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District of Wenzel with capital city of Martin. New realistic city journal from packersfan.

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Ouisconsin County - Morgan Town: Rival to the South <DoW Update 116:03.17.15> South of Ouisconsin River, Konrad Morgan bought up a large portion of land and settled a town, Morgan Town. Morgan and his associate James Smith laid out streets. Settlers soon bought up lots. Audalaus Moorland built a textile factory and development exploded. Chester Avenue currently serves as the main road through Morgan Town. Moorland Textiles on Ash Street and Prospect Avenue. More and more houses are filling the original...
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Ouisconsin County - Morgan Town: Rival to the South <DoW Update 116:03.17.15> South of Ouisconsin River, Konrad Morgan bought up a large portion of land and settled a town, Morgan Town. Morgan and his associate James Smith laid out streets. Settlers soon bought up lots. Audalaus Moorland built a textile factory and development exploded. Chester Avenue currently serves as the main road through Morgan Town. Moorland Textiles on Ash Street and Prospect Avenue. More and more houses are filling the original...
packersfan
Ouisconsin County - How to Make a Map, Part 2 <DoW Update 115:03.10.15> Today, we will continue making a map by actually doing some mapping! First, fire up SC4, load up your city tiles and take a screenshot of a traffic data-view. Outside of the game, open up the screenshot in Paint and make a rectangular selection around the map data-view map...it doesn't have to be perfect. Now copy that selection and open a new paint file with a size of 512 x 512 pixels. Paste the selection and immediately resize the...
packersfan
Ouisconsin County - Cass Town: Founding of Cass Town <DoW Update 114:03.03.15> Welcome to Cass Town - the first extensive settlement along the Ouisconsin River. Cass Town is located in Sections 28 and 27 of the Menomonee Township on the north bank of the Ouisconsin River just east of where the Menomonee and Ouisconsin Rivers meet. The land was covered with forests when Captain Hitchcock surveyed the area. Soon afterward, however, land speculators and developers moved in and began parcelling out the land....
packersfan
Ouisconsin County - How to Make a Map, Part 1 <DoW Update 113:02.24.15> I am in the process of trying to figure out a way to keep track of my plugins: what dependencies they have, what dependencies I have. I want to avoid the sort of situation that often occurs when you want to remove a lot or dependency file. First, what the heck is in this file? What is IT? Second, are other things dependent on this file? Third, are there other files that I NO longer need because I'm getting rid of this particular plugin...
packersfan
Ouisconsin County - National Land Survey System and Scale in SC4 vs. Real World <DoW Update 112:02.17.15> Captain Samuel Hitchcock and his team were soon joined by a number of other surveyors tasked with demarking the land under the National Land Survey System. This system is very similar in most respects to the United States Public Land Survey. If you live in the United States or Canada or frequent Google Earth, you probably have noticed that much of western United States is plotted in squares like a...
packersfan
Ouisconsin County - Exploring the Ouisconsin River <DoW Update 111:02.10.15> Welcome to a new phase for the District of Wenzel. We are moving to a different area of the district. This area dubbed Ouisconsin is about 300 miles northwest of Martin County. Now we go back before civilization reached the forests of the District of Wenzel. About 300 miles to the southeast, Martin Town has been establish at the mouth of Brittany River along the shores of Sapphire Lake. Surveyors were sent out along the various...
packersfan
Update 110 - City of North St. Paul, St. Mark High School, and Green Park Here is a look at North St. Paul and Green Park. This update took a decent amount of prep work and innane details like terrain height on the borders. You'll see why...or hopefully you won't...until I tell you. North St. Paul's town center viewed from an approach from the north. North St. Paul North St. Paul expanding into surrounding farmland. South 32nd Street and West Hardee Avenue converging in North St. Paul. St. Mark High School...
