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[T Wrecks 10,210]

I know - it's only grit and dirt, but I like it:

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Will growing industrial blocks like this one become a reality? It Really Might.

102 uploads mostly ready, a handful left. 252 individual lots down, ~50 to go...

[redfox85 659]

Usually post on sc4dev, but decided to post this here. Rebuilding a region when I decided to add expand the 5x5 large tile region to 7x5 - with the extra 10 all on one side. 4 are for the airport (to accomadate 4km long runways), one third-ish of 3 for low density res, and the rest just empty with RHW, and 2 rail lines running through them. I did however have to create new coast line, and I'm doing it the hard way: tracing out the new coast by hand one road tile at a time... and 512 road tiles later I got it traced out:

 

Now the fun (hard part)... terraforming it.

[CT14 2,486]

@T Wrecks Yes please.

The boy's insane, he's insane!

[Simmer2 23,831]

@T Wrecks is like me, we both have diesel fuel running in our veins...

 

I think  for the sake of the other members that posts in this tread I will take the container discussion over to my thread. Its not fair to clutter @Haljackey's thread with other than showcase pics illustrating what you are working on. I will still post some pics here but debates, suggestions, requests and diatribes should be made on my thread here at ST.

I just posted a re-cap here

 

[rsc204 21,865]

19 hours ago, MissVanleider said:

but i would love to see that texture from the plazas used with @rsc204's Custom Sidewalks. I dont know why but i think it might be one of the NDEX ones for some reason, although my recent speculation record is very poor...

I did mess with some of the NDEX textures, so they are similar, although the ones you see are totally custom. The intension is to release them as a Sidewalk Mod with SWN, but I should probably offer them as LE textures at some point too.

[AsimPika3172 1,155]

Nice containers DavidDHetzel! Here another containers in my country Malaysia!

For the lorry are named Kontena Nasional (National Container)!

I hope Simmer2 add this into games soon!

[korver 27,685]

[Simmer2 23,831]

@korver You never cease to amaze me!!

[MissVanleider 1,851]

Working in a close up view I really thought i was doing well and that i was begining to fill the tile. Then I zoomed out....

[_Michael 2,681]

@MissVanleider Looking lovely - love all the train infrastructure and pylons

Spoiler

I didn't know Diagonal RHW on-slopes were a thing yet (Bottom right)

 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@_Michael They aren't (at least not yet) i had to do a cheating technique. There is a tutorial at sc4d i followed. You need the Diagonal bridge enabler and enough of a gap to make everything stable, then you plop rhw fillers (one ground level, one elevated) on the half tile transition between the two.

[Simmer2 23,831]

@MissVanleider Very nice starting layout!

[Haljackey 17,385]

Finished core network layouts

 

Zoom of the main interchange

[f3cs 1,063]

Inspired by:

Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Now that is something you really don't see every day in SimCity - very cool, @f3cs!

So I hope my lotting is refined enough... *ba-dumm tss*

What I like about these refinery props: They are really good. What I hate about them: They are modular and make me wanna try many small lots with variations. But see for yourselves... *sigh*

The good thing is, I'm 90% done with those little suckers - 36 lots so far. The upper pic shows one of the larger facilities - the big one is still coming. It won't be as humongous as others might make it because it's still supposed to work as a growable lot in a halfways normal industrial area, but yeah... 6x6 probably won't be enough.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Oh, T Wrecks! This is so great. Speechless...

[matias93 7,535]

Non-relevant question: how are those trees able to live there!? Your refinery has to have very strict counter-pollution measures!

[Fantozzi 4,068]

32 minutes ago, matias93 said:

Non-relevant question: how are those trees able to live there!? Your refinery has to have very strict counter-pollution measures!

There are ... there are ... they plant every three months the exact same trees anew - just to show to visitors how harmless their business is for real.

 

 

[matias93 7,535]

34 minutes ago, Fantozzi said:

they plant every three months the exact same trees anew

Now, that's a great idea for a timed prop: alive sapling, dying sapling, empty, alive sapling.

[kschmidt 6,202]

Immortal or not ? Anything else ? !

This I encountered to lots wich where not removable by buldozer ! Where these lots indeed immortal or ? First a growable nice park lot behind the Opera house !

Redevelopement for some commercial parking and green side pedmall blocked, nothing no clouds of thunder !

Time to use RJ Immortality killer !

Buldozing all lots, job done ! Wich growable lot this belonged to is unclear ?

Second case:

Clear case of overhanging lots or not ? SFTB Swiss station have been cramped on this site earlier. Somehow the road got connected through the station area. Rearranging the site furthur down the line, just buldozing it !

As you can see this isn´t as the lot supposed to be ! Again Immortality killer added and the lot buldozed seemles ! Thank you R.J.!

