Show us your Accomplishment!!

[waway625 72]

hi all, this is my new city

the urban core

the contiguous built up area (so far), the idea is to reach around 2 million population in the city center and 3 million for the metro area without building so many skyscrapers (dunno, i just want less of them)

the entire metro area see the large urban center and the small city to the right? (lol its so tiny eh?)

but between the two cities id be building more farms and mini cities so yeah its still a work in progress

Region config size is 68x26 pixels and JPEG size is 4353x1665

[jacqulina 162]

wow everyone has done awesome work here so beautifull

[Death54 3]

I just have to ask... how do you make cities that big? And realistic?

My big ones are jus huge grids with semi tall buildings at the center. It looks so messed up when theres a huge urdan center next to a undeveloped area I havent gotten around to.

[TM 0]

Well in reality, cities are for the most part, gridded. If you have google earth you can witness this first hand. Most of the U.S.'s cities are old and established over the years, so they'll be composed of a grand series of grid boxes in differing shapes and sizes, mostly rectangular shaped. Bout the only thing that isn't grid like in most major cities are the major highways. But even in regions like dallas-fort worth, the suburbs are all gridded. And in Phoenix, even the highways are to an extent, gridded.

Here are some recent pictures of my region I've been working on for the past couple years, but had a big 1 year break, so I guess I'll continue with my CJ if it's still here.

edit: I fixed your photos for you so that they would be right on the post instead of having people copy & paste. ___idiotbox

[Dsrwhat316 12]

well, i guess you can call this an accomplishment:

Capital City of Bevelle

Dunham

~ Dan

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, great job! I love the overpasses/underpasses. Great ponds there too.

[allez l'om 1]

very great cities!!!!

[dogma555 187]

Lot of nice work here.. Although im not a fan of the repetitive work with the same buildings appearing 3,4, sometimes 5 times in the same screen. I try to use one building once and maybe twice very far away from the first one.

[frogface 352]

Experimenting with the Street Addon Mod I tried to get the feel of something less developed

[Godzillaman 21]

Now that is one sexy city!

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

That's genius, frogface! Reminds me of some cities in India

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work everyone is doing here

[Smarty218 2]

Looks very Arabian. Nice job!

[bbfan02 23]

Great job Frogface!

[sithlrd98 66]

Looking great everyone...heres my attempt at some W2W ....

And I also don't usually do this but...Dsrwhat316,where did you get these walls/paths from?

[Dsrwhat316 12]

Originally posted by: sithlrd98 Dsrwhat316,where did you get these walls/paths from?

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Those are simple lots I found in the STEX. Just search for "European Sidewalk".

To get the foundations to form, I used the Lot Editor to tweak the numbers. It is better explained in the tutorial I made: click the link in my sig, or you can check out the updated tutorial over on SC4D's tutorial section. Hope that helps!

~ Dan

[sithlrd98 66]

Thank you sooooo much! I missed that in my search and thanks for the tutorial!

[Haljackey 17,355]

Ohhh... How I miss this old thread.  Heres something that makes me feel accomplished:

Click on the Image to View it in FULL RESOLUTION!

By the way, its part of my latest update in my CJ.  If you like what you see here, click the picture in my signature.

[dogma555 187]

looking good. heres a shot of my latest work:

[KingTitan 6]

These all look outstanding guys... dogma555?? What is the specific name to that stadium... I love the architecture of it...

[dogma555 187]

could not identify it, since its a japanese bat.. but I definetly remember it being on one of the main Asain BAT sites, and I beleive i originally found the link somewhere in the "cant find it, ask it here

" thread in the exchange forum.

[jacqulina 162]

amazing work guys your cities are so well planned

[Voulpiotis 4]

Amazing work there! Congratulations!

[atilla5 6]

traffic must be insane in those cities!! also did u guys use the CAM?

[dogma555 187]

Originally posted by: atilla5 traffic must be insane in those cities!! also did u guys use the CAM?quote>

traffic should never be a problem, since as a city grows, so does its mass transportation systems..

i began to implement a dual highway system, early to futureproof, one for local lanes (frequent exits and entrances) and the other for express lanes (only a few exits/entrances for major interchanges, and connectors between the two every so often) with a monorail system either in the middle or nearby. So far no traffic problems and 2 million sims in the region.

[Dsrwhat316 12]

hmm... notice anything unique here?

should be easy to spot...

~ Dan

[paulvmontfort 617]

you have sidewalk textures on the NAM s-turn puzzle piece?

[dogma555 187]

lol it could be quite a few things, since its basically 99% custom content.. besides the non SAM street in the bottom left hand corner.

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[masochist 111]

Geez, AK !  Time to visit your CJ...

In the meantime...here's an experiment in Tilt-Shift in SC4 that I've been posting everywhere in the past hour.

Here's the original photo:

And the one with the Tilt-Shift technique :

A larger (better looking) version, as well as links to tutorials that I followed, can be found on Pg. 3 of [this thread on SC4D] .