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[EvansRE4 796]

....A Work In Progress....

I've begun work on a mid-sized city located in northern California. The city is my version of the town of Beacon Hills from MTV's Teen Wolf....

The images below show the work I have completed thus far.

Image #1 shows the I-5 and I-205 interchange just north of Downtown.

Image #2 shows the unnamed I-5 river bridge.

Image #3 shows the work I've done. 

 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Sweet interchange, and I also like the bridge in the second pic! Interesting support placement, with the main pylon sitting right at the tip of that river island. One thing you could do to make it look even more natural would be to eliminate that section of the river bank that runs exactly parallel to the bridge. This would also make it look like boats can actually pass under the bridge there without hitting a perpendicular cliff.

[Ke|is 3,337]

After a problem with my old hard drive and some lost files, I will try to bring an update as soon as I can !!

[tariely 4,499]

@Simmer2 : it's a great idea for a moody CJ depicting abandoned cities or towns !  (and yes, WIP -- I was just tangentially commenting on that particular grass in the first pics terrain mod )

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

I think my water mod is ready to be released.  

 

I'm going to create a CJ inspired by the Discovery of America 

 

[Bastet69008 1,102]

14 minutes ago, alejolopez13 said:

I think my water mod is ready to be released.  

I'm going to create a CJ inspired by the Discovery of America 

 

The REdiscovery* I'd love to see more. That model looks amazing!

[jacko2110 144]

Basically just started with all the custom work and mods and the likes... I'm a few months in.. Made my islands, the plan is to have the region as the 1 large city, but this is all very rough at the moment, so please be kind... theres around 12 large tiles to fill, so it's going to take a long time to fill.. gave myself a project and a half here... played the game as it was meant to and finished with that.. now purely building a city the way I want to build it basically.. heres some images... as I say, i'm still a relative beginner

 

The whole region, with a few islands and a large Volcano in the North island

The Airport.. Half of these aircraft will be removed for realism, it was only put together with them all like that purely for gate sizes.....

My Coast Guard area of the airport.. 

My Harbour area, container port, oil and lng port, and various goods shipping

A closer look as the containers all disappear in the furthest out zoom... Container port was loosely based on the Hong Kong Port

[korver 27,686]

[Simmer2 23,831]

80% done.....

Still Work In Progress
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[nycsc4 5,250]

Few shots of some trains in a currently under construction industrial area near the Port of Vancouver:

Thanks!

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

[T Wrecks 10,210]

@VALASatoshi: The combination of typical British houses with palm trees takes some getting used to, but the lotting is sure impressive!

[Tyberius06 12,267]

@nycsc4
Nice pictures. I saw you were still using the OLD PEG-CDK3 pieces. It's NOT an advertisment, but I have remade the whole PEG-CDK3 set with additional elements and made versions where that corner piece is NOT ending in a fence (right hand side piece of the picture) and all of them available here: 

These are the recreations of the base pieces with some extras:

New pieces and configurations:

The recreations of the original functional Seaport Lots (just these two and the cointainer Seaport lot is functional just like in the original set, however I have plans in the future to learn how to and make more functional seaport lots from my set)

Little bit expanded version of NBVC's large CDK3-WH outer corner...

And the real big fellas (about the light cones, the original set contains the versions as they are on the pictures, but I have version with reduced amount of light cones or NON-light cone versions too which you can find in my Google Drive):

And here is a few other concept what's coming later in this year...

- Tyberius

[Wallibuk 1,966]

My desert region, when I am playing game I'm listening Killers - pure enjoy

[Krasner 1,062]

@Wallibuk Wow, even with this small amount of details it looks great already

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

Why does this happen?

[Simmer2 23,831]

Thanks everyone!!

This is the last pics dump. It is finally done, you will also find a few never before seen props (guess the ones).
This lot represents how a once thriving business which has fallen from its peak to just a shell and therefore its property has become abandoned. You can see a salvage crew grabbing all the metal they can get. Also other companies have taken over sections of the land and use it to park their equipment and materials.
Bear with me now.
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[tariely 4,499]

(as I said, very interesting, moody stuff !)  ! 

[pclark06 12,073]

weekend project..

[ESP15 571]

finishing building manhattan neighborhoods

[Haljackey 17,398]

Working on a new 3-way interchange. More pics in the thread.

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

Ford Crown Victoria 

I still have to finish the interior and add some textures.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

12 hours ago, Simmer2 said:

Thanks everyone!!

