Show us What you're Working On

[justforfun 7,927]

Coming from the Netherlands, an office with passage: 

[Silur 3,308]

On 14.03.2024 at 8:05 PM, Silur said:

 

The year is 1954. This is the year of the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Universal Postal Union. Santana Island has also joined the organization. The letters are now being delivered to the island by steamers. Residents receive their letters and other postal items at the port authority. This is very inconvenient for everyone. The mayor decided to develop a network of post offices on the island and build a radio station. You'll be able to see the results soon.

I wish you all good health.  

 

The year is 1954. The island of SANTANA became a member of the International Postal Union. We already know about this their theme "Show us What you're Working On". We bought 3 legendary and best in the world (1950) VW Kombi minibuses.

The deal was made in the metropolis GLORIA.

These vehicles are already in the port of the GENT region. They have a trademark - SANTANA POSTAL SERVICE.

The Town Hall of the GENT region offers all Simtropolis visitors a tour of the cities of my GENT region in one of the 3 cars. You will be able to see the new post offices in the GENT region. I'll show them to you.

The tour will take place this Monday. Choose your car. This is the number 01, 02 or 03. If you are interested, write here. Everything will take place in any weather and any activity.

 

I wish you all good health.

Thank you for your attention!

[junspud 1,069]

New City I've been playing.

[Girafarig 1,414]

I recently got a new tree controller and I've been diligently replacing the old Maxis flora with the new trees. And one of the towns I'm playing with has a very tall hill…

So tall, in fact, that its summit is above the tree line.

What better place for a ski resort?

The hotel was there before the rest, but it fits really nicely.

The damn summit is so high I had to do a rock cut for one of the ski lifts.

And finally…

I had actually built the church and tunnel quite some time ago, like some sort of grotto church. But the new flora really makes it happen, doesn't it?

 

[JulioC 2,581]

Just posted a new entry on my City Journal. Feel free to take a look if you want to 

 

[Haljackey 17,398]

On 3/16/2024 at 12:42 AM, Haljackey said:

Nearly 10 years in this mega region and I'm still trucking along for some reason

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New UDI video route plotted too. Coming some day.

Working on recording each city tile, then rendering n stuff.

Here's the vid of the route- showcases a lot of what I've been working on as of late

 

[Silur 3,308]

Well, well, well …
Registration for the excursion to the GENT region is over. 
Honorary members of Simtropolis received personal invitations. 
The participants of this adventure were: 

01. Dreadnoutht

02. kschmidt
03. Girafarig 

04. Tyberius06 

05. sejr99999
06. Odainsaker
07. JulioC 

08. mitsos 

09. Golan0
10. Wallibuk
Almost all of thfem have more than 10 years of experience on this site each (except Girafarig and Golan0 ) - this is a pleasant surprise for me. 

Good luck and health to all of you. 

The tour will start soon...
 

[kschmidt 6,223]

Puglia - Bari-Brindisi Campagnia !

Today I started with building the port infra of Bari ! Brindisi got a auto ferry port and some regional  town on the way !

Bari !

Brindisi Auto ferry !

St Marco in Lamis !

Litle north of Foggia on the peninsulla edge !

Melfi !

South of Foggia in the innerland of Puglia !

Enjoy !

  Edited March 18, 2024 by kschmidt  
update

[justforfun 7,927]

Office #6 is a corner inspired by the Prudential Assurance Building in Bradford, Yorkshire: 

[Silur 3,308]

It's the summer of 1954. Excursionists (hereinafter referred to as tourists) got to the island by steamer. But it's been raining here all day today. Roads in the GENT region are not yet paved. Travel is very difficult. The mayor decided to postpone the trip. Forecasters promise that the weather will soon improve. I beg your pardon. Expect.    

[pclark06 12,072]

There will be 30-40 in the first set:

[11241036 5,115]

I've recently been working on sort of an expansion to the PEG Tahoe water by creating new MMP's with different colors. Since I'm really not an expert in making graphics, I just simply directly edited the FSH files by altering the colors of the water MMP's directly, and put them back into the game. I've thus created 12 new MMP's, sometimes with very interesting water colors; partly I wanted to have additional shades of blue water, partly just for fun.

All of these colors are based on real-life locations on the earth, with the reasons being bright or shadowy location and various minerals (e.g. in volcanic areas) or organic materials (such as during algae bloom or being close to a mire) dissolved in water.

However, there's a little something I'd like to ask for help: Pegasus' Tahoe-style water only has a slight noise effect on it, but I'd like to add a slight wave effect on it. I only have GIMP and Inkscape. I've been able to apply a noise filter in GIMP, but I do not know how to add a wave effect. If one of you could help me with that, that would really be great. Of all the water MMP's available online, I prefer the wave effect on Diggis' water system, I'd like something similar, not parallel waves (the game just randomly chooses the rotation of an MMP, anyway) or too strong waves. Here's an in-game picture from my CJ:

[JulioC 2,581]

19 minutes ago, 11241036 said:

I've recently been working on sort of an expansion to the PEG Tahoe water by creating new MMP's with different colors. Since I'm really not an expert in making graphics, I just simply directly edited the FSH files by altering the colors of the water MMP's directly, and put them back into the game. I've thus created 12 new MMP's, sometimes with very interesting water colors; partly I wanted to have additional shades of blue water, partly just for fun.

