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[Dreadnought 8,231]

2 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Got tired of the same old warehouses in my ports, decided to relot something with a little more corporate feel.

A nice haul for the day...

I like those cranes you got there, Bud --

Glad to see you're finding them useful...

[Haljackey 17,385]

Working on a mountain highway. Interchanges are a pain to get slopped properly.

[Krisman 4,652]

8 hours ago, matias93 said:

Wait @Krisman what's the deal with those tunnel portals? How did you so ever slightly offset them?

Those tunnels are the avenue going underground and re-emerging on the right side just outside the picture.

the slightly offset is because everything in my city is lotted (not functional) and to me it felt more like a real life setup 😇

[Barroco Hispano 26,919]

[pclark06 12,059]

Early WIP of a popular travel center known for its BBQ and clean bathrooms

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

23 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

I like those cranes you got there, Bud --

Glad to see you're finding them useful...

Gee, I thought you'd be more impressed by how I got them on the roof of the building!

[20huskies 4,699]

Samurai Square: the Sequel.

[yujiange 158]

4 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

This grassland texture is really beautiful. If you could share it, it would be a blessing for the mayors

[watercitymadero 805]

Some of you may have seen my past post with the amazing trees from Barroco Hispano, but in the background you also notice Sudden Valley terrain mode (more warmer version tweaked in an image editor) and a unreleased water mod, well that water mod it's a previous version from a water mod I been making this last 3 years, yeah, I bit slow for a water mod, but I don't have a fancy PC monitor screen, and I don't have enough time and inspiration to make this continuous, repetitive and exhausting testing that was the result of SC4 bad color interpretation in modern hardware and Sofware, my bad English (the reading part, but recently I notice a little improvement and the mistakes I made because of this). I'm still learning how SC4 works in the modding aspect, but reading Gobias threads about his terrain mods works, an infinite number of threads like Gone Fshin and 32 bit color. I'm still not really sure why my edited texture from Suden Valley looks so bad in game. Compared with my water mod. 

The texture I'm using in the bottom image from the game, this it's how it looks in my image editor and photo viewer:

I don't understand why SC4 under-saturate terrain like grass, beach or rock textures and some water mods don't, like in this case, the water texture it's more desaturated compared to the same one in action. It doesn't make any sense to be honest. 

 

[CotW Corporation 15]

2 hours ago, CdMadero said:

Some of you may have seen my past post with the amazing trees from Barroco Hispano, but in the background you also notice suden valley (more warmer version tweaked in an image editor) and a unreleased water mod, well that water mod it's a previous version from a water mod I been making this last 3 years, yeah, I bit slow for a water mod, but I don't have a fancy PC monitor screen, and I don't have enough time and inspiration to make this continuous, repetitive and exhausting testing that was the result of SC4 bad color interpretation in modern hardware and Sofware, my bad English (the reading part, but recently I notice a little improvement and the mistakes I made because of this). I'm still learning how SC4 works in the modding aspect, but reading Gobias threads about his terrain mods works, an infinite number of threads like Gone Fshin and 32 bit color. I'm still not really sure why my edited texture from Suden Valley looks so bad in game. Compared with my water mod. 

The texture I'm using in the bottom image from the game, this it's how it looks in my image editor and photo viewer:

I don't understand why SC4 under-saturate terrain like grass, beach or rock textures and some water mods don't, like in this case, the water texture it's more desaturated compared to the same one in action. It doesn't make any sense to be honest. 

 

what is the grass mod

[TheMurderousCricket 5,096]

2 hours ago, CdMadero said:

Some of you may have seen my past post with the amazing trees from Barroco Hispano, but in the background you also notice suden valley (more warmer version tweaked in an image editor) and a unreleased water mod, well that water mod it's a previous version from a water mod I been making this last 3 years, yeah, I bit slow for a water mod, but I don't have a fancy PC monitor screen, and I don't have enough time and inspiration to make this continuous, repetitive and exhausting testing that was the result of SC4 bad color interpretation in modern hardware and Sofware, my bad English (the reading part, but recently I notice a little improvement and the mistakes I made because of this). I'm still learning how SC4 works in the modding aspect, but reading Gobias threads about his terrain mods works, an infinite number of threads like Gone Fshin and 32 bit color. I'm still not really sure why my edited texture from Suden Valley looks so bad in game. Compared with my water mod. 

The texture I'm using in the bottom image from the game, this it's how it looks in my image editor and photo viewer:

I don't understand why SC4 under-saturate terrain like grass, beach or rock textures and some water mods don't, like in this case, the water texture it's more desaturated compared to the same one in action. It doesn't make any sense to be honest. 

From what I remember when discussing it with @rsc204, there is an option to color-correct textures which renders them darker than the original file. But this is mainly used so that new items play well with the pieces already existing in game. Perhaps you are using this but don't really need it?

I noticed that whenever I tried to push something through GoFSH to use it in the game later, the textures did become slightly desaturated but not to the point where I'd be dissatisfied with the result (I actually exaggerate the color in the original file in advance, before processing it). I hope you solve this issue, because this is really a beautiful texture material. 