This is the last pics dump. It is finally done, you will also find a few never before seen props (guess the ones).
This lot represents how a once thriving business which has fallen from its peak to just a shell and therefore its property has become abandoned. You can see a salvage crew grabbing all the metal they can get. Also other companies have taken over sections of the land and use it to park their equipment and materials.
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Very nicely done, there's tons of similar type buildings out in the northeast US!

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Hi everyone!

It's just a small update. I revisited one of my cities and doing that I revisited one of my favourite rail stations the Shinjuku West and East. During that process I made a beautiful friendship with the GoFSH tool...  

To be continued...

- Tyberius

edit: @alejolopez13 Both of them could come!  I need proper taxi props  By the way your Lambo is looking good...

[nycsc4 5,250]

23 hours ago, alejolopez13 said:

Why does this happen?

I don't have a technical explanation, I'm sure there is someone around here that does.  But I notice it all the time.  I think it's just a little rendering glitch.  I notice it a lot when I'm working in the LE.  I'd also like to know where I could get this lot.

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

Fast & Furious!

 

[Odainsaker 2,137]

On ‎8‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 3:51 PM, alejolopez13 said:

Why does this happen?

I'm hazy on the details, but I think what is happening stems from how the FSH textures are applied to the S3D model mesh.  The textures are a render of fixed pixels, but as the mesh is composed of triangles whose vertices and sides in their 3D space do not exactingly align to the pixel grid, these fixed pixel renders have to be best fitted into their variable mesh triangle.  That fitting of two different coordinate systems by the graphics engine is imperfect, and something much like rounding up or down the alignment of a triangle's texture to the nearest pixel for display creates these fault lines between triangles where the calculated fittings were different.  This is my best plausible explanation for the fault lines that look like slip seams or zig-zags where pieces of a BAT are offset by one pixel. 

We cannot change the how this graphics system fundamentally works, but we can somewhat work around it to minimize the apparent effects.  Minute changes in sizing of the LOD could change the relation of the mesh triangles to the render pixel grid such as to create better aligned textures.  Minute shifts in the positioning of the BAT on its LOT will do the same.  Those efforts, however, can also easily make the effects worse by creating new seams on other parts of the BAT or in other rotations or zooms, and the process of dealing with them is one of multi-dimensional trial and error as they cannot be predicted in Max or gmax and only show in the Lot Editor or in game after processing by the game's graphics engine.  The more complex the LOD, the more opportunities there will be for seams.  Strong patterns or edges in the architecture being modeled will make the seams more noticeable, while noisier or irregular architecture can hide them.  Once you know what to look for, you'll see this everywhere in SimCity 4, including in Maxis's own buildings and even in the other images on this page.  Most of us have ultimately learned to just ignore them.

BTW, your BAT will make a beautiful landmark!

[nycsc4 5,250]

On 8/2/2018 at 7:23 AM, Tyberius06 said:

@nycsc4
Nice pictures. I saw you were still using the OLD PEG-CDK3 pieces. It's NOT an advertisment, but I have remade the whole PEG-CDK3 set with additional elements and made versions where that corner piece is NOT ending in a fence (right hand side piece of the picture) and all of them available here: 

These are the recreations of the base pieces with some extras:

New pieces and configurations:

The recreations of the original functional Seaport Lots (just these two and the cointainer Seaport lot is functional just like in the original set, however I have plans in the future to learn how to and make more functional seaport lots from my set)

Little bit expanded version of NBVC's large CDK3-WH outer corner...

And the real big fellas (about the light cones, the original set contains the versions as they are on the pictures, but I have version with reduced amount of light cones or NON-light cone versions too which you can find in my Google Drive):

And here is a few other concept what's coming later in this year...

- Tyberius

Those look great, and I'll probably get involved with them later on, I have plans to rebuild the port area and make it a bit better and more detailed so these will go a long way.

I would like to know if anyone would be interested in making (or helping me make some) overhanging textures to fit the curves of the track here.

Thanks!

[nycsc4 5,250]

Quick update on the rebuild of Downtown Vancouver:

Some urban baseball at Victory Square Park:

Thanks!

[kschmidt 6,223]

19 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Working on a new 3-way interchange. More pics in the thread.

Thank you, I should have a try at this interchange ! Fly-over arent´´t my thing yet this explanation seem feasable. Road may be connected with the flup tunnel to subway pieces, yet only drawback there seem that freight vehicles train or truck won´t travel through these tunnels !