starrdarcy

Hey Folks, it`s starrdarcy here, here is my recent trip to Taiwan in 2019. I will be moving to the island nation later this year in 2022 as I love it there. Hope everyone is doing well, and yeah I`m returning to the boards after a long while! More on what I`ve been up to here: https://peakd.com/@dcardinal1985/posts

Well Guys, all i can say from looking at this page and and other threads on this website, the community has grown and it almost makes me want to start rebuilding some of my past projects, albeit with some modifications. Keep up the good work! -Starrdarcy

St members... More pics from the suburbs, they are really starting to turn out the way i want them, though i am still working on the desired dirt texture for them. I will probably end up releasing these lots as plopable lots for those who dont mind pruning their cities and creating realism in there city journalism I have been getting several requests to release some of my work to the public, idealy i would however right now i have to give people a warning that these lots are non functional in nature and only serve as eye candy lots. Also, the remains lots of modding to be done in order to make the usage of the lots less cumbersome than they are now... Anyways, here are some more pictures Thats if for now folks... -Darcy

Hey ST members, im back... of course the suburban project has been chugging along, thought i would show my suburbs... this time, im doing some construction... These lots are still in beta mode of coure, as im trying to figure out the right dirt color and adding additional detail to the lots themselves. As for new houses, there are few new ones, however, they are not shown in the following pictures, as well there is a powecenter and commercial lots im working on, but far from completed, anyways... on to the goods Ive gotten this idead while doing a fly over of some cities in Google Earth originally, since suburbs are new areas... why not show the progress from start to finish? this area is in a heavily wooded map, locatin uknowk, but i was trying to go for an Albertan feel... The general idea of these lots is to show what the suburbs look like BEFORE they actually are occupied... here there are unpaved road sections, and empty landscaped land... A close up of a suburb, with freshly place ashphalt and unpaved sections waiting to be completed, with signs of new houses being constucted. The home construction have since been updated and shown in a later update. A developing suburb... there are some new road pieces which are not easily visable in these pictures, but they are the ones with the concrete strip in the middle, show in the upper right section of this picture. Last but not least... i have been experimenting on different ground textures for the exposed dirt lots, however, i have been unable to come to a clear decision on which one, however i have been leaning more towards the first on shown here, with more lighter, bolder look. These pictures are of earlier attempts at this lot type... One final word... there still is alot of work that needs to be completed here, including storm water ponds, commercial lots, lights and power boxes as well as working on the construction scenese. As one would imagine with all these custom content... the parks menu, where all the custom material shows up for me has become cumbersome to use, and pruning these suburbs are long proccesses, however, the end product looks good in my opinion... -Darcy

The Most recent picture of myself, or at least the one i have at the moment. Its a bigger version of a my avatar of course. -Darcy Cardinal

Originally posted by: Joetropian1 Starrdarcy, does it have any blogs or forums?If so, I may add it. JT1quote> Yes, its a blog. If there is anyone else who has a website, they should also post it up.

all add mine in, however there isn't any downloadable content right now: www.sklion.com

Hey Jason, good work there buddy, I was thinking about this a long time ago, what you said about the textureing over modeling is good advice, i try to do that as much as possible, as it can dramatically lower the poly count in your model. -Darcy Cardinal

Hey Jason, good work buddy, One thing that i notice is that most people will model something, when they could really make it a texture, thanks for pointing that out, since many newbies to BAT dont realize that. -Darcy Cardinal

Hey, cubsfan0624 I see you are looking for an answer to a popular question, i think the initial planning that you do while starting out your city generally dictates how your city will look in the future. Though the one thing i see many members doing here is planning out everything, right down to highways and districts. IT is okay, however it should be known that placing highways and avenues when no sim has set foot in your city is well... kind of unrealistic, unless you are in Dubai or some other instant city. Grids will also be your guidelines to work with, however if you take a look at some of the city journals out there, you will see some of the amazing work done to make cities less gridded. Check out the ol' edmonton city journal, it has been around for a while, and the author has done some sweet work doing this. -Darcy Cardinal

It's probably been mentioned before, but there could be other shades of light going on in that building, to simulate different lighting conditions. Once that gets done, this building would be almost perfect, keep up the good work friend!

Wow, it looks as if this game will be taking over where SimCity left off of, some of these shots look as if they where taken from real life. -Darcy Cardinal

Wow, this game looks to take over where SimCity left off of, some of these shots look like there from real life lol. I am looking forward to this. -Darcy Cardinal

Vista huh... thats odd, works fine with mine, whats you video cardÉ -Darcy Cardinal

This question has dogged me for a long time, i turned on some of the better ordinances but to no quick avail. From what i have seen and experience, it takes quite a while to build up a good manufacturing and high-tech industry in your city. Anyone else care to reveal the silver bullet here? -Darcy Cardinal