Three Rivers Region

[Gaston 0]

Wow David,

   All of this terraformed in a month.   Seems like alot to me.   Well if anyone can do it you can.

   And being that I am already a 3RR groupie [linkie] ,  I might as well be a roadie [linkie] instead.    You can include me on your list of potential victims colaborators.  

   

   We had snow here in Iowa before ya'll did in Alaska.   Hmmm.   Maybe hell did freeze over [linkie] . 

---Gaston

[patfirefghtr 160]

David that is something else hmmm 50 volutneers ehh??? ive been trying to do my cj but it has hit a bump in the road cause of an up grade to my system and and trying reload everything is not going to well sooo with set paramiters as u said with "plug in list" i would love to be a victim of the maddness with that in mind i do have to say here in Northwoods WI we already have had our first snow fall and its gone already but them are sure purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty pics i love snow lol and i dont know if Hell froze over yet [linkie]

[thundercrack83 0]

I think the idea of having lots of people collaborate on one big region is a great idea. Could you imagine the caliber of work if people like yourself and others worked on one region? I come in here, look around, and want to give up playing now, I can only think what it will be like if your ideas come to fruition! Hood luck and keep up the good work!

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Hey David, I like those Alaskan first snow pics. Out here in the east, we didn't have any snow yet, only for a moment, but we had a lot of inondations lately.

Although I don't show up often here, I mean by commenting, I hope you won't treat me as a lurker, even if I do .........lol

Your Cj is still one of my favourites and I don't have many of these, believe me or ask around....lol. Great stuff, great ideas and great pictures as always. Another *Must See* CJ on Simtropolis.

Once in awhile I somewhat steal your an idea from you, work it over my way and show it in my CJ,  I hope you don't mind. 

Keep it up Buddy and continue to amaze me.

mrbisonm

[ElBarto92 7]

David - I'd love to build a couple of quads in 3RR, but I'm not sure my computer could handle that big a region. Still, I'd be more than willing to give it a shot, put my name down as a potential colaborator, please! See ya later, gotta go get ready to watch the UM game...

-Andrés

[threestooges 0]

I would be interested in developing a few quads. I am curious,though, how the development would occur (if we would create a plan, or actually develop the quad ourselves). Great idea for 3RR and the cj ranking's list too. Be careful you don't burn out on it all though, though it's all good, it can overwhelm (as gaston has suggested elsewhere). Waiting to hear what comes next.

[Kokopelli 0]

You asked for lurkers to come forward so I will. I have been lurking here since the beginning. I find myself coming to this CJ several times a week to see what is new. I love the detail of our cities, learned quite a bit from your tutorials and I have been very interested in this mapping thing you have been doing. I too have been frustrated with the unrealistic compression of scale with Sim City. You made it clear when you were comparing population densities with the real maps and same size SC regions. Now this 256 tile region is unbelievable! I thought my 25 tile region was ambitious. It is going to be interesting to see how this region develops.

 

I wanted to jump in a couple weeks back when you wrote about studying maps and taking road trips as a kid. As it turns out, you and I were studying maps with a flash light under the covers in fairly close proximity. I was born and lived in the northern Chicago suburbs in the 50s. I remember many family road trips before Interstate highways to SW Florida down U.S. 41, through the beautiful mountains of eastern Tennessee, the boring slash pines of South Georgia and the endless scrub palmetto of Gulf Coast Florida. All we had for entertainment was AM radio and for comfort, 4/60 air conditioning (four windows open at 60 m.p.h.)

 

Keep up the excellent SC work and keep throwing in the Alaskan “eye candy” pictures. I enjoyed the pictures of the fall colors a week or so back. It almost made me miss living in a more temperate climate, but the pictures today reminded me why I don’t. I don’t like the cold! The climate here in El Paso is just about perfect. The winters aren’t too cold, the summers are not nearly as hot as Phoenix or as humid as Houston or South Florida and, if I really want to, I can “visit” snow in the New Mexico Mountains on weekends.

 

see ya

(sorry about the formading marks, but when I go back into edit mode they aren't there.)

I cleaned up your post again.  You need to remember if you're pasting from word to either use the "Paste from Word" button or the "Paste as Plain Text" button.  Thanks, choco.

[Yoman3 5]

Arent you going to freeze to death if you go trick or treating?

[dedgren 830]

...tonight's the night [ linkie ]...




75 quads to go!

Later.

[purpledaddy 6]

Well your subtitle said something about lurkers but necessarily newcomers, but here I am anyway, right in the middle of your diversion time!

Anyway at first glance I can tell that you really take a lot of pride in paying attention to detail.   And I'm sure I'd probably see more evidence of it the deeper I go into your journal.

Back to the diversion, Captain Jack is exactly why I am dreading my children becoming teenagers!

[moganite 4]

Interesting use of the SCTF colouring of terrains. it looks like your doing a ground survey afterr a satelite one . Can you keep some of that snow for us down here

[owenluby 1]

David you are a machine with a sense of humour...

[Zelgadis 638]

The red stuff makes your mountains look like volcanoes.    This wouldn't be that new terraforming tool, would it?  Wish I could use it. 

