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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Just a farm-

 

This will be my last post on this forum...

[Barroco Hispano 26,943]

Salmon gum tree (Eucalyptus salmonophloia)

It's funny how the color changes depending on what background it's on.

 

 

[20huskies 4,699]

Next up: Multicultural Market Corners.  Halal market is first up.  Will do a kosher, Latin, and Asian one.  PM me if there is another you would like to see.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

A slightly unusual post on my side, but while showing off my work, I'd also like to ask for your advice / judgment on one issue.

I am currently organizing and planting huge swathes of natural areas in one of my regions. I use lots of MMPs to enhance the effect of wilderness and have also installed a terrain mod.

Now, the problem I have is that while the terrain and MMP combination looks great in heavily forested, uneven areas...

 

They actually become really bland and uninteresting when you need to cover a flat, empty expanse...

 

I must say that I had an ambition to MMP-ize my entire region but now I'm just not sure if it is worth it.  Takes a lot of time and the effect might be so-so. Besides, I guess that this also defeats the purpose of installing a terrain mod... 

What do you think? Should I just press on, or rather make nothing more than some isolated, bushy pockets of MMPs on the flatlands?

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 5/18/2022 at 2:10 PM, SIM-ple Jack said:

 

This will be my last post on this forum...

for today. Forgot to finish my sentence.

21 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

It's funny how the color changes depending on what background it's on.

Dark backgrounds absorb, light backgrounds reflect.

 

 

Gelatina De Granada

 

This is about all I can stand of this place...

[Dead_End 1,630]

5 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

What do you think? Should I just press on, or rather make nothing more than some isolated, bushy pockets of MMPs on the flatlands?

Maybe throw in some extra terrain elements to break up the monotony of the flat expanse? Grassy areas like this usually have parts with slight changes in elevation, which might give it a difference in moisture (and vegetation) compared with the rest of the area. Depending on what real life area you're basing this on you could possibly also add some small rocks.

This is something I struggle with as well, so I wouldn't mind if anyone knows some great tutorials.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@TheMurderousCricket

@Dead_End

Rule # 1 -- Please yourself -- first, last, and always!!

Rule # 2 -- Even the wheat growing Great Plains have something growing where they are not cultivated.

Rule # 3 -- Europe is heavily populated, but they have numerous patches of forested land, both large and small.

Rule # 4 -- "Nature abhors a vacuum".

Suggestion -- go to the CJ's of other members and scroll through them until you find something you might like to work with, or modify to suit your own particular "style".

[20huskies 4,699]

Halal Grocery is now in game.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

19 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

 

This is about all I can stand of this place...

at the moment!

Gnu map-

[mitsos 12,974]

Financial district and museum island

 

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,943]

WIP

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[20huskies 4,699]

Next up in multicultural corners: the Mercado.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Since there is some discussion about "landscaping" cities and such -- I offer a view of the north shore sand dunes from the "Bremerhaven" map I've been working on (off and on).

 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

1 hour ago, Dreadnought said:

I offer a view of the north shore sand dunes from the "Bremerhaven" map I've been working on (off and on).

Great shoreline! 

[Barroco Hispano 26,943]

WIP

[Odainsaker 2,137]

On 5/19/2022 at 4:35 PM, Dead_End said:

Maybe throw in some extra terrain elements to break up the monotony of the flat expanse? Grassy areas like this usually have parts with slight changes in elevation, which might give it a difference in moisture (and vegetation) compared with the rest of the area. Depending on what real life area you're basing this on you could possibly also add some small rocks.

Also networks of drainage channels, like minor creeks or even just dry creeks, which might be no more than grassy shallow depressions.

 

__________

 

I've spent the past few days rendering the twin volcanoes Iztaccihuatl and Popocatépetl with different terrain mods.

With Gobias' Sudden Valley Terrain Mod tweaked:

 

With Lowkee's Appalachian Terrain Mod tweaked:

I think the Lowkee mod might be closer in semblance to Mexico City.

I'm not yet sure how I am going to restore Lake Texcoco, which itself would be over 2,200 meters above sea level.

[art128 4,622]

@Odainsaker It's not really ideal for releasing since it's basically becoming a dependnecy, but you can use Jenx's Poseidon Mod for high altitude water. 

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3077

 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

8 minutes ago, art128 said:

@Odainsaker It's not really ideal for releasing since it's basically becoming a dependnecy, but you can use Jenx's Poseidon Mod for high altitude water. 

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3077

 

 

Whoa! That sure looks useful if it works the way I imagine! 

[20huskies 4,699]

The Mercado is now in game.

[20huskies 4,699]

Up next, Kosher Grocery. WIP

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Gov. Buford J. Abernathey State Correctional Farm, with extra hotboxes, for those who need to get their minds right. 44 in the bunk, 1 in the box, boss!

[Tubthumper 499]

Just messing around in Fort Defiance - the city has its first 'big' building - a 20 story commercial office at a major intersection.

[Ct1999 4,200]

Wow.... this thing is a pain in my a@*s ( 40%~50% done )

 

 

[kschmidt 6,223]

Garden City Trial Region update !

In my scrapshack CJ I announced to start creating master like region with basis a as close like plugins folder Bat`s, Mod´s like for so far posible. I´d like to explore the custom Bat´s , wide as they are specialy the growable one´s , landmarks and recreational  items. All regions will have the same regional map and similiar infrastructure highways, railroads, with only exception maxis or rhw highway´s. Coastal region used in this trial conscist of a 3x3 tile grid mostly plain to have no obstructions with play. There lke a chessboard a A1-C3 counting across the region !

All tiles have more or less specific designated purpose assigned. There will be accordingly density residential development in every zone to meet RCI demand furthure the SimCity way of regional play will  be observed !

First master region I have started uses the for ease of play the old maxis highways. Highway wind around the city with some cross avenues and a central town and city avoid route and a harbour connction !

Second phase due there will be the zoning issue for every tile, downtown commercial zones are quit different from outside medium or low commercial or residential. Rhw hghway´s will be all T junction no complex X like one´s , only for functionaly included. Hope you like this update !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

Trying to build a dam with the most improbable pieces I can find.  

[20huskies 4,699]

The kosher grocery store is now in game.

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

European hotel...

Dusting off and slowly reviving an old project...

 

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

A pig farm sharing a symbiotic relationship with a sewage processing plant-

[Barroco Hispano 26,943]

Ghost gum