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[ncamferdam 1,503]

Unfortunately I don’t, as it’s currently only on @Diego Del Llano’s Patreon. If you don’t want to wait you can get it there, but it might eventually make its way onto this site. You’d have to ask them though.

[Haljackey 17,398]

OP back again!

Rebuilding a 2013 ramp to 2024 standards.

EB to NB is crazy steep and sharp

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Working on it...

Tada! Luckily I left enough room for a smoother curve.

 

 

 

 

[kaimai 1,066]

I was hoping to have not only finished this but also a whole set of civics in this style, but my inability to make good textures + increasingly long render times are making this difficult. spent about 5 hours today just exporting different color variations of the same brick texture for the ground (the real texture is basically a dark version of this) and I'll probably just scrap the whole thing and use something completely different instead; none of them look good and I haven't even finished all the modeling. sometime before new year I'll come back and finish this properly.

[Kel9509 1,479]

As I worked on upgrading the Census Repository, I ended up fixing some errors in my RCI DLL Query Upgrade.  I just uploaded version 2.2 here.

I also added tooltips to all custom lines in the query to help explain things better.  Take a look at the screenshots here:

 

[justforfun 7,926]

My little Christmas gift for you guys!

 

[Dead_End 1,630]

Uploaded the church lot I shared some time ago:

 

[Null 45 3,112]

I have been doing some digging into the game's data view system. It turns out that there is a hidden data view highlight mode for Transit Switches, presumably Maxis used this during their network development.

With a little patching of the game's code, that highlight system could also be applied to other occupant types.

Of course, that patching can also be used to expose data sources that the game tracks but Maxis never exposed as a data view source. Here is a Landmark Effect data view with the landmark locations highlighted.

Finally, here is an animation that shows the transient aura system in action. I thought that data source provided a nice animation, but maybe some mayors would find it useful.

The transient aura is not something I plan to provide in my extended data view UI, but the DLL will provide the data source for others to use. Currently the UI add new buttons for moisture, park aura, and landmark aura.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

 

 

Good King Wenceslas looked out

 

On the Feast of Stephen
 

When the snow lay round about
 

Deep and crisp and even
 

Brightly shone the moon that night
 

Though the frost was cruel
 

When a poor man came in sight
 

Gathering winter fuel…...

 

 

Yo, guys --

Before I start out on my “rounds” of visitation……

We are, indeed, a Multi-National community – but each in our own way -- we manage to celebrate this “Holiday” time of the year. I wish all of you a warm fire, an overly rich meal, and a few glasses of “Christmas Cheer”.

But most of all – I wish you the enduring warmth of friends and family gathered in each other’s company. Enjoy each other – the memory will last a lifetime.

And -- an especially MERRY CHRISTMAS to my friend lost in the wilds of “Bonnie Wee Scotland” --

 

“May God bless us – every one…”

                                                                         …...Tiny Tim – A Christmas Carol -- 1843

Ta, Mates

[Haljackey 17,398]

10 years on and I am still working on this town

 

[aili_mer 43]

An experimental town since I haven't played SC4 in a long while. Wanted it to have the highway in the middle but I failed to foresee the future. Originally the industrial area was on the left, and the residential on the right. I then since had a big rework of it all and moved the "center" to the West, although the urban core is still to the east. And in true American fashion the central railway station is a small station that I never foresaw would have to develop into the center.

And I'm using the money-tree mod because I like designing cities 

[Krisman 4,652]

A view of my city's CBD ... all based on mid-rise as the absolute high-rise would look weird considering the side of my city.

A special thanks to @mattb325 and @Jasoncw for creating the majority of all these fantastic building.

[Jasoncw 11,949]

I always enjoy seeing how my BATs are used, especially when they're used well!

[hugues aroux 3,867]

... a little gift for lovers of country walks and colourful nature discoveries ... .. - blows up the violins ... it's in season ! Phil, give me the A ... Beeeeeh ... (Beethovenian humor ).

Update of ..

 

[tails2489 350]

23 hours ago, aili_mer said:

An experimental town since I haven't played SC4 in a long while. Wanted it to have the highway in the middle but I failed to foresee the future. Originally the industrial area was on the left, and the residential on the right. I then since had a big rework of it all and moved the "center" to the West, although the urban core is still to the east. And in true American fashion the central railway station is a small station that I never foresaw would have to develop into the center.

