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[simster007 391]

3 hours ago, Girafarig said:

I had a piece of boulevard with a tram down the middle and I decided, for sh*ts and giggles, to turn it into a cut-and-cover subway section using the FLUP.

It has gone… not as bad as it could? The trams are still running under, but I really thought the Ninja Kiosks would work as a proximity station and they do not work as such for GLR. I've searched in here and SC4Devotion for an alternative GLR station, but they're all run-through and I really need a proximity station. So I'm looking for that and, if I don't find it, I'll have to reverse the job and put the original, on-level stations as before. I don't really have the need or the want for an express line that cuts through a quarter of my city.

Which is a shame, because I'm really digging this sort of ersatz-subway.

Don´t know how underground glr works in that case - I use RTMT incl. addon which contains ramps from GLR in Road or Avenue to subway and subway stations on Road or Avenue for these situations:

The Ninja Stations can be connected to the subway by small stubs:

It´s a tricky installation but works very well:

 

[rsc204 21,866]

3 hours ago, Girafarig said:

I've searched in here and SC4Devotion for an alternative GLR station, but they're all run-through and I really need a proximity station

There is an argument that since what you are doing is essentially a subway, why not use the vastly more flexible Subway system and connect it to a TiA to Subway ramp?

That said, I could knock up a working station without too much difficulty that should work with the El-Rail network underground, just writing that tells me it's probably why it doesn't exist, it's pretty niche. I would just convert a subway station, along the lines of the new U-Rail lots coming in RTMT 4. I may see about adding El-Rail transit so that such could be used with GLR/El-Rail networks too. I'll do some quick tests on this in the coming week, pretty busy RL right now.

34 minutes ago, simster007 said:

I use RTMT incl. addon which contains ramps from GLR in Road or Avenue to subway and subway stations on Road or Avenue for these situations:

Actually these files have long since been moved into the NAM, so the RTMT versions are essentially unneeded duplicates at this point. If you missed it, also check out the Interim T-RAM Stations for RTMT, they are indispensable for those using GLR systems in Ave/Road. The NAM supports the following GLR options transitioning underground:

• GLR to Subway Tram FLUPs
• TiA / TiR to Tram FLUPs
• SFBT Subway to GLR transition
• TiA / TiR to Subway transitions (at the very end of the Misc. Transit menu)

Essentially there are two differently modded versions of each ramp, for transitioning to Subway or FLUPs networks. So you have a lot of flexibility when going underground, although the Tram FLUPs have pretty limited support and are quite inflexible.

Ultimately El-Rail, GLR and Subway are the same 'Light Rail' network, so combining them works excellently to cover Elevated, Ground and Underground sections and transition between them.

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The announced replacement "start-screens" ... in this thread > there < .. like this ..

and others .. and it's not over!

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This is Portland, a mid-sized city of 76,000 people. It has 2 ''centres'', one in the north of the city and one in the south of the city. In addition to a lot of industry (and more areas are planned), it has one of the largest convention centers in the entire region and the closeness to nature makes it a cozy beautiful city to live in.

The north of Portland...

...and the south of Portland.

Portland at day...

...and at night.

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2 hours ago, rsc204 said:

There is an argument that since what you are doing is essentially a subway, why not use the vastly more flexible Subway system and connect it to a TiA to Subway ramp?

Cash, mostly. I like keeping a healthy budget, and the simple fact is that a cut-and-cover tram line is cheaper to build and maintain than a full-fledged subway. This is a smallish stretch of a boulevard that spans three cities in my region, so I'm actually using a TiA to Subway ramp to build the neighbor connections.

Also, I like the challenge and I think the underground tram is both criminally underutilised and a bit pointless. If you check my first picture, I actually had a complete, running tramline and I could've just left it there as it was. But it's always nice to reinvent networks in new ways, isn't it?

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That said, I could knock up a working station without too much difficulty that should work with the El-Rail network underground, just writing that tells me it's probably why it doesn't exist, it's pretty niche. I would just convert a subway station, along the lines of the new U-Rail lots coming in RTMT 4. I may see about adding El-Rail transit so that such could be used with GLR/El-Rail networks too. I'll do some quick tests on this in the coming week, pretty busy RL right now.

