Show us your Farm Land!

[heitomat 156]

@Nardo69:

Whenever you post a picture, you can be sure to have me drooling all over it. Your picture is stunning! I love how you have developed the farms on sloped terrain. I have yet to find a technique that I'm comfortable with to avoid retaining walls under the farm buildings.. Also, that winding road climbing it's way to the antenna shows great engineering skills. And your forests..

Simply amazing! 

[ImFromSweden 8]

This is my first attempt to create a farm land. Be nice!

[Legobuilder123 24]

All of you have wonderful farms!Nice job to all of you.(Currently my greatest region called London crashed a yeaar ago D

[jacqulina 162]

awesome farms everyone

T Wrecks excellent scene there beautifull work

[City Planner 121]

Some areas of my farm land that I enjoy:

My favorite place to hang out in Farming District 2D  Y7ou can't see it well here, but that's an old style water wheel.  But

I'm sure all of you knew that since I'm pretty sure it's an old plugin

Some Overviews of the farm land of Addison Mountains:

The above shot was from when I was still trying to cram in as many farms with the least amount of flora and fauna as

possible to as to minimize land loss.  So as you can see, the farms are crammed in there real tight with no vegetation

between them

This is a new farming district that just opened up in my CJ (Addison Mountains).  In this farming district I am attempting

to get away from grid farming and adding more trees between farms and on the tile in general in hopes that I get a more

natural looking farming district.  While theres still some square and rectangular farms in place (where isn't there in the

world?) many more of them are now odd ball shapes with rough edges lined by my favorite trees plugin.

Lastly, I have included that area shown in the first photo of the water wheel building that I really enjoy very much.  It gives

me a feeling of a very rural area and this is my *first* attempt to plop water and the junk around it.  While you can't see

much junk in this image if I were to rotate the camera you'd see a whole lot more piles of leaves, rocks, gravel, tree

stumps etc.  But I prefer it from this view.

Dang that Grid!  I thought for sure that I turned it off but now i see it by the side of the road.

There was a time when I thought that farm tiles were a huge waste of space, then I came to realize that...

1. I have yet to ever fill up every single buildable tile in any regions that I've played with cities and

2. Farming districts have a certain something about them that is very relaxing to view.  I usually turn down the amount

of traffic in the games options and get a very relaxed feeling.

3. There just so damn cool to look at anyway, really adds diversity to a region instead of huge skyscrapers taking up

every single tile in a region.

Hope you enjoy my feeble attempt at putting together some photos, it's either my eyes or something I'm doing wrong

that seems to cause the slight blur to most images (not to be confused with the one image where I purposely attempted

to add a depth of field to the photo in the new farming district photo.

More to come later as my farming districts expand, I'm sure.

[Timmystwin 201]

Great farms, like yours Nardo69 and T wrecks

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Thanks everybody!

@ imfromsweden: Hey, that's actually pretty good!  You managed to break away from the grid, you're using some nice farms to prevent the infamous "Pedriana Plague", and I'd say you've used trees to great effect!

@ cityplanner: Far from feeble, I'd say. I think you could do two things to make your rural areas look even better: Try to make them slightly less griddy - interrupt them with diagonal roads or railroad tracks, make them conform to terrain features a bit more. The second suggestion is to leave a few gaps and fill them with trees, shrubs, or maybe a little lake. Lakes are also great to break up the pattern with something irregularly shaped.

Well - let's have some more pics, shall we? I have recently finished another medium-sized map - took me about a week. Here's an overview (click for full resolution):

Moving closer...

Finally, here are two shots focusing on rural details...

 ~~~ 

Not depicted here: This time I remembered to plop some cow pats!  I wouldn't have anyone accuse me of overlooking the most important things, now, would I? 

...and here a little bonus shot depicting a mixture of old-style rural industry, agriculture and undeveloped land:

I hope you enjoyed watching them as much as I enjoyed making them. 

[Nardo69 51]

One week? 

Gee, I knew that I'm old'n'slow but that slow ... would have take me months for such a map ... 

Anyway a rather new one from me: 

 

Have fun!

Bernhard  

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work i love the great detail

[heitomat 156]

All these pictures are great! It's so good to see that people put a lot of effort into their rural areas as well as their cities.

@T Wrecks: Your pictures always amaze me. The diagonal farms look so realistic, and I love how the rail runs through the landscape in your last picture. Amazing!

@Nardo69: I love everything about your picture: The farm building, the trees, the textures, the highway fence.. Great work! I'm not that fond of the Maxis highway, though..  

Both of you have a good eye for details, that's for sure!

[mitsos 12,974]

nice work everyone

[heitomat 156]

That's a great shot, mitsos. I love the scenery; great landscaping and great treelines! It looks very mediterranean to me. Amazing! 

(Btw, I wonder if you are missing a farm building? The lot next to the windmill in the middle looks a little empty..)

[jacqulina 162]

very nice mitsos

[City2TheMax 3]

 So I've only recently decided to delve into the world of ruralism and farming... right now I'm working on a San Joaquin Valley-like region (California's central valley), which consists of gridded farms and a series of suburbs that stretches for hundreds of miles. This is my beginning, although after studying the valley more I'm thinking I should grid my farms even more

[kolnikov inc 1]

i think farms shouldn't be flat squares...

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Hey everyone such nice Farm lands heres mine Its not the best But I tryed. I may just delete this town because Im not to to happy with it. Im try to fix up my region so I can build a city but my region needs to be really large. Right across the river is the City Limits of Aaronville.

[cheeseman 3]

this city is to bridge the gap between my urban area (not built yet) and the rural areas (somewhat finished in some neighboring cities)

[cheeseman 3]

page flip bug, flip

[JayStimson 212]

I recently discovered SAM V3 (Street Addon Mod) which I never knew had diagonals for PEGs dirt streets.

So after a bit of fumbling, I finally got it figured out. However, I really wanted my custom farm lots to have matching textures but the low wealth base textures where not to be found in the LE. So I extracted the fsh files for the textures I wanted and created new base textures I could apply in the LE. Without matching textures the change in textures from street to lot was just to abrupt and not appealing. Anyway, here's the end result.

Now I be happy. And yes, the custom lots are all TE'ed (transit enabled).

Just thought I'd share with the rest of you who want nice looking farming communities.

[cacks 41]

Well, What can I say:

From RHW pics

CLICK HERE for the FULL SIZE

and further away:

From RHW pics

CLICK HERE for the FULL SIZE

[citiesxlfan42 27]

Great work, everyone! I have a question though. I see many people with nice diagnols at the edges of fields. Does anyone know where I can get those? Thanks in advance (hopefully).

citiesxlfan42

[Sepen77 157]

You can get filler lots here : https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1197 by sfbt but you need account on lex if you don't already have one

[JayStimson 212]

Here's a pic showing a new greenhouse I recently made.

I'm looking for comments (hopefully from some of the premier BATters) before I release them and of course from those

who like to make rural towns.

The greenhouse could be a bit fancier maybe but then ... it is just a greenhouse.

The thing I was happy to figure out was how to make the glass semi-transparent so I could put props inside and they would be seen through the glass.

[joshriddle 29]

And now, the story of Billy Bob and B'Angelo in the mountain farms who thought different things about the farmland, and who were complaining about it.

Oh Billy Bob, we are so miserable up here! The area is on a mountain! So? says Billy Bob. I mean look! We are on a mountain, we developed slow, and we need to be on flat land in order to operate our own pig farm! We really are just a patch of dirt behind us! But B'Angelo, we are stylish up here, just look at it!      Yehh, but we have annoying neighbors, who are copy-cats! Why are they copy cats? B'Cause their barn looks just like ours, and their farm has the same name as us!    Oh, it cant be that bad, I mean we have a windmill that they don't! And we live close to the general store. Well, says, B'Angelo, that dumb old general store sells chewing gum that the train station has in a better variety. I do most of my shopping there. It is like Wal-Mart in a train station! I may as well be operating my own train farm!    Ahhhhhh, that stupid train station! How crowded it is on Saturdays with all the freight trucks and weird farmers like you who CAN'T SEEM TO GET HIS MIND OFF OF THAT MAX'S MICROCHIPS BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY!  Hehh, I wanted to take the 9:00 train to Hong Kong, not New York! Well, yall might as well forget it! If you want city, why don't yall go across the small acres to the dirty industry area! Oh honey! That area's air pollution border touched the train station and gives all the farmers out here asthma!     Well, it seems as if there is 2 things wrong with that, honey. What could that be? YOUR BEANS AND CORN, YOU CONTINUOUSLY FEED THEM PESTICIDES AND SUCH THAT POLLUTE OUR DRINKING WATER! Do you honestly think I really like driving your honkin' freight vehicle into town and getting water from the local water pump? Well, you get a taste of town that I don't get. You get downtown. Ohhh, this rural town almost like Hubbard, Texas?   LISTEN HERE OLD FARMIMG PERSON! THE AREA MAY ONLY HAVE 15000 RESIDENTS, (the rest are located in cities north of here) BUT IT IS AN URBAN PARADISE THERE! You want an urban paradise, yall outta see Hong Kong, here is a snapshot I took when I lived here, before I went broke and had to live in a shack and take all the beans into Tellina each year?  I love you, and respect you, but how bad is driving to Tellina, I mean it is only 2 miles. Honey, you left something out. What is that? TELLINA IS 2000 MILES AWAY! Well how would I know? I mean I don't drive a truck every day! YOU OUTTA KNOW! THATS IT! IM OUT OF HERE! AND I WILL MOVE TO HONG KONG! WELL LUCKY YOU! THERES THE TRAIN! GOOD, MAYBE I'LL TAKE IT! I WILL! NO I WILL!  Hey guys! Hope you liked the story!

                           Joshua (joshriddle)(apparently)

[joshriddle 29]

JayStimson: I'm not premier BATist, but I must say, according to what people such as my self download, I would say they look excellent and would look nice going up on the STEX.

[kolnikov inc 1]

heres a little sample

[kolnikov inc 1]

sorry about the repeated picture and the UDI in the right corner....my bad..i like the pic tho so whatever..

[Rearviewmirror. 3]

great work.

[jacqulina 162]

excellent farmland everyone