Three Rivers Region

[Micah 16]

Hope you feel better. Fantastic tutorial!

[ElBarto92 7]

Good to hear, and hope you're feeling ok - and good luck with "Giselle" tonight, tchaos!

[jacqulina 162]

look forward to more

[tchaos713 5]

Hey guys, thanks for the support, visit this thread to read the review!!!

David, sorry I kinda hijacked your thread...

[Yoman3 5]

Great tutorial

[Cjah 15]

Ok hopefully you are feeling well and an update will follow soon?

[tchaos713 5]

I hope this thread hasn't died...

[dedgren 830]

It hasn't died, folks.  The completion of the long-delayed remodeling will let me set my server back up this weekend (Sunday at 11:59 p.m. AST, probably- I'm workin' on it) and the pics will be back and the next update will follow ASAP.

Thanks for everyone's continued interest.

David

[cinnebar 0]

Good to hear it.  I've already subscribed, waiting to post comments after I see your pix.  Crosses fingers, eyes, toes that it'll happen soon 

Don/Cinnebar

[Darmok 34]

Can't wait to see more David, hoping the server repairs went well!

Take care... and watch out for those grizzly bears!

[sloppet 3]

Yeah! We want the update!

... please?

[JoeEdwardz 0]

Dedgren, from your write ups and everyone's comments, this looks like a fantastic journal. I'm just waiting to see some pics!

[SC4Noobie 5]

I can't wait till we get a new update! I'm still subscribed to this thread!

[dussin23 1]

It's been a long time since I've seen any photos in this CJ.

[Yoman3 5]

Yeah new update

[PhilsCafe 8]

It's good to hear that this CJ hasn't died. I'm looking forward to your next update, whenever this will be - just take your time David...

- Phi

[rw0381c 2]

ditto to most of the above comments! I too am anxious to seeing this CJ continue!

[natedoggg 0]

WOW amasing !!!!!!!!!!!

[pickled_pig 7]

It's certainly been forever since the last update. Your updates were very informative and I learned a lot about playing the game (interesting that somebody who has been playing Simcity games since the '90s would say that; there's so much more to learn!)

[tankmank 853]

nice updates like it

[dedgren 830]

Well, hello again.

You might have noticed the server came back up a while ago.  The pics all seem back on line (let me know if any aren't).

I don't have any more time today to get the continuation of the update up, but I will leave you with a few teaser pics of the expanded areas of 3RR that I worked on during the last few weeks but didn't have anywhere to serve pics from.  These are from 10 days or so ago, so there's been further development.

Back soon.  Enjoy.

EDIT:  (9/7/06)  Moved pics to ImageShack

[cinnebar 0]

Glad to see your CJ is up and running again.  I hope everything turned out ok and as planned.

With your update and your server on, I finally put the pictures with the words and I'm awestruck.  Simply gorgeous.  I only skimmed the first 2 pages and felt my head spinning with information overload.    Now to just take the time to read through it again to absorb it, especially about your plugins.

  The things I particularly enjoyed was your approach to SimCity, kinda like "SC for Dummies" (no insult intended or directed toward anyone).  Well done.

I also loved your farmland.  I live in a larger city in Illinois.  Wouldn't you know it, there are farms right in the middle of  this town!

I've just hit the subscribe button and look forward to more updates.  I still have some reading in your CJ to catch up on but it's superb from what I've read so far.  Kudos. 

Don

P.S. More comments in another forthcoming post.

[Rayden 7]

I'm really glad this CJ is back online. I was kinda missing it already

[dedgren 830]

I couldn't sleep, so I got up and decided to put together another in the series of "Shameless Eye Candy" posts.  It may still be a bit 'til the next update post, and I have so much nice mail from folks who've borne with me while 3RR (now 3RR-X, I guess) was on hiatus.  I have two major trials the week after Memorial Day (U.S.), so the coming week may still be update-free.

In the meantime...

