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Entry 72 -- Cindersville complete after 2 1/2 years in the making
The British Sausage posted a City Journal entry in My SC4 CJ Scrapbook
{---} Entry 72: Cindersville Completed! First of all thank you for the comments from the last entry and all the comments over the years. Now this project has been ongoing since the Spring of 2018, it started with new buildings and the idea of a highway cutting through a city built upon the joining of two valleys. After delays, being stumped as to how to proceed and a mega push this Summer and Autumn I have finally completed Cindersville. So sit back and enjoy this large entry as first I show the key locations of Cindersville and then second dedicate the rest of this entry to the northern part of Cindersville's City Centre. {---} 1. The two valleys are Cinders Valley (the largest one and the flattest), it runs from the south and then bends westwards. The second valley is Moreley which gently slopes downwards from the east and connects with Cinders Valley. The city centre is the joining of the two valleys. 2. The city centre is divided in two by the M6 highway. Above is the southern half of the city centre. 3. South of the city centre is Chumley. 4. West of the city centre. 5. East of the city centre. 6. East Chumley which is built against a eastern slope. 7. The centre of Hefnall which is built upon the Moreley Valley. Hefnall gets it's name from a nearby local mountain (Mount Hefnall). 8. The northwest of Hefnall which is built against the southern slopes of Mount Hefnall. 9. The southwest of Hefnall is built on the northern slopes of Paxton's Mound- the round-shaped hill in the south-east of Cindersville. 10. Mount Hefnall, one of three tall mountains that dominate the Cindersville skyline and located in the northeast. The other two mountains are: Pillar (in the northwest) and Rock of Heaven (southwest). 11. Hefnall Forest begins on the northern slopes of Mount Hefnall and the corresponding mountain ridges. This is the western part. 12. The eastern part of Hefnall Forest. 13. Paxton's Mound. While smaller than Mount Hefnall, Pillar and Rock of Heaven, large parts of Cindersville are built around it. Plus Paxton's Mound is a famous tourist attraction too. 14. Even the valleys have valleys. South of Paxton Mound is the area of Cindersville known as Paxton (built in the south-east part of the city). 15. Paxton extends around Paxton Mound, here are the western and northern areas which border Chumley and the city centre. 16. North of the city centre meets immediately with the hilly and mountainous landscape dominated by Pillar and Mount Hefnall. Between these two mountains is a minor valley cutting between the two, this is known as Maular Valley. This A-road is actually a mountain pass which ends at the very tip of the northern half of the city centre. 17. At the top of Maular Valley is the village of Kingsley, immediately next to Kingsley is the smaller mountain known as Pratchit's Top. Now Pratchit's Top is part of a mountain range, Temson Raise, which includes Pillar, Pratchit's Top marks the eastern-most point of this mountain range. 18. The southern half of Temson Raise (in the right half of the picture). 19. The northern half of Temson Raise, with Pillar in the bottom left of this picture. 20. This part of Cindersville is known as Awnsale. This suburban area is squeezed by the northern slopes of the Rock of Heaven (bottom part of the picture) and the southern slopes of Temson Raise and to some extent Pillar. The M6 highway cuts straight through Awnsale. 21. This is East Awnsale and is the first suburban area west of the city centre. 22. Between Chumley and the village of Derton (just seen in the picture's top) there is the Honister Mountain Pass. Now Honister is the name of a winding valley which snakes around the southern half of the Rock of Heaven. 23. Moving deeper into Honister Valley we reach the village of Derton. 24. The tallest of the mountains to border Cindersville is known as the Rock of Heaven. 25. And we come full circle to the northern half of Cindersville's city centre, we also see in the bottom of the picture the end part of Maular Valley. 26. The flat centre of Cindersville. {---} With the what's what and where's where of Cindersville complete, let's begin the entry proper! 27. We shall start with the northern half of the city centre. 28. Parts of this area are some of the very first locations I built in Cindersville, other parts are the last! 29. For the midrise buildings I used a mixture of Bixel's and Mattb325's content. 30. Midrise or low-rise but wide was very important as the city centre comes to a very abrupt end due to the terrain of the area. 31. To the left is the Youtube HQ which was created by Mattb325. 32. A very fine addition to any city! 33. Reaching the northeastern fringes of the city centre. 34. Running from east to west. 35. Monty's Roundabout. 36. Making use of C.P.'s FA buildings. 37. The literal centre of the city centre's northern half is Jacqueline Park. 38. The avenue fillers were created by Motokloss. 39. Mid-rise and chunky is ideal for building realistic city centres. 40. Jacqueline Park. 41. It took several hours to complete this area as I needed to find the right kind of park plus select the right kind of buildings. Technically Jacqueline Park is a square roundabout! 42. I even squeezed in a tiny bit of fractionally-angled buildings too! 43. To the right of the FA building are some of Simgoober's low-rise commercial buildings. Old but gold! 44. Special thanks must be given to KingOfSimCity who created these fantastic parks. 45. The northern half of the city centre is defined by the M6 highway. 46. 47. Incorporating the M6 highway was very tricky and ultimately required a lot of MMP work. 48. Since the curving areas can never be fully filled-in this necessitates a small green divide between highway and urban areas. 49. And here is another one of KingOfSimCity's parks! 50. One of my favourite areas of Cindersville purely for the contrast of concrete car park and green city park! 51. One of the reasons for building Cindersville was creating actual grid-busting city blocks. This became possible in 2018 with a whole bunch of fractionally-angled buildings created by Mattb325. Throw in the fractionally-angled industrial and 19th century buildings of C.P. and of course the other diagonal buildings made throughout the years (old and new) and scenes like this are now possible. As an added bonus I decided MMP back alleys and car-parking was the only way to go. Now urban MMPing is very time-consuming but well worth it! 52. After this large entry I'll be posting the next one this Thursday. See you then!- 21 Comments
