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[MilitantRadical 2,844]

I'm loving that seaport. It must have taken a lot of time but the effort you put in was not wasted. Great work.

[TekindusT 3,809]

DAT seaport...

 

[MushyMushy 3,618]

Epic!

 

I'm curious as to where I can get that warehouse that juts out into the water.

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Fox: Much appreciated your comment. Your remark about the marina having tourism potential gave me some ideas about expanding that area of Repoville at a later date.

 

NMUSpidey: I didn't realise SC4 God Mode extended into real life.

 

Schulmanator: Thanks a lot!

 

MilitantRadical: It did take a bit of time. Thanks for the comment.

 

TekindusT: What a goofy look!

 

MushuMushy: The warehouse pier is part of nbvc's Modular Docks; found here-

 

 

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Update 61: Townshead- The Government Quarter

 

After spending some entries by the sea, I think its time to set more firmly on the land and go back to Townshead. We are travelling to-

 

The Government Quarter

 

 

 

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The region's former house of lords building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lotus Temple.

 

 

 

 

 

The former house of commons building.

 

 

 

The old architecture watched over by the new.

 

 

 

A strip of filler tiles to expand the block containing the former house of commons.

 

 

 

Bad-ass skyscrapers.

 

 

 

cockatoo's impressive UN building BAT.

 

 

 

 

 

The reflecto-blob doing its job.

 

 

 

 

 

These skyscrapers dwarf Maxis tower blocks and skyscrapers.

 

 

 

 

 

St. Cuthburt's church.

 

 

 

A wall of steel, concrete and glass.

 

 

 

 

 

The shiny grey skyscraper is one colossal R$$$ building, this is on001222's amazing Mahanakhon Condo BAT.

 

 

 

 

 

A bit of green space north of the government quarter.

 

 

 

 

The interchanges at night.

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for viewing.

[Mymyjp 1,052]

as always, another amazing entry...there are so many things to look at...the house of lord is superb, the Hitachi and China Mobile are awesome building, the skyscraper jungle is so well organized (not chaotic at all), the road systems looks so efficient...

 

Again, another amazing entry. Thank you so much for sharing your artistic creations with us.

[MushyMushy 3,618]

Awesome!

 

What building is that in the 7th image that is to the top right of the Lotus building? The kinda blandly-colored tall-ish corner W2W type thing.

-Thanks!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

You have constructed another great urban scene.  I like how it all looks when it's lit up at night!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

That's a decent size for a city, I'd say.

 

Good going!

[v701 97]

Such a great job ! keep going !!!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Fantastic updates, Ln x!! This last update I loved this picture, don't know exactly why 

 

Btw, in the end of my Calculus classes, I just learned that I never have new adjectives to describe how much I like your work with MMPs and your cities because how much I like it is going to infinity just like your X 

[tonyr 926]

 

Update 61: Townshead- The Government Quarter

 

After spending some entries by the sea, I think its time to set more firmly on the land and go back to Townshead. We are travelling to-

 

The Government Quarter

 

Thanks for viewing.

 

Awesomeness!

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Mymyjp: Thanks! I always make sure there are decent gaps in the skyscrapers to ensure the streets can be seen. It's moments like these were I wish we had more than the isometric view.

 

MushyMushy: That is kellydale2003's Paris Building- Beware of the radiation! It is purely visual radiation which momentarily disappears, so you have to time it for when taking photos.

 

NMUSpidey: Thank you!

 

__B: Cheers!

 

v701: Thank you- there is still so much more I have yet to do in SC4 and a lot more to be published in this CJ.

 

JP Schriefer: I didn't realise admiration could go to infinity.

 

tonyr:

 

 

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Update 62: The Steel and Glass canyons of Townshead

 

With an entry title which paraphrases a little from U2's "The Hands That Built America" we head deeper into Townshead CBD.

 

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These special road passes are something I downloaded from BriPizza, I think traffic even uses the transition lanes. To find them look under the transport section of the BATs on Bripizza.

