Three Rivers Region

[dedgren 830]

John (Darmok - Anduin Valley Revisited)...

...drum roll please...

Nothing up my sleeve...

...honest!

Work, BTW, continues.

Surface water, love-hate-love-hate-love-hate.  It could be so great...

I'll do a post with all the water info you asked about this evening.

Oh, finally managed to use Goldiva's reefs, from his GDV Mayor Mode Sea Set

in a way that doesn't look half-bad, if I do say so myself.

I'll be by AVR later to steal some more great ideas further admire your masterful work.

David

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[GMT 389]

these are some great new updates!

very good work.

can't wait for more

[Darmok 34]

"- - - - - - - - - -"

Speechless for a moment there!

Great work might I say "again.."

Gotta run I'm needed at the BBQ mission cotrol... supper time!

Great work my friend! (hey I've said it before.... looking at pill box... darn took the wrong one again!)

hummmm... See ya!

[mightygoose 92]

this is stunning work, true art

[cinnebar 0]

Keep up the great work!  You have a fantastic knack for "show and don't tell" by words plus pictures.  Plus your presentation and conversation style makes me feel right at home in your CJ.  Well done!

I have many of the plugins you mentioned, downloaded many of the others you recommended but came up short on a good number.  I scoured and looked but couldn't find them.  (For example, I couldn't find the industry quadruper, toll booth boost and maxis functional landmarks by Toroca and the bridge height mod by Joerg.)

Your transportation network feels so natural and is superbly done, especially how it feels like you're contouring roads naturally through the terrain.

Perhaps you're planning this in the future, but I for one would love to see how a planning engineer might approach SimCity in creating realistic looking downtowns, suburbs, parks, etc.  Just a thought anyway.

You've inspired me to try my hand at developing a very small region and do some simple terraforming with hills, mountains, streams, rivers, etc.    Then add a great transport network.  I'll post some pics If it turns out fairly well. 

Enjoy and thanks for the fantastic updates.

Don

[capitol1 1]

finaly An update I like your water transformation but the lack of trees in the second picturree is kinda uhm..you konw.

Empty..

[Yoman3 5]

wow thaat looks great and realistic

[Rayden 7]

Hey, nice update in here, I like it, and I have a question, how can you do it, a bridge on land, I mean on land because plop water is not the same as real one. I've try it before, but could never achieve a bridge, it always draws a road and carves the terrain if necessary.

[dedgren 830]

I have a minute, so I'll post a few pics of farm country experiments I've been trying.

Trying the break the rectilinear grid...

#1

#2

Close-up.

#3

Another area.

#4

Back later.

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[Darmok 34]

Interesting work David, note here that I'm using the worrd interesting just to try to break from the "great work" comment....

Ok... where was I now... Oh Yeah!

Great work David (darn... did it again!)

Right off the bat, first pic, middle left. the way you terraformed the land to place your railroad bridge is purely brilliant! Prepare to be copied! Ditto for that gentle slope that goes down to the river... (drooling)

The experimentation with the farms is a success, nice mix of the squarish and more irregular ones, I know that in RL most farms are mostly of a rectangular shape, that look is somewhat less appealing in the game, at least if we have a repetition of it. so the mix is indeed welcome aestheticaly (sic) speaking.

In pic 3 that small bridge setup is really something! And I really like the fact that you kept the pylons (even if they're red!)

In pic 4 I like your experiment with highway connections, in that particular setup have you ever tried the rural highway mod just to make the connection itself between both elevated highways? (Am I making any sense here?)

Anyhow, loved it (I could cite you here with that love-hate thing  ), always a lot to learn by watching you work.

Take care David

[wallasey 8]

What a great region you have! I am loving your updates, especially your shots of motrway junctions, overall region veiws and the streams that you have laid! Pretty good all roud really!

Great Work!

[homefryes 9]

I really like your work. I couldn't believe when I saw this CJ yesterday, as I have been working on my own Three Rivers region for the past couple months, and was hoping to get a CJ going. Probably wouldn't be too cool of me to have a CJ with the same name as yours. But, I just wanted to say I really like what I see here.

