Three Rivers Region

[Charles Rodulfo 0]

This beats lakeyboy's tutorials! It's simple and it's very neat and nice!

[Nik-nik 3]

am I serious

No, I am exploding

No, No exploding!

Searching smily list.............nope......

Mind bending CJ you have David and I haven't even read all the way up to page 24 (somehow I got stuck at page 23) But I am almost there!!

I just wish I would see some cars on those roads. I have never ever seen such a quit CJ before

Great work David.

Love to be back soon.

Nik-Nik

Ploppable snow....sjees, what's next.

[dedgren 830]

Woo boy howdy-

Yesterday was a major RL bummer, as work followed me home and demanded my attention all evening.  I will be continuing the ongoing "We've got Mail..." hopefully tonight, but one never knows- I've got a short trial this afternoon and several briefs to complete.

In the meantime, I want to say I truly appreciate the great comments of the past few days and look forward to addressing each and every one of them.

I have a special note for the readers of 3RR from Japan.  It appears, from PMs and other feedback I've received, that 3RR is of interest in that country, but that language may be somewhat of a barrier to getting the information in some of the tutorials across.  I do not speak or write in the Japanese language (and very much envy those who do).  I have been experimenting, though, with the Google "Translate" service available on the web here:

Google "Translate" Service [ click here ]

and have downloaded a Japanese language character set from Microsoft from here:

Microsoft Japanese Language Pack [ click here ]

to prepare the following message.

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UPDATE: (8/23/06)  Well, as of about 8:40 a.m. AST I'm fixing this- the Japanese characters do not survive the journey out of the edit box- I'll have to do something different.

UPDATE 2: (8/23/06)  As of about ten minutes later than the first update, I've created the Japanese text as a pic- I'm going to contact a moderator in the next few days to see if a Japanese language pack can be installed at the ST end of things- I think that would work. 

To Japanese readers of 3RR:

Greetings and welcome!

I will enjoy working to make this CJ more accessible to you.  I will try to translate the "Land Bridge" tutorial this weekend.  I would be very happy to see your comments here any time.

Davidquote>

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I have no way to know, absent feedback, if the translation is accurate, and apologize in advance if I have said anything rude or inappropriate.  I'd really like to see 3RR reach the widest possible audience and be truly accessible, as opposed to just being a bunch of pretty pictures for the majority of the folks in the world who do not speak English.  Thoughts and comments on this, either here or by PM, would be truly appreciated.

I was going to leave everyone with a random eye candy 3RR pic, but my laptop has nothing on it you haven't seen before.  Here's a pic then from my trip this past summer (it's high fall in Alaska- 39 degrees (F) this morning and loads of "termination dust" (what locals call the first snowfall) on the mountain peaks that surround where I live) that I found amusing.  It was taken just outside the city limits of a tiny west Texas town named Alpine.

I've said it before...wherever you go- that's where you're at. [ linkie ] 

Later.

David

[Rayden 7]

You keep amazing me. Now 3RR is turning international In Japanese, that could be a laugh doing that through out internet translators. If they are as good as the ones that translate Portuguese into English or vice versa, that will definately be a laugh

[PhilsCafe 8]

Well, it does look Japanese to me... but what do I know?... at least no Japanese.

Seriously, your Far Eastern audience doesn't surprise me, the pictures in your tutorials are quite self-explanatory. Integrating different cultures is really an amazing idea David.

- Phil

[garvamatic 0]

dedgren

indeed you have inspired (or perhaps goaded is more apt) me into making my first post on ST. i only drop by occasionally, though usually in obsessive multi-day fits. i marvel at the things available here and the talent behind them, grab what i feel i can use and never say a word, (once in awhile i do make donations tho). i don't really consider myself a lurker, but i have never felt that i could become a real 'community member' either. everyone seems to work so hard, and they all seem to know so much, i figure that no one needs to have the flow of thought interrupted by fawning praise from someone who is awed by everything...

but the real point, which i'm getting to, is that YOUR 3RRs is the first CJ that i read in its entirety, and the best thing about the experience was watching you change from a person who seemed unsure if they'd belong here to one who now celebrates his own creations' 1000th download. it's inspiring, maybe even inspiring enough to start my own CJ. 

and now the fawning praise:

3RRs is gorgeous; your sensitivity for landscaping is fantastic! and nevermind the eye candy, your real genius is the BRAIN candy of the tutorials. the details are a huge help to people who can't tell just from looking at screen shots what can be constructed in game, and what is instead a BAT. eg the land bridges (i never knew they 'real', or functional). and what details! links that work, complete step by step instructions, definitely full disclosure. i can't believe you find time to practice law. 

thanks for having me over 

garvamatic

[dedgren 830]

So, we'll take a short trip in the 3RR Wayback Machine [ linkie ]....

