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[20huskies 4,699]

Now to nightlight.

[bch0899 1,203]

Working on an elementary school.

[Haljackey 17,398]

I'm spending my holidays widening highways hahaha

 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

I don't understand how some of you are doing what you are doing, but truly excellent work in so many different areas of SC4.

 

My update after an early finish to work on new years eve; MMPing an entire shoreline was quite a lot of work, but I think its actually looking reasonably realistic. I think improvement will just take practice on my part but again, if anyone has any thoughts, I'm all ears.

I figured that I'd try to grow some Dutch houses here, as they should get on just fine with these sand dunes. Unless familiarity breeds contempt of course, but it's a chance I'm willing to take.

 

I will try to get a city journal up soon but I've had a bit of a plugins meltdown whilst trying to sort my residentials into tilesets that let me grow pretty much what I want where I want and I've had enough of PIM-X for this year. Luckily I only have to wait a few more hours until next year... 

Happy new year to everyone that celebrates it & take care of yourselves.

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@MissVanleider Did you use photoshop?

Very soon:

Wooden Windmill:

I don't know whether to place it in the landmarks menu or in the parks menu or just make an mmp.

 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@Barroco Hispano no photoshopping, everything in the picture is in SC4, i used print screen and saved the JPG.

The beach texture is only the terrain texture at the very shoreline. Most of the beach is a lot which paints the terrain in a small area around the plop, i just plopped them along the shoreline and used MMPs to cover the obvious edges.

 

Your windmill is excellent. Personally i think I prefer it as an MMP so it can be plopped in more situations. Can you put it in the power menu if you make it a lot? Less scrolling to find it that way, and it does make power in a way... 

[AP 3,591]

As announced, I created more content for the wind industry in sc4. This is a blade reck as mounted on construction vessels for offshore farms. The tip of the blades are usually hung in slings:

 

Is there a way to export in a higher quality than the "High-Option given in GMAX- BAT?

 

 

[20huskies 4,699]

The Cosmopolitan Food Court is now in game.

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

@Haljackey how on Earth do you get so much traffic on your highways? My sims see a highway and they're all like this...

[art128 4,622]

2 hours ago, MissVanleider said:

Happy new year to everyone that celebrates it & take care of yourselves.

That is seriously one of the best shoreline I've ever seen done in the game.

Shores are an area where I struggle to make it look good. You've pulled it off brilliantly.

[mitsos 12,966]

[Haljackey 17,398]

2 hours ago, Scaley McSlither said:

@Haljackey how on Earth do you get so much traffic on your highways? My sims see a highway and they're all like this...

40 million people, NAM simulator on low, eternal commuter bug (which I like as a challenge) and a massive inter-connected region does all this.

Always gotta stay on top of it.

Moar widening

[davide1983it 5,426]

[davide1983it 5,426]

I've select all lod, but i don't undestand, why when my building are so high, i have this error

[ohdude 2,353]

Feliz año nuevo a todos! Happy New Year Everybody!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

6 hours ago, MissVanleider said:

I don't understand how some of you are doing what you are doing, but truly excellent work in so many different areas of SC4.

 

My update after an early finish to work on new years eve; MMPing an entire shoreline was quite a lot of work, but I think its actually looking reasonably realistic. I think improvement will just take practice on my part but again, if anyone has any thoughts, I'm all ears.

I figured that I'd try to grow some Dutch houses here, as they should get on just fine with these sand dunes. Unless familiarity breeds contempt of course, but it's a chance I'm willing to take.

 

I will try to get a city journal up soon but I've had a bit of a plugins meltdown whilst trying to sort my residentials into tilesets that let me grow pretty much what I want where I want and I've had enough of PIM-X for this year. Luckily I only have to wait a few more hours until next year... 

Happy new year to everyone that celebrates it & take care of yourselves.

THIS is absolutely GORGEOUS !!

The terrain configurations, color blending, and highlighting on the crests is a positive work of art!

I've been trying to make dunes like that for years -- without success.

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

Happy New Years everyone!  

[20huskies 4,699]

The Cosmopolitan Food Court is now available.

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

At the dawn of this new year, I wish for all of you -- HEALTH -- Prosperity -- and especially, Happiness. 

      HAPPY  NEW  YEAR !! 

I just got home from last night's "ritual celebratory madness" and today, I prepare to set off in celebration of My Birthday !! (As the aging, but brilliant, police Chief Inspector always says..."I'm getting too old for this crud!"  )

But before I go -- I offer a few more shots from Wilhelmshaven South......

On the west side of the "Eglise de La Madeleine" market / plaza, we have a hodge-podge cultural center that started out many years ago as a church and a park.  As time went on, successive cultural sites were crowded into the area even as it was ringed by business and financial districts.  On the left is the Guggenheim Museum, the Sorbonne, the Old National Gallery, the Tarrazzo (SP?) bell tower (with sidewalk cafe), and in the right, bottom corner -- the Old Stock Exchange building.

North of the Madeleine Plaza we see the beginning of the New Financial District stretching along the upper level of the seawall embankment.  These tower buildings have fine, scenic, views of the inlet with a cozy promenade and fountains to sooth the weary tycoons or cheer the strolling tourists.  (The AIG building can be seen many miles out at sea.)  On the lower level, the old fishing port has been renovated into a modern tourist attraction complete with a boardwalk, riverboat dining, shops, public fishing piers, Capt. Jack's prestigious seafood restaurant, mooring space for tourist boats, and even an old lighthouse converted into a maritime museum.  Altogether -- a delightful place to enjoy the bracing sea breezes, dine, or just spend an afternoon puttering about on the boardwalk.

And behind the AIG Building, you see "The Shard" tower, the BanMedica Insurance building by @mattb325, and the beginnings of a cluster of new financial giants that are occupying the prime real estate on this small headland.  (More work to do, here.)

 

[The British Sausage 5,449]

21 hours ago, MissVanleider said:

I don't understand how some of you are doing what you are doing, but truly excellent work in so many different areas of SC4.

 

My update after an early finish to work on new years eve; MMPing an entire shoreline was quite a lot of work, but I think its actually looking reasonably realistic. I think improvement will just take practice on my part but again, if anyone has any thoughts, I'm all ears.

I figured that I'd try to grow some Dutch houses here, as they should get on just fine with these sand dunes. Unless familiarity breeds contempt of course, but it's a chance I'm willing to take.

 

I will try to get a city journal up soon but I've had a bit of a plugins meltdown whilst trying to sort my residentials into tilesets that let me grow pretty much what I want where I want and I've had enough of PIM-X for this year. Luckily I only have to wait a few more hours until next year... 

Happy new year to everyone that celebrates it & take care of yourselves.

Very nice! I like this minimalist style with MMPs and wide spaces contrasted with lotted buildings- NOICE!

 

20 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@MissVanleider Did you use photoshop?

Very soon:

Wooden Windmill:

I don't know whether to place it in the landmarks menu or in the parks menu or just make an mmp.

 

The normal option would to be to place this in the landmarks menu, the technical option would be to place it in the power menu because technically windmills are a form of power, while the gutsy option would to make it an MMP!

 

18 hours ago, Scaley McSlither said:

@Haljackey how on Earth do you get so much traffic on your highways? My sims see a highway and they're all like this...

There is another way which is to set the automata generator, in the NAM installer, to 24 hours constant which guarantees busy automata (traffic) on ALL streets, roads and highways which are being used by Sims. The downside of this is that suburbs appear to be busy streets and another downside is that in can have an adverse effect on game performance and can cause more crashes. I opt for the periodic 24 hour automata where there's a lot of visual traffic which coincides with rush hour times: 0500 to 0900 to 1600 to 2000.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Looks cool, even if i didnt saw a Firework last Night.

The AIG Building, it it from Team Asia @Dreadnought

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Glenville Redux-

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hey Jack,

is there a CJ around? If not, where to see Screenys about your Region/s?

Greetings Oliver

[Dead_End 1,630]

22 hours ago, MissVanleider said:

I don't understand how some of you are doing what you are doing, but truly excellent work in so many different areas of SC4.

 

My update after an early finish to work on new years eve; MMPing an entire shoreline was quite a lot of work, but I think its actually looking reasonably realistic. I think improvement will just take practice on my part but again, if anyone has any thoughts, I'm all ears.

I figured that I'd try to grow some Dutch houses here, as they should get on just fine with these sand dunes. Unless familiarity breeds contempt of course, but it's a chance I'm willing to take.

