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[BugeyedDragon 412]

this took four hours.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

20 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Working on a RHW-10 / OWR-10 interchange with huge loop ramps

 

EDIT: Loopty loop!

love that old school PEG water texture

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II -

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

Just a couple of pics to keep you up to date with the new landscapes and stuff --

This is the shore line drive that runs along the Tiefer See below the big commercial center to be built on top of the hill.  (Skyscrapers to go in the empty zones at top.)

AND -- a detail shot.

 

[Ke|is 3,337]

Hello guys,

I've made some progress these days in my new Dutch region, it goes really slow because I have to create lots and it takes a lot of time...anyway I think this new Dutch region looks more realistic that my previous CJ, Bassen... what do you guys think ?

# This is the area around the central station...as you can see it is not finished yet...

# I need to create some lots to add more details to these zones, for example some fences to separate the train tracks...

# Okay, this is how the region looks at this point...I taking inspiration from cities like Leeuwarden or Groningen (Where my family come from) but I added some big rivers because I want to create all kind of ports in this region...

I hope you like it and I see the next time

 

[Haljackey 17,385]

Building a rail overpass

[f3cs 1,063]

Creating a Expressway based in Aterro do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. I want tips to cover the next to water terrain. If somebody could help me would be great

[APSMS 1,893]

On 18/11/2016 at 3:56 AM, pclark06 said:

Coming soon: automata truck trailers that add American trucking brands into the game.

Wow, and those tractor models are incredible too. Do these articulate just like the Maxis models, and did you make the models yourself?

[art128 4,622]

9 hours ago, kelistmac said:

The mix of JENX Amsterdam station and NOB (I believe) Station works surprisingly well, nice job!

[pclark06 12,056]

42 minutes ago, APSMS said:

Wow, and those tractor models are incredible too. Do these articulate just like the Maxis models, and did you make the models yourself?

They are @Simfanatik models. I am reskinning them to include American truck companies. They spawn onto the trucks randomly just like his old packs. I have more pics!


Estes Trucking

Schneider (need to fix the saturation, way too bright)

Arkansas Best Freight

I plan on adding about 40 or so more brands onto trailers that spawn into the SimFanatik trucks. I think there was missing variety in the number of logistics companies represented in the STEX so this should fix that a little bit. Being a professional designer, I can work on these trailers fairly quickly, lol

[dc'smycity 30]

12 minutes ago, pclark06 said:

They are @Simfanatik models. I am reskinning them to include American truck companies. They spawn onto the trucks randomly just like his old packs. I have more pics!


Estes Trucking

Schneider (need to fix the saturation, way too bright)

Arkansas Best Freight

I plan on adding about 40 or so more brands onto trailers that spawn into the SimFanatik trucks. I think there was missing variety in the number of logistics companies represented in the STEX so this should fix that a little bit. Being a professional designer, I can work on these trailers fairly quickly, lol

I'm looking forward to these!

[MeMyself&I 379]

42 minutes ago, pclark06 said:

I plan on adding about 40 or so more brands onto trailers that spawn into the SimFanatik trucks. I think there was missing variety in the number of logistics companies represented in the STEX so this should fix that a little bit. Being a professional designer, I can work on these trailers fairly quickly, lol

I wonder if, and I hope you can or will, find some refrigerated food service trucks such as Sysco or U.S. Foodservice and maybe even Coke and Pepsi or American beer trucks too just for some added colorful realism.  These are great, btw.  Nice to see good old American conventional rigs in the game instead of just European lorries.

[pclark06 12,056]

@MeMyself&I Good news re: Sysco. I finished one today before you posted that. US Foodservice is a good idea as well, thanks for the suggestion!


Also, I think Pepsi/Coke ones have been made, so they are not currently in the plans. 

 

[MeMyself&I 379]

1 minute ago, pclark06 said:

 Good news re: Sysco. US Foodservice is a good idea as well, thanks for the suggestion!

