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[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

1945 IS-2 Camo:

Some tanks are still missing.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

15 hours ago, tails2489 said:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/20092-god-terraforming-in-mayor-mode/

Thanx for the tip. 

I downloaded the Mod for future reference -- but I try to avoid Mod's as a general rule -- though you never know when I'll forget a bunch of stuff.  "Use it or lose it !"

I do appreciate your assistance and the link. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@nycsc4

I would also like to convey my "Congrats" on the occasion of your 15th !!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

9 hours ago, 11241036 said:

These tools only show up in God mode, and most of them aren't accessible anymore by default after founding a city.

There's a cheat to get access to God-mode tools, however. Just left-click on the God-mode icon while simultaneously pressing CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, and all God-mode tool should be temporarily unlocked until you go to Mayor mode next time. You can repeat it.

THANK YOU Sooooooo VERY MUCH !!!     

That's the tricky little bit I couldn't remember !!

Age is both a blessing and a curse, it seems.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

2007 Toyota Land Cruiser J76:

2007 Toyota LC J79 VXR Single Cab:

 

2012 Toyota LC J79 Double Cab:

2010 Toyota LC J78:

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

     Anyone need sand, be it for construction, landscaping, industrial abrasives and/or electronics manufacturing?     

 

Presenting...

 

֍ SANDY CREEK QUARRY ֎

TOWN OF VOLUS

 

What's going on at the formerly quiet village of Sandy Creek? Why does it seem bigger, and noisier?

 

 

A quarry!

 

 

This neat facility extracts river sediments, which in this area consist of sand and gravel. It's sorted by particle size and distributed, either by truck or rail, depending on the customers' needs.

 

 

At the extraction area, workers dig and bulldoze their way into the sand and gravel deposits, filling a few truck loads at a time.

 

 

Those shipments go out to their customers through a dedicated railway bridge, or through the adjacent road. Seems that no shipments are going out by rail this time!

 

 

The quarry guys and gals decided to be good neighbors as well and allow a farming cooperative to set up a railway station to send out their goodies to hungry mouths around the Kingdom!

[nycsc4 5,250]

Thanks for the comments @T Wrecks, @Dreadnought, and @Raymond7cn!

A rare night shot:

[Dreadnought 8,231]

7 hours ago, Lucario Boricua said:

     Anyone need sand, be it for construction, landscaping, industrial abrasives and/or electronics manufacturing?     

 

Presenting...

 

֍ SANDY CREEK QUARRY ֎

TOWN OF VOLUS

 

What's going on at the formerly quiet village of Sandy Creek? Why does it seem bigger, and noisier?

This neat facility extracts river sediments, which in this area consist of sand and gravel. It's sorted by particle size and distributed, either by truck or rail, depending on the customers' needs.

 

Yo, guy --

That gravel facility is a real gem -- especially the rail car loading hopper.

Is that your own lot, or did you find that somewhere ??

I'd love to have  that -- my region needs a large sand and gravel works.

[Diego Del Llano 5,206]

ONE LIBERTY PLAZA, NEW YORK CITY. 

[Tyberius06 12,267]

On 2020. 05. 06. at 2:44 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

1945 IS-2 Camo:

Some tanks are still missing.

 

I really hope, that you have constant back-ups of the back-ups of the back-ups of these models. And of course I can't wait to see them in game.

- Tyberius

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Tyberius06

They do present some interesting possibilities, don't they ??

[Linus van Pelt 293]

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

5 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guy --

That gravel facility is a real gem -- especially the rail car loading hopper.

Is that your own lot, or did you find that somewhere ??

I'd love to have  that -- my region needs a large sand and gravel works.

 

The gravel terminal and the accessory gravel heaps around it were made by Simmer2. If you're into neat industrial, utility and railway facilities, you'll enjoy an immense proportion of his published content!

 

https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/444001-simmer2/

 

 

 

 

 

[gutterclub 2,729]

4 hours ago, Diego Del Llano said:

ONE LIBERTY PLAZA, NEW YORK CITY. 

This looks great so far! Only things I'd focus on is desaturating the trees and grass, they look a bit radioactive...and the Roof texture doesn't seem believable as and is too noisy and the noise is too large.

 

I'd go for a smoother concrete and it seems to have darker square patches

[Diego Del Llano 5,206]

@gutterclub , Thanks for the recommendations, I always have a problem with my rooftop textures and trees, if anyone knows a good place where I can get decent, clean and also dirty rooftop textures to give it more realism I would appreciate it.

[gutterclub 2,729]

It's quite hard to just find roof textures, you will usually have to make them in photoshop. 

Jason and Todd have both written guides for it before somewhere in the depths. Essentially, you need to start with a base layer and build up layers of dirt etc in photoshop. Add dark edges etc. I can you some roof textures you might want to start with for this..also add a tiny bit of reflectivity to the roof, 0.05 or lower, add the usual ambient occlusion.