And I'm using the money-tree mod because I like designing cities 

Vancouver Skytrain vibes.

[Ernestmaxis 232]

It took me a while but I have upload my huge project. For those of you working with MMPs, a huge variance to go wild. Hopefully with the 8 clicks, rotating units will be easy. The list is huge though, maybe there is a solution in the DDL menu thing, I don't know about this yet though.

Have a great christmass.

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

@philforhockey51 Yeah, that's the goal with that texture but I was too lazy to make a wall/slope lot xD

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Making base textures is quite complex, sometimes you get a good result and other times you don't. 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

1 hour ago, Ernestmaxis said:

huge project.

somehow huge seems an understatement .. so much work nice job

[Barroco Hispano 26,931]

I have several road textures. I will most likely render them and upload them here as .png so that expert users can make overlay textures. 

 

[JulianMIA 1,607]

This is my favorite area that I've built so far in a new city - three busy commuter rail networks and two high speed lines converge as they prepare to go into the first of the big city railway stations.  I'm using as much HRW track as a can, I like the look of the catenaries.  While the HRW cannot transit real tunnels or the rail bridges, the commuter networks are all regular rail anyway so I am using them throughout the commuter rail designs. 

The high speed lines are coming off the dedicated elevated trackage into the station access trackage.  I built and rebuilt the station trackage and access area about 15 times until I got a result I liked - how to fit all the tracks in while making space for roads to cross over.  Sadly, after I got the design complete, I found out that while the HRW tracks run under the flex overpasses - the only way I found to get an avenue over HRW tracks - the high-speed trains themselves WILL NOT go under the flex overpasses.  All my testing was using regular trains and because the HRW tracks actually worked with the flex overpasses I didn't think to test the actual high-speed trains haha.

So maybe back to the drawing board.   And this reminds you why years of exhausting engineering studies have to proceed big infrastructure projects   

[ncamferdam 1,503]

Just uploaded my first entry in my first city journal. As discussed, this should hopefully serve as a better repository for pictures than this thread:

[Dreadnought 8,231]

YO, GUYS ---

Another Chapter of “IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS: CUXHAVEN”…

 

Chapter 38:

THE LONG JOURNEY

HOME

 

 

 

 

 

Visit us at……

 

 

SORRY – “AP” often travels during the “Holiday Season”.

Perhaps next time we can give you a prop pack……

[Girafarig 1,414]

17 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

This is my favorite area that I've built so far in a new city - three busy commuter rail networks and two high speed lines converge as they prepare to go into the first of the big city railway stations.  I'm using as much HRW track as a can, I like the look of the catenaries.  While the HRW cannot transit real tunnels or the rail bridges, the commuter networks are all regular rail anyway so I am using them throughout the commuter rail designs. 

Sadly, after I got the design complete, I found out that while the HRW tracks run under the flex overpasses - the only way I found to get an avenue over HRW tracks - the high-speed trains themselves WILL NOT go under the flex overpasses.    

I believe you'll find my little HRW project to be of interest, specifically my city of Bahía Herradura.

Regarding the first paragraph, you can make HRW use tunnels —as long as you're a. not too picky about visuals (or you can find a good tunnel skin) and b. very good at creating splits and switches. Here's the one I've made as part of my fully functional HRW line:

The HRW-to-Monorail connection does look really fugly, but as you can see, it works —and if it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid. I used to have trees covering it, too —I'll be sure to place them now again, I must've deleted them during a recent overhaul of the pass.

Flex overpasses also work over rail, but the way to make them is different than usual overpasses and you'll need more space. This is literally next to the first picture:

HRW overpasses are actually contact overpasses, meaning you don't build the avenue at all over the avenue. Instead, you extend the overpass until right next to the rail, then turn rail to HRW by clicking it with monorail and you'll see the avenue extend automatically over it. Rail and HRW traffic uses the intersection, and so does road traffic —even pedestrians! It just looks a bit funny, I suppose.

By the way, the same splitting trick works with bridges, too. And while bridges are harder to cover, you have the old high-speed train skins available for the monorail traffic, so the end result is actually quite neat.

