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[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

@nycsc4 PM'd you...

[Haljackey 17,403]

Prep work complete. Ready for play button

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

These six statues takes a few days, I expended much time on the rendering, By now still has some texturing works left, Okay that's it, Maybe I will go back to this aftrt I have enough technology to do so.

17/25 finished

-- Raymond

[mitsos 13,020]

Amazing !!!! The colour of the water is so realistic and awesome. Stunning job . Maybe in the future we ll have more fountains like yours. I'm looking forward to see the job completed.

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

4 minutes ago, mitsos said:

Amazing !!!! The colour of the water is so realistic and awesome. Stunning job . Maybe in the future we ll have more fountains like yours. I'm looking forward to see the job completed.

Thank you mitsos, I'm still quite a newbie of modeling, I actually leant much from @mattb325 and @Jasoncw, and I failed to make some sprays on the water, Anyway, There are still 8 statues remained, After that I will try to study hard to create more beautiful fountains as you wish, Thank you for the encouragement.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[mitsos 13,020]

45 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

Thank you mitsos, I'm still quite a newbie of modeling, I actually leant much from @mattb325 and @Jasoncw, and I failed to make some sprays on the water, Anyway, There are still 8 statues remained, After that I will try to study hard to create more beautiful fountains as you wish, Thank you for the encouragement.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

That would be awesome. There is a lack of fountains in SimCity. Thank you for making this game more interesting and our cities more beautiful.

[rivit 3,404]

Sooner or later you come unstuck when you least expect it. Here I was trying to make an STR version of the DTR Truss Pylon bridge which has the Rail texture baked in. This sort of bridge is usually used to span small ravines and are single track, as its hard to make these strong and cheap, and they're often outback of nowhere.

All sorts of graphics glitches show up on bridges. Bridges are deemed to have a vertical shadow, but BATs don't. This means shadows are confusing in-game. Also bridges do not show a base depending on how they are defined, so as to be flexible with height. The original was pre-rendered so has shadows, but the LODs lead to a funny base of the support, and the segments of the bridge don't align overly well in all views. It was made a long time ago.

I've given my version shorter spans. There is no BAT render, so all the highlights and shadows are just tricks in the textures, and the way I've used them. There are just two 128x128 textures - light, and darker - for all X segments in the bridge. The alpha cutout makes for holes in the framing but note how this distorts as you go towards the ground. I think this is due to the fact that pylons slowly diverge to a bigger base. The original is fine, so this may be a limitation when rendering S3D with DirectX.

Overall it's come out usable enough, but the test vehicle may soon experience trouble.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Raymond7cn

FABULOUS !!!      Simply FABULOUS !!!

Looking forward to these works of art......

[+Guest 760649]

Old water tower at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg / Germany.
The Ohlsdorf cemetery is the largest park cemetery in the world and has a lot of these old, architectural gems.
The water tower is only used as a lookout tower.

[RRetail 7,912]

Eat like you mean it

[Krisman 4,660]

Trying something else … no downtown but rural this time ...

[nycsc4 5,251]

10 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Thank you mitsos, I'm still quite a newbie of modeling, I actually leant much from @mattb325 and @Jasoncw, and I failed to make some sprays on the water, Anyway, There are still 8 statues remained, After that I will try to study hard to create more beautiful fountains as you wish, Thank you for the encouragement.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

If you’re taking your inspiration from those two, you can’t go wrong.

[tariely 4,499]

16 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

These six statues takes a few days, I expended much time on the rendering, By now still has some texturing works left, Okay that's it, Maybe I will go back to this aftrt I have enough technology to do so.

17/25 finished

-- Raymond

Oh that is SPLENDID (I just imagine what batter you're going to develop into and I am drooling i advance.) ; where did you get that water texture ? Would it be possible to have it as a water texture, separately ? And do you plan in doing a less grand version of that fountain (without the statues or with a different, more modern center piece ?)

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

5 hours ago, nycsc4 said:

If you’re taking your inspiration from those two, you can’t go wrong.

Dear nycsc4, I want to explain some after I looked back at my words, Sorry for my awful english, At the beginning of this statues job, I made some of them, however I got in trouble with the size and light, Frankly, I almost gave up at that time since I felt I couldn't handle them as a newbie, I felt upset and thought I'm lack of talent on these, Likewise, I never learnt the modeling as university- trained, So maybe it's an unrealistic dream to me, But matt @mattb325 saved my hope by encouragement words with PM, then I regained my power and asked matt and @Jasoncwquestions, They taught me patiently step by step, So That's why I said I leant much from them.

