Raymond's Newbie Thoughts

[Barroco Hispano 26,929]

@Raymond7cn I can export those cars  

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

19 hours ago, Barroco Hispano said:

@Raymond7cn I can export those cars  

You got to help me, Alejo, I'm kind of carphobia now. Still remember your splendid models.

Thank you @Terring, As a guy hanging around here for all day, I just couldn't help, so I sent the Dr to the Mars, and took this as a warming up (Cyclone Power).

Though it failed finally (bad design), at least it proves i still can model.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Very nice model, Ray. Is it based on a real world concept or it's your own design?

[TogaMasterJohn 711]

1 hour ago, Raymond7cn said:

Though it failed finally (bad design), at least it proves i still can model.

Yours,

-- Raymond

I like the overall look - it's hard to describe why, but I dig it! It kinda looks futuristic. 

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

38 minutes ago, Terring said:

Very nice model, Ray. Is it based on a real world concept or it's your own design?

Own design, Terring, After enjoying some beautiful shots of CoriBoom today, A (Cyclone≈Wind) thought just came out, so I made a draft and then carried out it in the game, Frankly, kind of dislike how it's appearing there, Anyway, I just got some inspirations from Pinterest, I'm going to see what I could achieve in the future, There is a Wind Power Tree, You may like it.

6 minutes ago, TogaMasterJohn said:

I like the overall look - it's hard to describe why, but I dig it! It kinda looks futuristic. 

Thanks John, You just saved it from my recycle bin.

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

5 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

Cyclone Power

Wow Raymond, that is super cool!

I'm truly honoured how you've made this inspired by me and with my logo on it too.
 

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The highly futuristic design incorporates C y c l o n e POWER™ technology which creates an increased magnified vortex. During operational service, the blade rotation is rapidly accelerated around the 42nd factor angle. This then establishes perpetual motion that allows power to be exponentially produced from the internal hyper-generator. The dynamic quantification of this occurs so swiftly, meaning the minimum wind speed for optimal runtime is equivalent to a calm, gentle breeze.

 

[Wiimeiser 452]

I'm not sure what's going on with the blades, but the rest of the building seems fine to me. I'm interested in seeing more futuristic and fantastical buildings, myself.

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

14 hours ago, Wiimeiser said:

I'm not sure what's going on with the blades, but the rest of the building seems fine to me. I'm interested in seeing more futuristic and fantastical buildings, myself.

Thank you @Wiimeiser, I still remember that you helped me with London Bus, Totally agree with that, Anyway, The second attempt:

I want to make 3 more and hope they can blow away my bad luck.

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

SunFlower Power (it doesn't look like much)

Just as @mattb325 taught me, It's not quite difficult to make a plant.

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@mattb325 @Jasoncw @Barroco Hispano Hiya Masters,  Do you remember that I have complained about occasional freezing of 3ds max prior to my trouble? The issue is sometimes, after rendering, My mouse got a + (Plus sign), and then I couldn't click into 3ds max though it was still working there, Anyway,  I solved it finally today, It turned out to be a problem of Microsoft IME:

Microsoft support  

I didn't succeed in installing these Update Patches, whereas pretty simple to resolve it by a solution from 3ds Max:

Go to settings - search for Microsoft IME>General> And turn that compatibility with OLD IME "ON".

It seems like mostly happens on Chinese and Japanese IME, however Microsoft told me that better to turn it on even other language's versions. Well, That's Microsoft, sometimes, You get into trouble due to without Auto Update, sometimes, it's the opposite.

Yours,

-- Raymond

Plus Edit:

[Terring 6,476]

Great job of putting the "plant" to "power plant", Ray. I like the organic look of your wind turbines and solar panels, they fit perfect to solarpunk cities. You know, Nature has so many incredible and working patterns that is no wonder why so many technological marvels have an organic feel, since they are all based on structures and actions which have been discovered on various animals and plants. Remember the time where the predictions about the future was more synthetic and technological? Nowadays are more organic and environmental, and I think we can all think why.

Keep rocking us, Ray

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

@Terring Yes, Terring, we're surrounded by natural light and organic element, Actually I got this plan inspired by your science news for us, along with that I saw some wind-farms in @CorinaMarie's farm as well, then I wonder if i could make some which could be more profitably integrated into our cities?

Maybe they're not quite perfect by now, and I haven't gotten one which can fit rural place (Just one named "statens vattenfallsverk vindcraft" is it English? ), I plan to make more when the Wild West project starts. Anyway, this is the last one (haven't finished the color of the leaves):

May I ask a question to challenge your trained eyes, What's the height of this tree according to the left picture? Hope you like it. 

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Hi Raymond,

I just researched this with Cori and we came across this site where the tree-shaped wind turbines are explained for the specifications. There it says the height of them is 36 feet which seems about right from our own calculation too. Before finding this, we'd calculated that it'd be about the height of almost 4 metro buses.

