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[Girafe 1,729]

playing with the caboose trick

[Krasner 1,062]

@Girafe brilliant This idea has been around for years now and finally someone really experiments with it

[rivit 3,402]

@Girafe - that's a fine looking train 

[The British Sausage 5,449]

3 hours ago, WolfZe said:

Yes, I agree. But that's a number too high for me.
I'll probably leave the fire out entirely.

There are BATs which are animated, Simgoober had a spinning cafe building (where the cafe spun upon the top of a tower). Since it's fire then it would need to be periodic: low, waxing, high, waning, low and so on. I've noticed that vanilla industry has smoke animations so I wonder if they can be tweaked into fire animations? Or in this case gas flares?

Here's a great video from Teesside- been driving through that area for years now. Anyway, it shows a gas flare in action.

Teesside is also my main inspiration for industry too!

[kschmidt 6,223]

On 16-4-2020 at 7:10 PM, Lucario Boricua said:

You might like better how the Kingdom of Rota handles electricity generation, going 100% renewable with a diverse mix of sources.

But even then, I feel that fossil fuel generation does have its charm, even if we know the grim realities behind it.

Rnewable energy sources ? Waste to energy produces lot´s of pollution. Biogas like this Nexis plant small but clean !

 

Tidal wave plant another option for green energy !

 

Sincery yours,

Kschmidt

[kschmidt 6,223]

22 hours ago, WannGLondon said:

After all these years, I am still as passionate as ever and still at it! I like to make my cities as realistic as possible, meaning only using growables and the occasional landmark of course, creating commutes region-wide (although I have struggled with this since the game does not really accommodate this concept).

I use the PIM, Sc4Tool and LotEditor to change buildings to suit my city and I have even re-purposed some Maxis buildings that I think are gorgeous and made them high-wealth residences, for example. The style of architecture feature is also useful, making it so in my London-inspired city, I can edit specific terraces to grow only under a certain style and make them the same stage level so they don't replace each other.

A special thank you to all the incredible BATters and MODers that make gameplay exciting and possible.

Anyway - here are some pics! Try and guess which regions/shots are based off of which cities! The Mediterranean-looking city is a mish-mosh inspired by Nice, Lisbon, Barcelona and Monaco

 

(sorry for using attachments)

 

 

 

Thank you, great gameplay, Your way adjusting wealth level or stages in the SC4 Tool to preserve growable´s i am interested. First measure to avoid keep Bat´s wich don´t beloing out of your plugins folder so generic with american and european or any set will mixup, so for UK London only terraces or a distinction between1x2, 1,x3 or 2x2, 3x2 or any specific size ? Alternatively assure the next stages are stretched out over a longer time so replacement isn´t instant  ? Plopable residential may only work if a certain  grow is established.. . Lot´Editor I am not very familiar with this more about adjusting lot´s in a physical way. Proppacks items how to find certain items, there hiden functions ?

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

3 hours ago, Krasner said:

@WolfZe I'm almost sure that there are fire automatas that could suit this place with the lot editor

There's a couple of lots. One is called Forest Fire or something and the other is called just fire. And CB posted a lava mod the other day that really puts out a lot of flames. Fire animations are pretty easy to do- orange, red and yellow blurs with some black and gray smoke in alternating frames. Usually 3 or 4. There's also a Rising Sun Oil stack that has a believable flame on it.

[Barroco Hispano 26,942]

Do any of you know how I can do this?

I know Simpeg did a tutorial but the page doesn't work anymore.

[matias93 7,535]

@WolfZe there are also fire, smoke and steam effects included on the base game, that can be added as props on the Lot Editor. You only need to adjust the position and height to match the top of the torch.

[art128 4,622]

14 minutes ago, Goldman Sachs said:

Do any of you know how I can do this?

 

I know Simpeg did a tutorial but the page doesn't work anymore.

Seconding this.

