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[VALASatoshi 1,130]

After starting and scrapping several projects, finally started one that I'll most likely see through.  Here's a peek.  Lots of skyscrapers here but there will be plenty of mid-rise.  Going to be a big city based loosely on the geography of Miami and South Beach.  Have made some changes since the third picture and the bridge is missing until I finish off the other side of it.  

 

 

 

[raynev1 1,886]

@metasmurf  Thanks for the link , what a difference the RRW makes . I will have to show some new pictures here soon . 

@ Everybody posting here , you all have some cool WIP  

[Darrius11able 728]

My progress on San Francisco..

[raynev1 1,886]

Here is a newer marina I started a makeover on today , almost done . I had to take five and I will show it again when completed . 

Any tips or comments are certainly welcome .

[Tyberius06 12,250]

@raynev1 wow. that's why I like this post. I've got a lot of inspiration. Is that CAL-Goober canals water? I recognize the NBVC marina lots.

Nice work!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II -

HOHENKIRCHEN:

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Yo, guys --

Working on my second city in the new region -- Hohenkirchen. 

Still trying to cut down on heavy forests and open up some cleared spaces on the map to increase the realism element.  This one grew a bit bigger than expected -- 55k.  And the city footprint is a bit larger than I wanted.

The city of Hohenkirchen -- the main residential space for the next door LNG plant and industries in Schillig Roads.

 

Overview of the city center and main commercial zones.

 

An old bridge over a marshy inlet north of the city.  (Getting in some "training" for future cities.)

 

A detail of my first "serious" investment in the Quais De Seine embankments and the Pedmalls.  I like the embankments -- even though they have a few optical glitches in them at certain zoom levels.  But -- as someone previously mentioned -- the Pedmalls require waaaaaay too much clicking to get what you want.

 

 

[raynev1 1,886]

1 hour ago, Tyberius06 said:

@raynev1 wow. that's why I like this post. I've got a lot of inspiration. Is that CAL-Goober canals water? I recognize the NBVC marina lots.

Nice work!

Thanks . The water is from Peg Ponds , 205 Version . Yeah , I get a lot of inspiration here too . Your work on that Seaport Project looked very nice also .

 

@Dreadnought  Those images look very nice , I love how you do the marshy areas . As for the pedmalls it can take many clicks to get what you want , but when you get the ones you want all together it is rewarding . I have a question about the pedmalls . Do yours change on their own while you do work near them , in my game they do and I was wondering if anybody else experiences the same .

On a side note . Did you give up on your CJ ? I found it very interesting . 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

29 minutes ago, raynev1 said:

 

@Dreadnought  Those images look very nice , I love how you do the marshy areas . As for the pedmalls it can take many clicks to get what you want , but when you get the ones you want all together it is rewarding . I have a question about the pedmalls . Do yours change on their own while you do work near them , in my game they do and I was wondering if anybody else experiences the same .

On a side note . Did you give up on your CJ ? I found it very interesting . 

Yo, raynev 1--

YES -- !!  The blasted things change any time something grows around them !!  I've gotten to the point where I plop any old Pedmall -- wait for the buildings to grow -- then go in and plop until I get the right mall.  I realize they were made that way to keep the drop-down-menu uncluttered -- but it's a REAL pain !

I also noted that I'm finding patches of "pink" mixed into the malls and sidewalks.  Anyone have any ideas why I've broken out in "pink splotches" ??

The CJ --

Yes -- I pretty much gave up on that, though I may come back to it after I've gotten 10 or 15 cities done in Jade Bight II. 

I found that trying to build cities AND run a weekly CJ entry was too much like work.  You love a hobby or a new project, but let it get to feel anything like "work" -- and you begin to hate it.  Trying to keep on schedule for the CJ took time away from my city-building and my efforts to perfect and improve my "style".  I hadn't even figured out exactly "HOW" to make a railroad work for my city (can you believe it?).  I was also reluctant to stop and take the time to work on custom fillers and lots. 

Either way -- I was not living up to my full potential (modest though it may be).  I'm not what you would call an inventor, nor am I very innovative -- but I like to think I take the offerings given to the community and see much I can do with them.  Sort of "Be all I can be" -- with what we've got to work with.

