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[reg 1,480]

15 hours ago, mitsos said:

 

reg thank you for sharing such a beautiful work. Thank you satoshishi. 

@mitsos

Thank you.
I have followed you as well.

[Lucario Boricua 7,050]

     Second part of the mountain road construction Earthworks Tutorial is up!!!     

 

 

[Rott 2,398]

Back when a drugstore wasn't just some boring old Walgreens...

[korver 27,686]

[The British Sausage 5,449]

Alright now- here's a Christmas present for you all!

Another super mosaic!

 

Note: You may have to either open in a new tab or double click the image or some other means to see this up close.

Note 2: Obviously its harder to gauge height in the classic isometric view but the steep south side of Mount Hefnall (facing the city) is at least 35 tiles away from the closest tile of urban development. There's a roughly thirty tile long stretch where the gradient averages 45 degrees. Thus a 16x16 meter square tile would give 16m of height per square tile. From this the approximate height of Mount Hefnall -- assuming the gently sloping top section (after the steep slope) is no more than 50m and assuming the same from the flat bottom transition to the steep slope is no more than 50m -- we get:

16 x 30 + 50 + 50 = 480 + 50 + 50

                                = 580m

This is 580m (1902 feet) prominence, or height from the lowest part of the valley which Cindersville is built in. Now typically, at least in England, a valley in the mountains averages in elevation anywhere between 100m to 200m, so call it 150m for Cindersville and the total height of Mount Hefnall would be:

580m + 150m = 730m

Thus 730 meters or 2395 feet for the Americans!

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I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I thought I would show what I do for my Patreon site.

The newest is a 5x5 blast furnace.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

22 hours ago, WolfZe said:

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I thought I would show what I do for my Patreon site.

The newest is a 5x5 blast furnace.

Hey WZ, where ya been? I'd give you a like, but I seem to be all outta love at the moment. Merry Christmas.

 

 

 

 

[+Guest 760649]

13 minutes ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

I'd give you a like, but I seem to be all outta love at the moment

Just don't be scared buddy.....

[mattb325 28,891]

The KVB building is in game. I have made it a hotel.

It will be released shortly

[Kloudkicker 4,565]

So I wanted to put in a trash and burn and a trash dumper for this new city. A little over an hour and demolition derby later, I ended up with that and a mini trainyard. 

Much more to add and do, just a little preview.

Look what you made let me do @Simmer2 ! Recognize anything everything in the picture's?

Below is a shipyard (top of pic) that I spent wat to much time redoing the rail connections on the right side. Tore it out and rebuilt maybe 7 or 8 times. I think I am done with that part. Bottom left is a small train repair yard. All thanks to SM2's excellent rail works. Thanks a million!!!

Trains must go in first. Rule number 1, for me. The next time you see this area it will be in its 'native habitat'. LOL

[korver 27,686]

[Simmer2 23,831]

SM2 Longstone Lighthouse is now on the STEX here..

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

I don't know how to make this cliff suit the terrain.

@korver is the only person I know who has done something like this in the past.

[mitsos 12,966]

51 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I don't know how to make this cliff suit the terrain.

@korver is the only person I know who has done something like this in the past.

Man, that would be revolutionary.Also i hope to see the other amazing rock on STEX. 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

1 hour ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I don't know how to make this cliff suit the terrain.

@korver is the only person I know who has done something like this in the past.

With overhanging transparencies.

If SOMY can do it, I know you can. http://somy.gozaru.jp/

Mt. Rushmore

There's also a massive dam set floating around(I think on one of the Euro sites) that sets on a 1x1 tile.

Kudos on what you've done so far.

 

[20huskies 4,699]

Nurses’ Monument now available here:

 

[Rott 2,398]

I believe I have done all I can, I have to tap out on this one because night lighting just isn't something I can figure out, if anyone wants this model to finish the neon sign lighting etc. I'm happy to send it your way...

[mattb325 28,891]

The Banmedica Insurance Building is now available for download

Here:

 

[20huskies 4,699]

@Rott the struggle is real with gmax nightlights.   I have some tricks that sometimes work if you wanna give that a shot.  PM if interested.  That one looks good!

