Entry 48 -- Pololomia- M7 Highway plus MMP Fields Tutorial!

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Entry posted by The British Sausage · June 5, 2019

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mattb325: Thanks for that! Also keep on churning out those BATs; it makes my life easier when I infill cities.

Vigilante1987: Cheers! Yeah, this next entry I'll explain in brief how to use MMPs to create fields.

raynev1: It's a good slope mod and the fact it comes with three different maximum slope adds flexibility. I personally use the middle one. This mod is a must-have for creating sloping city areas.

Garbanzo: Ha ha! Thanks for your comment.

PaPa-J: Thanks again for the comments! The houses are largely a mixture of C.P.'s Early 19th Century Residential Housing and Victorian Houses plus Simcoug's Diagonal houses.

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Entry 48: Pololomia- M7 Highway

This entry is largely a rural entry and I explain once again the basics of using MMPs for the creation of farms and fields.

Please keep in mind that creating fields with MMPs is a slow process, each field takes about 15 to 30 minutes to complete. This also takes a lot of practice, and a steady hand, and this method does not come naturally. It took me two years to work out how to use flora MMPs for fields and pastures and forests; even now I'm still learning new techniques and new combinations.

But when done right... You get great grid-busting rural scenes!

Enjoy!

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For MMPs I reccomend downloading all of girafe's flora and Chrisadams3997's Pasture Flora (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886).

Most of the fields you see here use girafe's and Chrisadams3997's flora MMPs.

This field is created by first laying down White Flowers (Chrisadams3997), then green grass (Chrisadams3997) and then dirt (Ionionion's OMCO gravel- https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/25709-omco-filling-gravel/

You can place the MMPs right next to the road without any soil and it will look good.

The olive yard is created using kergelen's Mediterranean trees (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27973-mmp-mediterranean-cp-trees-krg-selection/); next I add in Heblem gravel (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3102)to make the olive yard more distinctive.

Sometimes the original Maxis fields can be used by plopping them in; just make sure to MMP over the edges if you're creating a grid-busting field!

The wide gravel paths use the original Heblem gravel MMPs (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/24399-hbs-tropical-flora-pack-mayor-mode/), then Heblem's small gravel MMPs (see the link below picture 5); the overlap of Ionionion's OMCO gravel is an added bonus!

The secret to MMP fields is mixing two or more flora MMPs together and then adding in some MMP dirt for the earth textures.

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Rose fields are easy to create: first lay down grass (Chrisadams3997) and then start painting in Girafe's rose MMPs. Add in some dirt and the job is done.

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The field to the left is created using green grass (larger grass MMP and Chrisadams3997) and then yellow flowers (Chrisadams3997) and then OMCO dirt.

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There are dozens of different combinations of flora MMPs and thus dozens of different kind of fields.

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It is slow-going though but the end result is that organic look!

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Another MMP technique I use is the creating of dirt field perimeters. First I lay down some bushes (Girafe) and berry bushes (Girafe) I use Heblem gravel and OMCO dirt to complete the scene.

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There also ways of bringing to life the bush MMPs.

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For the darker green and red bushes I use sparaxis (Girafe) flowers, which are red and purple, to improve the look; for the lighter green berry bushes I use narcissus (Girafe), these are white and yellow.

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