...here's SEC No. 2
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The 3RR heliputer has been out flying over some of the expanded region area to the north.

#1

Here's some initial limited access highway placement in a yet to be named northwest township.  The junction at the upper right of the pic bears some closer scrutiny...

#2

Yes, it's the 3RR-X DOT's effort to create the 45 degree convergence interchange that's so badly needed in the NAM.  It would appear to use the NAM ramps to perpendicular one-way roads, which have no arrows because of Tropod's NoOneWayArrows mod.  I guess we'll see later if these are tried anywhere else, and if they actually work, in the RH sense.

Moving north...

#3

Why would anyone put a ground highway ending at a stream?.

#4

Oh.  Cheap terraforming tricks.  Move along, move along...nothing to see here.  Except...

#5

Check out the transition here from surface to "game" water.  It can work, visually, but the wish list for the surface water gods (are you out there, brtim2 and Vandy?) just gets longer and longer.

Heading even further north, we fly the heliputer hign over one of the new smaller townships, this one featuring a long mountain valley up to a pass at the boundary to the east. 

#6

Let's drop down into the valley...

#7

Tough place to grade a road.  Wonder where it goes...

#8

Referring to the map, we see that the north east expanded area is beginning to fill in since the pic last posted.  The limited access highway network here draws up into the few routes that leave the more developed area and proceed on out into SimNation.

#9

Here's a particular stretch of freeway that replaced the old road across the hills by tunneling under them.  The old road is still in use up to the ends of the bridge that was probably removed a long time ago.

#10

A little to the west, area around the fork of a river has its share of interesting transportation features...

#11

I always wondered how close the ends of two large "game" bridges could be.

#12

Just north of the twin spans just seen, a railroad ducks under the freeway as it dips toward the level of it's bridge across the western fork of the river.

#13

Even further west, a long railroad bridge crosses another river and if ollowed by a short one over a nearby gorge.  We'll gain some elevation...

#14

...and see that the bridge requires a major bend in otherwise north-south trackage.

#15

One last pass a little further north discloses a terraformed and wooded area west of a large lake.  Note the short railroad bridge over a "surface water" stream just after the tunnel.

#16

As the heliputer turns east and south and heads for home, one last highway feature comes into view, this time an incomplete three-corner interchange (I love the German term for such- drei-ecke).  Who knows how long it will be 'til the freeway to the west, apparently a future outer-ring bypass, will be built?  Maybe tomorrow...maybe never.  Like Mel Brooks said (several times across several movies), "It's good to be king."

Take care until next time, readers.  Thanks for stopping by.

EDIT:  (9/7/06)  Moved pics to ImageShack

[rw0381c 2]

Great update David!

Looking forward to more great tutorials by yourself!!!

Rheal

[AHA 0]

very nice region ! excellent transportation network.

[Rayden 7]

Originally posted by: rw0381c Great update David!

Looking forward to more great tutorials by yourself!!!

Rhealquote>

 

This like an update already, it shows how to build a nice transit network full of small details and easy to follow steps. Great as usual my friend. Keep them coming.  

[owenluby 1]

great work! i love all the pallaning you do, really inspiring!

keep it up!

[Darmok 34]

Don't get me wrong David,

But If you do this kind of work everytime you're not sleeping, I certainly wish that you'll have some insomnia fit in the following days/weeks  !

Some really cool ideas about those 45 degrees angle highway connection, also railway bridges that spans not only water but water and terrain, (I liked that!).

But the thing I liked the most was pic no 5... that transition between ingame water and plopped water!!!!! I'm flabbergasted! I don't know how it looks on your screen, but on mine the demarcation is barely noticeable! could you tell us what water mod and wich color of ploppable water you're using?

And I know that I'm sometimes a detail freak, but you're beating me with that attention to details naturewise, looking how you've places those rocks, flora and logs.... just love it!

It's really a pleasure to see you back into the game!

Looking forward for more of this!

Take care

John

[shivsood 5]

The transportation map shows the layout is very very realistic