Just be extra careful with the switches, since you need to make sure that the right traffic goes over the right rail, particularly if you have a series of bridges/tunnels in close proximity or, as in here, a neighbor connection ahead (top of the image —neighbor connections also require doubled networks).

[JulianMIA 1,607]

2 hours ago, Girafarig said:

I believe you'll find my little HRW project to be of interest, specifically my city of Bahía Herradura.

Regarding the first paragraph, you can make HRW use tunnels —as long as you're a. not too picky about visuals (or you can find a good tunnel skin) and b. very good at creating splits and switches. Here's the one I've made as part of my fully functional HRW line:

The HRW-to-Monorail connection does look really fugly, but as you can see, it works —and if it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid. I used to have trees covering it, too —I'll be sure to place them now again, I must've deleted them during a recent overhaul of the pass.

Flex overpasses also work over rail, but the way to make them is different than usual overpasses and you'll need more space. This is literally next to the first picture:

HRW overpasses are actually contact overpasses, meaning you don't build the avenue at all over the avenue. Instead, you extend the overpass until right next to the rail, then turn rail to HRW by clicking it with monorail and you'll see the avenue extend automatically over it. Rail and HRW traffic uses the intersection, and so does road traffic —even pedestrians! It just looks a bit funny, I suppose.

By the way, the same splitting trick works with bridges, too. And while bridges are harder to cover, you have the old high-speed train skins available for the monorail traffic, so the end result is actually quite neat.

Just be extra careful with the switches, since you need to make sure that the right traffic goes over the right rail, particularly if you have a series of bridges/tunnels in close proximity or, as in here, a neighbor connection ahead (top of the image —neighbor connections also require doubled networks).

This is great information, I will definitely study closer.  I had not thought of reskinning the monorail tunnel as a solution but now I have some ideas for this, the main tunnels where I really want real tunnels are some long under-river tunnels for which I dig 22.5m holes for the tunnel entrance and you can easily cover these.   I use trees to disguise fugly things also haha. 

I do use the existing HSR bridges to carry high-speed traffic, I have actually been working on a 'connector' piece that will let trains from HRW tracks get on the older HSR tracks and bridges nice and smooth - to transition the slight height difference.  Still trying to get this right though.  I hope when the older HSRP is let go that the bridges will be kept somehow, I love those bridges!

[JulianMIA 1,607]

1 hour ago, JulianMIA said:

This is great information, I will definitely study closer.  I had not thought of reskinning the monorail tunnel as a solution but now I have some ideas for this, the main tunnels where I really want real tunnels are some long under-river tunnels for which I dig 22.5m holes for the tunnel entrance and you can easily cover these.   I use trees to disguise fugly things also haha. 

I do use the existing HSR bridges to carry high-speed traffic, I have actually been working on a 'connector' piece that will let trains from HRW tracks get on the older HSR tracks and bridges nice and smooth - to transition the slight height difference.  Still trying to get this right though.  I hope when the older HSRP is let go that the bridges will be kept somehow, I love those bridges!

The draggable elevated roads are what work.  You can get the HRW tracks to run under the flex overpasses and the older puzzle piece elevated roads but the draggable roads are the only ones the high-speed trains seem to actually pass under properly.  So done and dusted, thank you @Girafarig!

 

[justforfun 7,926]

After the diagonal row houses, why not some diagonal semi detached? This R$$$ is the first of a new pack:

[matias93 7,535]

11 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

I hope when the older HSRP is let go that the bridges will be kept somehow, I love those bridges!

Good news for you then, those bridges are being repurposed for the HRW and then some more...

[Boombox Gamer 19]

3 hours ago, justforfun said:

After the diagonal row houses, why not some diagonal semi detached? This R$$$ is the first of the a new pack:

I love your buildings! 

I mean this as a compliment when I say they have a similar aesthetic to early Counterstrike Source and Garrys mod Maps from the 2000s. 

I love them.

 

[hugues aroux 3,867]

.. Happy St Innocent, Gaspard and others Jasper.  .. And welcome to the little Mod in the WestWind family.

 

[20huskies 4,699]

Work has begun on the Samurai of Christ Cathedral.  Named after a real life figure of Japanese feudal nobility, the Blessed Ukon Takeyama gave up his fortune and honor to continue his mission for Jesus and inspire his fellow Japanese Christians.

[mitsos 12,959]

Urban renewal projects in Dimitriada