But there were still some problems couldn't be resolved by a newbie himself, for example the sprays on the surface of the water, And I don't want to bother them more, So that's why I said I failed, whereas they were never related to them.

Anyways, I do appreciated the helps from those great experts, and please forgive me if I made mistakes before, Thank you!

 

43 minutes ago, tariely said:

Oh that is SPLENDID (I just imagine what batter you're going to develop into and I am drooling i advance.) ; where did you get that water texture ? Would it be possible to have it as a water texture, separately ? And do you plan in doing a less grand version of that fountain (without the statues or with a different, more modern center piece ?)

Dear tariely, Thank you, You gave too much credit. I just made the water with some functions of 3ds max, I used mental ray's Arch & Design Material as render, and also max's Particle Systems and gravity, as you know, I don't know if it could be called texture since I'm still a quite newbie, And then, After these statues, I plan to create Kremlin walls and more versions of my cutaway mods, because I had given @thecitiescenter @Cyclone Boom my pledge, But If you could give patience to a newbie, I would be honored to made them for you. Thank you very much.

Yours Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[matias93 7,535]

12 hours ago, tariely said:

Would it be possible to have it as a water texture, separately ?

It would require to render it from a zenital view (just avobe) and then using the image as a FSH texture. It's not hard at all.

[RRetail 7,912]

Anyone up for some Timbits? 

[mattb325 28,894]

H&R Block is available for download.

Here:

 

[junspud 1,069]

I find SAM streets with a no-grass mod particularly useful when you want a specific area to be fully sidewalk but can't or don't want to use zoning to achieve it.

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

4 hours ago, junspud said:

I find SAM streets with a no-grass mod particularly useful when you want a specific area to be fully sidewalk but can't or don't want to use zoning to achieve it.

Hi Junspud, Your CJ keeps getting better and better. Congratulations! And I think your T21 side trees is more beautiful and tidy than mine, The slope on the right of the second picture is my favorite. It reminds me some good memories of Vancouver, I shoud consult you another day, Can you keep an archive of this City? Thank you!

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[pclark06 12,094]

Time to go back to the east coast.

[Barroco Hispano 26,973]

2 hours ago, pclark06 said:

Time to go back to the east coast.

Beautiful!

[Barroco Hispano 26,973]

2004 Maserati MC12:

Kraz-260:

[Haljackey 17,403]

New hillside community in progress

[mattb325 28,894]

Another Wilshire Blvd building.

SAKS Fifth Avenue (Beverly Hills) Store

 

[gutterclub 2,743]

This is stunning mate

[Lucario Boricua 7,060]

          It's finally becoming a thing!!          

 

֍ KINGDOM OF ROTA ֎
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

BREAKS GROUND!

 

Mew: Miu-MEW! Nya ñiu-nianioniau ñnniaaauuu-niou ñiañ niou-niau-nio!!

(Translation: It's here! The international airport starts construction!!)

 

Spoiler

 

 

Jenny Salisbury: Absolutely! We reviewed the input received from our public hearing events and developed a new proposal which collects the main expressed concerns about this grand project. Of particular importance were:

• Mitigating noise issues over the city of Brandt,
• Ensuring the maximum feasible length for the north-south runway
• Having some adaptability to wind direction shifts
• Ensuring a safe flight path for landing, especially avoiding cliffs
• Providing a major transportation asset directly associated to the city of Zamacentia in the northwest of the Kingdom

The final design is a modification of Option G, with the north-south runway lengthened towards the south. The runways are configured as follows:

• Main: 18-36 (north-south), 3,456 m / 11,338 ft long, 55 m / 180 ft wide
• Secondary: 13-31 (northwest-southeast), 2,896 m / 9,502 ft, 22.7 m / 75 ft wide

 

Main runway approaches:

 

 

 

Secondary runway approaches:

 

 

 

Runway crossing point:

 

Mew: Ñian ñiac nah miau!

(Translation: X marks the spot!)

 

Jenny Salisbury: Queen Ilene could not be with us today, she is currently meeting with the Prime Minister of the Kanto Region. Who knows what kind of deal they might achieve!

[pclark06 12,094]

got a lot done today while watching college basketball

[Haljackey 17,403]

Growing metro's edge (video with commentary)

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,973]

Boeing AH-64D Apache:

 

 

[RRetail 7,912]

Happy tastes good, but I prefer the old slogan better....