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[T Wrecks 10,210]

Waaaaah! Too much awesomeness here.

@younghappy, that's one of the best coasts I have ever seen in my entire SC4 career. Impressive use of MMPs to create a totally realistic result! Great choice of BATs, too, superb use of FAR assets (both BATs and networks) - it all looks so organic! Wow, just wow.

@nycsc4: Now that's a smart idea, combining the Globe arena with RDQ's convention centre... I'd never have thought of that, but they sure look good together!

@Simmer2: OK, now we have reached model railroad levels that shouldn't even be possible. Great scene - both in terms of game assets and story.

@pclark06: I agree that it looks like time well spent. This is shaping up to become a really nice BAT. The sign might do with a slight desaturation, and I'm not sure about those HVAC units appearing completely white in game, but that's about it. I really dig that bed post entrance portal!

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

@Simmer2 love this scene ! @nycsc4 I notice you got a @Reddonquixote building model there... Was messing around with SC4DataNode for the first time just now and came across some models of his that he released on the LEX and wow I forgot about the aquarium.  I had meant to lot this when I got it because I really wanted a high quality aquarium.  It's based on the real one in Melbourne, but that one has a rail line going over it and not much of a lot.  So instead I'm thinking the National Aquarium in Baltimore will serve as a good inspiration for this models lot as it is also on the water.  Those Rio textures from @flunight will work perfectly.  Its uncanny - makes you wonder if the architects of the Baltimore aquarium were inspired by the sidewalks in Copacabana. Oh, and how about maybe finding another good model and attaching it to the aquarium with a @Glenni skywalk.  And then, I couldn't forget to throw it on a coast next to the Virginia attack submarine by srainy?  So much potential here.

 Also... I got some licenses . But I don't know if that means i'll be making models for SC4 though  as I've never used them before

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8 hours ago, matias93 said:

Lovable, specially the FAR section with apartments!

Also, an anticipated welcome here

Thank you!  I was lucky to find FAR apartments that matched exactly what I needed for this project.  Have there been any big changes in your country since 2016 that I should know about? I know that Piñera is back in power.  I am very excited for the cheap avocados!

1 hour ago, T Wrecks said:

 

@younghappy, that's one of the best coasts I have ever seen in my entire SC4 career. Impressive use of MMPs to create a totally realistic result! Great choice of BATs, too, superb use of FAR assets (both BATs and networks) - it all looks so organic! Wow, just wow.

 

Wow!  Thank you so much @T Wrecks!  It was painstakingly slow to get to this stage so I'm glad that it has paid off.  I'll need a new computer and plugin folder for my SC4 career to continue.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

2 hours ago, younghappy said:

Wow!  Thank you so much @T Wrecks!  It was painstakingly slow to get to this stage so I'm glad that it has paid off.  I'll need a new computer and plugin folder for my SC4 career to continue.

You're very welcome. I can imagine that it took a whole lot of time, and it clearly shows.

As for requiring a new PC and plugins folder, join the club.... *sigh*

My (~8 years) old notebook is dying on me, the display has started to show glitches and errors. I have found and bought a used notebook meanwhile, a real monster PC by my standards. However, I'm still conducting some experiments with it, trying out stuff. Then I'll install Win10 over it, and then I'll have to wait for a GoG sale on SC4 Deluxe. I do have the old discs lying around, but my new NB doesn't have an optical drive, and I don't feel like contacting EA for a code redeeming action, having to install Origin and maybe ending up with an unpatchable digital version nonetheless. I'd rather throw a few bucks at GoG, whom I regard to be a decent company. Here's to hoping my old notebook will hold for a few more weeks!

As for the plugins, you may have read in Indiana Joe's thread that I'm currently piecing together a folder as well, and this will also take a while. I have single-family homes and small residential rowhouses (1x1 / 1x2 / 1x3) covered, and I am currently busy with mid-rise residential apartment blocks. This is where I got side-tracked with my little recolouring project. (I noticed that prepo's Finnish rowhouses and StephenHH's tenement blocks could also use some desaturation...)