ISF

[dedgren 830]

1 to go!


...huh?

...

...standby...

...what is that?

...

...



...what is that?  ...get closer...



...

...oh, wait a minute...

...wrong button...

...


There!  That's better.

Later.

[crazychickensc12 84]

LoL dedgren!! very funny..congrats all 256 tiles completed...job well done!! can't wait to see where this goes!!

[patfirefghtr 160]

I second that David congrats on finishing the 256 tiles looooooved that little tile graphic sweeeeeeeeeeet

[tchaos713 5]

Nice!!! I will also volunteer to develop a few quads (maybe four at most). I do have Nutcracker coming up and you know what that means...

Don't you?

Oh, right... I'll have lots of free time.

Catch ya later...and I'll trade that snow for the horrendous rain we had last week.

[owenluby 1]

I couldn't even be bothered doing about a quarter of the numbers of tiles you did... most of them medium!

Impressive stuff David, can't wait to see the results!

wen

[thundercrack83 0]

Congatulations on getting all 256 tiles finished. Quite the feat!

[meldolion 1]

Congrats on finishing that Huge region!!!

I too I'd like to volunteer to develop some tile....

Good work!!!

[Nik-nik 3]

Congrats with your 256 !!!

You need victims heh? Well I am in give me square 37 or 38 (=random number)

Nik-Nik

brrr Cold in Alaska, but I guess you are used to it. This weekend in the Netherlands it was still almost 20 degrees but the end of the week we will have 9 degrees as a mid day maximum (that is Celcius not Fahrenheit).

[jacqulina 162]

hi david congrats on finishing that huge awesome map,very nice result

[purpledaddy 6]

Now that's what I call behind the scenes work!

[Peng74 1]

Congrats on finishing that huge map!

Now as you can see i'm fairly new to posting and commenting on the CJ's (i think this is my 104th post) so i am not sure if i qualify yet as a lurker. But i will wear my lurkers badge with pride just as soon as i receive it.

I am looking foward to see if you can fill that entire region dedgren, and i am sure you will not be short of volunteers.

[bat 6]

Congrats on opening all 256 "large game cities" one by one! Looking forward to the development.

bat

[wouanagaine 83]

Arrg I miss so much because of some stupid things happened on my phone line

If I could have been here sooner, I would have tell you to remove all your plugins to get the rendering way faster ( on my home pc, it tooks me 8 seconds to switch between city )

so 256*8 sec = 2048sec, well still long time but I bet you have take much than 34 min to render the new 3RR

anyway congrat on finishing it !

[Fred_Ginger 1]

I'm sure I've commented here before (if not, I'm sorry because I've meant to), you seem to have set up an ambitious plan, good luck with it! And, thank you for the beautiful photographs of Alaska in the snow, I love looking a pictures of snow. One of the reasons I make time to visit TRR is you humor, thank you for that too!

[dedgren 830]

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...and there you have it [ linkie ].

Now for some initial steps in terraforming.

I plan to terraform the region from the top left (the northwest corner) one row at a time to the east.

Here's 3RR16² as it stands this morning (10-30-06  8:30 a.m. AST  GMT-9).

I'll go back and forth between quads lining up the boundaries until I get them right, and then move on to the next one.  I won't terraform along the southern boundary until I'm ready to do the next row.

...and, of course, as you'll see in a minute, I changed this plan a little when I reached the eastern edge of the region.

Here's a closer view of the northwest corner area.

Here's two close ups of mountains that have been (at least initially) terraformed in the top row of quads up in the northwest corner.

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Here's a close up of the northeastern corner.  The highest elevations in the region will be in this area.

Two close up pics again follow.  You'll note in the first that I have moved into the second row (quads 17-32) with the terraforming.  The two green circles...

...those are actually ovals, truth be told...

...OK, ovals, identify places where the edge alignment of the two quads there still need to be completely matched up, which is a tedious back-and-forth procedure until it is right.   The green line at the bottom of the first pic is the approximate edge of the bottom of the second row.  Note that I have narrowed and substantially cleaned up the banks of the Roaring Fork river.

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Which peak do you think the 3RRGS has named Rayden Mountain?

I have plans for several things I will be doing in the next little bit (24-72 hours or so).  I plan to do some before-and-after comparisons of terraformed areas.  I will also do a presentation on river and stream widths (thank you again, Matt (threestooges) for bringing that issue to my attention).  Finally, I want very much to respond to the really great comments so many of you have left recently.

Later.

EDIT:  (10-31-06)  Changed format of some pics from PNG to JPG.  Sorry, Shadow, I was on a roll when I first posted this.  DE

[Tommy_Vercetti3 3]

Yeah ST just took a poo. Nice progress man.

[threestooges 0]

You're welcome. I'll keep coming up with things to make you work until you get back to that message you promised (just kidding... I wouldn't do that to you.) I'll do it b/c it makes the overall project better, and gets another great tutorial to boot. This is some impressive progress, you must have a pretty decent system (or a fair bit of time). There is one point I noticed (although it is likely you've already taken care of it) in the pic of Rayden Mountain, the river breaks up at the narrowest point. Can't wait to see the final terraform and the start of the flora detailing. Keep it up.