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[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

I need new parking textures 

[Simmer2 23,830]

3X3 lot SM2 Locomotive Wash Station (with animated steam)
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[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

New car paint material 

1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.

[Simmer2 23,830]

I just added several lots to my SM2 Railways Bits collection. This one is an old crossings keeper's house. I'm sure you all have seen them if you live in a small town or at least passed by one. Old CN logo on it.
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[Simmer2 23,830]

To change the pace a bit I decided to tackle someone else's models and create SM2 Union Grand Central Station
The main model was made by @WolfZe.The only drawback is that the building does not have night lights but otherwise it is a beautiful model and could not pass up the opportunity to turn it into a double DTR passenger station.

Here are some pics.
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[T Wrecks 10,210]

Nice work, as usual! I will have to look at these props that you use to piece together a platform eventually - I've always dreamt of having a kit for modular stations at my disposal, but the most recent attempt seems to have died as well. So this might really be the best solution currently.

The only thing you could add IMO would be an overpass / underpass for the Sims to get to the outer platform. Apart from that, everything looks spot on: simple, sleek, and realistic.

[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

[pclark06 12,014]

new trucking set, maybe? (edit: 53 inches seems a bit small for a semi doesn't it)

[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

All my sims will be 3,008 meters tall

I think that 3.5 meters tall is totally unnecessary.

[pclark06 12,014]

I have 55 of these trailers and will start importing into the game over the weekend.

[CT14 2,486]

On 11/1/2018 at 11:32 AM, Goldman Sachs said:

All my sims will be 3,008 meters tall

Looking good, as this is about 10% overscaled by my quick calcs (2.2 * %133% ~= 3) if we consider 2m as 'real' scale. 10-20% overscaled seems to be the 'sweet spot' to match the existing body of figure and vehicle props. I've made a few props that, in retrospective, feel too small at true scale, and might redo them at some point.

@pclark06 Nice variety! Are you going to make separate 53' props matching AngryMozart set so we can have a proper Tim Horton's train? (AM set is 110% if i recall correctly).

[pclark06 12,014]

16 minutes ago, CT14 said:

Looking good, as this is about 10% overscaled by my quick calcs (2.2 * %133% ~= 3) if we consider 2m as 'real' scale. 10-20% overscaled seems to be the 'sweet spot' to match the existing body of figure and vehicle props. I've made a few props that, in retrospective, feel too small at true scale, and might redo them at some point.

@pclark06 Nice variety! Are you going to make separate 53' props matching AngryMozart set so we can have a proper Tim Horton's train? (AM set is 110% if i recall correctly).

if I figured that out, I would. that would be awesome lol. right now it's just automata

[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

54 minutes ago, CT14 said:

Looking good, as this is about 10% overscaled by my quick calcs (2.2 * %133% ~= 3) if we consider 2m as 'real' scale. 10-20% overscaled seems to be the 'sweet spot' to match the existing body of figure and vehicle props. I've made a few props that, in retrospective, feel too small at true scale, and might redo them at some point.

< 3,008m  l 2,420m (133%) l 3,500m >

Test sim:

POV_Business_Man_V1_90-0x6534284a-0xb88fdcdb-0xc8a810ad.SC4Desc

POV_Business_Man_V1_90-0x5ad0e817_0x88a1781f_0x30000.SC4Model

Test car:

 

[nycsc4 5,250]

Haven't showed a region view in quite a while.  Central city rebuild continues.

I do have a bit of a random question for no one in particular.  What are the community's thoughts on batting for hire?  I don't have the skills and even if I had the time to learn I certainly don't have the computer power for it.  I'm not looking for someone to do a bunch of regular stuff for me either, I'm just looking for one building, but it's big...

The Vancouver Convention Centre.  A massive undertaking for sure, but a 3D model for a portion of it already does exist.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/cfa8cd8f4f9aba747e7220e0f528d998/Vancouver-Convention-Centre?hl=en

Message me if you might be interested in helping

[matias93 7,535]

2 hours ago, nycsc4 said:

What are the community's thoughts on batting for hire?

IIRC, it has been done before, but is very rare and in most cases, not embraced by the BATters themselves: many of them will recommend you to donate to some community site and to put your commision as an ordinary request.

Why? I don't have clear answers, but from what I've understand of them, it is because having money involved twists the incentives for contributing to the community: they cannot control what they are doing because it will always be more logical to BAT things you are being paid for, and competition between BATters could slide into agressivity on a small and fragile community with very few members able to do this kind of work.

I guess your best option by now is to put a placeholder on your city (I'm getting some serious @Xyloxadoria vibes from that convention centre) and to hope that a BAT request gets answered positively.

