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[AsimPika3172 1,154]

Nice oil tanker, Simmer!

Can you add PETRONAS Oil Tanker like this?

 

[pclark06 12,056]

Some new SC3K stuff coming this weekend. One is a Clark Gas Station (a chain common in the midwest) which is basically a redo of my Shell station and another is an updated version of HBMeeks Plaza originally found in SimArchitect. The original building had a KMart, a Hollywood Video, and a couple other out of business chains so I felt it needed to be updated. Whoever HBMeeks is, your buildings were great, and I really appreciate your work.

[Simmer2 23,831]

@AsimPika3172 I may. However I do have several labels already made. We will see.

 

Thank you kindly for the likes and replies.

I'm wondering if these new massive tandem trucks I made would have a place in SC4. I have never seen them ingame.

You think I should include them in my next prop pack?

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[Fantozzi 4,068]

1 hour ago, Simmer2 said:

You think I should include them in my next prop pack?

That's no easy question. You know, there are very common props and they will be used very often. There are very special props and they will be used rarely. But this says nothing about the quality and the beauty of a prop. It happened quite often I was lotting and had some idear and was searching for a prop matching this idear and I spent half a day searching through dozends of prop packs.  Or one could say: 'not common' and 'not needed' aren't the same. Sometimes the uncommon is exactly what is needed.

Maybe you won't need a big variety of those tandem trucks and maybe if there are one or two versions with a neutral texture is enough. But as they are nice and you'll never know what might come in handy - I wouldn't exclude them for the reason they are not common.

 

Again on the Wiscosa cars - I'm on a different computer atm and now the colour looks right. So sorry - the 'violet' touch I mentioned seems to be a graphic issue on my part.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

Got a few more pics for you -- another experiment I keep coming back to.

The first picture is a bit of an overview on the "civic neighborhood" I showed you last time -- but this one shows the residential at the top end of the lake.

 

A week or two after I finished growing the original houses, I decided the place still needed -- something.  So I came back in and started experimenting around again with the idea of a beach.  The Maxis lots are terrible -- which really only leaves you with the option to create one out of MMP materials.  I keep playing around with the concept -- with varying degrees of success -- but never seem to get anything completely satisfactory.   @scotttbarry  did a great job with his beach.  I really like the choice and arrangement of the rocks and vegetation -- reminds me a bit of Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro.  I'm waiting to see how he handles the beach itself and the bathers -- that's the tricky part I always wrestle with. 

In the meantime -- this is just a small area to see how my technique is coming along.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

4 hours ago, Simmer2 said:

You think I should include them in my next prop pack?

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YES !!!!!

We do not have nearly enough tank trucks for the sake of variety --

But we also need a loading station for the trucks.

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

Some more WIP with a nightshot.  @Dreadnought thank you! I am about to start experimenting with beachgoers, I have MMP's for people standing around and doing stuff, and MMP's for sunbathers on towels even!  In addition I think I'll plop some 'beach hut' type lots, and other 'beachy' stuff  that I have.  And all of that will be in greater frequency closer to the entry/exit points.  I can try and find links to the stuff I'm talking about if you would like.

[kschmidt 6,202]

On 30-6-2017 at 1:20 AM, Tyberius06 said:

Hi everyone!

I'm a bit under motivated right now with lotting, so just enjoy playing in my cities, and anyway I'm waiting for @Simmer2 new props and some new NSB overlays and @Angry Mozart's rail props. And I was traveling in Spain the first 2 weeks of June, so I was a bit away from SimCity anyway.

But here is some picture about my latest city. More or less in every new citytile I try to use different residental and commercial buildings, we have God knows how many very nice plugins over at the exchanges and I want to try my collection to see, how they look like.

NoirCity - Suburbiana is rather kind of US style, I started to use JBSimio's, Marcszar's, the BSP/mipro Team and mattb325's beautiful creations with DiegoDL's and APTX's larger commercial BATs. And of course I can repeat myself, that in my cities the realism hasn't got any priority, I use and put the building/road/highway network as I like at that moment...

