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[pclark06 12,065]

Group A/WRC meetup

[mitsos 12,953]

Palm beach, Penthesili

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 5/31/2023 at 5:24 PM, Honolulu said:

Some claim that in good weather it's possible see Alex Honnold. I don't know if it's true .

Good eye! Thanx for making me look up Alex Honnold!

 

More of the Calandars-

 

[Honolulu 2,779]

2 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Good eye! Thanx for making me look up Alex Honnold!

 

More of the Calandars-

 

You'll think I'm crazy but this town reminds me of a motherboard 🤪. Well...Time for me to go back to my psychiatrist.

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,838]

On 5/30/2023 at 9:28 PM, dragonsteincole said:

The vibes in those scenes are impeccable.

they really are, I feel like I drove through that scene on the way to a festival last week, perfect vibes! 

[Haljackey 17,393]

New stack interchange by the new airport. If you count all the levels, it's technically a 5 level stack.

Still a ton to do but getting there

 

 

 

[mitsos 12,953]

Expansion of Penthesili in South East coast

 

 

[justforfun 7,924]

The first half of a new pack of semidetached houses:

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

On 6/1/2023 at 9:32 PM, Honolulu said:

You'll think I'm crazy but this town reminds me of a motherboard

Well, you're half right!

 

[pclark06 12,065]

Vintage nascar, coming soon.

I plan on starting in the 80s for American race car props and eventually going into 2023. 80-95 will be released in the 1.1 update

 

[kschmidt 6,213]

On 6/2/2023 at 5:25 AM, Haljackey said:

New stack interchange by the new airport. If you count all the levels, it's technically a 5 level stack.

Still a ton to do but getting there

 

 

 

Aircrafts blowing glas out off that HSR station right in line off the airport runway ? Well, it's a imaginative world afther all !

[Haljackey 17,393]

2 hours ago, kschmidt said:

Aircrafts blowing glas out off that HSR station right in line off the airport runway ? Well, it's a imaginative world afther all !

I thought the same and moved the BTM line back a bit further away from the runway.

Next tile over- another airport access interchange

Rough concept idea

End product

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Working on a new "Look" for upcoming region.

Neighborhood park-

[Brad 343]

18 hours ago, pclark06 said:

Vintage nascar, coming soon.

I plan on starting in the 80s for American race car props and eventually going into 2023. 80-95 will be released in the 1.1 update

 

cool. are you going to mod a race track with all the cars? which track?

[Haljackey 17,393]

More and more work by the airport.

[Honolulu 2,779]

It was hard for me to understand how it was done.
But after many hours of researching in the forum, 3 liters of coffee, 2 packs of cigarettes and 5 packets of cookies I did it... And now?... 2 aspirins and to bed. .

[Haljackey 17,393]

Airport road network underway

Next up- freeway extension to hook it up with the network

As well as a new high speed rail line built in the greenbelt to bring it closer to the densest part of the region. Not sure what route to take at the split. Perhaps both

[pclark06 12,065]

21 hours ago, Brad said:

cool. are you going to mod a race track with all the cars? which track?

probably not. I figured out N2003 to SimCity 4 and want to bring those cars into my save. I'd love to see draggable race track though

[dragonsteincole 1,402]

16 minutes ago, pclark06 said:

probably not. I figured out N2003 to SimCity 4 and want to bring those cars into my save. I'd love to see draggable race track though

This might be your friend for more gp-style circuits

But there are a few NASCAR oval-style lots around too, which might be more up your alley for these cars:)

 

[Brad 343]

good reminder Dragon. i do have 6 tracks, including a dragstrip.  i'm not a modder and no way have the skills of PC to build us a DAYTONA track. plus he has all the cars.:)

[Girafarig 1,414]

6 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Not sure what route to take at the split. Perhaps both

You gotta take the lower one. It's the flatter ground and you have a rail line there that you use, either with a hybrid railway or by using the right of way and moving the railway elsewhere.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Onyx Bay

[pclark06 12,065]

Testing out some of the new NASCAR props

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

[Ulisse Wolf 4,456]

Push It to the Limit

[Odainsaker 2,137]

On 5/31/2023 at 6:19 PM, thecitiescenter said:

Coming in at a whopping 36 large city tiles wide... it's everything from Jersey to the Hamptons, terrain, elevation, scale accurate... rotated 30' for... you know, Manhattan street grid.