Yeah, I agree that it's pretty niche, but I was surprised to be unable to find even a single GLR station that worked just by putting it next to the line, especially since sometimes I find that stations work with the transit network right by their side even if it wasn't the way they're meant to work. For instance, I have a rail terminal in another city with a sideways underground rail going next to it, originally as a bypass – but to my pleasant surprise, that spur has actually become the most used "platform", as you can see in the pics below.

  

A RTMT station would, of course, be perfect. But I already have the space, in the sideways parks, for a regular station.

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Finger slipped on zoom again, here is Christy. An inner city small tile, lots of through traffic, about 180k residents.
The Faltering Fullback is a real pub in London, it has a good pub quiz (which is about the only thing which would drag me into a pub!)
The mixture of row townhouses and tower blocks reminds me of my own neighbourhood in London, it makes me wonder how many of us subconciously recreate our neighbourhoods in SimCity4? 

 

 

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Chinese fringetree

Glacous cassia

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3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

Chinese fringetree

Glacous cassia

MOAR TREES !!!  

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Shark Point Research Facility(just an excuse to finally use Barroco's Megalodon). Yes, I swiped the idea from that lame Sam Jackson movie, Deep Blue Sea. "Enough is enough! I've had it with these m_______f________in' sharks in this m_______f_______in' map!"

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1 hour ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Shark Point Research Facility(just an excuse to finally use Barroco's Megalodon). Yes, I swiped the idea from that lame Sam Jackson movie, Deep Blue Sea. "Enough is enough! I've had it with these m_______f________in' sharks in this m_______f_______in' map!"

Mr. Jackson does have a somewhat limited -- if colorful -- vocabulary.  Reminds me of my Army days...

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Yo, guys --

Been up to my eyebrows with contractors, renovations, and “professional “ stuff. But I’m trying to keep plugging away at the new “someday soon” CJ. Got another pic for you from the “IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS: CUXHAVEN”.

This shows the battlecruiser HMS Tiger being nudged into a berth alongside the coaling docks. There is one old Nordwind Class tug (left center) and three of the more modern Passat Class tugs easing her against the quay. Tiger joined the British Battlecruiser Fleet in 1914, just after the outbreak of WW I. She was 28,500 tons and capable of 28 knots. Her armament consisted of 8x13.5-inch guns, 12x6-inch guns, and 4x21-inch torpedo tubes. Though fast and armed with big guns, her armor belt was only 9 inches – hardly proof against a 12-inch shell.

The sailors, “Atlantic fenders”, and rope coils -- along with a few other props on the quay are by @AP. The authentic “period” tugs are also

the highly detailed, scratch-built work of "AP" – and are small “works of art” in themselves. The beautiful model of HMS Tiger is courtesy of

@Barroco Hispano.  Many thanx...

Tiger was often referred to as “the most beautiful warship ever built”.  Though I differ with that opinion – she was certainly the

most handsome of all the British battlecruisers.
 

[rsc204 21,866]

On 17/04/2023 at 11:35 PM, Girafarig said:

Yeah, I agree that it's pretty niche, but I was surprised to be unable to find even a single GLR station that worked just by putting it next to the line, especially since sometimes I find that stations work with the transit network right by their side even if it wasn't the way they're meant to work. For instance, I have a rail terminal in another city with a sideways underground rail going next to it, originally as a bypass – but to my pleasant surprise, that spur has actually become the most used "platform", as you can see in the pics below.

Yeah, this comes from a certain inflexibility with regards to transit switches, so if a station has certain switches it will dictate it's behaviour. All that's needed for GLR is to have the El-Rail switches, but there is one setup for through stations and another for adjacent ones. Anyhow, I hope this meets your needs, it is based on an unreleased RTMT URail lot, but includes pretty much every conceivable switch, as you can see Tram FLUPs/Underground Trams can be accessed now:

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Skyscrapers along transit lines

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6 hours ago, rsc204 said:

Anyhow, I hope this meets your needs, it is based on an unreleased RTMT URail lot, but includes pretty much every conceivable switch, as you can see Tram FLUPs/Underground Trams can be accessed now:

 

It has! I had to install all of the RTMT, which was not easy on a Mac, and I sporadically get brown boxes when placing the stations, but now I can finally inaugurate the T5 Underground Tramway, to much fanfare and finally, with the income from ticket sales, a balanced budget.

