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[Rott 2,399]

I like how you are building the city to actually tell a story, that's pretty cool

[rsardachuk 98]

3 hours ago, JP Schriefer said:

I hope to see your progress with this interesting attempt. Due to the game's dynamics, I'd highly suggest you to use the home jobs mod (10 or 25%), otherwise a lot of your sims may work far from home and some of them just don't like public transportation, making a way harder task.

do you have a link for this mod?  it sounds incredibly useful!

[gutterclub 2,729]

Same

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

10 minutes ago, rsardachuk said:

do you have a link for this mod?  it sounds incredibly useful!

Make sure to read the instructions, they are very important. There are other stuff among the homejobs thing

 

** Also I suggest you to test the modifications you do in cities you don't really care, because some effects will continue on these cities even if you delete the files.

[rsardachuk 98]

10 minutes ago, JP Schriefer said:

Make sure to read the instructions, they are very important. There are other stuff among the homejobs thing

 

Thank you so much for the prompt reply!  you're a saint!  been looking for a mod like this for a while

[+Guest 760649]

The new HALA warehouse in the game 3x3

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

1 hour ago, WolfZe said:

The new HALA warehouse in the game 3x3

Dear Wolf, Just a sudden and random thought, When I looked carefully at your beautiful picture, I thought if we could make a reflection of revetment in the water, which I mean by inverting half of the model and controll exactly with the transparent and the level terrain parameters of the sea, is it possible? Anyway, your warehouse is very beautiful with your style, Thank you!

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[mitsos 12,969]

6 hours ago, Handyman said:

I have had a lot of success building cities without roads. It just takes time and some trade-offs. The home jobs mod and the no fire mod in the RCI-Multi Pac are both important.

That's promising.Though i was thinking to keep the existing game mechanics, without any mod.

[+Guest 760649]

4 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Dear Wolf, Just a sudden and random thought, When I looked carefully at your beautiful picture, I thought if we could make a reflection of revetment in the water, which I mean by inverting half of the model and controll exactly with the transparent and the level terrain parameters of the sea, is it possible? Anyway, your warehouse is very beautiful with your style, Thank you

Thanks.
I have no idea if that would work. You probably have to ask the specialists here.
For me personally, that would be too much effort, although the idea is quite nice.

[Handyman 791]

5 hours ago, mitsos said:

That's promising.Though i was thinking to keep the existing game mechanics, without any mod.

If it is possible without mods, I could not find it.
I poked away at the idea for years with no success until the NAM provided me with pedmalls. Even then it was not easy. If you want to get rid of roads then you will need to invent a way to get firetrucks to fires and your Sims need a way to get to work. If you can't solve these two problems then the idea falls apart.
I will post some more information later to show how I addressed these issues.

[mitsos 12,969]

17 minutes ago, Handyman said:

If it is possible without mods, I could not find it.
I poked away at the idea for years with no success until the NAM provided me with pedmalls. Even then it was not easy. If you want to get rid of roads then you will need to invent a way to get firetrucks to fires and your Sims need a way to get to work. If you can't solve these two problems then the idea falls apart.
I will post some more information later to show how I addressed these issues.

Hmmm I see. In some cases I succeeded but never in such big scale. Please do that, I need as much info as it gets. I 'm optimistic about this project, while your previous experience it will help a lot. Thanks for the interest.

[11241036 5,115]

@mitsos @Handyman

There is a way to do this: Several years ago, I released a lot-based plugin which would allow you to block one type of traffic on road-based networks. You can effectively use them to prevent car traffic from passing through a certain segment on a road. I'm currently updating them, but if you want them, please see here:

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,933]

It looks so small...

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Horrifying new video in this upload- Caution: images may be disturbing!

 

 

[Silur 3,308]

Today is the time for this. I have long wanted to do this for my Santana Island ...
I set black for Background, Cutaway and a dirty color for Dogfight Dirty body water.

01. Here it was:

 

02. And this is how it will always look:

Thanks - CorinaMarie and rivit.

All health and good luck. 

[11241036 5,115]

And it's me again.

This post is an answer to a request of @mrbisonm in the "Can't find it" thread, but I felt it might be appropriate to show it off here as well.

I'm currently developing sort of some central bus terminals for medium-sized cities. Currently, they look like this. If enough people want them, I'll release them. I need to fix some textures, and probably the lotting as well. Also, please don't mind the concrete base texture; there will be default Maxis pavement, I'm playing with a mod that replaces the white pavement by concrete. Also, please don't mind the horrible zebra crosswalk, it was my first attempt of modifying an overlay texture on my own (I suck at making graphics, but for my taste, it's sufficient).

[Handyman 791]

8 hours ago, mitsos said:

Hmmm I see. In some cases I succeeded but never in such big scale. Please do that, I need as much info as it gets. I 'm optimistic about this project, while your previous experience it will help a lot. Thanks for the interest.

