Lower Manhattan and the Projects
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Vigilante1987: Thanks! I also break up the houses with different lotsizes too.
Dead_End: No it doesn't, the only graphical "issue" with transparent textures on lots is when you get the background sky glitch after saving. This can be easily removed by switching to the zone view and then switching back to normal.
mattb325: Thanks! And I always like the new buildings you churn out, it makes my life easier! It's also cohesive because I extensively use lots which have C.P. trees, plus I use SFBT Street Mod which also has C.P. trees.
Takingyouthere: Thanks, I'm still going strong and I have at least several new entries worth of content ready to go. Cindersville is getting closer to being complete plus I'm having a hell of a great time recreating New York (The Big Mango), so there's still plenty of things to keep me going with SC4. I've seen you recently appear so hopefully that means new CJ entries from you too- I like your work!
Goldman Sachs: Thanks for your comment! I've seen your first NY building and it's definitely looking promising. Are you actually serious about creating the same building in two angles, presumably diagonal and FA? Because that's a seriously huge amount of work!!!
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Entry 54: Lower Manhattan and the Projects
We're back to The Big Mango and the New York recreation. In about a week I've made a huge amount of progress and the Manhattan part of the city tile is at least halfway complete. So enjoy some more NY goodiness!
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About a week ago I had completed most of Lower Manhattan and was beginning to build the "skyscraper valley" part of Manhattan- between Lower Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan.
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Eventually I'll change the driving side and add more NY Taxis to the automata.
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A little glimpse of the projects I've built.
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The Projects of East Side (Manhattan) start from Brooklyn Bridge and stretch almost all the way to the UN Headquarters or at least towards Waterside Plaza (which is about two thirds of a mile south of the UN HQ). I used marcszar's NYC Housing Projects Set 3 for these buildings, link here- https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2092&old_comments=true.
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And here is Chinatown / Little Italy, some of the buildings (the 1x2 lot with two distinctive buildings) I used for this scene are Jumpthefence's NY buildings. Very good in my opinion! Link here- https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/247743-jumpthefence/content/?type=downloads_file
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And here is the current overview of The Big Mango. As you can see I'm ready to begin work on Midtown Manhattan. Some parts of the rivers will be tweaked, i.e. made a bit wider.
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Lower Manhattan is now complete. I also found a way on GIMP to smooth over the jagged appearance of JENX Paris' and Marrast's sea walls.
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A lot of New York is Wall-to-Wall, so it was a question of making the W2W interesting and varied.
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Every city block is slightly different; some far more so than others. The park to the right is Washington Square Park.
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West Side has virtually no office blocks or skyscrapers, by it's coastline / (Hudson River) I noticed a large number of rather chunky buildings plus assorted manufacturing. So although it's not an exact recreation it does capture the feel and spirit of the area.
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Once again, for the large industrial buildings, I used marcszar's buildings.
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The area around Washington Square Park.
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If you haven't noticed already a lot of the city blocks have car parks and/or back alleyways.
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Back to the northwest part of Lower Manhattan; this was a challenging area to create for a lot of the diagonal buildings available don't have that New York aesthetic.
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Another feature I'm having fun with are the areas around avenue intersections. Now the diagonal avenue is a major road (West Street / 11th Avenue) leading towards the World Trade Centre Complex and one which runs along the Hudson River.
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The start of the Projects which comprise a good chunk of Lower East Side.
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Again, this is not a to-scale recreation of New York, this is downsized but the areas created are designed to reveal the general appearance of key areas in Manhattan: Lower Manhattan, East Side, West Side, Midtown, Hell's Kitchen (yes I'll be recreating that area to the best of my ability), etc.
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Back to the "skyscraper valley", inbetween Lower Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan.
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To the right is SimHoTToDDy's Studebaker building, a must-have item! It is part of the NYBT ABBT W2W Industrial series, I highly recommend downloading everything that series has to offer! Link to the Studebaker- https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27209-nybt-abbt-the-studebaker-building/?page=2&sort=newest&tab=reviews#review-448536. Link to NYBT ABBT- https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/467876-abbt/content/?type=downloads_file
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I tried using Mandelsoft's Light Replacement Mod (V4) but for some reason the ambient street light was not showing on the road/street textures... Disappointing because the night scenes would come alive with that feature.
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West Side.
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Next entry will be another update from Cindersville which will have plenty of grid-busting and hilly city scenes! In about a week's time I'll be posting another update of The Big Mango, this time with scenes/progress of Midtown Manhattan and boy do I have plans for Midtown Manhattan!!! Why, today I just finished off a simple hand sketch of key avenues and buildings on a approximately scale map to show where key landmarks go and their distance from each other and their position in Midtown Manhattan.
Landmarks and areas to be included: UN HQ, Tudor Buildings (by UN), Hell's Kitchen, Rockerfeller Centre, Chrysler Building, 601 Lexington Avenue, Empire State Building, Time's Square, Madison Square Gardens, US Postal Service building, Hotel Pennsylvania, Macy's, Broadway, New York Marriott Marquis, Grand Central Terminal, Metlife Building, the railyard between 9th and 11th avenue (currently the part between 10th and 11th has been built over so hey artistic license!). Hell if there was a decent Flatiron Building I'd throw that in too!
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