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Originally posted by: connorc24 Amazing CJ! I am going to watch this like a hawk! I can't wait for more!quote> What! No, you must watch it like an Eagle!

... woah my god... That thing is beautiful.

Oh, now I know why people have called this CJ 'colourful'... You are one amazing city builder and photoshopper and this entire CJ has just proves that over and over again. Congrats on one year and hopefully we'll get a fair few more!

•UPDATE THREE Urban Expansion 23rd DECEMBER 2007• Franklin Sound Inlet seems to be growing... I've added some more mixed style suburbs up around the areas at the base of the hills and expanded the ports on both the Eastern and western sides of the inlet. Here's some more assorted images of some new development, enjoy the update! Oh yea, and have a Merry Christmas! Sorry about the number of images too, I got carried away... hopefully you guys can push this onto the next page so I won't have to post 2 big updates on the same page. CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE REPLIES: Panthersimcity4: Wow, really? The best North American City you’ve ever seen and only one update in, that’s a big honor for me, thanks.Haljackey: Hey thanks! Glad you like the photo effects. Crazyyaya: What, lol, of course you deserve your Trixie; your CJ is very good. Thanks so much and I’m glad you like my new CJ. Projectadam: Hey thanks! A grand entrance eh? Glad you like it. UltraGIR XL: Thanks very much! I try and base my cities on all sorts of real life city layouts that I’ve seen so that’s probably why you can imagine being there. Thanks for stopping by. suplado!: Thanks, good to hear.

What? How dose a 5 year old game outsell one that's only been released for less than a month! lol! All I can say is "WE TOLD YOU SO!" Should have listened to the fans EA, your loss though...

•UPDATE TWO Franklin Sound Inlet Part II 21st DECEMBER 2007•Wow, thank you to everyone for such a positive response to the first update! I'll post replies to all of you soon because I just want to get this update out as quickly as possible because I have lots of things to do in the real world... This update consists of more images of Franklin Sound Inlet around the port, government and monument areas and the protected historical housing estate. I hope you enjoy the update, there’s more on the way! CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE

wwetom1: A nice little pond but kinda simple to make 6/10 SimsRealator: Wow, nice lighting effects, 7/10 Dsrwhat316: Great! I always like the Hi-Rise beach areas. That palm is two thirds the size of that tower on the right! Big ass palm... 7.5/10 khoianh94: Nice image but it just kinda lacks something, can't put my finger on it. Nice use of the GLR though so 6/10 Amerikaner: Nice city but again those photo effects remove points for me. 7/10 USA Patriot: Danm, never seen anything like that! How did you do that? It's photoshopped in right? 8.5/10 The_sanderson: That's some nice Maxis! 7/10 suplado!: I really like that aircraft! Great capture and photo effects 9/10 jrhnemo: Simple yet a nice idea 8.5/10 Flann: Rate ONE image... but combined for them both... 7/10 AK: Did you have an image? Can't see it now for some reason, oh well, then I guess I'll just have to rate your avatar then... 11/10 Hiigarar: Cool use of canals! 6.5/10 Explodingsims: Good work, very gritty but realistic! 7/10 Mike the Mayor: Great choice of buildings! A really nice image brought out by photo effects. 8/10 sEAhAwk fAn121: That plopable water river looks way off but the rest of the image is quite good 8/10 The_sanderson: Looks cartoon-ish and un-realistic because of your selection of buildings but still looks very good! 7/10 Dsrwhat316: Nice job with this, gotta love that roundabout filler. 8/10 loerelau: Wow, that's a nice amount of traffic! Not a problem! And wow, look at that hi-tec industry. Man that is the most satellite dishes I've ever seen because usually their kind of hard to grow. But In terms of it being a good looking image, it's not. Needs a lot of work 3/10

Yea thanks Dirk! Can't wait to download a new BAT that I think has been released while the STEX has been down.

•UPDATE ONE Franklin Sound Inlet 20th DECEMBER 2007• Here's some assorted images of the Central Business District and the Franklin Sound Inlet port area: And here's an overview of the largest part of the CBD: CLICK FOR FULL IMAGE

Yep, there just seems to be black in the place of all the images... something's playing around with the STEX again...