All of these colors are based on real-life locations on the earth, with the reasons being bright or shadowy location and various minerals (e.g. in volcanic areas) or organic materials (such as during algae bloom or being close to a mire) dissolved in water.

However, there's a little something I'd like to ask for help: Pegasus' Tahoe-style water only has a slight noise effect on it, but I'd like to add a slight wave effect on it. I only have GIMP and Inkscape. I've been able to apply a noise filter in GIMP, but I do not know how to add a wave effect. If one of you could help me with that, that would really be great. Of all the water MMP's available online, I prefer the wave effect on Diggis' water system, I'd like something similar, not parallel waves (the game just randomly chooses the rotation of an MMP, anyway) or too strong waves. Here's an in-game picture from my CJ:

Try to export the FSH file of the 1x1 water section of the Daggis Pond, edit it using GIMP to change the color (i only use photoshop, but i think GIMP has a colorize button, use it to change the color while keeping the texture), save it and then apply that new texture on the MMPs you're editing.

look, a quick edit using photoshop shows you can change the color but keep the daggis wavy texture:

look at the #10 version below

[11241036 5,115]

1 hour ago, JulioC said:

Try to export the FSH file of the 1x1 water section of the Daggis Pond, edit it using GIMP to change the color (i only use photoshop, but i think GIMP has a colorize button, use it to change the color while keeping the texture), save it and then apply that new texture on the MMPs you're editing.

look, a quick edit using photoshop shows you can change the color but keep the daggis wavy texture:

 

look at the #10 version below

 

I thought about doing that, too, but unfortunately, sharing it may violate forum rules because I'm modifying other people's content. I'll do it for just myself if I can't find another way, but I'm definitely thinking of creating something that I could share.

[Haljackey 17,398]

1 minute ago, 11241036 said:

I thought about doing that, too, but unfortunately, sharing it may violate forum rules because I'm modifying other people's content. I'll do it for just myself if I can't find another way, but I'm definitely thinking of creating something that I could share.

Just check with the site staff- they are generally ok with something like this being done in good faith. They may still say no, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

[Silur 3,308]

Today there was an excursion - invitees could see the post offices of the GENT region on Santana Island.

You can see this in part 17 of my SANTANA Island - CJ,  Chapter 17 - Post Offices - Tour.  

On this day there was fog in the mountains and tourists could not see the radio station (also known as radiotelegraph). There are photographs of this object in my archives.

Thank you. Good luck and health to you all.

[pclark06 12,072]

Some more warehouses!

Yellow and Con-Way uses @MushyMushy truck props. Ironically both are defunct now.

also Linfox out of Australia and a Walmart one that I just exported.

[Rott 2,399]

Not sure if anyone would have any interest in a prop pack like this, just some minor parking lot/lawn clutter as props if you really like to get into lot editor details:

 

 

[JulioC 2,581]

28 minutes ago, Rott said:

Not sure if anyone would have any interest in a prop pack like this, just some minor parking lot/lawn clutter as props if you really like to get into lot editor details:

 

 

I would find it very useful tbh! Would add some sauce to some filler LOTs and industrial/dirty area

[jestarr 3,423]

So, a little more progress on the peanut factory. I'm still working on fixing the textures, which I'm not very good at, so it's slow going. I'm also trying out various pieces of roof junk to see what I can live with. Here's a pic.

I also started another BAT. I'm calling it Robertson & Sons Manufacturing. Only the lower front wall is done. It'll be a four story building when done. Here's the pic.

[MushyMushy 3,618]

5 hours ago, pclark06 said:

Some more warehouses!

Yellow and Con-Way uses @MushyMushy truck props. Ironically both are defunct now.

also Linfox out of Australia and a Walmart one that I just exported.

Hah, really dates my BATs when the companies represented in them start going defunct!

Nice warehouses

[justforfun 7,927]

Office #7 is Ruskinian gothic: 

[justforfun 7,927]

On 3/19/2024 at 9:14 PM, pclark06 said:

Some more warehouses

Can you make an unbranded one in the series with red brick texture and grey roof? That would fit any old city. 

[rsc204 21,866]

Just tweaking some old spots as I update the Bikepaths, I quite like the results:

Plus a Autumn shot because seasonal trees look great:

[tariely 4,499]

On 19/02/2024 at 8:15 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

WIP

can't open the images ; which format ?

[tariely 4,499]

gaaah why can't i open images that present in the square+green dot format ??? 

[tariely 4,499]

On 25/02/2024 at 2:21 PM, Honolulu said:

One corner of the map probably definitely done.

A map with areas to be completed, Texture-MMP experiments and possible future developments.

I love it that there are still some paysagists left at SC4 ;-)...

[tariely 4,499]

On 27/02/2024 at 1:24 PM, justforfun said:

In need of some retail therapy?

 

OMFG they're gorgeous !

[tariely 4,499]

On 12/03/2024 at 7:17 AM, justforfun said:

Another w2w 1x1 office: 

Can't wait to get all those ! 

[jestarr 3,423]

Okay, since I didn't have anything important to do today, I worked on this a little more. It's about 60% done. I like the shape of the building, but I'm not too sure about the windows. I'll probably make a few  different ones and see which I like better. I'm also not fond of the brick, so I'll peruse the ACME Brick site and see if I can find something I like more. Here's a pic. Cheers!