packersfan
Update 109 - Maidens Interchange - South I-55 / East I-80 Approach Here is an update VERY similar to last week. Here is Maidens Interchange from the South Interdistrict Highway 55 and East Interdistrict Highway 80 approach. I-55 / I-80 passing south under Maidens Road. Exit 71 B. I-55 / I-80 passing south under I-255 / I-680 bridge. Exit 71A. Ramp from East I-680 and South 41 / South I-255 to South I-55 / East I-80. Advanced guide sign for Exit 70 - County Highway Q (Cardwell Road). This exit also serves...
packersfan
Update 108 - Maidens Interchange - North I-55 / West I-80 Approach I am really excited to show off this interchange. Yes, yes, it would be FAR better if I had used the RHW, but it is what it is. I'm more comfortable with the Maxis stuff (I know what I can do). This took a lot of work to figure out the mileage and make signs and then I got really intrepid and stuck the signs into the pictures and the terrain! Today, we will examine this interchange from the point of view of North Interdistrict Highway 55...
packersfan
Update 107 - North of Downtown St. Paul, Centralia Just a little lazy update showing the area just to the north of Downtown St. Paul. Densely populated areas south of the railroad. Less dense area north of the railroad. National Highway 20 turns south off of Centralia Avenue next to St. Paul General Hospital. Centralia area. You are here. Busy week getting ready for Christmas, trying to stay on top of all the stuff for teaching classes, discovering new Star Wars stuff. Hopefully, I can devote enough time...
packersfan
Update 106 - Building Interdistrict 255 / National Highway 41 in St. Paul For the next five updates we shift to the Saint Paul area south of Martin. In this update, we see some images of I-255 being pulled through the northwest area of Saint Paul. I think this area turned out beautifully. The freeway weaves over and under roads very naturally like in real life. I hope you like it! Preparing land for I-255 / N-41 overpass. Completed overpass. Preparing County Highway Z for an overpass. I'm having trouble...
packersfan
Update 105 - North of Downtown Today, we will explore the area just north of downtown south of West Orchard Avenue, west of North 32nd Street, east of North Trinity Boulevard, and north of West Sherman Avenue. This area is full of mid-size wall-to-wall apartments. The Number 6 Purple Metro Line runs over North 32nd Street. Here is a shot of Halleck Square and North 32nd Street. Passenger rail cutting through the north of downtown area. Abandoned buildings due to lack of water. I hate when that happens....
packersfan
Update 104 - Halleck Square Neighborhood Today we will visit Halleck Square Neighborhood. This neighborhood happens to sit on the borders of three city tiles in SC4, so the pictures are all from a massive mosaic/composite created from images from each of the city tiles. I didn't do the best job, and I think I need to slow down my update schedule to once every two weeks. Hope you enjoy this. Can you spot the composite? This area blended together pretty well. So many churches within this 1/4 square mile....
packersfan
Update 100 - District of Wenzel (Martin County) History and Census Well this is the 100th Official Update (though technically there have been 101 as the 27th Update about Martin Downtown West was repeated as the first update was rendered obsolete due to prop pox. It took a while for me to figure out how to put this update together. I spent quite a bit of time going through the last 99 updates and trying to figure out what happened when (especially what has happened in the last 50 updates since the big 50...
packersfan
Update 103 - Kenilworth Neighborhood - Updating the Flora Today, we will revisit an old neighborhood on the north side of Martin. Kenilworth Neighborhood is located north of I-80 and northwest of Downtown Martin. It is comprised of mostly single-family homes with a strong industrial presence along the railroad between North and Sherman Avenues. I've gone back and removed grass lots to show off the excellent terrain underneath and updated the flora to seasonal stuff. Hope you enjoy. Title Picture: Stylized...
packersfan
Update 102 - Brittany Town Expanding Along Brittany River South Park Didn't get much done this week as I was mostly trying to figure out some texture modding. So here is a look at Brittany Town south of Brittany River. An old picture of Brittany Town...I think I made it look TOO old. Heck, there are roads and a gas station! This is a little bit more believable. I love these farm fields. Brittany Town expanding north towards Brittany River Brittany Town expanding east You are here. Hope you enjoy this...
