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[Callesson 14]

8 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Very nice themepark indeed, visited Lisseberg some 30 years ago during a scandinavia travel, well done !

Okey nice! Liseberg is a very fun themepark. They got some fun coasters there nowdays. But i have not decide yet wich name this park will have

[EvansRE4 796]

...Work in Progress...

Started the downtown core of Raccoon City...I've drawn inspiration for the street grid for downtown from Calgary, AB.

In the pic we see the Raccoon City Central Station, Raccoon Sky Tower, and Raccoon City Hall.

[simmytu 605]

A new update, currently I'm working on the capital city of the region, which means I'll go all in with tall buildings. As usual I do challenge myself with a meagre usable terrain to work with. The sheer amount of hills and mountains west of the city and lots of water around the south and east of this part of the region is a tough one to build around.
To make it a bit harder for myself, I decided to use RHW to its full potential (more collectors lanes and healthy quantity of T interchanges) and this also means double stacked highways, especially handy in the western parts of this city. In much simpler words, it's going to be pain to cheek to build here, but when I pull this one off this might very well be my most distinct city to date.

Alright, I've talked for some extensive time, let's show y'all some pictures.

In this image I'm experimenting with low and midrise buildings to see how I'm going to fill the outer parts of the capital's core. Overall design will be more East Coast US themed.

Here's the region so far. Some parts of the region will be changed quite a bit to fit the massive international airport and its infrastructure.
Region view:

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Hi everyone!

During the last month I rebuilt my entire subway system in the three existing districts of NoirCity. Because I hate to use Photoshop I can't show how it looks like (I won't make a mosaic), but since all of my cities rich in props and quite dense, rebuilding the subway and multi-purpose station system (while the game has been wasting several minutes every time with entering and quiting to and from the ZONE VIEW) was mind melting and very time consuming. I can't say never again, but I got seriously headache couple of times. @Thin White Dukeinspirated me to make an airport, since he said, that was his first. Well I made my first airport as well, but I didn't overcomplicate the things, so I downloaded this modular airport (thanks for the tips @Haljackey), got headache again gathering the dependencies, since half of them was changed during the years or never been in the description for some reasons, and the download page description has never been updated - well, in a few days I'll put together all the related dependencies what I found for this lot, because there are 3 props, what I couldn't find even if I have installed all the dependencies, and send the corrected list to the staff to update the description...

After I built the airport I figured it out, that it need to be connected with the rest of the city, so I started to build this highway system which connects North Harbour and CounterPoint to South Harbour and the airport. It's strongly still WIP. Oh it maybe important notice, but the main area of South Harbour will be a huge industrial development (yepp, Heretic SeaPort Expansion Vol. 2 will be coming here), so not much residental or commercial... 

Pictures:

Well, on the last picture you can see a diagonal part of the highway which disappear somewhere under the upper right corner. That one goes/come to/from Counterpoint, and the funny thing, that CounterPoint never has connection to this city tile. The city Leadership decided to fill up the harbour and build an underground highway under the industrial area. I had to demolish a decent line of establishments make a long slop line and lead the highway in this slop as a tunnel then demolish the slop and rebuild the industrial area. It probably won't be functional as UDriving, because the paths actually over the ground (game limitations) and the UD cars are always jumping onto the crossing streets/roads, but functionality has never been priority in my gameplay...

 

Bonus: The railway system doesn't like the diagonal rail-rail crossings, and the upper trains are always jumping down, so I rebuilt a little part of my main railway line and its connecting parts.

Before:

After:

Bonus 2: I was playing with MMPs. It's so much fun, but very time consuming and need a lot of patience.  Abandoned units and building machines after the highway was finished.

 

- Tyberius

[matias93 7,535]

A really beautiful work @Tyberius06!!! And about the waiting time with the zones and subway view, try deactivating the props on the traffic simulator configuration. That change alone makes the transition much faster!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

@Tyberius06Well, your airport ended up looking a hell of a lot better than mine.

