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San Francisco (Maxis) Complete Region - Large Tiles
Cyclone Boom posted a file in Ready Made Regions
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The Maxis San Francisco region rendered in ready-to-use form in a Large tile configuration. Originally Maxis made the regions to have few (or no) Large sized tiles due to performance considerations. By popular demand and from what @ASV7900 specifically requested, here is the San Francisco region in an expanded tile layout. This allows more freedom to build on the terrain over a larger area at once. Each tile has been saved with vanilla Plugins to update the tile appearance in the region view to be consistent with how Maxis created them originally. All cities have also been paused for convenience. Two Versions Option A - San Francisco (Upscaled All Large) 4 x 4 region formed of 16 Large tiles in total. For this version, the region area has been enlarged in scale to a 16 Large tile layout. To make this possible, the terrain has been upscaled from the original, making it slightly proportionally larger in size. Preview pic (from Mapper): To represent this difference, here's a comparison using the upper left corner: (Before / After: Click to flick between and compare the terrain scaling.) Option B - San Francisco (New Layout) This version has a custom configuration, while retaining the original map size. The aim is to emphasise the Bay Area to maximise Large tiles where the main urban areas are in reality. The design of this layout also optimises the potential placement of bridges, including the famous Golden Gate which can connect in the northwestern Large tile. This gives more options for where you may wish to construct bridges between tiles. The terrain is unmodified from the original map with no development. Preview pic (from Mapper): Installation Copy either folder into your Regions folder: Documents\SimCity 4\Regions Both regions can be installed without conflict, and even in addition to the Maxis original. Renaming (Optional) It isn't necessary, but you may wish to rename either region. This can be worth doing if wanting the name to simply be San Francisco instead of with the descriptive parts in both names. To do this: With the game closed, open the region.ini file with Notepad (or any text editor). Change the name to whatever you'd like it to be instead. For example: Name = San Francisco Save the file and then the name will be updated when reloading the game Also in this Maxis Maps series Here are the other 4 Maxis regions I've uploaded along the same theme: Berlin Fairview Kanto Tokai London Special Thanks As ever, I dearly appreciate @CorinaMarie helping me with a few ideas for these region releases, inspired by her Maxis New York 4x4 upload. Cori also kindly helped share the workload with me for saving each tile with a vanilla Plugins folder to update the terrain from the Mapper color scheme, and to pause each city tile. And of course, to Maxis for creating these regions for us mayors to enjoy, even all these years later.- 3 Comments
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Completed in 1964 as the Alcoa Building, One Maritime Plaza is a 25-story building located in San Francisco, California. The distinctive x-bracing on the building's façade is a form of seismic bracing that has the secondary effect of looking pretty sweet. The model presented here is just the tower portion of what in real life is a large elevated plaza that spans two city blocks. This building is offered as a CO$$ growable and ploppable, both on a 4X4 lot. Both provide 3637 jobs, and the growable is a stage 8 building for the Houston and Euro tilesets. Both Darknite and Maxisnite versions are available, and the Darknite version requires the classic Simfox Day and Nite Modd. Dependencies: BSC MEGA Props CP Vol01 (v1.0) BSC Textures Vol 02 (v1.0) That's it! I hope you enjoy it and check out my thread here for a glimpse at what's next.- 1 Comment
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The Grand Hyatt Union Square is a full-service hotel located near downtown San Francisco's famous Union Square. It is one of several Hyatt branded hotels in San Francisco. It is centrally located and within walking distance of Union Square's many high-end shops and restaurants, San Francisco's Chinatown, Nob Hill, the Powell Street BART station, and the newly opened Union Square Muni subway station. The real-world version of the building was completed in 1972. The version available for download here sits on a 3x3 lot and is available via the Landmarks menu (Plop Cost $110,000). To use, simply extract the contents of the attached .zip into your SC4 Plugins directory. Dependencies (Optional): RDQ HD Prop Pack (Adds trees) Enjoy!- 3 Reviews
