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[Nevermore2797 112]

Tried narrowing a bit, and it's almost there, BUT NOTHING IS WORKING PROPERLY!!! TOUCHING ANYTHING HERE MESSES EVERYTHING UP?! I can't make a fully working Cloverstack Interchange?!

I'm so getting impatient!!

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

@korver wow, I can't wait to see either!

@Simmer2 always love your creations and these walls are no different in that regard - top notch.  The graffiti looks great, did you make them yourself for this project or do these already exist somewhere?   

Now to what I'm working on.  I have decided to completely get rid of my years old, terribly put together plugins folder and start fresh.  Additionally, I'm planning on relotting a vast amount of material with PIM-X, understanding that this will probably take a long time but I want to achieve a certain result.  For my new plugins folder, I'm going with a Southern California style.  Inspired by @kingofsimcity's Maxis Mansion Relots, I'm starting out by relotting both Maxis and a lot of @mattb325's residential models in a Beverly Hills style.  Here's one at different angles that's still a WIP.  Maybe I'll start a development thread which I've seen others do.

 

 

[matias93 7,535]

@scotttbarry will this reach the STEX? Because I would download it immediately!

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

@matias93 I am flattered that you asked, thank you! Still relatively new to PIM-X but once I create a decent number of lots I would definitely be open to sharing them on the STEX.  Would probably just need a bit of help making sure everything was good on the modding side.  

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

@scotttbarry: Aw yeah, SoCal style! That is a fantastic start and I really like that you're giving the mansions the HD treatment here. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with matt's McMansions.

Also minor issue, but there's some texture bleeding/Z-fighting going on there with the stacked overlays by the left-side entrance.

[Simmer2 23,831]

@huzman Thank you!!

@T Wrecks Tried to do the little triangle exit sign like that pic you posted but due to the minute size and the angle of it, you cannot see anything, therefore I created the exit sign above the service door instead. I also made the end piece with 4-3-2 sequence. removed the last panel row and post. Having 1 concrete panel at the end looked unrealistic.

@airman15  Thank you!! Radial curve are not on the radar. I would have to create dozens of separate overhanging pieces to make it work. (a logistics nightmare). Case in point, I'm in the middle of solving the FA2 and FA3 (fractional angles) conundrum at the moment. The only way to make a viable setup is to create 3 tiles long overhanging parts. I will show some pics once I have a viable jig ready.

@MushyMushy Thanks! Curved slope tolerant pieces are a totally different beast. Its very hard to create curve on slopes due to the variable radii geometry involved. The game is too rigid. BUT ya never know what I could eventually come up with

@scotttbarry Thank you!! The graffiti are freely available textures from the big wild internet

Simmer2

 

[kschmidt 6,223]

23 hours ago, rsc204 said:

Making progress with the SAMxGLR coding:

Layout, quit complicated for road aswell GLR traffic  Safety barrier will help some but not all !

[rsc204 21,866]

11 hours ago, Nevermore2797 said:

Tried narrowing a bit, and it's almost there, BUT NOTHING IS WORKING PROPERLY!!! TOUCHING ANYTHING HERE MESSES EVERYTHING UP?! I can't make a fully working Cloverstack Interchange?!

Well the problem is that you have too many crossings too close together and are probably hitting upon some game limitations. The more crossings you have close together, the more code required to keep everything stable. Or put another way, by moving such network crossings apart, you make things more stable.

By moving the diagonal MIS to either side of the main crossing, here I've managed to make your setup work with minimal changes. The moment those diagonals have to cross the RHW6, and elevated MIS and RHW-4 on the same tiles, you are pretty much going to break things. The code of course is ever improving and there are a myriad of tricks and pieces some people use to get things closer together. But this is by far and away the simplest solution to your problem.

40 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Layout, quit complicated for road aswell GLR traffic  Safety barrier will help some but not all !

Just to clarify, the intention was simply to showcase that I have all four crossing variants working. So the road layout isn't intended to be realistic or anything, I pretty much just built a little area to make the screenshot look nicer.

[tariely 4,499]

[Tangential : Congratulations to all the Trixie winners, among which many of those who post on this thread !]

NB : I hesitated to post this yesterday because to my utter surprise I am one of them, but I am just one and you are many , and that I admire !  

[nycsc4 5,250]

Another shot of Fall in Vancouver.  This is also located in the Coal Harbour area just south of the marina.  This is the intersection of Granville and Cordova.  There are no elevated rails in the real Vancouver but I just can't help building them (also easier to use with subways then regular 1-tile LRT).  I've also labeled the highways that use these two streets.  BC99 and BC1A both share a short section of Granville (and eventually the Stanley Park Causeway) north of Cordova.  Heading south, BC1A turns east on Cordova and runs through Downtown out to Main Street and eventually to Kingsway.  BC99 runs straight south through the city limits and into Richmond.

Sorry for the lack of automata, shot this on the pause mode.

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

@kingofsimcity Yeah that issue is indeed bugging me.  Have been trying to search for solutions here and on SC4D but can't seem to find a thread about this.  As far as I can tell it's not in the PIM User Manual either.  I don't really know what the issue actually is itself, and searched what you said as "z-fighting" and came across this https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=14332.0.  I'll give it a try, but this thread is describing from what I can tell an issue that has to do with the video card, not the game.  Or is this a problem I can fix with PIM or Reader?  Thanks in advance!

