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[Rott 2,401]

10 hours ago, AP said:

Hi Rott, happy to see your are still batting! I like your stuff a lot! Have you ever considered rendering in HD? It is really simple with Gmax.

I have but it takes a lot of patience to get a lot of the smaller details down properly in HD, also I kind of like the way the standard definition looks in contrast with the in game lots.

[Girafarig 1,433]

3 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Is… is that a uterus?

[Krisman 4,665]

10 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, Krisman --

I like your port layout......

One of these days I'm going to get around to building a new commercial "port" map tile and I'm especially partial to your cement plant and "bulk-haul" cement ship.

Are those two items available on the STEX -- or is that your own work?  I'm REALLY interested in the ship -- that looks every bit as good as Somy's old work.

The cement factory and the ship are made by WolfZe which he uploaded here on thr STEX (before removing it all again) ... 

[Propfam 2,311]

14 hours ago, justforfun said:

Starting a pack of small w2w offices and completing the first model:

So cute! Love it.

BTW, a guy named @Elwood455 is making a project. What I can interpret from their language is they want to have some BATs. May I ask, can you help them?

9 hours ago, Diego Del Llano said:

PRICE TOWER: 

IS NOW AVAILABLE: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/price-tower-100058111

An homage to the great master of architecture Frank Lloyd Wright.

DN & Maxis versions

Residential $$ Growable (Only Ortogonal)

CS $$ Popplable (Ortogonal and Diagonal available) 

Beautiful. Keep it up, Diego!

12 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Port highway infrastructure roughly completed.

Really intricate interchange. I guess, there will be world-class seaport or something. Or maybe, a marina. Who knows?

9 hours ago, Girafarig said:

Is… is that a uterus?

Some people said that when Zaha (of architecture fame) designed a stadium in Qatar (if I'm not mistaken). I think it's just a beautiful piece of art. Each to their own.

5 hours ago, Krisman said:

(before removing it all again)

That's a shame if he removed everything because it'd make the archival harder. But I guess, making money is far harder and more beneficial than letting a file to be archived. Can't blame on him as living cost is skyrocketing and you know, jobs are scarce now.

My two cents.

[justforfun 7,932]

Office #2 is a 1x1 corner: 

[AP 3,591]

On 09/03/2024 at 4:51 AM, Haljackey said:

I made a over and under pass

wow, looks so cool, makes me want to fire up the game again instead of just BATing all the time. (I am just too afraid of sorting the plugin folder and getting everything running again

Wasn't there a pack with infill textures that has the diagonals of the railroad brown, so you could smooth out the rail 4-way intersection?

[AP 3,591]

We are prepping our pack of historic sailing craft for publication:

 

COMING SOON

[Propfam 2,311]

17 minutes ago, justforfun said:

Office #2 is a 1x1 corner: 

Quite spacious, heh. I guess, you can do more with less. 10/10 model.

5 minutes ago, AP said:

We are prepping our pack of historic sailing craft for publication:

 

COMING SOON

Fingers crossed.

[justforfun 7,932]

1 hour ago, Jidan said:

Quite spacious, heh.

The pack name is "Small offices" 

[Haljackey 17,403]

3 hours ago, AP said:

wow, looks so cool, makes me want to fire up the game again instead of just BATing all the time. (I am just too afraid of sorting the plugin folder and getting everything running again

Dude just play the game. Don't worry about sorting plugins... I have never done that since starting to download stuff in 2005

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Interchange expansion for the city tile south of the port city to accomidate the new highway design. I built this in 2017 or 2018, and luckily had the foresight to leave room for an easy expansion.

If you look close at the last pic you will see balloon man

[Propfam 2,311]

8 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Dude just play the game. Don't worry about sorting plugins... I have never done that since starting to download stuff in 2005

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Interchange expansion for the city tile south of the port city to accomidate the new highway design. I built this in 2017 or 2018, and luckily had the foresight to leave room for an easy expansion.

If you look close at the last pic you will see balloon man

I wish my cities are as spacious as this.

Btw, one building has an employment problem.

[Honolulu 2,780]

I'm moving forward with difficulty, but I'm moving forward all the same.

[Propfam 2,311]

16 minutes ago, Honolulu said:

I'm moving forward with difficulty, but I'm moving forward all the same.

Great town! Btw, how do you make a S-curve of a custom street with a SAM street?

[Haljackey 17,403]

3 hours ago, Jidan said:

I wish my cities are as spacious as this.

Btw, one building has an employment problem.

People in that building be like

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Zoning. Ready for the seeds to sow

[Propfam 2,311]

Just now, Haljackey said:

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Zoning. Ready for the seeds to sow

Nice station!

[Map Guy 162]

17 hours ago, Honolulu said:

I'm moving forward with difficulty, but I'm moving forward all the same.

That is incredible! Excellent work - it could almost be a real-life satellite image!

[hugues aroux 3,875]

17 hours ago, Honolulu said:

I'm moving forward with difficulty, but I'm moving forward all the same.

What kind of game is this? It looks really nice! It makes me think of.. simville1895, no, simurban40000, no no i remember : simfondation12500...

Trop bien !! Nice effort on the textures... soooo good !

[Haljackey 17,403]

Portland intensifies.

[justforfun 7,932]

Another w2w 1x1 office: 

[Haljackey 17,403]

Video of me developing the port I've been working on

 

[mitsos 13,030]

[Haljackey 17,403]

I have no idea what I'm doing

But sometimes that's a good thing

[TG24 355]

Here's an image from my Carson City Downtown area i'm working on.