...Sherman, set the Wayback machine for August 8th, 2006, at 10:30 in the morning...

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threestooges

i was just up by Fort Ord and the bay area in general looking at law schools.quote>

Look but don't touch, kid...you might get some on you.

...

All joking aside...

...do you know the one about the lawyer and the...

...'hem- ALL JOKING ASIDE- I love my life as solo practice attorney.  It's busy, some days it's hard, some days you eat the bear, other days the bear eats you, but it's always interesting and challenging in a way, whatever Jackson Browne might have to say about it, that leaves me ready to "get up and do it again." [ linkie ]  I'd be happy to talk with you more about life as a lawyer anytime...let me know. 

Could this success, perhaps, mean we can expect more in that area?quote>

I plan to be uploading to the STEX (oooh, that sounds vaguely obscene) again fairly soon.  What, I don't know- but soon in any event.

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gurrgkud - Cordova//Revisited  Hey, nice hair, man!  Watchin' for Rise Against.

Congrats on receiving 1000 downloads on your rapids. If I had known about them earlier, I would have used them for my cjquote>

There's always next time.  As I've said elsewhere, though, there's lots of great ploppable water stuff out there (sorchin and Pegasus come immediately to mind).  I just take one particular approach.

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Owen (owenluby - Barton Region)

Cool! I like your maps!quote>

Hey, thanks, Owen.  By the way, I don't know if you've seen this

The custom made Haalu Road Map [ linkie ]

I'm still in the "creating" stage.  ThePeoplesPerson (The Tropics of Haalu) is out there right now with completed product.

Thanks again as well for that 10,000^th page view!

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Steve (sorchin - Developing Macedon)

Free flowing traffic as far as the eye could see...quote>

Steve, my friend, have you ever seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit? [ linkie ]  You sound like Judge Doom... [ linkie ]

You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.quote>

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Silvio (Rayden - Els Pirineus)

But, as I'm a persistent guy, I always keep my best shot for last.quote>

No, Silvio...you keep your best shots for Els Pirineus.  And, darn, you've got a lot of best shots!

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Jacky (jacqulina - Paradise Falls) - 1:25 a.m.?  what in the world are you doing up at that hour?  You are as relentless as you are talented!

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This has been on my laptop all morning at work, and I've been not moving along as fast as I thought.  Not trusting the stability of the "Replying to a Message" box a whole lot, I'm posting at this point, and will pick back up later when I have unbroken time.

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work david and i sure am relentless

[owenluby 1]

What a cool map of Haluu! Nice job!

[Gaston 0]

Okay so this is my first visit to this CJ.   I usually go to the last page and check out the most recent posts. (Which I did here.)   I am really impressed.  I love the little tutorial on unusual highway junctions; great stuff.     I liked it somuch I am going back to the beginning to look at the whole thing.  I have only done this in one other CJ.   That was TPP's "Haalu".   From what I have seen on this page alone I think I am gonna love this CJ.  Thanks for sharing.

[dedgren 830]

We left off with Jacky's (jacqulina - Paradise Falls )comment left in the wee hours on the 8th on page 21 [ linkie ]...

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John (Darmok - Anduin Valley Revisited)

I never heard of that Ctrl-Shift-C combo before!!!!quote>

It's a tribute to the depth and breadth of SC4 that folks like John (and myself- I've probably fired up a session of the game on average at least once a week since 2003) can still be discovering features years later.

Pressing the [ Ctrl ][ Shift ] and [ C ] keys all at the same time, btw, gets you this

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SC4 contour lines!

#2

#3

Glad you're back from from vacation, John!  Thanks for stopping by.

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Torben (GMT - Greater Columbia River) 

waiting for more

Torben, you were also waiting for more back on June 19th.  Since then, we've done 3RR from the road, put rapids and waterfalls on the STEX, and started mapping.  I hope that's the sort of more you had in mind.  If it is, there's plenty more.  Heck, the slogan of  this CJ could be

3RR - Where There's Always Something More

More later, my friend, more later...