Reseach showed if no road placed so close the BAT it will be simply buldozed, mortal afther all !

Reploped lot in all it´s glory !

We are now very happy ? Allmost ! What about those advert sign´s in this picture no less than four times, prop pox ?

Enjoy it !

 

 

 

 

[_Michael 2,681]

Looking great @kschmidt

Just noticed, in the third picture, over on the left, on that GLR line, you appear to have used the 'on-street' T-Junction piece rather than just the GLR T-Junction puzzle piece.You also have the glitch with the roundabout in the right, which would be solved by moving the left hand road down one tile, and the right hand road up one tile.  

[kschmidt 6,202]

5 hours ago, _Michael said:

Looking great @kschmidt

Just noticed, in the third picture, over on the left, on that GLR line, you appear to have used the 'on-street' T-Junction piece rather than just the GLR T-Junction puzzle piece.You also have the glitch with the roundabout in the right, which would be solved by moving the left hand road down one tile, and the right hand road up one tile.  

Thank you, for the nostalgifc looks I used the Tram T on street, in the meantime I also have Tram on Street Stops so the road stops if noticed may go ! Glitch, roundabout where, red glitch maybe selected for buldozing but isn´t present.  Hope you like this explanation !

kind regards,

kschmidt

 

[kschmidt 6,202]

6 hours ago, _Michael said:

Looking great @kschmidt

Just noticed, in the third picture, over on the left, on that GLR line, you appear to have used the 'on-street' T-Junction piece rather than just the GLR T-Junction puzzle piece.You also have the glitch with the roundabout in the right, which would be solved by moving the left hand road down one tile, and the right hand road up one tile.  

Thanks again, I replaced the stops with Tram in Street. Tram T in road didn´t go, not even with the Immortality killer so unfortunaly, let´s say it´s a reminder for the tram operators to watch out for the trams comming out of the street, wich probably have priority over the GLR operators !

kind regardd,

kschmidt

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

I have been asked to show some of the residential areas of the city -- guess I was concentrating on mostly "the good stuff" and neglecting all those poor little working people. 

First -- I have to say that I have not managed too many cute tricks with the residential zones.  My style of play requires as much population growth as I can generate -- WITHOUT destroying the "green spaces" or creating a monster footprint for my city.  Wilhelmshaven West is, mainly, the residential portion of a three-map-tile city and has already out-grown my initial projection for the "footprint" size I intended -- so I am nearing completion of this portion of the larger, tri-city concept.

Second -- I NEVER plop any sort of residential for an "eye-candy" effect.  I want all my dwellings to be fully functional.  I have had minimal success in growing specific lots in a given location, so most of my neighboorhoods tend to be a "mish-mash" of buildings and resident income levels.  I know that may sound terrible, but I just haven't figured out how to grow UK single family houses on a given street -- or Moscow housing blocks anywhere.

This started out as the central residential district -- located south of the heights where the financial district is located.  You can see the business districts on the east edge of the picture.

 

 

At the bottom of the neighborhood you see Bonaparte Circle with it's integrated parks.

 

 

Detail shots --

 

 

And this is the Cerulean Park Tower with the Farmer's market integrated into the design with some park paths and parking lot fillers.

 

 

And on the west edge of the area is a small park incorporating the Eglise De L'Assomption -- I thought it made a very good picture.

 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@Dreadnought The last picture is particularly good, but they are all lovely. After a zoom out yesterday, 3 close ups today.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

OK, the release candidate ended up as a 7x7 - I think I might leave it at that. The amount of details is sufficient IMO.

Now it looks like I got some modding to do... 41 lots so far.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Imho - first picture, the tree on the left, a fir or spruce, regarding it's size it must be 70, 80 years, maybe more - at the place where it is: almost impossible. It is too much there. Or none or a younger one. But anyway - I never did see chemical industry as sexy before.

[Tyberius06 12,251]

@T WrecksWow.... woooowwww  Industrial Revolution!  Thank you! It's very nice!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

1 hour ago, Fantozzi said:

Imho - first picture, the tree on the left, a fir or spruce, regarding it's size it must be 70, 80 years, maybe more - at the place where it is: almost impossible. It is too much there. Or none or a younger one. But anyway - I never did see chemical industry as sexy before.

Well, firs/spruces grow comparably fast, but nonetheless you're mentioning a good point there. I'll replace it with something smaller. Such a tree would work on the premises of an old brick factory, but not for such a modern facility. Thanks for bringing that up. I also just noticed how I added a planter next to that side building front right, but there's nothing in it.

[Haljackey 17,385]

I might want a new industrial sector in my city just for that!

 

I'm working on some grade-separations today