1. An early state of development. First I tried to draw the main highway and rail line system (well, don't get confused with the random appearing rail tracks, they are mosly markers for the canal system).

 

- Tyberius

Great transit networks ! HSR elevated station ? Highway express way inbetween canals looks nice;, dedicated highway only access remains little problem, church bt so isolated on the island maybe a bit of offgrid vntage city away from the mayor canal structure would help, well done !

[kschmidt 6,202]

18 hours ago, Simmer2 said:

@AsimPika3172 I may. However I do have several labels already made. We will see.

 

Thank you kindly for the likes and replies.

I'm wondering if these new massive tandem trucks I made would have a place in SC4. I have never seen them ingame.

You think I should include them in my next prop pack?

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Allmost complete only a truckloading faciltiy maybe missing, well done !

[feyss 1,981]

@Tyberius06 How is the diagonal RHW bridge over the canal possible?

[Tyberius06 12,250]

12 minutes ago, feyss said:

@Tyberius06 How is the diagonal RHW bridge over the canal possible?

Hi @feyss!

I used the RHW FlexFly (L1 45 ortho-diagonal) pieces and CAL's Remastered SG Canals Offset (extender) pieces to make that. It needs to be the FlexFlys and not the dragable RHW curves or MRCs, because those occupy an extra tile, while the FlexFly doesn't, and you can place onto that free spot the offset canal piece. I used that method the pictures under:

- Tyberius

[Evanjs 602]

My attmpt at an northern Kentucky/Cincinnati Ohio Metropolitan area Interstate Interchange, This is at Highland Height KY at I471, I275, And US27 "Alexandria Pike".
 

If you would like heres a Google map link of the area.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0435703,-84.4616687,1339m/data=!3m1!1e3

[feyss 1,981]

@Tyberius06 That's smart! Thanks for the idea!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

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Yo, guys --

Here are a few more pictures for your Sunday leisure activities.  I'm very close to finishing up with Wilhelmshaven West and will soon begin work in earnest on Wilhelmshaven South.

This is the Blucher Bridge neighborhood.  Squeezed into a small area between the lake on the west and the BodenSee on the east, it is just across the Blucher bridge from the uptown financial and business districts. 

 

It also just happens to be where the mostly rich people choose to live.  Nothing too flashy  --  just comfortable, upscale "McMansions -- with mostly beautiful views of the water.

 

At the north end of the neighborhood, you'll find the Von Seydlitz Overlook.  Besides a heroic statue of the old Fieldmarshall, you can watch the activity of the marina to the north, or simply enjoy the view out over the BodenSee.  At night, this is an especially choice location for viewing the eastern shore lights of Lakeshore Drive and the night skyline of the financial district on Viktoria Heights.  (Our next stop on the tour.)

 

 

[catty-cb 4,412]

Years ago I started a project to index the various SC4 exchanges and what was in them, some of the indexes ended up here

https://community.simtropolis.com/clubs/26-city-builders-website/cb-documents

Split into two sections Catalog by Picture and Catalog by Website and another area had about eighteen thousand SC4 plugin pictures, I am now starting the merge of all this information into a new program I installed on the site called RSDirectory, you can find it here

https://community.simtropolis.com/clubs/26-city-builders-website/catalog

Its going to be a very long slow job which may never get finished, but hopefully it may help when trying to find a dependency.

-catty

[Evanjs 602]

More updates.

[Evanjs 602]

[RRetail 7,912]

So your sims can be annoyed while browsing for that new car.... (early stages)

[Ke|is 3,337]

[TekindusT 3,809]

@kelistmac Now we need moooooore! 

[Haljackey 17,385]

Pressing play on a 'ready to go' city tile... with commentary!

 

[kschmidt 6,202]

Hartford Live Update !