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Isaac (van1357)

Referring to the "contour" feature-

I have been playing this game for 2 and a bit years now and have never seen it used or how to do it.quote>

Well, now that's three of us.  Wonder what we'll find next?  Thanks for your visits, Isaac, and for your ongoing contributions to the STEX [ linkie ].

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Jacky (jacqulina - Paradise Falls )

Hey, girl!  Back again, and at a reasonable hour.  Although- 3RR is a 24-7 establishment.

Jacky...you just come on over any time you want.

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Phil (PhilsCafe - Acorn Creek Region - An American Story and contributor to Inter-Nations: Pakkusena)

Phil, your detailed and insightful comments are always great to see here at 3RR.  I'd love to see the waterfalls and rapids we've done here put to use in Acorn Creek- thanks for thinking about including them.

About the Ctrl-Shift-C combo (as John pointed out): I accidently hit it a couple of times before, but never realized what it was exactly.quote>

Well, now that's four of us.  International bridge match, anyone?

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Steve (sorchin - Developing Macedon)

Steve, thanks for the info on the helmet you use in your avatar- I would have expected, knowing now how you approach things, that your STEX statuary, such as your Smaller Knight Statue [ linkie ], would be carefully researched.  You should plan, btw, to see some of those statues in 3RR cities once I get around to that level of detail.  They are great work!

I just love your waterfalls. Howd you do it?quote>

I actually have a tutorial on that "in the can," as they say in the film industry.  I'm just waiting for an appropriate time to use it.

Thanks again for being a 3RR regular.

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Whoa...bottom of page 21.  Off to work.  More...

...heh...

...later.

[Nik-nik 3]

Quickly popping by...............................

...........................mmmmm.............mail replies...........................

WHAT! FORGOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...........................................mmmmmmm.................I switch back to lurk mode then......just to annoy you.....

NAH! Once out of Lurk mode I can't get back in...well, hardly anyway.

I follow Torben here....Waiting for more.....

It's 16:29 here in the Netherlands so it is ....(checking www.worldtimeserver.com)......06:29 in Alaska! Hell, you are behind your PC early. 

  

Have a great weekend (in about 9 hours I guess)

Nik-Nik

[Mas71 74]

Thank you very much Dedgren!!

I'm checking only a "PM-Inbox (PM from you)" every day,

Wao!! Japanese messages it in here!!

I'm very surprised to see a your Japanese message here!!

Your Japanese messages can be understood well about us Japanese. 

but "Japanese Langage" are very very hard to use.(about me "Japanese" too! LOL)

It just like a "CODE" for the people in a lot of spheres in English simtropolis forum members.

so write a English please.

It is my work to translate it in my site.

Please do not use your inportant times for make Japanese messages.

but, 

Thank you very much your kindness Dedgren!! 

and I'm sorry to my no good English....David and everyone.

[crazychickensc12 84]

The transportation network looks great!!Keep up the good work!!

[mightygoose 92]

awesome contour lines well that could be so useful

[Darmok 34]

David, the day we stop learning new things will be the day we die, and even then, perhaps it'll be a new learning experience somewhat! (sorry about getting metaphysical on you!)

I really like those contour lines, they allow us a better view of our cities and help us create more realistic setups!

On another topic, have you seen how well Szarkoz have used your tutorials on plopable (or is it ploppable) water. Simply stunning! If you have not seen it yet, go and have a look!

Enjoy your weekend!

John

[rw0381c 2]

^^^ To add to what John said about szarkoz, have you seen what wouanagaine did, not only did he plop a river, but then he frickin animated it! ^^^

Ohh, good work with the interchange tutorial, it has inspired me to try something different! Much like the rest of this CJ actually!

Rheal

[szarkoz 8]

Hello David,

Hm, I looked at the map you're making now. Did you noticed that it became a standard for every CJ to have its own map? I suppose I'll be making mine simultaneously with the region itself in SC4. I don't want even think about how much work would I have to do if I finished the region!

I like the custom interchanges you make. Another useful information in Three Rivers Region I'm sure I'll try them sometime.

Keep it up!

[Delta07 0]

What do those [ctrl+alt+c] lines represent? Like 100 m. or something?

