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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Webber Point-

[dragonsteincole 1,402]

A little personal edit of one of Vester's trams, to make it look like a local tram near to me, the Croydon Tramlink

[justforfun 7,928]

Finally got around to lotting the Cs$$$ shops:

 

 

 

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

The community college on Calandar-

[PlanetOfHats 506]

On 3/22/2023 at 10:07 PM, pclark06 said:

IMSA GTO vs. Group 5 vs. Indycar vs. Dale Earnhardt

The Intimidator in SimCity 4? Now I've seen everything.

[debussyman 1,349]

A new viaduct station on the works:

[rsc204 21,866]

On 23/03/2023 at 5:17 AM, Rott said:

Vancouver Block (as long as Gmax will actually render it without going non responsive)

Bear in mind there isn’t a lot gMax can render without going non responsive, but… does that actually mean it has crashed?

Windows changed the way it monitors apps and as a result those not updated to reflect this change, tend to show as Not Responding when in reality the App is simply busy. It’s not a good idea to move focus from gMax whilst rendering, that does tend to make the App crash. But before rendering bring up the Task Manager and keep an eye on the Process used by gMax. If the RAM/CPU usage is fluctuating, ignore Windows, leave things alone and just wait it out. If this stops for a couple mins, then most likely it has crashed. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Got another short for you from the "Imperial Dockyard Series". 

The work goes on -- still adding ships to the maps and writing the CJ chapters.  I do hope we will be able to start publication of the chapters and the prop packs in the "somewhat" near future.

This is HMS Glorious, anchored in the "Mothball Basin" (that's where old warships go to wait their turn at the breaker's yard).  Glorious was one of the last of Jackie Fisher's "extreme" battlecruisers.  Fisher was desperate to add battlecruisers to the fleet, and this one even made use of some left-over 15-inch gun turrets.  About mid-World War I, the British government placed restrictions on building any further capital ships (there was a desperate need for merchant ships and destroyers).  So to get around the restrictions, Fisher designed these ships (Glorious, Furious, and Courageous) with battleship sized guns (4x15-inch) on the hull of a light cruiser.  In reality, she was less well armored then the original Invincible Class battlecruisers.  She was converted to an aircraft carrier under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and was eventually sunk by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940.

Here you see her as she would have looked in 1919 -- with flying-off ramps for bi-planes on her turrets -- when she was "laid-up in ordinary" (deemed no longer useful).  The mooring buoys, barge crane, and lighters in the picture are by @AP.  The dockyard cranes and the old-fashioned, pre-dreadnought, warships (circa 1905) are from "Nob's 1905 Naval Series".  I think the central building on the quay is a re-purposed "shirt factory".  And the beautiful model of Courageous is courtesy of @Barroco Hispano.

 

[PlanetOfHats 506]

A few proof-of-concept lots for implementing very simple eye-candy diagonal seaports. The platforms are my own very basic creations (and I think the texture is the only un-crappy thing about them); the freighter is a purchased model converted to an SC4 prop and lotted using SOMY's boat-prop-on-a-1x1-dummy-tile method; the cranes are from Linus van Pelt's prop set and the containers are mostly SM2 prop families. If I can iron out some of the fuzziness with these, they could in theory be paired with shorewalls - JRJ's in this case, though the trees poking through are something I'd like to solve.

Incidentally, the container ship is a 16x3 prop and still about 100 metres shorter than in life - it's about 260 metres long here compared to 360 in life. It's still probably the largest ship I have available. Really cargo ship scaling seems more art than science.

[davide1983it 5,426]

[rsc204 21,866]

Adding more stability code to expand the viable setups for RRW:

It's impossible to know of all the situations that could do with some attention, well at least with the amount of time I have to go looking. But if you have a setup not shown here that doesn't work, but is within the RRW Specifications (i.e. some setups simply don't have enough space to conform to the newer wider radius curves), please let me know with a screenshot. I would love to get as many fixed up in code as possible, hopefully extending the usefulness of RRW for many.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

More of the Sutherland Cays-

[dubaidude303 1,126]

9 hours ago, debussyman said:

A new viaduct station on the works:

 

I love it!! Will this be 7.5m or 15m?

[debussyman 1,349]

5 hours ago, dubaidude303 said:

I love it!! Will this be 7.5m or 15m?

