Project "Great Wall"

[xoxide 377]

This is a conversion / mixed used applicable mod since it was asked of me I feel its easier to put ideas now in public rather than private.

 

The idea is to create a new path type / pipe type which would be only 2 - 10 pixels in front to back orientation and unlimited lengths.

 

WHAT IS XOXIDE TALKING ABOUT.

 

Ok well the best mechanism in place is the Roads system, which as LINE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, ARCH and FREE FORM .. so the idea was to make a path type that had no traffic no values and no transport of agents of any type to allow the ability to draw

 

WALLS

TREES

FENSES

HEDGES

 

list goes on.

 

 

The idea is simple enough actually overall easy to do EXCEPT for one small detail the PATH doesn't exist .. this is the technical challenge beyond graphics to make such a new fundamental functional item for the game to Online and Offline, Offline exclusive should be easier to create.

[ProcsKalone 294]

.. this is the technical challenge beyond graphics to make such a new fundamental functional item for the game to work offline.

 

Not really. You just dont put in any ecopath filter values and you have it.

[originalpeachy 5]

Would be a fantastic mod if you can pull it off, and by the way Xoxide your dedication to modding this game is amazing, I think I have all your mods to date and they have really made Huge steps in improving the game so BIG THANKS

[bobp 29]

Most major roads have walls/fences alongside of them here in the UK so this is a good idea if you can pull it off. I have to add a big thanks for your hard work, please don't give up, I have seen some pretty rude comments from certain people especially on the official SimCity forums, which I am sure get you riled up, they would me.

[xoxide 377]

Idea and information are designed to be free flowing.  Projects and ideas are only born if you work with others to challenge yourself and those around you.  I'm more of a good project manager than a developer.  I'm good with people and trying to help others. 

 

This one mod "Great Wall" actually may be more viable than I realized. 

 

But the idea is to use imposters specifically as graphic and detail / decoration so that others can create new looks and feels to their city.  I really do believe that compound mods and mods that add features to other mods is the key to success for the community and any future 2013 has as a result.

 

But we need more modders .. we need more people working together to honestly bring together the ideas and execute them in a way that I think benefits and brings value to the fundamental foundation of the game. 

 

Nobody needs cheats when we have sandbox.

 

What people crave is new content and new ideas that bring a new twist to how they develop and build cities.  This needs to be less about the game and more about city building and the community that enjoys doing just that.

 

Time and effort is what it will take and people dedicated to bringing it full circle.  I will do my best to inspire and keep things flowing but I need to take a step back as well.. 1.5 years of nearly day to day involvement is a lot for one person and i'm getting burnt out to be honestly.. I have a little more energy left and I am hoping that new modders are inspired by what has transpired over the last 2 months to realize there is no such thing as a lost cause or impossible but only if you work together as a community or group will you create change.

 

Proc is one of the best programmers I know out there and he is capable of thinking in ways most of us do not..  He is part of the culture and important to the future.  But so is Yayie and Niclistin and others whom are passionate about the franchise and community.

 

So we all need to work together its not about the individuals its about the results as a group that change the world little by little even if its just by bringing a community together for the first time after 1.5 years of nothing but arguing about what can and can't be done what was and was not done.

 

Moving beyond those lines an words are what will change what will come.

 

So I hope it does ..

Peace

XoXiDe / Jeff

[xoxide 377]

Attempt one crashed upon touching another road.   Back to drawing board

[Yayie 311]

this is going to be an awesome mod xoxide, I can imagine a Forbidden City.

[CapTon 592]

This sounds like a very nice idea can't wait to get to work on it and see the final result!

[xoxide 377]

if completed

 

trees

brush

shrub

fence

telephone poles

brick wall

LARGE WALLs if you really wanted them in theory could be built

[CapTon 592]

Would be nice little details to add to the game

[xoxide 377]

decorations, new parks, new content and new fundamental creative tools are what users want so.. yup.. I agree

[elemental1100 50]

If we can have walls it would be really great if we could have graffiti. Maybe graffiti could be "plopped" on pieces of wall as a module? A flat, partly transparent module.

 

And I just had a thought that if you could make a graffiti module for a wall than the same system could be used to make billboards. If someone could create a few standard size billboards then the modding community could make the ads/images to go on the billboards, and the player could plop and delete billboard images just like a module for a normal building.

[CapTon 592]

I don't think graffiti should be a module that can be plopped I think it should be a crime that can randomly appear on any wall. Police could catch graffiti artists and such.

[xoxide 377]

yea but with that said.. answer would be yes.. if wanted to create and replace a patter or add something to walls .. it may look repeated if used wrong.. since this uses sort of the same imposter over and over to draw the wall in theory

 

or telephone posts etc

 

however I think real billboards should be a plop. and I'm sure it already exists since it was used for the Coming Soon OmegaCo

[CapTon 592]

Billboards do exist in the game like you mentioned but I believe that they're only growable through industry. Those "Coming Soon OmegaCo" billboards would appear out of nowhere.

[elemental1100 50]

I'd prefer something that we have control over, both for graffiti and for billboards. If you don't want to plop graffiti then you don't have to - player should be in control. But it would certianly add more realism to the game. The crime graffiti will still be in the game, not that graffiti is an actual crime in the game. And it doesn't all have to be ugly tagging. Some of it could be street art of various types. The same system could be used to make squares of colour to plop on a plain concrete wall / sound barrier lining a freeway.

 

And now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen one of those coming soon billboards since the expack was released.

[xoxide 377]

well if we start with a prop then we can replicate it and artwork as users want .. so .. getting to the first step is the part we need to get where people can do more

[elemental1100 50]

If the graffiti etc is just a plain flat image changing it by modding it would be a fairly easy thing for inexperienced modders to do (much easier than a 3D object), and this in turn would encourage more people to start modding.

 

I also like the idea of hedges and tree rows. Taller trees would be great too.

[xoxide 377]

that's what I'm thinking elemental .. if the or we had lets say 10 billboards.. we put some default stuff and people could just swap out the image for themselves

 

would be simple enough a user start at modding in a new sort of easy way

[xoxide 377]

btw rabin it didn't work.  When the ecopath is modified.. and you draw.. your fine until you intersect with an existing road or path then it crashes the game so far

so I'm a little stuck

[xoxide 377]

With so many ideas and people looking at possibilities none of these are being posted to but however are still on the radar of modders