Show us What you're Working On

[Barroco Hispano 26,868]

I bought the PC components 5 days ago but the payment hasn't gone through for some reason.... Luck hasn't been on my side lately. 

More props soon:

I don't know if anyone is interested in a tutorial on how to get glass material transparency to work properly in SC4. 

 

 

[nikoxlaux 254]

20 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I bought the PC components 5 days ago, but for some reason the purchase hasn't gone through yet... Luck hasn't been on my side lately. 

More props soon:

I don't know if anyone is interested in a tutorial on how to get glass material transparency to work properly in SC4. 

 

 

I love your props bro

 

[Kel9509 1,476]

3 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I bought the PC components 5 days ago but the payment hasn't gone through for some reason.... Luck hasn't been on my side lately. 

I just finished building my new desktop PC and it was a very long challenge.  Took me months to get my motherboard because it was unreleased and delayed due to tariffs (I think).  Here's my story/build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/z278TW

As for the topic of this thread, I'm back to working on my Dept of Transportation building.  More to come hopefully in the next week or so.

[Null 45 3,087]

2 hours ago, Kel9509 said:

I just finished building my new desktop PC and it was a very long challenge.  Took me months to get my motherboard because it was unreleased and delayed due to tariffs (I think).  Here's my story/build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/z278TW

Yeah the tariffs or other supply issues are messing up prices. I have been looking at building a new machine, but I have noticed that even things like cases are in short supply. I am not impressed with the available X870/X870E motherboards, the X670E boards look to be a better value and usually have better PCIe configurations. I also dislike the trend on X870/X870E boards to make the CMOS battery irreplaceable, which can become a problem if you keep a machine for several years.

Also, you can manually set the price for parts on your build on the PCPartPicker list. When editing your part list, click the gear icon next to the price. The dialog that pops up lets you override the retailer before purchasing parts, mark the part as purchased, and manually set the price you paid.

As for the topic of this thread, I am trying to decide how to expose grid data like pollution and terrain height to Lua. The Lua language has several ways to do that, and I am not sure what the best approaches are, probably a mix of techniques based on the data being exposed.
For pollution and other data that can be modified per-cell, get/set methods make the most sense. But I may have to include a note about the cell x/z indices starting at 0, unlike Lua arrays that start at 1. For terrain heights and other data that is read-only, it would make sense to expose the data as a Lua matrix/2 dimensional array.

[hugues aroux 3,854]

15 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I bought the PC components 5 days ago

..we keep our fingers crossed that it happens soon!

...and bravo for the new props, top top top ...! glass shelter

[Haljackey 17,385]

I'm working on a lore list for SimCity 4

Posting here as there may be viewers here that can add to this list or expand / provide more context for what has already been listed

The list includes this thread, which I ripped on. I created a monster! 

[justforfun 7,903]

19 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I don't know if anyone is interested in a tutorial on how to get glass material transparency to work properly in SC4. 

I would certainly be interested, particularly if the technique isn't only applicable to BATs. Thank you. 

[justforfun 7,903]

Another corner for roundabouts and similar:

[Barroco Hispano 26,868]

22 hours ago, Kel9509 said:

I just finished building my new desktop PC and it was a very long challenge.  Took me months to get my motherboard because it was unreleased and delayed due to tariffs (I think).  Here's my story/build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/z278TW

As for the topic of this thread, I'm back to working on my Dept of Transportation building.  More to come hopefully in the next week or so.

You have the components I wanted but my budget didn't allow it. 

The cost of my components is $1.080 (Including my country's import charges). It's strange that Amazon hasn't charged me anything. I hope the delay has to do with the tariffs, because if they cancel my purchase, I'll have to wait a year or more for them to be just as cheap.

6 hours ago, justforfun said:

I would certainly be interested, particularly if the technique isn't only applicable to BATs. Thank you. 

Fortunately it works with any type of model (The most important thing is the transparency color in the alpha channel and some parameters in the reader. 

@hugues aroux I knew you would like it 

[pclark06 12,014]

A vintage "Honda Verno" dealer from Japan. In the 1970s and 80s, the Japanese economic boom meant multiple sales channels from mostly Honda and Toyota (although Mazda also experimented with this in the early 90s as well and failed). Honda consolidated to just standard branding in the 2000s while Toyota finally did in 2020, minus the Lexus brand.

Honda had the Clio (small car), the Verno (mid sized) and Primo (luxury lines). I will probably do the Toyota ones in the future as well possibly with my existing model. 

 

Toyota had the Corolla store, the Vista/later Netz stores for middle cars like the Aristo and Altezza, and the luxury Toyopet line for the Crown, in addition to the normal "Toyota Stores," so five sales channels for Toyota in Japan at it's peak, including Lexus. Even Nissan had Nissan Prince/Red Stage, Nissan Satio, and Blue Stage dealerships.