[Yoman3 5]

Great work again your great with terrain.

[Battlecat 14]

Wow!  Nice work with the ploppable water in your last two updates!  The transition to real water looks great and is pretty much flawless!  I may be borrowing some of your techniques for breaking the grid in my own CJ as well.  I've used ploppable water on a small scale, but this is quite inspiring.  Looking forward to seeing more!

[dedgren 830]

I have another minute or so, so will continue this morning's tease.  I have some substantive stuff to post later, so will wait 'til I can't sleep so that I have something to do....

#1

A railroad crosses the stream on a game bridge...I'll show how in a bit.

#2

The end of that stream.  Who says surface water can't flow downhill?

#3

Another surface water stream...

#4

...and another close up.

#5

Old Nike site turned into a park.

#6

A little closer and from the south...

#7

...closer still...

#8

...and off over the islets.

Back when I can't sleep.

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[Dr. Neitchskrimfrauwnmoya 7]

Wow!

Pictures #4 and 5 are particularly awsome! I like how you use that rail overpass as a bridge. Also the water texture you're using fit very well with all the rest.

Good job!

[Micah 16]

Really incredible photos! They just look sooooo real!

I think the best part about all of your photos are those excellent rivers that you make.

Besides that, fantastic islands and peninsulas!

[Darmok 34]

Picture 3 and 4..... Bravo! Bravissimo!

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Now..... listen to my voice......only my voice.....yeah...that's it...

Think strong coffee! better yet espresso! you won't sleep for the next week....

At the count of three, you'll be yourself and will not remeber this!

1...2..3..

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Hey David!

Good work again! Saw you in AVR stealing, lurking!

You know you can visit anytime!

Take care

[AHA 0]

It's very beautiful, realistic, your farming areas are really nice, I'm jalous

[cinnebar 0]

Fantastic update.  I loved everything and thought it looked so real.  Now if I can only finish updating my plugins folder so I can do my own trials....and errors. 

Don

[dedgren 830]

Sometime today or tomorrow, in answering Silvio's (Rayden - New Haven) question about land bridges, we'll continue the long-delayed Update 10.  In the process, we'll build this.

We're getting there, folks.  Honest.

David

...p.s.  I haven't forgotten the rest of the mail...I'm going to have to advertise for staff pretty soon if I don't just get on it.  Thanks, as always, for stopping by...

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[Battlecat 14]

Wow again!  That mountain stream is stunning! It looks exactly like streams flowing out of the mountains in my area.  I'm looking forward to seeing your tutorial. 

[Rayden 7]

Thx David, I'll look forward for that mini-tutorial. Great update once again, and I'm going to copy some of your landscaping, to be more exactly, those streams surrounded by trees, they just look sooooooo reaalllllllll. WOWOW

[dedgren 830]

OT, but I was looking for some stuff, and found this....

Front

Back

Packaging, inserts, software and all.

[ dials phone ]

...Hello, Smithsonian....

David

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[mightygoose 92]

those last threee pics of your update are my favourites, they are brilliant, great work

[tchaos713 5]

This continues to be absolutely brilliant work!!!

I have half a mind to drive up there and give you a good hearty slap on the back! (Or not, a long drive I've heard)

I'm waiting with baited breath for the tutorial on game bridges over surface water!

[Darmok 34]

Hey David, can't see any pics in your two last posts!

Sad to miss them!

EDITED :

Thanks for fixing the glitch!

Those pics of the Ol' SC brings back some memories!

About the same time than the first Railroad Tycoon no?

Take care my friend

[tchaos713 5]

Wow...

Do you have the expansion for the original SimCity that let you build in different time periods as well?

[bat 6]

Nice update!

bat

[szarkoz 8]

I dunno, why I wasn't visiting that CJ earlier...

Totally outstanding work. You said you steal ideas from AVR? So now I'll steal ideas from your CJ Those rivers reminds me the one in my town... I love the use of rocks and trees near them. Bridges, especially those stone ones are real eye-candys.

You're very talented. I'll surely come back here.