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[Haljackey 17,385]

New road network

[Honolulu 2,779]

[kschmidt 6,202]

5 hours ago, Haljackey said:

New road network

Wonder about, I now see this area has two airports in adjacent riles ! Cargo feeder on one of them ? Very nice new hi-tec suburb area !

[Haljackey 17,385]

5 hours ago, kschmidt said:

Wonder about, I now see this area has two airports in adjacent riles ! Cargo feeder on one of them ? Very nice new hi-tec suburb area !

It's actually 4 airports acting as one. Each built in the corner of a city tile to form one giant airport amalgamation. 4 terminals, 4 cargo hubs. That's why it's taken me so long to hook everything up- many many roads and rail lines are needed to service 1 airport, let alone 4.

[hugues aroux 3,867]

9 hours ago, Honolulu said:

It looks like a small Breton village

[Honolulu 2,779]

8 hours ago, hugues aroux said:

It looks like a small Breton village

Indee, I'm working on this idea with the excellent buildings of the Kermahonnet, Kervescar and Roc Bihan sets from Vivydu29.

[art128 4,622]

5 hours ago, Honolulu said:

Indee, I'm working on this idea with the excellent buildings of the Kermahonnet, Kervescar and Roc Bihan sets from Vivydu29.

Take a look at Vnaoned stuff too if you haven't already: https://www.toutsimcities.com/downloads/search/user:9106/sort:Download.favorite_count/direction:asc

[Oidaas 1,670]

A station

[Krisman 4,652]

Another part of the city completed  

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

This post has been Matlock approved-

 

The bustling city of McMullen Alabama Population 10, smallest town in the state

 

The real McMullen-

[Girafarig 1,412]

Interior, the largest city in my current region, Isla Bonita, has an elevated rail line (currently designated Line 7) that was projected as a sort of ring line, but currently just runs near its northern limit, connecting a satellite city to the northwest to an industrial part to the northeast. It's not a very popular line by ridership numbers, especially when compared to Line 2, which is the backbone of the entire metropolitan area and that has a transfer station as seen on the picture below (North is below).

As you can see from the decaying building on the top left corner (since then demolished), there's an endemic issue with commute times and building abandonment, so Interior needs more and better connections. With that said, it was time to extend Line 7 south, so it would work more like a ring line, drawing users away from the very congested Line 2.

As you can see (this image is rotated 90 degrees, but use the red building to orient yourselves), after adjusting the rail entrances to the main transit hub, it was decided to upgrade a nearby street into a road and run Line 7 south on an elevated rail over it. Line 2, above, heads southeast, towards downtown.

There was space for a new elevated rail station a couple of blocks away, to serve the residential neighbourhood. There is a Line 2 station a couple of blocks to the west (above, out of this picture) but as you know, Sims are a bit lazy and would rather take a closer station and transfer trains a bit further north.

Finally, a couple more blocks ahead, a change in the street grid made us consider sending the line underground, in order to avoid expensive demolishing of buildings in the Barrio Europeo neighbourhood. This did necessitate expropiating four buildings in half a block, but that's still far better than the alternative!

Tunneling also allowed us to send Line 7 to the nearby avenue and get a new station right next to the hospitals and schools. Finally, the extension is continued until José Smith station, right next to the Mormon temple, where Line 5 has a terminal.

(Sorry for the snapshot lines. SC4 is a bitch when trying to get screenshots in macOS)

Interior is the next city I'll cover in my City Journal, so stay tuned until this saturday! (Give or take, sometimes I'm busy during the weekend).

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,837]

Star Trek fans will recognise the reference to Voyager's most infamous episode 

Just two more lots to go with those terraces, I do prefer an 'organic' grow but if I'm getting bored I have cheat lots for the most common terraces. 

[Honolulu 2,779]

21 hours ago, art128 said:

Take a look at Vnaoned stuff too if you haven't already: https://www.toutsimcities.com/downloads/search/user:9106/sort:Download.favorite_count/direction:asc

Superb collection...Thank you very much.

[Honolulu 2,779]

@Krisman....

Lots of pretty places in your city... 

I particulary like this area...Can you tell me where you got this wall please?

[Krisman 4,652]

3 hours ago, Honolulu said:

@Krisman....

Lots of pretty places in your city... 

I particulary like this area...Can you tell me where you got this wall please?

That is a retaining wall prop made by @mattb325.

I believe it's part of this one:

Car Ferry Terminal - Waterfront - Simtropolis

[pclark06 12,062]

Late 90s CART is getting some love:

[kschmidt 6,202]

CATALUNYA ODD BAT´S 2 !

Two Bat´s one displaced and another wich will crash your game !!!

Busy, afther below bat I had some building on the City of Barcelona wich got lost to a bat wich crashed to desktop !

Earlier, I had a odd office bat on a residential zone, today I have another odd bat a supposed medius  R$$$ large residential with a density of a country estate. This isn´t worn as there´s a landmark version, but the growable R$$$, little to frequent poped up. Fortunaly, recognized and done with before it might become a recuring oddity, waisting my building time !

Chalet Daguel  http://descargas.capitalsim.net/?sitio=csc&descarga=1867 Very nice, but for a innercity totaly out of touch !

Second Bat wich crashed my game to desktop !!!

Today I tried a lott of the bat´s to search for the bat wich probably crashed my game !