Like so:

(So the bus is approximately the height of 2 pink lines.)

We found the dimensions.com site which might come in useful for your BAT projects perhaps, for knowing the scale of everyday objects. This says that a metro bus is about 3 metres (9'10") tall, and then in the pic itself, the tree appears to be 7½ buses tall. However, because the bus is in the distance the perspective makes it appear smaller. We estimated a factor of two, and so our calculations arrived at 3¾ buses for the actual height.

That works out to 37 feet and it turns out the real value is 36 feet (10.97 metres).

Of course, in SC4 there is a scaling difference as you probably know for what looks best in game.

It does look very cool for a future renewable energy technology, which also blends better into the landscape.

You've made a great start at the model too.

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

Woww! CB, @Cyclone Boom I should consult you before this, Thank you so much, It looks more clearly from the website you shared, Thanks God, It seems i didn't make too many mistakes on this :

Much appreciate the value of dimension, It's more smaller than the vanilla's wind power so that better blends into our cities.

A story out of topic: When I was in Vancouver, I have heard an English man complained that he often exceeds the speed limit, since he usually make mistake of the number in the speed sign, Mile ＞ Kilometre Right? Hope you don't make mistake there, Dr. CB 

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

I really like what you're working on, Ray, and thank you very much for discovering such a great concept. I had no idea about it, so I made some research to find out more. Those leave-shaped wind plates on the tree-shaped structures are called aeroleaves. They work even at 7 kilometers per hour (4.5 miles per hour), they're vertical axis so they'll spin regardless of the wind's direction, and are so quiet that those "trees" can be installed along buildings, streets, rooftops, or even in people's backyards

13 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

A story out of topic: When I was in Vancouver, I have heard an English man complained that he often exceeds the speed limit, since he usually make mistake of the number in the speed sign, Mile ＞ Kilometre Right? Hope you don't make mistake there, Dr. CB 

Yes, 1 mile is 1,6 kilometers. Another reason why all countries (especially USA) should adapt the metric system

[mattb325 28,890]

Great work on these, Raymond....I have to confess, I really love this one

 

very creative!

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

@Terring Thank you Terring, I haven't known whether or not it will blend into game very well, Ofc the night light of them, Anyway, I will show you them at then.

@mattb325 Thank you Matt for the compliment, I never expected someone would like it, some tedious works on drawing the Spline.

After seeing those beautiful bridges made by you, I was drafting my first Overpass as well.

Still thinking about the lights, and maybe TE-lot…

Yours,

-- Raymond

[tariely 4,498]

On 2021-05-14 at 10:57 PM, Raymond7cn said:

@Terring Yes, Terring, we're surrounded by natural light and organic element, Actually I got this plan inspired by your science news for us, along with that I saw some wind-farms in @CorinaMarie's farm as well, then I wonder if i could make some which could be more profitably integrated into our cities?

Maybe they're not quite perfect by now, and I haven't gotten one which can fit rural place (Just one named "statens vattenfallsverk vindcraft" is it English? ), I plan to make more when the Wild West project starts. Anyway, this is the last one (haven't finished the color of the leaves):

May I ask a question to challenge your trained eyes, What's the height of this tree according to the left picture? Hope you like it. 

Yours,

-- Raymond

Oh. OH.  OOOOOOOH. 

And again for all the rest.
I sure hope you will pull it off.  Rooting for you !

[Terring 6,476]

That's a very nice overpass. We have only a few of them, so some new ones are always welcomed

If you encounter problems while making it as a TE lot, there is also the option of making the overpass as an over-hanged prop which will be ploped on a 1X1 tile next to the intersection, just like this footbridge made by Bripizza.

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

Ha-ha! I figured out how to make animated model finally.

 

The Dragon (ugly) can shake its wings.

@tariely Thank you, I will publish them as soon as possible for your shop (reLot).

@Terring Yes Terring, Actually there are other benefits to an eyecandy Lot.

There are many overpasses in my city, too many peeps you know, so I thought that's why I could hardly see it in Canada.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Terring 6,476]

Nice dragon, Ray. With some medieval and fantasy buildings you can create various similar themed cities and scenes, like something out of Lord of the Rings or How to Train your Dragon. You can even turn the airport into... stable for dragons, I guess? Yeah, people could ride dragons instead of horses to get them wherever they need to go. That would be so cool

I also like the fact that your dragons can actually flap their wings in-game, showing that automatas can have moving parts. It actually reminds me an ornithopter, an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

[mattb325 28,890]

Raymond, the dragon is awesome!!!!! Well done on getting something new and unique into the  game 

[Wiimeiser 452]

I wonder if it's possible to make an intersection corner lot work with slip lanes...

[City_Slider 2,716]

SimCity 4/Deluxe is sooooo old... but every Time Users making this Game better and better... with new Lot´s, Mod´s and... don´t forget... the NAM!

