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[Dreadnought 8,231]

This is a double experiment in progress --

I thought I'd try throwing together an office park complex out of lots and fillers found in my hard drive rather than go and download some huge lot.  The building is under construction (three all together), but the park paths and parking lots are actually what ties the whole thing together.  The advantage -- is that nothing is "fixed" in place and can be moved around to fit any space.  Maybe not a "revelation" -- but perhaps a "re-discovery".

The second pic is a close-up of the "open terrain" landscape style I've been working on.  I think I've just about perfected my landscape style to go along with my seashore technique.

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

To celebrate my "close-to-completion" of parking textures... a re-lot of Gascooker's Tesco in full UK parking glory:

[tariely 4,498]

oooh, that is NICE ! I just hope they're easy to plop... there seems to be a whole lot of arrows and lines and stuff to match up correctly:-) Hours of fun... Have they been SPOTified ? (not that spotify, of course, but the SC4 one:-)

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Yo, guys --

I know this is a bit "off-topic" -- and I apologize -- but response to questions seems to be faster here.  I will be brief.

If you go back up to my last post with the office park experiment, you will notice several VERY busy parking lots.  Those are "RLM Becca Modular" parking pieces.  I also use some of Nos.17's recently released modular parking pieces for the Clayhurst University -- as well as Paeng's Diagonal Parking.  Paeng's stuff works like a champ, but I have problems with the others.

Do any of you have trouble generating the timed car props in those other lots?  When I first plop the lots, they are fine.  But after the cars cycle in and out a couple times they just seem to disappear.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Working on a new city called Riley.

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Hospital site progressing, I think it's almost complete. I might extend the ambulance station/garage, building in front of the long walkway, though. 

 

 

 

[Compdude787 916]

Nice interchange, @takemethere! I saw some pics of it in the interchanges thread, and I really like how it's now much simpler and saves a lot of space.

  Edited March 29, 2016 by Compdude787  
saying whose interchange I was referring to

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

@tariely: Everything is one lot so no worries about SPOTing there. Seeing as there's probably another 30-40 combinations just from that screenshot alone, and given how my current sets already adds up to over 100 or so lots... absolute chaos will ensue if I added those as well.

Wrapping things up now - here's a massive sample lot demonstrating what you'll be able to lot soon enough...

[Artimus 485]

 

38 minutes ago, kingofsimcity said:

@tariely: Everything is one lot so no worries about SPOTing there. Seeing as there's probably another 30-40 combinations just from that screenshot alone, and given how my current sets already adds up to over 100 or so lots... absolute chaos will ensue if I added those as well.

Wrapping things up now - here's a massive sample lot demonstrating what you'll be able to lot soon enough...

Awesome! I do not think I can contain my excitement once you release those bad boys into the STEX! 

[tariely 4,498]

Forgive my densitude, but what do you mean by "everything is one lot" ? Those are not single pieces we have to combine, they arrive pre-combined, is that it ? I thought they were modular parkings, and to me "modular" = 1x1 (mostly) pieces we plop to combine ourselves (densitude, I said...:-), which is why I asked if they were spotified:-). I've had so many problems with the placement of path pieces and the like (very bad perception in space I have, she said, yoda-ly)

PS : this looks gorgeous, by the way...

[matias93 7,535]

56 minutes ago, tariely said:

Forgive my densitude, but what do you mean by "everything is one lot" ? Those are not single pieces we have to combine, they arrive pre-combined, is that it ? I thought they were modular parkings, and to me "modular" = 1x1 (mostly) pieces we plop to combine ourselves (densitude, I said...:-), which is why I asked if they were spotified:-). I've had so many problems with the placement of path pieces and the like (very bad perception in space I have, she said, yoda-ly)

PS : this looks gorgeous, by the way...

Those are modular pieces assembled in the Lot Editor, so the final user gets it as pre-combined (they are modular for a third-party lotter). Aside that, there is a final user modular pack, that brings 1x1 lots that allow to create parkings directly on the game.

[tariely 4,498]

OK, yes, and to answer my initial question I see  they have been SPOTified:-))) Thanks again, and 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

2 hours ago, tariely said:

OK, yes, and to answer my initial question I see  they have been SPOTified:-))) Thanks again, and 

I can feel it waaay down here --

You're gettin' all "twitchy" !!

[IRL87 31]

On 23/02/2016 at 4:58 PM, IRL87 said:

After a hiatus of around 10 years of not playing SC4, I'm playing out my first big city. I've called it Danbourne, and it is loosely based on Melbourne. I'm currently working on making Flinders Street station (which I still can't seem to get right! ).

So far I've just done the roads and avenues. I've yet to do my rail, tram, highway, monorail etc.

Here is an update on Danbourne. A lot done, a lot more to do :-)

 

 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Still working on "hand-crafted" landscaping -- very tedious!!

AND -- experimenting with office park complexes.  Never used these before -- a bit tricky.

[Delta 88 262]

A "barrio-style" neighborhood like you see in old parts of L.A., and it developed surprisingly quickly:

 

[feyss 1,981]

There is still a lot of work!

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Growing a city

[TrickyMario76543 67]

Just started on the massive office complex in Greensfield.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

Still working on the "hand-crafted" landscape --

The trees look pretty good -- bit still trying to come to grips with "cleared spaces".

My first attempt at "zoning" for specific growth -- (I found a bunch of low-rise apartments and wanted them in a specific neighborhood).

[matias93 7,535]

¿Those are six entrances to a metro station? That's such a well connected neighbourhood

[philforhockey51 4,220]

@Dreadnought Nice Tree choice   matias93 is right, seems a bit much on the subway, that neighborhood should be good to go with like 2 at most, the rest can be replaced with parks/plazas

[VALASatoshi 1,130]

WIP  

 

 

[_Michael 2,681]

Working ont his new city:

[Abrams 1,744]

That is very nice looking!May i ask you how to make the game to only grow thoose costum european buildings?

[_Michael 2,681]

2 hours ago, Abrams124 said:

That is very nice looking!May i ask you how to make the game to only grow thoose costum european buildings?

There are really two steps, and a lot of patience. I have a mod that blocks all Maxis growables, so it is just the custom buildings that grow. All diagonal buildings are plopped, and all orthogonal buildings grow after a lot of bulldozing and setting then to historical once the one I want finally grows. Takes much longer, but is well worth it.  

[feyss 1,981]

Olsènes' CBD in progress. I didn't download skyscrapers since a while and there are a lot of awesome new buildgins out there!

 

[Compdude787 916]

I like that diagonal skyscraper!

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

Testing my final modular expansion set and got a little doodle-happy...

[Artimus 485]

Wait, do I see two faces in that parking lot? I wonder what they are trying to say...

*why @kingofsimcity??? why?!?*