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[hugues aroux 3,867]

Never 2 without 3 ... so  for those who have been wise (or not, it's not my problem) here is a SAM replacement ...

It's certainly not a work in progress ... but as there will be another SAM in a few weeks' time  .. and other bits and pieces that are still in the oven !

Be patient ... because there's no point in running after someone who knows when to wait.  .. No no no ... it's not that, but you get the idea !?

 

[Barroco Hispano 26,932]

I think I'm going to remove maxisnite support, I have no incentive to do so. 

[Girafarig 1,414]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I think I'm going to remove maxisnite support, I have no incentive to do so. 

I still use Maxisnite. I failed to ever get Darknite running, for one, but I also enjoy the not-so-dark nights, it makes sense to me when combined with foggy or cloudy areas.

[Dead_End 1,630]

Experimenting with @pclark06's gas stations:

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

Since the NEW YEAR Holiday has rolled around once again, it gives me an excuse to party like an animal.

And since my birthday falls in the wee hours of Wednesday – it’s an even better excuse to party – while I still can !!

While I recuperate from fine dining, a bit of the “bubbly”, and a bit of romance – I will open my birthday presents as the “Parade Of Roses” makes its way along Colorado Blvd in lovely downtown Pasadena.

But today – I wish you all a……

HAPPY NEW YEAR – 2025 !!

 

 

 

An especially festive New Year to my friend in “Bonnie Wee Scotland” --

 

Ta, Mates --

[hugues aroux 3,867]

yes, I know, I said no 2 without 3 ... but I've cracked, so it'll be ... no 3 without 4!

 

 

[Kel9509 1,482]

6 minutes ago, hugues aroux said:

yes, I know, I said no 2 without 3 ... but I've cracked, so it'll be ... no 3 without 4!

Your UI mods are really neat.  Have you ever considered trying to make a version on the UI that works better for larger resolutions by making the picture elements bigger?

[hugues aroux 3,867]

2 minutes ago, Kel9509 said:

the UI that works better for larger resolutions

Thank you! This has indeed been mentioned, and it should be possible, but only partially at the moment. The editing tool in Reader 1.5.x (relatively unstable) doesn't allow you to manage sufficient space. And some elements are in "hard", like certain budget windows and menu icons (44 px), policy management outside the dedicated INI, .. ! As soon as we can solve these problems, I could easily transform the UI. I'd love to, believe me! ;-)

[Koonam 540]

Happy new year everyone!

I'm working on this vintage theater building now. After 14 times of exporting BAT, I succeeded in importing it as lot editor.

Do you think the scale of the building is appropriate compared to the people on the street and the surrounding buildings?

[Dreadnought 8,231]

11 minutes ago, Koonam said:

Happy new year everyone!

I'm working on this vintage theater building now. After 14 times of exporting BAT, I succeeded in importing it as lot editor.

Do you think the scale of the building is appropriate compared to the people on the street and the surrounding buildings?

Looks a bit small to me -- especially right at the entrance -- when compared to the people on the sidewalk and the ground floor windows.

But it may just be me......

[Koonam 540]

6 minutes ago, Dreadnought said:

Looks a bit small to me -- especially right at the entrance -- when compared to the people on the sidewalk and the ground floor windows.

But it may just be me......

Thanks for your opinion, Dreadnought! I think you're right. It looks a bit small... I'll make it more bigger later.

[hugues aroux 3,867]

39 minutes ago, Koonam said:

Do you think the scale of the building is appropriate compared to the people on the street and the surrounding buildings?

Hi, a fine piece of work ! Don't be fooled by the size of the Maxis pedestrians, which are totally disproportionate : +-3m ! Experienced builders can tell you how much to deform your building.

[Koonam 540]

15 minutes ago, hugues aroux said:

Hi, a fine piece of work ! Don't be fooled by the size of the Maxis pedestrians, which are totally disproportionate : +-3m ! Experienced builders can tell you how much to deform your building.

Really? Hmmmm.. Then, should I increase the scale of the building compared to the surrounding buildings?

[tariely 4,499]

On 25/12/2024 at 6:27 PM, Ernestmaxis said:

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.

O. M. G.

Bravo and thank you !!!

[kaimai 1,067]

7 hours ago, Koonam said:

Really? Hmmmm.. Then, should I increase the scale of the building compared to the surrounding buildings?

I would scale up only the ground floor in height, my experience is that the ground floor usually needs to be 5-6m to look "right" for just a typical commercial shopfront, so it may need to be even larger for a more imposing building. Vertically everything else looks fine. In footprint I'm not sure, it seems large for a theater building but I'm used to the Maxis theaters (of which the largest is 3x4).

[EffTheGrid 3,726]

8 hours ago, Koonam said:

Really? Hmmmm.. Then, should I increase the scale of the building compared to the surrounding buildings?

Looks amazing - did you sale the vertical axis up to 135% before exporting? 

If you didn't, it might fix your scaling issue.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

On 1/1/2025 at 7:01 AM, Koonam said:

Really? Hmmmm.. Then, should I increase the scale of the building compared to the surrounding buildings?

That is the problem, isn't it?

The pedestrians are on the sidewalk -- so they will always look bigger than the entrance to the building. 

On the other hand -- until we started talking about it -- no one was likely to notice.

If you're satisfied with the building, you would be better off leaving it as is. 