I need to say "Thanks a lot" for all your "Free Time", that you spend for "our" Game. I wont call Names, you know, who i mean ;-)

Great Community, cool Members, great Staff... what do we need more? For the Future... the same friendly "Newbies" like always, a Staff with Humor :-D

And always the same like we are: One Community :-) (And, for sure...https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/ also ;-)

Cheers, Oliver

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

You're becoming quite the J. Stuart Blackton lately, aren't you Ray?

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

My friends, I can no longer afford to keep silent due to your warm words, (It's not polite)

18 hours ago, Terring said:

You can even turn the airport into... stable for dragons

@Terring What a great idea, Terring, Thanks!

@mattb325 Thank you Matt for the compliment, Frankly, It's a long story to achieve it. some common practice led me to a wrong way, Then I finally realized that it's not very difficult if I turn the entire thing the other way around, Anyway, I will tidy these thoughts a bit and post it here.

12 hours ago, Wiimeiser said:

intersection corner lot work with slip lanes

@Wiimeiser Apologize for my bad understanding,  Wiimeiser, Could you give me more details..

@City_Slider Yes Oliver, SimCity 4 is sooooo old so that I felt so lucky when I first came to here, Those great names left countless treasure for others, I can't even dream without their efforts, Meanwhile, I thought they might not walk so long without the encouragement from people who loves this game. It's just as you said: One Community!

@SIM-ple Jack I searched "J. Stuart Blackton" a bit from Google, Jack, We seem to have some in common, Animated films, silent.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Wiimeiser 452]

Basically what I'm saying is, the overhanging intersection lot placed in the corner prevents anything from being placed there, and I was wondering if it would be possible for the actual lot tile to have a slip lane, though I doubt it would be functional...

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

1 hour ago, Wiimeiser said:

Basically what I'm saying is, the overhanging intersection lot placed in the corner prevents anything from being placed there, and I was wondering if it would be possible for the actual lot tile to have a slip lane, though I doubt it would be functional...

Ah, I see, You mean this one, Right?

Actually, I just want to know if the Sims can walk as this by modifying SC4Path:

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Edit: Some shots. (CoriBoom™ color of wind tree)

Not too bad by now, but still need some tinkering with the Dragonfly's wings, It also reminds me of a trick when making the Ironman.

[Raymond7cn 6,775]

I quitted modeling a bit for the training today, then I looked through some posts randomly, Along with my Newbie thought 11, I arrived at CORI Reports:

On 7/9/2020 at 7:15 PM, CorinaMarie said:

Being the psychic that I am, I just knew you were going to ask about this so I've been preparing a reply. (If we don't tell anyone you mentioned it in a PM, they might believe me too.)
 

The most detailed info for Trip Length can be found using the Advanced Query. See @Cyclone Boom's post here or my post here for details on how to access it.

So, while using the Advanced Query (by holding down Shift+Ctrl+Alt) and mousing around, you'll see the extra info as you hover over various buildings. If you are already hovering with the regular query, hold the keys, move the mouse off of the building, and then back over it.

Here's an example of the data for a long (as listed in the normal query) commute:

 

And here's one with a short commute:

^ Please forgive that old vanilla Maxis bus stop. This city tile was created long before your eloquent new bus stops.  

Now, I don't know for sure what those numbers mean, but obviously smaller is quicker.

And for reference, here's the Route queries for each:

 

Quote from @CorinaMarie's post,

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This too should be possible. Instead of io.writing-ing the variables one would have to trigger a popup window and then display the values in that. (That part I have no idea how to do, but if you look at RippleJet's amazing Census Repository you can see it can be done quite professionally.

Then I had a wild thought again, I'm really curious to see if I could file:read something and then read them in the game. Anyway, I'd like to dig into this for a moment.

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Hiya @CorinaMarie and @Cyclone Boom, I have two short questions, I hate to say this again, but do forgive me if I have consulted you about them before.

1.  What does [ ] represent in LUA? I couldn't get enough infos from Google, it seems like some String (very long) between them, but I don't think the whole of them is a comment.

2.  I saw some interesting HTMLs in game's Tutorial LUA script, I just wonder that if I could write some HTML in game, If you have known it, please teach me about it, if not, Just let this Newbie do some tests and trials.

[Barroco Hispano 26,929]

@Raymond7cn I recommend that all BATers apply these parameters to all buildings at zoom 6 and 4 but do not apply it if your building mixes with water as it will make your building disappear.

I have a question, in addition to redoing the texture, how do I modify the route of the trains?

The railways we currently have are too close together.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

20 hours ago, Raymond7cn said:

@SIM-ple Jack I searched "J. Stuart Blackton" a bit from Google, Jack, We seem to have some in common, Animated films, silent.

Yours,

-- Raymond

Learn something new, every day, on the Green Mile, don'tcha? Of course, you're not ready to be compared to Ray Harryhausen or Willis O'Brien yet, but you might want to read up on their techniques. Just sayin'.