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Ok, a little update, I modified most materials and textures and I think the day scene is closing in on being finished. Hanson784: Oh, really, what are the odds? I hope to finish the plaza some time not too far in the future.

Nice tutorial, are we going to see an influx of green roofed buildings now? Another way to randomize the material ID's for the grass would be to use the MaterialByElement modifier.

I looked through the lots in the reader and while 2 of the three residential lots seem to be fine the third has some slight modding errors and is set to grow on all density zones and is set to be in growth stage 1. Open "R$8_3x3_Glenni-Taylor_House_3_f95631e0.SC4Lot" in the reader, open the examplar file and set LotConfigPropertyZoneTypes to 0x03 for high density zones or 0x02,0x03 for high and medium density zones, instead of 0x01,0x02,0x03. Also change Growth Stage to a more suitable value, 0x08 if you want to match the other lots for this building.

In the upper left corner of the viewport there is a text saying [smooth + Highlights] or whatever your settings for viewport is, right-click that, go to Lighting and Shadows and choose Default Lights.

It does, the game comes with Swedish, Danish and Norwegian versions. Icelandic and Norwegian is together with Faroese part of the same branch of the North Germanic languages, the West Scandinavian tongues, however the island languages isolation and Norways proximity to Denmark and Sweden have drawn the languages apart and Norwegian is nowadays more similar to Danish and Swedish than Icelandic but there are still many similarites between the two, as well as between the East Scandinavian languages and Icelandic. Hm, I made a quick test and it seems Icelandic characters work fine, for me at least :S

Aaron Graham: Yes, this will sit on a 2x2 lot when done. Sgt. Pepper: Thanks. Luckily we've had aaron keeping us alive when others been inactive. T Wrecks: Hah, yeah would have been easier to remember the address. The three water towers was part of the my decision to model this building. Zulu2065: Thanks, the plaza is on hold, but I intend to get back to it as well as all other buildings I've shown, the Plaza Hotel scene got very cluttered and hard to work with, so I've been tidying it up and organizing things to smoothen my work later on. Jasoncw: Yep, I have treated the building as if it was 32m wide from the start. It's an office building, I plan it to be CO$$. Nofunk: Thank you. Vlasky: Thanks, and thanks for that floor plan didn't have that before. And yes, buildings with setbacks like this is very useful when we try to get that NYC feel in our simcities, and there aren't too many of them around. Francis90b: I'll make it a growable CO$$ and a ploppable IM would work quite well too I reckon, and stay true to the real thing (historically at least). I've added some textures and made materials for this now and am done with tonights work and want to show my progress. Textures are not final and there are some parts still to model mostly on the back but also parts of the store front. I think it is a tad dark but I show you what I have anyways. I've used this building to learn how to use Unwrap UVW and I can spot some errors here and there (gaps and stretched bitmaps) but thats easy to fix. Another new tool (for me) I've used is a plugin for 3dsmax that creates dirtmaps, it's called RichDirt and can be found here. A trial version is available for free and is fully functional. Even though it puts watermarks on the maps when they get big it's still useful and it's very easy to use.

Alright, time to liven this thread up a bit. The great buildings released on the STEX recently got me inspired and in the mood for some batting, so I started a new project, 345 Seventh Avenue, a couple of days ago, and this is where I am today: http://binged.it/RYNX21 http://goo.gl/maps/v8zWb Mack The Finger, I'm working on those about as fast as I reply to your question. Hopefully I will finish up some older things and not let the work I have put down go to waste.

Nice, impressive highway system, and the interchanges looks nice some of them are really complex, must have taken ages. I enjoyed your diagrams too. I would love to see these places again, when you have filled it with fields, forests, buildings or whatever you choose, I think the highways will look even better with a little bit of surroundings.

Looks amazing, good job. If there's anything still to do it might be to try get a bit of color variation in the lit windows.

Looks like it's gonna be Hodgson, he has been contacted by FA for discussion, and West Bromwich agrees to let them talk to him, he's the only manager who has been contacted according to FA chairman David Bernstein. Let's say Hodgson will be Englands manager, as you say it still is way too late, it will be hard for him to do anything substantial for the team before june 8. But I guess proper management won't hurt at least.

Let's bring the groups in to the discussion, even if I think most people who're interested already know them. Group A Poland Greece Russia Czech Republic Group B Netherlands Germany Denmark Portugal Group C Spain Italy Ireland Croatia Group D Ukraine Sweden France England Looking at the groups I see that Group B seems to be the hardest group of them all, Germany is always great and play a lovely football, the Netherlands of course, finalists in South Africa and Portugal, with a number of great players, and also Denmark who won their qualifying group ahead of Portugal. Group A can be tight too, I think Poland manages to go trough to the knock-out stage as they're playing at home and will have immense support. I think the team that probably wins in Group A is Russia, at least I hope they will, I really liked the fotball they were playing the last time. I really don't want Greece to go through as I'm still pissed about the way they won the whole thing 8 yrs ago. Now Group D is the group I will have my main focus on during the group stage, as I'm Swedish and well, would like to see Sweden go a long way in a major tournament, it was 18 yrs since we last won a match in the knockout-stage. This group will be tight I believe, Ukraine is playing at home, but it's their first appearance (as an independent nation) in UEFA play. England and France are of course both strong teams, but not impossible for Sweden. Usually when Sweden go against England it's a draw (got no statistics but thats my feeling). Best thing for Sweden here would of course be to win the group, then they won't have to meet Spain, (as I don't really see them losing against any of the teams in their group) in the Quarter final, so no point in coming second as they would just be beaten in the first knockout stage. Last, Group C, I've already said that I believe Spain will win this group runner-up would probably be either Croatia or Italy, Ireland is not strong enough. These are just my guesses, and frankly I don't have much to back up my opinions but still, it's fun to guess the outcome of the tournament. And of course it's still a over a month until kick off, stuff can happen, key players can be injured. Looking forward to june 8, I love these even year summers with major football tournaments, and I will watch as many games as I can.

Thanks all for the replies, I've kept it too quiet here for a while, thought I should stop doing that. T Wrecks: Yes they were still a bit too saturated, hope it's better now. I've begun exporting the houses, this is how they look in game: These are only a fraction of what I will do and the exporting quickly gets quite boring so I don't know how long it will be until I'm finished, maybe I'll release them in smaller packs instead of one big. There are also a few other things that have kept me from exporting them, first, a container ship that I've started working on based on BG Ireland. And second one of the buildings from the now disbanded Västerbotten regiment in Umeå, Sweden.