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[JulianMIA 1,610]

4 hours ago, Dead_End said:

Wondering what the community thinks. Is this pattern too much? The grass will be filled in with trees and flowers.

Looks nice!  In my opinion though the grass texture is too large for the lot given the size of the building.  That is a large building and if you were looking at it in real life from this angle the grass would just appear shades of green.  I have had this same issue quite a few times - loving a texture on it's own because of the detail but then finding it looked way to big v. the other items on the lot.  I have often taken the texture and 'quaded' it - using four of the original texture squares to create a more appropriately scaled version.  You do lose some detail for sure but it usually fits better with the surroundings.  Just my seven cents   

[Kel9509 1,483]

Working on a new building called the Department of Transportation that will show various stats in your city about road networks.  It won't include Airport/Seaport information because the query is big enough already.  I'm also not a BATter so I'll be repurposing an existing building for this lot.  Right now I'm thinking of using the Reynolds Building for it, with also probably an option for smaller cities to have a smaller building as well.

I'm still trying to find ways to make this a bit smaller, although I'm reluctant to remove the title headers like "Roads" or "Subways", etc.  But the query is about 860 pixels big already so it's pretty large.  I could try to move some items horizontally but I'm afraid it won't align so nicely.

Here's a snapshot of the Query so far:

[Dead_End 1,630]

1 hour ago, Ryuu Tenno said:

is the concern for the pattern regarding the grass texture or the walkway texture?

either way, I don't think it's too much, looks fine to me.

And, honestly, I wouldn't mind having the grass texture so I could use it in some lots, but I haven't done much lotting to warrant that just yet, lol

 

Though, I am curious as to how that would look if the default grass texture for the terrain was changed to that

Had doubts over the intricacy of the pattern I created. Was getting some real Versailles Gardens vibes 

The grass texture is just Lowkee's Appalachian grass through the TGN. It contains options for overwrites of several texture packs. I used the overlay textures from the BSC parks for the patterns.

[matias93 7,535]

3 hours ago, Kel9509 said:

I'm still trying to find ways to make this a bit smaller, although I'm reluctant to remove the title headers like "Roads" or "Subways", etc.  But the query is about 860 pixels big already so it's pretty large.  I could try to move some items horizontally but I'm afraid it won't align so nicely.

You might reduce by omitting certain statistics that aren't very actionable, like the number of tiles covered by stations of a certain type, or maybe the extremes of highest and lowest usage, which aren't very representative of the overall behaviour.

 

[Kel9509 1,483]

1 hour ago, matias93 said:

You might reduce by omitting certain statistics that aren't very actionable, like the number of tiles covered by stations of a certain type, or maybe the extremes of highest and lowest usage, which aren't very representative of the overall behaviour.

I didn't really want to remove any stats because even if they're not so useful people might find them interesting.  Also, some of the revised station UIs in the NAM count the # of station tiles so I wanted to keep that also.  I just figure it's a way of saying how many doors a station has.

I tried a more horizontal query.  Instead of 549 wide x 858 in height, this one is 824 wide by 601 in height:

[justforfun 7,928]

Two more diagonals:

[Ssaidd 1,368]

after months finally filled up this part

[Koonam 540]

I think this will be the last fix. I extended the height of the building to about 130%. The building is now comfortable to see.  

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

xmas market

[nightbird615 1,440]

4 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

xmas market

What a great idea!  Hope to see those released soon.     Thank you.

[TheTimvh1 939]

6 hours ago, nightbird615 said:

What a great idea!  Hope to see those released soon.     Thank you.

Very pretty Christmas lots.

[TheTimvh1 939]

6 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

xmas market

 

6 hours ago, nightbird615 said:

What a great idea!  Hope to see those released soon.     Thank you.

Very pretty Christmas lots

[TheTimvh1 939]

5 hours ago, TheTimvh1 said:

 

Very pretty Christmas lots

Whoops I thought I edited my initial comment to include both of the above after initially goofing it; now I find out I posted my comment twice.😅  Oh well.

[JulianMIA 1,610]

So I might now have 2/1000000th's of the new city complete but it's progress.  I've started to build lots to do things like top the tunnel areas and finding props to give everything more detail and I am really liking how my 'rail walls' - network-enabled lots that let the trains on the otherwise useless slopes - are saving space.  And looking cool :).

I particularly like how I was able to get the high-speed line to come down the ramp and immediately duck under the overpass.  Little things that give big satisfaction ...

