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[nycsc4 5,250]

8 hours ago, mattb325 said:

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

 

 

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.

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...

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.

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

 

Thanks for the explanation!  Love the ginza canopy!

[AP 3,591]

10 hours ago, AP said:

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

 

Now available for download here:

@Barroco Hispano to keep ships clear from the reef you are making

@Dreadnought Might be very helpful to mark the shallows and wrecks in the watt around the german bight, and jade bight as well as the alte weser entrance...

Robbenplate and Hoheweg <3

This is Imsum, perfect example for my buoys:

[tariely 4,499]

On 2021-02-01 at 1:45 PM, davide1983it said:

A new villa lot 4x4

Quite nice but... two pools ? AND two fountains ? Isn't that a bit...ostentatious ? Wouldn't splendid trees better give the “high end” impression ?

 

[tariely 4,499]

On 2021-02-04 at 1:49 PM, mattb325 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)....

Is this something of interest ? Heck, YES !

19 hours ago, mitsos said:

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

Absolutely WOW.

[brancra 1,168]

33 minutes ago, tariely said:

Quite nice but... two pools ? AND two fountains ? Isn't that a bit...ostentatious ? Wouldn't splendid trees better give the “high end” impression ?

 

His and hers pools, for the couple that only stays together for the money 

[Simmer2 23,831]

SM2 Deepwater Oil Terminal is now in game

[City_Slider 2,716]

1 hour ago, Simmer2 said:

SM2 Deepwater Oil Terminal is now in game

Only one Word... Fantstic!!!

[mattb325 28,891]

St Georges Apartments (made as a request from Canada) are available to download

Since I first made this approx 6 weeks ago, I also added a ploppable CS$$ for diagonal roads (included in the upload).

Available, here:

 

[Kiwiwriter47 473]

21 hours ago, mattb325 said:

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

 

 

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.

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...

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.

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

 

The Ginza is great...three years in Japan: I remember the one in the city I was based in, Sasebo. 

[20huskies 4,699]

22 hours ago, mattb325 said:

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

 

 

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.

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...

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.

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

 

@mattb325 thank you for the Chinese lantern set up.  When I lived in Japan I always found those lanterns such a soothing background. I’ve been meaning to bat a few, I’m glad someone with more talent has incorporated them!

[Lucario Boricua 7,049]

      We need more dams and reservoirs!      

 

Today I bring Presa Maguana, north of the city of Maguana, with the purposes of hydroelectricity, fresh water supply and flood control for the city. Yet to decide on what to do with the surrounding area.

 

 

Weather seems to be on the clear side, so this is most likely a test of the spillway.

[davide1983it 5,426]

2 hours ago, tariely said:

Quite nice but... two pools ? AND two fountains ? Isn't that a bit...ostentatious ? Wouldn't splendid trees better give the “high end” impression ?

 

it's one fountain


 

[davide1983it 5,426]

Hello, here the front of of my capitol building

 

[davide1983it 5,426]

Just now, davide1983it said:

Hello, here the front of of my capitol building

 

I'm not good for Dome

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

Ficus Carica (Common Fig)

[mitsos 12,963]

Regeneration of the historical center of Penthesili phase 1 completed

 

 

Click here

 

 

[younghappy 308]

Hi Simwegians! Not currently active in the game since I came back from travelling and I don't have the patience to work with my ageing-ailing laptop any longer.  But even when I was away in a random valley in the Andes, I still followed this thread, so I felt like logging in to say all y'all are doing the lord's work! Glad to see @Simmer2 back with more offerings, @mattb325 continuing to go above and beyond, like literally everything you create, I can picture a place for it in my city. Also @Barroco Hispano, your creations are stunning, I can't imagine the work that goes into making them.  Also @korver, whatever dimension you're currently in, if you can read this: just wow!  And all the new designer honing your craft, keep 'er lit!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Ring Of Fire progress - Feb 2021.

7 years in the making thus far.