 

 

 

 

I'm starting to really enjoy TULEPs and NWM!

 

 

 

The reason I used so many MMPs for the woodland was to cut down on the props I was using when adding fillers. After the San Widge prop pox experience I decided to be more careful with the fillers I plopped in on mass. MMPs don't count as props.

 

 

 

 

The city hall.

 

 

 

 

 

Going ham on the roads.

 

 

 

I think, I think, the row of four skyscrapers here is a BAT from Bixel but don't quote me on that. Nevertheless it's a fantastic design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blade Runner!

 

 

 

Because I had some dead space to fill in, why not add in a shopping mall?

 

 

 

 

 

The Madison Square Garden was one of the first buildings I plopped in Townshead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For some reason this picture reminds me a lot of the Grid sequence in Koyaanisqatsi.

 

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From now until the end of this year I'll be cranking out the entries, there's going to be one every two days and possibly a bonus one once I have sorted out an SC4 video montage.

[Mymyjp 1,052]

Very metropolis like journal....superb.

 

I especially like the double ramps in the second picture...what an awesome concept.

[coolwiththecool2 827]

This cj is starting to make me speechless

[packersfan 667]

How did you get trees and plants in the middle of the 6 lane avenues?  These updates are great.  Jealous!

[city89 147]

wow

[RipRap 4,400]

Amazing stuff!

[NielsC007 499]

Wow, I have missed out on a lot of stuff. Fantastic work!

 

How did you get trees and plants in the middle of the 6 lane avenues?  These updates are great.  Jealous!

 

Those are part of of pack, there are a few different variations, so do take the time to read the readme file.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Absolutely stunning once again, you are a brilliant SC4 player.

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Mymyjp: Thank you!

 

coolwiththecool2:

 

packersfan: Thanks!

 

city89: Thanks.

 

Tonraq: Cheers.

 

NielsC007: I'm working hard to crank out the updates, until the end of this year there will be an update every two days.

 

NMUSpidey: Thanks a lot!

 

 

 

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Update 63: The Ravensworth Agricultural Experiments (WIP)

 

Inspired by Fasan's Krokanien MD on SC4D -- which has the best agricultural, urban and natural areas I have ever seen -- I decided to return to agriculture and MMPs. Ravensworth is the testing ground for my experiments with MMPs and realistic agriculture- or as realistic as SC4 will allow. Also in this entry I will be sharing my results from these experiments and indicating useful mods which I used in the process. Let's take a look:

 

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The town of Ravensworth, the focus today will be the farmland West of the river.

 

 

 

Thirlmere Lake.

 

 

 

I had fun messing around with nbvc's tents.

 

 

 

My first campsite.

 

 

 

To disguise the roads on either side of the bridge I used the terrain brush from xannepan's Jenx Poseidon water mods to cover them up. I used the dry grass terrain brush in this picture.

 

 

 

Dominating the picture are the SBFT vineyards created by Andreas.

 

 

 

The ever versatile Heblem paths extend the route connecting the vineyard to the nearby road.

 

 

 

What a pigsty of a field! To satisfy all of your sheep, pig and cow spawning needs go to the BSC LEX and look for jestarr's Mayor Mode Ploppable Livestock.

 

 

 

 

A small horse ranch. The actual building is part of the Dutch override of Maxis farms created by FrankU. Very useful! These buildings also function if there's only one road or pedmall tile adjacent to it. Which comes in very handy for creating farms offset from the road.

 

 

 

Another terrain brush from the Jenx Poseidon mod. This one is sand which can also emulate dry pasture land should one leave a little of the terrain showing.

 

 

 

TS Power Poles, created by threestooges, are very MMP friendly.

 

 

 

Pasture land for sheep farming.

 

 

 

 

Using ChrisAdams3997's RRP pasture flora, here is one field with green rye grass and grass combined together. Throw in a little MMP dirt and the field is complete.

