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[CarstenB 660]

12 hours ago, Odainsaker said:

Coincidentally, when not studying out maps with mountains, my similar fascination with pre-WWI German seafaring lead me to create an accurately scaled giant region of Hamburg:

Yikes, it's another big region, with this full region view image reduced to 25% of the original size just so it can be uploaded to Imgur.  I am actually a sucker for the romanticism of the era of the great ocean liners, and so this map was specifically framed around Hamburg and Bremen, Germany's two leading ports and homes of the Hamburg-America and Norddeutscher Lloyd lines.  This is also the core of old Hanseatic League of the Age of Sail, and the Baltic port of Lübeck is included to reimagine the multi-city trading connections of the Hanse.

 

 

 

My hometown is almost on the map. It is south of Bremen (on the right in the photo). Really cool.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

10 hours ago, CarstenB said:

My hometown is almost on the map. It is south of Bremen (on the right in the photo). Really cool.

Omigosh, I wonder if your hometown might have been in an earlier map iteration, as my map has been slowly drifting northwards, first to reach Neustadt in Holstein to better frame the Bay of Lübeck, and then north yet again to include the landmark Gömnitzer Turm atop the Gömnitzer Berg.  I doubt anyone is ever going to plop such a landmark sea mark tower in game, but I like having the possibility, especially in a map inspired by historical seafaring of an area in reality festooned with navigation aids because the shallows and tidal flats are quite treacherous.  I would have gone northwards further still to reach the landmark Grünentaler High Bridge over the Kiel Canal, as all the bridges over the canal have dramatic heights in order to provide clearance for traversing dreadnought battleships, but the southern cutoff edge of the map was starting to encroach into the Bremen area far more than I liked.

Some of my friends no doubt sigh when I ask them to evaluate the figurative appearance of my maps, usually where there are seemingly imperceptible differences in cropping in order to include some esoteric landmark or geographic feature, and with an eye towards whether various elements look balanced, framed, focused, or harmoniously composed, as if I were subjecting them to some sort of strangely obsessive Rorschach tests!

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Also, thank you greatly everyone for the likes!

 

[Ct1999 4,200]

I can piece my iPhone in here.

 

[CarstenB 660]

13 hours ago, Odainsaker said:

Omigosh, I wonder if your hometown might have been in an earlier map iteration, as my map has been slowly drifting northwards, first to reach Neustadt in Holstein to better frame the Bay of Lübeck, and then north yet again to include the landmark Gömnitzer Turm atop the Gömnitzer Berg.  I doubt anyone is ever going to plop such a landmark sea mark tower in game, but I like having the possibility, especially in a map inspired by historical seafaring of an area in reality festooned with navigation aids because the shallows and tidal flats are quite treacherous.  I would have gone northwards further still to reach the landmark Grünentaler High Bridge over the Kiel Canal, as all the bridges over the canal have dramatic heights in order to provide clearance for traversing dreadnought battleships, but the southern cutoff edge of the map was starting to encroach into the Bremen area far more than I liked.

Some of my friends no doubt sigh when I ask them to evaluate the figurative appearance of my maps, usually where there are seemingly imperceptible differences in cropping in order to include some esoteric landmark or geographic feature, and with an eye towards whether various elements look balanced, framed, focused, or harmoniously composed, as if I were subjecting them to some sort of strangely obsessive Rorschach tests!

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Also, thank you greatly everyone for the likes!

 

It's possible that Syke (my hometown) was in a previous map iteration. Whole Bremen, Oldenburg, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Lübeck etc are on a map with the correct distances. Since I've been almost everywhere, I recognize the locations/map directly.

The thing about the bridge (I've always driven over it all my life) is true: they must be quite high, just like the famous railway bridge in Rendsburg.

Will you till the whole region? That would be a lot of work.

[RRetail 7,912]

Some people take out pizza after getting their hair done while wearing scrubs and doing their best to look pretty.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[Billk2007 307]

On 1/31/2023 at 11:25 AM, RRetail said:

Some people take out pizza after getting their hair done while wearing scrubs and doing their best to look pretty.

looks great! love the rooflines too!

[frantic 355]

A very early WIP sneak peek on what's cooking: a cinema building from Tartu, Estonia.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

23 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

HEY - !  Lookie there --

It's the Tom Brady Retirement Memorial totempole !!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

3 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

HEY - !  Lookie there --

It's the Tom Brady Retirement Memorial totempole !!

Think he's finally gone huh? He invested a large amount of his fortune to a crypto-scammer, his wife left him(and undoubtedly will do a bit of cash grabbing herself), he has 3 fingers without SB rings, is 3 years away from breaking George Blanda's record and just played one of the worst games of his career. Something tells me we've not seen the last of Ernest T. Bass.

Aldritch in the Calander Islands

[Ulisse Wolf 4,458]

New city under construction and the project becomes complex when there are dams

 

 

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[PlanetOfHats 506]

One from my CJ: Part of the city of Chaddea, 400+ kilometres east of Bolliton. This uses WaffleFoxBrie's Sovetskaya Gavan region map and will be one of a few regions that'll be rolled into the CJ as area cities. This one's not finished yet but you can see the direction I'm taking it.

