Botania - City of Hope & Greens

[jacqulina 162]

fantastic updates coming on and looking really great,the pics are great too,looking forward to more

[teddyrised 1]

Welcome To Page 3!

Looks like Sloppet can't wait for the new update! Haha... okay, 2 hours after this anchorage post is posted (so that I can secure the 1st post in the 3rd page?) I finally can get my hands on my personal computer. And here goes the 7th update of this CJ!



Welcome to Botania again! Well, and also a warm welcome to page 3 too Well, in this update we'll be focusing a new city I've built overnight called Pleasant Hill. It is located to the West of Candomile and South of Slumberland.

Here is the first photo for this update:



A very random shot of Pleasant Drive, which is actually a ground highway, that runs through all the districts (you can know about them below ). There are some bridges than span across the highway to provide access of residents to both sides of the highway.

With some very basic photoshop jobs I've divided my not yet completed city into a few districts (the 1st of its kind in this CJ!):



We've got this main map over at the top. So now let's move on with the update. We'll start from the top left district, Pleasant Green District. This update will introduce you all the featured districts in a clockwise motion starting from Pleasant Green District. Here we go!

Pleasant Green District

Sandwiched between the city's border and Pleasant Drive, the Pleasant Green District is indeed a very small



Isolated residential lots from the district. They are built to accomodate more residents and make full use of city land reserved for development.




Mixture of commercial and residential buildings. In order to provide more city land for residential usage, the government has to zone more medium density commercial instead of low density commercial to save space.




The Pleasant Green Interchange. It is a typical interchange whereby only the traffic on the 2nd level is affected by placement of traffic signal lights while the 1st level traffic (the highway) can continue cruising at high speed.


Pleasant's Ridge District

Pleasant's Ridge District is the build up zone for Pleasant's Ridge area. In this district there is the Pleasant Ridge's Trail that takes visitors on a magnificent journey of the wide spectrum of flora and fauna found in the ridge area. The zoning for residential lots are more disperesed as compared to other districts to avoid damaging the fragile ecosystem at the ridge area.












Up next are several screenshots of the suburbs and pocket neighbourhoods located at the foot of the ridge:










Pleasant Lane District

The unique thing about Pleasant Lane District is that it has the one and only highway bridge in the city. This highway, which is also known as the Pleasant Drive, links Pleasant Lane District to Slumberland. On the other hand, the Pleasant Lane District is a pretty narrow district as it is located at the bottom right corner of the city where the river also cuts through. Of couse, the mayor had a hard time zoning

One of the busiest interchange at Pleasant Lane District:



Pleasant Park District

Pleasant Park District holds the highest percentage of population among all the other districts in Pleasant Hill. It is also the most traffic-problematic district the government claims. However, the Land Transport Authoirty of Pleasant Hill (LaTAPH) has made improvements over the years to ensure smooth traffic flow and reduced commute time.

It also contains a small lake (made with PEG's Pond Kit Lots, inspired by how magpieshooter uses it in his CJ Kinata Region ), which looks awesomely nice and pleasing as it is concealed by medium density buildings around it.
















Pleasant Prince District

Pleasant Prince District is named after George Prince, the guy who founded this town and eventually became the very first mayor of this small town many years back. It is not transformed from a small riverside village to a bustling city! All the credits goes to George Prince




Pleasant Home District

Pleasant Home District is the largest district in Pleasant Hill, but in terms of proportion of population it ranked 2nd after Pleasant Park District. It is a district along the river, giving more than 30% of the residents in it to have a beautiful river view and view of Pleasant's Ridge located at the opposite side of the river.







I guess this is the end of Update #7. Remember, this city is NOT YET COMPLETE, so it can get itself featured again in update #8, which will be coming along in a few days time. Hope you like the screenshots and the layout!

All sorts of comments and suggestions are welcomed. Feel free to voice up And thanks for following this CJ.

[sloppet 3]

Date: 2/24/2006 5:40:42 AM Author: terrymunweihao
update #7 will be posted here.

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When will it be posted here?

[teddyrised 1]

Update #7 is finally up! Please see above

Well, disclaimer - I am not bumping on my own topic but to alert readers. This is because I've posted the post above as an anchorage post so that I can get the 1st post on the 3rd page.



Sorry for any inconveniences caused!

[sloppet 3]

nice updates ! good work

[Fabiocb 1]

great work Terry, looks like you planned everything carefully and it defenetly honours its name of pleasant.

 

[Sisu 1]

I like this city, I like it a lot! It's so peacefull and attractive. Hope we'll see more updates soon.

[teddyrised 1]

Hi all! A warm welcome back to Simtropolis! Honestly speaking, the downtime of the Simtropolis forum actually gave me plenty of time to work on this update and my cities in Botania. So within a week's time I am able to work carefully with my city named Pleasant Hill. Remember? It is the uncompleted city in the previous update (Update #7)... so sit back and enjoy!