I’ve been playing around with the night lighting for the last few days and all of a sudden this problem arises. Dark diagonal lines all over my model? I think I must have changed some setting somewhere but I have no idea what it was or how to fix it. Oh and just so you know, I've just hidden the rest of the model so you can get a good look at the problem but it is occurring on most other objects. (The problem only occurs in the preview renders too, looks completely normal in the view ports.) Any ideas as to might be wrong or how to fix it? Simfox: Of course I don't lack the skill to make my pot plants smaller, and I'm going to do that. What I meant by I'll try and fix what I can and me only being a beginner is... I have no idea what to do about the lighting situation. And as for what I am rendering with, just the standard rendering tool that you get with the BAT, chances are that's it's something to do with my modeling but if not anything you can suggest to maybe help the situation?

Well I sure hope so, although we haven't even seen the in game content yet so aren't we getting a bit ahead of ourselves. The first step is to convince Monte Christo to create something like the BAT that preferably uses a 3D modeling program like Gmax or 3ds Max and actually release it to the public.

Oh damn, that building looked really promising. Oh well... Anyway that 're-cycled' building looks very good too, has a real I'll Tonkso feel to it. Maybe to make it merge together a little more and feel like one building you could align the horizontal white bars on the smaller tower with the larger one.

Originally posted by: SimsRealator Shulmania is probably the best....and i dont know about the worst *im not hurting anybodys feelings bcause i like them all*quote> This thread is more or less asking "What's your favorite CJ?" rather than "What's the best CJ?” Of course there is no way to tell what are the best and worse CJ's of all time because that's just a personal preference that will be different from person to person. IMHO the best CJ might be different to the one you chose. Is there really a need for this thread anyway though? I mean if you want a list of the top CJ's, just visit the Trixies and if you want the worst ones, search the back pages of the forums or something, and people could get offended if someone is rude enough to get up and say "I hate this CJ the most!!"

Woah, Simfox, is it really that off? Just try and keep in mind here that I am just still a beginner, not a skilled 3DS max user like yourself. I know that it's not perfect and I never said it was but I doubt that the average SC4 player would even notice even half of those things. But seems as you have taken the time to write a critique I'll try to fix what I can (or what I know how to fix- lighting and shadows not being one of them for the moment). And yes, I've been to Hong Kong twice for a few weeks, I actually got a good look at the AIG tower... for about 3 seconds as this mad as hell taxi driver speed us around the streets of central.

Wow, never seen anything like that before. That road near the effie tower HAS to be photoshopped right? It looks very good. Overall that mosaic just looks incredibly realistic and I want to go to Paris now. Keep it comin Hotdogs!

Woah, that obelisk thing in the center of the mosaic really dose look cool! I love the way that it lights up at night with all the other brightly lit buildings. By the way, any chance you could tell me where you got it from, don't think I've ever seen it on the STEX. Another great update and well done with the Trixies!

Okay, thanks everyone for your feedback. And on the issue of my texture being too reflective, most of you seem to like it so I'm not changing that. The real life building IS incredibly reflective. Well I think the actual BAT is done now, all that's left to do is the night lighting. There is one problem though, see on the last render something weird happened to the little side poll things near the bottom. As you can see on the renders from other angles, they fit in with the shape of the building, but on that particular angel they get warped out of shape. I’ve tried everything I can think of and I can’t seem to fix them. Any ideas as to what's going on? BTW hurry up and tell me if there's something I need to fix or do better before I render. What do you think of the extra stuff I added in like the pot plants and the flags? Sorry, the first and second are just draft (crappy) renders. Didn’t have time to do them all good quality but you can imagine what they really look like.

Grrr! Why didn't anyone tell me about this Globalphotos.org website! That place is bloody a treasure chest of HK photo's! Do you know how much better my re-creation could have been if I had had all those wonderful reference pictures!... On a side note, I'll have a new update of the AIG later on toady, It's almost done, just detailing the base and the night lights. Oh yea, and THANKS FOR THE TRIXIE! lol, Most improved BATter. Never thought I'd see that attached to my name. A big thank you to whoever nominated me!