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[kergelen 769]

Growing

 

The Mayor House on top of a small hill, in a low density area, surrounded by high and medium density

 

I like how the small park near the stadium are turning out

[Dead_End 1,630]

On 1/25/2025 at 4:56 PM, JulioC said:

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

Thanks! I agree that the green is still a bit bland and some brown might just spice things up. The paths are overlays and take up quite some space, so the new overlays will have to be pretty small to prevent overlapping.

I've been looking at the SC4PropTextureCatalog, but I'm up for suggestions if anyone has any!

Here's how it looks now:

[dohraymii 430]

The southwest central area of Sector 11 is developing, thanks to the Rollins River Tunnel:

[11241036 5,115]

I just released my new mod for adding parking bays to Maxis street in urban areas, as an alternative to the SFBT streetside mod. Hope you like it, but please read the Readme, it's tricky to install and use.

[JulianMIA 1,609]

The GDN project has been way, way more time consuming than I thought it would be haha.  In addition to the recoloring, I have also converted it to HRW and GLR and these two parts have worked great, I've now started on the rest of the lotting.

BUT.  I have now run up against the maximum prop count allowance which I did not know was a thing.  So the entry circles and the parking lot and planted plaza are separate lots but I included the two front entry drives and the north side bus drive in the main station lot - which I now realize was a mistake as there is still much to complete in my original design.  Now I'm going to have to cut 3 wide of tiles off the south side of the station and eliminate props from the track area

The better solution is to probably cut off the whole front two entry lanes to their own lot.  But I don't want to do so much work haha.

Lesson learned about HUGE lots.  Still, I like how it is coming out!

  

[Dreadnought 8,231]

1 hour ago, JulianMIA said:

The GDN project has been way, way more time consuming than I thought it would be haha.  In addition to the recoloring, I have also converted it to HRW and GLR and these two parts have worked great, I've now started on the rest of the lotting.

BUT.  I have now run up against the maximum prop count allowance which I did not know was a thing.  So the entry circles and the parking lot and planted plaza are separate lots but I included the two front entry drives and the north side bus drive in the main station lot - which I now realize was a mistake as there is still much to complete in my original design.  Now I'm going to have to cut 3 wide of tiles off the south side of the station and eliminate props from the track area

The better solution is to probably cut off the whole front two entry lanes to their own lot.  But I don't want to do so much work haha.

Lesson learned about HUGE lots.  Still, I like how it is coming out!

  

There are, indeed, practical limitations to the SC4 system -- even more so when (like me) you might not have the programming skills some in our community have.

I have always been reluctant to make lots of massive size, but not because of the limitation on prop levels.  I prefer making large lots like these out of modular 1x1 lots that can be used in several different situations.  The main structure is the centerpiece of a complex -- while 1x1's and 1x2's are used to fill in around the main building -- thereby expanding the associated lot.  They make it easy to move things around, providing random "variety" -- while making it possible to fit them into odd-shaped spaces of different sizes -- and even breaking up the street grid with odd-sized lots.  Modular lots are also an easy answer to the problem of maxing-out the props on a single lot.

No criticism -- just a thought...... 

[ohdude 2,353]

17 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

The GDN project has been way, way more time consuming than I thought it would be haha.  In addition to the recoloring, I have also converted it to HRW and GLR and these two parts have worked great, I've now started on the rest of the lotting.

BUT.  I have now run up against the maximum prop count allowance which I did not know was a thing.  So the entry circles and the parking lot and planted plaza are separate lots but I included the two front entry drives and the north side bus drive in the main station lot - which I now realize was a mistake as there is still much to complete in my original design.  Now I'm going to have to cut 3 wide of tiles off the south side of the station and eliminate props from the track area

The better solution is to probably cut off the whole front two entry lanes to their own lot.  But I don't want to do so much work haha.

Lesson learned about HUGE lots.  Still, I like how it is coming out!

 

  I love it. And the nightlights are much more appropiate in my opinion. Just fits better in my cities

[philforhockey51 4,220]

22 hours ago, Dead_End said:

Thanks! I agree that the green is still a bit bland and some brown might just spice things up. The paths are overlays and take up quite some space, so the new overlays will have to be pretty small to prevent overlapping.

I've been looking at the SC4PropTextureCatalog, but I'm up for suggestions if anyone has any!

 

 

Is that 5 x 4? I have an idea for the texture I'll check and send to you

[justforfun 7,926]

Third office for the new pack:

[JulianMIA 1,609]

16 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

There are, indeed, practical limitations to the SC4 system -- even more so when (like me) you might not have the programming skills some in our community have.

I have always been reluctant to make lots of massive size, but not because of the limitation on prop levels.  I prefer making large lots like these out of modular 1x1 lots that can be used in several different situations.  The main structure is the centerpiece of a complex -- while 1x1's and 1x2's are used to fill in around the main building -- thereby expanding the associated lot.  They make it easy to move things around, providing random "variety" -- while making it possible to fit them into odd-shaped spaces of different sizes -- and even breaking up the street grid with odd-sized lots.  Modular lots are also an easy answer to the problem of maxing-out the props on a single lot.

