Twin Rivers Region - a work in progress

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I hope you release a 1st person ride video through this one day......even before buildings grow is fine

 

-Dennis

[jesper107 113]

Here I am, not lurking!

Staying updated with great interest!

[gfvsims 169]

David, this region is looking freakin' amazing. You must have the patience of a saint to be placing all those trees one by one. I know I couldn't do it, so I admire you for that!

Happy No Lurking Day, everyone!

[charlesnew 262]

Wow, can't wait to see 500,000 trees!

[Turjan 1,048]

That treescape for sure looks stunningly awesome.

I had been wondering about those 300,000 trees on a fraction of the map, but then I see this:

I guess a human being would have a hard time squeezing through that stockade of stems. It would be nice if there were a way to tell the tree brush to respect some minimal forbidden radius around a tree, like the brushes in SC4 had.

[Roadman20 601]

Sort of lurking, just on vacation for the week. Impressive what a lot of well-placed trees can do to define a region. Seattle is on hold until first week of December, when getting back.

[dedgren 830]

We're officially at 550,874 trees according to Chirpy.

#1

We used about 80,000 trees on our first pass through the outlined area..

#2

Here's what most of it looks like.  This took about two hours this afternoon.

There's a whole next several phases of superdetailing to go here before I ever even hit the play button.  A month 'til then?  Three?  A year?  Who knows?

#3

Enjoy these golf course quality bottoms while you can because it'll be the rough down the road.

#4

Shadows lengthen...

#5

...and another day draws to a close in Jessamine.  Thanks so much for coming by.

 

David

5876/155

  Edited November 22, 2015 by dedgren  
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[TPB 563]

Really nice work dedgren, looking forward to more

I got some good news for you btw, you can go download this file here from knighthawkGP, its a 2 million limit version of his mod he is asking people to help him test.

I like what you've done with my rocks, but just want to let you know I've released 56 new, much nicer ones of all sizes, ranging from prop size to huge 40m ones to decorate mountains, etc. As a matter of fact, I don't recommend using the red/yello, green/blue clusters/props any longer, they are the ugly versions pretty much. Do check out the new ones, I think you'll prefer them as well.

Is it just my impression or are you also using my Remove Sprites mod? because your textures look very clean  Seeing things like this CJ is what gives me the motivation to learn more and create assets and mods for the community to use in their creative efforts. keep up the awesome work.

Re: Lurkers. 

I think lurkers are actually very important part of the equation, in fact they are the main consumers of what you are doing. If we were to lose all the lurkers what would be left? 10% of the current consumption of your content. Lurkers deserve respect and we must understand not everyone has the time, or even knows the language to communicate.

Sincerely, a mostly lurking type

  Edited November 22, 2015 by TPB  

[Horus_Kol 118]

I am in awe watching you plant 100,000s of trees by hand - that is some patient and careful work there!

[dedgren 830]

Just an in-betweener.

Roads have begun to appear.

But when you compare what I've done to RL, it's clear I've got a long, long way to go.

Later.

 

David

[Cool_Z 1,547]

You should use TPB's mod to change the water color 

[jesper107 113]

Jesus Christ, David!

Sometimes I question your sanity, but always quickly realize that with sanity I wouldn't get to be astonished by your skills on a weekly basis.

 

[Azurespecter 506]

Oops, looks like I missed "No Lurking Day"

I'm on here every day though, and checkout this and many other CJ's. I really love how the Two Rivers evolves alongside new mods and models, like those new rocks and the tree rotating mod.

Amazing work! I'll try to post more often =)

[art128 4,618]

Looks good David.  How are you going to make the road bridge? If I'm not mistaken, it uses the same bridge as the railway in the real place, right? 

[The Big Z 103]

Gorgeous work, David! Your attention to detail never ceases to amaze me.

[Turjan 1,048]

Just a heads-up, Breeze updated the trees. It's fixable...

Just don't save over it, but I guess you won't.

Edit: Breeze is just now fixing things again, so trees are either already working again or will soon.

  Edited November 25, 2015 by Turjan  

[raynev1 1,886]

All I can say is , WOW . Your tree planting looks great . The RL pic and game pic are nearly spot on . I can't wait to see this in the future . So much detail and only just beginning . 

[tariely 4,496]

Hey, what did I miss ?

:-)))))

I'm so glad you're drive-testing CS for me, so that I can safely develop my own anticipation at getting addicted somewhen down the line. (my companion tried to upgrade our version and get the more interesting New Stuff, but got discouraged after a few hours... Moar is good but too much Moar in one session is... too much.))