Now before we start, let's have a look at the latest region map:

And below is the OLD map for the city Pleasant Hill:

And now what we have after a week of work, a NEW Pleasant Hill! Now the Pleasant Green and Pleasant's Ridge districts have been extended to the top right corner of the map. More development has taken place to accomodate more residents in the lush greenery of Pleasant Hill. On the other hand, there are some developments in the Pleasant Hill Nature Reserve... don't worry! The Housing Development Board of Pleasant Hill (HDB-PH, a.k.a. HoDeBoPH)

PLEASANT GREEN DISTRICT

Featuring the extended of Pleasant Green District. Below are some of the screenshots taken during gameplay:

PLEASANT HILL NATURE RESERVE

This nature reserve is the reowned primary forest of Botania. Untouched by human beings and the city's urbanism. However, due to space contriction HDP-PH forced their way into the nature reserve, but clearing only limited spaces in the primary forest. The land prices of the cleared pieces of land rose immediately as demand for houses rise because people just can't wait to live in a place of clean air and green environment.

Low residential housing in the middle of the forest with a highway cutting through the primary forest.

Cute little railway roundabout in the middle of the forest.

The waterfall of the central lake in the nature reserve.

Another shot of the waterfall.

Medium density housing at the edge of the nature reserve. The law states that only low residential housing are permitted in cleared lands of selected areas in secondary and primary forest.

Well, I have to give the credits to Magpieshooter because I got this inspiration from his awesome Kinata Region CJ Thanks for all the ideas, MS!

Pocket neighbourhoods located at the edge of the nature reserve district.

Sweet little waterfall with viewing platforms on either sides of the cliff. There are mountain trails around the nature reserve that takes visitors on a journey of discovery of the large variety of flora and fauna in the nature reserve.

Central park of the small neighbourhood located in the heart of the primary forest.

Windy roads cutting through the forest with small neighbourhoods aligned on its sides.

The Ridge Reservoir that provides 70% of the water supply. Environmentalists suggest city builders not to exploit the aquifers under the nature resserve in fear of distrupting the delicate ecosystem. So citizens have to rely mainly on rainwater collected at this reservoir.

That's all for this update... hope you guys enjoyed reading it!

[Sisu 1]

Wow, one great update again! Nice detailed city. You have planned your roadlayout very well. In this city nature and people live side by side. Hope we'll see more updates soon.

[ThomasAH 0]

this is looking great!

btw: my first post!

[sloppet 3]

nice work there!

[teddyrised 1]

@jacqulina: Thanks a lot for your constant support, visits and comments!

@sloppet: A million thank you for your continuous support! Well, you've motivated me to make this CJ better!

@Fabiocb: Hey thanks for dropping by again! Well, I didn't do much planning actually - what I did is actually to layout the avenues and highways first. After that, all the roads, rail, streets and zones just come along with imagination on the spot.

@sisu: Thanks for commenting! Well, in my cities of this CJ people live very near to the environment and nature... so I named it Botania

@ThomasAH: Welcome to Simtropolis! I am actually very honour for you to post your very first post in my CJ!!! Thanks for your support!

This CJ will be updated very soon!

[magpieshooter 1]

Brilliant update, very well done.

Im glad you were inpited by my conservation parks and thanks for giving me credit.

Top job!

*Plesant Hill, much like Pleasantville*

[SoulStealer 12]

Great CJ I love your use of PEG's stuff. The canals are very pretty as well. You might want to check out Simgoober's irrigation canals for your rural areas.

WTG!

[jacqulina 162]

beautiful work on them updates great use of pegs things,your pics are wonderfull too

[Nenitosoyyo 19]

Awsome journal, keep up the great work!

[Fabiocb 1]

nice update, the green areas and the terraforming sure are a case a part on this great CJ, it must be really nice to live into such a place.

[realdimension 6]

Amazing CJ! This last update is beautiful!

[jobass24us 0]

Amazing work!!

I am very impressed with this CJ. Your attention to detail is outstanding. Keep up the great work!

[mjig_dudy 11]

i love this cj Its great i like the way you connected all your roads at interchanges it really inspired me to download nam and start building my own interesting interchanges

[EricPoehlsen 0]

I really like your city design, it looks so...

... well ...

... green

[EricPoehlsen 0]

*double post - please remove*

[teddyrised 1]

@magpieshooter: Hey MS, thanks for dropping by again! Yup, I really have to give you almost all the credits for giving me the inspiration to start this CJ. Really! I was in Simtropolis since 2004, but back then I was just a little quiet lurker. After reading your CJ Kinata Region, I decided to start my own! And apologies if this CJ made you feel that I've got lots of layout ideas from your CJ.

