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[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,838]

I'm not complaining about the level of cat content on Mastodon, but it is having a subconscious influence on me while I game.....

[Brian J. B. 134]

On 12/22/2022 at 10:03 PM, Ct1999 said:

These are the BAT for 2023

First off, stunning shot! Would you mind telling me where you got that gorgeous rainbow colored skyscraper on the right side of the river?

[Tyberius06 12,267]

3 hours ago, Brian J. B. said:

First off, stunning shot! Would you mind telling me where you got that gorgeous rainbow colored skyscraper on the right side of the river?

Hm... 

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These are the BAT for 2023

All of those buildings are @Ct1999's unreleased buildings (actually the released ones are on the image too). Including the rainbow coloured skyscraper (unreleased). He created them, but has not yet released them. Check out their development thread:

 

[TheTimvh1 939]

13 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

Hm... 

All of those buildings are @Ct1999's unreleased buildings (actually the released ones are on the image too). Including the rainbow coloured skyscraper (unreleased). He created them, but has not yet released them. Check out their development thread:

 

The rainbow colored skyscraper is clearly supposed to be his rendition of the Canton Tower.

[justforfun 7,926]

9 hours ago, Dgmc2013 said:

After a lot of time, I've decided to install SimCity 4 again. And after the thousand of hours downloading plugins, I started a new region with this city that intend to be a central city and Downtown of region. For now, I made the major roads and add some transportation. Miss adjust and complete all layout, maybe.

 

 

May I ask which seawalls you are using? Or is it custom terrain?

[Tyberius06 12,267]

15 minutes ago, justforfun said:

May I ask which seawalls you are using? Or is it custom terrain?

I believe that's just the terrain. The inbuilt rock mod of the Gobias Sudden Valley.

 

[Dgmc2013 947]

4 hours ago, justforfun said:

May I ask which seawalls you are using? Or is it custom terrain?

Yes, as @Tyberius06 Said, is that terrain mod, I just terraplained the area to add the seawalls after.

[Ke|is 3,337]

I've been playing with the Tokyo map, adjusting angles, making it recreatable... We could say that a recreation of Tokyo is a possibility, maybe my last chance with this damn game...

I wonder if anyone would like to see it...

 

[Odainsaker 2,137]

12 hours ago, Ke|is said:

I've been playing with the Tokyo map, adjusting angles, making it recreatable... We could say that a recreation of Tokyo is a possibility, maybe my last chance with this damn game...

I wonder if anyone would like to see it...

 

Cool coincidence as I have been tinkering with an ongoing Tokyo Map as well, though I am not as courageous in altering the landforms.  Orientation with Tokyo is complicated, as unlike the clear central grids of Kyoto, Osaka, or Nagoya, Tokyo twists the layouts of multiple isolable districts around the former castle such that the city is now a radial urban web of tiny patchwork grids with an urban hole in the center.  At a macro-level, one of the more amusingly interesting models of Tokyo's network layout was recreated with slime-mold spreading in a Petri dish.

If it is helpful, I found the grid of Marunouchi between the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station can be easily recreated by rotating the map 15.10° counter-clockwise, and this will help with the symbolic urban axis of Gyoko-douri leading from the Imperial Palace to Tokyo Station, the famous axis of the shopping street Nakamise-douri leading from the Kaminarimon to Sensou-ji in Asakusa, and suprisingly also the symbolic urban axis of Wakamiya Ouji in distant Kamakura leading up to the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shine.  It more loosely eases the recreation of other angled locations like Hibiya, Shiba, Ikebukuro, Hachiouji, the Akasaka Palace, Tokyo Tower, and to a lesser extend the National Museum.  The reorientation puts the bulk of Haenda Airport and the port of Kawasaki at orientations close to 45°, which is easier to work with.  At a larger scale, even distant Utsunomiya and the bridge to Enoshima are more easily accommodated.

Alternatively, the grid of Shinjuku can be easily recreated by rotating the map 11.15° clockwise, which also eases the layout of the National Diet, Aoyama, the Meiji Jingu Gaien sports complex, the University of Tokyo, Yokota Air Base, and any recreated donjon of Edo Castle.  At a much larger scale, this orientation let me squeeze in both Shizuoka and Mt. Tsukuba.

Just retaining the north-south orientation as is makes the vast gridded swath between Sumida and Edogawa easier and well accommodates the already convenient nearly 45° angle of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line Expressway bridge spanning across half of Tokyo Bay.  Many shrines and temple complexes, especially the Meiji Shrine, generally keep a north-south orientation, as do large swaths of the generic urban and rural sprawl.  At a larger scale, most of Maebashi more readily fits into a map with a regular north-south alignment.

