The Jade Bight -- For Sc4

Looks great!  Good luck on the canal locks

The industrial and port areas are top notch once again!

One thing I can think of is trying a different set of trees, maybe use more of girafe's trees or perhaps create grassland and meadow areas instead to break up the constant woodland?

Great Canal building, very nice Canal parks, Old Kiel Canal or german name Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal,.locks are 125 m x 22 m, that´s about 20 x 2 tiles quit uit available lock bat´s, new locks later added are 310 m x 42 m wide as this wasn´t enough a fifth lock will be added wich has a dimension of 330 m x 42 m wide masive ships to handle !  At Rendsburg they got a giant spiral on one side for the railway to ascend the height. Hoch brucke has a masive height of 56 m above canal level and lenght of 2.2 km long, just about a realistic airway´s runway ! All out of proportions for thie tile, still some space left for a more gradual ascend. Nice hotel and condo´s, well done !

I second Lnx re trees (I was just visiting my Flora folder and there as SO many wonderful tree MMPs and packs you could use (you know where to find them, hint:-). Apart from that, I can only say : nicer and nicer ; the canal looks realistically busy - and yes indeed we would need bigger locks (I'm surprised there ain't none anywhere !)

I'm thinking a slope mod would beneficial.

It really sucks that there aren't any large canal locks. It's something I've wanted for a really long time. Nice work.

It looks good overall! I like the general layout. Hopefully you find a solution for the canals.

A criticism I have have is that the grade of the highway and railway is very extreme. Considering the large increase in elevation you are creating, both networks should have a considerable buildup (especially the rails).

Oh, forgot to ask; what's the deal with the back-end of that container ship? It looks deformed. I remember when I was lining out ships for my Capistrano port and I plopped that one a decided not to use it because it looked so bizarre. Any ideas what was intended there?

1 hour ago, gviper said:

Oh, forgot to ask; what's the deal with the back-end of that container ship? It looks deformed. I remember when I was lining out ships for my Capistrano port and I plopped that one a decided not to use it because it looked so bizarre. Any ideas what was intended there?

Yo, gviper --

If you zoom-in on the ship image and rotate it -- it gets a bit more clear.  Apparently -- it was "batted" as a "RoRo" ship (Roll on - Roll off) and the funny looking thing at the stern is a drive-on ramp (in the "up" position) that leads from the pier to the first enclosed deck beneath the bridge superstructure.  It is a bit odd.  I've never seen a container ship (or even a picture of one) with a "RoRo" ramp as well.

BTW -- how did the entry look to you ?

Looking good! I like what you did with the Maxis mid rises, it blends into it's surroundings nicely! One thing I would've done would be to send the railway underground across the canal, those ramps look scary!!

Other then that it all looks awesome!!

3 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, gviper --

If you zoom-in on the ship image and rotate it -- it gets a bit more clear.  Apparently -- it was "batted" as a "RoRo" ship (Roll on - Roll off) and the funny looking thing at the stern is a drive-on ramp (in the "up" position) that leads from the pier to the first enclosed deck beneath the bridge superstructure.  It is a bit odd.  I've never seen a container ship (or even a picture of one) with a "RoRo" ramp as well.

BTW -- how did the entry look to you ?

Lookin' pretty sharp man! You are quite the active CJer too!

I'm still keeping a watchful eye upon your developments.

Good to see there is still a unique feeling here, some of the coastal detail is incredible.

For me, I'm still not liking the bridges though :(. I know you need to go high to accommodate the vessels below, but sloping right down so sharply really stands out. I've put together a little sample with 2 different approaches you might consider. The bridge here is at 45.5m in height, but 15.5m of that is due to using a raised-viaduct bridge, designed to connect with the viaduct pieces. The red dots show where I've transitioned the viaduct rail to ground-based rail.