I'm much happier now without the "rush".  If I see an empty spot that needs something -- I may think about it for a couple of days before trying something out.  No pressure -- ya' know?

And the funny thing is -- I actually get more positive feedback on this thread than I was getting on the CJ.  Though I do miss the occasional informative dialogue from you and some other folks.  (I can hear you breathing, Odainsaker! lol-lol).  Thank The Gods you're not shy about making a comment.

On a side note -- anybody know what happened to "Big Ben's" CJ ?

[rsc204 21,865]

On ‎05‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 7:31 PM, Dreadnought said:

YES -- !!  The blasted things change any time something grows around them !!  I've gotten to the point where I plop any old Pedmall -- wait for the buildings to grow -- then go in and plop until I get the right mall.  I realize they were made that way to keep the drop-down-menu uncluttered -- but it's a REAL pain !

As always, there are drawbacks and advantages to any way of doing something. Bear in mind Pedmalls are unique in that they are properly transit enabled. There is no way to have 20+ options without modifications inside the NAM, so it's not simply down to the reduction of menu clutter. Such variation would not have been possible any other way.

The way they work is by something called T21s. It's possible to change them so that they don't change when buildings around them do. What causes this behaviour is that there are different pedmalls for different wealth/density zones. So it's actually these changing, like with the different wealth sidewalks that is behind it. But you could change that so that they were just random and not tied to wealth/density. But the easiest solution, wait until the right buildings have appeared, make those historical, only then, do the clicking. Much like you've already come up with. Some of the best designed mods take a lot of work to implement in-game, but ultimately this one is too good IMO to pass up.

[pclark06 12,052]

A simple set of cable vans that will arrive between 1pm and 5pm to your residence.

[Haljackey 17,385]

Probably the most unique flyover ramp I've made:

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II -

HOHENKIRCHEN:

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Yo, guys --

I had another burst of energy late last night.  There was a large empty spot in town and didn't want any more RES or COM stuff -- so I hit on the idea of a wilderness type lake.  This one has a small beach, which allowed me to get some training in making a natural looking beach with MMP's instead of trying to use the old Maxis beaches.

OVERVIEW

 

BEACH

 

WADING BIRDS

 

[Bipin 3,403]

Yes, I'm still alive...

...and doing a mighty fine job with those suburbs, if I do say so myself!

 

 

[matias93 7,535]

Which ones are those sound barriers, Bipin? Look like very dessaturated SFBT ones, or maybe Niques (weren't those blue and red?)

BTW, so much smoothness on those curves, the grid has been completely obliterated here!

[APSMS 1,893]

They look like Nique's to me.

[Bipin 3,403]

Thanks for the kind words you two - CSL inspired me to really do away with that grid by using NAM to its fullest extent, especially for suburbs. Those soundwalls are indeed Nique's.

[raynev1 1,886]

@pclark06 Cable vans , cool . I recognise Xfinity , but what is the other one ?

@Haljackey WOW , what an interchange . Excellent , you go dude .

@Dreadnought Those beach images look great , have to love all them MMPs available today . 

@Bipin Very nice suburban scene you composed there . The NAM , is like the most important SC4 Mod ever created IMHO . And those houses look wonderful too .

[pclark06 12,052]

@raynev1 It is Time Warner. I also have a Cox and a CenturyLink one. Will be released tomorrow!

[Haljackey 17,385]

Developing the 'interchange triangle'

[metasmurf 705]

When the new retaining walls were released on STEX recently I got this idea.

[CT14 2,486]

Norfolk & Western HL class hopper cars, in HD.

[Fatjuice 253]

A little someting I've been working on a couple of days, haven't posted anything in months..

More to come

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II -

HOHENKIRCHEN:

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Yo, guys --

A few more pictures of Hohenkirchen and the experiments with the "Quais" and Pedmalls.

This is the north end of the main business district from the rear.  I didn't carry the embankment walls completely around the area and simply left the back open.

 

This is a residential area I built onto the back of the business district to fill in the vacant space.  I left it pretty much a forested area with a small rock fall on the right.