 

 

 

And a field purely of clover. The dirt MMPs comes from ionionion's OMCo filling gravel.

 

 

 

I also looked into river banks and the various MMP configurations. Here is the green rye grass and light dirt configuration.

 

 

 

Girafe's trees are a must-have for creating deciduous and coniferous woodland.

 

 

 

 

The stone walls created by the VIP Team remind me so much of the ones in the Pennines and in Swaledale.

 

 

 

More river bank reeds from the VIP Team.

 

 

 

Framly's RFR Maize Set in action. A quick and easy filler for agricultural areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A small village with a couple of tractor dealerships to keep the local economy ticking over.

 

 

 

MMP carparks: the result when VIP Team MMP cars and Heblem gravel paths mix.

 

 

 

One of the first farms I created, you've probably seen it before in the "Show Us What You're Working On" topic but here's another angle anyway.

 

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And that's it for this agricultural excursion. Next time it is back to Townshead and the urban jungle.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Sensational work with the MMPs.  This is one of your finest updates, I think these are the toughest types of entries to pull off.

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Each two days an update =O I'll have to dedicate myself to read all of them.

Last couple of updates were great! You do big cities and rural shots at the same quality, fantastic!

[Benedict 3,119]

Nice work, you're number one again on BTT.

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NMUSpidey: Thank you very much, I think you are right here- agriculture entries are the hardest to get right.

 

JP Schriefer: Thanks!

 

Benedict: Cheers!

 

 

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Update 64: Townshead's CBD

 

Here is the final part of the CBD tour. Enjoy!

 

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[Patricius Maximus 236]

Looking at your CJ for the first time, I must say I really like your work, and I strongly encourage you to continue and stay with whatever method you're using, since it really seems to work for you (not that you shouldn't experiment, of course). Every update is a feast for the eyes and more importantly depicts a vision of a world I would actually like to live in - mind you, not as much as my own cities, seeing as I've gone all-out utopian and resolute all of a sudden, but your region is on up there on my list.

 

I'm so disgruntled by how great that looks. You say you didn't focus on design yet it looks so good. I need to seriously study these CJs and figure out how to make good looking cities.

 

In my experience creating good stuff design is always a concern even if it's at an intuitive and not conscious level. I highly recommend study as a means to improving your game, deep and prolonged study across all websites and eras to be precise, and even of real-life cities and plans to find out what vision motivates you. That approach has worked out very well for me at any rate.

 

NMUSpidey: I didn't realise SC4 God Mode extended into real life.

 

In my daydreams I often conjure up a vision of Sargon (from "Return to Tomorrow") saying to Captain Kirk "We became so powerful, we dared to think of ourselves as gods" while explaining what caused the destruction of his civilization. I don't know exactly why I think about that, but suppose if Simcity's god move evolved long enough and the players gained sufficient power...who knows?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

*looks at all the pictures:  Yup, still great.  In this entry, I particularly like the ponds and the MMPs surrounding them.  Awesome, like always!

[slickbg56 778]

This whole page is a spectacular display of buildings and building style. I got quite a bit out of reading what you did with the farms and surrounding areas. I think you've managed to place just about every BAT available to the game! And the relots! THE RELOTS! At least I think I see a bunch of relots. Anyway, That takes talent. Great work.

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Patricius Maximus: I'm glad you liked the entries.

 

NMUSpidey: Thanks!

 

slickbg56: I use a lot of BATs and downloaded relots. I have never used the lot editor so there are no relots of my own. Also I add in MMPs, ploppable textures and fillers to extend the footprint of a building.

 

 

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Update 65: Ponteville

 

I'm pretty tired today so I'm just going to post the pictures of Ponteville, a district in Townshead. Enjoy.

 

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[MushyMushy 3,618]

Looks great!

What's that diagonal building with the diagonal square road around it?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

The raised rails were especially interesting to look at.  I like the elevated brick ones and the ones with the embankment, they really look great.  Awesome job as always!