Click images for full size

 

 

 

 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

Great work everyone. 

After finishing off a set of security fences that I showed off before, and newly confident from the things that I've been taught by being a member here, I thought i would have a go at using @Girafe's hedges to make a set of fillers for rural (and suburban) environments. I made a straight and a corner, and had a look at them. I grouped the hedge props quite tightly, because I thought it would be nice if these could fit in quite sloped circumstances and to my surprise and delight, they do seem to be quite slope tolerant...

I figured I'd try to create them with the seasonal props and crossed my fingers that they would change to a summer version at the appropriate moment. Once again...

I was hopeful that they would still allow MMP's to be plopped close to the hedge, to give a chance of creating that dense, overgrown look...

Since I appear to be very lucky today in sheer chance as well as having access to such great advice at Simtropolis!  

[davide1983it 5,426]

Hello

It's a Capitol Building


@Barroco Hispano  :-) there is place for your creation ^-^ statue

[mitsos 12,963]

Navy is back ...

 

[ohdude 2,353]

I've started into 3dmax modeling. I wish to be able to make succesful projects. By the moment i'm having some problems in rendering. Can anybody help me telling me why this glitch is happening? Thanks a lot!!

[IDS2 3,429]

@ohdude That's a pretty common export error. Sometimes one of the renders gets skewed like that and you can either manually fix it in ilive's reader or modify your LODs and export it again. Here's an excerpt from the FAQ thread detailing the fix:

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MY BAT IS DISTORTED

Open the .SC4Model file in ilive's Reader, and select the offending .S3D file. Then select the Vert tab. The u values and/or the v values, both of which should range between 0 and 1, are off. In this example, the v values needed to be doubled. Due to some kind of export error they were only half the number they should be. For example, the first v value in the list, 0.085938, needed to be doubled to 0.171876.

Since the values apparently tend to be either doubled or halved by the bug and typically all of the values (u or v) are affected, the easiest way to narrow down the problem is to try and change either the u or the v values by doubling or halving roughly and checking in the viewport whether the S3D starts to look better. Once you have a suspicion which values are off and whether they are too small or too big, you can simply select another view without saving your modifications, go back to the affected S3D and enter the exact numbers. Do not forget to select "Apply" once you are finished and save the corrected model file!

It's easier to slightly change the LODs (to hope that the new LOD geometry does not trigger the bug), and then re-export. 

 

[ohdude 2,353]

Thanks @IDS2!!!

I've "reLODed" again and made some size adjustments.

A new Sculpture is commingggg!!!!

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@ohdude It's actually a lot easier to fix, that happens because FSH is so much larger than it needs to be.

[art128 4,622]

@Barroco Hispano Care to elaborate about it being easier to fix? I've got an old BAT on the STEX that needs to be fixed in one of the views and I'd like to try out the fixing techniques on it.

[JulioC 2,581]

A while ago I posted some pics of a WIP port of a new region and well... just ignore it 

I didn't like how it was turning so I just bulldoze everything lol

Started (once again ) a new project but this time I feel more satisfied with the region I designed and with the new plugins that I downloaded.

I'm hoping to start a new CJ soon based in some eastern europe region, somewhere near Russia, something like this. We'll see  

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[AP 3,591]

Can some of the experianced lot creators tell my why I do not quite like this yet:

What is missing?

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@art128  @ohdude 

Here I try to explain why that error happens.

I posted a method to fix it a few weeks ago but it might be a bit complex.

A slightly simpler way to do it would be

1. Download this plugin (Yes, you need photoshop but if you don't have it then use the old method that I expose in the post - Assuming you still keep the outputfiles -).

2. Open reader and find the "damaged" FSH and save it

Drag the fsh file to Photoshop

Follow step 3 of the old method

4. Click "save as" (If you get an error, try again and the save window will appear.) and select 32-bit ARGB etc and deselect the other options, please don't try to save it any other way because your fsh will be damaged

5. Open reader, insert the fsh, delete the old one, reindex, save and close.