[Rott 2,398]

1 hour ago, 20huskies said:

@Rott the struggle is real with gmax nightlights.   I have some tricks that sometimes work if you wanna give that a shot.  PM if interested.  That one looks good!

Sure I could always use advice. MattB had a neat method using faint omni lighting I was trying out, only problem is this particular model is constantly crashing Gmax so it's tough to stay invested in this one. It also seems to me night lighting is just not what this program was tailored for at all...

[Simmer2 23,831]

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope or FAST will be part of SC4 soon.

It is the world's largest filled-aperture radio telescope.

[The British Sausage 5,449]

11 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I don't know how to make this cliff suit the terrain.

@korver is the only person I know who has done something like this in the past.

It's simple, you make a bigger cliff!

[RobertLM78 1,598]

10 hours ago, 20huskies said:

Nurses’ Monument now available here:

 

I thought that was Link there......

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

To Barroco-

 

gnu map

 

 

[davide1983it 5,426]

 

@mattb325, do you remember the name of residential building on rightside?

[art128 4,622]

@davide1983it Those are Simfox's TRB Towers and Krost Tower.

 

[junspud 1,069]

Finally did customized SHK Parking lot textures with full sidewalks instead of grass using the GoFsh script.

Also restored crosswalks at Road T intersections.. still needs some work though, copy-pasting existing textures was the quickest way to get them in, but I didn't match them sufficiently and the cross-walks themselves are a different style than the X-Intersections.

Edit; An attempt at a smoother transition between RVT SAM4 and Road;

Kind of regret not using Euro road textures, but switching over now would be too much work. Will have to wait until I start a new Plugin folder.

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16 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I don't know how to make this cliff suit the terrain.

 

@korver is the only person I know who has done something like this in the past.

While I don't have any clue about making graphics: Do you refer to the textures or the fact that this rock still has a gap between it and the cliff? Latter problem probably can't be solved because the rock itself is vertical and there are no vertical cliffs in SC4: No matter how high a cliff in SC4 will be, its surface has to adapt to the cells, with the lower end touching one end and the upper end touching the opposite end.

My suggestions (although these only come from my tinkering with geometry, not from any knowledge whatsoever of making graphics):

• Tilt the rock a bit, by 10-20°.
• Rotate it so the front side actually becomes the upper side. Add a bit additional rock at the "bottom" and make it overhanging. Then turn it into a prop, set the Orient to Slope property to true, and place it on a lot with very high slope tolerance. This way, it can be plopped directly on a cliff. The bottom parts, if they are overhanging, will be hidden under the surface. (Cliffside retaining walls usually work like this.)
• Make the rock overhanging and "deeper", so its rear end touches the cliff.

Good work, BTW.

[mattb325 28,891]

19 hours ago, Rott said:

Sure I could always use advice. MattB had a neat method using faint omni lighting I was trying out, only problem is this particular model is constantly crashing Gmax so it's tough to stay invested in this one. It also seems to me night lighting is just not what this program was tailored for at all...

When Gmax scenes start crashing repeatedly, just import the whole lot (minus LODs, TB2 Camera, Thumnail, etc into a new scene). Also, perhaps take a look at this gmax model made by j_portland many moons ago:

He uploaded it as a kind of working tutorial to show you how to get neon effects using gmax and it is a good visual tool for using omnis, spots etc and tweaking the parameters to get a more sophisticated effect from good old gmax.

 

Next up, some builders basic apartments that were requested by a user in Quebec.

I've made these low wealth as I always tend to get the same bunch of low-wealth apartments growing over and over. By making them historic, I like to keep nicer low-wealth buildings, as having too few lower-wealth residents in a city or region causes demand to tank. Also, now that there is the no kick out mod, something like this, that doesn't look like a pastiche of low-wealth (dead grass, garbage, graffiti, communist block, etc) is really useful to mix in with mid-wealth residential areas. A huge number of low-wealth stuff in real life are things like build-to-rent and other types of social housing that is not owned by the government.

The ground floor of these is made of cinder blocks, then the rest is made with either cement sheets or cement siding, so very inexpensive materials that look alright when new.

6x6 lot

and a 4x4 lot

It will be available soon.

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