Show us your Before/After Shots!

[Terring 6,476]

Indeed, the Version 3 is much better

[nos.17 5,177]

The first version IMO is devoid of any interesting details or unique character, and I hated it for that. Of all my previous B62 uploads, this was the one I wanted to remake the most. In retrospect, it may have been the one lot that persuaded me to revisit everything (again).

[tankmank 853]

The second one is much better, it looks more realistic with the parking. 

I guess this is  before/after showing the growth of my current city. I t is very time consuming all the suburbs. 

 

[raynev1 1,886]

      Here is a little something I was messing around with earlier .

1.The Befor 

2. After adding diagonal field fillers .

3. After adding some seasonal trees .

4. After adding some evergreens .

[Toby Ferrian 875]

rebuilding a city hit by prop pox
before:

after: 

[Edvarz 1,985]

One of the first interchanges I built back in 2013 with NAM 31, when I was a total RHW/MHO noob.

Still, it's so neat and simple, that I've had little incentive to change it, here's the city around it, in 2017.

 

[matias93 7,535]

@Edvarz I honestly expected the second image to be a frickin-huge interchange in place of the former, you really surprised me with this one!

[Edvarz 1,985]

@matias93 I thought I would have to do just that, but thanks to my terrible city planning, traffic on that interchange it's really low (more so since I deleted the city to the east), I could probably get away with an at-grade crossing actually, but where's the fun in that? I also downgraded the N-S highway to a simple boulevard, and whenever I get the time to install NAM 36 I'll see about converting some sections into REW.

[Edvarz 1,985]

A couple of comparison pics, the first one with almost pure vanilla (only NAM installed) and the latter one after 2.5 GB of plugins, four RL years and 370 sim years:

2013

2017

[Toby Ferrian 875]

Continuing from my previous post, here's the city as it is right now:

With more than half the region's population, it's easily the biggest city in the region now.

[TakemeThere 5,834]

When I first built this city(7-8 years ago) this is what the Transfer looked like. Amazing what a difference the NAM has made 


Gif version

[The British Sausage 5,449]

BEFORE:

Rickety highway going up the slope!

 

AFTER:

Smoothed out the kinks!

[yaboydennis 210]

Redeveloped a lot of old areas in my Region.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

[ByeByeBayou 1,936]

[Flann 1,709]

Had to eliminate this grade crossing as there was far too much traffic

[philforhockey51 4,211]

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Before: Region of Mountain North at the start back on Feb 4. 2015 

After: Region at completion Nov 24, 2019 

[Naomi57 2,985]

Brownsville's Green New Deal

Well, in my Brownsville large city tile, we've got the Green New Deal happening... but only inside our Army Base.

While most of the older brass have been sceptical, orders have come "from above".   It's a voluntary program, and it's handled as extra duty, but the younger recruits have taken to the project with enthusiasm, installing the army's latest CO2 scrubbers. 

Click on the screenshots and arrow about to compare before and after.

Before:

After 6 Years:

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The new recruits don't mind the extra duty, saying, "It's a breath of fresh air," for the government to put the spotlight on pollution and climate change.

Before:                                                                        After:

                

Of course, there's a limit to what 500 Oak Trees can do, in the face of two Oil Power Plants next door, but every little bit helps!  Thank goodness it's not Coal.

Even the denizens of the Federal Prison next door are happy(er).

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And while we're on the subject of tree planting, a shameless plug from my favourite science YouTuber:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P3K7lfUz7k
Trees: Nature's Carbon Funnel | Team Trees  (5 minutes)
Joe Scott – Answers with Joe
Do a thing and plant some trees at http://www.teamtrees.org

[Haljackey 17,355]

Added turn lanes

[Cities and Things 15]

[matias93 7,535]

It's really wonderful how the No Kick-out and Less Abandonment mods can stabilise the existing lots as to be able to have basically the same low to mid-wealth neighbourhood hundreds of in-game years after the first image. It would have been a shame to see all those little apartments replaced by fancy condos or huge towers.

Specially when I was trying to get those same condos and towers to grow at the next neighbourhood, at the left on the second image.

[CorinaMarie 29,774]

35 minutes ago, matias93 said:

It's really wonderful how the No Kick-out and Less Abandonment mods can stabilise the existing lots as to be able to have basically the same low to mid-wealth neighbourhood hundreds of in-game years after the first image.

You've shown the benefits of it really well here.

I jumped to the linky to reminiscence and I've now added a new linky to a later tutorial of mine which illustrates what I was talking about in the second paragraph there.

[CorinaMarie 29,774]

Before:

 

After:

[rivit 3,391]

Subtle

[Naomi57 2,985]

1 hour ago, CorinaMarie said:

After:

I like it, Cori!   

Many railway corridors in Sydney are grassed like that, with dark grey ballast adjacent to the rail line, but very rarely dirt.  Please tell us, how did you get the grassy texture, especially bordering the buildings and lots?

[Lucario Boricua 7,031]

A lengthy progression of my current region involving 44 regional view screenshots!

 

 

[CorinaMarie 29,774]

13 hours ago, Naomi57 said:

Please tell us, how did you get the grassy texture, especially bordering the buildings and lots?

Magic!

 

Spoiler

In SimCity_2.dat there are textures 7AB50E44-1ABE787D-08400000 (and 01, 02, 03, & 04) which are the sidewalks for rail and wealth level zero when zoning touches a network. Here it is zoomed up to 300%.

I then extracted a copy of the R$$ Grass FSH and changed their GID and IIDs to that of the above dirt texture. So, it acts as an override anytime the game thinks it's showing dirt it then gets the grass.

I'm checking out other green textures and I might still change to a different one, but if you want to try what I have atm, here's the file: Network Dirt as R$$ Grass Maxis Textures.dat

 

Here are a couple pics @Cyclone Boom made of my J6 tile showing the differences:

Before:

After:

(Remember, click a pic and use the right and left arrow keys to flip between them.)

[tails2489 350]

The City of Carannia, on the west coast of Lyonesse.

Before:

r.

 

And After: 

[Captain Adam 422]

I made this today. Not really beautiful but you can see the differences !