Nice!  Even have the new logo and colors down perfectly!  Now I can be at work even in SC4

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

Made some tweaks to the wall alignment for I-D and added the mirrored version - works well for the most part. Added the beginnings of an I-M version, though alignment is just a tad off at the moment.

Also got distracted and made this on a whim. I've been meaning to re-lot SG's entire shopping catalog for a while now but haven't found the motivation to do so.

 

[Darrius11able 728]

My progress in San Francisco...

[CT14 2,486]

DeKalb Coaling Tower: the concrete is poured, and the Grand Staircase is completed.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

1 hour ago, CT14 said:

DeKalb Coaling Tower: the concrete is poured, and the Grand Staircase is completed.

FANTASTIC !!!!

THIS is exactly what we have been needing to help round out various coaling facilities !! 

Now -- if you could make another one with a chute that dumps the stuff into a bulk cargo ship  -- life would be wonderful !! 

[raynev1 1,886]

     Some very nice WIP's going on here . I really like that FA Wall project that @kingofsimcity is taking on .   I've been busy as well , on my own project . I finally finished a ReLot for the Classic Model , New Lot Challenge . I chose the BSC Ikea Superstore from off of the LEX that Gascooker uploaded long , long ago . I always loved the building itself , but I felt the lot was lacking . Not that it looked bad or anything . But this Challenge inspired me to give it a "New Look" . The lot is 5x5 , the same as the original and with the same stats as well . It doesn't override the original , so it just might grow next to it . but you all know how to tend to that matter . I done it with only three dependencies , all listed in the readme . Feedback welcome , but too late to change anything . I already uploaded it , but I haven't seen it on the STEX yet . Enough yapping , lol . So here it is , I hope you all like it .

[Lost Realist 762]

So it looks like I mostly got GoFSH figured out.

 

 

And that's pretty nifty. I don't even want to know how much work this would have been if most of it hadn't been done already.

[rsc204 21,865]

22 hours ago, Lost Realist said:

I don't even want to know how much work this would have been if most of it hadn't been done already.

2 Years and more time than I could count. Still, I'm grad to have helped to rid players of the scourge of Maxis grasses/sidewalks

[rsc204 21,865]

Is it already time to talk about NAM36?

Well I think it is, remember my Industrial SAM mod... well it's very close to finished with working code for use as a new unique SAM set. I'm hoping that I should be able to get the first version into NAM 36. Most of the textures are complete, speaking of which, here's the RRW crossings I finished earlier:

I just need to finalise the paths/T21s, create alternate rail crossings (Maxis) and tweak some RUL code. But it's 90% complete right now.

[rivit 3,402]

As you may have heard there is research going on in the labs to bring together a new mod that gives you the ability to make any colour version of RRW you desire. We think RRW is the rail to follow. Like the MGB Grass and Paving Mods by RSC04, this mod too will be based on the capabilities of GoFSH which I know a number of you are putting to good use for your own ends.

Put simply the Mod will edit the original RRW textures in such a way as to change the ballast and sleeper colours, but in every other way be compliant with RRW. Below is a pastiche (in a very ordinary test region) of 5 such experiments so you can see what I mean. The Tramway (same texture for ballast and sleepers) represents a way of bringing RRW style Tramways to the game too. (eventually)

Now while it would be nice to be able to announce imminent release, there are rather a lot of tiles to do and a few technical things we still need to master, But it's probably true to say the proof of concept is here.

[APSMS 1,893]

Not that I dislike the std RRW textures, but how did you get multiple textures to show up at once? Is this just clever image editing or some sort of standard Rivit fare software+texture wizardry?

[rivit 3,402]

I made it by stacking 5 snapshots (of exactly the same viewpoint each with a different rail texture) as layers in one image, then cutting away bits of the layers to leave one image with some of all of them visible.

Actually a collage not a pastiche I now realise. I often do this to see how things join up and to easily compare options. Flipping between layers is easy too, but sometimes you need to ponder the differences in one image.

