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3 hours ago, Goldman Sachs said:

@tagehring I did this with the terraformer tools

Before:

After:

It's so complicated to get a good result with my water mod that I don't even know if I'll release it.

 

The color transition from bright blue to dark blue, in real life, ultimately depends on the depth of the water, if you want it to be realistic (this certainly looks like it). You'd need a region with very shallow seas in case you want a lot of light blue. If you do have issue with the water having to be too shallow to develop the light color, you might want to skip realism and make the light color depth greater, such that you don't need to have impractically shallow water to get the color.

[pclark06 12,071]

TCF Bank (out of Minnesota). I just really like the color scheme of their recent rebranding.

[mattb325 28,891]

A variation on the previous ferry W.I.P....:

Also compatible with most seawall sets.

[monkeywater 910]

16 hours ago, Goldman Sachs said:

I fixed the blue color:

What beach and water mods are these?

[Simmer2 23,831]

Expanding the oil storage field..

Simmer2

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Small test for houses in the medieval Tudor style. Let's see if I do more ....

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

Breda Ba.88 Lince

Potez 63

[tariely 4,499]

12 hours ago, mattb325 said:

A variation on the previous ferry W.I.P....:

Also compatible with most seawall sets.

OOOOOOOH.  (I suppose it wouldn't be possible to have it without the automata ?)

[Tyberius06 12,267]

48 minutes ago, tariely said:

OOOOOOOH.  (I suppose it wouldn't be possible to have it without the automata ?)

I don't think that the automata would be part of a possible upload. It seem to be a really nice ferry station and like a train station it triggers the corresponding default game automata or its overrides. You can have custom Ferry automata, you know it, right? VDK made a few sets a few years ago. Also you can use the model to create a new lot as a static landmark or park or anything.

- Tyberius

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Medieval keep 4x4

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

Work in progress:

2003 BMW E5 E39:

I thought it would look better in z5 view...

[tagehring 321]

22 hours ago, Lucario Boricua said:

The color transition from bright blue to dark blue, in real life, ultimately depends on the depth of the water, if you want it to be realistic (this certainly looks like it). You'd need a region with very shallow seas in case you want a lot of light blue. If you do have issue with the water having to be too shallow to develop the light color, you might want to skip realism and make the light color depth greater, such that you don't need to have impractically shallow water to get the color.

I'd think maybe three levels of detail: a light one between 250 and 245 meters, something intermediate and a little murkier between 245 and 235.5 meters (15 m below 250.5, a good depth for marinas or small-boat harbors), and something that just shows a hint of the bottom while being a little brighter than the sea color between 235.5 and 220.5 meters, which at 30 m below 250.5 is a good depth for seaports, etc. 

[mattb325 28,891]

10 hours ago, tariely said:

OOOOOOOH.  (I suppose it wouldn't be possible to have it without the automata ?)

Unfortunately, no...the game adds automata to anything that has the O.G. Ferry. Like Tyberius06 said, Vester has made heaps of ferry automata which will greatly improve on the awkward little in-game version. But the way it (and the previous ferry shown a few pages back) has been modeled to cope with all of the various seawalls, also allows for you to use just the top part, so I'm sure some folks will find some other use for them. 

 

Anywho....the retirement home from a million pages ago.

Is now released:

 

[gutterclub 2,729]

Looks great ingame, blends in perfect.

[korver 27,686]

[FluffySpaceBunny 42]

the inimitable has been imitated. 

Welcome back my friends, to the town that never ends...

Ladies and gentlemen...

Windy River! has been reborn. 

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Leopard 2A5:

I am not a fan of camouflages..

[tagehring 321]

4 hours ago, FluffySpaceBunny said:

the inimitable has been imitated. 

Welcome back my friends, to the town that never ends...

Ladies and gentlemen...

Windy River! has been reborn. 

What is that fractional-angle canal goodness off to the left??

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Pit head frame

[Krisman 4,652]

Finally found some time again for a bit of progress … still upgrading my old city with luckily also some opportunities to put all of the great buildings that @mattb325 is producing to good use :-)

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

KMS Nürnberg:

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[tagehring 321]

Got my hands on some decent bathymetric depth data for Monterey Bay and decided to have some fun with it. I finally got SC4M and SC4T more stable after patching them with the 4GB patch, so this region is 56km wide and 72km tall at a 1:1 scale. The land parts are going to be to scale vertically, but I have to cram 2000 meters of depth into 250, which gives me some fun shallows* in the bay for @Goldman Sachs to go wild with.  I just need to edit some of the glitches out and add waterways. I'll probably have it up this weekend.