It looks like you're planning to make a big city in the area though, what with all the high capacity roads going here and there and everywhere. You may want to make a bigger, out of town international airport when traffic becomes too heavy for the one you have now, but I think it was a good idea to start small, just like I did. I hope everything continues to look this great as you go on!

[11241036 5,115]

A little something I'm working on: I'm trying to build a seaside village in a bay, complete with a harbor village on boardwalks. I don't know if this is good or not, I've barely ever been to the seaside.

[simmytu 605]

2 hours ago, Thin White Duke said:

@Tyberius06Well, your airport ended up looking a hell of a lot better than mine.

Well practice makes perfect. Building a realistic looking airport is always a challenge to everyone, from the massive list of dependencies to single tile pieces. The airport I built in the previous submission took lots of preparation and hours of research. The result does speak for itself.

@Tyberius06Ah yes moar rails! Also what a huge difference between the before and after pictures!

[MatlockMan 370]

Been working on a handmade region the past two weeks. Here's where I'm up to. At the moment 1.2 million people, but I'm wanting in excess of 4 million by the time I'm done.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

This time we're going to swoop in and take a closer look at the parks, plazas, and parking areas that surround those towering behemoths of commerce in the Central Business District atop Victoria Heights. 

These are mostly random shots taken at various angles to show the detail work on the building re-lots as well as the custom puzzle-filler lots that make up the plaza areas.

This is the Sun Trust Building and the Eclipse Tower and Plaza next door.

 

Telus and Tallin Square.

 

The Neptune Fountain Plaza.

 

And here we have the Linux and Interchange 21 buildings.

And -- there are a few more pics for you -- but I'm out of time for now.

[Haljackey 17,398]

Filling in the median (part of a highway widening project I am working on)

[younghappy 308]

Alright folks.  I present you a few more screenshots from my Helsinki-ish city.  Here we have what would be the Salmisaari sector.  This area is dominated by the coal power plant. I've been using a fantastic resource called kartta.hel.fi, which has orthophotographs dating back to the 1930s and has many different mapping layers which really get down to the nitty-gritty details.  Anyone who lives in Helsinki will know that this coal pile is no longer there and that the whole area has been redeveloped into offices etc.  But I couldn't find the any buildings to my liking so I decided it would be more interesting to have the coal heap instead.  I also re-lotted the power station just to make the whole thing more cohesive

This re-lot of the coal heap was a lot of fun to make.  I've just used my imagination in some corners.  Coal is delivered by lorries from a nearby deep-water port, and there is also a small crane which can unload barges.  Since the bridges were built, only barges can dock here and not larger ships.  In real life Helsinki, there may be a conveyor belt in a tunnel that brings the coal from the deep water port to the plant.  

Old industrial buildings have been re-purposed into offices.  I've had to stick a whole load of air purifiers around the place to keep the offices happy.  

 

Having proplems with MMP coal.  When it works, it looks fantastic and hides ugly texture mismatches that couldn't be rectified in the lot editor.  But it seems to keep disappearing when I place it here.  I know that some props don't work well with overlays.

 A little active scene. A lorry arrives with coal.  Some diggers sort the coal, another keeps it from crossing the boundary. I've added a few spoil heaps for waste materials and rubble.

 

[Tyberius06 12,267]

@younghappy Well that's quite nice lotting, as I see you reused a few textures from @Simmer2rail lots, nice to see those!  I wouldn't mind if you'll share this lot with the community  

@Thin White Duke: I had very easy job with that (in the first round), with the linked upload I got 8 pieces and a picture guide how to put together that stuff and that's all. No challenge, no real creativity on my end. And yes, I'm planing to build a much bigger international-ish kind of airport somewhere else in the future...

During the last couple of days I finished Noir City - South Harbour's highway network around the mentioned and showed airport. Last week I showed a part of the highway network, now show the other part. The city leadership changed the landscape of South Harbour with full up the harbour area, placing an airport and designated the whole area for future industrial use. With these developments along the edge of the South End Hills it was built the Southern Highway Ring and its intersections with the innercity expressways.

