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[philforhockey51 4,220]

On 1/12/2025 at 6:13 PM, Krisman said:

Building a new neighborhood ...

Your prop choice and placement are so good I know you have seen a construction site in person more than once. I'm curious to see them in PIM-X layout. I have a larger de-construction site on my list of lots to work on in the future.
 

On 1/16/2025 at 2:48 AM, JulianMIA said:

I changed the vents in the side wall to get a more crisp look out of them but now I might have made them too big?

They are not too big actually some tunnels have vents that are basically the size of the wall but the screening material makes it look like a wall so most people don't even notice them. I do think though there are too many on your layout. I think it might look better with just maybe only two vents at the start of those long walls. I'm really liking the look of these pieces, great choice in texture and style, they look sharp.

 

On 1/16/2025 at 3:45 PM, jestarr said:

I wish I had oppie's and citynut's canal files too, but I only have SG's and Cal's.

Looks good, how big is it 1x3 1x2? May I suggest releasing it on a 1x1 without a base as well so it can be plopped on whichever canal or mmp water the player uses

[JulianMIA 1,607]

7 hours ago, Honolulu said:

Construction in slow motion, but still moving forward.

Such lovely detail, amazing work!

[JulianMIA 1,607]

2 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

Your prop choice and placement are so good I know you have seen a construction site in person more than once. I'm curious to see them in PIM-X layout. I have a larger de-construction site on my list of lots to work on in the future.
 

They are not too big actually some tunnels have vents that are basically the size of the wall but the screening material makes it look like a wall so most people don't even notice them. I do think though there are too many on your layout. I think it might look better with just maybe only two vents at the start of those long walls. I'm really liking the look of these pieces, great choice in texture and style, they look sharp.

 

Looks good, how big is it 1x3 1x2? May I suggest releasing it on a 1x1 without a base as well so it can be plopped on whichever canal or mmp water the player uses

I actually agree about the number of vents, 2 would be ideal.  The issue however is that since it's baked into the lot foundation texture, which IS the wall, it just repeats the texture and to avoid that you'd need to break up the lot into multiple pieces to apply a lot foundation texture with no vent.  The really long walls ( -> 4 tiles) will not have them.  I always find it easier to build these particular lots, what I call 'TunnelTops', as a single piece so you can texture and prop it all together (and you avoid unsightly seems!!).  Soooooo much easier...

Thanks for the compliment also!

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[Null 45 3,113]

Testing various terrain texture overrides as I try to determine where the game uses them, this is part of a planned update to my extended terrain mod that will allow some of Maxis's hard-coded textures to be configured in terrain.ini. The following image is what I am referring to as a mid-shore texture (IID 0x00000Z13). None of the terrain mods I have looked at override it, but it may work well for things like coral reefs.

The lava texture shown in the above image is from this thread.

The texture 0x00000ZE0 in SimCity_2.dat looks like black sand, but I have never seen it in-game. It does not appear to be associated with the volcano/lava, so I can only guess that it is a deep seabed texture that isn't visible with the game's default terrain settings.

[ohdude 2,353]

23 hours ago, Honolulu said:

Construction in slow motion, but still moving forward.

Nice work! @Honolulu

Which street tree mod and which trees are those you're using in that part of the picture?

[Honolulu 2,779]

On 21-01-2025 at 8:25 AM, ohdude said:

Nice work!

Thank you for your magnificent work...

On 21-01-2025 at 8:25 AM, ohdude said:

Which street tree mod and which trees are those you're using in that part of the picture?

No mod....This is just lotting done with Girafe's parking bays and plane trees. And CP's street planters of course.

Hope this help.

[ohdude 2,353]

ahh ok! thanks for the info. @Honolulu

One of my dreams is to make a mod based on Andreas Roth's BSC SFBT Street Tree Mod replacing its props with the Girafe's urban pack vol 1 and some of Girafe's trees. The reason is that I find the first one is using low quality props that can be replaced with the Girafe's which looks and fit better to me. In that picture you posted, I've could see how it would look. @Krisman is also showing in his works a good idea of how it would look (but i think what he post are a lots and not a street tree mod).

[Honolulu 2,779]

6 minutes ago, ohdude said:

@Krisman is also showing in his works a good idea of how it would look (but i think what he post are a lots and not a street tree mod).

Only @Krisman can tell you, but I think you're right.

[JulioC 2,581]

1 hour ago, ohdude said:

ahh ok! thanks for the info. @Honolulu

One of my dreams is to make a mod based on Andreas Roth's BSC SFBT Street Tree Mod replacing its props with the Girafe's urban pack vol 1 and some of Girafe's trees. The reason is that I find the first one is using low quality props that can be replaced with the Girafe's which looks and fit better to me. In that picture you posted, I've could see how it would look. @Krisman is also showing in his works a good idea of how it would look (but i think what he post are a lots and not a street tree mod).