 

[TG24 355]

I expanded my city and it's looking pretty good imo.

[Rott 2,399]

Working on something a little more unique, trying to incorporate the greenery into the lot itself since the LODs wont allow them as props...

Trees/shrubs sort of mixed results so far I'd say...

[jestarr 3,423]

Over the holidays I introduced my granddaughter to SimCity 4. She was enthralled with all the custom assets, so I installed the BAT and we ended up with this. Still needs a little work but I like it.

[ncamferdam 1,504]

Next entry in my City Journal is complete. Here I finish the overview of my port facilities.

[justforfun 7,928]

11 hours ago, Rott said:

Working on something a little more unique, trying to incorporate the greenery into the lot itself since the LODs wont allow them as props..

You can solve this by creating custom LODs. There should be a tutorial somewhere, but in essence you duplicate your un-textured BAT, mesh all its elements into one, and name the result LOD1, LOD2, LOD3, LOD4, and LOD5. I'm not a BATter but I believe this is roughly the method. In this way the LODs will tightly fit the shape of your BAT and you'll be able to plop any props inside or next to them without clipping. It's easier than modelling vegetation, and it also allows for more variety as you can then use prop families in the lot. 

[Rott 2,399]

9 hours ago, justforfun said:

You can solve this by creating custom LODs. There should be a tutorial somewhere, but in essence you duplicate your un-textured BAT, mesh all its elements into one, and name the result LOD1, LOD2, LOD3, LOD4, and LOD5. I'm not a BATter but I believe this is roughly the method. In this way the LODs will tightly fit the shape of your BAT and you'll be able to plop any props inside or next to them without clipping. It's easier than modelling vegetation, and it also allows for more variety as you can then use prop families in the lot. 

Interesting, I'm not sure how to do it but if anyone knows of this tutorial please let me know.

[EffTheGrid 3,726]

3 hours ago, Rott said:

Interesting, I'm not sure how to do it but if anyone knows of this tutorial please let me know.

Second - I've always heard about creating custom LODs but I could never find out how to. 

It's one of the things that held me back from making more complicated projects.

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

3 hours ago, Rott said:

Interesting, I'm not sure how to do it but if anyone knows of this tutorial please let me know.

 

[IDS2 3,429]

The beauty of LODs is that they're just like any other geometry, so you can edit them to your heart's content. The only thing that matters is that they're named correctly so that the export script can find them to do its thing. 

Here's an example of a custom LOD I did recently. For this particular application, it was imperative that the LODs were skin tight, but for most buildings that's not important. Just as long as all of the geometry you're trying to have visible in the render is bounded by the LOD, that's what matters.

Here's another example. This is the LOD I made for this building. In this case, I just cut enough of it out that I could place props in the unbounded areas. I didn't need to do the bevel on the top part, but since the LOD is what gets selected when you use the query tool (ever try to hover over a building but get a neighboring one instead? that's because its LODs aren't tight enough), I'm picky about it.

Bear in mind that the LOD is the actual 3D geometry that gets loaded in the game, and so it's advisable to keep the polygon count as low as possible (there's actually a hard cap on this, I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of ~600) so you're not steamrolling the game engine if you have a large city tile full of buildings with complex LODs.

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

I updated my "Heavy Machinery DLC":

By the way, trucks are not included.

[Simizen 1,100]

nice!!! I wonder if they can be turned into automata? especially those giant ones on the right

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

14 hours ago, Ryuu Tenno said:

nice!!! I wonder if they can be turned into automata? especially those giant ones on the right

Technically it is possible, but it would be too time consuming to do so.  

[jestarr 3,423]

So, this one is done. I'm just waiting to see when/if it grows.

 

Also, the modeling is done on this one. I just need to adjust the lighting a bit. There will be two versions - one with warehouse doors on the front only and one with doors on the front and back.

[Simizen 1,100]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

Technically it is possible, but it would be too time consuming to do so.  

lol, that's fair

[Dreadnought 8,231]

YO, GUYS ---

Another Chapter of “IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS: CUXHAVEN”…

 

Chapter 39:

THE REMAINS OF

THE DAY

 

 

 

 

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SORRY – NO prop pack this time. “AP” got back from his “holiday” travels and had to turn right around and leave for another work assignment. There’s not very much left in the cupboard – but we’ll try to get something out soon……

 

[justforfun 7,928]

Yet two more diagonals: