Country club

[brianc1327 161]

I am still working on getting Ilive installed.  I will try and sort through some of the suggestions given here and some of the suggestions given at the MSDN knowledge base.

In the meantime, I was puttering about on the STEX here and saw several different country clubs.  Some of them were replacements for the "country club reward." and I think some of them were parks that could be added to the plugins folder.

My guess on how they were made is that they were drawn using GMAX, or another appropriate 3D drawing program and given the appropriate parameters (maintenance cost, etc) with the appropriate tools (ilive reader or whatever).

Well, that got me to wondering if a country club could be built in the game itself, using the landmarks, parks, stuff from the NAM, etc.

This is what I came up with:

My clubhouse:

Main Clubhouse.  Consists of a lot I got aff STEX called sim nation tennis club, Faneuil hall from the landmarks as the main clubhouse, a medium flower garden and green park, several parking lot tiles from the NAM, and a road encircling it.

My 3-hole golf course:

This is my first hole in my golf course. For the tee box, i used the sandstone pedmall texture from the NAM and a sign to indicate where it is (perhaps there is a mod somewhere on STEX for better looking signs). For the water hazard, I dowloaded a package called PEG pondkit deluxe edition. For the green, I used a 3x3 grid with open grass areas around the perimeter, and a pedmall "center with pole" from the NAM for the flag. For the cart path around the hole, I ended up using streets, which kinda look weird if you zoom in too much because you can see the "regular cars" driving on the streets. I also tried making a sand trap, but I just could not really find anything that I liked.

 

This is the 2nd hole tee box.

I decided to put a "moat" around the putting green as the water hazard instead of a pond in front of the  green.

This is the 3rd hole.  I made it a dogleg right (I think).  That is why I choose to use roads for the cart paths, because I could use the 45 degree curves for that sort of thing.  On my first try, I used the mountain trails from the NAM for the cart trails, but those did not have the 45-degree curves.

And finally, the overall view of my 3-hole golf corse country club.  I decided to add in a softball field and a soccer field for those members who want to play those sports.  I also put in a few large parks for those who just simply want to have a picnic in the park.

I would think there are plenty of people on this forum that could probably build a better country club than I did.  The only rule of this "challenge" is that it has to be made in the game, but additional landmarks, stuff like PEG pond maker, and the NAM (if you don't already have that) can be downloaded and installed as well.  If you can find a mod somewhere to make decent looking sandtraps and better looking greens, by all means download and use that as well.

Brian Christiansen

 

[brianc1327 161]

I just wanted to add that I found the Emerald Bay Golf and Country Club after I posted this, and while it is much better than what I came up with, as far as I can tell from the picture, it uses some of the same design elements that I used:  The cart paths appear to be streets, there are a bunch of tennis courts near where (I think) the clubhouse is, there are other sports complexes (what appear to be soccer fields and the baseball? stadium).  It also appears that there is a tool somewhere for making better looking greens and sandtraps than I did.

Brian Christiansen

[SecretMbr_735754 2,157]

Interesting way of making a golf course. That's often how it goes with SC4, you find a way to make something you want to make with what you have, and then find something else that leads you to a different project using different resources.  There's so much available resources that have been created over many years by many people.

[rsc204 21,806]

I'm guessing a combination of textures and MMPs were used in those images, a nice effect though. Perhaps you might want to check out the FLOG set on SC4D for modular golf pieces, beware lots of dependencies though.

[tigerbuilder 131]

You should check out this thread here:

There are quite a few different golf sets. I'd suggest doing a google search for "SimCity 4 custom golf". 

Cheers, Tiger

[brianc1327 161]

This is my remade park using the FLOG set from SC4D. On the left (west) is a 9-hole golf course.  I decided to put in the pedmall tiles from NAM that matched what was already there to serve as my cart paths instead of using the tree fillers from the FLOG package in between the Fairways.

In the center, I put in 5 tennis courts, 5 basketball courts, 2 softball fields, and 2 soccer fields, so I suppose what I have is a country club/sports complex.

For the main clubhouse, I still preferred the Faneuil hall to the clubhouse that came in the FLOG set, so I kept that.

On the right, I have my "picnic in the park" area for those who do not want to play sports and just want to chill while eating their fried chicken that they prepared from their grandma's recipe, but instead of just plonking down 4 parks, I put a medium park for those who like to be in the sunshine, a section with 4 gazebos for those who prefer to be undercover, and a playground for the kids.

In the back right (NE corner), I could not figure out what to put there, so I put a big lake there and surrounded it with small parks (I tried several things and decided that looked best),
I might search the STEX and see if I can find some sort of swimming pool an reduce the size of the lake.

I think I did a pretty decent job.

It took a while to get all the depencies installed, but since I do not have any of the boxes that indicate missing dependencies, I suppose that indicates that I got them all installed correctly

Brian Christiansen

 

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

2 hours ago, brianc1327 said:

This is my remade park using the FLOG set from SC4D.

I like this version better than the first one.

 

2 hours ago, brianc1327 said:

I decided to put in the pedmall tiles from NAM

Those blend in well and it prevents cars and trucks from mysteriously driving around in your golf course.

 

2 hours ago, brianc1327 said:

2 softball fields

Just a tiny suggestion from the real world: Maybe turn one of them 90^o.

Spoiler

 

2 hours ago, brianc1327 said:

For the main clubhouse, I still preferred the Faneuil hall

That does look nice there.

 

2 hours ago, brianc1327 said:

I think I did a pretty decent job.

Yep. I concur.

[brianc1327 161]

I wonder if this has more "positive effect" than the "reward" country club (which I usually get pretty quickly in a residential town) and perhaps if I should just build one of these instead of using the the reward country club.

Brian Christiansen