[koumus corporation 715]

Today I resumed the process of hammering out the textures for my next batch of Volvos - the latest generation S, V, XC60 and probably the legacy S60 from the early 2000s too.

It looks pretty identical to the V90 (which isnt pictured here, one is just scaled upwards for SC4), but it is clear in the blueprints that they are very different in shape and dimensions, especially the back.

...then quickly I was met with this after opening my preferred image editing app pixlr.com

I will have to decide where to move to now, all my textures with their layers are stored there and you can only download 2 files a day without paying! And from past experience, their lossless layer file extension .pxz isnt recognized by gimp, which i have but rarely use, cuz i hate the UI.

At least the ingame XC60 textures are done.

A huge frustration. My automata output is on ice while im reeling, maybe i will turn to my previous building models now that need revision.

[justforfun 7,926]

Busy with yet another massive project: making dozens upon dozens of timber facades for my upcoming Row Shops Pack 2. I've made 133 so far, aiming for 201. Here is just a selection:

[TheMurderousCricket 5,104]

3 hours ago, koumus corporation said:

...then quickly I was met with this after opening my preferred image editing app pixlr.com

Do yourself a favor and give GIMP a try.

It is a very extensive image editing tool which, essentialy, is just as complex as Photoshop but completely free.

The range of file formats GIMP can process is also quite impressive, so it might have just what you need.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

West port on the mainland, Calander Islands

[dragonsteincole 1,402]

7 hours ago, koumus corporation said:

Today I resumed the process of hammering out the textures for my next batch of Volvos - the latest generation S, V, XC60 and probably the legacy S60 from the early 2000s too.

It looks pretty identical to the V90 (which isnt pictured here, one is just scaled upwards for SC4), but it is clear in the blueprints that they are very different in shape and dimensions, especially the back.

...then quickly I was met with this after opening my preferred image editing app pixlr.com

I will have to decide where to move to now, all my textures with their layers are stored there and you can only download 2 files a day without paying! And from past experience, their lossless layer file extension .pxz isnt recognized by gimp, which i have but rarely use, cuz i hate the UI.

At least the ingame XC60 textures are done.

A huge frustration. My automata output is on ice while im reeling, maybe i will turn to my previous building models now that need revision.

I've not used Pixlr before, but apparently the file format you mentioned is a ZIP archive with a different extension. it might be worth trying to open it with 7-Zip, WinRAR, Winzip or similar and seeing what can be extracted from the file. I would not know if this would retain a layered file, but it's worth seeing if it's workable.

[RRetail 7,912]

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[tariely 4,499]

12 hours ago, justforfun said:

Busy with yet another massive project: making dozens upon dozens of timber facades for my upcoming Row Shops Pack 2. I've made 133 so far, aiming for 201. Here is just a selection:

They are SPLENDID ! But, I assume they will not be nightlit ?

[justforfun 7,926]

7 hours ago, tariely said:

They are SPLENDID ! But, I assume they will not be nightlit ?

Glad you like them! That's correct, however you can always pretend they all close early! 

[Oidaas 1,696]

8 hours ago, tariely said:

They are SPLENDID ! But, I assume they will not be nightlit ?

That's a great idea my friend! I've also thought about making custom store facades, great job and idea!

[Krisman 4,652]

Some rework in the city just to improve those not-yet-perfect areas ...
 

 

 

[art128 4,622]

@Krisman Beautiful! I assume the two buildings are supposed to be the same hospital? If so, I would put some connecting concourse between them, like Glenni's skywalks.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

The Ryan Atolls

[JBM 278]

Laying out the infra for a new city. Main purpose is getting around with the NAM. Pictures included is one the intersections and the regional overview of the infrastructure.

 

[younghappy 308]

19 hours ago, Krisman said:

Some rework in the city just to improve those not-yet-perfect areas ...
 

 

 

Love love love!  Grid busting always a winner, this is from @mattb325 no?  Nice touch with the bus area as well, it all blends perfectly.

[koumus corporation 715]

On 2/4/2023 at 6:05 PM, TheMurderousCricket said:

Do yourself a favor and give GIMP a try.

It is a very extensive image editing tool which, essentialy, is just as complex as Photoshop but completely free.

The range of file formats GIMP can process is also quite impressive, so it might have just what you need.

I have known gimp for a long time and use it sometimes for minor things, for instance, i find i get the best result with gimp when making the specific yellow Sverige Taxi textures, but generally im put off by many small things in the design, also the metrics for adjustments i frequently use are fundamentally different from those in pixlr. 

On 2/4/2023 at 9:34 PM, dragonsteincole said:

I've not used Pixlr before, but apparently the file format you mentioned is a ZIP archive with a different extension. it might be worth trying to open it with 7-Zip, WinRAR, Winzip or similar and seeing what can be extracted from the file. I would not know if this would retain a layered file, but it's worth seeing if it's workable.

That is a good suggestion and it works - the layers are there as pngs. gimp still cant read the .json file included, which i suspect is responsible for making it one document.

Oh well, i just might keep working in pixlr and just print screen the result to gimp, or even pay the damn minimum fee for my infantile hobby.

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

@koumus corporation ORRRRRRRR... you could try this open-source alternative based on Adobe Photoshop CS5

Adobe White Rabbit

This is the one I use and can vouch for its legitimacy.