Krisman (amazing) work is all Lot Editor too - just look at the cars on the roads - they're Giraffe car props, not automatas

Anyway, i'm not sure if it were 11241036 or hughes aroux or even someone else but i remember seeing someone doing a WIP of a updated streetside mod like the SFBT one here on simtropolis - unfortunately the search engine didn't help me to find who it was. If you find that same post, you should reach that person and talk about a collab, offer help, ask for it, i don't know. Also, you could try to learn how to do T21 edit. It's not the easiest thing when you begin but after a while it's not that hard, only boring lol

[Haljackey 17,398]

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[hugues aroux 3,867]

4 hours ago, ohdude said:

is to make a mod based on Andreas Roth's BSC SFBT Street Tree Mod

I did a "small revision" (! ) of this plugin... if it helps, motivate for yours,...

 

[justforfun 7,926]

Starting a new pack of offices. This is the first one:

[Krisman 4,652]

8 hours ago, ohdude said:

ahh ok! thanks for the info. @Honolulu

One of my dreams is to make a mod based on Andreas Roth's BSC SFBT Street Tree Mod replacing its props with the Girafe's urban pack vol 1 and some of Girafe's trees. The reason is that I find the first one is using low quality props that can be replaced with the Girafe's which looks and fit better to me. In that picture you posted, I've could see how it would look. @Krisman is also showing in his works a good idea of how it would look (but i think what he post are a lots and not a street tree mod).

Indeed, same as @Honolulu ... mine is all lotted as well. And it is one of the reasons why I lot a lot ;-), to get a more realistic look of the city streets.

[11241036 5,115]

6 hours ago, JulioC said:

Krisman (amazing) work is all Lot Editor too - just look at the cars on the roads - they're Giraffe car props, not automatas

Anyway, i'm not sure if it were 11241036 or hughes aroux or even someone else but i remember seeing someone doing a WIP of a updated streetside mod like the SFBT one here on simtropolis - unfortunately the search engine didn't help me to find who it was. If you find that same post, you should reach that person and talk about a collab, offer help, ask for it, i don't know. Also, you could try to learn how to do T21 edit. It's not the easiest thing when you begin but after a while it's not that hard, only boring lol

I believe that was me, see link below. I'm currently working on it, most likely, I will replace Maxis' cars by Girafe's cars. If you and @ohdude are really interested in this, please make sure to read the full post, as this mod will have some drawbacks.

 

[mallenuk 193]

How to master hills in SimCity 4! I plan to construct out the highway with an interchange at the corner of the elevated terrain and then continue the suburb backward with different developments (different apartment blocks). For now though. I am happy to see this terracing method works really well aesthetically with a realistic road gradient and the retaining walls being a feature in themselves, along with the slope showcasing the apartment blocks fully. For the corner lots I have located a premium 'landmark' development.

[jestarr 3,423]

@philforhockey51 That barge is 1x4.  There'll be some on canals and some as props so people can do what they want with them. Since I'm redoing all the barges I've made,  there'll be about 80 props in both HD and SD, in various sizes, when finished.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

So I did a thing and I'm not sure how would be the best way to share it or even if anyone would make use of it or want it. I saved a version of all IRM fillers with a revised plop cost creating a sorting order in the in game menu. For All fillers including Twrecks, KOSC, and PHIL. However this set has also been made seasonal so any lot that had grass or dirt and shrubs now has girafe seasonal flora. All other dependencies are the same, user would need to delete the original lot files and replace with this version, any plopped would need to be bulldozed.. The cost change however would make this unreasonable for anyone not using the moolah cheat I would think. 

[ncamferdam 1,503]

Next entry in my City Journal is complete. This one I'm particularly happy with (and it took me way longer than the others, lol).

[Rott 2,398]

Almost done, could probably use some more work on the trees perhaps?

[matias93 7,535]

8 hours ago, ncamferdam said:

This intermingling of industrial and residential looks fantastic! I've tried my hand at it, but yours is better...

[ncamferdam 1,503]

5 hours ago, matias93 said:

This intermingling of industrial and residential looks fantastic! I've tried my hand at it, but yours is better...

That’s high praise, thank you.

Yeah, this is probably my favorite area so far. I never messed with W2W layouts before, but now I can’t get enough of it

[Koonam 539]

I'm working on 'Guaranty Building' for BAT. I need to make the back of the building now...

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[Dead_End 1,630]

Had some time today to tinker around with PIM-X. It's a relot of a church by @mattb325. Think it needs a bit more detailing. Maybe some small overlays on the grass or flowers?

[JulioC 2,581]

2 hours ago, Dead_End said:

Had some time today to tinker around with PIM-X. It's a relot of a church by @mattb325. Think it needs a bit more detailing. Maybe some small overlays on the grass or flowers?

Hmm some dirt/leaves overlay may be interesting! Looking good already, but if you find some "brownish" overlay texture to "break" the green specially in/near the gravestone would be a nice touch

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[JulianMIA 1,607]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G

[justforfun 7,926]

8 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

Lovely collection of monuments! Have you ever come across a statue of Britannia?

[justforfun 7,926]

This new w2w office can be used either as 1x1 or in sequence to form a bigger block, like here: