Show us What you're Working On

[Bobelboy 437]

34 minutes ago, mattb325 said:

@davide1983it, the textures are made by me (it's just a colour with a noise and stains/dirt), but there are plenty of sites available that provide photographs as art128 said...

One thing that has always frustrated me in SC4 is the inability to make individual streets/roads special. Often councils put unique structures, different types of trees, different paving etc in their main shopping street that clearly shows it is separate from surrounding areas. Sure we have T21s and SAM, but that only does so much. For instance, you often see structures such as this built over main shopping streets:

So I made one as a series of bus stops (1x1 which overhangs 1x4 so you can add more than one together to fill a road)

Something like this can give you a 'green road' while being a functional bus stop (and all the automata is visible through the canopy structure)

The idea can be re-purposed - for instance, most cities have a china-town. This is a super easy way to make the roads appear unique in the china town district:

Is this something of interest? If so, I'll package it up and release it (I might even add a few different types of structures)....

Ehm... YES PLEASE?!

[mitsos 12,968]

Grand Central Station Penthesili, connecting all networks.

[matias93 7,535]

@mattb325 this is definitely a great idea, but my impression is that it would work best as something to use in pedestrian malls, maybe replacing the props on Paeng's mod:

That way you have full frontage access (something that the transit enabled lots cannot do) and can even mix and match canopy segments for even more variety with just a few models.

On the other hand, this would also call for 90° corner, T and cross pieces to complete the set, but with a good selection of buildings, you could even get things like this:

[City_Slider 2,716]

I started a new Region since ... 3 Years? ... or more.

Region:

Now there is the Question... should i start a CJ? i´m not using MMP´s and i try to build like in the Realaty. But there are Worlds between Europen and American Style. 

 

[davide1983it 5,426]

32 minutes ago, matias93 said:

@mattb325 this is definitely a great idea, but my impression is that it would work best as something to use in pedestrian malls, maybe replacing the props on Paeng's mod:

That way you have full frontage access (something that the transit enabled lots cannot do) and can even mix and match canopy segments for even more variety with just a few models.

On the other hand, this would also call for 90° corner, T and cross pieces to complete the set, but with a good selection of buildings, you could even get things like this:

La galleria Vittorio Emanuele di Milano un gioiello🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[WannGLondon 2,299]

3 hours ago, mattb325 said:

@davide1983it, the textures are made by me (it's just a colour with a noise and stains/dirt), but there are plenty of sites available that provide photographs as art128 said...

One thing that has always frustrated me in SC4 is the inability to make individual streets/roads special. Often councils put unique structures, different types of trees, different paving etc in their main shopping street that clearly shows it is separate from surrounding areas. Sure we have T21s and SAM, but that only does so much. For instance, you often see structures such as this built over main shopping streets:

So I made one as a series of bus stops (1x1 which overhangs 1x4 so you can add more than one together to fill a road)

Something like this can give you a 'green road' while being a functional bus stop (and all the automata is visible through the canopy structure)

The idea can be re-purposed - for instance, most cities have a china-town. This is a super easy way to make the roads appear unique in the china town district:

Is this something of interest? If so, I'll package it up and release it (I might even add a few different types of structures)....

I have always thought the same things. Would love if you released these.

[gutterclub 2,729]

4 hours ago, mattb325 said:

@davide1983it, the textures are made by me (it's just a colour with a noise and stains/dirt), but there are plenty of sites available that provide photographs as art128 said...

One thing that has always frustrated me in SC4 is the inability to make individual streets/roads special. Often councils put unique structures, different types of trees, different paving etc in their main shopping street that clearly shows it is separate from surrounding areas. Sure we have T21s and SAM, but that only does so much. For instance, you often see structures such as this built over main shopping streets:

So I made one as a series of bus stops (1x1 which overhangs 1x4 so you can add more than one together to fill a road)

Something like this can give you a 'green road' while being a functional bus stop (and all the automata is visible through the canopy structure)

The idea can be re-purposed - for instance, most cities have a china-town. This is a super easy way to make the roads appear unique in the china town district:

Is this something of interest? If so, I'll package it up and release it (I might even add a few different types of structures)....

Absolutely love these mate, love how you bring realism down to a street level, which is where I find most of the joy in SC4.

[Ramona Brie 121]

Would it be possible to get versions that would not look out of place on a wider road, like an AVE-2 or TLA-3?

[Kloudkicker 4,565]

5 hours ago, mattb325 said:

@davide1983it, the textures are made by me (it's just a colour with a noise and stains/dirt), but there are plenty of sites available that provide photographs as art128 said...

One thing that has always frustrated me in SC4 is the inability to make individual streets/roads special. Often councils put unique structures, different types of trees, different paving etc in their main shopping street that clearly shows it is separate from surrounding areas. Sure we have T21s and SAM, but that only does so much. For instance, you often see structures such as this built over main shopping streets:

So I made one as a series of bus stops (1x1 which overhangs 1x4 so you can add more than one together to fill a road)

Something like this can give you a 'green road' while being a functional bus stop (and all the automata is visible through the canopy structure)

The idea can be re-purposed - for instance, most cities have a china-town. This is a super easy way to make the roads appear unique in the china town district:

Is this something of interest? If so, I'll package it up and release it (I might even add a few different types of structures)....

That would be nice, yes please. An addition like this would be very welcome.

[rsc204 21,866]

8 hours ago, Simmer2 said:

HSR prototype station.

Oooh, it's long... very long . But whilst it's nice to see more appropriately sized platforms for high-speed networks, I kinda feel it needs more than just platforms. This kind of network tends to only service main stations, where it's almost unthinkable to not have such facilities as a waiting area, shops and ticket sales. That said, it's nothing that couldn't be plopped using existing or separate buildings/lots, so please don't see this as a criticism. Not to mention, they could be re-purposed for RRW I suppose?, since you don't do the baked-in-texture thing, where such things are certainly just fine standalone.

Could I ask, are the platforms modular pieces or a single model?, *hint* the former would be really useful .

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

10 hours ago, mattb325 said:

@davide1983it, the textures are made by me (it's just a colour with a noise and stains/dirt), but there are plenty of sites available that provide photographs as art128 said...

One thing that has always frustrated me in SC4 is the inability to make individual streets/roads special. Often councils put unique structures, different types of trees, different paving etc in their main shopping street that clearly shows it is separate from surrounding areas. Sure we have T21s and SAM, but that only does so much. For instance, you often see structures such as this built over main shopping streets:

So I made one as a series of bus stops (1x1 which overhangs 1x4 so you can add more than one together to fill a road)

Something like this can give you a 'green road' while being a functional bus stop (and all the automata is visible through the canopy structure)

The idea can be re-purposed - for instance, most cities have a china-town. This is a super easy way to make the roads appear unique in the china town district:

Is this something of interest? If so, I'll package it up and release it (I might even add a few different types of structures)....

I Love these! and actually I like the red lights it gives the Chinatown feel much more than blue lights would.  White lighting would also be neat.

[EffTheGrid 3,726]

(WIP) FA2 strip mall

small

[Kloudkicker 4,565]

18 minutes ago, thecitiescenter said:

White lighting would also be neat.

I agree, just enough to light up the ground underneath.

[davide1983it 5,426]

[Simmer2 23,831]

14 hours ago, rsc204 said:

Could I ask, are the platforms modular pieces or a single model?, *hint* the former would be really useful

I made the platform 1 piece but the shelters are modular however I can easily make the platform in whatever size is necessary.

I have been thinking of repurposing that station for yet another network.

Lets see how it goes.

[redfox85 659]

1 hour ago, Simmer2 said:

I made the platform 1 piece but the shelters are modular however I can easily make the platform in whatever size is necessary.

I have been thinking of repurposing that station for yet another network.

Lets see how it goes.

*cough* Hybrid Rail ..

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo --

Another installment for the "CJ"......

 

VISIT THE CITY JOURNAL……IMPERIAL DOCKYARD: WILHELMSHAVEN

https://community.simtropolis.com/journals/

[mattb325 28,891]

Thanks for the comments re the bus-stops. I'll address these in another post very soon (I also have another model to show for these set-ups). For now, the Pfizer mega-lot laboratories are available to download

Here:

 

[TheEstGuy 721]

I am a quite begginer with RHW but with an hour+ and alot of nervewrecking hustle I made this butterfly interchange with RHW just as close to Maxis one I could get.

[mitsos 12,968]

Working on this region for 13 years.This is my first collage that shows the entire Penthesili metropolitan area. Population 25 million.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Sorry @TheEstGuy, i cant read your "what ever". Please change the Colores, like they should be... black and white.

And dont highlight em, Thanks.

[TheEstGuy 721]

7 minutes ago, mitsos said:

Working on this region for 13 years.This is my first collage that shows the entire Penthesili metropolitan area. 

 

Did this picture took 13 hours to stitch together?

[rsc204 21,866]

9 minutes ago, mitsos said:

Working on this region for 13 years.

That explains a lot, I've been very impressed with some of the screenshots you've been releasing of late, some of the best stuff around right now. 

[TheEstGuy 721]

18 minutes ago, City_Slider said:

orry @TheEstGuy, i cant read your "what ever". Please change the Colores, like they should be... black and white.

And dont highlight em, Thanks.

Sorry @City_Slider I am not seeing the problem you are ''describing'' and I am quite confused on what you're trying to say/claim. Any more information would be helpful.

[Josh6 873]

53 minutes ago, mitsos said:

Working on this region for 13 years.This is my first collage that shows the entire Penthesili metropolitan area. 

Looks amazing! @mitsos

[TheEstGuy 721]

A super detailed picture of Katakoska, a city I am working on currently. Zoom in the picture or download it and see the great detail. 

[mattb325 28,891]

To answer some of the questions re: the bus stops....

On 2/5/2021 at 5:58 AM, City_Slider said:

But there are more Lights needed... (every 2 Tiles? ). And Please... no red Lights! I would put em in the Middle of the Lot (Try light blue).

 

19 hours ago, thecitiescenter said:

White lighting would also be neat.

 

18 hours ago, Kloudkicker said:

I agree, just enough to light up the ground underneath

Thanks guys - these are Chinese Lanterns for a chinatown set up and are almost always red (you occasionally see gold ones, but 99.99% of the time they are red as it is culturally significant). However, the other lights will be whatever your street lights are and this won't interfere with that. I am using a dimmed version of a light replacement mod that doesn't interfere with thenight shots of my bats...so for instance, a more conventional set up might look like this:

 

It just depends on whether you use the default lights or a light replacement mod.

On 2/5/2021 at 6:18 AM, nycsc4 said:

Only thing I would recommend is making one without the bus stop, just a TE enabled road piece.  If I was doing a little covered shopping street I wouldn’t want large buses rumbling down the center.

Thanks - years ago, motokloss made an incredible street side mod that you plopped down. These were just TE pieces. And though there was nothing inherently bad about the modding, sims avoided those pieces and made sure they found any other way to get from A to B including making entire neighborhoods abandon. I've found the best way to counter this is to mod it like the RT bus-stops...that also ensures that you have high traffic, which is good for commercial. It's annoying, but it's just the game mechanics...

23 hours ago, Ramona Brie said:

Would it be possible to get versions that would not look out of place on a wider road, like an AVE-2 or TLA-3?

Thanks - the textures (to my knowledge) don't exist outside the NAM. Years ago theses sorts of things were often part of the bsc packs, but that hasn't happened for ages, so I would need to extract these from the NAM .dats and make a texture pack from them, and then of course, I would need to custom path them, which is probably too much work at the moment. I have a hunch that others may in fact already be doing this sort of thing, so if that is the case, I can certainly revisit the idea, as I do quite like the notion of roadtop stops for the different NAM sizes.

On 2/5/2021 at 7:34 AM, matias93 said:

but my impression is that it would work best as something to use in pedestrian malls, maybe replacing the props on Paeng's mod

thanks - per the real life picture, it is designed for roads, but can be repurposed for the pedestrian lanes I made last year. Although using it as a T21 on a ped mall wouldn't really work as it is 4 tiles long, and I would have to bump  & override some of the lotting that paeng made (he over-rode a japanese mod for his) . But the functional ped lanes are suitable for covered, functional pedestrian walkways and I'll release them with the bus stops:

 

Lastly, perhaps a modern Ginza circa 2050 style canopy....

I'll also make it a functional ped-lane

 

[AP 3,591]

working on some long needed cardinal marks for our shore lines:

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

[Kloudkicker 4,565]

A little project I'm working on. Rescue LOT 911, the LOT: Bus Depot Large Capacity. Looks OK from here.

Up close it is not OK, besides it needing an occupant menu placement code to even work. 

 

Looking much better now (below)

After few more tweaks, I am very pleased with the outcome. A city bus depot for 60,000 with a souvenir and information center, a convenience store and a administrative office building. TE for bus vehicles only. Working out where the dependencies are from is not so easy. I think I will upload it when it is finished.