*For those of you not familiar with SC4M & SC4T, the contour lines are at 5m apart in that rendering of the shallows. This is roughly the same view in Google Earth.

[Simmer2 23,831]

With all those fuel tanks I'm making, I may as well turn my attention to port loading facilities and a supertanker?

Yep, I tried my hand at it and here is 1 hours or so worth of work. Obviously it is still in its infancy so bear with me.

Work In Progress....

 

[mattb325 28,891]

A dumpy 1990's mid-rise hotel

 

[FluffySpaceBunny 42]

13 hours ago, tagehring said:

What is that fractional-angle canal goodness off to the left??

that's the Marshall Field warehouse. Chicagoans remember it as 310 n Polk St.

Fun story about Field's... they were known as a premium store and brand back when my parents got married. My mother bought some bath towels and had them delivered in 1964. She never opened them, and I found them after she died in 2009. I still use them daily,  and I'm the only guy in the world with 55 year old towels at the gym (Douglas Adams would laugh hysterically). They were very high quality US-made towels, after all.

 

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

23 minutes ago, mattb325 said:

A dumpy 1990's mid-rise hotel

 

Dumpy 90’s never looked better! 

[Simmer2 23,831]

A couple more hours and its shaping up nicely. Still tons of details to do.

SM2 VLCC Supertanker

Simmer2

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

     The railway frenzy continues!     

 

 

Jenny Salisbury: Today we have one important railway modernization project starting!

 

֍ ROCKFORD BASE TUNNEL ֎
WILL PROVIDE QUICK PASSAGE
FROM ALDEMAR TO LAKE PLATINUM

 

Jenny Salisbury: The town of Nida and the village of Rockford are in one of the steepest positionings in the Kingdom. It's no surprise when we consider that this used to be a frontier location defended by Castle Rockford and the old Warlord Domain of Kanto. They entrenched their position at the Rockford Mountain Pass, which was especially defensible due to the steep approach routes. Now, with centuries of peace and growing prosperity, the very same defensible geography is proving extremely challenging to move people and goods.

 

Jenny Salisbury: For that reason, we are undergoing the construction of a base tunnel, that is, a long tunnel connecting the valley floors at opposite ends of the mountain pass. It is much longer than a summit or culmination tunnel, but its flatter alignment makes for a faster, far more direct and comfortable route. We will also use the opportunity to improve rail services in the town of Nida, which, despite having a rail connection to the prosperous Aldemar, does not benefit from quick and direct mass transit. Other beneficiaries are the growing towns around Lake Platinum and Lake Crystal, as they could enjoy a more direct route to Cameran without taking the long and windy path through Lake Pearl and Rhennus. The tunnel itself will be 2.72 km long and reduce the rise by 164 meters between Lake Diamond and the junction downhill of Castle Rockford.

 

Spoiler

Notice how the old railway (red) includes two steep climbs, full of loops and horseshoe curves, both leading to a short summit tunnel next to the St. Gotthard Pass of Switzerland. The base tunnel, meanwhile, is much longer and bypasses the steep inclines, allowing for high speed operation across a formidable geographic barrier.

 

Credit to user Cooper.ch in Wikipedia:

 

Plot twist: making a base tunnel will be one of the upcoming M-Series Earthworks Tutorials!  

 

Jenny Salisbury: This project itself has had a slow start, for we had to ensure that the tunneling process would cause the least harm possible to the Castle Rockford Cultural Heritage Site. Preparation works for the west portal include a pre-cast concrete factory, rail access for the construction materials, the construction crews and equipment, and a lot of rock blasting in the mountainside.

 

Jenny Salisbury: and here we can see a freight train arriving with a shipment of materials for the project. Deliveries have been slow on this side due to the single-tracked Rockford railway, necessitating tedious coordination between shipments to avoid congestion.

 

Jenny Salisbury: Our construction site is also very self-sufficient, as establishing utility connections with either Nida and Rockford would become a massive project in its own right.

Mew: Mew nyah nah mee miau-mau niu-niu!!
(Translation: I spy a big can of soda!!)

 

Jenny Salisbury: At the East Portal, work has progressed a lot more. Access is provided through a realigned portion of the Rockford railway, arriving comfortably from Lake Diamond, with two tracks for easy ingress and egress of all the necessary assets for our project. Additionally, the greater distance from the protected historic sites has generated less concerns about vibrations, and we have just launched an Excadrill-5300 Tunnel Boring Machine, operated in unison with a crew of Excadrills!

Mew: Mew mee-mee myah-miau-miah nau-nau miumiumiu mee-mew niauniau Nyeh-nyeh nah Niui nyah?!?!
(Translation: Could this be another of those super secret projects Jenny and the Queen have?!?!)

 

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