If you kook at my battleships -- they do not match-up with a lot of the Maxis structures or people.  But @AP produced an entire set of sailors to match the historically accurate scale of the models.  That was about as close as I could get to solving some of the many "scale" errors in the game.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

9 hours ago, kaimai said:

I would scale up only the ground floor in height, my experience is that the ground floor usually needs to be 5-6m to look "right" for just a typical commercial shopfront, so it may need to be even larger for a more imposing building. Vertically everything else looks fine. In footprint I'm not sure, it seems large for a theater building but I'm used to the Maxis theaters (of which the largest is 3x4).

Sounds like good advice to me --

[Koonam 540]

5 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

That is the problem, isn't it?

The pedestrians are on the sidewalk -- so they will always look bigger than then entrance to the building. 

On the other hand -- until we started talking about it -- no one was likely to notice.

If you're satisfied with the building, you would be better off leaving it as is. 

If you kook at my battleships -- they do not match-up with a lot of the Maxis structures or people.  But @AP produced an entire set of sailors to match the historically accurate scale of the models.  That was about as close as I could get to solving some of the many "scale" errors in the game.

 

13 hours ago, EffTheGrid said:

Looks amazing - did you sale the vertical axis up to 135% before exporting? 

If you didn't, it might fix your scaling issue.

 

14 hours ago, kaimai said:

I would scale up only the ground floor in height, my experience is that the ground floor usually needs to be 5-6m to look "right" for just a typical commercial shopfront, so it may need to be even larger for a more imposing building. Vertically everything else looks fine. In footprint I'm not sure, it seems large for a theater building but I'm used to the Maxis theaters (of which the largest is 3x4).

 

21 hours ago, hugues aroux said:

Hi, a fine piece of work ! Don't be fooled by the size of the Maxis pedestrians, which are totally disproportionate : +-3m ! Experienced builders can tell you how much to deform your building.

 

22 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Looks a bit small to me -- especially right at the entrance -- when compared to the people on the sidewalk and the ground floor windows.

But it may just be me......

Thanks for the opinions everyone. I made the building more bigger and recreated the lot. It looks better now! 

[JulioC 2,581]

On 02/01/2025 at 6:37 AM, Koonam said:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the opinions everyone. I made the building more bigger and recreated the lot. It looks better now! 

Great work. We usually create the first story a bit taller than the others, like 1 or 1.5 meter taller. Also, after finishing the BAT, it's kind of standard to stretch your BAT on the height axis by 130%~133% since the game 2.5D camera cause some distortion and that way it ends up more realistic.

But after all it's always about trial and error. You should compare your BAT to other people creations to see  how well it will blend, if it has a realistic size when compared to the other buildings, etc. But you're definitely on the right path!

Just one tip: Always try to add more variety, texture, dirtness, roofjunk, etc to the roof to make it more interesting, since it's the part of the building we're always seeing the most bc of the game camera!

[Koonam 540]

11 hours ago, JulioC said:

Great work. We usually create the first story a bit taller than the others, like 1 or 1.5 meter taller. Also, after finishing the BAT, it's kind of standard to stretch your BAT on the height axis by 130%~133% since the game 2.5D camera cause some distortion and that way it ends up more realistic.

But after all it's always about trial and error. You should compare your BAT to other people creations to see  how well it will blend, if it has a realistic size when compared to the other buildings, etc. But you're definitely on the right path!

Just one tip: Always try to add more variety, texture, dirtness, roofjunk, etc to the roof to make it more interesting, since it's the part of the building we're always seeing the most bc of the game camera!

Wow Thank you JulioC! Now I can recognize that my BAT's height is distorted little bit. And Thanks for the tip too!  

[justforfun 7,927]

Modelling diagonals for the upcoming pack:

 

 

[nikoxlaux 256]

On 8/9/2024 at 7:32 PM, Evanjs said:

Umm! These are amazing. Hope you upload them for us all to used one day. 😀

I love it!!, awesome work bro 

[11241036 5,115]

A few coastal scenes, as well as some small coastal villages, featured in the next entry of my CJ Maxiland. Hope you like it.

 

[Simizen 1,100]

that a broken windmill or lighthouse there?

[11241036 5,115]

A lighthouse. This one, to be exact:

 

[Simizen 1,100]

oh, okay, that's really cool!!

Was thinking it was broken at some point and just left there by the locals as a bit of history, but, that's also really cool!!

[Null 45 3,116]

I am working on an update to the Extended Terrain DLL. I patched the terrain texture loading code to allow me to redirect the water textures and others that Maxis didn't list in terrain.ini.

Here is a snippet of the debug logging code with the default Maxis 'Tropical' terrain, the type id is always 0x7AB50E44 (FSH image), so I only included the group and instance ids.

Spoiler

 

Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187300
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187400
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187301
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187401
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187302
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187402
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187303
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187403
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187304
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x09187404
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000010
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000011
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000013
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000014
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000015
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000031
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000032
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000033
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000034
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000035
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000036
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000037
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000038
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000039
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000043
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x00000044
Loading texture 0x891B0E1A,0x000000E0

0x09187400-0x09187404 are a 'polluted water' texture, but I don't know if the game actually uses it.

[Dead_End 1,630]

Wondering what the community thinks. Is this pattern too much? The grass will be filled in with trees and flowers.

[Simizen 1,100]

is the concern for the pattern regarding the grass texture or the walkway texture?

either way, I don't think it's too much, looks fine to me.

And, honestly, I wouldn't mind having the grass texture so I could use it in some lots, but I haven't done much lotting to warrant that just yet, lol

 

Though, I am curious as to how that would look if the default grass texture for the terrain was changed to that