Straight Edge Coast Line

[kristoferpetit 3]

Hey Guys,

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction here, I am looking for a mod where i can have a straight edge coast and have a wharf as the edge.. I hope this makes sense 

[Jared001 2]

Like this?

 

 

 

 

 

Marrast Embankment Sets. You'll have to manually terraform your coast to create a relatively straight line; in order to get the set uniform looking. Not terribly hard and I only used the normal terraform tools found in the game to do it.

[cogeo 960]

Plopping street tiles next to another flattens the ground. I would also suggest using the (ingame) precision terraforming tools. I think pressing <Shift> or <Ctrl> and a number changes the radius or magnitude (can't remember which one). If you set radius to 1, you can move only one terrain vertex (temporarily turn grid ON)/ But plopping a tile of street flattens the tile completely, and most importantly to exactly the same elevation to the next one.

 

For the embankment set to look good, the shore must be at some minimum elevation (quite a few meters above water), and the tile that is water must have a minimum depth too, so experiment until you get a satisfactory result. You may also find that you can't lay the embankment tiles the way you want, so you may need to raise some tiles or vertices above water or instead submerge them, to achieve a straight and good-looking layout. One tip, it helps immensely if you temporarily lower the water level, it reveals the seabed and you can work more easily. The way to do this is make a simple mod (find the Terrain Properties exemplar and set Sea Level to less than 250 - which is the default - or just 0); install the mod when terraforming and uninstall it for normal play. Don't use the SetSeaLevel cheat, it destroys your bridges and tunnels. The Terrain cheat (duh, can't remember the name excactly) can also help, it displays the elevation of the point at the mouse arrow.

 

Also I find the Marrast set, although looking fine, has some few problems with its modding (eg they are modded as seaports, only to appear in the Seaports submenu), so I made some improvements on it:

- Modded as small parks, with values on par with the ingame ones.

- Costs appearing in the Budget's Parks section, and with their correct names.

- Rearranged menu order.

- MML (optional)

and some few others which I can't remember right now.

Should I make this available?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Fact of the matter is that there really is no way short of doing a little civil engineering using the game's built-in tools in the Mayor Mode landscaping menu.  To get things like the one illustrated below, I mostly use the levelling tool, which along a coastline can create fill or remove land along a grid line, and can do quite a lot of levelling and elevation reduction.
 


Tool review:

All of the tools work the same way, god mode or mayor mode.
 

When you pick up a tool it is set to a default which is quite arbitrary.  You can control the radius of effect and the weight of the brush by using some built-in features:

 

SHIFT by itself doubles the radius and weight

SHIFT+<number> changes the radius

SHIFT+<number>+<function key> changes the radius and the weight

 

<number> must be in the range 1 - 9

<function key> must be in the range F1 - F9

 

The higher the number the larger the radius and weight.

 

SHIFT+1+F1 will produce a very small radius and a feather touch.

 

Reset a tool by picking it up again from the menu.

[kristoferpetit 3]

Fact of the matter is that there really is no way short of doing a little civil engineering using the game's built-in tools in the Mayor Mode landscaping menu.  To get things like the one illustrated below, I mostly use the levelling tool, which along a coastline can create fill or remove land along a grid line, and can do quite a lot of levelling and elevation reduction.

 

Tool review:

All of the tools work the same way, god mode or mayor mode.

 

When you pick up a tool it is set to a default which is quite arbitrary.  You can control the radius of effect and the weight of the brush by using some built-in features:

 

SHIFT by itself doubles the radius and weight

SHIFT+<number> changes the radius

SHIFT+<number>+<function key> changes the radius and the weight

 

<number> must be in the range 1 - 9

<function key> must be in the range F1 - F9

 

The higher the number the larger the radius and weight.

 

SHIFT+1+F1 will produce a very small radius and a feather touch.

 

Reset a tool by picking it up again from the menu.

Thank you, I want something similar to that picture. What mod is used?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

 

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Tool review:

All of the tools work the same way, god mode or mayor mode.

 

When you pick up a tool it is set to a default which is quite arbitrary.  You can control the radius of effect and the weight of the brush by using some built-in features:

 

SHIFT by itself doubles the radius and weight

SHIFT+<number> changes the radius

SHIFT+<number>+<function key> changes the radius and the weight

 

<number> must be in the range 1 - 9

<function key> must be in the range F1 - F9

 

The higher the number the larger the radius and weight.

 

SHIFT+1+F1 will produce a very small radius and a feather touch.

 

Reset a tool by picking it up again from the menu.

Thank you, I want something similar to that picture. What mod is used?

 

No mod.  The docks are PEG's CDK3 Kit, but the shore line was done manually using the tools.