[metasmurf 705]

@rivit Would the same concept work for regular road textures? Obviously excluding puzzle pieces but everything dragable. Would love to have dashed yellow road markings.

[rsc204 21,865]

1 hour ago, metasmurf said:

@rivit Would the same concept work for regular road textures? Obviously excluding puzzle pieces but everything dragable. Would love to have dashed yellow road markings.

You can use the automation for pretty much any textures you can think of, even Puzzle Pieces. However, it relies on a series of definition alphas (D0's), which are simply a texture that tells GoFSH what to replace where on textures. Frankly speaking, if the D0's didn't exist already, it's still a lot of work. But, if you work with D0's rather than edit the images, like I did for the sidewalks/grasses. You only need to setup the D0's once but can make as many variations of the same mod thereafter without much effort.

That said, don't be fooled, such an undertaking would be a large one indeed to unify completely. I'd also probably not use automation for such a mod as road markings. Because it's going to be hard to replace segments of road without some texture problems. Working with some overlay layers with your markings, replacing them manually might be quicker. But I'd imagine the results would be much better. However, perhaps @rivit has an idea of how to do this with automation, since he always seems to find a solution to every task I've proposed for automated textures.

[rivit 3,402]

10 hours ago, metasmurf said:

Would the same concept work for regular road textures? Obviously excluding puzzle pieces but everything dragable. Would love to have dashed yellow road markings.

As RSC04 has replied yes it could work, but the problem comes in fixing the bits of road between the stripes. I would tackle an experiment for yellow dashed lines by taking some tiles from the Euro set - which are dashed white - and using the following workflow

extract the textures you need with GoFSH - repeat in editor for each tile [ open, select white, change to yellow, save] - then repackage with GoFSH. Then add your mod at the end of the loading sequence.

Keep in mind that only need about 20 tiles to prove the look - straight, 90 curve, X,T intersection, diagonal, and transitions between them (these are all tiles in the original SC4). This is how most of the SAMs started and in fact for anybody trying a particular look for a CJ snapshot this is a viable way to make those few tiles you need.

This approach was used to make these Australian country roads

 

[Darrius11able 728]

The red is New Farlands (city I'm working on right now) The yellow I'm deciding between low res. industrial or should I make suburbs their and then move industrial towards the west cost?

[Tyberius06 12,251]

Hello!

First of all, I managed to release my next project which is the Heretic Slope Side Walls, now you can download it.

Well, I made a bunch of stuff in this year, which was never intended to release, mostly fillers, parks etc, to enchance my cities. I put together them into one picture (well there is more but they are under remaking, when I started to make them I didn't realy know how the things work so make a lot experimental stuff. I beleive in some of my game crashes happened due to this.)

 

Well, @T Wrecks brought to us the IRM and its fillers. After @rsc204 previewed his wonderfull SAM11 - Industrial SAM mod a while ago, I got the inspiration to make an addition to the diagonal IRM Wall fillers to match more situations. With roads/AVEs the custom sidewalks version (in my pictures that is the Paeng Sandstone texture) works fine, with the new SAM the full concrete versions, and I think there is a version for the RRW where it gets dirt sides, so the third version fits more or less with that. Oh yeah, on the diagonal concrete I-D filler on the outer side there is an I-M base texture based overlay which was made by @Simmer2 for my request. Thank you again!

And here is two interchanges. The first one is North Harbour (more pictures about this city above or my previous posts) third intersection/change with some OWR 4 connection. The second one is from my next WIP city Counterpoint. The interchange where the innercity highway connect to the main highway system. At least that is the plan.

- Tyberius 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

14 hours ago, ikilluasap1 said:

The red is New Farlands (city I'm working on right now) The yellow I'm deciding between low res. industrial or should I make suburbs their and then move industrial towards the west cost?

Yo --

I would put high-dollar residential on the west coast for a nice view of the sea -- industrial on the east where shipping and docks could take advantage of the sheltered bay.