Progress on hartford  comes due in time at strolling speed, much  addition some mostly turning simulation only. Still some !

Station area has been upgraded into a shopping mall !

Neighbourhood wich had some growing problems !

Business boulevard showing some more vertical realisation´s !

Last some developement due to the construction of a new third subway line called "The Education Line" linking a the big mall showed last time via a Student highrise housing neighbourhood, Old university to the New university so !

Enjoy !

[rsc204 21,865]

After some tinkering, I've managed to get a very basic set of T21s in place for my Industrial SAM set (coming in NAM 36):

So there will be lights on regular straight and diagonal sections. Along with crossing barriers for straight SAM DTR crossings. I've also custom made just over 50% of the set's paths, so that automata will fit the wider footprint better.

[nos.17 5,241]

If yall weren't aware, every one of the lots in the B62 Remastered series has been redone and uploaded. Please give them another look! 

 

[Tyberius06 12,250]

@rsc204Will you release another "unreleased" preview of the Industrial SAM for testing? I ran into some pathing issue on the IND SAM-STR crossings (see picture), and the same thing happened with digonal crossings aswell. I think I'm using the preview v3, but I can see that file is pretty old (26.03.2016). Is there newer version?

By the way, that will be a huge fun, after NAM 36 re-drawing all the (not so small and simple) industrial areas of mine with the official IND SAM  But this is a fantastic addition, I hope in the future we can get more SAM versions.

Thank you you work on this too!

- Tyberius

[kschmidt 6,202]

2 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

@rsc204Will you release another "unreleased" preview of the Industrial SAM for testing? I ran into some pathing issue on the IND SAM-STR crossings (see picture), and the same thing happened with digonal crossings aswell. I think I'm using the preview v3, but I can see that file is pretty old (26.03.2016). Is there newer version?

By the way, that will be a huge fun, after NAM 36 re-drawing all the (not so small and simple) industrial areas of mine with the official IND SAM  But this is a fantastic addition, I hope in the future we can get more SAM versions.

Thank you you work on this too!

- Tyberius

Very nice, what was the name of that mod showing the direction arrows of the streets and roads or shortcut to show it ?

[Tyberius06 12,250]

19 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Very nice, what was the name of that mod showing the direction arrows of the streets and roads or shortcut to show it ?

It's actually a cheat. After CTRL-X you need to type the drawpath command and hit an ENTER, if you want to hide the paths: CTRL-X hidepaths command.

Quite useful, when you're working with RHW interchanges or OWRs

[CT14 2,486]

Time for some Dockside Industries for Historic Harbor!

Marcszar McCormick & Co:

Marcszar Domino Sugar Plant:

onlyplace4 Slaytfork Mill:

SG Longfellow's Factory:

SG Rand Textile Mill, JFM Sheds:

JFM Medium Factories, SG Hansons Hosiery:

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

A massive reconstruction of central Monroe, which I hope ends up being worthwhile.

And a low res gif to make it easier to compare.

[rsc204 21,865]

9 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

Will you release another "unreleased" preview of the Industrial SAM for testing? I ran into some pathing issue on the IND SAM-STR crossings (see picture), and the same thing happened with digonal crossings aswell.

No, the last preview edition was an override of SAM10, all my work since has been as SAM11. One thing that should be noted is that SAM11 needs it's RUL code to work properly, which without an update to the NAM controller, users simply won't have access too. There is nothing to iron out, I've tested everything very completely on my end.

The image you show is actually de-converting to Street, so the missing paths are nothing to do with any SAM mods. I will look into that, but SAMxSTR crossings should be properly supported in NAM36, although they will be pretty basic. I.e., there won't be a lot of stability code, so you may find you need a straight (or diagonal) tile either side of a crossing to prevent it de-converting. So where you've used T-Junctions either side of the crossing here, likely won't be supported yet. Also, expect some clicking around with the diagonal street-crossings, however they do all work: