Show us What you're Working On

[Keder 116]

New Region from me, I'm trying my hand up in the High Mountains of the Rockys. Tell me what you think or if you have any suggestions.

 

[timmie 988]

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Ooh, everyone's showing off their terrain!

Meanwhile I am trialing out some new water mods.



Hm... nope.



I do like this one!





What do you all think?

[bluemoose 223]

Been working on a Smallish/Mid-sized, British-esque city.  The new Nam certainly helps with designing European Cities with historic character.

 

[Indiana Joe 1,752]

Ooh, everyone's showing off their terrain!

Meanwhile I am trialing out some new water mods.

[snip]

What do you all think?

 

 

Number two!  Pick number two m'lord!

[timmie 988]

Click the URL to see the high-resolution images! I changed my terrain and water mod as you can see. My new terrain mod has more detail, and the water is more realistic.

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img42/4654/qkx1.jpg

 

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2256/tgw9.jpg

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Love it! Care for a close up?

[timmie 988]

If you click the links you can see the 5506x2372 images, or do you really mean 'close up'?

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

I mean some city views.

[AkemiAzula 280]

My latest region

[bluemoose 223]

Brickton, my WIP looking a bit more complete.  It seems I've got some inspiration for this city from Bristol uninentionally.  any Brits care to criticize my first foray into the style?

 

[clhigh7 583]

An area I am developing right now.

 

 

 

 

[timmie 988]

I mean some city views.

  Look what I've got here!   Link:

[timmie 988]

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Fresh towns <3

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

Taking a break from Englewood and working on a new city.

Center City so far.

Another shot of Center City.

Downtown.

[Ion_Cannon 677]

Oil Refinery, WIP

 

[Alex.B 21]

 Nice oil works there.

A large WIP city. Named Vivian, its total metro is about 260,000 right now. 

And a Transport Map

 

I'm hoping to eventually hit 1,000,000 people... but that might be a bit of a stretch. 

[art128 4,622]

careful, Ion_cannon, your truck are almost falling from the slope !

 

I've always been bad at making these big industrial estate, any tips?

[Ion_Cannon 677]

careful, Ion_cannon, your truck are almost falling from the slope !

 

I've always been bad at making these big industrial estate, any tips?

 

Haha, indeed they are, I might have to see if I can do something about that.

 

I have a few general tips I guess.

 

1. First of all, have a rough plan in your head, or on paper, of what you want the area to look like.

2. Build major transport first, IE - railways/avenues and any embankments or terraforming neccessary. This means you can work around the networks, rather than making the transport networks fit your area, this should result in a more realistic look.

3. Only plop parking where it might realistically be , eg around the perimeter of a large factory, or near to the major transport arterys. The same goes for logistics parks and loading areas. Keep parking and loading areas seperate, often with their own dedicated access ways.

4. Place/build your large structures first, do not infill the smaller areas yet.

5. Construct any other minor transport, such as roads/streets - mess around with SAM or NWM to make them fit the look of the area if desired.

6. Infill the gaps with smaller other industrial stuff which complements your larger structures. You may also want to build site offices or add a bit of scrub land, you can make good use of MMP's to create industrial wasteland.

7. Once you've done that, check that it "makes sense" Industrial compounds are often separated with walls or railings. I also cannot recommend T Wrecks industrial revolution project highly enough, it allows you to create seamless industrial areas with ease, get all the addon packs as well

 

Hope that helps

[SimCoug 5,976]

Prop families anyone?

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Hey SimCoug how do you make your own props?

 

Oil Refinery, WIP

 

Very nice industrial zone.

[SimCoug 5,976]

Hey SimCoug how do you make your own props?

 

I don't... I use my Vulcan mind-meld powers and convince talented BATers to do the hard work for me 

I just play around in Reader with the finished products... 

[Stevphfeniey 35]

Basically insofar (it's a lot more done than in this picture)

[Forthwall 1,118]

Yay diagonal runways! Cool

[timmie 988]

Nice!

[art128 4,622]

Nice looking diagonal runway and crosstile airport !

[Shortsonfire 67]

Went from this

 

to this. (Notice the region meld in the eastern corner of the map) Click to enlarge.

 

I also just started this new town.  Taking a break from the other 1mil residents, we're going small.  Way up in the hills of the above region.

[timmie 988]

I rather like how this is turning out.

 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

This is my transit enable project.