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The MAPP has been released and you've downloaded it. You just tried it out for the first time and you think to yourself "Man, this park really kicks butt!" Well, prove it!! Post pictures of those amusement parks that you have created with the MAPP. (Please limit this thread to amusement parks made using the MAPP) For those of you not familiar with posting images here at Simtropolis, here is a quick tutorial courtesy of T Wrecks. Here's a quick how-to on using ImageShack to post thumbnails: - Go to www.imageshack.us. - Click "Browse" to browse to a file on your HD you want to upload. - Click on "Host it!" and wait a while - Once your image is uploaded, you will see a page with a preview of your image and some link codes. - Scroll down a bit until you see the code at the bottom, "direct link to image". Copy it by highlighting it (double-click into the text field where it's displayed) and pressing [Ctrl]+[C]. - Now go to your reply on Simtropolis. Click the "Add/edit" image icon. A new window called "Image properties" will pop up. - This window has three tabs. Go to the second tab "link". - Copy the link to the picture into the "URL" text field by clicking into the field and pressing [Ctrl]+[V]. This should copy the Imageshack link into the text field. - Now go back to the first tab, "Image info". - Click into the topmost text field, "Image selection". Press [Ctrl]+[V] once again. - Now to get a thumbnail, edit the URL by adding a ".th" between the name and the extension of the file. Let's take an example. If your image has the URL "www.imageshack.us/MyImage.jpg", change it to "www.imageshack.us/MyImage.th.jpg". The ".th" tells ImageShack to use the same image, but in thumbnail format. - Click "ok". Now you should have a thumbnail preview of your image inside your reply, and when people click on that thumbnail, they will get the full-size image, which they can also open in a new window or browser tab. One more thing: Please use any tool (there are multi-language freeware tools like XNView or IrfanView available on the net if you don't have PaintShop or PhotoShop) to convert your images to JPG format before you post them. If you adjust the compression vs. quality ratio to a quality level of ~ 60%, you should get nice pictures with reasonable file sizes. Please consult the documentation and the help forums of these tools if you are not sure how to do that.

Very nice...I definitely like the tour...great idea...well put together... Keep em coming!!

Hehe...thought you were someone else posting!! Hey, if you have more pics for us we would be delighted of course...

If you had so much fun plopping it, how about you have some more fun uploading some pics for us to have fun looking at?

Very nice John...not only do you touch our hearts but you touch our souls as well (some more than others which is awesome! ) Great use of American Hardware Supply...let me see now, how made that great looking BAT...Oh yeah...ME!! Anyway...it looks great my friend...now, if only you had an amusement park in your CJ...that would look great... Great work my friend...keep em comin!!

Looks great...I really like you included many non-MAPP buildings to give a "main street" feel to the park...we are looking, or at least it was suggested, that the first add-on include shops and restaurants and such... Great job...anyone else have some pics for us?

Originally posted by: T Wrecks Look at the thread "Show us how you use HKABT content!" in the Hong Kong/Asia Team Room. The first post contains a step-by-step tutorial on posting ImageShack thumbnails here on ST.quote> Thanks for the suggestion T Wrecks...check out the first thread again...

Thanks -M- ...I just looked at that myself... Best recommendation is to open an account with a free image hosting service like Photobucket or Imageshack and host your pics there...they provide links you can just copy and use when you hit the Insert Image button in your reply...that way when the 6-month mark comes up the pics save on Simtropolis won't disappear...

@lrfox - Not sure what is going on but none of your pics are showing up...please check your message again and edit them as appropriate...

You can download The Gimp...free graphics program... Click Here and then upload some pics for us!!

John, Another bang-up job...are you going to be adding some trails to the last farm, the one with the roads that make a "T" in front of the mansion of a farm house...just figured you would since this is how you typically put the finishing touches on... I like this area...definitely a little community that wants to grow up someday...unlike the hickville that I moved to 2 months ago...maybe I'll have to buy one of them mansions with the up front bonus money my publisher is gonna give me for "The Golden Chimaera." Pick me out a nice one overlooking some water if you can...I like to sit in solitude in a small boat and fish... Another great update...keep em comin...

Another great update John my friend...I really like the high-class (and high-price) housing area... One thing that bothers me though...the parking for the trucking company...some of it is across the railroad tracks...hate to see Johnny walking across the tracks to work and *SPLAT* Johnny ends up as fertilizer 50 miles up the tracks when the train finally slows down... Sorry for being graphic..guess that is something I do best... Great work...keep em comin...

Vester, Do you know if those robots are props or are they part of the model? I really like some of these Japanese creations but I'm not keen on the robots...I'd use some of the stuff if I could remove those robots in LE... Jason

TheJerseyDevil73, First, I must appologize...how is it you have gone 60+ pages and I've not read this CJ yet? I haven't had much time with concentrating on the MAPP for the better part of the last year but now that we are in Beta Testing I'm "trying to get out more"... I spent most of my day today at work going through your first 35 or so pages...will save the other 30 or so for tomorrow at work when I'm even slower than today... I like what I've seen so far...it is truly amazing what you have done here...you are definitely deserving of the Trixies you have gotten so far (and then some! ) I might just have to run over to that thread right now and throw in a nomination or two for you (along with some of the other people I read. ) You have done great work...I look forward to reading more as it comes and catching up on what I've missed so far...keep em comin...

John, My friend...it has been too long since I've visited...the MAPP has taken most of my online time and I need to get out more now that we are in testing and winding down to the initial release. I am trying to catch up on so much that I've missed...so many CJ's have gone way past where I ever expected them to...so I must keep my responses brief so I can move on to view more...I know I'm going to have at least 25-50 pages or so of yours to catch up on! Let me just say though my friend...your skills have grown tremendously...everything here looks great...and, you still find ways to use my creations AND advertise them as well... Great work my friend...truly great work...keep em comin...

Delete your plugin manager and re-download and install it from Simcity.com...that happened to me and that is how I fixed the problem...

Delete your plugin manager and re-download and install it from Simcity.com...that happened to me and that is how I fixed the problem...

Originally posted by: rodent1989 for those of you who want a "ground network" i've found a workaround for now, simply use the hole digger lots to dig a trench then use the eye candy kit to fill in the edges, it actually looks really nice. plus the sign section can be used as a track indicator (as seen in this picture)quote> That looks awesome...now, can you show us how you do turns with this method?