Californian Coast - Rocky Beach Waterworks

[Simulanten 681]

This is in the making right now...

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I'm lurking the forums for months now, but I really have to come out of the shadows to applaud this work of art.
Honestly pretty speechless and stunned by how realistic you make this feel. 

[Simulanten 681]

33 minutes ago, GMT said:

I'm lurking the forums for months now, but I really have to come out of the shadows to applaud this work of art.
Honestly pretty speechless and stunned by how realistic you make this feel. 

Thanks and welcome to the light! The game has really evolved thanks to all the mod and asset creators. 

[Simulanten 681]

Here we go with more High School pics. Meanwhile I built more areas in Rocky Beach (wastewater treatment, munipicial facilities, residential compounds - soon more!) - and I experience a serious framerate hit. Too much to handle... all those details 4500+ assets. OMG.
 

Here's two overview screens of Rocky Beach High School. Someone asked about the number of parking - but after some research it's absolutely normal for a large US high school. There is all a school needs: A football field, basketball courts, an open air stage, a facility building for school buses (also serving middle and elementary school)...

Road access is quite generous.

The Regis High School asset is amazingly well done:

Street level view of the parking (it's a Sunday, pretty calm...)

I love how this nice open air stage turned out. I enhanced it with walls, props and benches...

Here you can feel the Californian warmth... The sport field assets have also become better and better

The backside of the new building: There is still the first high school connected to the new one with more classrooms. Lots of additional props on the roof and around it.

I need a nice, simple base- or softball field for my builds. This one is one of the better existing ones - but it's almost too posh for a high school field. I like the view of Rocky Beach - the high school campus sits a bit above town.

The gym wears the Rocky Beach Eagles logo.

Here you can see how it sits above the highway going through Rocky Beach. Some new offices on the left...

Another bird's view with the highway. Left of it there is a new trial of making a Californian residential compound

That's it for now. Next will be about the other new areas and serious wastewater treatment - as long as I can still start up this heavy savegame...

 

[Simulanten 681]

There is coming more about a whole new area of Rocky Beach soon. Here's my favorite surf shop already...

[Simulanten 681]

Now for something serious...

After creating a realisticly large cemetery and the massive high school I wanted to proceed with another public element in Rocky Beach. I was going for a wastewater treatment plant and here it is: Rocky Beach Waterworks.

I have no clue how wastewater treatment works but I was looking at a few sanitary plants in my reference towns like Santa Barbara, Ventura, Carpinteria and others and I found enough interesting assets, buildings and props to beef up the whole thing. There is an office building, entrance gates, wastewater clarifiers, staff parking, tubes and pipes and tanks for whatever.

I studied the areas around these plants to get inspiration for the lots around the treatment plant. I love these areas - nothing fancy at all. It's where storages, trailer parks, construction businesses and stuff like this find enough cheap space between the highway and the smelling clarifiers. It's here where I placed a lot for boat storage, a small gardening company, some junk and my own cheap Pine Motel.

This is pure joy...

One of my few builds for C:S - the glorious Pine Motel... Cheapest rates in town.

Water treatment is usually well protected as a critical part of the infrastructure. Hence the barbed wire.

The clarifiers by Ronyx are working like a charm. With some additional piping and stuff they make a great treatment plant:

Both entries to the facility are guarded.

Every single screenshot is actually a tribute to @MrMaison 's and other's tree and plant creations. Wow.

Just ... stuff.

Any policy to have people use more cars? Too many pedestrians in Rocky Beach for an American town...

The neighboring streets around the facility. Some simple shops, abandoned apartment blocks, industry. I love it.

And yet another overview more towards Main St. There is the civic center with the town hall, a sheriff station, a small church, a recycling center and just more stuff.  I'll show more close-ups of this area pretty soon.

Hope you like my little town - after 4 years of C:S it's my favorite build so far.

 

 

 

[The British Sausage 5,449]

The areas are all spot on!

Great stuff!

[boformer 3,169]

I love the run down look of everything! We need more of this

Also, I agree with you about the trees. It's just amazing how many high quality tree assets there are on the workshop.

[Leeijo 314]

Really nice entry, good Friday read! Thanks! 

[thecitiescenter 3,058]

Wow, I seriously haven't seen such an accurate replica of Southern California since that one time Rockstar released some game where you steal cars... amazing work, look fwd to seeing more!

[Simulanten 681]

After no time for C:S and a major blow with ploppable asphalt not loading I fired up my Rocky Beach savegame again. It has become so prop heavy and slow that I feel like it won't make it much longer on my laptop. Still there are some new screens of an area that I didn't cover much so far...

This is a very Californian motel - this building alone has about 200 props and trees added. No wonder the FPS are crippled down to single digits.

and more of the surrounding area - a 7eleven gas station, a storage place and some residential behind it.

and another view from the bypass highway across the recycling center, a construction company lot, a tire workshop, a pool and supply store and the Rocky Beach City Hall.

I really love this build and I can't imagine to abandon it because of the low FPS. Maybe I can tweak my mod setup so it gets more RAM space...

 

[Leeijo 314]

Keep it up as long as you can please!

[thecitiescenter 3,058]

Another great post!  Got a lot of that Santa Cruz vibe going on... I like it!

BTW, I'm curious, what laptop are you running and whats the specs on it?  

 

 

[citybuilder234 37]

How did you get those American road textures? I thought those will crash the game to desktop.

[Simulanten 681]

On 16.1.2020 at 5:11 AM, citybuilder234 said:

How did you get those American road textures? I thought those will crash the game to desktop.

I have no idea. Thing is - I was out of C:S for more than a year now. Meanwhile I have a new Notebook with 32GB RAM and it will some resetting of all the mods and assets to get back in... But in the recent weeks I was more and more keen on giving it another try.