 

I will try to get a city journal up soon but I've had a bit of a plugins meltdown whilst trying to sort my residentials into tilesets that let me grow pretty much what I want where I want and I've had enough of PIM-X for this year. Luckily I only have to wait a few more hours until next year... 

Happy new year to everyone that celebrates it & take care of yourselves.

The transition from grass to dunes looks absolutely flawless! Any chance you could create a quick tutorial on how you achieved this effect?

[MissVanleider 1,851]

1 hour ago, Dead_End said:

The transition from grass to dunes looks absolutely flawless! Any chance you could create a quick tutorial on how you achieved this effect?

You're too kind, i think it would actually be a little bit easier with a slightly less green terrain grass, but I'm happy enough with the result.

in terms of a tutorial, I actually did just this because a few people seemed interested. I made it a post to the omnibus earlier today and got a message that it was waiting for approval so (assuming i did everything right) you should see a Dunes tutorial coming soon!

Edit - it's actually here already:

Second Edit / Sorry to bump the thread if I'm not supposed to do that. Here is the now finished area I showed before from the other angle.

  Edited January 1, 2021 by MissVanleider  
Added link / showing off with new picture

[davide1983it 5,426]

4 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guys --

At the dawn of this new year, I wish for all of you -- HEALTH -- Prosperity -- and especially, Happiness. 

      HAPPY  NEW  YEAR !! 

I just got home from last night's "ritual celebratory madness" and today, I prepare to set off in celebration of My Birthday !! (As the aging, but brilliant, police Chief Inspector always says..."I'm getting too old for this crud!"  )

But before I go -- I offer a few more shots from Wilhelmshaven South......

On the west side of the "Eglise de La Madeleine" market / plaza, we have a hodge-podge cultural center that started out many years ago as a church and a park.  As time went on, successive cultural sites were crowded into the area even as it was ringed by business and financial districts.  On the left is the Guggenheim Museum, the Sorbonne, the Old National Gallery, the Tarrazzo (SP?) bell tower (with sidewalk cafe), and in the right, bottom corner -- the Old Stock Exchange building.

North of the Madeleine Plaza we see the beginning of the New Financial District stretching along the upper level of the seawall embankment.  These tower buildings have fine, scenic, views of the inlet with a cozy promenade and fountains to sooth the weary tycoons or cheer the strolling tourists.  (The AIG building can be seen many miles out at sea.)  On the lower level, the old fishing port has been renovated into a modern tourist attraction complete with a boardwalk, riverboat dining, shops, public fishing piers, Capt. Jack's prestigious seafood restaurant, mooring space for tourist boats, and even an old lighthouse converted into a maritime museum.  Altogether -- a delightful place to enjoy the bracing sea breezes, dine, or just spend an afternoon puttering about on the boardwalk.

And behind the AIG Building, you see "The Shard" tower, the BanMedica Insurance building by @mattb325, and the beginnings of a cluster of new financial giants that are occupying the prime real estate on this small headland.  (More work to do, here.)

 

Torrazzo  is in Cremona

 

is a Hige belltower

[davide1983it 5,426]

I don't understand

imperial tower.zip

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

1 hour ago, davide1983it said:

I don't understand

imperial tower.zip

Try rendering it in parts... e.g. render one set of LODs for the bottom half of the tower.  Then Render the second set of LODs for the top half of the tower.  That will get you two sets of SC4MODEL files.  Make both of these props.  Then make a "blank building".  Then put both props on top of each other in LE (this will be your actual building).  Finally replace the Building with your "blank building" SC4MODEL file.  Feel free to PM me if you need further instructions.  Good luck 

 

[mattb325 28,891]

Daiwa House, Tokyo, is available for download.

Here:

Happy 2021

 

Edit: @davide1983it, make sure you have the texture fix installed. It is available at https://community.simtropolis.com/sc4-maxis-files/. To install, copy the files into your Gmax scripts folder (C:\gmax\gamepack\BAT\scripts\), overwriting the existing ones if prompted.

Also, if you are going to do very tall skyscrapers, make sure you have the lighting rig fix: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=725 to avoid shadows being cut off at a certain height

 

  Edited January 1, 2021 by mattb325  

[Simmer2 23,831]

Lets make a prison.....

Still work in progress.