 

[gfvsims 169]

Wow, just wow! I can't get over how amazingly similar the C:S image is to the RL one. Wow (again).

[catty-cb 4,411]

Another long-time SC4 creator is back working on creating seawalls for C:S they are looking really good

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=17176.0

 

 

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Another long-time SC4 creator is back working on creating seawalls for C:S they are looking really good

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=17176.0

 

 

they look excellent ! (and it's nice to see a SC4 builder move on to CSL  )

[dedgren 830]

My wife and I have been hanging out at a local cabin for the past couple of days, and the Internet connection here has been pretty dodgy.  All I have is my laptop, too, and I think it is just too slow to play C:S at the speed to which I have become accustomed.  So while I can connect, let's pull this update off the portable hard drive I brought along just in case.

I'm taking a break as I approach 700,000 trees to lay out some roads in a couple of areas.  This will help me get fields and treelines laid out more accurately.  I've started with the area around High Bridge.

#1

There really aren't a lot of local roads anywhere in Jessamine quad outside of Nicholasville, Wilmore and Burgin.  The tiny community of High Bridge at the north end of the Bridge of the same name really isn't much more than this.

#2

This indexed pic shows a couple of things that will become interesting as we make increasingly detailed development passes over the quad.

1 is former Kentucky State Route 29 ascending first the south Kentucky River Palisade then the gorge of Cedar Creek from the old ferry landing- "Shaker Landing"- a little downstream of the railroad bridge.  This climb is about 250 feet/75 meters and the two lane road is quite narrow and steep.  With the ferry gone, there is no connection across the river here, and I believe the State of Kentucky has now turned this stretch of right-of-way over to the entity that owns and operates Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill (Shakertown).  The last time I was there, in 2012, the road was gated at its intersection with US 68 and there was no access.

2 is High Bridge, which carries the twin tracks of the Norfolk & Southern Railway 275 feet/84 meters over the Kentucky River.  I've still got my fingers crossed some great C:S custom content creator will build us a proper underdeck truss bridge.  There's plenty of time, in any event.

3 is the center of the hamlet of High Bridge [linkie], population less than 100, I'm sure.

4 is where former SR 29 snakes down the Palisades to the old ferry landing.  The fork of the road off the north (right) goes to Lock and Dam #7

5.  The left fork of the old ferry road serves an number of houses that have been built on the bottomland on the north side of the river.  When I was there in the 70s, these houses would be flooded every couple of years by the river, and several had been rebuilt on pilings or stilts.  Regardless of the floods, though, there is a history of human habitation here going back over 100 years.

6 is an underpass where SR 29 ducks under the "Southern" tracks on its way north to Wilmore.

#3

Here's a view over Cedar Creek and the railroad tracks almost due north across the area,  I will certainly be very glad when a true hard surface minor- i.e. no centerline- road becomes available in the game.

#4

A view of the bridge from about where the Shaker Landing ferry would have crossed.  The height of the bridge piers is highlighted by the generic "concrete" piers appearing below where the reasonable people who developed the game thought that the highest bridge would ever need.  Think 27 stories tall.

#5

Looking across the river from near where the south ferry landing would have been at the bottomlands on the north side and the cliffs of the Palisades towering above them.

#6

One last look at the area, this time looking north-northeast.  Former SR 29 emerges from the Cedar Creek gorge and heads west (left) towards US 68 and Shakertown here.

 

David

6682/171

  Edited November 28, 2015 by dedgren  
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[raynev1 1,886]

Looking good , looking real good .

 

[The Big Z 103]

Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking. #3 and #4 are my favorite ones. Keeping up the fantastic work, David! 

[jesper107 113]

Incredible! 

[Koesj 659]

I just wanted to chime in and tell you how much I appreciate the stuff you're doing with C:S here David. I distinctly remember stumbling across one or two screenshots from 3RR back in the day and being in total awe - how anyone could squeeze so much natural beauty out of a game I myself played in such a rigid, geometric manner was anyone's guess! Now that I'm along for the ride here I can see the process behind it though, which still doesn't detract from its ultimate visual impact mind you.

If this were a bit more of an urban map I guess I could hand out pointers about road geometry, but with the sheer rurality on show here I'll just keep lurking in the shadows like the 90%er I normally am. Then again, we were promised an update on you working with various road mods: Precision Engineering, FRH, etc. Or did I miss something? Anyway, I'm eager to know how you feel about C:S' infrastructural systems compared to SC4.

[tariely 4,496]

Just 

[jake052 3]

looking amazing!

[Feindbold 1,190]

That last shot is propaganda material for C:SL

[Schulmanator 5,793]

Looks a lot like home!