs.  The local anglers and less wealthy boaters find it a friendly little place to drop in and get their "keel" wet.

 

Not a very big place, the landing is tucked in along the shore beneath the residences on the bluff and behind the hospital.  Not very "ritzy" either, they never bothered to pave the road.

 

 

It ain't much -- but the Brocketts are happy in their little enclave and it makes them a good living.

 

And here we see a couple of boaters from the big marina passing offshore.

 

[kschmidt 6,220]

Today returned on the Holland ANNO project !

Farms nicely at local road connection, still some dutch plopable farms wood be nice ! Still have a lot of farms to add before furthur starting up the simulation because if urban cities take over demand rural demand drops there´s nothing else to do, except plopping manualy.

 

 

Urban dutch city development got a lot of those square and low tree like developments !

Enjoy !

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Giving SC4 another go and despite the game crashing on me a few couple dozen times in the last 3-4 days I'm still having fun rebuilding one of the large interchanges that got erased. 

[kschmidt 6,220]

On 12/02/2017 at 5:40 AM, Takingyouthere said:

Giving SC4 another go and despite the game crashing on me a few couple dozen times in the last 3-4 days I'm still having fun rebuilding one of the large interchanges that got erased.

That´s what about happened in my Europe ANNO project munich, fortunaly I had a backup so could continue !

  Edited February 13, 2017 by rsc204  
Mod Edit: Removed unnecessarily quoted images.

[jmsepe 2,039]

Kaijo Metropolis update. The metropolitan city has now breached the 2.0 million population benchmark. This is a huge milestone for me as this is the first time in my SC4 journey to reach 2 million sims in one region. Another milestone is Hakata Ward reaching 900k residents. This is also the first time that I reached 900k in one city tile. Hakata Ward is also the most extensive city I build in terms of transportation networks. It's so huge that now SC4 freezes once in a while, it's true.  

Here is a throwback of how it had evolved. 

This was how the city looked with 1.18 million people. (December 8, 2016)



A few days later, with 1.77 million residents. (January 7, 2017)



And now with 2,07 million residents. (February 14, 2017)



The city has so much concentration of tall buildings but I'm trying to keep it balance with medium and low residential too to make it more realistic. Here is how the transportation system in the city looks like.



Now that a I have quite a stuff in my city, this means a future Teiko update is probably coming soon. 
Make Teiko Great Again.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

UPDATE - made a prop trying to correct the 'corner issue' - opinion?

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Just finishing up now, here's a map showing the outline of the 'change. There's a few tunnels in there to make some of the overlaps possible. 

[matias93 7,535]

@jmsepe Wow! That's a lot of sims living on such small space! If a suggestion is well recieved: supposing the city will eventually expand to the interior, it would be useful for managing traffic to cut a diagonal avenue through the centre. It's something that several real cities have done (of course, at heavy costs in terms of internal dislocation), but it would add some variety to the otherwise orthogonal structure (which is also my staple when tracing cities )

@Fantozzi Yeah, it really improves, even if I liked the clutter (but it would look good anywhere on the dock). Maybe, only if is easy enough, you could consider using the same texture mirrored, to make the wood planks a little more continous.
I also noted you are rectifying the back of the lots. Are you using modular 1x1 pieces to do that, or adding tiles to the existent lots? I guess it would be more flexible to do the first thing, but in any case is not entirely strange to have a seaport (or riverport) with an uneven backwall. In any case, the progress is great and I'm still loving the concept!

@Takingyouthere That interchange is... a little frightening! Put me on a car on that and I wouldn't be able to get out. Anyway, I'm happy that you were able to recover your files, to lose so much work (even if it is "only" a hobby) is really terrible.

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And talking about that, I somewhat managed to corrupt my DAMN files (symptom: ploppable DAMNed lots literally damned, showing no preview building and causing CTDs when plopping, even from the cheat menu; fixed when deleting the DAMN menus), so I'm starting all over again with the menus, just to be sure to do them right this time. Some suggestions?

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Dreadnought- your MMP scenes are looking really good!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I could use some help trying to figure out what to do with the surroundings.

[matias93 7,535]

I would keep sprawling a bit, maybe zoning small residentials aside small farms to make a soft transition between both

[Dreadnought 8,231]

On 13/02/2017 at 8:40 AM, Thin White Duke said:

I could use some help trying to figure out what to do with the surroundings.

Yo, guy --

Without seeing the surrounding terrain -- it's a bit difficult to make suggestions.

I assume the brownish areas are going to be tidal flats -- perhaps detailing the landscape there is a place to start and might provide some inspiration.

Failing that -- I would suggest filling in some of the square outer edge corners with small buildings or dwellings -- and landscape -- to relieve some of the grid-like effect.  Matias93's idea for moving into a farming zone would work -- with a suitable green zone belt between the town and the farms.

But -- again -- without some larger visual terrain ques, I'm just shooting in the dark.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Oh, sorry about that, @Dreadnought. I should have thought of that. I'm not playing right now, but I have a slightly older picture where I have the grid activated. I hope that helps a little.

[Hotwheeler 409]

Development in my Game might have slowed down,but it never really halted.Manhattan is growing,slowly but steady.Filling all those Holes between the big Landmarks and well known Buildings is surprisingly hard and really painful.I also noticed that the good old NYBT Team seems to be on a long Hiatus or died off

Anyway,this is what i can show you right now...

This is where the Quensborough Bridge meets Manhattan...

 

I was totally jazzed to see that someoe made a new Chanin Building which looks Waaaaay better than the old one (sorry) and i immediatly had to place it. @Diego Del Llano really improved his Skills and the Quality on his recent Uploads is outstanding.

The Area around Chrysler Building still needs a lot of filling but i love how everything lights up at Night

 

 

The Sutton Place Area next to Queensborough Bridge.

The Waterfront was redeveloped to satisfy the Needs for Office Jobs

 

 

 

The Turtle Bay Area with Tudor City and the legendary UN Headquarter.

 

And a small Overview about the whole Area i`m working on right now.

[kschmidt 6,220]

On 12-2-2017 at 6:59 PM, Fantozzi said:

UPDATE - made a prop trying to correct the 'corner issue' - opinion?

Nice harbour scene, what seawall landing set is used here ?

[Fantozzi 4,068]

12 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Nice harbour scene, what seawall landing set is used here ?

WMP - Rural Docklands

[kschmidt 6,220]

3 minutes ago, Fantozzi said:

WMP - Rural Docklands

Thanks !

[JohnAJ 253]

Some more suburbs from Fairplain.

[rivit 3,402]

Experiments in Road Textures and T21s - Untouched snapshot, no MMPS in this scene.

[_Michael 2,681]

@Thin White Duke & @Dreadnought Both looking great.

@rivitYour work with textures is truly amazing. This looks like something long overdue.