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[hugues aroux 3,867]

10 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

that makes the rocks look weird, like they are crushed

ohoh, ... shuuush! Don't say anything, you wretch; no one had noticed any crushing!!

And seriously, if I just stick to my first observation, it's really not obvious. And the result is very very... very good!! And this crushing effect is a bit normal: you give your brain identical shadow (relief) information in vertical and projection! As a new observer (me here), focusing only on the SC4 "view", only see a rugged relief of rocks. In addition, the difference in light from the "base map" and that of SC4 (in your presentation here) can accentuate this impression (of crushing). My question would be: in the game, does such relief (shading) keep its "strength" in the 3 other orientations (east - south...)?!

[11241036 5,115]

A lighthouse near a cove. More is coming up soon in my CJ (or at least as soon as I'm finding time to finish it).

[simmering 2,743]

I started to venture into mountainous terrain.

 

[Krisman 4,652]

Couple of 'zoomed-out' shots of my city ... back to rural life now, leaving this city alone for now ...

[justforfun 7,928]

Making new diagonal row houses, and this is the first one:

[Null 45 3,117]

Playing around with a prototype that adds a 'chainsaw' mode to the bulldozer tool. In this mode it ignores all non-flora occupants when demolishing an area.

It should be possible to add filtering for various other occupant types, but flora was just the easiest to test. I currently have the chainsaw mode activate by pressing 'F' when the Bulldozer tool is active, you can also press 'N' to revert it to its original 'demolish everything' mode.

[matias93 7,535]

13 minutes ago, Null 45 said:

Playing around with a prototype that adds a 'chainsaw' mode to the bulldozer tool. In this mode it ignores all non-flora occupants when demolishing an area.

It should be possible to add filtering for various other occupant types, but flora was just the easiest to test. I currently have the chainsaw mode activate by pressing 'F' when the Bulldozer tool is active, you can also press 'N' to revert it to its original 'demolish everything' mode.

This has a tremendous potential!

It does remove flora in built lots as well? And does it distinguish between god mode flora and MMPs?

[Null 45 3,117]

1 minute ago, matias93 said:

It does remove flora in built lots as well?

Most likely. The only thing it checks is the occupant type, filtering for any occupant that the game considers to be flora. I also don't think it distinguishes between God mode and Mayor mode flora. All the flora in that video is God mode, but I wouldn't expect there to be any difference in behavior as both should be considered flora occupants by the game.

[Dead_End 1,630]

Working on this lot with a set of apartments:

[justforfun 7,928]

Just updated the latest packs of semi-detached houses. Nothing dramatic, I just touched up on a few textures, perfected minor details and corrected a lotting oversight. For anyone interested: 

 

[jestarr 3,423]

I became bored with this model and put it on the backburner. I've since resurrected it and am working on a brick texture for it. The texture is a little too clean--needs a bit of dirtying. It's at about 50% currently.

[JulianMIA 1,610]

4 hours ago, jestarr said:

I became bored with this model and put it on the backburner. I've since resurrected it and am working on a brick texture for it. The texture is a little too clean--needs a bit of dirtying. It's at about 50% currently.

Very strong lines and nice overall design, the windows and ledges already add much detail and interest to the facade.  Maybe some seams and weathering on the roof would move it much closer to being finished 

[davide1983it 5,426]

Harold Bulding :-)

The shape is similiar to Empire State Building

[Null 45 3,117]

Extending the Query UI DLL to handle Shift + Click cloning for some types of flora. 

It appears to only work with the types that have their own hover query tool tip, the MMPs I tried without a hover query tool tip were invisible to the query tool.

[smf_16 1,838]

I'm currently working on a new command for my sc4 cli tool that allows you to plop all specified lots. Much like the PlopAllLots cheat, but with the possibility to specify exactly what folders need to be scanned for lots. Here is Diego Del Llano's entire collection, mixed with all of mattb325's residential houses.