packersfan
Update 101 - City of Martin: Burnham Park and Portland Creek Neighborhood I spent much of the week working on maps, but I did fill in some area around Portland Creek. I am trying to resist using grass lots, so I can show off Lowkee's terrain mod. What do you think? Good or bad idea? Burnham Park at the end of Portland Creek Ugh, for some reason the picture number tab doesn't match in size. What are you doing Photoshop!? Portland Creek Parkway fall colors Holy Name Cathedral The new Portland Creek...
packersfan
Update 99 - MARTIN - Brittany River North Bank Development My next project will be filling out and expanding the City of Martin to the north and west. Today we will visit the North Bank neighborhood on the north bank of Brittany River. I upgraded the flora to seasonal, reinstalled the excellent Appalacian Terrain Mod (as my laptop seems to handle it much better than my old laptop), and upgraded Brittany River Highway and railroad to FAR and FARR. The street map is also getting more and more information...
packersfan
Update 98 - ST. PAUL - Beachview: Beachview Park, Marina, and Hospital Back to Beachview where I finally completed the coastline. I'm also working on extending the city along Brittany River but struggling with that...maybe I need to rearrange the roads and rail along the river. Beachview Park Beachview Hospital and Beachview Marina Beachview Hospital at night Condos along Waterfront Parkway and South Side Beach You are here. I'm not in love with the way the beaches look. Any tips? Check out the District of...
packersfan
Update 97 - Penelope River South Bank This was a busy week of learning how to do new things inside and outside of Sim City 4. First, I learned how to use some workarounds to make true diagonal neighbor connections. This will greatly improve future border composite pictures! Second, I learned how to do scallable vector graphics for my street map, so now (at least on new map tiles) you can zoom in as much as your browser can handle and everything will look crisp and sharp (make sure zoom levels are multiples...
packersfan
Update 96 - ST PAUL: Beachview - Updating the Flora Talk about a long time between updates. District of Wenzel is back after one and a half years! Last time we saw Hawthorne with fall colors. Well that theme continues as I am going through and updating my flora and MMPs to seasonal stuff and just better stuff. Today we visit the north part of the City of St. Paul, Beachview. Let's finish up this tile and update the flora! Old seawalls that just don't hug the coast. Oh, some incomplete plopped grass and all...
packersfan
Update 95 - HAWTHORNE: Penelope River Seasonal Colors This was my intended update last week, but the Hawthorne tile was not playing well. Fixed the issues (hopefully) and updated the flora to seasonal colors. The is Downtown Hawthorne straddling Penelope River. Overview of the Penelope River winding through Downtown Hawthorne. You are here. I downloaded this patch to increase the dedicated RAM for the game and haven't have any issues so far. I constantly montior the memory usage of the game while playing...
packersfan
Update 94 - New Airport Sneak Peak I've been working on the new international airport for my region, so not much else to show (though I was trying to get some pictures from Hawthorne). Sadly, the new project seems to be downsizing my region from large city tiles to medium city tiles. The Hawthorne tile seems to have some issues and is a possible candidate for being downsized and restarted as 4 medium tiles. It will be a bummer to lose the great work on that tile, but I can't seem to get any time on the...
packersfan
Update 93 - HOHLER: Page Park Subdivision Seasonal Colors Today is NOT a repeat of last week's update...at least not completely. Same location but new colors! Seasonal trees! And SEASONS...hope you enjoy! Dorothy Lane and Shadowlawn Lane during summer. Dorothy Lane and Shadowlawn Lane during autumn. Page Park during autumn. Winter buries Page Park. You are here. You may be wondering what got me so interested in adding seasonal trees. Well of course I discovered the Jupiter Seasonal Mod which adds seasons...
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