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[pikachu_SQ 1,111]

I found more files about the old Shinkansen Mod. Quite many version...

[Ernestmaxis 232]

Creating images for the MMP

[art128 4,622]

11 hours ago, Ernestmaxis said:

Creating images for the MMP

I like this.

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@hugues aroux There are 6 textures (Even if it doesn't seem like it) .  Right now I'm using 12 snow related textures but I might end up using 14.

I modified a texture that controls the darkness of the terrain shadows, the direction of the sun, and that annoying reddish color.

Modified:

Maxis Original:

Modified:

Maxis Original

I can make it look a lot whiter, but unfortunately it wouldn't fit well with the other textures in the game xD

 

[hugues aroux 3,867]

6 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

There are 6 textures

I admit that I don't know how terrain textures are composed and assembled, and I didn't imagine that 12 were needed to produce this (damn, with 2, I was way off the mark) - uuh I said 12 more or less!? huhu. Impressed by the work that it represents. Too bad for this dominant "pink", (!!??) Maxis wanted to produce a reflection of light in the pink hues that we find on many photos of mountains, perhaps (or not ;-) ). Even if in "reality" we don't perceive it that way. The choice to reduce it is a good thing, because it's a little to strong! Nice work.

[Null 45 3,113]

I added a new logging option to the More Building Styles DLL that writes the location of every plot the game wants to develop. Here is a small snippet of that log:

Developer=Cs§ | Development-type=Same Size Lot | cellX=38 | cellZ=70 | sizeX=1 | sizeZ=2 | facing=1 | bounds=[37, 70, 38, 70] | lot-state=Ready (1) | slope=2.940162 | score=0.000000
Developer=Cs§ | Development-type=Same Size Lot | cellX=38 | cellZ=70 | sizeX=1 | sizeZ=2 | facing=1 | bounds=[37, 70, 38, 70] | lot-state=Ready (1) | slope=2.940162 | score=0.000000
Developer=R§ | Development-type=Same Size Lot | cellX=54 | cellZ=86 | sizeX=1 | sizeZ=2 | facing=3 | bounds=[54, 86, 55, 86] | lot-state=Occupied (3) | slope=1.313590 | score=14.000000
  Existing Lot: id=0x30000B30 | name=R$3_1x2 -- Building: id = 0x00AC0000 | exemplar-name = R$8x10_123NYTinyHouse7_00AC | display-name = Small Ranch House
Developer=R§ | Development-type=Same Size Lot | cellX=54 | cellZ=86 | sizeX=1 | sizeZ=2 | facing=3 | bounds=[54, 86, 55, 86] | lot-state=Occupied (3) | slope=1.313590 | score=14.000000
  Existing Lot: id=0x30000B30 | name=R$3_1x2 -- Building: id = 0x00AC0000 | exemplar-name = R$8x10_123NYTinyHouse7_00AC | display-name = Small Ranch House

There are probably some interesting things that could be done with access to the existing lot as part of the style selection algorithm, but I haven't investigated that.

I am attaching a zipped version of the full log. SC4MoreBuildingStyles_log.zip

[jestarr 3,423]

I made this this afternoon as I wanted a different 1x3 building for the small town I was making. The textures are only for visual appeal, so you don't have to see just the default gmax colors. They'll mostly be changed.

[justforfun 7,926]

19 hours ago, jestarr said:

I made this this afternoon as I wanted a different 1x3 building for the small town I was making. The textures are only for visual appeal, so you don't have to see just the default gmax colors. They'll mostly be changed.

Can you please release also this version just as it is? I like these textures. 

[Tyberius06 12,263]

Hi everybody!

After the release of Matt's I moved to organize @jestarr's used to be SC4D LEX releases into nice compilations and in the meantime the transportation related lots will get a facelift to meet with todays NAM/MTA standards. In the meantime however I spent some time with a side project that I've been working on. @Krio has sent me a bunch of models and lots for around 15 possible releases at the beginning of the year. I meant to bring them to a release sooner, but too many projects not enough time, so it is what it is, slowly slowly I'm working on them. 

Last week I released in the behalf of Krio the TG Krio Elanto HQ

 

The plopable version has an interesting hidden feature. It works as a subway station. I like this concept and probably there's gonna be more with this concept. 

 

The past few days I was working on an other Krio creation, which is called TG Krio Liittopankki Office. Well in the Kriocities it is a bank. Anyway This building is coming with CAM and non-CAM growable lots, plopable and diagonal options.

Little overview about the versions:

The Jestarr compilation might not gonna be ready before middle December, as I'm planning to go to a little vacation next week for two weeks, but I hope to re-host them before Christmas. 

- Tyberius06

[jestarr 3,423]

@justforfun I can do that. I've already rendered it, so as soon as I can make a lot I'll upload it.

[Null 45 3,113]

I am working on a Prevent Cross-Style Redevelopment check box for the More Building Styles DLL. When checked, it attempts to force the game to replace existing buildings that it redevelops with one that has the same building style. It works, but I am not sure if it is 100% reliable. There are cases where SC4 will skip my existing building style check, e.g. if the building/lot doesn't exist for some reason. But I don't know how common those cases are.