 

[JulioC 2,581]

I edited the Yucatán Tree Controller to create a new generic tropical tree controller:

I kept the simplicity because that's what I wanted from it. I just wanted a tree controller to fill the forests that never get close-up attention and are seem from afar. If I want more variety in some scene I just add more MMP there. I'm not so sure if I will release it, since it was just a small replacement on the "resource keys" parameters of the YTC, I didn't do any other editing on it, if people are interested just let me know. I'm also wondering if I should replace these parasol pines on the cliffsides (see last pic) and put some brushes and smaller flora there. Suggestions welcomed since I'm open to do more editing on it to refinish it a little!

[justforfun 7,928]

The second diagonal rows for the new pack:

[Null 45 3,117]

New icons for the bulldozer tool when in the flora and network modes.

[JulianMIA 1,610]

One of the things I always wanted to build was a lot that would allow trains to run on the slopes so that you could reduce the real estate needed to get a lot of busy tracks through a tight area, the slopes around a set of tracks that were on a higher or lower level would often just be wasted space.  So I'm doing it finally...

I'm also using the opportunity to make a much deeper dive into things like transit switches and enabling, things I want to do but never really learned before.  I've taken a lot that was a HRW/RRW station and converted it and it works - passenger rail, freight trains, and HSR all run through it.  The only problem I am having is that while the passenger rail and freight rail pass through perfectly, the HSR trains are still stopping on the lot and I'm not sure why.  So I'm still working on it.

And I'm working on tunnels because I always work on tunnels...

[Krisman 4,652]

Obviously when you have the olive fields, you also need and olive press facility for the olive oil extraction ...
So it made sense for me to create such a facility ...

[JulianMIA 1,610]

22 minutes ago, Krisman said:

Obviously when you have the olive fields, you also need and olive press facility for the olive oil extraction ...
So it made sense for me to create such a facility ...

Beautiful details!

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

WIP

[nikoxlaux 256]

55 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

WIP

Divino 

[simmering 2,743]

On 19/11/2024 at 6:07 PM, Null 45 said:

Playing around with a prototype that adds a 'chainsaw' mode to the bulldozer tool. In this mode it ignores all non-flora occupants when demolishing an area.

It should be possible to add filtering for various other occupant types, but flora was just the easiest to test. I currently have the chainsaw mode activate by pressing 'F' when the Bulldozer tool is active, you can also press 'N' to revert it to its original 'demolish everything' mode.

Oh yes! This would allow me to clear all my wrongly timed seasonal woods.

[Dead_End 1,630]

I've uploaded the set of apartments to the STEX:

 

[kschmidt 6,223]

New Chicago McKinley Park 02 !

McKinley park has grown in citizenship and work establishement since last time ! A Oil Refinery, Hi-Tec area, Food industries....Let´s see here the residential area of McKineley park !

Downtown Civics and a little University !

North across the river is the industrial area with a brand new Oil Refinery for distribution and supply over water aswell !

Chemical industrie, including a coal and iron ore dock !

Rail logistic related infrastructure !

Food related back across the river on the Bridgeport side !

Some use for empty space a small agricultural area as industrial caps matched out !

This is and adjacant zones are very large, Bridgeport conscist of this and two other tiles east from McKinley park and will covered in the next post !

Enjoy !

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

 

[nikoxlaux 256]

6 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

 

Absolute stunning work!!!

[jestarr 3,423]

Started fooling around with roof junk as my texture making efforts weren't going anywhere. I'll probably change the roof access building to something different. I don't think it fits well.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

31 minutes ago, jestarr said:

I'll probably change the roof access building to something different. I don't think it fits well.

 

Suggesting ideas, typically on older industry buildings being renovated we would find that the roof items such as chimneys, roof access etc. were built during the masonry stage of the build and they would be made with the same masonry materials of the rest of the building, so brick in this case.  On new construction typically we see either a match to the type of siding material below or basically covered in roofing material.