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[Silur 3,308]

Yes... Now comes the development of Santana Island. We expect the products of the sawmill for the construction of the port and export ... 

 

 

[matias93 7,535]

@tariely really nice lots, and much needed ones! What about a W2W version? Maybe with a custom building?

[Krasner 1,062]

@Silur Nice to see you're still on it Soon we will see the population grow, I guess

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Hi everyone!

Slowly I'm finalizing my Paeng URC Expansion (HPURC - Heretic-Paeng Urban Recreational Canals) set. It has been started several months ago, as a revision of my older stuffs, and now I made altogether 25 new pieces, which will be working together nicely with Paeng Urban Canals... 

1. On the first picture you can see all the new pieces. The five bridges, the small boathouse and the two smaller pier/marina were part of the original set, what I made a few years ago. 

2. Closer look on some of the new pieces. I visited the WMP site recently to recollect some dependency files, when I discovered again DocRorlach's Abtei Rowing Club, and since I already used murimk rowing boats with offset overhang water tile props (peg's one and CAL's one too), I decided to make some 1x1 water tile with new boat prop families. With the actual release I will be recommending to use either the WMP Sculls and punt as MMPs or the 1x1 individual transparent lots with offset watertiles. 

3. Bridges, piers for boats, and the transition pieces between the original URC and the URC Streams. I had some hard time to play with the 2 original set without an actual transition. It might not perfect, but I kind of like the result.

4. Closer look on the Rowing Club relot.

5. Abteibruecke (Cloister Bridge) relot. It still needs to get a little touch, but I kind of like the result.

I still need some time to make some changes, and some modding stuff (mostly changing the item orders), but it will be released soon.

- Tyberius

 

[Silur 3,308]

On 14.12.2017 at 10:05 PM, Krasner said:

@Silur Nice to see you're still on it Soon we will see the population grow, I guess

Yes. Already they have a real Mayor House and Church...

01. Mayor House:

 

02. Rural Church:

 

Thank You, Krasner - I like all Your Works  ... I think Your CEMETARY THEME and others will come here... Thank You once more ...  

03. And now I see Mayor's Auto ....

 

 

Excellent !!!

[kschmidt 6,223]

15 hours ago, tariely said:

Ah. Yes. I remember that one, now. I thought it looked weird, at the time ; so three of them side by side is weird³ for me...

Just looking for some compact sollution as most ancient stations have a fixed size. Wien West BHF nowadays mostly a commuter station it doesn´t require as much track work !

[matias93 7,535]

@Silur If it weren't for the UI showing, I would be confused about being watching satellite photos (particularly on the first one!). Yours is truly a mastery on using textures and MMPs to compose beautiful scenes.

@Tyberius06 you are making me feel sorry for developing a region so dry, now I'll have to find a good excuse to make those fantastic canals to appear anyway on there. They are simply gorgeous!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Tour of the triagon highway system

 

[Dgmc2013 947]

In this moment, I'm working in a Asiatown near the Financial Center in my city Anchalk:

[SecretMbr_735754 2,158]

The show us what your working on thread is the vital core, the heart and soul and mind, the body of the work.  As usual I am working on greatness, greater than the greatest, and even greater still.  This is a preview of mega greatness beyond all greatest greatness!  Be great and enjoy.  Goodness gracious!

[tariely 4,499]

@Tyberius06 : useful relots !!!  Remembering my problems with Diggis ponds baked in water (I relotted two whole sets of them, one urban one wild) I am wondering, though : will this set come in a transparent version) so that we can use it with any water (read : Tahoe....) I think (fear...) the Paeng pieces do come with baked-in Peg Pond water, but not the WMP pieces ?

[Tyberius06 12,267]

31 minutes ago, tariely said:

will this set come in a transparent version) so that we can use it with any water (read : Tahoe....) I think (fear...) the Paeng pieces do come with baked-in Peg Pond water, but not the WMP pieces ?

Well, I haven't planed to make it transparent, but I can experiment the possibilities. This set will come as you see, since It meant to be an expansion for Paeng's URC. I'm not sure that removing the base texture and the main water tile prop, how the rest of the lot with the props will work together with other type of water tiles or MMP waters. Well if the water tile prop wouldn't overdraw the walls in a very ODD way, than maybe that could be working.

The WMP team and also Murimk made props and lots to work together nicely most of the water stuff, and the original LOTs were transparent. On my picture the WMP and Murimk pieces were relotted with the PEG-Pond water, because of the different orientation of the original WMP/Murimk marina LoTs.

My problem with all the canal sets around the Exchanges is the poor selection of usable Road/Rail etc network bridges. I mean in this set the bridge props (not the pedestrian type bridges), or the SG-CAL canal modular bridge edge props can't give me the impression that anything could go through under them. CAL's Stone canal set has bridge props which can make me belive that a boat or anything can pass through under them and there is the PEG PPond Canal Kit Bridges, but those have baked in water texture, and can not be used with other water props. Most of the canals have the same problem, they don't have enough dept, the key point is the distance between the water surface and the bridge.

