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[Girafarig 1,414]

We spent the entire day with @CorinaMarie unveiling (pun intended) the mysteries of the fog mod, just in time for Halloween. Check this mist out:

(Here's a more normal, still thick fog)

[justforfun 7,927]

9 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

These are looking awesome. I don't know if you already made such kind of buildings, but what I like in UK are those complexes where you have these small cottages w2w and there are like alleyways or arcades between them for cars to access the backyard, but the backyard also has further homes/flats or businesses etc...

Yes I need to make some of those too! Gosh so many projects in my mind it's become a full-time job  

[JohanD 25]

On 10/2/2024 at 8:13 AM, ncamferdam said:

Think I'm finally done placing infrastructure and decoration for my city and am ready to let it develop on its own. Just a couple more pictures before I press play and then the next ones you see from me should be a city journal.

 

 

I like those tugs, do you have a download link?

[JulianMIA 1,610]

I have finally chosen a new HSR texture.  I went back to the grey ballast as this full-on concrete slab-based rail seemed most at home there.

I tried it with the more beige-like ballast and it just didn't work.  Of course I still have to figure out (and find where it's stored) how to do the switch - luckily there is only one I think  

[ncamferdam 1,504]

9 hours ago, JohanD said:

I like those tugs, do you have a download link?

Those are a SOMY creation: http://somy.gozaru.jp/p8.htm

[pclark06 12,072]

 

When room rates are by the hour, there's always vacancy at the Sunset Motel

[kschmidt 6,223]

New Chicago McKinley Park Canalzone !

This area is part of the Illinois % Michigan Canal. Several inland goods like coal, grain, gravel and chemicals are transported here ! Nearby is Chicago Midwest airport wich is provided with air fuel supply. Along the canal mayor rail infrastructure of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe !

I43 follows the canal for a considerable distance up to Seneca ! Day´s of heavy maybe little gone , I display as it´s today more recreational use !

Some transport replaced by road and rail !

Enjoy !

 

[justforfun 7,927]

The last two townhouses for this pack, plus a colour revision of #3:

Time to lot I'd say! 

[Ssaidd 1,367]

[Ulisse Wolf 4,460]

19 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

I have finally chosen a new HSR texture.  I went back to the grey ballast as this full-on concrete slab-based rail seemed most at home there.

I tried it with the more beige-like ballast and it just didn't work.  Of course I still have to figure out (and find where it's stored) how to do the switch - luckily there is only one I think  

This is a great job but it should be remembered that HSRP is a legacy component of NAM that is close to retirement so the mod will no longer be compatible with the new RHSR system

[3136271573 188]

Dream beach

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

My terrain mod is progressing slowly, it's very complex to make a texture that looks good.

 

[Krisman 4,652]

Trying something new here ...

A couple of weeks ago I was traveling through Spain visiting some places in north-western Andalucía. And while visiting places like Úbeda, Baeza and Jaén the surrounding landscape was stunning as well ... as it was covered with olive trees as far as the eye could see. Especially terrasses where these threes are grown looked stunning.

So ... I had a try to replicate that look in my region (with is southern Europe based anyway) ...

The result so far:

[jestarr 3,423]

I'm finally almost finished with this. I'll do a final render of the parts and add some tweaks on the lot and it'll be done.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

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[art128 4,622]

16 hours ago, Krisman said:

Trying something new here ...

A couple of weeks ago I was traveling through Spain visiting some places in north-western Andalucía. And while visiting places like Úbeda, Baeza and Jaén the surrounding landscape was stunning as well ... as it was covered with olive trees as far as the eye could see. Especially terrasses where these threes are grown looked stunning.

So ... I had a try to replicate that look in my region (with is southern Europe based anyway) ...

The result so far:

the result is simply awesome! (I hope you don't mind if I borrow your idea and transform it to fit a Japanese themed agriculture)

[justforfun 7,927]

Freshly built... (well, just a few centuries ago):

 

[TheTimvh1 939]

13 hours ago, justforfun said:

Freshly built... (well, just a few centuries ago):

 

Nice! 👍 

[Honolulu 2,779]

A small update of the main entrance to the walled city and a beginning of port activity. Not much after all...

[Tyberius06 12,267]

4 hours ago, Honolulu said:

A small update of the main entrance to the walled city and a beginning of port activity. Not much after all...

As @Krisman's images, yours are also very much inspirational about heavy custom lotting and their use to create amazing scenes. Beautiful work both of you! 

[Null 45 3,114]

I was working on the UI for the extended terrain DLL, but I haven't been able to get the GZWinCombo control working yet. It shows up glitched in the UI.

I have no idea what the issue it. Maxis didn't use that control in their UI files, so I have no working reference on the required syntax.

Worst case I can drop the UI and make the command a cheat code.

[Krisman 4,652]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback on the olive try-out ;-)
Will definitely will continue with that to also get the volume ...

For now some shots of the nearby village, i liked @Oidaas Fritz Olsson building so I decided to incorporate that into the village.

 

[11241036 5,115]

My newest WIP: One out of the many small villages along the hilly southern shore of the peninsula shown below. In earlier days, it was founded by poor people living mostly from fishing, animal breeding and a few farm fields. Nowadays, it is slowly starting to add tourism to its list of sources of income. Hope you like it.

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@Krisman Your lotting is quite inspiring! When I'm done making my terrain mod, I'll export olive trees  

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Snow Groomer

new explosion effects?

[Null 45 3,114]

I got the terrain combo box working, I am guessing that my previous UI file was missing a few required properties. Maxis used a combo box for the zodiac signs in the Select a MySim UI file, so I was able to copy that control definition and modify it to suit my requirements.

There is still a lot more to do before the UI can alter the loaded terrain type, but getting the UI to work at all is a big step towards that.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

2 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

new explosion effects?

This might be interesting --

Is there more where that came from - ?

[Dead_End 1,630]

On 10/20/2024 at 11:17 AM, Tyberius06 said:

As @Krisman's images, yours are also very much inspirational about heavy custom lotting and their use to create amazing scenes. Beautiful work both of you! 

Yes, I blame the both of them for the fact that I spend more time lotting than actually playing the game

[Propfam 2,305]

21 hours ago, Null 45 said:

I got the terrain combo box working, I am guessing that my previous UI file was missing a few required properties. Maxis used a combo box for the zodiac signs in the Select a MySim UI file, so I was able to copy that control definition and modify it to suit my requirements.

There is still a lot more to do before the UI can alter the loaded terrain type, but getting the UI to work at all is a big step towards that.

So, what's really the function of this? Is this some Maxis leftovers?

[Null 45 3,114]

11 minutes ago, Jidan said:

Is this some Maxis leftovers?

Yeah. They appear to have planned for SC4 to have 4 terrain texture types to choose from (Arctic, Desert, Temperate and Tropical), presumably as an option in the New Region dialog. But they abandoned that idea at some point during the game's development, and only implemented the Tropical terrain type in the final game.

The code that allows SC4 to switch between different terrain types in terrain.ini was completed before Maxis abandoned the feature, the game reads a string that tells it what prefix to use for the terrain.ini section. Maxis set that string to Tropical, and this mod works by changing it to other values (e.g Desert).

The main advantage of this mod is that it would allow multiple terrain types to be loaded at once for use in different regions, but it would still require some setup to ensure that the terrain texture ids for the different mods don't overlap.

[MissVanleider 1,851]

On 15/10/2024 at 11:14 PM, justforfun said:

Thank you! You might have walked past these building if you've ever been in Colchester.  

Then I almost definitely have done. My office is in Elmstead Market, I go to Colchester frequently for lunch!