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Wow. That is absolutely gorgeous! You make the most realistic scenes that I've ever seen in SC4!

I do have a question - what MMP(s) did you use to make the curvy rural roads with the solid white line down the middle?

 

Thanks The roads were made with some painstaking plopping of ChrisAdams MMP paths and the white lines were added in after the fact in photoshop.

-korver

These are amazing

 

Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

-korver

Great detail and amazing quality as usual. Question though, how much of these images is in the city, and how much is photoshopped? Keep up the good work.

 

Do keep in mind that generally, if there's something new you haven't seen before in my updates - that means I probably created it from scratch. For example, for this update I created a new terrain mod, 3 or 4 rock mods, new Athenian road textures, 100+ custom lots,  a handful of custom MMPs, lots of MMP modding, so on and so forth to get the sort of hyper realism I want. In addition to things like the rural roads which are painstakingly plopped by hand in the game using ChrisAdams MMP and takes hours to create. So there isn't really that much photoshop going on. Thanks for the comment

-korver

Beautiful as always! Great Work!

 

Thanks Phil!

-korver

Totally stunning! Okay, some buildings of the Athen´s Acropolis seem not to be availlable but the ruins of Tholos, and Athens itself with the ugly buildings and the massive traffic jam, they remind me again to my travel there. Great stuff!

 

Thanks, glad you liked it so much.

-korver

@korver That makes me me even more impressed at this entry (and CJ as a whole).  Sometimes you see SC4 pictures that have been edited so much, in terms of adding objects, that they are hardly real. Also, the fact that you go to the effort to make all the custom content really shows dedication to realisim. That response has impressed just as much as the entry, and in someways, knowing that, makes the actual SC4 content even better and even more appreciated.

 

Thanks

-korver

Postcards from Greece, indeed very nice the city like temple and acropolis, rough landscape´s and the torn of the god´s , well done !

 

Thanks for your nice comments and continued support of this CJ.

-korver

Very, very good!

 

Thanks for the comment.

-korver

I'm going to Athens and Santorini this summer in holidays, but I guess now I can just cancel the flights. Already saw Greece with this update!!

Has our most prominent Greek resident (@Terring) seen this?

 

Wow, I'm jealous. I'm not much of a traveler, soo this is the next best thing for me Thanks for the comment.

-korver

Oh boy, that's awesome! This is one of the best recreations (if not the best) of Greece in Simcity 4 I've ever seen. Well done!!

Ω φίλε, είναι τέλειο! Είναι απ' τις καλύτερες απεικονίσεις (αν όχι η καλύτερη) της Ελλάδας στην Εξομοιούπολη 4 που έχω δει ποτέ. Εύγε!!

 

I was actually wondering if I would ever see you here once I first saw you were from Greece - nice to see it has your stamp of approval

-korver

Dude, that's again amazing!

 

Thanks for the kind words.

-korver

Very impressive. The Tholos of Delphi image was particularly beautiful. 

I'm impressed you make your own lots, props and mods to complement the excellent photoshop work. A wonderful CJ 

 

Thank you, glad you appreciate all the hard work that goes into this CJ.

-korver

Stunning as usual. Tholos of Delphi and Meteora were definitely my top picks from this update.

 

Can't go wrong with either of those two, glad ya liked em

-korver

Your attention to details is stratospheric  and absolutely awe inspiring!

 

Thank you for the kind words!

-korver

Just. Simply. Wow. All of them are top ones for me. They're not only among the best I've ever seen, they are equal in greatness.greatness . Unbelievable. 

 

And, btw

Quote

"I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness."
-Themistocles

I now am of the opinion that you raised the city of Athens to its glory and greatness. 

 

Thanks for the comment - I was actually thinking of you when I chose that quote which is why I chose it lol, I was like "wait.. that name sounds familiar

-korver

Well, what can I say? I've been to Athens once, I've been to Santorini, and I've seen some of the monasteries of Meteora... now this makes me feel like returning. You did an amazing job recreating these sceneries and capturing their charm.

 

Thank you, nice to hear that my pictures can have that sort of effect.

-korver

Extremely realistic!  I especially like the Metora, Greece picture.  It looks photo-realistic.

So you mentioned in one of your responses that you actually created custom losts, mmp, terrain and rock mods.  Any chance that you have submitted any of the content on STEX or LEX?

 

Thanks for the comment - unfortunately, none of my stuff is exactly user friendly, which is the main obstacle in terms of releasing things. For example, my lots.. they're a complete mess in terms of dependencies. For example my one Djenne market lot I made a while back had something like 65 dependencies when I viewed it in the reader, and I don't even remember where exactly I got all of them.. Same could be said for pretty much all my other stuff. And my MMPs are equally chaotic, countless poorly documented MMPs with all sorts of random additions made like occupant sizes, cluster sizes, slope modding etc so I probably wouldn't even be able to tell you what exactly you were downloading, what dependencies were needed, or what additions were made. So yeah, unfortunately I currently have bigger issues at hand like understanding modding better and (most importantly) cleaning up my nasty, nasty plugins folder(s) But maybe sometime down the road we'll see.

-korver

No matter how many times you'd argue, there's no way you'll fully convince me these weren't photos just shot from a plane. It's that realistic! 

 

Thanks for the comment

-korver

Really lovely! Thanks for sharing! I especially appreciated the mountain top monastery!!

 

Appreciate the comment, Meteora is probably my favorite pic I made as well

-korver

Left me speechless

 

Glad you liked it.

-korver

My F>G!! Your talent is amaizing! So nice rural effect!

The day, SC became this, we'll have reach nirvana.

Congr, mate!!

 

Thank you, I appreciate it. Takes forever to do some of those rural areas, but the hard work pays off

-korver

IM in awwwwe of your masterful work korver!!!! I know the pains it takes to create such masterpiece of work but the enjoyment of making it I think is the best part honestly!!! Im hoooked for sure now to follow where you go and how you do the journey as well!!!

 

Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it!

-korver

Excellent work once again, first mosaic is breath taking!

Not a big fan of the stretched rock texture though, it kinda detract from the scenery and frankly the mount fitz roy update suffered from the same issue imho. However, since the rest of the terrain is pretty much covered by MMPs you might want to play around with the texture scaling factor in the terrain controller and see if you can arrive at a less stretched look.

That being said, SC4 ruins have never looked this gorgeous!!

Great work, looking forward to more!

 

Thanks for the comment. Fixed it for ya

-korver

Really Amazing !!!

 

Thanks for the comment.

-korver

thank you for an enjoyable trip to Greece    I hope that you will upload some of your custom stuff   it looks fantastic and there just isn't enough Greek content in SC4

 

Glad you liked it!

-korver