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Replies: Harry's_Place: Thanks, I placed it on a good spot in the city and spiced it up with MMPs. But all credit goes to Simmer2 for an excellent model! Tyberius06: Cheers! I think pretty much every square on the city tile is either built on, checked or improved. There is <nothing> that is just left there as it! Simmer2: Thanks again for that model! Extra thanks for making it MMP friendly. mattb325: Didn't know you had bracken over in the USA (assuming you're from the USA). I still wish there was a more flexible bracken MMP which could fit into tighter spaces and be plopped faster or cover areas at a faster pace! {---} Entry 56: South-western Madison Plains And some more from Madison Plains! There are still two entries left, not including this one, to cover as well for the immediate future! I took a mini-break from this CJ because I found a lot of inspiration with one of the sci-fi stories I was writing because I found a way of fleshing out the last third of the book. Next entry will be a return to The Big Mango and a <big> update on Midtown Manhattan which I'm recreating in a downsized fashion. Some amazing sights and pictures coming up, though you've probably seen some of them in the "Show Us What You're Working On" thread. {---} 1. The area of Madison Plains has a mixture of the city block goodiness and some fractionally-angled goodiness! 2. 3. 4. Brownstones... Brownstones everywhere... 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Making the most out of jen_p's homes (found on the BSC LEX). 12. 13. I also started exploring the potential of KingOfSimCity's park lots- excellent lotting! 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. This train station is Simmer2's Stazione di Santa Paola (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/33005-stazione-di-santa-paola/) - a very friendly lot to work with. 19. 20. 21. This is where, having got my mitts on FA buildings, I plopped a whole bunch of them down! 22. 23. 24. 25. Special thanks must be given to Mattb325 for creating dozens of fractionally angled buildings, and a whole bunch of diagonal buildings too! 26. 27. Fractionally angled buildings opens up SimCity 4 to some proper grid-busting! 28. Although the fillers are not quite ready for FA! 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.
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Entry 48 -- Pololomia- M7 Highway plus MMP Fields Tutorial!
The British Sausage posted a City Journal entry in My SC4 CJ Scrapbook
Replies: mattb325: Thanks for that! Also keep on churning out those BATs; it makes my life easier when I infill cities. Vigilante1987: Cheers! Yeah, this next entry I'll explain in brief how to use MMPs to create fields. raynev1: It's a good slope mod and the fact it comes with three different maximum slope adds flexibility. I personally use the middle one. This mod is a must-have for creating sloping city areas. Garbanzo: Ha ha! Thanks for your comment. PaPa-J: Thanks again for the comments! The houses are largely a mixture of C.P.'s Early 19th Century Residential Housing and Victorian Houses plus Simcoug's Diagonal houses. {---} Entry 48: Pololomia- M7 Highway This entry is largely a rural entry and I explain once again the basics of using MMPs for the creation of farms and fields. Please keep in mind that creating fields with MMPs is a slow process, each field takes about 15 to 30 minutes to complete. This also takes a lot of practice, and a steady hand, and this method does not come naturally. It took me two years to work out how to use flora MMPs for fields and pastures and forests; even now I'm still learning new techniques and new combinations. But when done right... You get great grid-busting rural scenes! Enjoy! {---} 1. For MMPs I reccomend downloading all of girafe's flora and Chrisadams3997's Pasture Flora (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886). 2. Most of the fields you see here use girafe's and Chrisadams3997's flora MMPs. 3. This field is created by first laying down White Flowers (Chrisadams3997), then green grass (Chrisadams3997) and then dirt (Ionionion's OMCO gravel- https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/25709-omco-filling-gravel/ 4. You can place the MMPs right next to the road without any soil and it will look good. 5. The olive yard is created using kergelen's Mediterranean trees (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27973-mmp-mediterranean-cp-trees-krg-selection/); next I add in Heblem gravel (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3102)to make the olive yard more distinctive. 6. 7. Sometimes the original Maxis fields can be used by plopping them in; just make sure to MMP over the edges if you're creating a grid-busting field! 8. The wide gravel paths use the original Heblem gravel MMPs (https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/24399-hbs-tropical-flora-pack-mayor-mode/), then Heblem's small gravel MMPs (see the link below picture 5); the overlap of Ionionion's OMCO gravel is an added bonus! 9. The secret to MMP fields is mixing two or more flora MMPs together and then adding in some MMP dirt for the earth textures. 10. 11. 12. Rose fields are easy to create: first lay down grass (Chrisadams3997) and then start painting in Girafe's rose MMPs. Add in some dirt and the job is done. 13. 14. The field to the left is created using green grass (larger grass MMP and Chrisadams3997) and then yellow flowers (Chrisadams3997) and then OMCO dirt. 15. There are dozens of different combinations of flora MMPs and thus dozens of different kind of fields. 16. It is slow-going though but the end result is that organic look! 17. Another MMP technique I use is the creating of dirt field perimeters. First I lay down some bushes (Girafe) and berry bushes (Girafe) I use Heblem gravel and OMCO dirt to complete the scene. 18. There also ways of bringing to life the bush MMPs. 19. For the darker green and red bushes I use sparaxis (Girafe) flowers, which are red and purple, to improve the look; for the lighter green berry bushes I use narcissus (Girafe), these are white and yellow. 20. For the pasture land for the sheep I use simply Chrisadams3997's grass and then OMCO brown dirt; plus some sheep MMPs! 21. {---} Well I hope that was informative! This Saturday, for the next entry, I take you to Pololomia's city centre. See you then!- 3 Comments
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