No criticism -- just a thought...... 

 

16 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

There are, indeed, practical limitations to the SC4 system -- even more so when (like me) you might not have the programming skills some in our community have.

I have always been reluctant to make lots of massive size, but not because of the limitation on prop levels.  I prefer making large lots like these out of modular 1x1 lots that can be used in several different situations.  The main structure is the centerpiece of a complex -- while 1x1's and 1x2's are used to fill in around the main building -- thereby expanding the associated lot.  They make it easy to move things around, providing random "variety" -- while making it possible to fit them into odd-shaped spaces of different sizes -- and even breaking up the street grid with odd-sized lots.  Modular lots are also an easy answer to the problem of maxing-out the props on a single lot.

No criticism -- just a thought...... 

The irony here is that originally I was going to make this a modular complex - 5 parts:  1. Main station buildings and HRW tracks  2. GLR tracks are on the north side, I thought to actually make this a separate station lot  3. Front driveway  4.  North driveway  5.  South driveway and pedestrian plaza.  This would have eliminated the max prop issue.  

The issue that I was not sure about - that made me opt for a single lot for most of it - was how road traffic would interact with the station if it were surrounded by other lots, even if they were transit enabled.  And of course I could have touched the road network to the main station lot, probably on the south side, but I wondered if that would force all traffic to go to that one small spot lol.  I could not really find the answer to this, I do not know that much about how traffic flows so I decided to do the one big lot thing.

I rebuilt a 2x16 front driveway lot last night, less than 30 minutes since all the hard work (the thinking, the textures, and the thinking) was already done.  But I'm thinking now that I might remove the whole track side of the lot outside the station building (the back) and place it on another network enabled lot which should again solve the max prop thing.  This is a major undertaking though haha. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

1 hour ago, JulianMIA said:

 

The irony here is that originally I was going to make this a modular complex - 5 parts:  1. Main station buildings and HRW tracks  2. GLR tracks are on the north side, I thought to actually make this a separate station lot  3. Front driveway  4.  North driveway  5.  South driveway and pedestrian plaza.  This would have eliminated the max prop issue.  

The issue that I was not sure about - that made me opt for a single lot for most of it - was how road traffic would interact with the station if it were surrounded by other lots, even if they were transit enabled.  And of course I could have touched the road network to the main station lot, probably on the south side, but I wondered if that would force all traffic to go to that one small spot lol.  I could not really find the answer to this, I do not know that much about how traffic flows so I decided to do the one big lot thing.

I rebuilt a 2x16 front driveway lot last night, less than 30 minutes since all the hard work (the thinking, the textures, and the thinking) was already done.  But I'm thinking now that I might remove the whole track side of the lot outside the station building (the back) and place it on another network enabled lot which should again solve the max prop thing.  This is a major undertaking though haha. 

I used to use Paeng's Ped-mall pieces (some modified for variety's purposes) to make sure the traffic had adequate access -- but then -- I wasn't working with GLR tracks, either.  Since the game has moved on to "NAM Version 702-b", I would probably have difficulty finding a simple solution to the problem.

Good luck, my friend --

[Haljackey 17,398]

Prepping for development

 

[TheTimvh1 939]

On 1/25/2025 at 7:29 AM, 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?

Beautiful.  Looking forward to downloading the relot soon.  And of course, I can't forget to give kudos to mattb325 for the original.

To @mattb325 if you happen across this, know that you are sorely missed and we hope you are well, wherever you are and whatever you're currently up to in life.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@TheTimvh1

He is, INDEED, sorely missed -- every time I see one of the many beautiful lots and architectural gems @mattb325 created for our enjoyment. 

I wish him joy and a long life......

[Dgmc2013 947]

Making a mixed zoned neighboorhood

[Haljackey 17,398]

New underpass and growth

[pclark06 12,071]

I'm still here! 

This needs better texture blending, especially with the roof (I am trying different things with it) but I've made progress on the Maxis Motors Automall

[sejr99999 8,370]

I really like where you're going with these roof textures    roofs get a lot of weathering and don't get spruced up like the walls often do

[jestarr 3,423]

I'm still working on the canal version of the Fall River Mill. I think it needs some props for loading/unloading the barges.

 

Additionally, I saw a pic on Pinterest and knocked this out yesterday evening. I'm not sure if I like it or not, but we'll see.

[Simizen 1,100]

Fresh start with a bunch of mods. No idea how far I'm gonna be able to go, but I wanted/needed to test out the new CAM stuff anyway.

To start, my region: 

Red circle is where I intend to put some docks; yellow is where I plan to put a power plant

this blue one is where the core part of my city will be located. As you can see, it's going to spread across 3 main tiles (and bleed over into some neighbors as well).

