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[11241036 5,115]

About that lowering the sea level topic: Doesn't the setsealevel cheat remove all bridges and tunnels from your cities?

Edit: Yes, it does, I should read posts more carefully.

Since I don't trust it, I usually use a safe way of doing this (although you need to do this outside the game itself): Open your terrain mod with Reader and set the SeaLevel property to 0. Altering this property will effectively lower/raise the water level in all your cities the next time you enter them (Maxis default = 250). When going back to the game, it is recommended to only work on cities that you've paused before, to prevent messing up ferry routes. As soon as you want your sea to be back, just revert the settings.

You can use this method to place seawalls or anything else that usually cannot be placed in water. Or, by raising the water level, you can drag bridges at places where you couldn't drag them before, such as bridges on land.

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

Here's a few things I'm working on during these days, these are not related to the Kingdom of Rota. Bringing back a wonderful tropical island feel!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

New City Journal up! It's more of a preview of future Journals to come with a recent region expansion. You can find the link in my signature. Let me know what you think!!

[Billk2007 307]

4 hours ago, ByeByeBayou said:

New City Journal up! It's more of a preview of future Journals to come with a recent region expansion. You can find the link in my signature. Let me know what you think!!

What is that building on the top of the first picture?

[art128 4,622]

@Billk2007 I'm assuming you mean the large one if so then it's DMScopio - Shenzhen Library and Music Hall

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

@Billk2007, what @art128 said

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

Testing..

[Silur 3,308]

This is a private bricks trading firms. These are three playing cards from a pack entitled "Commerce on Santana Island" 

Thanks.

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

Bus stop 9/10, One more last. They are so small in game, Anyway, I learnt a lot through modeling them.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[Raymond7cn 6,776]

@ByeByeBayou, Woww! Your beautiful CJ is full of art, and I thought you are very good at controling the combination of building and its background, Thank you for sharing, I was inspired a lot.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

[ByeByeBayou 1,938]

1 hour ago, Raymond7cn said:

@ByeByeBayou, Woww! Your beautiful CJ is full of art, and I thought you are very good at controling the combination of building and its background, Thank you for sharing, I was inspired a lot.

Sincerely,

-- Raymond

Thanks, @Raymond7cn!!! I'm looking forward to sharing the other Journal Entries with you guys from this series

[debussyman 1,349]

An update on the Louvre project. So far the Denon Wing is finished up to the Visconti Couryard, with a few tweaks still to make.

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

We have only 5 hours for the public hearings on the repairs for the rock slide along Primary Highway 15 between Lake Pearl and Lake Diamond!!

 

Make your opinion count!

 

 

Current situation:

 

 

֍ ROCK SLIDE ֎
AT LAKE DIAMOND

REPAIR ALTERNATIVES

 

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[kschmidt 6,223]

Sugalashka vanila region Terraform or what !

Terraforming maxis style ! This time I wanted to use medium and small tiles only? Large tiles, fine lots of space to use the water or hill tool. Medium and small tile limitations you have to more in mayor mode to gat that subtile feel. Hilly terrain reconciliation helps for most not all, varied you get a sort of blok squered patern only real diagonal feel have to come from carefully layouted mountain ranges. Fantasy most alike, little houres to create something ..!

Sugalashka Island !

Enjoy !

 

[rsardachuk 98]

Working on a junkyard/car hoarder's property in my rural region.  HUGE thanks to Rsc204 for making custom Maxis car MMPs for me.  the results would've been impossible without those!  what do you all think?

[Linus van Pelt 293]

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Off-topic again -- sorry -- but my "little gray cells" are showing their age again.

Right now, I have ships scattered throughout almost every drop-down menu in the game.  I am trying to get all of them to show up in the "Water / Transit Menu".

Opening a ship lot in READER -- I find "0xF0C045DF" showing as the "Item Icon".  Does that designate this lot to show up in the "Water / Transit Menu" ?  In which case you could change the "Item Icon" property in any ship lot that shows up in a different menu -- yes ??

And the "Item Order" property determines the ranking of the item in that menu -- yes ??  So -- "0xFFFFFF03" would place a lot very close to the beginning of the menu -- yes ??

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

45 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guys --

Off-topic again -- sorry -- but my "little gray cells" are showing their age again.

Right now, I have ships scattered throughout almost every drop-down menu in the game.  I am trying to get all of them to show up in the "Water / Transit Menu".

Opening a ship lot in READER -- I find "0xF0C045DF" showing as the "Item Icon".  Does that designate this lot to show up in the "Water / Transit Menu" ?  In which case you could change the "Item Icon" property in any ship lot that shows up in a different menu -- yes ??