[justforfun 7,932]

A gothic office:

[Silur 3,309]

 

The year is 1954. This is the year of the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Universal Postal Union. Santana Island has also joined the organization. The letters are now being delivered to the island by steamers. Residents receive their letters and other postal items at the port authority. This is very inconvenient for everyone. The mayor decided to develop a network of post offices on the island and build a radio station. You'll be able to see the results soon.

I wish you all good health.  

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Real life once again threw all my best laid plans into a rollercoaster, but I did get a moment to tease out another personal 31x52 large map experiment I call Greater Phoenix:

In truth, "greater" Phoenix is more to the bottom left quadrant of this map, but I wanted to also include Sedona and Arcosanti, site of Paolo Soleri's real-wrold attempt at building a small arcology.  However, the most interesting feature that decided the overall map cropping for me is in the extreme top right corner:

Meteor Crater, Arizona!

Overall the map is made on 1 arc-second, or roughly 30-meter resolution Copernicus DEMs.  Currently, this is the best that the general public can freely acquired for most of the globe and, for SimCity, it is really good enough, however, it is still less sharp than SimCity's own 16-meter per ground tile can allow, and we can see a bit of the effect of lower resolution along the rim edge of the crater.

Fortunately, for a few countries or of select areas the public can freely download DEMs at even tighter resolutions.  The USGS offers DEMs at 1/3 arc-second, or roughly 10-meter resolution, of the United States.  Other, better SimCity mapmakers than myself had already been using 10-meter DEMs already ten years ago.   This resolution creates DEM tile sizes that are perhaps completely unwieldy for 31x52 large SimCity maps such as those I have been tinkering with, but it is easy enough to process and cut-and-paste iconic features like certain mountain summits using this higher resolution map data, and so I did the same with Meteor Crater:

Definitely a slight but noticeable improvement over the 30-meter based Copernicus DEM.  The greater map is still based on 30-meter DEMs, but where I want signature detail like for the Meteor Crater, a 10-meter DEM section can be used.  You can find 3-meter DEMs for the U.S., 5-meter DEMs for France, and even 2-meter and 0.5-meter DEMs of the whose of Switzerland for those willing to tackle the Swiss coordinate system.  That's overkill, as SimCity will ultimately reduce the resulting resolution to 16-meters per ground tile.

USGS, EarthExplorer, NED, and now 3DEP keep changing the ease of use of their alphabet soup map viewing and downloading portals, but a current direct source for 1/3 arc-second, 10-meter DEM data of the U.S. delivered as 1°x1° tiles in TIFF format is the USGS ScienceBase-Catalog:

1/3rd arc-second Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) - USGS National Map 3DEP Downloadable Data Collection

Be aware the filesizes are hefty and the tiles are organized and identified in their filenames by their top left latitude and longitude coordinates in 1°x1°  intervals.  Also, when DEM merging tiles, the DEMs do employ a 12-pixel overlap.

 

I had used the wonderful Sahara Terrain Mod by @_marsh_ in the crater images above.  This is probably not the ideal desert terrain mod to emulate this real-world location, but it helped to see the crater rim edges, and I have not yet been successful getting many of the CPT-essentials-referencing terrain mods to fully cooperate, like the CP Painted Desert or Grand Canyon Terrain Mods by Cycledogg, even though they look to be the perfect fit for this map.  I think I have the essential files loading in the right order in a clean test plugins folder, but there may be some special terrain modding tweaks or elevation/slope handling issues I need to resolve.  I did alternatively get the CPT-essentials-referencing Socorro Terrain Mod V.2 by @_marsh_ to work, and, amusingly, I did find a relatively similar aerial photograph at just the right perspective angle to compare:

(Insert image by Shane.torgerson, CC BY, on The Conversation: "Meteorite impact turns silica into stishovite in a billionth of a second")

Another alternate terrain mod quick attempt using the LBT Chihuahua Terrain Mod by @Heblem yielded even more snow because of the high elevation:

Move along, Imperial Probe Droid...I haven't developed any Rebel bases there!

 

[SneakyDeaky 1,130]

On 3/14/2024 at 9:47 AM, justforfun said:

A gothic office:

Oh, this might be one of my favourites! Love Victorian gothic! 

 

[SneakyDeaky 1,130]

On 3/9/2024 at 4:54 PM, Haljackey said:

Port highway infrastructure roughly completed.

 

 

 

 

Am I nuts or was there a stadium built in this... ummm... life-giving shape!? 

 

On 3/13/2024 at 7:32 AM, mitsos said:

Wow, harmonious choice of buldings! 

 

On 3/10/2024 at 12:01 PM, justforfun said:

Office #2 is a 1x1 corner: 

Is this Queen-Anne revival? 

 

On 3/11/2024 at 2:04 AM, Honolulu said:

I'm moving forward with difficulty, but I'm moving forward all the same.

The meastro has spoketh and it was good! Your playful nature with textures is really inspiring!! 

[Haljackey 17,403]

Nearly 10 years in this mega region and I'm still trucking along for some reason

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New UDI video route plotted too. Coming some day.

Working on recording each city tile, then rendering n stuff.

[justforfun 7,932]

7 hours ago, SneakyDeaky said:

Is this Queen-Anne revival? 

It was inspired by a building in the Netherlands.