The Dells

For close up screenshots you can turn off or change the "depth of field" option in graphics settings. That's what setting tells the game's "camera" to focus differently based on how far apart you want the closest and farthest object in focus to be from each other. When you are far away building stuff, most objects are a more similar distance from one another; when you are down at street level, the closest objet is very close and the farthest is very far, so you want to have a different depth of field setting. http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/fototech/htmls/depth.html

Turning down the film grain effect will make it a bit clearer as well. You can also take a 4x size screenshot if you aren't doing that already. That will momentarily pause the simulation, render a frame at 4x and save it, then go back to whatever the game was doing. Helps the edges and corners look better.

The sunken highway looks great! I've never tried one with walls, only with natural slopes on the sides so far.

 

That's a great tip, matthewscott6615.  I've had the same issue and just never took the time to monkey with it.

I agree about the sunken highway, too.  You'll recall that it took a couple of years before sunken highway custom content was available in SC4 (or maybe not, depending on when you started playing the game).  The fact that you can create something like what's shown in your images in less than a year after C:S was first published says volumes about the potential there.

 

David

For close up screenshots you can turn off or change the "depth of field" option in graphics settings. That's what setting tells the game's "camera" to focus differently based on how far apart you want the closest and farthest object in focus to be from each other. When you are far away building stuff, most objects are a more similar distance from one another; when you are down at street level, the closest objet is very close and the farthest is very far, so you want to have a different depth of field setting. http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/fototech/htmls/depth.html

Turning down the film grain effect will make it a bit clearer as well. You can also take a 4x size screenshot if you aren't doing that already. That will momentarily pause the simulation, render a frame at 4x and save it, then go back to whatever the game was doing. Helps the edges and corners look better.

The sunken highway looks great! I've never tried one with walls, only with natural slopes on the sides so far.

 

Thank you so much! I'll try that out for my next post!

That's a great tip, matthewscott6615.  I've had the same issue and just never took the time to monkey with it.

I agree about the sunken highway, too.  You'll recall that it took a couple of years before sunken highway custom content was available in SC4 (or maybe not, depending on when you started playing the game).  The fact that you can create something like what's shown in your images in less than a year after C:S was first published says volumes about the potential there.

 

David

Yeah, I remember it taking quite some time. I played for the quite a few years from its release, but slowly stopped when the amount of add-ons and tracking them and all that got to be too much. I like how the Workshop keeps things organized for me. lol

I like how the Workshop keeps things organized for me. lol

Me too. No more having to check manually for updates.

Your CJ is really cool, btw! Exactly how I hope my city looks when it's a bit bigger.

  Edited November 8, 2015 by gfv1974