[In Progress] How to start with a sunken Mine?

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Hello Builders,

at the last Thread, we was talking about building/set Roads from the Ground to the Top.

Now we are going "Underground".

Underground= between 7,5 and 15 Sub Meters every 3 Tiles.

What is possible? Whats not?

Any Interest about it?

Oliver

[matias93 7,535]

This sounds like an open pit mine. The process should be basically identical to your previous experiment, but going down an hole instead of up a cliff. As I said before, you would need a somewhat restrictive slope mod to get a realistic result, but how realistic you want your region to be is a personal decision.

[City_Slider 2,716]

10 minutes ago, matias93 said:

This sounds like an open pit mine.

Not sure right now. I have some Idears in my Head. I downloaded many Lots in about 5 Month of planing (Special Thanks to SM and Mett, for those great Lots both made).

This creating would need a bit...

Stay on Line ^^ Oliver

[City_Slider 2,716]

17 hours ago, matias93 said:

restrictive slope mod

No Mods, with a Terrain Mod and the hole Digger from Scro...

[City_Slider 2,716]

The Place for it is found. Its a four Tile Region for my Tutorials,  made by Cori (thanks agin).

Now we need a tiny Hole :-D

[City_Slider 2,716]

What i wish? A Train Track from the Ground up to a NC. The same with a Street. Guess i´ll work with Tunnel, but not sure right now. 

Now i need a Start Point. But 1st of all, i set the Line for the Place for the Mine. Pic is on Way...

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The NC´s are set...

... and the Lines for the Place of the Mine:

 

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I made the Ground even...

... and finished the Train Track and the Street to her Start Position:

But what is this?

[rsc204 21,808]

1 hour ago, City_Slider said:

But what is this?

This happens when you have pieces that don't support slope tolerance on a slope. You need to remove the affected tiles, flatten that area with the 'stub' technique (click each tile individually with Road/Rail tool), then re-connect the rail. Before that last part, I'd put some temporary pedmalls around where the S-Bend will be, to lock in the slope. Otherwise dragging may simply undo your efforts to correct things.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Thanks for it. So it´s easy to fix it.

BTW.. im still working on it. That needs Years ;-)

[City_Slider 2,716]

In Progress:

[Silur 3,304]

I also trained with quarries.
And that's what happened.

01.

02.

I wish you success in your work!

[City_Slider 2,716]

Slowly...

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That loooks ugly.  II gonna Start agin ;-) Be right back.

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I correctet the Ground agin and startet by building the Road and the Track. Level 1 is done so far...

The Digger worked two Times a´15 Meters.

First Time:

Second Time:

And now im lost. How should i go ahead? Thats the Startposition.

Greetings, Oliver

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This looks acceptable...

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Level 2 in Progress:

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Level 4 in Work:

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Level 5. Guess im done so far. I cleand the Digger Holes withe the Mod from Andreas.

Now it needed to check, if there is enough Place for the LOT´s ;-)

And... there must be a Way found, to build Tunnels. The Sims wont never get out of the Hole ^^

Or?... Hmmm...

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hope this Tunnel System works:

[City_Slider 2,716]

Yes, it works...

 

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One last Picture, befor im going to delete the Zones at the Ground:

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Well,

the open Mine is set, the Ground is big enought to be placed with all the Lots that there are out. The Network works... guess im done with it. Thats so simple, there is no How Too needed ;-)

Maybe im going to play a while with this Tile, who knows. For myself i learned a lot of Terraforming in detail. If i do so, i will be back here with Pictures.

Hope this Thread was enjoyable, Oliver

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One last thing: the Space between the Network was 3 Tiles. And the Digger worked 2 Times per Level= 30 Meters down each Level. If you go down 60 Meters per Level (set the Digger in the North, South, East and West. So the Distance between the Mine(s) and the upper Town, is shorter and you dont have Problems by the Commuter.

I´ll test it in a real Game. But that needs a bit. I just startet the Region (ill Upload the Region asap. Its a old one out of the STEX and its lost in Space... but i found it it on one of my DVD´s).

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i´m going to place a sunken Mine at this Place:

Thats a Region it´s called "Rio". I tryed to upload it agin (it was from the STEX Years ago), but the Size was with 64Mb much to big :-(

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... but the Terrain s much to low. How can i get it higher? I need ~250 Meters more on high. Hope you understand me :-/

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No one? :-/

[Whte_rbt 1,431]

This very old post from @cogeo might help,

 

On 24/01/2013 at 3:11 PM, cogeo said:

If the region's tallest point is easy to determine visually, you can just install the Extra Cheats DLL, then press Ctrl+X and select the Terrain Query cheat. The query now displays (among others) the elevation of the terrain you are hovering (shown as "Y"). Then go to that tallest point; and you will see the elevation.

 

Another way is load the region in SC4 Mapper or Terraformer and export it as a 16-bit PNG. Then you need am image-processing program capable of reading 16-bit images. Alternatively, you can export it as RGB (with the new SC4 Mapper), but then you need to decode the elevation data (encoded as colours). As a last resort, you can export it as a normal 8-bit grayscale. Grayscale values here represent elevations, with the default settings (ImageImportScaleFactor=3.0) capable of representing elevations of up to 255x3.0=765m; the sea level is set to 250m, so with the default settings you can get a max elevation of up to 765-250=515m above sea level (which is very low, of course). Use any of the above image file formats to find the tallest point in your map.

from this thread:

 

Edit: If nothing else Sc4Terrafomer should get the job done. might involve a restart on the map though...

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New Location:

... same City Tile ;-)