And the "Item Order" property determines the ranking of the item in that menu -- yes ??  So -- "0xFFFFFF03" would place a lot very close to the beginning of the menu -- yes ??

Hey @Dreadnought, When you edit Item Order, check the radio button to change the value to decimal. Then enter in a high negative value to get it nearer the top of the menu; i.e. - 15000.

To get items into the Water Transit menu, you'll need to edit the "Occupant Groups" value. In the right pane, look for the occupant groups property. Currently mine says Building, Civic; Building Park (or in hex 0x00001005,0x00001006) ie it appears in the Parks menu. Remove the second one (click on it, then click Remove). Change the first one to 0x00001519 (the occupant group for water transit). Apply the changes, reindex the lot config (from the menu) and save. You're done!

 

[Silur 3,308]

@Dreadnought All the problems with objects in my SC4 menu I solve using the Great Tool named SC4Tool. 

There's no need to break your head with any 0x00001519. You just choose what you need in plain human language. You can put your lot of parks on the sea port menu or in medicine or in libraries!!!

Good luck! 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

@Scaley McSlither

THANK YOU much, Sir !!  You are a life saver ! 

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

     Woo!! The citizens have spoken and the Ministry of Infrastructure proceeds!     

 

֍ ROCK SLIDE ֎
AT LAKE DIAMOND

RECONSTRUCTION BEGINS!

 

The whole process starts with the most tedious step: cleaning up the rock slide.

 

 

All that material is surprisingly useful, and is stockpiled for sale to other construction sites, gardening and even sculptors.

 

 

While repairs proceed, a traffic detour is necessary to maintain continuity in local traffic. Here, travelers from Primary Highway 15 coming from Lake Pearl go south and uphill along the hydroelectric plant service street.

 

 

When they finish their climb, they can proceed to the right to Nida and Rockford through Primary Highway 10, or to the left to reach Lake Platinum to reconnect with Primary Highway 15.

 

 

Travelers will use the terminating segment of Primary Highway 10 and turn right to return to Primary Highway 15.

 

 

And here we have a full view of the reconstruction projects, following the notion of re-aligning close to the rock slide site.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

A few more pictures from Wilhelmshaven South --

Moving along the rugged north shore of the island, we come to the Angel Of Independence Plaza, standing in front of the cities grandest luxury hotel.  Note the use of the Jenex embankments as sea walls and a combination of Paeng pathways and PedMall pieces used to fill in the plaza.

 

Now we come to the extension of the embankment thrust out onto the spit of land toward the Three Sisters Rocks.  The elevated position of the lighthouse protects it from the pounding surf and ensures that the beacon can be see far out to sea.

 

There has been some sort of lighthouse on this spit for more than 300 years -- one having been destroyed in Saint Marcellus' Flood of 1362 -- and yet another shattered in the Great Storm of 1953 that wrought havoc on the entire North Sea area.  The Three Sister's Rocks and the new lighthouse were named for the daughters of the light keeper that were swept into the storm tossed ocean.  It is said that when the seas rise and the wind howls, the terrified cries of the three young girls may be clearly heard on the old point.

[pclark06 12,072]

A Canadian retail plaza.

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

Ok, I have the tools and textures/materials to create the most realistic terrain mod ever made, but first I need to know how the terrain works in SimCity 4. 

[matias93 7,535]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

but first I need to know how the terrain works in SimCity 4

this sounds as a perfect prompt for a separate dev thread

[art128 4,622]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

Ok, I have the tools and textures/materials to create the most realistic terrain mod ever made

 

Which you will just tease and never release....

[thingfishs 417]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

Ok, I have the tools and textures/materials to create the most realistic terrain mod ever made, but first I need to know how the terrain works in SimCity 4. 

Creating a Terrain Mod

by @Lowkee33

How To: Make Your Own Terrain Mod

by @Heblem

Great looking rocks.

[kschmidt 6,223]

Sugalashka region 02 !

Some more terraforming, completing this region. Sugalashka Island a several satelite islands some mayor and minor. SimCity vanila gameplay may take place afther I maid a backup. Maxis terraforming; unusual high mountains, tile size dimension not of great use, mayor mode last refinement !

Hapy for now with the result. Satelite maps ready maid or redefined or adjusted offer a fast library of options without effort but maybe a smaller region be aswell satisfying aswell. For now this will be a non permanent featured regiion in  sharing insight !

Enjoy !

[reg 1,480]

The previous city that I created has passed away.
He was the victim of a "forced termination".
I haven't been able to play SimCity 4 for a while due to the trauma of the "forced quit".
But I came back.
Then I started building cities with small maps.
Oh... please, God. May no disaster ever happen again to this city!

I'm still terrified of the "forced termination".