^{CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE}

On the left I've gone the whole hog to get the rail to ground level. You don't have to use quite such a restrictive slope for this, so you could make the 270 bend in a smaller radius. I've flattened each 90 degree bend, with the slopes in-between. Obviously this requires a lot of terraforming to look good, but you could make the slopes blend into the terrain, making it just a natural hill the rail has to traverse. After a small tunnel under the slope, you could have any rail freight facilities and ports. Since there is plenty of ground level to work with.

On the right, I've taken a different approach, obviously it's no use when the rail needs to meet the water's edge though. However, it allows me to get the rail from a very high bridge into a nice transition. Simply by terraforming the land to conform to what I'm trying to build. As opposed to letting the terrain dictate what must go where. So the land by the river can still be used, again I've made a simple road tunnel run through the slope, so the slope doesn't cut one side off from the other.

If you think it would be helpful, now I've got my eye in as it were, I could record some footage of me building this, to show the process in more detail. It's a bit difficult to explain well in a static tutorial really. In any case, I hope if nothing else this provides you with some inspiration.

5 hours ago, rsc204 said:

I'm still keeping a watchful eye upon your developments.

Good to see there is still a unique feeling here, some of the coastal detail is incredible.

For me, I'm still not liking the bridges though :(. I know you need to go high to accommodate the vessels below, but sloping right down so sharply really stands out. I've put together a little sample with 2 different approaches you might consider. The bridge here is at 45.5m in height, but 15.5m of that is due to using a raised-viaduct bridge, designed to connect with the viaduct pieces. The red dots show where I've transitioned the viaduct rail to ground-based rail.

^{CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE}

On the left I've gone the whole hog to get the rail to ground level. You don't have to use quite such a restrictive slope for this, so you could make the 270 bend in a smaller radius. I've flattened each 90 degree bend, with the slopes in-between. Obviously this requires a lot of terraforming to look good, but you could make the slopes blend into the terrain, making it just a natural hill the rail has to traverse. After a small tunnel under the slope, you could have any rail freight facilities and ports. Since there is plenty of ground level to work with.

On the right, I've taken a different approach, obviously it's no use when the rail needs to meet the water's edge though. However, it allows me to get the rail from a very high bridge into a nice transition. Simply by terraforming the land to conform to what I'm trying to build. As opposed to letting the terrain dictate what must go where. So the land by the river can still be used, again I've made a simple road tunnel run through the slope, so the slope doesn't cut one side off from the other.

If you think it would be helpful, now I've got my eye in as it were, I could record some footage of me building this, to show the process in more detail. It's a bit difficult to explain well in a static tutorial really. In any case, I hope if nothing else this provides you with some inspiration.

Yo, guy --

VERY NICE OF YOU TO DROP IN !!!  And thanx for your comments !!!

The picture has, indeed, provided inspiration.  And THANK YOU for going to all that trouble just to demonstrate the possibilities.

Having seen this -- I will now have to devote a few hours to toying with viaduct rail to see if I can figure out how to use it !!  Nam still has many secrets I haven't explored.

Nice to hear from you -- !!

1 hour ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo, guy --

VERY NICE OF YOU TO DROP IN !!!  And thanx for your comments !!!

The picture has, indeed, provided inspiration.  And THANK YOU for going to all that trouble just to demonstrate the possibilities.

Having seen this -- I will now have to devote a few hours to toying with viaduct rail to see if I can figure out how to use it !!  Nam still has many secrets I haven't explored.

Nice to hear from you -- !!

It's not too hard. I'll talk you through what I did here.

1. Build the bridge, just drag the regular rail across, but select a 15.5m bridge for viaducts.
2. Drag straight rail from the bridge where you want the viaducts to go.
3. Fill in any diagonals, curves, crossings or non-straight pieces now. Adjusting the dragged rail where needed.
4. Lastly, just plop a viaduct rail piece (straight over empty tile) on top of each tile of rail. Because you are plopping on top of rail, it will always auto-orient, so you can get everything in place with ease.

Remember the on-slope transition is 15.5m higher than ground level, there are appropriate raisers included with the NAM.