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Texas - Cities

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Today, we're taking a trip to the "Lone Star State" - Texas - and visiting its five largest cities. With scenes from some of the state's most iconic cites like Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Fort Worth - we have quite the trip planned. We'll start off in Dallas - this modern metropolis is the state's third largest city and is located in the heart of the state's oil industry. Since the city's founding in 1841, its evolved into an important cultural and commercial hub of the region.

 

Downtown Dallas

 

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Magnolia Building

 

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Fountain Place

 

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About 30 miles west of Dallas is our next stop - Fort Worth. Established in 1849 as an army outpost overlooking the Trinity River, the city has historically long been a center of the cattle trade. Although the city's downtown is smaller compared to some of the state's other major cities, there's still plenty to do and it boasts a number of noteworthy buildings.

 

Bass Performance Hall

 

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We now visit the capital of Texas - Austin. After growing steadily throughout the 1800s, the city became an important center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas. Today, the city is growing rapidly once again - and by some reports is the country's fastest growing city. The skyline is also drastically changing as well, with plenty of modern high rises popping up in recent years.

 

The Independent & Downtown Austin

 

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Our next stop is another one of the state's most iconic cities - San Antonio. The state's second largest city was founded in 1718 as a Franciscan mission and is site of the famed Alamo, which was captured by Mexican forces in 1836. San Antonio also boasts some of the state's most unique and noteworthy architecture, with many buildings reflecting the city's Spanish, Mexican, and French roots.

 

Nighttime in San Antonio

 

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The Alamo

 

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Tower Life Building

 

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Tower of the Americas

 

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We wrap up with a visit to the state's largest city - Houston. This large metropolis in Southeast Texas was founded in 1836 and lies northwest of Galveston Bay - and is named after the hero of San Jacinto, Sam Houston. Today, it's one of the United States' most important industrial, financial, and industrial centers.

 

Lyndon B. Johnson NASA Space Center

 

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Some typical Texan suburbs

 

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Port of Houston

 

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Great Southwest Building

 

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Toyota Center

 

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Minute Maid Park

 

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Reliant Stadium

 

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Fulbright Tower

 

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Houston Overview

 

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Nice job.....!    That "Green Building" sure is iconic - I've got it in a few of my cities.  :)

 

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Thanks for the comment @RobertLM78!

I've always loved the Bank of America Plaza's lighting, been waiting for a while to put it to good use *;)

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Proof that Texas is more than just cowboys: this CJ entry. :thumb:

Is the Toyota Center logo part of the prop or was it added in?

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Everything is bigger in Texas, even the mosaics needed to show it properly! :thumb:

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      Cool entry , I never realized Texas had so much going on . Great images .

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@Androgeos Thank you very much for the comment! I believe the Toyota Center's logo is BATed on and can be found here on the STEX.

@TekindusT I knew since I was doing Texas, it needed to be a Texas sized update as well! *:thumb: Thanks for the comment!

@Bastet69008 *:thumb:

@raynev1 Thanks for the nice words! *:)

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Wow - you build 5 cities in the time it takes me to find a single building in the menu that I want plopped. Unreal!

Fantastic work again!

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Beautiful city and night view.
Where can I get the americas tower, and the tower meeting, in addition to the building shown in this image?, Thank you.

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Thanks for the comment @Kingdom city!

The Tower of the Americas can be found here on the STEX.

I'm not sure what the Tower Meeting is, you'd need to be more specific on that one.

The Independent (circled building) is a custom BAT I was working on - it's not really finished yet and still a WIP but if you really want it (or any one else for that matter) send me a PM and I'll send you a copy *:)

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Once again, amazing work! It's funny, I was considering requesting you do Austin in a journal, but you beat me to it. I've lived in 3 of those 4 cities, so I was excited to see that you made this entry!! 

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Yep, bigger than life. The night pictures and the mosaics are run-of-the-mill korver, i.e. amazing *:party:. As well as the close-ups. I see (sigh) that in the States too, commercial advertising has taken over, i.e. big corps' logos on everything they own or subsidize -- culture and sports, mostly, eh ? At least, before, it was patrons' names, i.e. human beings (or almost human beings). Ah well.

One of the thing that is kind of heartbreaking *:) in your entries is that we see wonderful bats, hope they're somewhere on an SC4 site and... don't find them because you magicked them into being only for your journals. For instance, the Bass Performance Hall. Is there any chance you (or someone) might really bat that one ?

And therefore I, for one, would be interested in getting the Independent...

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@tariely Thanks for the nice words -the Bass Hall can be found here on the LEX here. The reason why I haven't been able to release more stuff is for a couple of reasons. First off, not much of what I've made is in any sort of final, releasable state yet - i.e. the BAT might look decent enough for a couple zoomed out pics in the CJ, but the fine details still need lots of work and fine tuning to look presentable up close. Also, for the CJ I generally don't spend a lot of time doing endless tweaking to textures and modeling before rendering a BAT for use in the game, so everything's still in a bit of a WIP state - so it would also need work in that regard. Also, I want to properly lot, mod, and give night lights to everything. And finally some of the stuff I use wasn't even made by me so I might not be able to share it, depending on the situation.

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I understand perfectly. It's already amazing that you find the time to build all those cities and landscapes and CJ them ; if you were to ALSO make and upload the bats you use it would be [insert superlative here]. Thank you for the Bass Hall link !

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Impressive work, that downtown is a powerhouse. Great buildings, great spacing and placement.

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