South Harbour highway network

Little extra: due to the airport development and to finishing soon North Harbour District I started to expand the seaport/seaside area this time less industrial.

Bonus: Before and after region (traffic) view about the Airport and Southern Highway Ring: 

Before:

 

After:

- Tyberius

[Haljackey 17,398]

Wow, I really like the addition of the MIS bridge next to that arch bridge. Adds a lot of realism that it's not mirrored.

Also, your last two pictures are not loading:

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I'm continuing work with my highway widening project. This time I'm filling in the median + new ramps + new bridges

Rotated for better view

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Well, that's strange, because for me they're loading, but your example picture isn't, which is not that strange, because somehow my chrome is always blocking the Imgur contents, so I need to do some extra clicking and so, to see those pictures...

[kschmidt 6,223]

 

On 4.8.2017 at 0:05 AM, Tyberius06 said:

@younghappy Well that's quite nice lotting, as I see you reused a few textures from @Simmer2rail lots, nice to see those!  I wouldn't mind if you'll share this lot with the community  

@Thin White Duke: I had very easy job with that (in the first round), with the linked upload I got 8 pieces and a picture guide how to put together that stuff and that's all. No challenge, no real creativity on my end. And yes, I'm planing to build a much bigger international-ish kind of airport somewhere else in the future...

During the last couple of days I finished Noir City - South Harbour's highway network around the mentioned and showed airport. Last week I showed a part of the highway network, now show the other part. The city leadership changed the landscape of South Harbour with full up the harbour area, placing an airport and designated the whole area for future industrial use. With these developments along the edge of the South End Hills it was built the Southern Highway Ring and its intersections with the innercity expressways.

South Harbour highway network

Little extra: due to the airport development and to finishing soon North Harbour District I started to expand the seaport/seaside area this time less industrial.

Bonus: Before and after region (traffic) view about the Airport and Southern Highway Ring: 

Before:

 

After:

- Tyberius

Very nice infrastructual work ! Some concern with the airport oriantation; southside big hill -north side rocky aproach terrain; probably turning it into a west-east  oriantation short distance to the east of the current locations would give it the perfect aproaches and more expansion space, well done !

Mod edit: removed duplicate pictures

[Tyberius06 12,267]

26 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Some concern with the airport oriantation; southside big hill -north side rocky aproach terrain; probably turning it into a west-east  oriantation short distance to the east of the current locations would give it the perfect aproaches and more expansion space,

Thanks!

Yepp, there was a plan, something similiar what you're suggesting, but I left like this first because I won't expand this airport, second I kind of like the extreme and probably dangerous orientation. That field will be a huge industrial area. In the original plans, there was nothing just water, but I wanted a North-South "connection" between the Southern Higway Ring and the Innercity Highway, so due to game limitation I had to expand the land, and during this I decided to replan the whole area for a massive industrial purpose. And later came the idea of the airport...

- Tyberius

[Haljackey 17,398]

Ah, your region pics load now. Look fantastic!

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More highway widening work. Involved some reconfiguration too.

Also

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

Here are a few more pictures -- again, mostly detail shots of the CBD atop Victoria Heights in Wilhelmshaven West. 

View of the plazas and ground level area overlooking Lakeshore Drive.

 

Denver Place towers and the RDQ Queensland hotel.  (Front and rear views.)

 

 

 

This is a view of the Bismarck Memorial Park, with the Bismarck Platz on the left, the Prussian War Memorial in the center, and the Torrazzo Bell tower on the right.  I did not take a night shot of this -- mainly because I never got around to adding lights to Paeng's Monument Park Paths.  I am definitely going to do that before I use them in another city -- they are pretty, but they leave a big dark spot on the city.

 

AND -- since this is the end of the tour -- I have provided two views of the city.  I never have figured out how to get a single picture of a large tile city, so you get -- one east side and one west side.

The city turned out fairly according to plan, though it did grow larger than originally intended.  Transportation works very well, especially the railroads and the subway systems, with remarkably little congestion.  There is a thriving commercial community, while the residential population (341,000) managed to grow far beyond the actual employment capacity (130,000) -- proof that your residents will go looking for work in the business-oriented neighboring city.