 

Also if anyone know how to make seawalls lot I would greatly appreciate it.

I tried to modify an existing piece (1x1) but now I can't plop it on water anymore.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Got just a few pics for you this week -- knee-deep trying to re-lot some residential apartments in a format that will grow better.

This is the main entrance to the East Side Yacht Basin.  I dropped it down one level from the rest of the city and extended it out from the main island as a sort of ending point for the "central park" area that extends the width of the business district.  Just visible at the top is the Old Yacht Basin, small, and recently re-constructed to bring it up to standards.  A civic "facelift" is always good for the tourists (and business).

 

I used the JENEX Paris Embankments to form the seawall -- mainly because I did not want to mess with removing the water to place a different type of seawall.  I put the Potsdammer Cenotaph out on the point as a tourist focus, then connected the whole level to the upper tier restaurants with plenty of stairways to handle the lunch traffic.

 

I re-lotted all four of these buildings to be functuional with CS - $$ jobs, since there is always a shortage of those.  I used modified Paeng park paths, PedMall pieces, and parking areas to finish off the landscape around them.  I even had room left for a small food court and kiosk over on the right end.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

19 minutes ago, Goldman Sachs said:

Do any of you know how I can do this?

I know Simpeg did a tutorial but the page doesn't work anymore.

What, EXACTLY, are you trying to do ?  Turn the models into a water-ploppable lot?

[Tyberius06 12,267]

10 minutes ago, art128 said:

Seconding this.

 

Also if anyone know how to make seawalls lot I would greatly appreciate it.

I tried to modify an existing piece (1x1) but now I can't plop it on water anymore.

which seawall did you try to modify? Prop or texture based seawall? I didn't know about stricly water plopable seawalls. Mostly everything is landplopable or like with the PEG CDK3 pieces there are mandatory on-Land tiles to set up, which means only those need to be on land, the rest of the lot can "overhang" above water. (but it can be done either reader - I have no idea how, or Maxis Lot Editor)

- Tyberius

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43 minutes ago, matias93 said:

@WolfZe there are also fire, smoke and steam effects included on the base game, that can be added as props on the Lot Editor. You only need to adjust the position and height to match the top of the torch.

Thanks. Yes, I know some fire effects, but they are not really big. If you look at the video above, these are really huge flames flaring up.
I've already tried out with the small effects. It usually looks like a lighter flame ...

Of course, I don't know all the effects that are available.

[art128 4,622]

48 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

which seawall did you try to modify? Prop or texture based seawall? I didn't know about stricly water plopable seawalls. Mostly everything is landplopable or like with the PEG CDK3 pieces there are mandatory on-Land tiles to set up, which means only those need to be on land, the rest of the lot can "overhang" above water. (but it can be done either reader - I have no idea how, or Maxis Lot Editor)

- Tyberius

It was Uki's seawalls. I went in the LE, took the 1x1 straight piece, added another prop (pier) and saved as to have a new lot. The newly created lot was unable to be plopped on water, while the original works as intended.

[Barroco Hispano 26,942]

@Dreadnought I want to partially submerge it underwater but I don't know how to do it.

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,942]

On 17/4/2020 at 9:27 AM, rivit said:

Applying some newly derived knowledge to water - this is zoom5 and all SD.

Two years ago I tried to do the same but my files were lost.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

21 minutes ago, Goldman Sachs said:

@Dreadnought I want to partially submerge it underwater but I don't know how to do it.

 

OK -- got it.  I wasn't sure what you were trying to do.

Unfortunately -- that is not even close to my pay grade level.    I believe that the model has to be rendered (as a building) in some sort of vertical offset -- perhaps a slightly negative factor to lower the model below the grade (water line).  BUT -- I don't know anything about HOW it is done -- wish I did.