All above bat´s are Ok no crashes when running the game, nice display of what is available !

This is at Capital Sims the LBT Restaurant Vip bat wich you can see at bellow link. Don´t install it it´s crash your game imidiately

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http://descargas.capitalsim.net/?sitio=csc&descarga=715

Update important info III

Today I discovered there was a probable second set of this Bat installed into a sub folder. I noticed today that reference menu still was there, so I looked up the plugins folder and discovered this second set. That might resulted they where using the same Id. As I could see there where different file names, can´t recall them but I reinstalled the Bat and it didn´t crash the game so that might be the cause so look out for similair bat´s installed into different places into your plugins folder. So I appologize for raising attention to this is issue wich might be the result of some probabley error by me at installation !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Tonight on Diagnosis Murder

 

 

So, last Christmas, I had finished up all my stray projects, did my yearly plugin inventory, and didn't really have any ideas. So I made 2 gigantic maps. The first was going to be my big winter region. I got about a third into it and realized why nobody else does them. So I moved over to the second map. 240 medium sized tiles, no theme, just whatever random ideas I come up with. So, I'll be torturing y'all for the rest of the year with this....

Behold, Isadora

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Not too impressed yet? How about I throw some feathers on this bird-

 

A couple weeks work- making forest lots and plopping them. syncing the dates, flora blasting and sculpting the forest.

[Haljackey 17,385]

More infrastructure work

 

[Honolulu 2,779]

Trying to incorporate the CS$ into my set of R$... Quite an odyssey to understand and modify the content of a .SC4Desc file

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[Haljackey 17,385]

Interchange eyecandy and surrounding rework of the road network

[Haljackey 17,385]

Bridge widening

I need another lane for a major interchange I am building to the east, but ya I get it. One more lane bro

 

it it helps I have a rail and bullet train line to the south

[TheMurderousCricket 5,096]

It should belong to a "Show us your experiments" section but since I haven't found one, I guess the next logical placement is under "working on". 

My goal now is to create some sandy area but since it will be a small area, I plan to use JENX texture plops rather than refurbish the entire texture folder.

However, these brushes still need some adjustment as they tend to have falloff opacity towards the edges, creating unpleasant "overlapping zones" when applied "as is", as pictured below...

 

So generally, my goal is to simply give these plops a full 100% opacity throughout the entire radius. This way, I hope, the texture will be uniform throughout the entire area with no visible overlaps present.

In order to adjust JENX plops, I use GOFsh app, which is largely an uncharted territory for me.  However, I managed to successfully alter and then insert modified opacity files into the JENX core files, so now I know at least that I am doing this correctly.  We'll see how it plays out.

[Haljackey 17,385]

'Raw' interchange upgrades in this city tile are done.

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[kschmidt 6,202]

Catalunya Project - Barcelona update 02 !

This  weekend continued to develope Barcelona. Hope all goes well, conscider more often backup the region, allthought little pre save policy running the simulation before save might be sufficient. Camp Nou, Sagrada Familia and central mid town little developed. Let´s see !

Sagrada Famiia in the norther suburb of Barcelona !

Barcelona New town center with some Gaudi appartments !

Enjoy !

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

19 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

It should belong to a "Show us your experiments" section but since I haven't found one,

Start one.

 

19 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

 

My goal now is to create some sandy area but since it will be a small area, I plan to use JENX texture plops rather than refurbish the entire texture folder.

However, these brushes still need some adjustment as they tend to have falloff opacity towards the edges, creating unpleasant "overlapping zones" when applied "as is", as pictured below...

 

So generally, my goal is to simply give these plops a full 100% opacity throughout the entire radius. This way, I hope, the texture will be uniform throughout the entire area with no visible overlaps present.

In order to adjust JENX plops, I use GOFsh app, which is largely an uncharted territory for me.  However, I managed to successfully alter and then insert modified opacity files into the JENX core files, so now I know at least that I am doing this correctly.  We'll see how it plays out.

 

To get the most density from those beach brushes, they should be plopped 1-2 tiles from each other. I also don't recommend installing any water utilities before using them, so you can see what your doing. I tried reassigning all the brushes to the Parks category, but messing with the set(Poseidon) causes it not to work.

I used them on this map, as is, and got great opacity.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,096]

3 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

I used them on this map, as is, and got great opacity.

Hmm, that indeed looks quite fine actually, so this is the unmodded, original plop? Could you also post a non-processed screenshot for a closer look? The 1-2 tile range seems quite restrictive though...

3 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

I tried reassigning all the brushes to the Parks category, but messing with the set(Poseidon) causes it not to work.

What would be the goal of such reassignment? (Apart from obvious organizational clarity that puts landscaping items in the landscaping menu where they belong).

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

1 hour ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Hmm, that indeed looks quite fine actually, so this is the unmodded, original plop? Could you also post a non-processed screenshot for a closer look? The 1-2 tile range seems quite restrictive though...

I usually put down my transit(and anything else) before using them. I try to keep a 2 tile distance away from rail and roads, to avoid getting it all over them, unless I'm intentionally trying to bury them for a transit-less map.

1 hour ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

What would be the goal of such reassignment? (Apart from obvious organizational clarity that puts landscaping items in the landscaping menu where they belong).

Almost everything in the Water Menu carries a range mask, which makes it difficult to see what your doing with these textures. Just visually easier to see your work. I'm not into squinting.