So many possible choices.  I admit a few days ago after several permutations I shifted gears and went with the 15.10° counter-clockwise orientation, with the rationale that non-orthagonal sprawl can be allowed to sprawl in any direction and nobody will really care, and that Shinjuku can be re-oriented against its surrounding non-orthagonal sprawl and again nobody would really notice the difference, but it would be extremely frustrating and complicated to recreate as a whole the tight and dense central district of Marunouchi, Tokyo Station, and the Imperial Palace with its baked-in terraformed moats if the Marunouchi grid did not align to the SimCity grid.  This biggest resulting complication for me is that the Aqua-Line bridge will have to be radically realigned, as I do not know of any FAR bridge pieces.

I hope this helps.

 

[sarcosis 428]

Big traffic jam on the roundabout 

[moonlinght 48]

On 2022/3/2 at 7:22 PM, rsc204 said:

What I'm working on includes a little Mythbusting.

Myth: When Moonlight's Japanese Streets were added to the NAM, the T21 mod was 'broken' or 'botched' by the NAM team somehow.

Fact: Moonlight created his streets as a SAM-9 override, they were later added as set 10 in the NAM, but the T21 mod was simply never updated for SAM-10. You can still use Moonlights original SAM-9 override and the T21 mod works like it always did:

Or you can spend 45m changing hundreds of 9's to A's in Reader, (actually I didn't use Reader, I had a slightly quicker method), so now the T21 mod works with SAM-10 from the NAM after like 12 years!

Would love to release this for others, but it's technically unchanged from the original, except the ID alterations, so I'm not 100% on whether that's OK. But if I get the green light, I'll upload it somewhere for others to make use of.

Maybe slow to reply, but feel free to do.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,459]

3 hours ago, moonlinght said:

Maybe slow to reply, but feel free to do.

OMG!

I assume this is a sign of the return of a great modder to the community

[art128 4,622]

5 hours ago, moonlinght said:

Maybe slow to reply, but feel free to do.

Now that's a name I was not expecting to see. 

[mitsos 12,966]

Expanding urban rail network, revealing the Penthesilean river

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

By now, the tedium of the city region Scotch Pines must be getting to y'all,

so I decided to give it a couple of cities to pal around with.

[mitsos 12,966]

Rail network expansion, Penthesili.

[CarstenB 660]

This is the first amusement park in the Region in the city called Butler. I still don't have a name, but i will think of a name.


The area of the amusement park is a bit small, but others, much larger ones, are still being built in the region.
Per day...


...and per night.

[matias93 7,535]

5 hours ago, mitsos said:

Rail network expansion, Penthesili.

how is that railway going under that bridge? DBE?

[mitsos 12,966]

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/31472-mgb-underbridge-set/

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Experimenting a bit on Mount Fuji again:

I am using the VIP Terrain Mod and trying different modifications to the snowline, rock face thresholds, and the treeline.  However, I have thus far been unable to get the jagged, finger-like snowline edge created by the mountain's crevices and ridges, as terrain mods typically create horizontally banded effects.  Manipulating the treeline helped somewhat, and I was ready to leave it at that.

If only there was ploppable snow...  ...hold on, there is one by Rayden aptly named Rayden's Ploppable Snow:

This is not a matching white color or snow texture and is perhaps way too Impressionistic, but I think the method is the right path.

This may actually work, even if it is not quite Hokusai: 

Okay, maybe Hokusai was using the same ploppable snow too!

I'll keep looking for a less jarring ploppable, perhaps a rocky, whitish path texture as the terrain mod's texture in this transition band is also rocky.  Looking over these images now as I type, it occurs to me that God Mode terrain tools set at the smallest effect radius can be used to hand sculpt the crevices more deeply such that the darker rock face texture of the terrain mod will show, further expanding the desired visual effect as dark rock fingers extend up into the snowy crevices in combination with the white snow fingers extending down along the ridges.

We can see I have changed the viewing angle on Mt. Fuji since the initial image as I am experimenting with a different region map orientation.  Actually, this map also uses a rotation of 15.10° counter-clockwise for Tokyo as described several posts previously, as this orientation also allowed Mt. Fuji to be added at the edge of an accurately scaled region that is 31 large city tiles wide without awkwardly cropping off other desired region map features.