This map is looking awesome!  You might consider rotating it 90° counter-clockwise to fit within the constraints of the Region Scroll Bug.  Otherwise, you will have user interface issues with East Long Island and the Hamptons.

In the mapmaking guides I wrote to you I don't think I mentioned the Region Scroll Bug.  Within the SimCity game's Region View, there are horizontal and vertical limits to scrolling, beyond which cities in a region map are not displayed and inaccessible for players.  It is possible with SC4 Mapper and SC4 Terraformer to create region maps larger than can be scrolled in the SimCity Region View, but those cities beyond the scrolling limits still remain unplayable.  Because the Region View shows the region as a skew, the scroll limits are also skewed and had to be found through trial and error.  @archemediesx began a diagram generally showing where the region scroll limits occurred, and I just now made a more complete one:

This is a skewed SC4 Mapper image of a draft New York region.  The map's total horizontal length is 45 large cites, and the total vertical length is 65 large cities, for potentially 2,925 large cities.  An important caveat is that while SimCity will load an all-blue, 180 x 260 config.bmp with blank placeholders for cities, my game actually crashes when trying to load an SC4 Mapper-generated 45 x 65 large city region with actual .sc4 city files.  I think SimCity simply reaches a limit in its 32-bit memory when loading the region.

The area generally shaded in red will not be visible in the SimCity Region View, so many of the potential cities in this map are not actually visible or playable.  In Region View, when scrolling into the red-shaded area, scrolling will suddenly stop and can even seem to freeze in place, though reversing the scrolling direction can usually back the scroll out of the stuck state.  The horizontal scroll limit is not actually a smooth barrier but is instead somewhat jagged following the skew of the map.  Slivers and corners of cities that are otherwise mostly in the unscrollable area might still be visible, and these visible bits allow cities skirting the border of the scrollable area to still be loaded and played via mouse triple-clicking. 

It is possible to craft a 180 x 260 config.bmp to leave out the cities that would be unreachable by the Region View Scroll.  After trial-and-error, I made this one to maximize all the playable cities:

Using this config.bmp in SC4 Mapper 2013 to filter out the unusable cities...

...makes a region I can actually load with SimCity!!!  I have spent a week crashing SimCity trying to make this work!

From Philadelphia:

To New Haven:

 

This full region image was exported using SimCity4 Startup Manager V3, and has been reduced to 20% of its original size to be uploadable to Imgur.  I think it may show a maximum number of cities possible in SimCity 4, as anything larger would just have unseen, unusable cities cut off by the Region Scroll Bug.  File Explorer shows this region's folder has 2,186 undeveloped cities.  I do not know how long this region would remain stable if many of them were to be developed, as this region's folder is already 1.01GB in size.

I'm not a fan of the irregular quadrilateral map with jagged edges, and have personally chosen 31 x 52 large cities as the max size for my projects.

_

Yep, that's what I worked on...creating and crashing regions!

 

[Ke|is 3,337]

Today I have another preview from the first town that we are going to visit as soon as I create the new city Journal. I still have a lot of work to do in order to prepare the region for the future CJ. I believe that everything should be ready in 10 days, more or less... currently I am working on the international airport as well which is taking a lot of my time...

Anyway, please find below a picture from one of the  beautiful temples that can be found in the region.

I hope you like it

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

5 hours ago, Odainsaker said:

This map is looking awesome!  You might consider rotating it 90° counter-clockwise to fit within the constraints of the Region Scroll Bug.  Otherwise, you will have user interface issues with East Long Island and the Hamptons.

, that's what I worked on...creating and crashing regions!

 

Hey man thanks for the info on the dimensions… Hehe yeah, I found out the hard way when I loaded it into the game only to be stuck somewhere in eastern Long Island.  