There were a few canal set projects with very nice and convincing new canal bridges (still baked in water textures, but the bridges were made high enough) but all of them has been left abandoned. 

- Tyberius

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

I know this is off-topic -- and I apologize.  But there is no good place to take this question -- and there aren't even any people in the "chat" room.

I need someone to recommend a good -- safe -- mp4 video player for Vista and Windows 7.

I tried a couple of free downloads -- but Norton Security didn't like them (one was only a week old and there was no history available for Norton to check).

Anyone using a good -- SAFE -- FREE -- player ??

[Tyberius06 12,267]

Hi @Dreadnought!

I have been using the K-lite codec pack with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) now for about a decade on different OSs (first Win-XP, than Win 7, than Win 10, now again on Win 7) without any issue. I don't know which kind of filter system the Norton does have, but it's working for me perfectly under Avast and AVG on two different machines (laptop and desk PC).

Here is the link: https://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm

The standard version should be enough if you don't want to play with video editing.

Quote

The package contains both 32-bit and 64-bit codecs. It is no longer necessary to install 64-bit codecs separately.

I hope it helps!

- Tyberius

[nycsc4 5,250]

Another update from Vancouver.  This is the Nicola Street stop on the Pender Street LRT line.  Added a new bus roundabout and a larger station.

New construction in the area:

Close up:

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!

[Tyberius06 12,267]

1 minute ago, nycsc4 said:

Let me know what you think!

Hi!

It's looking good. I can't recall if I've ever seen this type of Elevated Rail Station on Road. I like the neighborhood what your sims built there.

Can you tell me what are the following buildings on your last picture:

- station

- narrow tall building parallel with the station on the left side. 

- the 2 other taller building around the above mentioned one (same side - one of them is behind it, other one has a green-ish glass roof)

- the 4-5 stories building the upper right side of the station (white wall at the ground floor, light brown-ish walls on upper stairs)

Thanks in advance!

- Tyberius

[matias93 7,535]

3 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

Hi!

It's looking good. I can't recall if I've ever seen this type of Elevated Rail Station on Road. I like the neighborhood what your sims built there.

Can you tell me what are the following buildings on your last picture:

- station

- narrow tall building parallel with the station on the left side. 

- the 2 other taller building around the above mentioned one (same side - one of them is behind it, other one has a green-ish glass roof)

- the 4-5 stories building the upper right side of the station (white wall at the ground floor, light brown-ish walls on upper stairs)

Thanks in advance!

- Tyberius

The station is included in the NAM

The narrow tall building which is cornea-burning white and sky-blue? That's a maxis building

The one with the glass roof is maxis too

the white, ochre and orange building, also maxis.

Yup, that's super crazy, but when one fills too much the Plugins folder, you start wondering which objects are from the vanilla game...

[Tyberius06 12,267]

I know the maxis buildings only from PIM-X, since I've been blocking them all the time when I'm playing!

Thanks, I guess I need to make some relots from them!

[nycsc4 5,250]

3 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

I know the maxis buildings only from PIM-X, since I've been blocking them all the time when I'm playing!

Thanks, I guess I need to make some relots from them!

You don’t even need to make relots.  Just download the Maxis building plop mod.  You can still restrict growing Maxis buildings, but with the plop mod you can still use them.

Having said that, I think the Maxis buildings get a bad rep.  I actually like a lot of them.  I use the plop mod, and I let them grow too.  If I don’t like what I see I demo it and wait and see what replaces it.

[Handyman 791]

Still fascinated with JENXMODS_POSEIDON_Beta_v1 waterfalls. Came up with an idea to do a waterfall running through a cavern(don't know why). Anyway, after a lot of tries I, kind of, replicated what I envisioned by combining terrain shaping with some mmp's to try to trick the eye. Does it work?

 

[matias93 7,535]

It definitely works! The only change I would do in virtue of realism would be to bend the plain at one side to point downwards to the entrance of the cavern, because otherwise the water would have eroded that rock mass and created a short deep canyon.

Well, that and the fact that those houses should be a busy tourist trap if the place is even remotely accessible

[tariely 4,499]

1 hour ago, matias93 said:

It definitely works! The only change I would do in virtue of realism would be to bend the plain at one side to point downwards to the entrance of the cavern, because otherwise the water would have eroded that rock mass and created a short deep canyon.

Well, that and the fact that those houses should be a busy tourist trap if the place is even remotely accessible

Seems there is a road. But I concur, just a little bit more terraforming would do. Still, mostly it does work. SPEKTAKULAR !!! You should definitively gussy up the place as a tourist trap.

[mattb325 28,891]

Beautiful work! @HandymanI love those waterfalls...amazingly creative!@Haljackey - you are a very good city builder, I always enjoy watching your videos...it saves me having to wait 5 or so minutes to load up the game!

@nycsc4 can I ask where you got that bus roundabout? It looks like a very nifty lot 

[f3cs 1,063]

Say goodbye to this coastal highway!