Here is a snippet of the debug log output:

0x00830000 (R$16x8_123ChiTinyHouse11_0083) supports building style 0x2000.
New building styles [ 0x00002000 ] do not match at least one of the old building styles [ 0x00002001 ].
0x00a50000 (R$16x8_123ChiTinyHouse10_00A5) supports building style 0x2000.
New building styles [ 0x00002000 ] do not match at least one of the old building styles [ 0x00002001 ].
0x00a50000 (R$16x8_123ChiTinyHouse10_00A5) supports building style 0x2000.
New building styles [ 0x00002000 ] match at least one of the old building styles [ 0x00002000 ].
0x00a40000 (R$16x8_123ChiTinyHouse9_00A4) supports building style 0x2000.
New building styles [ 0x00002000 ] match at least one of the old building styles [ 0x00002000 ].

I am not sure how much demand there is for this kind of feature, but some people may find it useful.

[Girafarig 1,414]

It's always nice to start a new town somewhere in your region

[Krisman 4,652]

Made some changes to one of the newer parts of my city so it fits better with the historical part of my city ...
Think that the old city wall looks a bit better now ...

(and many thanks to @Jasoncw for all the superb buildings ... and @Barroco Hispano for all the vehicles ...)

[Girafarig 1,414]

Building ditches and canals is actually quite exhausting, but at least you get some nice scenery out of it —like this earthen dam and reservoir I plan on using as the base for more irrigation ditches.

The water canal actually comes from the wet side of a mountain the next town over, so it's been quite an impressive water transportation (and lot placing) feat.

The dam building process. This was a pretty flat valley, so all I had to do was build the road and then fully flatten the ground.

And here's the dam fully built up, including a nice little waterfront. I would now need to place drainage irrigation ditches for the farms below, but overall, I'm pretty happy with the result.

[Rott 2,398]

The museum is almost done, adding my own foliage directly into the lot because LODs really hate props.

By the way, does anyone have any models of smaller trees or shrubs I could incorporate into the lot, I have some there but they consist of way too many geospheres which might affect the rendering.

 

[JulioC 2,581]

2 hours ago, Rott said:

shrubs

 

What about this method here:

I know it's in 3dsMax but we can do the same with gmax. 

[jestarr 3,423]

First in-game lot test to see if I like it or not. We'll see.

[Kel9509 1,479]

On 11/13/2024 at 2:21 AM, Null 45 said:

I am working on a Prevent Cross-Style Redevelopment check box for the More Building Styles DLL. When checked, it attempts to force the game to replace existing buildings that it redevelops with one that has the same building style.

I am not sure how much demand there is for this kind of feature, but some people may find it useful.

I actually think this would be used almost all the time.  If I develop a neighborhood within a city that has a unique style, like a Chinatown for NYC, I'd like to preserve that style while still permitting it to grow.  The way this happens now is that I'd grow a neighborhood by selecting a different building style, making them historical, and then when I want them to grow, un-checking the historical option and having them grow.  The problem, of course, is that switching between styles within a city means that the style can develop anywhere outside of the neighborhood.  This would certainly help in solving that problem. 

Like I said, I think it might be the default choice for many.

[Null 45 3,113]

58 minutes ago, Kel9509 said:

Like I said, I think it might be the default choice for many.

This feature has now been released in version 3.2.0 of the More Building Styles DLL.

I just noticed that the logging code is printing the style id numbers in 2 different formats. The code that logs if a building is supported doesn't pad the style number to 8 hexadecimal characters, while the code that logs if the new building style(s) match the old building style(s) does. It is not a major issue, but I wish I noticed that discrepancy before releasing version 3.2.0.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

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[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@hugues aroux I just finished and used 18 snow textures in total. If I'm not mistaken, the terrain mod with the most snow textures is Gobia's Sudden Valley (9 textures). You can't imagine the amount of time and money it took me to do this but after two months, this is the result:

To be honest, I don't like some of the textures but I'm tired and it's really hard to find more snow textures to blend. All the textures I used were bought or downloaded for free on specialized photogrammetry and substance designer sites, then I used substance sampler to blend them and 3DsMax to render them (To do this, each texture needs an albedo, ambient occlusion, roughness, normal and height map. That means I used hundreds of bitmaps to make 18 textures). I used photoshop only to reduce the texture size and the remover tool to remove some repetitive patterns.

 

[Honolulu 2,779]

Seeking to integrate the lot in different contexts...

[hugues aroux 3,867]

22 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

To be honest

To be honest .. I am .. flabbergasted! I find that your efforts for these high altitude snows are most beautiful! Both the blurring on the rocky outcrops, the convolutions of the wind or the relief ... Yes, I can understand a certain weariness ... where you only see the small defects .. ;-) ... but the spectator does not see them! Frankly you have done a great job!

[hugues aroux 3,867]

15 minutes ago, Honolulu said:

lot in different contexts

Eeeeh that looks great! And they make butter with Guérande salt at Legoff?

[Honolulu 2,779]

I really like the way this little experiment is turning out.

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,838]

Finger slipped on the zoom button while redesigning Monkley Fields, might as well take a photo while I'm up here.
 

 

[Dead_End 1,630]

The Konsum relot is now available:

 

[Ernestmaxis 232]

Excellent loting!

6 minutes ago, Dead_End said:

The Konsum relot is now available:

 

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

One of the problems with my method is that I have to render the texture from top view and that makes the rocks look weird, like they are crushed xD

This is how it should look:

And this is what the rocks look like in the rendered texture from above

Maps used

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Samu64d 360]

New set in developement...

 

  Edited November 17, 2024 by Samu64d