I ended up cutting the map down to approx where you shaded and I also sacrificed parts of New Jersey, which Im sure no one will miss… in order to shift the map eastward a bit, of course after working on crashing SimCity a few times myself.

[kschmidt 6,213]

5 hours ago, thecitiescenter said:

Hey man thanks for the info on the dimensions… Hehe yeah, I found out the hard way when I loaded it into the game only to be stuck somewhere in eastern Long Island.  

I ended up cutting the map down to approx where you shaded and I also sacrificed parts of New Jersey, which Im sure no one will miss… in order to shift the map eastward a bit, of course after working on crashing SimCity a few times myself.

What size ? Practical 15x15 is a usable size, anything larger practically out of ranche. Satalite edges and terrain level sometimes a problem  Little larger regions I do like more beyond, dillema how long do you wish to play a region ? More medium to large size one's, variety ?

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ke|is 3,337]

11 hours ago, Odainsaker said:

This map is looking awesome!  You might consider rotating it 90° counter-clockwise to fit within the constraints of the Region Scroll Bug.  Otherwise, you will have user interface issues with East Long Island and the Hamptons.

In the mapmaking guides I wrote to you I don't think I mentioned the Region Scroll Bug.  Within the SimCity game's Region View, there are horizontal and vertical limits to scrolling, beyond which cities in a region map are not displayed and inaccessible for players.  It is possible with SC4 Mapper and SC4 Terraformer to create region maps larger than can be scrolled in the SimCity Region View, but those cities beyond the scrolling limits still remain unplayable.  Because the Region View shows the region as a skew, the scroll limits are also skewed and had to be found through trial and error.  @archemediesx began a diagram generally showing where the region scroll limits occurred, and I just now made a more complete one:

This is a skewed SC4 Mapper image of a draft New York region.  The map's total horizontal length is 45 large cites, and the total vertical length is 65 large cities, for potentially 2,925 large cities.  An important caveat is that while SimCity will load an all-blue, 180 x 260 config.bmp with blank placeholders for cities, my game actually crashes when trying to load an SC4 Mapper-generated 45 x 65 region with actual .sc4 city files.  I think SimCity simply reaches a limit in its 32-bit memory when loading the region.

The area generally shaded in red will not be visible in the SimCity Region View, so many of the potential cities in this map are not actually visible or playable.  In Region View, when scrolling into the red-shaded area, scrolling will suddenly stop and can even seem to freeze in place, though reversing the scrolling direction can usually back the scroll out of the stuck state.  The horizontal scroll limit is not actually a smooth barrier but is instead somewhat jagged following the skew of the map.  Visible slivers and corners of cities that are otherwise mostly in the scrollable area might still be visible, and these visible bit allow cities skirting the border of the scrollable area to still be loaded and played via mouse triple-clicking. 

It is possible to craft a 180 x 260 config.bmp to leave out the cities that would be unreachable by the Region View Scroll.  After trial-and-error, I made this one to maximize all the playable cities:

Using this config.bmp in SC4 Mapper 2013 to filter out the unusable cities...

...makes a region I can actually load with SimCity!!!  I have spent a week crashing SimCity trying to make this work!

From Philadelphia:

To New Haven:

 

This full region image was exported using SimCity4 Startup Manager V3, and has been reduced to 20% of its original size to be uploadable to Imgur.  I think it may show a maximum number of cities possible in SimCity 4, as anything larger would just have unseen, unusable cities cut off by the Region Scroll Bug.  File Explorer shows this region's folder has 2,186 undeveloped cities.  I do not know how long this region would remain stable if many of them were to be developed, as this region's folder is already 1.01GB in size.

I'm not a fan of the irregular quadrilateral map with jagged edges, and have personally chosen 31 x 52 large cities as the max size for my projects.

_

Yep, that's what I worked on...creating and crashing regions!

 

I was wondering if it would be possible for you to share that mapmaking guides that you've wrote with me ( Us )... I do love to create maps but most of the times I just ended up at some point where I find myself completely lost... and for the quality of your maps, it looks that you have the right technique. Believe me, it would be awesome for the whole community.

Thanks guys for all the efforts