Ionica

Nice entry . It looks pretty cool .

Spectacular! These images are simply living and active candy to the eyes! I desperately want to see some night shots of the first series. The precipitation in the shots lends me to feel the lighting is a bit too bright, but then again, perhaps it's an isolated shower moving through the area and sunbreaks are all around. Hey, that would beckon for a rainbow effect, course that might not be possible with Photoshop (I dunno) but if pulled off would be merely window dressing on an otherwise fabulous presentation!

"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..." I like the strange cheerfulness of those pictures.:-)

The public green areas and plazas look amazing as do the ancient monuments and canal areas. Malory Park is one hell of a bat, mind you the sunken stuff done right is always great. I do have a query though- have you ever considered changing the pavement textures? Gobias' HD Sidewalk Mod contains ten different pavements, as a bonus it also changes the Maxis pavement textures for any other lot or bat.

As always though you have some spot-on city design.

Looking awesome! Too bad about the rain... still an awesome place to visit. Now to pack my bags and head to the nearest stargate!

I need one of those Stargates, to travel to Ionica in RL.

Looking great, I especially like how you've integrated the stadium. BTW, what the name of the seawall pack in the second image? Thanks. Keep up the amazing work!  

Cool title and nice change in ambiance with the rainfall. I'm a bit curious about that weird looking road bridge in the 3rd image... not sure I'd feel comfortable driving over that one!

Don't get me wrong- I love fall trees and other flora and was an early advocate for their use in SC4.  But if you are going to use seasonal stuff it needs to be consistent across your gamesquare- it shouldn't be fall in one place and summer on the lots next door.  I know from experience that doing this is a huge task. But it is that sort of attention to detail that is the difference between an interesting pic and a compelling one.  As long as I am in critic mode here, your use of the fall trees would have been greatly improved by randomly rotating them when you placed each tree.  The trees in front of St. Michael's Chapel and around the Temple of Zeus illustrate this point.

Again, don't get me wrong.  I really like this CJ.  But such is life- often the reward for a good performance is to be asked to step up one's game and make the next one truly great.

 

David

  Edited December 4, 2015 by dedgren  

Atlantis feel, about ! Posseidon raising from the deep; skyscraper like, stadium australian football ? Some trees don´t have such a big seasonal change still something to watch out for, but for the all over view not real disturbing. Like the canal parks with the raised plateau connections, well done !

Don't get me wrong- I love fall trees and other flora and was an early advocate for their use in SC4.  But if you are going to use seasonal stuff it needs to be consistent across your gamesquare- it shouldn't be fall in one place and summer on the lots next door.  I know from experience that doing this is a huge task. But it is that sort of attention to detail that is the difference between an interesting pic and a compelling one.  As long as I am in critic mode here, your use of the fall trees would have been greatly improved by randomly rotating them when you placed each tree.  The trees in front of St. Michael's Chapel and around the Temple of Zeus illustrate this point.

Again, don't get me wrong.  I really like this CJ.  But such is life- often the reward for a good performance is to be asked to step up one's game and make the next one truly great.

 

David

I actually disagree. In real life, trees get their autumnal leaves at various times, the process takes serveral weeks or even months for every deciduous tree to change from green to orange leaves. It's not like it happens at the click of a switch! I would argue this actually increases realism, but as always, that's just my opinion.