   I know you wanted to do it without changing the game mechanics but if you are making a futuristic city it seems feasible that they would have solved combustible materials. About the home jobs mod, I personally think it makes the game more realistic. I, and many people I know, are self employed. Anyway for my system to work you need the home jobs mod, I use the 10% option, and the no fire mod.
   So if you decide to proceed you will find there are many things to consider. Even though your residential will have pedmalls in front of them they won't likely work without another type of connection. For this I use 'Transparent FLUPS' connecting each residential building to ,at least, two other residential buildings. A single connection will work in some cases and on a rare occasion no other connection. These FLUPS tiles need to touch the backs or sides of the properties. You can also connect a residential building to a commercial building with FLUPS but you will end up with underground car traffic. (Not visible without a traffic query) Even with the home jobs mod you will still have Sims that need work elsewhere.
   Commercial property will happily live with only pedmalls in front and no other connections. Industrial will also work with pedmalls in front but will need a way to ship product. For this I arrange industrial parks in a way that allows me to run a rail line behind each property. This is also why I have completely separate rail lines for freight and passenger.
   Hopefully that will get you started. I suggest you set up a small test city to practice your technique. Post back if you have questions and I will try to answer them.

[mitsos 12,969]

30 minutes ago, Handyman said:

   I know you wanted to do it without changing the game mechanics but if you are making a futuristic city it seems feasible that they would have solved combustible materials. About the home jobs mod, I personally think it makes the game more realistic. I, and many people I know, are self employed. Anyway for my system to work you need the home jobs mod, I use the 10% option, and the no fire mod.
   So if you decide to proceed you will find there are many things to consider. Even though your residential will have pedmalls in front of them they won't likely work without another type of connection. For this I use 'Transparent FLUPS' connecting each residential building to ,at least, two other residential buildings. A single connection will work in some cases and on a rare occasion no other connection. These FLUPS tiles need to touch the backs or sides of the properties. You can also connect a residential building to a commercial building with FLUPS but you will end up with underground car traffic. (Not visible without a traffic query) Even with the home jobs mod you will still have Sims that need work elsewhere.
   Commercial property will happily live with only pedmalls in front and no other connections. Industrial will also work with pedmalls in front but will need a way to ship product. For this I arrange industrial parks in a way that allows me to run a rail line behind each property. This is also why I have completely separate rail lines for freight and passenger.
   Hopefully that will get you started. I suggest you set up a small test city to practice your technique. Post back if you have questions and I will try to answer them.

You are totally right. The first tests I run today were disaster. It seems impossible to have residential functional zones without roads no matter how many public transport is used. I'm not surprised though because it's something that I already knew. Tomorrow I ll try Flups and hopefully I ll have some good news. The information you give me is crucial to move forward. Thank you very much.

[+Guest 760649]

Hamburg port radar control tower 1x1

 

[pclark06 12,073]

More gas station props. Probably adding them all to Prop Pack 2, and if I feel like making a building with them, I definitely will. I think I may make the CEFCO one but other than that not sure.

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

@Terring I have no idea what it should be called in English.

Best,

-- Raymond

[+Guest 760649]

A little gimmick by the way.....

[+Guest 760649]

39 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

@Terring I have no idea what it should be called in English.

Best,

-- Raymond

Disgusting, huge water slug ?.....

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

15 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Dear Terring, @Terring Just a sudden and random thought, Today I saw a scene of advertisement, Then I thought is there possible (or maybe somewhere had one) to create a futuristic road, I mean that road is full of some technology symbols, I couldn't express more precise, It's just like some plus&circle&minus&etc signs connect each others in some specific style, and those signs and the border of the road could be luminous as neon lights, is that possible? with my part what I know is make props of T21, those could entirely hang or lay on the road end to end, But it would be difficult to deal with the corner parts, Then I also thought of the CAN-AM, if we tweak a canal, it would be more convenient to do that, and also we could make some science fiction vehicle of automata, but it will be hard to deal with the night light.

Anyways, I just want to talk about that idea with you, as I said, it's too random and kind of like a daydream.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

I found out it 

 

5 hours ago, WolfZe said:

Disgusting, huge water slug ?.....

Haha, Dear Wolf, I'm sorry that I didn't discribe clearly about it, it's just a test which comes from a thread I talked about with Terring, I just make a low poly model, something like a futurist vehicle, I must admit that it is a too ugly one.

it's an automata prop which I modeled and floating on the sky, I replaced the Passenger Ferry's model.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

@Raymond7cn: It looks like something between a very small blimp and a racing car from F-Zero

[Silur 3,308]

In the city of B-06-10 extraction in mountain strip mine of a building stone and a stone for a railway ballast has begun. All details in my

SANTANA ISLAND - Traditions die hard - CJ (Page 2)

Thanks.

[mitsos 12,969]

Guys it's working!!!! My first city with zero emissions, zero crime, functional, high tech and green. The only compromise is that i had to use FLUPS.

 Handyman You get the gredits for this, thank you!!

[Terring 6,476]

Brilliant work, bravo!

Actually, using FLUPs is not exactly a compromise. There have been various plans that put all the traffic from cars, trucks and trains under the surface, leaving the street level for exclusive pedestrian use (and for tram lines too in your city). Something like this old concept:

Keep it up, I can't wait to see it completed

[+Guest 760649]

Very slowly it looks like a port. But I'm afraid I have something to do....

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

15 hours ago, pclark06 said:

 

 

Nice Tarantino reference.