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[SecretMbr_735754 2,158]

I can see Science World (Expo/(Space) Center), BC/(GM) place, the Marine Building, the HRM Planetarium and city museum/archive, the Aquatic Center, Anchor Point (where I lived once),  and the Park hill Hotel.  Harbor Center would be an interesting landmark to get in there.

[nycsc4 5,250]

Rebuilding some of the oldest parts of my city.  An upgraded marina with new residential development can be seen in this first several shots.  A new Vancouver General Hospital is taking shape just south of the marina.  The original Vancouver General will be taken down.

Thanks!

[kschmidt 6,221]

Old Habsburg - Vienna VII

Puzzeling with the road & rail fences I completed the Wien Meidling Bhf area !

Burggarten with the Mozart memorial !

Safety first GLR Fences at Vienna HBF are quit usefull !

Last for this year I wish you a happy new year !

Enjoy !

[RobertLM78 1,598]

3 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Old Habsburg - Vienna VII

Very nice! 

[kschmidt 6,221]

31 minutes ago, RobertLM78 said:

Very nice! 

Last moment of inspiration added one more picture !

Sincerely yours,

kschmidt

[f3cs 1,063]

My first mega plaza. The sink of a straight section permitted a new use of the land.

[mattb325 28,891]

Another station. This test image shows an Elevated Heavy Viaduct Rail; but any 15m network can be used.

 

[Silur 3,308]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

 

I destroyed a whole residential district and put up a New Year Tree by SG for all SIMTROPOLIANS !

Happiness and peace to all.  

[tonyr 926]

I decided to give Eamonn Isle west a makeover for 2018. Check out my before and after images.

 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

@tonyr what texture pack you use on the highways up top?

[RobertLM78 1,598]

12 minutes ago, DavidDHetzel said:

what texture pack you use on the highways up top?

I was wondering about that too.... thought it might be RHW.

I'm also curious about those seawalls....

[matias93 7,535]

1 hour ago, RobertLM78 said:

I was wondering about that too.... thought it might be RHW.

I'm also curious about those seawalls....

The textures for that highway are:

And the seawalls are NBVC's Marinas: this one is the main pack but there are several:

 

[ESP15 571]

For those who do not know me, I am a New Yorker and I never stop trying to improve especially Manhattan in my city. I have built and destroyed it 3 times and now in the fourth, I want to see how I can make a diagonal similar to Broadway / Times Square. It would be interesting to be able to fit all the buildings and streets. Thank you !

[monkeywater 910]

Working on the city where the majority of transport will be along pedmall.  Including tram-on-pedmall, subway under, and underground rail!

[Handyman 791]

10 hours ago, monkeywater said:

Working on the city where the majority of transport will be along pedmall.  Including tram-on-pedmall, subway under, and underground rail!

@monkeywater I have used a lot of tram on pedmall and I've yet to come across anything but straight tram on pedmall. So when I need other pieces I use the standard tram pieces and use standard pedmall to skirt around those pieces because they don't allow pedestrian traffic. See pic below. I am very interested to know if there is another options as well, but this is how I do it now.

[tariely 4,499]

I was trying JENX Poseidon effects on a test tile adjacent to my working test tile in a sandbox region. Duly admired them, noticed that the coloured waterfalls seemed to have a bug (the coloured light stays on after the plop piece has been erased), but I'm not going to use that effect anytime soon ; the rest is fine although some of the waters lacks finesse, but hey. So I took notes and quit without save, to go back to my usual working tile. Lo and behold it was raining, or more accurately snowing, green light.(I had only tried the green-lit waterfall). It was even more noticeable when the visual effects were on medium and not on high. With no JENX Poseidon effects in the plugins folder. In my usual test tile where I had not tried them. Wow. Talk about Persistence of Vision. Or contamination ?

So here it is :Green Holiday Snow. I don't know how to make a movie with SC4 screen captures, so it is not animated here, but I can tell you it's pretty... I just hope it won't do that in another, unused, tile of that sandbox region -- or another region ! I should check...

[art128 4,622]

These green dots generally indicate a radiactive contamination of the city. I'm not even joking. Do you have perhaps plopped the nuclear power plant or the research center?

[matias93 7,535]

Even weirder: with savefile corruption, you can even get those radiation sparkles without real radiation present...

[monkeywater 910]

9 hours ago, Handyman said:

@monkeywater I have used a lot of tram on pedmall and I've yet to come across anything but straight tram on pedmall. So when I need other pieces I use the standard tram pieces and use standard pedmall to skirt around those pieces because they don't allow pedestrian traffic. See pic below. I am very interested to know if there is another options as well, but this is how I do it now.