 

The roundabout near the definitely not Escorial had to go, in favor of a regular avenue crossing, because the road under the roundabout wasn't letting trams through. It was letting them pass before, but who knows – I've found that roundabout underpasses are not very reliable in general, be it with GLR or road transit.

As a weird find before I remodeled the avenue, I found that there was GLR traffic from the matt325 diagonal tramway station (which was an eyesore and impossible to actually use) and a cheeky little 15-m station that I placed, which actually didn't look that bad, except –of course– that it had no 15m transit line to go above. But the platform made for a nice roof, so I even considered letting it stand. Alas, I preferred your station, which was smaller and, I think, a bit less expensive to maintain?

Thanks a lot!

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21 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Been up to my eyebrows with contractors, renovations, and “professional “ stuff.

Should have called me! I would've only screwed you 50%. Hey, this one's for you

https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/60964-SimCity-memes-jokes/?do=findComment&comment=1780434

 

 

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36 minutes ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Should have called me! I would've only screwed you 50%. Hey, this one's for you

https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/60964-SimCity-memes-jokes/?do=findComment&comment=1780434

 

 

"OH NO -- !!  Not the comfy shark tank !!

[justforfun 7,926]

The facade of this new block is virtually identical to the real building in central London:

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

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Update of the Scoty Blue-skin plugin .. at last adapted for NAM (47)..

 

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The region has had its name changed and is now called the Bundesrepublik Peru.
22.250.694 people currently live there.

Agglomeration of Aberdeen.


The whole region.

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Empress tree

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 4/23/2023 at 5:24 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

Empress tree

A question. Have you been loading your new trees into this-

I can't really tell.

 

 

Took the new toy for a spin today.

It's lookin' good. A couple caveats: no night-lighting, and you can't add any, at least not with my tools. The height listed for joining it seamlessly is 7.5. That leaves a little hump. 7.2 looks much better. Other than that, it looks bitchin'!

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In for some more poshness?

 

[JohanD 25]

19 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

A question. Have you been loading your new trees into this-

I can't really tell.

 

 

Took the new toy for a spin today.

It's lookin' good. A couple caveats: no night-lighting, and you can't add any, at least not with my tools. The height listed for joining it seamlessly is 7.5. That leaves a little hump. 7.2 looks much better. Other than that, it looks bitchin'!

How did you got it so sharp looking? Any recommendations?

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

4 hours ago, JohanD said:

How did you got it so sharp looking? Any recommendations?

 

The secret is aging! AGE, AGE, AGE!...oh, um, you weren't talking about cheddar cheese, were you?

Eventually, I'll get around to writing up a tutorial on photographing this game. It will be quite lengthy because I've uncovered a lot of secrets about that aspect of the game.

In the meantime, how do I get this bridge up?!!!

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9 minutes ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

The secret is aging! AGE, AGE, AGE!...oh, um, you weren't talking about cheddar cheese, were you?

Eventually, I'll get around to writing up a tutorial on photographing this game. It will be quite lengthy because I've uncovered a lot of secrets about that aspect of the game.

In the meantime, how do I get this bridge up?!!!

that would be totally awesome if you could really make it go up as a ship approaches

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Hi,

Back to play SimCity 4 after 18 years of absence. Many amazing mods, lots and tools to discovery at this moment but,  to my surprise, the most important thing for me is to be able to meet a great community. Thanks all.

* English is not my native language. I apologize for the mistakes.

Test region with all the wonderful things to download on this site

[Dreadnought 8,231]

4 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

The secret is aging! AGE, AGE, AGE!...oh, um, you weren't talking about cheddar cheese, were you?

Eventually, I'll get around to writing up a tutorial on photographing this game. It will be quite lengthy because I've uncovered a lot of secrets about that aspect of the game.

In the meantime, how do I get this bridge up?!!!

RATS -- !!!

Not wide enough for a battleship -- !!