 

This will be the last you see of me -- at least, for a while.  I have been working on terra-forming and installing the basic infrastructure of Wilhelm'shaven SOUTH for several months, now -- but I'm still weeks away from "growing" anything.  If I get some nice scenes, I might drop by with some "work in progress".

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, Guys --

I know this is a bit "off topic" -- but I posted to the "Bat Request" thread and noted that the last post was about a month ago.

And this may be a "dumb" question, but I'm going to ask anyway -- and since this is where a lot of "batters" look in -- this must be the place.  It should be obvious from my question that I know little to nothing of the skills required for "batting".

Is it possible to take the model file (building) from an existing lot and resize it?  Say -- enlarge it by 30% - 40% - or 50% ??

I ask because there is a fine building model that is crying to be used -- but it is not in scale with the associated props or filler lots that could be used with it.

[metasmurf 705]

@Dreadnought Have you tried using this? https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2072

[Dreadnought 8,231]

2 hours ago, metasmurf said:

@Dreadnought Have you tried using this? https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2072

Yo, guy --

Thanx, anyhow -- but the considered (and majority) opinion is that it would be possible in "Tweaker" -- but the textures would be more or less ruined in the process. 

Not much point in scaling-up to look right -- if the textures will look bad.  Maybe I can use a combination of different levels and a given perspective to create an optical illusion that will look better.

But I do appreciate the thought. 

[matias93 7,535]

I would try anyway, you don't have a way to know how it will look without trying, and is very easy.

[Simmer2 23,831]

Well, I'm back from holidays and eager to jump right in 

Soooo, I'm posting a few pics of a lot I'm working on (One of a series).
Added a few more models as well. Including a version of the truck loading facility!!

Work in progress.

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[matias93 7,535]

Bellísimo!!! Is so real you can almost touch it...

[kschmidt 6,223]

Hartford Valley Int Terminal B under construction !

Hartford Valley International Airport will be a huge job to complete ! Spider claw like four wings will be constructed. Terminal A and D are a continuation of the main terminal. Terminal B and C spread their wings out into the airport pasture. In between Terminal B, the main terminal and Terminal C a subway line is provided !

Terminal B

Enjoy !

[Haljackey 17,398]

Gradual widening on a bay-side highway as traffic demands warrant it:

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Just a quick question ---

Does "NAM 32" have a roundabout feature for ROADS ??  (If it does -- where do I find it?)

[Eggman121 1,052]

17 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guys --

Just a quick question ---

Does "NAM 32" have a roundabout feature for ROADS ??  (If it does -- where do I find it?)

Just draw the road network in a circle

It is a small roundabout and has existed since the early era of the NAM

-eggman121 (NAM Team member)

[APSMS 1,893]

On 8/5/2017 at 0:42 PM, Dreadnought said:

Is it possible to take the model file (building) from an existing lot and resize it?  Say -- enlarge it by 30% - 40% - or 50% ??

I ask because there is a fine building model that is crying to be used -- but it is not in scale with the associated props or filler lots that could be used with it.

You can scale the model down, but enlarging it introduces the texture issues like you mentioned. There had been discussion on whether the model tweaker could be used to make HD BATS in Gmax (which lacks the ability to do a standalone Z6 render needed for HD mode), since one could in theory oversize the model and then scale it down with the Tweaker tool. The textures automatically scale and what might normally be a bit grainy at Z6 becomes much clearer.

There was also hope that using this method the large filesize associated with HD BATs could be reduced, but unfortunately the size difference was negligible if there was any advantage at all. It does still remain a viable way to make HD BATs in gmax, though.

That being said, yes, enlarging a BAT is usually out of the question only because the textures would become terribly pixelated and individual texture editing on the BAT LODs is tedious and borderline pointless for all but the simplest BATs. Better, then, to either slightly reduce the size of all the other props in question, or use a different prop/BAT to fit the area.