Anyway, I sure hope you'll be able to continue because it's so much fun to look at your pictures. I wish you a nice trip to Chile and hope you'll come back to ST soon!

[pclark06 12,054]

4 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

 

@pclark06: I agree that it looks like time well spent. This is shaping up to become a really nice BAT. The sign might do with a slight desaturation, and I'm not sure about those HVAC units appearing completely white in game, but that's about it. I really dig that bed post entrance portal!

Thank you! I definitely plan on adding some sort of painted texture to the signs as they are usually painted with the LED text on top. there's a lot of textures still needed to be done on it but it's getting there.

[matias93 7,535]

7 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

This is where I got side-tracked with my little recolouring project. (I noticed that prepo's Finnish rowhouses and StephenHH's tenement blocks could also use some desaturation...)

This is an ongoing project? COOL!

9 hours ago, younghappy said:

Have there been any big changes in your country since 2016 that I should know about? I know that Piñera is back in power.  I am very excited for the cheap avocados!

Not that much. There are more immigrants now and politics are somewhat more uncertain, but that's almost a given on all countries by now. Sadly, the avocadoes are on an all-time price surge, and their quality has plummeted as the best ones are being furiously exported.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

17 minutes ago, matias93 said:

This is an ongoing project? COOL!

I wish, haha. Too many projects right now. Migrating to new computer, piecing together my plugins, dozens of IRM items left to upload, and now the recolouring stuff... I can't do it efficiently because GIMP lacks a decent (and user-friendly) batch processing routine, and I'm starting with some of the hardest BATs to recolour because it's basically a simulated Scanline =>  Mental Ray conversion and not just a colour correction of a Mental Ray render. I do hope that the latter will be easier! In any case, don't hope for quick results.

As mentioned before, I see a chance of uploading all my modified stuff eventually, but the emphasis is both on "chance" and "eventually", not on "surely" and "anytime soon". I'd need some help for that - or lose my job to have enough time.

[rivit 3,402]

@T Wrecks

You might consider trying IrfanView as a tool to try your color changing with - its reasonably powerful for global changes and has a batch mode for all sorts of manipulations (and its free). For the Scanline- Mental ray conversion also try varying gamma - its a nonlinear change and can often fix washed out or overly dark images.

Also (I cant seem to get a pm to you) in my public archive is a new version of GoFSH with a colorchange option for 3ds Maxis nite to Dark NIte to try.  

[nycsc4 5,250]

Some shots of False Creek and the new Globe and convention centre expansion.

Thanks!

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Real World Scale:

[Tyberius06 12,250]

Hi everybody!

First of all thanks for the support and likes. Some reaction for the recently shown beauties!

@Goldman Sachs really nice models, please start to release all these goodies and beauties. Specially the cars and people props. 

@nycsc4 keep up the good work! I love how you're planing and making your cities. Beautiful bay area. I'm not a big fan of skyscraper jungles, but your images are really nice!

@VALASatoshi nice projects on your end as well. Please start releasing or at least sharing your lots (google drive, one drive, drop box etc...). Your housing projects and that school are awesome!

@Simmer2 beautiful work on that picture, and thanks for your hard work on those models and props. Our railways will get so many nice stuffs from you! I really appreciate your work!

@T Wrecks you have some interesting projects as well. I'm curiously waiting to see what you are cooking to us next time!

@WolfZe nice project with the university area. Keep up the good work!

@CT14 nice to see you're back!  I hope you bring us a few nice new models! 

 

This time I show some further projects and some custom side projects.

Also I uploaded my Caribou's Long Slope Transitions for GLRs ReLots.

1. After the 4th and probably the last volume of the Heretic Urban GLR Set (NOT YET Released), I give you a set of relots of APTX beautiful japanese El-Rail Stations and Terminuses. Here are some pictures about the project. The lots are mostly done, only need to test them. Some of the relots originally were made 2-3 years ago, when I started to be got involved with LOT Editor (nope, NOT PIM-X at that time), well I assume it was time to revisit those lots, and give them some love.

