Show us your Nature!

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Something I've been wanting to create in a city of mine, thank you very much @takemethere

[TakemeThere 5,834]

@philforhockey51 Glad to be of help! It's always cool to see how people make use of them.
It's a little bit on the back burner right now but I haven't forgotten about that little project.
 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Wasn't sure where to put this... Camping and Hiking and Biking

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Nature in an urban setting

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Sailing Out

[philforhockey51 4,220]

[philforhockey51 4,220]

I wait a while in between posts but no one else posts nature pics so I'll just go again if you don't mind.

 

[antsel 841]

Very nice MMP work Phil, looks spectacular!!

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Inspired by korver's Myrtos Beach for MMP saturation overload, here is part of a forest to the north of Erinsberg.

 

[korver 27,685]

Looking good so far.

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After a three hour session this evening I had a blast working on landslips and coniferous areas.

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[Compdude787 916]

Wow, that is impressively realistic!! 

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Thanks Compdude787!

Here are a few more pictures of recent areas I have worked on. Any more pictures and I will have to post another CJ entry...

 

 

[Trashbot89 496]

Your photos are really pleasant to my eyes. I really like your rocky areas, the paths inside the forest and the houses with the woods nearby

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Thanks gatakos!

In these pictures I wanted to see more of the terrain so I decided to create some pasture land for sheep.

 

[antsel 841]

Great MMP work @Ln X, fantastic series of pictures in your last few posts!

On a side note, does anyone else find it difficult to work with seasonal MMPs given that some need to be plopped on 1st September, and others on 1st March? Anyone know if there's a way to edit these values in the Reader so we can plop them on the same dates?

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As long as they are plopped in at the right dates then all the MMPs will seasonally change at the right time.

[antsel 841]

1 hour ago, Ln X said:

As long as they are plopped in at the right dates then all the MMPs will seasonally change at the right time.

My problem is that many of the seasonal MMPs that flower need to be plopped in March because they are first plopped blooming whereas the seasonal trees need to be plopped in September because they are first plopped with their autumn colours. I find it tedious having to run the simulator to cycle between March and September to get my MMPs to look right. I was just wondering if there's anyway to edit some values in Reader so we can plop flowers in September, but have the timing down so they still bloom in March. That way all the seasonal MMPs can be plopped at the same time of the year.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I havn't tried that yet, but I think it should be possible.

You see, in a timed prop exemplar there's a resource key type 4 (?) property that's basically set up according to the scheme "time span A - display model A; time span B - display model B;" and so forth. The model IDs here are the instance IDs of each seasonal model: spring, summer, autumn, winter. If you identify correctly which model has which ID (this can be done by opening the resource DAT containing the actual models with the Reader), you should be able to switch the order of time spans and model IDs around in the Reader.

[vortext 573]

5 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

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You see, in a timed prop exemplar there's a resource key type 4 (?) property that's basically set up according to the scheme "time span A - display model A; time span B - display model B;" and so forth.

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While you're right about the Resource Key Type, there are two important things to note. First is the 'and so forth' bit. RKT doesn't allow to add infinite amount of models, it can only hold 3 different models. So the scheme is: time span 1 - display model 1; time span 2 - display model 2, time span 3 - display model 3. Secondly, we're talking about flora exemplars here, not prop exemplars, and it's important to make that distinction because the timing mechanism for flora is different from props. Time span 1 & 2 are defined by a certain number of days, which is divided in half for each time span, and time span 3 lasts however many days remain in the year.

So for example seasonal trees have a defining time span of 180 days, which works out to 90 days for autumn, 90 days for winter, and the remainder for summer. Or in other words, 12 months are distributed in a 3-3-6 month scheme. It's very well possible to come up with a different scheme. For example an evenly distributed 4-4-4 month scheme was considered when seasonal trees were developed, but decided against in favor of a longer  'summer' season to account for spring. Flower MMPs follow a similar 3-3-6 scheme in order to achieve actual blooming for 3 months, and autumn & winter are combined into one state (as opposed to seasonal trees).

 

Now, to answer the question at hand: yes you can indeed edit flower flora exemplars in such a way they can be plopped in autumn and show up during summer. I did just that in my seasonal tree controllers. However, it may be apparent by now you'll need to edit both the defining time span and the order of models as defined by RKT. Moreover, the end result will always be a compromise of sorts. You could for example settle on a 5-5-2 month scheme and either have flowers bloom from February until June, or have them bloom during the last two months of July and August. Alternatively a 4-4-4 scheme works well too, and have them bloom from May until August (making them bloom in January seems a bit too early to me).

 

Of course you can just go for the 3-3-6 month scheme and make the flowers bloom throughout summer. However, that kinda defeats the purpose of seasonal flowers if you ask me, because they provide a nice way to add a 'fourth' season during the otherwise monotonous green summer.

[antsel 841]

Thank you @T Wrecks and @vortext for your responses. Very insightful, I'll have a look to see what I can do.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Argh, my bad. Yes, due to the fact that I spend 90% of my SC4 time in the Lot Editor, I was thinking of seasonal tree props, but that's of course nonsense when we talk about MMP flora. Great explanation, vortext!

Reading that description, I think I'm even more certain now that I'm going to stick to evergreen flora myself.

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Another picture from the foothills of Erinsberg.

[philforhockey51 4,220]

On 5/23/2016 at 11:15 AM, T Wrecks said:

Argh, my bad. Yes, due to the fact that I spend 90% of my SC4 time in the Lot Editor, I was thinking of seasonal tree props, but that's of course nonsense when we talk about MMP flora. Great explanation, vortext!

Reading that description, I think I'm even more certain now that I'm going to stick to evergreen flora myself.

Respect for admitting error, and yeah evergreen seems to have been a good choice so far based on this info. This is going to hurt my plans for my next region seems it will take longer to plop than planned

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A couple more pictures...

 

[korver 27,685]

As recently featured in my in my CJ, True Earth. Check out the rest here.

Meteora, Greece

 

[philforhockey51 4,220]

Boat Sheds

[MushyMushy 3,618]

I suppose a nature-reclaimed city counts as "nature."

Who knows how society ended - nobody was there to write it down so I can't tell you. Whatever the cause, here's an average city 30 years after the apocalypse. The streets have turned into forests and grassy fields, with some patchy grass topping the buildings. Lots of broken windows, crumbling walls, and abandoned cars.

About 30 minutes of building selections (easy) followed by around 8 hours of Photoshop work, with a small bit of 3DSmax on the side. I took some of my vehicle models and made some rusted out wrecks strewn about on the visible sections of road.

I submitted my image to the contests late again - feel free to go back and rate it if you did your ratings before I uploaded it.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

A dried out river bed where people started dumping their trash. Rumor has it five hobos live here, and they aren't aware of each other. Don't ask why there's a light pole.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Hawk Point County Park in Hawksworth, Hixon is quite unique. This is mostly due to the fact that there's a lighthouse here despite being a mile or so down the Lost River. This lighthouse was built to warn navigators, if there was fog, of the bend in the river.