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

@Diego Del Llano that's awesome! Great job! When I finish the Singer Building I'll make sure to add your One Liberty Plaza on it's place, demolish it and plop the Singer again. Historical revenge

[Krisman 4,652]

Some airport progress again …
The passenger terminal this time, including public transport, a bus station, taxi stand, flight information displays and (of course) a McDonalds …

[Diego Del Llano 5,206]

11 hours ago, JP Schriefer said:

@Diego Del Llano that's awesome! Great job! When I finish the Singer Building I'll make sure to add your One Liberty Plaza on it's place, demolish it and plop the Singer again. Historical revenge

Hahaha funny , I did not know that information, that the singer building was in the same place as One Libery Plaza. That's interesting.

[kschmidt 6,223]

On 5-5-2020 at 10:30 PM, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guys --

HELP !

I'm knee-deep in my city and decided I need a rail connection to another city. 

UNFORTUNATELY -- there is a terrain height adjustment required to lay the rails.  I went into terraform on the Mayor Mode to pull up the tools -- but when I select any of the raise/lower/level buttons -- none of the good stuff comes up!

I'm supposed to see a selection of different tools that offer shallow valleys, mountains, smoothing, etc, etc -- right?

It's been about 5 years since I created a new map tile from scratch and I think I forgot how to access those tools.

Any ideas how to refresh my rickety memory ??

You, mean the Smooth road, rail slope mod ?

 

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[Dreadnought 8,231]

1 hour ago, kschmidt said:

You, mean the Smooth road, rail slope mod ?

 

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

THANX , Kschmidt --

But what I FORGOT was which keystroke to use to get into the specialist "God Mode" terraforming tools.  The older I get -- the more I forget !!  (That's what happens to you when you take a 3-year break from the game -- you forget ALL the basic stuff and have to re-learn how to play !!!)

BTW -- Can anyone tell me how to drain the water to work on the sea floor and install those pesky seawalls ??

[Yarahi 1,823]

9 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

BTW -- Can anyone tell me how to drain the water to work on the sea floor and install those pesky seawalls ??

You mean the Setsealevel cheat?

Also found this on SC4D 

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Even better: for terraforming purposes, change your WaterDepthForMaxAlpha to 250 and WaterMinAlpha to 0x00; this will make your water completely transparent instead of removing it, so you'll still be able to see your actual waterline.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Yarahi

Yo --

I'm not sure if it is "Setsealevel" --

I used to use something that simply removed all the water (as well as the bridges) and allowed me to smooth the coastlines, make sure my whales had deep water, and permitted me to plop seawalls that can't be plopped on water.

Is that the one -- ??

[Yarahi 1,823]

@Dreadnought The full process is like so: 

- Open city
- Open Cheat window (Ctrl + C)
- type in setsealevel 0 respecting the space between word and the number.
- Water is gone and the terrain is free to build whatever you want to. (Just make sure that you don't do this in a "fullgrown" city, it will destroy harbours, bridges etc. You will have to rebuild them once the water level is back)
- Save city when done and exit
- Re-enter city and voila....the water is back with all the shoreline and seafloor changes you have done. Save again.

The DBE (Diagonal Bridge Enabler) from NAM also removes water from the city when in Plugins-folder I believe

[kschmidt 6,223]

30 minutes ago, Yarahi said:

You mean the Setsealevel cheat?

Also found this on SC4D 

 

Reently, I saw a extension to the God in Mayor mode tools creating land bridges where there´s transparant water wich desolve after a reload ?

[Yarahi 1,823]

1 minute ago, kschmidt said:

Reently, I saw a extension to the God in Mayor mode tools creating land bridges where there´s transparant water wich desolve after a reload ?

Yes, 

But this is some kind of ploppable/mmp type water or something like that.

The setsealevel cheat however works on the in-game water that comes with the maps. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

35 minutes ago, Yarahi said:

@Dreadnought The full process is like so: 

- Open city
- Open Cheat window (Ctrl + C)
- type in setsealevel 0 respecting the space between word and the number.
- Water is gone and the terrain is free to build whatever you want to. (Just make sure that you don't do this in a "fullgrown" city, it will destroy harbours, bridges etc. You will have to rebuild them once the water level is back)
- Save city when done and exit
- Re-enter city and voila....the water is back with all the shoreline and seafloor changes you have done. Save again.

The DBE (Diagonal Bridge Enabler) from NAM also removes water from the city when in Plugins-folder I believe

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR -- !!    

You saved me hours of hunting and digging through papers.  You know -- the kind where you wrote it down and put it in a safe place ?? 

[Yarahi 1,823]

2 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

the kind where you wrote it down and put it in a safe place ??

...and then later when you actually needed the information - you had no idea where about that safe place 

[pclark06 12,072]

I am making an American-Canadian border city in my game, but first, the Canadian side needs it's own gas brands.