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[Simmer2 23,831]

@kingofsimcity As of this writing, it stands at a conservative 14X14. It may be bigger or smaller, depending where my flare for details takes me

I can tell you this, beside the textures, almost all props will be custom made by me, as you have probably seen already, thus the time its taking to completion, is a bit longer than my usual.

Prop pack 3, which will debut in unison with this lot, it will have dozens of new HD props for everyone to play with.

Simmer2

PS. I may also take @MissVanleider suggestion for a more streamlined lot, in to consideration and release both at the same time.

[feyss 1,981]

@kingofsimcity The gas station next to the supermarket is a great detail!

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Hi everyone!

Only one picture for today! Last two days (after I finished that little interchange project) I remade NoirCity - Counterpoint's central rail system. Now rail tracks everywhere, and a Dockyard El-Rail line. My original idea was not to connect the harbour rail lines to the main railway system, but after a short consideration, I changed my mind, and gave a harbour commuter line. It hasn't got stations yet, but when I fill up this area, it will get the stations. And if @Simmer2 will release his abandoned rail station set at some point, I'm sure, I can find nice place to put some of them on this harbour area...

I released a picture about this area a few months ago, you can compare what changed now. Well, I guess, when Simmer will release his Roundhouse it will take place somewhere in the upper left corner on this picture.

(Oh yeah, I hope at some point in the future we can get El-Rail-STR crossings, so I could get the rid of those not so nice coloured squers...

Huge thanks for @Eggman121 to make these configurations possible with his very nice FLAX-Track RRW creations.

- Tyberius

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

This is an overview of the Southeast Side Business District -- snuggled in between the Interstate Highway on the west and the Ergenstrasse on the east.  A day and a night shot.

 

 

This is a detail shot along the Berlinerstrasse to "Toros De Pampalona" Circle.  You see Carson Plaza just off the circle and on the left you have the Regal Theater where, tonight, Jimi Hendrix will be playing!  He should have gotten Joe Cocker for the opening act!

 

 

Just across from the Regal -- the city soccer stadium.

 

And, of course, the prestigious Grand Hyatt Melbourne hotel where the corporate moguls congregate and the "old moneyed" go to dine.

 

[_Michael 2,681]

A far out view of the current WIP city. SC4 was crashing a lot today, so I wasn't as productive as I'd liked.

I think I'm gonna take a break from city development and work on MMP work in the hills.

[Simmer2 23,831]

@Tyberius06 Ah yes! I almost forgot about the abandoned station project! You will be the first one to test drive them once they are ready.

 

1 prop at the time...

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[MissVanleider 1,851]

This is taking a while. Hovering patiently with the bulldozer. Wanted to post a bigger update but until then a couple of close ups where the buildings (mostly) match

[CT14 2,486]

@MissVanleider Very nice! Those are my favorite residentials, and I'm excited that Cycledogg is back in action and planning to release Victorians.

It does look like the diagonals are 1 tile too close to each other back-to-back at top left of first picture, resulting in overlapping buildings/windows - there are fillers included with that set that can be used to decorate between the buildings.

To make those lots more controllable in an existing set of plugins, when doing a large area with those @SimCoug W2W lots, I ended up re-assigning building styles for other residential growables, similar to what the docs talk about. For example, leaving only the Diagonal Tenements as 1x1 Euro.

Sprinkling Maxis trees in unbuilt spaces is also very effective since they are R$$.

But most importantly... That street side telephone pole T21 mod... what is it? I've been searching for years for something like that!

@MeMyself&I I'm diving into the black art of automata modding, looking at these resources:

• Vester's guide: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=22.0
• Screamingman12's guide: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=233.0

Since I'm still trying to get a handle on the process, for now they will be static props only. Watch the dev thread for updates.

[MissVanleider 1,851]

2 minutes ago, CT14 said:

To make those lots more controllable in an existing set of plugins, when doing a large area with those @SimCoug W2W lots, I ended up re-assigning building styles for other residential growables, similar to what the docs talk about. For example, leaving only the Diagonal Tenements as 1x1 Euro.

I thought about that but decided it would take too long / i'd make mistakes and damage the other lots by losing track of what i'd done to what when it came time to undo. I just wish there were some non functional 'filler' ones that i could just plop to cover the last spaces! 

6 minutes ago, CT14 said:

But most importantly... That street side telephone pole T21 mod... what is it? I've been searching for years for something like that!

It is this:

It probably looks different in my pictures because of the sidewalk mod i have, although it is 'asian' themed it looks ok in most settings (japanese roadsigs aside), i only really wanted it for the telephone poles! The white fences are nice too but will often visually obstruct driveways etc.

Also beware that some of the dependencies take some hunting i seem to remember

I was curious to know how difficult this mod would be to 'tweak' to make more usable if the dependencies ever went missing completely, but i imagine that this is probably too ambitious a task for me!

[clhigh7 583]

On 3/14/2017 at 8:26 PM, Thin White Duke said:

Refurbishing an old CBD of mine that I wasn't too happy with. There are still some slots to fill, but I think I'm on the right path.

I love the way your waterfront looks! The mix of natural areas and that small harbor go well with the downtown area. Nice choice of buildings as well! You are on the right path indeed!