Glad you like it! it will be 7.5m

[PlanetOfHats 506]

As I fuss with diagonal seaport stuff, here's something I picked up on: The scale of existing ploppable ships. Here's a quick side-by-side of some of the notable ones out there, alongside my own little conversion set. The outlier is obviously SM2's supertanker, which comes in shorter than PEG's ploppable freighters.

My tanker and container ship conversions come in around 16 tiles long when plopped orthogonally.

[justforfun 7,928]

On 3/25/2023 at 2:25 PM, debussyman said:

A new viaduct station on the works:

You should have written: "another masterpiece coming!"

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[Ke|is 3,337]

On 26/3/2023 at 9:00 PM, PlanetOfHats said:

As I fuss with diagonal seaport stuff, here's something I picked up on: The scale of existing ploppable ships. Here's a quick side-by-side of some of the notable ones out there, alongside my own little conversion set. The outlier is obviously SM2's supertanker, which comes in shorter than PEG's ploppable freighters.

My tanker and container ship conversions come in around 16 tiles long when plopped orthogonally.

I am wondering  if you plan to release those boats and share them with us on STEX, they look great.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

A bit of coastline-

[PlanetOfHats 506]

13 hours ago, Ke|is said:

I am wondering  if you plan to release those boats and share them with us on STEX, they look great.

The answer there is likely "Yes, eventually." Right now I'm still fooling around with a few things, and if I release them they're highly unlikely to be nightlit, as I am dumb and don't know how to do it. Right now I'm fussing with trying to make diagonal versions work, which is running into the problem of the LODs at the two furthest-out levels of zoom causing the ships to overlap adjacent seawalls and props.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

10 hours ago, PlanetOfHats said:

The answer there is likely "Yes, eventually." Right now I'm still fooling around with a few things, and if I release them they're highly unlikely to be nightlit, as I am dumb and don't know how to do it. Right now I'm fussing with trying to make diagonal versions work, which is running into the problem of the LODs at the two furthest-out levels of zoom causing the ships to overlap adjacent seawalls and props.

We ran into the same problem with ship models.  And in all truth -- it would be the same with any model.  I sometimes like to add props directly to the models during the lot building process.  But the LOD's will get you every time !

I am very happy to see you working with diagonal harbors.  For so long, people have simply accepted the limitations of diagonal docks, seawalls, etc, etc.

GOOD LUCK, Mate !

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Lopez Island-

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,838]

Pop Culture Reference time! 

EDIT: This would make more sense with an actual image, wouldn't it?

 

Seminal British Sitcom Peep Show, a tale of two men struggling with modern life and relationships and their mutual contempt. co-dependence.
 When I reference "the Conquest of Corrigan" I of course am referring to the characters' interest in Military History, not his tragic love life. 
Although the original model for "Apollo House" was for a hospital,  it has more than a passing resemblance to residence in the show, which is in Croydon, down the road from me.

  Edited March 31, 2023 by Lazarou Monkey Terror  
Original image did not upload

[PlanetOfHats 506]

8 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

We ran into the same problem with ship models.  And in all truth -- it would be the same with any model.  I sometimes like to add props directly to the models during the lot building process.  But the LOD's will get you every time !

I am very happy to see you working with diagonal harbors.  For so long, people have simply accepted the limitations of diagonal docks, seawalls, etc, etc.

GOOD LUCK, Mate !

Did you find a solution, out of curiosity?

I admit to knowing virtually nothing about how LODs work. I'm a baby BATer.

[Barroco Hispano 26,933]

@PlanetOfHats The only solution I see is to put the problematic ships in a wider lot to avoid interference with other LOD's. 

You can also reduce the problem if you make the LOD's as tight and low poly as possible.

[PlanetOfHats 506]

Scenes from Acua-Dibamba International Airport on the outskirts of Acua, Democratic Republic of Formosa. Grab a ticket today and visit one of Africa's fastest-growing cities.

[pclark06 12,073]

close enough

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 3/29/2023 at 11:18 AM, Lazarou Monkey Terror said:

Seminal British Sitcom Peep Show

You lost me at British Sitcom.

 

Industrial side of Calandar-

 

[mitsos 12,969]

Holy Land, coming soon

[dragonsteincole 1,402]