2. Well there is a 3rd current project. It's taken a while, since I started it during the last spring (2018), and a part of the station what I show you now, was made 2 years ago, than it got some revisit, but only now with the current Heretic Urban Rail and HSR Terminuses and Stations Project (URHTS) got the necessary love for a possible release. After listening some suggestions I made two versions of the East Wing. One is the original concept with a mixture of buildings, because I like to mix different style buildings, the other is a more conventional one.  Shinjuku East and West Wings. Acutally I'm thinking about making a third version with GHSR access, but I'm not sure just yet.

a) Original concept

b) More conventional concept

c) Originally there was a plan to recreate a similliar setup like the RL Shinjuku East Wing with the w2w buildings, but the original model has a really bad clipping attack on the surrounding taller models, so I made a separate ploppable LOT. This is not planned to be released, but if anybody is interested in this lot, let me know and I can share a copy with the dependency list. 

3. I made a few GLR stations for requests, now I revisited two of them and made a bit customized version for myself. These are not planned to be released, but if anybody is interested in these stations, let me know and I can share a copy with the dependency list. If you have the latest RTMT (v3.60) and the dependencies for my previous GLR sets, those are cover thsi two stations.

Well, that's it for now.
Stay Tunned...

- Tyberius

[Barroco Hispano 26,914]

New Version

HMS Furious (47):

Length: 240m

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Goldman Sachs

Absolutely smashing, old boy !!

Can't wait to see that in a ploppable Maxis water version !!

[pclark06 12,054]

RTG is going to be uploaded next week. Whole Foods is next, and will take a while.

[nycsc4 5,250]

4 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

@nycsc4 keep up the good work! I love how you're planing and making your cities. Beautiful bay area. I'm not a big fan of skyscraper jungles, but your images are really nice!

Thanks!  I'm trying to get a little more similar to the real life Vancouver and the Downtown Peninsula is nothing if not a huge skyscraper jungle lol.  The vast majority of my city is low density residential, but the central city will be made just as, if not more, dense as the real Vancouver.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

On 27.10.2018 at 1:16 AM, rivit said:

@T Wrecks

You might consider trying IrfanView as a tool to try your color changing with - its reasonably powerful for global changes and has a batch mode for all sorts of manipulations (and its free). For the Scanline- Mental ray conversion also try varying gamma - its a nonlinear change and can often fix washed out or overly dark images.

Thank you for your reply! I have XNView, which has a similar functionality. I might use that for gmax BATs and smaller corrections, but thse Scanline buildings... I have been experimenting with colour curves including the individual RGB channels, brightness/contrast, saturation, hue, and individual colour balance, sometimes selectively for highlights, medium colours and shadows.

Since that stuff is more complex than simply cranking down saturation two notches, I first take an in-game screenshot where I plopped the original building in a Maxis environment. Then I fire up GIMP, make a selection of just that building and experiment with colour changes until I think the building blends in rather well. Then I apply these changes to the FSH's (I can then always select "Last settings" at least). Some of these advanced filters are not available in XNView or might work differently, and in XNView I can't applay corrections selectively to a part of the test screenshot (namely the building in question) to check out what to do before I apply it to the FSHs. Can I make a free polygon-based selection in IrfanView?

I have meanwhile achieved some acceptable results, and I feel that I have learnt a lot. However, this stuff has cost me too much time. I guess I'll leave them as they are for now, and continue modding. I can always go back at a later time, when I have even more practice.

Right now, I'll move on and recolour some gmax and 3dsmax MR renders as it may become necessary, that's far easier. This will also take me to a handful of BATs that only exist for Maxis night, where I'll be able to test your latest version of GoFSH including the night view conversion function.

@Goldman Sachs: Wow, those ship models are so amazing! And early aircraft carriers look so odd... I think one of the few carriers that manages to look even more awkward was Akagi in is early three-deck configuration. What an oddity, that one!

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I'm disappointed...