EDIT: some vintage signage for Honda:

[art128 4,622]

7 hours ago, pclark06 said:

Honda had the Clio (small car)

Which give a nice anecdote:

Because Honda had the rights of the Clio name in Japan, when Renault wanted to commercialize the Clio there they had the change the name.

So the Renault Clio in Japan are named Lutecia. After the Roman name for the city of Paris (Lutetia) which is really cool.

[pclark06 12,014]

4 minutes ago, art128 said:

Which give a nice anecdote:

Because Honda had the rights of the Clio name in Japan, when Renault wanted to commercialize the Clio there they had the change the name.

So the Renault Clio in Japan are named Lutecia. After the Roman name for the city of Paris (Lutetia) which is really cool.

That’s so neat! I really want to get to the French dealers as I enjoy the branding there. We’ve never had a full fledged Peugeot one for example.

A slight bit unrelated but I did something with the Honda dealer because I wanted to see how it would look; I turned it into a Saab dealer. In Taiwan, Saab dealers still exist and one was built just recently in I think 2023. They refurbish them and sell them anew.

 

[simmytu 605]

A Saab dealer, that's awesome! I'm definitely not bias or anything 

[justforfun 7,903]

A pub for diagonal corners:

[kschmidt 6,199]

Little Asia - Baikok & Canale !

Little Asia progres rapidly.  Work started on the central capital city ! Baikok supposed economic center of Little Asia, that´s where mayor busines community will gather and government reside ! Canale southern suburb of this twin city already have some development going. Baikok too soon will see some development when ready !

Baikok !

Baikok area smaller than Bengal more earlier planned with the International airport ready !

Canale !

Canale, sleeping suburb initial employment provided by the Kedah industrrial park south of the namede afther Canal zone !

Enjoy !

 

 

 

[Honolulu 2,779]

There's still a lot to do (align the textures, connect the parking lot entrances and exits to the road, install accessories, create a Breton flag, etc.) but the base is there.

Many thanks to @hugues aroux for his precious advice in creating this hotel parking lot.

[EffTheGrid 3,711]

At the request of a few commenters - I've started doing commentary over the recent video uploads. Let me know if there are any other topics you'd like me to explore as I record!

 

[Kel9509 1,476]

19 hours ago, Honolulu said:

There's still a lot to do (align the textures, connect the parking lot entrances and exits to the road, install accessories, create a Breton flag, etc.) but the base is there.

You are like the King of making Parking Lots!  I hope you'll be able to share these one day.

[justforfun 7,903]

A corner to cover one and a half diagonal tiles:

[bhmantan 2,098]

the details on the ground still need lots of work, but I'm pretty satisfied with the composition of the big buildings

also, here's the area in motion

 

[EffTheGrid 3,711]

4 hours ago, justforfun said:

A corner to cover one and a half diagonal tiles:

The real MVP!!

[justforfun 7,903]

23 hours ago, EffTheGrid said:

At the request of a few commenters - I've started doing commentary over the recent video uploads. Let me know if there are any other topics you'd like me to explore as I record!

 

Man, your maps full of FAR networks are quite impressive. I only have a few of those in mine, as lining them with W2Ws would be a nightmare. You deserve your handle, FTG!

[Krisman 4,652]

Not always my favorite to make ... but every country needs some rural countryside ...

[art128 4,622]

@Krisman Lovely as usual. I like the terrace on the last pic. it's something I'm definitely missing from the Japanese rice paddies lots. 

I dislike doing rural areas too.

Any reason you are not using wide radius curves?

[EffTheGrid 3,711]

44 minutes ago, justforfun said:

Man, your maps full of FAR networks are quite impressive. I only have a few of those in mine, as lining them with W2Ws would be a nightmare. You deserve your handle, FTG!

You should solve that problem for yourself and release some FA WTWs. hahaha (not kidding!)  

I know you can pump them out faster than I can, too!

It's shocking how quickly the holes fill up. Only takes a few minutes once you have all the right models. 

And it's amazing letting your creativity run wild, just letting the networks run freely where they want, following the easiest and flattest paths thru the terrain.

Letting FA carry your main roads is like unlocking another dimension 

The region is shaping itself!

[justforfun 7,903]

19 minutes ago, EffTheGrid said:

You should solve that problem for yourself and release some FA WTWs. hahaha (not kidding!)  

I'm still busy churning out diagonals, but some FAR models are in store for later 

[pclark06 12,014]

Testing the Saab dealer in game now.

[justforfun 7,903]

Again one and a half diagonal tiles, but covering the opposite corner:

[pclark06 12,014]

Honda is up next.

[simmering 2,723]

This interchange started as a cloverleaf but there was not enough space.