 

A detail shot of the marina side of the embankment walls.

 

Here I experimented with making the embankment walls into a split-level configuration so I could use another business district to wrap around the lower end of the marina.

 

[Tyberius06 12,250]

Hi!

While I'm working on some projects, I'm also playing with the game. So I show some picture from my city called Noir City at this time. Well I'm not making full/totally realistic cities, I like them watching in other players showcases, but for me building them is not my cup of tea. So there may be some very unrealistic results, but that is just the way I like it.

This is still Work In Progress, the original city had a not so nice meeting with Mr. Prop Pox, so I had to find a back up, what wasn't affected, what meant that I had to start over everything nearly from the begining.

1. Regional Transportation View.

2. Noir City - North Harbour

 

3. Part of the industrial harbour with the Harbour Bridge Freeway. The actual bridge will be built into the next city tile on the South.

4. Downtown canal park and underground plaza, inner city highway, the Avenue interchange and some residental area.

5. Other angle about the underground plaza, some tram line and the main inner/cross city commuter train line (which has never been used due to game rules and specifications about commuter time.

6. The Capital Goverman District (with the beautiful Hungarian Parliment - each of the gems of my home city: Budapest)

- Tyberius

  Edited August 8, 2018 by Tyberius06  
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[kingofsimcity 5,740]

I'm not sure if it's because I haven't been looking hard enough but it seems that there is a serious lack of FA-based filler pieces. I randomly decided to whip up this quick set of test lots for the modular complexes challenge. This is a set of seasonal FA2-compliant diagonal fillers that joins with the Maxis open grass areas.

Basically, you can build bowtie shaped parks now.

Still in super beta right now though. Considering a plaza based variant for those that use the no sidewalk grass mods as well.  I wish there was an easier way to vary up seasonal trees without creating like 10 different lots with unique trees though.

[Haljackey 17,385]

On 11/6/2016 at 11:19 PM, Haljackey said:

Developing the 'interchange triangle'

Filled it in now

[nos.17 5,239]

10 hours ago, kingofsimcity said:

Still in super beta right now though. Considering a plaza based variant for those that use the no sidewalk grass mods as well.  I wish there was an easier way to vary up seasonal trees without creating like 10 different lots with unique trees though.

 

Looks great! If you have the time, you could always create some yuuuge prop families with dozens of trees in each. As long as you don't mind (potentially) a different type of tree showing up each season, that would probably be the easiest route.

[Tyberius06 12,250]

Hello!

Well-well! 

For Everybody who is interested in my SeaPort Project, I just uploaded the updated version (Heretic SeaPort Project 1.5), and you can download the Heretic SeaPort Project Expansion set as well.

About the update: I changed 39 lots. I added extra props and on some lots I changed them. Recently I figured it out (and others also confirmed the issue) that CAL's straight canal prop family variation is in conflict with Glenni's megaprop pack (1), and usually instead of the canal pieces I got nice norvegian houses... I accidently changed a PEG lot (WH outer corner) when I made the first release, I fixed that now.

Here is a few picture about them.

About the walls. They are on the way. I'll put together a readme file with the dependencies and probably next monday I can release that set aswell.

Any opinion would be welcome (after you tried the sets), if you see something is wrong, let me know about it, I can find a way to fix it or something like that

 

- Tyberius

 

  Edited November 11, 2016 by Tyberius06  

[rsc204 21,865]

17 hours ago, kingofsimcity said:

I wish there was an easier way to vary up seasonal trees without creating like 10 different lots with unique trees though.

6 hours ago, nos.17 said:

Looks great! If you have the time, you could always create some yuuuge prop families with dozens of trees in each. As long as you don't mind (potentially) a different type of tree showing up each season, that would probably be the easiest route.

It's totally possible to create Flora Families too, which don't suffer this issue. I'd imagine for lots though, that means plopping on the 1st September being a limitation. I've yet to experiment with this since @vortext dropped the bomb about it on SC4D, but for some reason I thought flora + families weren't compatible until he confirmed otherwise.

[Ke|is 3,337]

I've been working in a new region inspired by the hometown of my mother in The Netherlands, I hope you like it...