[nycsc4 5,250]

7 minutes ago, matias93 said:

IIRC, it has been done before, but is very rare and in most cases, not embraced by the BATters themselves: many of them will recommend you to donate to some community site and to put your commision as an ordinary request.

Why? I don't have clear answers, but from what I've understand of them, it is because having money involved twists the incentives for contributing to the community: they cannot control what they are doing because it will always be more logical to BAT things you are being paid for, and competition between BATters could slide into agressivity on a small and fragile community with very few members able to do this kind of work.

I guess your best option by now is to put a placeholder on your city (I'm getting some serious @Xyloxadoria vibes from that convention centre) and to hope that a BAT request gets answered positively.

That all makes perfect sense.  And honestly I don't have any real expectation that anyone will pick this up, this thing would be huge and likely pretty difficult especially with it interacting with the water.  Had to ask though.  As far as the community aspect, I would obviously like to see it released to the masses and made in a general enough way where most could find a use for it. Convention centers (and general waterfront structures) are an area where the game really lacks in my opinion.

As far as my own city goes, I already have a convention center that I hodgepodged together with several different buildings.  I'll always have open waterfront for something like this on the rare chance it ever comes along.

I suppose I'll drop something in the BAT Request thread, I just won't hold my breath.  That's where future BATs go to die lol.

[Duco 546]

On 26-10-2018 at 2:15 AM, younghappy said:

MMP overload here. Started with bedrock, blended with grasses and shrubs, filled out with trees and Simmer's water tower

Man, what a very, very nice coastline !!

  Edited November 3, 2018 by Duco  
gramma

[Dreadnought 8,227]

@nycsc4, @matias93

I had a similar question some time ago, and it was suggested to me that paying for "bats" might somehow -- possibly -- violate the original SimCity licensing and copyright agreements.  If the copyright owners determined that money was changing hands based on their original gaming system, it could constitute a legal violation.  I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I suppose it is possible.  

Of course, any real or imagined legal violations of the copyright could possibly lead to the shutting down of the forum -- GOD FORBID !!

Sounds a bit extreme to me -- but then -- I'm not a lawyer.

[ESP15 570]

Flatiron Building New York

I hope everything goes well. I really wanted this iconic building. 

[Simmer2 23,830]

14 hours ago, pclark06 said:

if I figured that out, I would. that would be awesome lol. right now it's just automata

I could make those trucks and trailers. I already made the props (they are available in my mega prop packs) I only have to slap different textures on them and re-render away.

Simmer2.

[nycsc4 5,250]

Trying to get a little more creative with my marinas:

Thanks!

[RobertLM78 1,598]

13 minutes ago, nycsc4 said:

Thanks!

The ( @nbvc ?) marinas actually work well with the PEG CDK ones.   Nice work. 

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

[Barroco Hispano 26,869]

God Save The Tsar!

[CT14 2,486]

Those tall ships and steamers are amazing! There are far too few tall ships in game and as far as I know, all of them are ships of the line. Merchant vessels would be especially welcome.

[+Guest 760649]

1 hour ago, Goldman Sachs said:

God Save The Tsar!

That's really great. My respect .

[nycsc4 5,250]

Yesterday was a busy SC4 day.  Rebuilt my original container port and the first of several break bulk piers (the rest are located in the next tile).  Reconfigured the rail lines in and out of Waterfront Station, added some new industrial, and did some sprucing up around the Waterfront Marina.
Also, a while back I thought I remember someone mentioning they did some re-lots on the PEG CDK lots.  I'm looking for those again.

New and enlarged container port:

New container terminal and first two new break bulk piers.  You can also see the newly configured rail lines:

Closeup of the newly configured rail lines.  A new freight loop was added to provide full access to the break bulk docks:

Next up are a couple shots of some new docks at the Waterfront Marina in Downtown Vancouver:

The blank white areas will eventually be lotted into landscaped greenways:

Thanks!

[Simmer2 23,830]

She is ready...

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

WIP -  Originally was just land lot with the administration building on the lot, I love NBVC marina's but next to the dark textures it looked off.  So I found a foundation @mattb325 uses for his water lots.  Theres only a couple on the right side, they kind of block the yellow line visually when facing them which I'm okay with, but I may do some searching to find a model thats just a little lower .  It's missing props and the other pieces I plan on making.  I'll probably end up deleting this and making a new one with the building on the lot now that I plan on making it a water capable lot using a foundation model. The inspiration is a helipad in Manhattan, NYC.

[Terring 6,476]

A heliport like this one looks like a good idea for someone who needs a new airport/heliport/vertiport but doesn't have enough space to build it. Any plans to give it airport functionality?