As the new viewing angle on Mt. Fuji is new to me given what I have been using for the past months, I searched for any online aerial image for comparison.  Lo and behold, R. J. Zimmerman on Flickr shot a near perfect comparison photo from a passing airliner:

Surreally, Rayden's Ploppable Snow was uploaded 2007 and Zimmerman's Mt. Fuji photo was taken in 2007.  How did they both know 15 years ago?

 

[justforfun 7,926]

Finally here!  

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

10 hours ago, Odainsaker said:

Experimenting a bit on Mount Fuji again:

I am using the VIP Terrain Mod and trying different modifications to the snowline, rock face thresholds, and the treeline.  However, I have thus far been unable to get the jagged, finger-like snowline edge created by the mountain's crevices and ridges, as terrain mods typically create horizontally banded effects.  Manipulating the treeline helped somewhat, and I was ready to leave it at that.

If only there was ploppable snow...  ...hold on, there is one by Rayden aptly named Rayden's Ploppable Snow:

This is not a matching white color or snow texture and is perhaps way too Impressionistic, but I think the method is the right path.

This may actually work, even if it is not quite Hokusai: 

Okay, maybe Hokusai was using the same ploppable snow too!

I'll keep looking for a less jarring ploppable, perhaps a rocky, whitish path texture as the terrain mod's texture in this transition band is also rocky.  Looking over these images now as I type, it occurs to me that God Mode terrain tools set at the smallest effect radius can be used to hand sculpt the crevices more deeply such that the darker rock face texture of the terrain mod will show, further expanding the desired visual effect as dark rock fingers extend up into the snowy crevices in combination with the white snow fingers extending down along the ridges.

We can see I have changed the viewing angle on Mt. Fuji since the initial image as I am experimenting with a different region map orientation.  Actually, this map also uses a rotation of 15.10° counter-clockwise for Tokyo as described several posts previously, as this orientation also allowed Mt. Fuji to be added at the edge of an accurately scaled region that is 31 large city tiles wide without awkwardly cropping off other desired region map features.

As the new viewing angle on Mt. Fuji is new to me given what I have been using for the past months, I searched for any online aerial image for comparison.  Lo and behold, R. J. Zimmerman on Flickr shot a near perfect comparison photo from a passing airliner:

Surreally, Rayden's Ploppable Snow was uploaded 2007 and Zimmerman's Mt. Fuji photo was taken in 2007.  How did they both know 15 years ago?

 

That ...is....amazing!

 

Melon Grove

[AP 3,591]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:38 PM, AP said:

The Mercedes grand stands are now uploaded:

 

Last set of grand stands uploaded:

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Melon Grove

[Rott 2,398]

Working on one of those old turn of the century hotels, this would probably look way better in the Dark Nite mod...

 

[Silur 3,308]

SANTANA ISLAND = NEWS:

There is a decision to buy buses.

This is the cheapest - we will buy this:

 

[Diego Del Llano 5,206]

I had wanted to make my own version of the Chrysler building for a long time, and even though we have reddonquixote's excellent version I wanted to make adjustments with the height to make the Chrysler even with my version of the Empire State Building, plus it has always annoyed me that the back of the Chrysler building bifurcates diagonally, so in my version I want this detail not to be there, being the building completely orthogonal, I have to say that modeling this building has been a delight. It will soon be ready.

[CarstenB 660]

SimCity 4....what a great game.

When the game saw the light of day on January 14, 2003, none of us would have thought that 20 years later the game would still have so many loyal fans and players. In the last 20 years, over 1 million mods, countless great regions and great cities, wonderful landscapes, impressive skylines, breathtaking transport systems, incredible and diverse possibilities have been created. And there are more and more every day. Thanks to everyone here!

How we cursed when the game kept crashing, how happy we were when we finished a great project. How many countless hours we have spent playing this game. And the desire will always be there.

It's simply the best game ever.

Happy Birthday SimCity 4
To the next 20 years.

[AP 3,591]

10 minutes ago, CarstenB said:

SimCity 4....what a great game.

When the game saw the light of day on January 14, 2003, none of us would have thought that 20 years later the game would still have so many loyal fans and players. In the last 20 years, over 1 million mods, countless great regions and great cities, wonderful landscapes, impressive skylines, breathtaking transport systems, incredible and diverse possibilities have been created. And there are more and more every day. Thanks to everyone here!

How we cursed when the game kept crashing, how happy we were when we finished a great project. How many countless hours we have spent playing this game. And the desire will always be there.

It's simply the best game ever.

Happy Birthday SimCity 4
To the next 20 years.

alter Schwede! (in English: old Swedish guy;)