True Earth

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That overview shot at the top......... doesn't even seem to be in the usual isometric view 😲  😲  😲  😲 

Yeah - the disparity is more pronounced down south - though we're quickly catching up here in North America.  

 

Excellent work as usual!   Thanks for sharing! 

Thanks @RobertLM78!

It's a region view - unfortunately I haven't found out how to enable 3d view yet..

Glad you enjoyed the pictures

These post just keep getting better and better, still in awe of your London post.  Your pictures look so full of life, especially the beach photos.

Thank you very much @dabadon5! Appreciate the nice words

The Wonderful city deserved a wonderful work!

Amazing job!

Thanks @Bastet69008!

Your Copacabana pictures were certainly an inspiration on this update

Ah @korver, setting ridiculous new standards without breaking a sweat. Seriously, that region view can't be an in game shot. Is it?

Thanks @mike_oxlong!

It's a region view - but not your "traditional" region shot. I pretty much created my own little terrain mod where I replaced the grass textures with textures made from aerial pictures of Rio, and changed the texture scaling around so it would make the texture cover pretty much the entire length of the tile and give it the illusion of being actual development. From there I speed plopped a bunch of random skyscrapers in some of the more crowded areas to give it a little more detail and depth. To be honest it looks rather awful up close - but it looks real good from the region view where it matters

Huge.

Change that E to an S and you get hugs.

Awesome photos-...err, screenshots of Rio!

Hey! I loved your screenshots. Your Region view made me doubt if that's real or a SimCity 4 screenshot. Your textures are just awesome! 

I live in the Metropolitan region of Rio.

I know that will sounds a little picky but I have some things to say. 

Geographical stuff:

I don't know if it was because of the map the you selected, or another thing but your regional view deleted an important area of the city, (the West zone) and added cities of the metropolitan area to Rio (Duque de Caxias and Niterói).

Missed the "University city", the biggest public university on Rio, located on the Fundão Island.

Missed the Airport in the City center.

Transportation Stuff:

Maracanã is not just one of the biggest landmarks of the city, but one of the greatest hubs too. I missed so much SuperVia train system and the line 2 of the Subway 

Still in Maracanã, missed the Radial Oeste, one of the biggest arterial avenues in the city.

 

Thanks for the comment @f3cs! Appreciate the feedback.

I take it you read my comment to mike_oxlong - the method I chose to make the region view used a terrain mod to simulate "development" and it was literally impossible to get it to line up 100% perfectly with the RL view, sorry.

As for the areas around Maracana - I'm trying to make my updates a little shorter these days, the last ones got out of hand and took nearly 100 hrs of work and Rio was already getting pretty big with 9 pics. Please remember this is a global recreation CJ and there's plenty of other places on my to-do list, so I couldn't do a 100% complete recreation of the entire Rio metropolitan area, sorry about that.

Thanks for the nice words @Androgeos!

I'm glad you enjoyed the update!

I look forward to your updates. Amazing! 5/5

Thank you very much for the support @tonyr!

I can't figure out how you managed to make this overview shot at the beginning - I don't even have a vague idea. Great as usual

Moar epicness from korver!!

(Is it me or these favela lots look like Maxis brown boxes seen from afar?)

@Krasner Only a little bit of the region shot are actual buildings and BATs - it's made up mostly of a custom terrain mod thats made to look like a city instead of grassland (I used aerial pics of Rio instead of grass textures in the custom terrain mod, I hope that makes sense). Thanks for the comment!

@TekindusT Now that you mention it I do a little resemblance.. Appreciate the comment and nice words!