Natalie's SC4 Paris

Looking forward to see how much more you will venture in the wonderful SC4 world!

If something is more fun than playing SC4 is building a CJ. You can do anything here :-)

Paris is a diagonal challenge. Good luck and show us!

There's a ton of Parisian BATs out there. Enjoy!

Good luck with all of the diagonal buildings!

You should terraform that terrain to make it look more realistic and combine this with a slope mod you'll see, the results are terrific!

You also should use DuskTrooper's Maxis block building

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/16393-block-all-maxis-buildings-by-dusktrooper/

It will prevent these Maxis buildings from growing and they will be replace by Parisian buildings

 

That's an old list, I'm not sure it is fully updated, but take a look at it, you have a list of French buildings:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=2883.0

 

Last but not least, use a photo hosting site like imgur, flickr, LD-host or photobucket ;)

Looking forward to see more Paris ;)

You should terraform that terrain to make it look more realistic and combine this with a slope mod you'll see, the results are terrific!

You also should use DuskTrooper's Maxis block building

http://community.sim...by-dusktrooper/

It will prevent these Maxis buildings from growing and they will be replace by Parisian buildings

 

That's an old list, I'm not sure it is fully updated, but take a look at it, you have a list of French buildings:

http://sc4devotion.c...hp?topic=2883.0

 

Last but not least, use a photo hosting site like imgur, flickr, LD-host or photobucket ;)

Looking forward to see more Paris ;)

 

Thanks for the link to the buildings list. I have a lot of them, but it's nice to have a neat and organized list.

 

I do have the Block Maxis mod, just haven't installed it yet. I kind of jumped the gun and was like, I wanna see some life! LOL So I zoned a few areas.

 

Any specific tips for what areas I should terraform? I like the map but the river edges are really blah to me. Too blocky. I was thinking of looking at some of the Simpeg mods for the river banks.

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3051

 

Xannepan has made a set for the river banks of Paris, exactly what you are looking for :) I never used it because I don't work with European cities, but it's really good looking.  The only issue might be the diagonal areas since I don't know if this set includes diagonal walls.

 

As for the terraforming, there are many tutorials available on youtube. The idea is basically to have equally flat areas. Apart from the Montmarte area, the very heart of Paris is flat.

 

I personally would have everything at the same height. For the areas that don't have any water you could just use the ''quick level brush'' with the God mode and everything will instantly have the same height. For the parts of the city that are closer to the river, I would use the same tool but with the mayor mode. In order not to modify the shores of the river, you should use simple terraforming by plopping roads like this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivrxGnPOZF8

 

It is time consuming, but very effective and the result will be more pleasing