[MissVanleider 1,851]

Sorry if its bad manners to post here twice in the same day but can anyone guess what's going to happen to 867 hickory lane after they had the audacity to orient themselves in such a manner?

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

@MissVanleider: Someone's about to move to another city. 

I think my super distribution center is having a little wealthing identity crisis. This is what happens when you attempt to cross between IRM I-HT, I-M and normal non-industrial $$ texture schemes all at once.

[MissVanleider 1,851]

2 minutes ago, kingofsimcity said:

@MissVanleider: Someone's about to move to another city. 

Lets hope nobody was home when 'it happened'...

I'm looking forward to this distribution center. The flexibilty of those parking textures is remarkable! I need to learn how to use them myself.

[Manuel-ito 322]

@MissVanleider I hope nobody else in that neighborhood noticed it either...

The game definitely does have some quirks with growables like that. Though I personally like to leave one or two of those 'rebellious' houses intact, I'm starting to think that particular lot has been flagged to grow in corners...

@kingofsimcity Relots of SimGoober's stuff is always nice in my book . I wonder if it's better to extend that asphalt parking lot into a 6x3 rather than a 4x3, then again you'll probably lose that entrance wich, in my opinion, makes it unique. Maybe that's an idea for a second lot...

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Thank you, @clhigh7!

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Mars Tower a project 10 years in the making. finally able to finish this...

[Simmer2 23,831]

This time I will show you another corner, the chem fluids supply shed with its own delivery track. Diesel fuel, de-greasers, cleaning solutions etc. etc.
Four pics.

Still have a few things to wrap up and then its coding time.

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[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Still working on the same city and I've made some big progress. The little harbor/industrial area is temporarily erased, but it'll grow back. I'd post this in before/after, but it's not complete yet.

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@Thin White Duke very impressive progress. All that 'real' water!

Are the quaysides near the ferris wheel the quais de seine? For me they would be glitched if i looked at the from that zoom distance

[kschmidt 6,223]

EQUAL TOWN 3

Some more growing stages of this experimental town or city perhaps !

Business quarters secondstage completed !

Public and commercial demand required addition of a airport !

First Highrise Office in town !

Residentials neighbourhood not  yet affected !

Agricultural demand still present !

Last the rich and famouse found their place !

Ballanced town afther three episodes building. Sound enverimentaly, Agricultural present but probably cap soon reached, first highrise developing. What will we see next ?

To be Continued !

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

1 hour ago, MissVanleider said:

Are the quaysides near the ferris wheel the quais de seine? For me they would be glitched if i looked at the from that zoom distance

Thank you! It's NBVC's marina walls. Here's his complete file archive. I recommend basically all of it.

[MissVanleider 1,851]

Last one for the weekend. Got distracted playing with draggable ground light rail. I like it, but i think i'm either missing stations due to neglect of light rail in the past or possibly scrolling too fast. Either way, here is my little neighbourhood now

 

[_Michael 2,681]

There's so much great stuff here - @Thin White Duke, @MissVanleider, @kingofsimcity, @kschmidt & @Simmer2 - all looking amazing.

I've been working on this urban park using just MMPs. Not too sure though - might redevelop it all.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

A bit too many paths, maybe? I'd recommend making an open lawn or a pond somewhere, and maybe a little plaza somewhere in there too. Have a go on google earth and look at some parks for inspiration. 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@_Michael i really like it, the quayside as a wall is awesome, along with the way you drag the path down the slope there. I actually quite like the quantity of paths too, feels reasonable given that this is is clearly an 'artificial' green space at the heart of a city.

For me, i'd do without the little mmp stone walls, for me a bit too quaint maybe next to the relative grandeour of the 'quay' wall and the hefty yet pretty retaining walls? Maybe use the mmp wall to make a smaller, self contained section of the park - an inner sanctum perhaps? 

[matias93 7,535]

I don't know if those exist, but maybe some mmp lamps would be very useful

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

39 minutes ago, matias93 said:

I don't know if those exist, but maybe some mmp lamps would be very useful

Mandelsoft's LRM 4.0 comes with a bunch of varying ploppable street lights in the parks menu.

[rsc204 21,866]

15 hours ago, matias93 said:

I don't know if those exist, but maybe some mmp lamps would be very useful

MMP lamps are problematic because night lights don't work for Flora, which MMPs are based upon.

14 hours ago, Thin White Duke said:

Mandelsoft's LRM 4.0 comes with a bunch of varying ploppable street lights in the parks menu.

This is a better solution over MMPs, using the transparent versions should allow you to blend them in seamlessly. Although a little work in the LE would be best to make them exactly how you wanted.

[clhigh7 583]

I've been playing around with the waterfronts in my city lately. I'm trying to blend the CBD with the river by using seawalls/piers/riprap and building small neighborhoods and parks.

Here's an urban wetland preserve area on the other side of the CBD. Still a work in progress

Lastly, here's a close up of some solid progress I've made in a small pocket of town.

 

[Simmer2 23,831]

Thank you! I try my best to make things as realistic as possible. As I go along building the lot, I create the models needed to fulfill the scenario.

This is the North East corner, the water supply pond...done!

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