[MushyMushy 3,618]

@scotttbarry Z-fighting occurs when you have more than one overlay texture stacked on top of each other (provided they visually overlap each other). It happens on lots made by the Maxis Lot Editor as well, and as far as I know it's just a game limitation. There shouldn't be any other ill effects from stacking overlays on each other though. If you want to avoid it, however, you'll have to modify the textures.

[Simmer2 23,831]

Just finished adding several more pieces including the FA3 set (Fractional Angles 18.4 deg)

Pics please...

Simmer2

[korver 27,686]

[scotty222 549]

@scottbarry - I'm really liking that re-lot, put me down as someone who would be keen to download if they ever hit the STEX

@Simmer - Those walls are coming along fantastically and looks like they souls cover almost any highway configuration

I've recently re-installed SC4 and apart from trying to put my plugins folder together again I'm trying to put together a harbour city along the lines of Sydney or Auckland.

What I'm working on at the moment is a Tunnel under the harbour connecting the beachside suburbs with the CBD.

Firstly the suburban end which I've completed development around

Then the end which is going to be on the edge of the CBD, i haven't developed this area yet though.

 

 

[feyss 1,981]

Growing sloooooooooooooooooowly but surely

[huzman 445]

@korver : An another great pic by korver!

Congratulations on your well deserved medals, one for "best photoshopping..." hi,hi,hi....

[tariely 4,499]

@Simmer2 : splendid graffiti ! Those walls will be something to see !

There is a place in Quebec-City where the underbelly of a dreadfull elevated highway (that eviscerates a whole part of the city), has been given to artists -- among which graff' artists ;  the pillars that support it are decorated with faux-relief frescoes and some other, more ordinary but nevertheless colourful graffitis. I wonder if that could be adapted for SC4 EL Highways :

 

[art128 4,622]

@scotty222, Do you mind if I copy your idea for the tunnel highway? It's glorious.

[Josh6 873]

Beautiful tunnels @scotty222! Does the tunnel in the first picture UDI enabled? If so how did you do it? And those overhang parks are really nice!

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

@scotty222: That is some clever use of overhangs to obscure the tunnels! Was the giant building in the second pic modified to do the same as well?

[Simmer2 23,831]

@tariely I drove by there last summer. Yea they are amazing but the possibility to use them on SC4 Highway columns is.....zero. Furthermore due to the isometric view of the game, you would not see them very well.

Simmer2

[tariely 4,499]

4 hours ago, Simmer2 said:

@tariely I drove by there last summer. Yea they are amazing but the possibility to use them on SC4 Highway columns is.....zero. Furthermore due to the isometric view of the game, you would not see them very well.

Simmer2

Sigh...

[Tyberius06 12,267]

On 2017. 11. 13. at 7:27 PM, rsc204 said:

Making progress with the SAMxGLR coding:

Nice to see @rsc204, you to taking care of SAM and GLR projects  

@Simmer2 walls, everywhere walls! I love tham in any angle!  Thanks a lot!

@scotttbarry wow, after @kingofsimcity beautiful work, I'm looking forward your set of mansions, especially the @mattb325 Re-lots!

@scotty222 I'm curious about how you made those RHW tunnels too.  Very nice work.

Well, as I previously showed some WIP picture, there is an upcoming release, which will contains these medium plazas and one larger one.

2. Probably soon (next week) I can release this "little" expansion set (19 new pieces) to @paeng Urban Recreation Canal set. Which is may not available at this moment here on STEX, but it's defenetly on CBEX and I haven't forgot my plan to help @catty-cb to clear those Paeng files and bring them here to the STEX. So the Urban Canal Set probably will come sooner. (Bear in mind the pedestrian park bridges for sure were tend to be made my personal use...).

Enjoy!

- Tyberius

 

  Edited August 25, 2018 by Tyberius06  
edit: 25.08.2018 - I'm not able to restore the missing images from this post, because the images were deleted on my HDD.

[rsc204 21,866]

Messing with the SAM7 Bikepaths mod today, mainly adding T21s for the new WRC textures. The refreshed NAM36 version will be released in the near-ish future. Anyhow, oddly for me I really got into making T21s for a few hours and managed to come up with this congested set of signage:

I've shown the intersection in two rotations so you can see everything properly. I'm not sure about releasing this particular setup, the issue being how well it'll play with other SRM variants. I'm using the UK set of SRM and everything is LHD that you see here. But the real issue is if other SRM variants just work (i.e lights and poles use the same IDs), plus the consideration of making the SRM a dependency for the T21 mod?

If nothing else the rest of the road signage will make it to the final release, I'll just replace the traffic lights with Stop/Give Way signage instead.

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

As a bit of a throwback to how I got started with suburban office parks back in 2015, I took everything that I've learned since then and applied it to an old Maxis building. The extended building still looks a tad janky due to prop merging but this is as close as I get without actually needing to BAT something myself.

[mattb325 28,891]

Made a quick start on a promise (or a nasty threat, depending on your point of view) over on this thread

London Stock Exchange Building:

 

[Drack 616]

7 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

Well, as I previously showed some WIP picture, there is an upcoming release, which will contains these medium plazas and one larger one.

 

 

As someone whos obsessed with parks and plazas i can't wait for this one, wow!

[Simmer2 23,831]

Thanks everyone 

Moving them to the edge and adding a wall texture makes for a nifty 15m Barriers AND Wall transition....oh the possibilities!

This is just a quick mock-up
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Simmer2

[huzman 445]

1 hour ago, Simmer2 said:

15m Barriers AND Wall transition....oh the possibilities!

I love them walls! Can't wait to get my fingers on them... Thanks.