[patfirefghtr 160]

wow as a lurker my self to 3RR (i think Ive posted before but as with the wedding planning that was done and work i think i forgotten) i never ever knew about Ctrl Alt C to get contour lines that is something ever so awesome and its like awhile ago that i learned to to get god mode back when already have city but since i haven't played around with it much i forgotten the command once again due to the wedding planning and all that good stuff but man just in the last few pgs Ive gone over i picked up a different way to lay out my highway and i do love the way u instruct with laughter. 

thank you again

 

mr. patrick m.  (lol a little humor)

[Gaston 0]

Okay I finally made it all the way through!    It took me three nights till past midnight each night but I did it!      Man am I glad I did too.   All I can say is "HOLY MOTHER OF insert chosen deity here (if agnostic or atheistic please use any appropriate noun)!!!!!!!!!"   This is the greatest CJ ever created.    (okay, so I haven't looked at EVERY CJ but it is still really kool)   I too have been playing SC for what seems like forever and had no clue as to the vastness of possiblities that were available.    And I didn't even really know what the insert place of ultimate punishment here  I was doing as far as terraforming went.   Thanks for creating this masterpiece.    Now if I can just figure out how to organize my plugin files like you do, with all the stuff I have downloaded from your links.   Man do I have alot of work for my handful of grey matter to sort through.     Looking foreward to the next time you can update.   I am a bit bored here in Dubuque, IA at the moment.    (okay let's see... after midnight.. gotta get up at 6am for the Farmer's Market in the morning...   Maybe I ought to GO TO BED !!!!!   Hmmmmm...)   Oooops, sorry didn't mean to let you here the voices too.     (They can't hear me)   Yes, they can.   (They can, OHHH.   You are getting very sleepy,  Very sleepy)   Hey stop that!  They aren't gonna fall for that hypnotism stuff.   ZZZZZZZZZZZZ  (When you wake up you will think you can terraform)   *SNAP*    Wow, sorry must have dozed off there.     Wow, I feal like I need to plop a bunch of road zots and then bulldoze them.  Hmmm.   Better go.  Later.

[justanotherhiddennow 0]

Another thing, why is sunrise at 3 A.M. in SimCity?

[PhilsCafe 8]

Hello David. I've checked out the contur lines (which means I used them intentionally), they're great, they give a feeling for elevation. And that's one thing I missed most in SC4... maybe I should read the manual better...

I'm pretty sure that you'll get to see the waterfalls or the rapids or both in Acorn Creek. I'm currently planning to make some ploppable water bodies in the State Park... for a start.

Btw, I don't know how to play bridge . Take care.

- Phil

[jacqulina 162]

hey david cheers for the link to my post lol,i enjoyed reading it again lol,thankyou,awesome work my friend so wonderfull and green and beautifull terraforming and i shall be popping back

[Zelgadis 638]

Oo, it's been awhile since I've been here.  I've lost touch with more than a few CJ's and I need to get back up to speed. 

I'm really enjoying all that you do here.  I have a lot of trouble myself building on mountains and having a look at this gives me ideas. 

ISF

[Gaston 0]

Okay David,    Maybe I missed it but did you post a link to Cycledogg's "Columbus"?    I can find Jeronij's version of Cycledogg's "columbus" but not the original.      Also before I load it ("it" being Jeronij's version), will it conflict with PEG's MTP,  any idea?   Oh yeah, I'm still looking for the slope mod as well.    Anyway,  I started using your rapids and waterfalls, and the terraforming technics you showed.   WOOHOO, I am actually getting something worth looking at.   I'll have to take a few screen shots and upload um for people to see your tutorials at work.    Well, gotta get up real ealry this week so off to bed.

[ElBarto92 7]

To Gatson, and anyone else who may need it, the BRF Tunnel and Slope Mod can be found attached to a post (by Vester_DK, I believe) on this page: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=41&threadid=44972&STARTPAGE=5&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linearlastunread

(sorry to steal that question from you, David...)

-Andrés

[dedgren 830]

Heavy-duty RL issues today (failure of septic field - OH, SH POOP!), so a few pics from the 3RR map lab...

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And the completed region map to date.

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Later.

[wouanagaine 83]

Hello David

What the hell are those contour lines !!! My god , I will test this right now !!!!!!!!! You're my god man !

And this map in JASC is really good, should take time to do this !

Reading 3RR is always an impressive experience. You gave me ( and I suppose to others also ) a lot of inspiration.

Take care

[anubis89 107]

awesome map, very realistic