ONE WARNING:  I do know that the whole thing will have to be rendered as a complete "building".  If there is a single "prop" placed on the lot -- the whole thing sinks to the bottom of the ocean.  I learned that much with crude experimentation

CAN ANYONE OUT THERE GIVE THIS YOUNG MAN A HAND WITH THIS ????    PLEASE ??

 

[Jasoncw 11,949]

Why not just lower it to the height/depth you want in 3ds Max before exporting it? How is it different from any of the other ships which are partially under water?

[mattb325 28,891]

1 hour ago, Goldman Sachs said:

@Dreadnought I want to partially submerge it underwater but I don't know how to do it.

1) You need to make sure that your model is below the Z plane in 3ds for the area of the ship that you want to be underwater;

2) The LODs for the underwater part need to be tight and exactly conform to the shape of the ship (the LODs for the parts of the ship that are above the water line can just be simple boxes);

3) Once rendered, make the boat a building in the PIM-x (choose the park option.);

4) Make a park lot with your boat and add a water constraint to any part of the lot in the PIM-x lot editor;

5) Remove the base texture in the PIM-x Lot editor;

6) Either in the lot editor or the Reader, set the lot foundation threshold to 90, the elevation lot change max to 90 and the elevation lot change lot min to 0;

7) Make sure that the power, water and garbage values are all 0 (using the Reader);

8) Still in the reader, make sure that you change the Building Foundation to 0x194B1000 (which is the in-game invisible building foundation)

 

@art128, when the seawall lot was 'saved-as' it probably lost its water or land constraint value. Re-entering these on your already edited lot should correct the issue.

 

[11241036 5,115]

@art128

The most common reason for lots losing the ability to be placed on water is a bug (or flaw) in the LE: If you remove all water/land assignments, the LE removes the LotConfigPropertyWaterCompatibility property. To make any lot being placeable on both land and water, you need to user Reader to add this property to the Lot Exemplar file and set it to 0x01.

[airman15 4,113]

9 hours ago, Girafe said:

playing with the caboose trick

I wonder, could this also apply to HSR/Monorail replacements??

[Tyberius06 12,267]

51 minutes ago, airman15 said:

I wonder, could this also apply to HSR/Monorail replacements??

As far as we know... NOPE  
Hard coded limitation or bug or whatever. I had the same question when I first saw the image... Although it's really impressive. 

[airman15 4,113]

That's disappointing. I suppose there wouldn't really be a way to modernise SC4 without doing a major overhaul and doing so raises a question if it would even be the same game..

At least there are plenty of other choices to get around that limit. Perhaps turning both the locomotive and the carriages following them into a line of diesel/electric railcars like the BR Class 121 to have the best of both worlds is an option?

[mattb325 28,891]

Another set of apartments (this time from Boston) is available for download:

Here:

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,052]

 

 

֍ KINGDOM OF ROTA ֎
INTERIM UPDATE
PRIOR TO 17th CJ ENTRY

 

 

Spoiler

 

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 1     Primary Highway

 24     Secondary Highway

 51     Scenic Highway

 

 

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____ Rota Shinkansen

____ Mainline Railway

____ Branch Railway

____ Light Railway

____ Industrial or Agricultural Railway

O     Rota Shinkansen Station

 

 

 

֍ KINGDOM OF ROTA ֎
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
PROGRESS UPDATE

 

Panorama, showing full runway system, most of the taxiways, nearly complete passenger terminals and another portion of the free trade zone:

 

 

Close-up to the free trade zone, showing numerous shops, offices, some inudstries and the airport entrance area for passengers:

 

 

Close-up to the ground transportation area, showing the airport's people mover, the Rota Shinkansen terminal, the airport's bus terminal, parking garages and the car rental facilities. And unlike other airports, Kingdom of Rota International is designed to be easily accessible through all transportation modes!

[pclark06 12,073]

Two of the three travel plazas I am working on. Maybe I'll try to make the Jesse's pumps HD as I kept having export issues for that, so they are SD right now.

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Tank truck filling system 2x2

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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

new map