@SoulStealer: Thanks for commenting! Well, I like PEG's stuff because they're indeed very useful in CJs! Like the PEG's stream kit and pond kit... they helped me out a lot to insert some extent of realism into this CJ.

@jacqulina: A million sincere thanks from me for being super supportive since the start of this CJ! Well, you do really deserve the title - friendliest forumer!

@azul_blue_aoi: Well, I like your picture... a woman accidentally falling into sime big hole *ouch*

@Fabiocb: Thanks Fabiocb for dropping by! Well, actually I must admit that I am super lousy at terraforming. What I did was I used the Hill Brush Tool in God Mode and anyhow create a little hill in the middle of the map. Anyway, thanks for your comment and support!

@realdimension: Hi there! Thanks for reading this CJ and your priceless comments!

@jobass24us: Hey thanks for dropping by! In fact in this CJ I didn't really put much detail into it. Just the close up screenshots made it look great

@mjig_dudy: Actually how I lay out the roads is my random and on-the-spot imagination. I never really put much effort into laying out roads and streets (except for the highways)...

@EricPoehlsen: Thanks for dropping by! It looks so green because it is Botania Anyway, not to worry too much about the double post.

Due to real world hold ups (thanks to loads of college homework, again), I am forced to update this CJ this coming Friday or weekend. Sorry for those who can't wait for the next update to be posted. Apologies from me. Anyway, enjoy your stay in Simtropolis! Cheers~

[choco1 4]

This Cj is looking fantastic terrymunweihao!  You have your own unique style which you are developing, its very nice!

I like the lush greenery of the city, but more than that I like the way its set out and designed.  The national park is a fantastic addition, and it looks very realistic.  With an odd coincidence I made one just like it in Green Depra while simtropolis was down, great minds thiunk alike, eh?

Anywho, this is looking great and I have a feeling Botania is really going to go somewhere!

Choco

[jacqulina 162]

thankyou very much,and i look forward to more of your fantastic work

[mkwetters 2]

what can i say.....i love it! i havent viewed all of the pages yet, but it looks great!

[magpieshooter 1]

I don't mind your CJ layout being like mine, infact I changed the layout of the cityname etc. soon after you started this, just so you could have your own style (and I could have mine ).

[teddyrised 1]

Hi all! Thanks a lot for following this CJ of mine! A million thank you. Before I start this update, I would like to reply the viewer's comments (anyway, thanks a lot for commenting! )

@chocolatemax285: Omigosh, I didn't really expect both of us will come out of making a national park / reserve area for our CJ... what an interesting and fascinating coincidence! Well, I also have to give credit to you for giving the the courage to start this CJ, after reading yours Cheers! And thanks for commenting!

@jacqulina: I have to thank you for giving me to extremely important motivation to keep on updating. Actually due to school work (loads of them) I actually planned to do the update this weekend. But after seeing your (and of course, others) comments, I have the urge to update this CJ asap so that I won't let my readers down

@mkwetters: Hey dude a warm welcome to Simtropolis! Anyway thanks for coming to this CJ and commenting!

@magpieshooter: I am extremely apologetic about this CJ forcing you to change the layout of your city name. Well, actullay I am the one who should change because you suggested the city name in your CJ first. Sorry! Anyway, thanks for following this CJ and thanks for the effort!

Lakeside Drive

It is the highway that cuts through the entire width of the city, providing it access to Pleasant Hill and Nicole (not yet featured in this CJ). It is the only route that residents can exit the city to work in commercial sectors of other neighbouring cities.

Construction of the highway. I've used the method suggested by somebody (sorry I've forgot your name, but your tutorial that teaches me to make curved highways is unforgettable!) - placing labels along the length of the desired highway path, and then build the highway through the labels. And the final result is indeed very pleasing

The partly completed Lakeside Drive.

This is featuring part of the curved highway with an extensive interchange built to facilitate vehicle movement, reduce commute time and also makes the city looks nice

City Screenshots

This is the part of this update where the screenshots of the city are taken at the normal 4th degree zoom. Enjoy viewing!

Now we've finished this section. Here comes the exciting part - we're moving on the close-up section, where you can have a really good look at some city details Yay, now let's go~

Well, due to time constriant, this is probably the end of this update. I am sorry for any disappointment caused, but rest assured that the next update will be out this weekend *promise!* So fret not, because besides the immediately coming out update (the next one, this weekend!), I've made a mosiac of Lakeside Enjoy!

See you!

[rooker1 4]

Wow...holy moly...lots of roads. The transit system looks great. Lots of details too...the parks, streams... looks great.

[Sisu 1]

Very green (and great) work. Nice close-ups! Seems that you like to use those lighted palmtrees in your city. Looking forward to next update.