Yeah thats how I do it too.  How did you get the residential on the pedmall? I don't see any FLUPs hidden around there...

[Handyman 791]

11 hours ago, monkeywater said:

Yeah thats how I do it too.  How did you get the residential on the pedmall? I don't see any FLUPs hidden around there...

@monkeywater The link below will explain most of my current strategies. There is nothing about trams specifically, but it does explain how I do my residential areas. I didn't mention that I have made a flups pedmall override to remove the air grills. It can be a little bit flaky but I just live with that for now, it's on my list to go back and fix someday. The tram pieces can be a pain but I find I use the tram, mostly, in high density areas so I can get away with doubling up on the side walk and it doesn’t look to bad. I would like to hear if you are using any tricks I missed.

The post is about halfway down the page.

 

 

[mattb325 28,891]

This is a station for the new 7.5m E-RRW network in the NAM (as I don't believe that there are any such stations yet). Click to enlarge. The 7.5m props were kindly provided by rsc204

 

[matias93 7,535]

Oh Gods! This is seriously beautiful!!!

And the fact that is perfectly W2W makes it fantastic for a High Street station!!!

[tariely 4,499]

So, if I understand correctly, there will be a whole set of railway station in the STEX (or LEX) future ? 

[monkeywater 910]

7 hours ago, tariely said:

So, if I understand correctly, there will be a whole set of railway station in the STEX (or LEX) future ? 

Yeah, I look forward to these stations too!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Whoa, Matt - all your stations are so beautiful! You're really on a roll, man.

You know what, that last station made me wonder if it would be possible to have the glass-roofed platform part (or some other platform-only section) in a very generic version as an overhanging prop so we could assemble multi-track stations, longer platforms and whatnot... *scratches head*

[kschmidt 6,221]

7 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Whoa, Matt - all your stations are so beautiful! You're really on a roll, man.

You know what, that last station made me wonder if it would be possible to have the glass-roofed platform part (or some other platform-only section) in a very generic version as an overhanging prop so we could assemble multi-track stations, longer platforms and whatnot... *scratches head*

Multiple elevated platforms with more thand two trake are a commodity, most are two track combining several always require street access. Specialy dagonal versions; modular they look lik odd. Combined platform stations are much nicer, unifying it nistead of diving things !

[nycsc4 5,250]

On 1/3/2018 at 6:29 PM, mattb325 said:

This is a station for the new 7.5m E-RRW network in the NAM (as I don't believe that there are any such stations yet). Click to enlarge. The 7.5m props were kindly provided by rsc204

 

Wow that's beautiful!  Any chance there would be a 15m version?

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working on rebuilding my oldest city tile.  When originally built it was entirely plopped and really didn't function at all.  Despite having over 900,000 plopped jobs, residential population was non-existent as plopped residential buildings don't really hold any population.  Because of that roads and transit weren't at all used.  It was basically just a show tile riddled with bugs.  Add to that, this particular tile has a moderate case of the dreaded prop pox.  Fortunately it's pretty minor so far (or it's really bad and I just can't tell because of how densely packed the city is lol).  Either way, I decided to rebuild much of it, so far I've replaced all the low density plopped buildings in the south with actual zones and I've selectively replaced dozens, if not hundreds of plopped residential high rises with zoned, grown buildings.  Today the city is fully functional with population of about 307,000 people and a healthy transit ridership.  There is still a ton of work to do.  Many abandoned plopped buildings still need replacement as do many prominent lots that lost their props to the pox.  I've been running SimCity for nearly a week now with this tile open so I can avoid losing all this progress to the pox.  Once complete the city will be saved, exited and likely won't be opened again.

Downtown Vancouver

Secondary business district.

Central Vancouver, both business districts are visible here.

Thanks!

[tonyr 926]

Renovation, Brenton Manor.

 

 

I am having trouble uploading images in order. This is the before image.

[kschmidt 6,221]

RHW 2 Vienna North

Short extension of the central RHW to Brno and Bratislava. Idea wasn´t to continue in a RHW 4 like style.

Busy road it may be a RHW 2 with two exits beside the roadabout.

East of the city two direction diverge on a two level junction.

Enjoy !

[mattb325 28,891]

With the last station, it will stay as a 7.5m version. To make it 15m would see the platform just above the 3rd floor which, together with the glass roof and the front massing all at 4-4.5 floors would totally ruin the rhythm of the design...even though said design is completely fictional . The new 7.5m viaduct is to me the perfect compromise for the game and really allows this sort hybrid building to work.

Speaking of fictional, here is a very modern design for the 7.5m E-RRW (click a few times to enlarge)