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[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

@Dreadnought You're right, I'm going to leave that texture only for the high parts of the terrain.

I will change the color later.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Finishing up the Bellaire waterfront.

[Lucario Boricua 7,052]

     Moar updates from the Primary Highway 15 reconstruction!!     

 

 

֍ LAKE DIAMOND ֎
PRIMARY HIGHWAY 15
RECONSTRUCTION CONTINUES!!

 

 

Mew: Mew-mew-MEW!! Miau-mew niu mee-me niei-nah miou-miau-miaun!

(Translation: This is looking great! Travel sure will be better from now on!)

 

 

 

Mew: Mew-miou, nya-nee mioun nya-nyaah!! Mou-miah miou-miou nee!

(Translation: Uh-oh, something's wrong again!! Gotta report this!)

 

 

֍ 2nd HIGHWAY 15 COLLAPSE֎
AT LAKE DIAMOND!
ROTA NEWS SERVICE

 

 

 

Mew: Mew-nya niau-nio-nin niai miou Niei Miau-miou, nah-nah miau-mew miou-miaun nia-niau-nia-niou nah miau-mio-miou nah nya-niei nee-neen.

(Translation: We are once again reporting live from Lake Diamond, where a second rock slide interrupted the reconstruction of Highway 15.)

 

 

     This doesn't look good at all...     

[matias93 7,535]

@Lucario Boricua looks like it's time for some reforestation, reinforced shotcrete and a bridge...

[Lucario Boricua 7,052]

@matias93

Geotechnical engineers and geologists at the Ministry of Infrastructure are still debating on whether to re-design this specific alignment or whether to pursue another of the alignments. So far, the rock slide appears to be deep-seated, and thus very difficult to improve with conventional geotechnical interventions without first digging the whole mountainside. Geologic studies from the Lake Diamond construction found that the canyon walls of the Platinum River are far sturdier because more of the loose and weak material has been eroded away by the stream, and thus might be more suitable for the Primary Highway 15 re-alignment.

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

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[hugues aroux 3,867]

... and in the modular parking pack, I would put some street side, like this ... The more this project goes on the more I add ... pfuuu!

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

I will release it tomorrow.

Megalodon jumping 

[RRetail 7,912]

Just another strip mall....

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Barroco Hispano

Now THERE's something we don't have in this game !!  

   

[JojiTX 765]

1 hour ago, RRetail said:

Just another strip mall....

Lookin good. 

[dubaidude303 1,126]

1 hour ago, RRetail said:

Just another strip mall....

Looks great! Can’t have too many strip malls!

[dubaidude303 1,126]

1 hour ago, RRetail said:

Just another strip mall....

Looks great! Can’t have too many strip malls!

[mattb325 28,891]

As requested by a fellow SC4 player, a WWII coastal gun battery.

Available for download, here:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3968

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@mattb325

That's TWO things we don't have in this game -- all in the same day !! 

Looks good to me -- and I have just the right place for it !  

     

[Lucario Boricua 7,052]

     The revised alignment is working wonders!!     

 

Presenting...

֍ LAKE DIAMOND ֎
& LAKE PEARL

PRIMARY HIGHWAY 15
RECONSTRUCTION ALMOST COMPLETE!!

 

Not only can we see the definitive alignment, bt also the failed alignment construction area. Once the main construction concludes, the Ministry of Infrastructure will restore the failed alignment area to a natural state.

[mattb325 28,891]

Just a simple little house in the French countryside, but this is a very special house.

To download it and find out why it is special, go here: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3969

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 5/21/2020 at 2:19 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

I will release it tomorrow.

Megalodon jumping 

We're gonna need a bigger game!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

I found a prop I would like to use, but it is too big.  It was recommended that I use "Tweaker" to shrink it to 80%.  I now have Tweaker installed.

BUT --

The prop is squirreled away in one of PEG's old trash lots and I have no idea how to extract the prop from the "dat" file -- or -- what to do with Tweaker even if I get the file.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial that will solve both problems ??

THANX --

[gutterclub 2,729]

3 hours ago, mattb325 said:

Just a simple little house in the French countryside, but this is a very special house.

To download it and find out why it is special, go here: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3969

 

This is wonderful mate and a lovely tribute.

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

Working on a new beachfront city...

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

gnu map

[nos.17 5,256]

20 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guys --

I found a prop I would like to use, but it is too big.  It was recommended that I use "Tweaker" to shrink it to 80%.  I now have Tweaker installed.

BUT --

The prop is squirreled away in one of PEG's old trash lots and I have no idea how to extract the prop from the "dat" file -- or -- what to do with Tweaker even if I get the file.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial that will solve both problems ??

THANX --

If you want to modify it for personal use and overwrite the original, make a backup of the original file  and then just open the *.dat straight from the Tweaker and modify the file directly. This will change every instance of the prop, even on lots you do not create.

Otherwise, if you want an additional version, there are a few more steps. Follow the steps in Model Tweaker Tutorial, but filter Exemplar and S3D and put them in a new dat.

  Edited May 23, 2020 by nos.17  

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@nos.17

Yo, guy --

Thanks for taking the time to steer me in the right direction.  Early on, I managed to modify the file directly from the *.dat.  But it seemed to me that there should be more steps to the process and I went looking on my own for a tutorial.  I had not yet read the tutorial you indicated.

Now I am very glad I made a copy of the original *.dat file.  And it NEVER occurred to me that it would change ALL instances of the prop in the game.  (once you think about it, of course, that point becomes obvious......)

But THANK YOU VERY MUCH for saving me hours of blind fumbling and most likely some grievous errors !!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Some more pictures from Wilhelmshaven South.  I almost didn't remember to put these up.  In addition to working on this city, I'm laying out a medium map tile as a massive power plant designed to supply juice to three neighboring large cities, and doing re-lots and testing for stuff to use in my new version of a naval dockyard.  Always something to do......

This is the central plaza feature on the west side of the island.  Note the large marina centered around the luxury hotel on the lower level.

 

This -- is the central plaza on the upper level.  I was very impressed with the "First Federal" building by @mattb325.   I used to see these all the time when I was a young fella on the loose in LA -- very nostalgic.  So I did a little re-lotting and used them as the focal point of the plaza.  Figured I couldn't go wrong with two fine buildings like these.  Once again, all of the buildings on the upper and lower level levels are functional, with jobs, and connected by a combination of PedMall pieces, PedMall fillers, strategically located subways, and traffic enabled stairs.

 

In this scene we are approaching the lower end of the West basin where there is less night-life going on and more of the usual moored boats and small fast food locations.  The upper level embankment walls are Jenx Paris, while the lower seawalls are by NBVC.  The NBVC lots have been modified to include the CAL sailboats moored alongside.

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

I made a new bark texture.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Barroco Hispano

A new bark texture -- AND pets !!

Let me guess......

Apart from some logging scenes -- you're going for an SC4 version of Godzilla !!

[Barroco Hispano 26,936]

@Dreadnought and King Kong 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

O. M. G. -- !!

This place is going to turn into a Hollywood "B-grade" movie !!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

1 hour ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@Dreadnought and King Kong 

Now, that's an original idea!

1 hour ago, Dreadnought said:

O. M. G. -- !!

This place is going to turn into a Hollywood "B-grade" movie !!

Jurassic Park? Jaws? King Kong? "B-grade"?

If you're talking "B-grade" ...The Amazing Colossal Man(a giant in a diaper),  Attack of the Killer Tomatos(murderous love apples),  Night of the Lepus(rampaging jackrabbits on steroids) will provide you with all the cheese you want.