The next 4 just shows the region after I figured out how to use the `Flora Blast` technique. Though, it mostly looks like a 5yo found the spray can in MS Paint, . And Spoilered it, cause I don't want it filling up the entire screen on everyone:

Spoiler

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And, lastly, a shot of the initial city. I marked off the spot for the power plant, and then after just added some extra labels.

this one was interesting, cause, basically, I used the flora blast to fill out the cities with trees, and this actually helped out a bit. So, now I just find some minor clearings that might have a path, and then just take advantage of it for the streets.

Currently using the following mods:

• NAM full
• CAM RC 2 (to check it out, and cause I kinda realized that I'm gonna need it for general city building plans, as vanilla's not likely to fulfill it)
• AMPS (though, some weirdness regarding the Submenu DLL, so will have to sort that out at some point); this is so I can build a proper power grid
• IRM (CAM version), cause I'd like to have a robust industry (I love PIF, but it still needs work, along with IRM but that's a separate project to sort out, )
• USL; this actually looks pretty cool so far, even though there's not much going on atm
• paired with Mashty's Night Mod; part of why it looks so good,

Eventually, I'll add the RTMT, but that's going to take a bit of work for sure. And, at some point, I'll need to work out my civics mod, cause I know I'm going to need an updated system for the Civics lots (the service rings are going to be a PITA to deal with).

Oh, and I'll need some good farms that work well with CAM, but atm, would like to avoid both the SPAM and BSC Farms. I know that SPAM's not compatible atm, so unless someone strips the farms out and makes it play well with CAM this shouldn't be an issue for a bit. And, only avoiding the BSC Farms for now, cause, it basically breaks things for me, cause there's a serious influx of farming jobs, and everything gets filled out, but the number of jobs it fulfills (though, check out the Commuting Confusion thread to see this may be wrong regardless), it far outpaces the number of residents. So, it'll demand farms, then grow them, then pump up residential demand quite a bit, which is fine, except that farm demand is still climbing, requiring you to meet the resident demand again. This ends up where you basically need to zone high density residential pretty early on to feed the farm jobs, which kind of defeats the point of having slow growth and a low rise town, when you're interested in having the metropolitan area elsewhere.

Anyway, I think this'll be interesting to see the development of this city over time. Especially as it's likely to have the angled road become a major road later in it's life,

[Haljackey 17,398]

Construction

[justforfun 7,926]

The next office will be a 2x2 and hold two statues in the niches:

[Koonam 539]

I think modeling and texturing is almost done. I tried to make the building look like it was when it was built.

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@Koonam Excellent texturing!

@justforfun Unfortunately I don't have that monument. 

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Parkometer, ATM, Ticket Machine, Bollards & Guard booth;

[tariely 4,499]

On 16/01/2025 at 7:44 AM, Tyberius06 said:

Hi Everybody! 

There has been a few small uploads to SC4Evermore over the past few days, while I'm still working on repackaging and patching up some things with Jestarr's former SC4D LEX collection. 

The followings have been finally re-stored:

BSC CAS Deveraux College 
 

BSC Rayden Rural Mayor House
 

ITC CAS Greenacre Embassy
 

Cogeo Logistics Centres MegaPack 2.0 (this is the very same thing as the now updated version on STEX.)
 

SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC B62 Compilation
 

BSC JB Chelsea Mills 2.0
 

CSX Billboards 2.0 (this is going to get further update(s) for sure, but the original set is a requirement as dependency for an other upload)
 

The followings are also got some update (see the individual change longs on the download pages)

BSC ALN RRP Fences

Swamper77's Raised Rail Conversions 

SC4D LEX LEGACY - BSC VIP Girafe Flora Pack

BSC RJ Census Repository Building NON-DLL Version (this is only for legacy purposes for those who don't want or can not use the new DLL features and the more advanced and up to date Kel9509 - Census Repository Facility 4.0

Slowly-slowly more to come.

- Tyberius06

Oh GOOD. Bravo and thank you, Tibi.

[tariely 4,499]

On 30/12/2024 at 6:26 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

I think I'm going to remove maxisnite support, I have no incentive to do so. 

NOOOOOO, pleeeze ! Many players still use it and eveything is not DN

[tariely 4,499]

On 17/01/2025 at 1:01 AM, JulianMIA said:

Today I decided to give Gare du Nord station a power washing...   Facade, roof, platforms, and sidewalks.

I've always loved this station and I liked the original version but sometimes you just want to try something new.  I was worried that the recolor might not be kind to the beautiful night-lighting of the original but tbh I think it has come out very nice.  It has always been a stunning building.

  

 

Superb night work ; that's when you see it's GOOD to be able to play night ! :-)

[nikoxlaux 255]

2 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@Koonam Excellent texturing!

@justforfun Unfortunately I don't have that monument. 

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Parkometer, ATM, Ticket Machine, Bollards & Guard booth;

Wow budy!!! any update soon???

[Koonam 539]

20 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@Koonam Excellent texturing!

 

Thank you so much!!  

[JulianMIA 1,609]

23 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@Koonam Excellent texturing!

@justforfun Unfortunately I don't have that monument. 

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Parkometer, ATM, Ticket Machine, Bollards & Guard booth;

That parkometer and ticket machine are just what I've been wanting