[RobertLM78 1,598]

2 hours ago, Goldman Sachs said:

I'm disappointed...

I'm not much interested in the instruments of war you make, but it looks great to me..... 

[Simmer2 23,831]

Dora (Gustav's sister) is now complete and I turned it into a park, tourist attraction.
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Simmer2

[Krasner 1,062]

@Goldman Sachs Heeee yeah this can always occur... I've experienced failed exports multiple times, it's really annoying especially when you had to wait for very long... I hope that your next export attempt will be the one. Great, great work by the way...

@Simmer2 Great ! Is this one of these horrible WWI german canons ? On the french side these received a funny nickname ("la grosse Bertha", as if it was a german lady called the fat Bertha)... Lol.

[Simmer2 23,831]

31 minutes ago, Krasner said:

 

@Simmer2 Great ! Is this one of these horrible WWI german canons ? On the french side these received a funny nickname ("la grosse Bertha", as if it was a german lady called the fat Bertha)... Lol.

It was indeed one of those cannons but not Big Berta, this one is even bigger. Google Dora cannon.

 

[Tyberius06 12,250]

1 hour ago, Krasner said:

funny nickname ("la grosse Bertha",

52 minutes ago, Simmer2 said:

It was indeed one of those cannons but not Big Berta, this one is even bigger. Google Dora cannon.

It reminds me to one of my favourite PC games: Total Annihillation. One side had a cannon called Big Bertha. It was a map cleaning device actually. From one side of the MAP you could shot to the other side and it doesn't require proper target.

Anyway, @Simmer2 beautiful work on that cannon!  And of course thanks for releasing the Locomotive Refueling Station.

- Tyberius

[RRetail 7,912]

Vons is in good company....

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@RRetail Nices

[matias93 7,535]

No big changes since the last time I showed something, but at last, I got my definitive region fully renderised and forested.

As you can see, I've made some advancements on avenue layout, but nothing too important by now. As a reference, I plan for the southern tip of the peninsula to be the high class bourough, that the northern plain and the middle island share urban and suburban middle class areas with agricultural plots, and that the low class zones become centered on the western plateau, around a mine or some similar industry (or an airport, I have few places available for one). On the western margin of the central lake a seaport would be built.

The difficulty (and the fun part) of this map is that there exists a 300 metres (1000 ft) altitude gap between the riverside flatlands and the sorrounding plateaus, so every infrastructure work that is meant to connect both places will have to overcome that. On the second image you can see the first two efforts on that sense: a highway climbing the side of Quebrada Grande, and a rail track hugging the slope at Cerro Bastión, one of the softer ones available.

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Porsche 918 Spyder:

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A small intermediate level.
The campus is growing slowly but surely

[Tyberius06 12,250]

Hi WolfZe!

11 minutes ago, WolfZe said:

The campus is growing slowly but surely

Is the base modelled with the buildings? It looks an awesome project of yours, but the sake of modularity (IF the base textures and those trees are moddeled together with the buildings), could you offer the main buildings AS separate models too. So I'm NOT asking you to give up your concept, but for LOTters like me would be awesome if we can get just the building models (without the modelled ground base and trees) as well. 

Anyhow keep up the good work! I really like it so far!

- Tyberius

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25 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

Hi WolfZe!

Is the base modelled with the buildings? It looks an awesome project of yours, but the sake of modularity (IF the base textures and those trees are moddeled together with the buildings), could you offer the main buildings AS separate models too. So I'm NOT asking you to give up your concept, but for LOTters like me would be awesome if we can get just the building models (without the modelled ground base and trees) as well. 

Anyhow keep up the good work! I really like it so far!

- Tyberius

Yes, the buildings are modeled with the base. Reason are the impossible entangled ways of the campus, which I would not be able to do with some base textures.
In addition, the buildings sometimes have different levels of elevation and are not simply standing on a smooth, straight surface.
Since the project is only for me, that does not matter.
If someone is interested in a building, I like to do him/her a "solo version"

Greetings Wolf

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