Show us your Camera Angles

[Vitoraju 675]

I received a notification about a video about SimCity 4's 3D camera and I thought it was an April 1st joke, just like in 2015. However, when I watched the video and came to look at the photos and this forum post, I ended up being very surprised to see it's real! 
These new SimCity 4 camera angles will transform the game to a level never seen before!
Congratulations on the excellent work!!! @memo 👏👏👏

[djna 34]

Wow, this is pretty neat.  These cities are work in progress.  Interesting to see them from different angles.  Also the lack of foreshortening (things appearing smaller in the distance) has an interesting effect at lower angles.

 

Industrial Port District and regional power supply area:

(some streets missing and buildings distorted due to bugs)

Industrial port district and small town panorama:

Junction train station viewed looking north:

Same train station looking west:

Experimental Line City (residential district) from different pitch angles:

[pclark06 11,828]

Trying out some San Fran style residential areas:

[kbieniu7 266]

1 hour ago, Darrius11able said:

 

Very nice dimm effect!

36 minutes ago, pclark06 said:

I hope that theese cars on the parking lots have good hand breaks 

Ok, anyway - the last one for today. Time to go to sleep, folks! 

 

[thecitiescenter 3,045]

2 hours ago, Darrius11able said:

It's been years since I last shared any of the things I've made in this game, but seeing the amazing stuff everyone is doing with the new camera angels has prompted me to do so.   

Looks like Mr. Rogers neighborhood.  The tram, concrete truck, signage, street trees and powerlines bring so much life to the photo.  Very realistic!

[chongjunxiang3002 341]

5 hours ago, djna said:

Wow, this is pretty neat.  These cities are work in progress.  Interesting to see them from different angles.  Also the lack of foreshortening (things appearing smaller in the distance) has an interesting effect at lower angles.

 

Industrial Port District and regional power supply area:

(some streets missing and buildings distorted due to bugs)

Industrial port district and small town panorama:

Junction train station viewed looking north:

Same train station looking west:

Experimental Line City (residential district) from different pitch angles:

Tips: Ctrl + Shift + S for screenshot. To hide/unhide UI, numlock.

[Haljackey 17,302]

At certain angles, automata appears much denser

[kbieniu7 266]

Good morning folks! Time to wake up, the sun is rising! 

[simmering 2,637]

On 03/04/2024 at 6:09 PM, kbieniu7 said:

Seashore view near Raszkowo.

 

This looks so realistic. At first glance I thought it might be a photo.

[simmering 2,637]

The angles make some areas in my city, which I thought of as boring, look much better.

 

I really like how the different angles reveal details I have not noticed before, e.g. the writing on the back of @Jasoncw's Hotel Utica (at the top, left of the centre).

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And lastly, here is a wider shot, first with Maxis vanilla angles ...

 

... and now with lower CameraPitch (17.5).

This is a marvellous mod. Kudos to @memo for sharing it!

[Haljackey 17,302]

Abs

[prtsc5 43]

I can only say that this is really amazing.  I think this is the best download that you can find in the history of Simtropolis. I´m not exaggerating. 

[Haljackey 17,302]

I got so much to show and don't want to post/image spam so here is a huge imgur album with a bunch of cool 3d camera angle shots I have taken in the last few days. In no order.

133 images

https://imgur.com/a/zYEpaQ0

SimCity 4 3D Camera is absurd

 

Can't really seem to embed it. Mods feel free to help if you can and edit this lol

Edit: Added embed - Flann

 

[njdevi66 12]

Just when you thought this game couldn't get any better with age, someone comes a long and surprises us all with this awesome gift that just makes this game so much more special. I just want to say thank you to the creator of the mod for this... thank you MEMO. 

[Darrius11able 728]

Wanted to fit a small amount of the countryside just on the edge of town so I could get some screenshots like these.  

[Ducio 285]

I love this mod so much! It really showcases all the details in BATs that were harder to see from the standard views. Also, even the vanilla assets show details more clearly, looks like the Sims was popular when SC4 came out! 

[The Battery Mill 41]

On 4/5/2024 at 3:41 PM, kbieniu7 said:

@Odainsaker - Great shots! So, huge horizontal panoramas are now possible! Now just add the sky background in post-production and we're home 

In the meantime, I tried to play a bit with xannepan's JUPITER weather controller mod ([url=https://www.sc4evermore.com/index.php/downloads/download/26-gameplay-mods/156-sc4d-LEX-legacy-jenex-aurora-jupiter-poseidon]LINK[/url]. It seems that they work pretty well - especially with rain and rainbows. Here is a photogenic shot - I originally posted them at discord as two separate snapshots, but @tezspotted that they would look nicer as a one mosaic 

The mountain in the background has elevation of 602m, while the bottom terrain is around 270-300m. The rain and snow seem to be placed rather ok in terms of elevation, regardless of the camera pitch and yaw. However, when prompting dense cloud effect, they may seem a bit to high.

Rainbow also works well, altough one needs to be careful here - if you change the camera yaw, then you can see that in fact there are two rainbows - one for each viewing azimuth  So we're limited to default yaws in this case.

I also tried some ploppable fog (I don't remember where I got it from) that I used to use it a lot in the past and from the default angle worked well. Here, however, it doesn't look good - we can see that this is rather flat "sprite" parallel to the ground. Not for use with low camera pitch value.

And for the end - a thunder, from disaster tools. Not that bad, especially at night  The visual glitch comes from my computer which doesn't render clouds, waves and thunders well.


I'll try to explore something more later.

I will not lie - the effects really do remind me of The Sims 2's neighborhoods! You're doing a great job here. Kudos to everyone as well in this exploratory stage of the mod.

[rivit 3,391]

Pitch 20.  The closer to pitch 0 the more it becomes really obvious which buildings and props have had their vertical dimensions (over)scaled as they become tall poppies. 

[djna 34]

I dug up this old region and made a composite

camerayaw 0

camerapitch 18

[Silur 3,304]

Hold my hands, friends!
This is some new dimension and understanding of SC4 images.
Thanks to the @memo!!!

[simmering 2,637]

2 hours ago, Silur said:

Those ships and docks look really great. Do they come with the Historic Harbour Mod?

[Silur 3,304]

1 hour ago, simmering said:

Those ships and docks look really great. Do they come with the Historic Harbour Mod?

I almost always repaint and rework any BATs for my own purposes. See my CJ 'SANTANA ISLAND' on page 1 for details.
In this case:
- the berths are an excellent job Cobb32118 Harbor Village.
- scows - this is also an excellent job PEG CSK0 Scows Prop Pack.
I wish you success!

[Oidaas 1,650]

Great modd, having a lot of fun

[prtsc5 43]

[Silur 3,304]

 

[simmering 2,637]

Maxis highway and airport, bird's-eye view:

[Haljackey 17,302]

If you wanna know just how dense some of my cities are, some pics say 1,000 words

[sctieba 93]

 

  Edited April 13, 2024 by Tarkus  
Fixed your video link . . . simply pasting the URL will auto-embed.

[prtsc5 43]

[Silur 3,304]

Thanks @memo again!
I play with a 3D camera - like a cat with a mouse..

Trucks look disgusting - and so be it

But freight cars are simply beautiful!