[Handyman 791]

 

8 hours ago, matias93 said:

The only change I would do in virtue of realism would be to bend the plain at one side to point downwards to the entrance of the cavern,

 

6 hours ago, tariely said:

But I concur, just a little bit more terraforming would do.

Yes I agree, all it takes is time.

 

8 hours ago, matias93 said:

those houses should be a busy tourist trap

 

6 hours ago, tariely said:

You should definitively gussy up the place as a tourist trap.

I would like a different look for the area, perhaps that's it.

[nycsc4 5,250]

3 hours ago, f3cs said:

Say goodbye to this coastal highway!

Good call.  Waterfront highways provide nice views for drivers but that's about it.  They're a cancer on cities themselves.  Open those waterfronts up for people, not cars!

[rsc204 21,866]

On 16/12/2017 at 12:20 AM, Dreadnought said:

I need someone to recommend a good -- safe -- mp4 video player for Vista and Windows 7.

VLC Media player is all you should ever need and supports pretty much every codec out of the box.

There's a fundamental flaw though with this type of Whitelisted security arrangement, it's simply just a means to spread paranoia rather than protect you. Lord knows, Norton can flag things as safe that aren't and equally allow viruses/nasties through without noticing. That's the problem here, Norton makes you think it knows what is and isn't safe and is checking things to keep you protected. But that couldn't be further from the reality, they are just assuming everything they don't know to be safe isn't. So the real question is, can you trust Norton, frankly I wouldn't, their reputation speaks otherwise.

On 15/12/2017 at 3:38 PM, tariely said:

I think (fear...) the Paeng pieces do come with baked-in Peg Pond water, but not the WMP pieces ?

On 15/12/2017 at 4:22 PM, Tyberius06 said:

My problem with all the canal sets around the Exchanges is the poor selection of usable Road/Rail etc network bridges. I mean in this set the bridge props (not the pedestrian type bridges), or the SG-CAL canal modular bridge edge props can't give me the impression that anything could go through under them...

...there is the PEG PPond Canal Kit Bridges, but those have baked in water texture, and can not be used with other water props. Most of the canals have the same problem, they don't have enough depth, the key point is the distance between the water surface and the bridge.

Ultimately these things come from limitations and difficulties in modelling/modding. Why bake water into your canal sets?, simple, otherwise you won't get proper reflections and shadows appearing. In short, it makes the final product look better, even if it does remove some flexibility. In respect of both SG's and CALs remastered sets (plus MAS71's JRP), at least the base models exist for others to make new pieces for them. That's always the kicker, a modular set missing something you really need is always a bummer. But without releasing the modelling files, it's impossible to make new stuff that matches, so unless you want to remake the wheel, you are stuck.

As for the depth of canals, again I think this is mostly because SC4 models when under the ground plane, i.e. below the surface, suffer a number of pitfalls. Not to mention, to go deeper, you have to make the canals wider, or it just looks wrong scaling-wise. There are other considerations too, whilst I agree we don't have a huge number of options for bridges/canals, it's perhaps a good time to remind people of the CAN-AM mod in the NAM. With it you can cross canals at 15m with Roads, Avenues, OWRs, Rail, Monorail, El-Rail and Elevated Highways. Yes, these bridges are devoid of variation, but a little clever modding would allow bridge "skins" to be placed around them. Sadly this isn't an area too many modders have explored, although BuddyBud did release a fantastic set. BiPin also experimented (with great results) here too. Just a shame more options don't exist for this.

[kschmidt 6,223]

Old Habsburg - Vienna VI

Some more alterations to show ! Sim Nation Museum has been replaced by the Buenos Aires Tech Faculty, Vienna City hall little moved and the garden´s in front created !

This city center neighbourhood looking better with a different lot set ! Next picture shows what mostly plops up so do need alteration !

Franz Josef Bhf today is a commuter  station; pre war it was the starting point of the Franz Josef bahn to Prague, the shortest rail link !

Midrise flats you see right of the energy pilons aren´t the nicest, dark concrete masive blocks, so descrution is on it,s way ! Modern offices near the Franz Josef Bhf aren´t bad still little bit out of line with the quarters. Ploping W2W block´s sounds nice but a city do need some growable area´s. Those midrise near the Votiv church are nice to have as growables !

Enjoy !

 

 

[nycsc4 5,250]

On 12/16/2017 at 1:38 PM, mattb325 said:

 

@nycsc4 can I ask where you got that bus roundabout? It looks like a very nifty lot 

I actually can't quite remember.  I know it was a Japanese BAT site though.  The creator may have been Moonlight.  I tried going back through my plugins folder, but I can't seem to find it.

[Simmer2 23,831]

Been having a hard time rendering this monster in HD but it seems like it may work after splitting the model.

Still not 100% happy but better than the first SD render. I already split the model and got it to work therefore there will be 2 lots when ready. 1 SD and 1 HD modular.

Here are a few pics with the SD model. The lot is just a place holder I made therefore still WIP

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