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[Haljackey 17,385]

19 hours ago, kschmidt said:

Haljackey region only survive by the knowledge that SimCity 4 as a builder is alll and only about building huge dense cities without a basic economy like Transport tycoon where products chain build cities. SimCity 4 is more about knowledge and industries shape the enviroment. Agriculture except pollution doesn't play through fundamental role it should play ?  The utopia of SimCity 4is that you can mold it in to any shape you like. SimCity 4 base game mechanics turns very fast in to the industrial and innovative towns, the more rural are only a side show ! What we might see is a complete tile with only vertical farms to feed the complete region, flat farms are so space intensive and unprofitable. We will see medium and low density cities and or agriculture or as des ribed in Hallja key region,maybe ?

I just play the game. I don't really think about all this stuff. I'm having fun haha

12 hours ago, Kel9509 said:

You need to wind that train through the mountains.  Time for the polar express!

Yes the easy part is done- now it's mountaineering time. I've become pretty experienced with a lot of past projects by now but I'm sure it will throw a few curve balls for me.

The routing- I want it to get to the edge of my region and connect to SimNation. I have a freeway route already- not sure if the rail lines will parallel it much however.

[Barroco Hispano 26,923]

@justforfun I included the chapel in my "Buildings RWS DLC"

Soon:

[JulianMIA 1,601]

17 minutes ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@justforfun I included the chapel in my "Buildings RWS DLC"

Soon:

Looking amazing as always!

[justforfun 7,916]

1 hour ago, Barroco Hispano said:

I included the chapel in my "Buildings RWS DLC"

Yes, thank you, so happy to see that!  I also love the fantasy church. 

[justforfun 7,916]

Time to round your little sims up!

 

 

[thecitiescenter 3,059]

Don't call it San Fran.  

[JulianMIA 1,601]

So.  For some reason I started down the track-texture-tinkering rabbit hole this afternoon which at one point even included changing the coloration of my terrain base a bit.  That proved just too much though and most of the 20 or so experimental textures are no good.  And also this is maybe the 4th time I've jumped into this particular rabbit hole lol.

 I did find something I sort of like though, a faded and washed version of what I had come up with previously which in itself was only the standard RRW coloration darkened by 20 points.  And I have to give the textures code names to even keep track of what I'm doing.

This is the one (or in Julian code RRW3D20F1) that I really like.

 

The other contender is that same texture just 12 points darker (or for those of you who were paying attention RRW3D20F1D12), this is as dark as I thought it could go without starting to look abandoned.  (Also, these codes may become important.  People have accidents.  If someone had to step in and become mayor, or Director of Railroad Track Coloration, my coding system could be very helpful).  

 

And finally, just another pic of what I've been using for comparison.  Which I still like.  What to do.

   

 

 

[pclark06 12,062]

 

 

Alpen Shinjuku is slowly getting there

[Barroco Hispano 26,923]

@JulianMIA @justforfun 

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[JulianMIA 1,601]

7 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@JulianMIA @justforfun 

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I am only still laying out transportation backbone but I'm keeping in mind all the places to incorporate these beautiful statues!  Every big city train station for example... 

[nikoxlaux 254]

On 12/6/2026 at 1:42 PM, Barroco Hispano said:

@JulianMIA @justforfun 

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Increíble como siempre amigo... 

[Haljackey 17,385]

Bridging the gap

Highway-

 

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Rails

 

[Kel9509 1,477]

14 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Bridging the gap

You know, your pictures where you show each step are not only really cool to see what you're doing but they're also like mini-tutorials that can help people make their own similar transitions!

[Haljackey 17,385]

8 hours ago, Kel9509 said:

You know, your pictures where you show each step are not only really cool to see what you're doing but they're also like mini-tutorials that can help people make their own similar transitions!

Thanks! I show the progress pics here- as this is well, show us what you're working on

I made this thread to show how I am / we are working on things

The finished products are showcased in the other show us your threads.

Regardless, glad you like! I have many more progress pics archived on my albums- but I show the most meaningful pics here. Else there'd be a flood of / too many images

[justforfun 7,916]

Guess what, row houses are back! Let me see how many new-ish designs I can come up with:

[Haljackey 17,385]

More BTM routing- and working on finalizing road networks

 

[pclark06 12,062]

 

Alpen Shinjuku progress

[Haljackey 17,385]

New diagonal interchange with connectors being worked on

Rough outline

Raw

Prettied up

However @Lucario Boricua gave me constructive feedback this ramp could be smoothed out

So not done yet. Adjustments made

Zoom out

[Honolulu 2,779]

I'm still experimenting with rural textures. I need to figure out how to tone down the intensity of the colors.