[matias93 7,535]

7 hours ago, CdMadero said:

I don't understand why SC4 under-saturate terrain like grass, beach or rock textures and some water mods don't, like in this case, the water texture it's more desaturated compared to the same one in action. It doesn't make any sense to be honest. 

@rivit wrote something about it years ago, saying that, as everything else by Maxis, the game colour palette is based on Southern California, and so it's a little sun-bleached and dusty.

[Ct1999 4,198]

Macau(澳門) & HongKong(香港)

[watercitymadero 805]

On 10/4/2023 at 3:14 AM, TheMurderousCricket said:

From what I remember when discussing it with @rsc204, there is an option to color-correct textures which renders them darker than the original file. But this is mainly used so that new items play well with the pieces already existing in game. Perhaps you are using this but don't really need it?

I noticed that whenever I tried to push something through GoFSH to use it in the game later, the textures did become slightly desaturated but not to the point where I'd be dissatisfied with the result (I actually exaggerate the color in the original file in advance, before processing it). I hope you solve this issue, because this is really a beautiful texture material. 

The textures are just Gobias Sudden Valley, I just changed a bit, but I don't know if I like it or not, but at least I got the idea.

At some point I want to make new textures or a new terrain mod based on southern areas (tropical or subtropical), with the same color or the same tropical warm vibe to it, because we don't have this in HD for the game, almost all HD terrain mods are from colder areas. But a little less yellow, not so bright, less dusty than the ones from Suden Valley.

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

I love my mmp's like I would my children, but the cypress always have annoyed me because of their demure size. No more, with Super-Cypress, for those meandering drives to the palais or a secretive chalet-

compare...

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,837]

On 10/3/2023 at 10:00 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

 

 

So very excited for these, they're screaming out to be Hi Tech industry lots! 

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,837]

Redeveloping another old tile, radically different from when it started over ten years ago. Re-lotted one of those Coruscant lots as a massive residential, I do like an Arcology! 

[sejr99999 8,365]

20 minutes ago, Lazarou Monkey Terror said:

Redeveloping another old tile, radically different from when it started over ten years ago. Re-lotted one of those Coruscant lots as a massive residential, I do like an Arcology! 

would be nice to see this on the exchange   looks like some pretty good lotting

[watercitymadero 805]

I think I'm happy with it for now. This is the modified grass:

original SV grass:

edit: weird, seems like some configuration on my graphics control panel from my video card caused a little more washed and dustier grass textures, this changed my default settings I previously had, I don't know why, after deactivating these new features that came with recent driver updates, default options from my graphics control panel go back to normal, the grass texture looks more natural and closer to what I see in the image editor. There isn't any difference in color using Full screen or Windowed mode, always, my game runs really fast, never had lags or crashes, and I think my hardware and software recognizes really well the game, I didn't need to change any script or notepad in the installation folder, I run the game with this settings "-CPUCount:1 -w -intro:off -r1920x1080x32 -CustomResolution:enabled" and never changed it in the last 3 years.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

[Krisman 4,652]

And also the Fujilatex Office (Fujilatex Office - Commercial - Simtropolis) of @art128 integrated in my commercial district ..

[art128 4,622]

2 hours ago, Krisman said:

And also the Fujilatex Office (Fujilatex Office - Commercial - Simtropolis) of @art128 integrated in my commercial district ..

Parking entrance looks good there, good job!

[pclark06 12,059]

Buc-ee's progress!

[Ct1999 4,198]

Random Night light.

[Tyberius06 12,251]

16 minutes ago, Ct1999 said:

Random Night light.

These buildings are beautiful!  Amazing work!

[Dreadnought 8,231]

19 minutes ago, Ct1999 said:

Random Night light.

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS -- !!

FIRST RATE stuff, Mate ---        

[Ct1999 4,198]

50 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

These buildings are beautiful!  Amazing work!

 

47 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS -- !!

FIRST RATE stuff, Mate ---        

Thanks, man. This is how a dumb method achieves good results.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

2 hours ago, Ct1999 said:

 

Thanks, man. This is how a dumb method achieves good results.

One of the secrets of SC4 is "finding" a "dumb" method that allows you to do what you want.  You keep trying stuff until you hit the right one.

No such thing as a "dumb" question or method......

Congrats -- !!

You have found a winner......

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

6 hours ago, Ct1999 said:

Random Night light.

That’s not random, that’s amazing!  and game changing bringing modern  lighting like this into a 20 year old game.  Keep up the great work!  

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

6 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

No such thing as a "dumb" question or method......

Nonsense, here's 5 right off the top...

How do bankruptcy attorneys make any money?

Why do round pizzas come in square boxes?

Why is it that when people are asked what they would bring to a deserted island, they never answer ‘a boat’?

If people from Poland are called Poles, do you call people from Holland ‘Holes’?

What does ‘OK’ actually mean?

 

Restoring a tile for my 3rd concurrent region project...