[Barroco Hispano 26,923]

@JulianMIA I really like the retexturing you're doing! 

@Honolulu This project looks very interesting. It's very difficult to create crop textures that don't appear repetitive in distant zoom. Sometimes I feel like exporting rural props but I think we already have enough .

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[Kel9509 1,477]

8 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@JulianMIA I really like the retexturing you're doing! 

@Honolulu This project looks very interesting. It's very difficult to create crop textures that don't appear repetitive in distant zoom. Sometimes I feel like exporting rural props but I think we already have enough .

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@Barroco Hispano there's a couple of files you previously uploaded that still need restoration that we're wondering about.  It'd be great if you could reupload them or take a look at them in the Restoration Tracker. Your work is so great and it'd be awesome to see it all back!

[pclark06 12,062]

Export time! Here's some night shots of Alpen Shinjuku.

[Dot 47]

Hello, people.

Here are two pictures made in two cities: Holyday and Pepinos.

The first picture shows the city center of Holyday and the second picture shows the beaches of the river that passes in Pepinos.

My best wishes to ya.

 

[Lazarou Monkey Terror 1,837]

Some more work on Jazzanova, a dense, inner city medium sized tile. 

[Silur 3,308]

20 hours ago, Dot said:

Hello, people.

Here are two pictures made in two cities: Holyday and Pepinos.

The first picture shows the city center of Holyday and the second picture shows the beaches of the river that passes in Pepinos.

My best wishes to ya.

 

Life at the garbage dump is so romantic!

[pclark06 12,062]

22 hours ago, pclark06 said:

Export time! Here's some night shots of Alpen Shinjuku.

 

Now I am working on the 2010-2020 version of the Yunika Building when it was a Labi electronics store.

[kschmidt 6,202]

Little Asia - Campuchia- Mekong !

Leave the urban jungle, out into the countryside. ! Mekong the river and a very large edge of agriculture among !

Some nice temple and stupa !

Enjoy !

[JulianMIA 1,601]

I have been working on some different looks for my elevated HRW and I think this is the one, I like the recolored concrete pillars and the modern concrete wall side railings.  Might tweak the color a little more, it may be just a bit too blue.

[JulianMIA 1,601]

I also applied a similar texture to the side railing walls of the El-rail texture and while it doesn't look quite as solid on the bridge, I really like it on the regular stretches of El-rail.

But I also tried a completely different texture for the HRW bridge.  I spent several hours building a concrete base and aluminum looking railing, I was super happy with it at 2000 pixels, lived with it at 128.  Then I applied it and realized that while the railing on far side of the bridge looks kinda good when you can look through and see the water, the near side of the bridge allows you to see through in all the wrong places, I realized the design doesn't really allow a see-through railing.  So I don't think my 4-Hour railing job was worth it.  

 

Which again is too bad because on the far side of the bridge it looks very cool.

[rsc204 21,865]

On 17/06/2026 at 3:22 PM, Honolulu said:

I'm still experimenting with rural textures. I need to figure out how to tone down the intensity of the colors.

I think, with some infill and further development, they might actually look OK, right now it contrasts with the terrain too much, but once that's been covered, it could be fine. My general sense is that the textures are if anything too detailed, after all regardless of texture size, they have to fit within x pixels of game real estate. HD Terrain mods do look really good, but there are limitations especially with lower zooms.

7 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

I have been working on some different looks for my elevated HRW and I think this is the one, I like the recolored concrete pillars and the modern concrete wall side railings.  Might tweak the color a little more, it may be just a bit too blue.

Love the treatment you give to your rail and transport networks, it really adds a sense of realism.

6 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

Which again is too bad because on the far side of the bridge it looks very cool.

It should be something you can fix in the S3D, I'd have to look up the settings, but each Material (Texture) has transparency settings. It may be you need to add a base layer to the bridge, like concrete or some such, so that any transparency on the edges of the RRW Texture isn't leading to actual holes. If you have such a layer, maybe it's Alpha settings are not correct, it's a complex area.

Additionally, did you perhaps use a Puzzle Piece Road Viaduct piece here?, the one with the white sidewalks? That's an easy enough fix to get your sidewalk on there if so. Just that the PP textures have different IDs from the later Flex ones.