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Welcome Back to my City Journal, "Touring the World"! All Cities shown are inspired by reality, but may have subtle differences with their real-life counterparts. These differences may be due to game constraints... or... just because. For this entry, we'll be returning to the US West Coast! Starting from the north, we return to the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area! Downtown Portland is known for its 200 ft by 200 ft blocks - originally designed to maximize corner units and thus developer profit - today, an unintended side effect has been that the blocks are short, walk-able and pedestrian friendly. This photo shows the area around Broadway and Main Street, including two very interesting buildings, 1000 Broadway (the building with the white dome) and the Portland Building (top right corner), which houses the City of Portland's various bureaucracies guarded by the statue "Portlandia" who stares down at every citizen of Portland who dares enter the building to file a Planning Department permit for their backyard fence remodel or whatever else they need local government for. Another shot of downtown Portland, this one along Burnside Avenue. Included in this photo is the City's (and the State of Oregon's) second tallest building, the US Bancorp Tower, also known locally as "Big Pink". It stands at 43 stories tall. On the 30th floor is one of those fancy restaurants with great views but overpriced food and drinks. Also in the photo is the MAX Light Rail, which serves not only the city of Portland but also surrounding suburbs and the Portland Airport. At the bottom left is the Chinatown Gate, located on 4th Avenue, it provides a cultural icon and entryway into Portland's Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood. In August and September of 2020, vast forest fires raged throughout the western United States. The Portland area wasn't spared. Due to the fires, air quality in the Portland area plummeted to over 450+ AQI (air quality index). At that time, the air quality in Portland was the worst recorded globally. The photo below shows the St. John's Bridge, a suspension bridge located approximately 5 miles north of downtown Portland and crossing the Willamette River shrouded in a thick orange haze. This photo was taken September 15, 2020. Just 10 to 15 miles west of Downtown Portland is Washington County a mix of suburban housing tracts and rural farmland. One of the striking things about the Portland area is how fast you can go from an urban center with skyscrapers to vast open farmland. Much of this farmland is protected by Oregon's strict land use regulations and the Portland area's "Urban Growth Boundary". The photo below shows the rural and privately-owned Twin Oaks Airport in Hillsboro, Oregon, approximately 12 miles south-west of downtown Portland. Eugene, Oregon is located 105 miles south of Portland along Interstate 5. It is the second largest city in Oregon with a population of about 150,000. It is also home to the University of Oregon and the 2020 Pac-12 (football) Champion Ducks. The Ducks play their home games at Autzen Stadium, pictured below, which is located just north of the University of Oregon's main campus area. Travelling further south on Interstate 5, you will find yourself in California and its capitol city, Sacramento. While we won't visit Sacramento itself during this entry (we will in a future entry), lets swing by really quickly to Roseville, California, which is a suburban bedroom community located directly east of Sacramento in Placer County. Roseville's development is typical of inland California, featuring endless tract homes and neighborhoods, churches, parks/open spaces and big box retail. Many people moved into this area in recent decades to escape higher housing prices in cities along coastal California. There is no lack of land in the Roseville area and this housing is much more affordable when compared to the Bay Area or Los Angeles area. A typical home in the neighborhood below sized between 2000 and 4000 square feet could range from $300,000 to $600,000, a steal considering a similar home would easily be over $2,000,000 in the Bay Area. To the west, Oakland, California. Oakland is one of three major cities surrounding San Francisco Bay. It's population is approximately 480,000. It is also home to the second largest container and shipping port in the western United States. Each day thousands of containers are loaded and unloaded. Many consumer products manufactured in Asia and elsewhere and destined for customers in the United States pass through here. From the Port of Oakland, these products are either loaded onto semi-trucks for delivery within the Bay Area region or within California, or, loaded onto freight trains where they head east. In recent decades, downtown Oakland has seen a bit of a revival. Due to the lack of build-able land in the Bay Area, housing prices are exorbitant and always in short supply. Oakland has always been seen as a more affordable alternative when compared to San Francisco while still providing some of the same urban amenities and lifestyle. Taking advantage of this, developers have built "luxury" condos and apartments throughout Downtown Oakland in recent years. Of course, a 800 square foot one bedroom unit on a lower floor will still set you back $850,000+ if purchasing, or at least $3,500 a month in rent. Oakland is home to Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics (A's). The A's play at Oakland Coliseum, an outdated facility surrounded by a huge parking lot. There are ongoing discussions about building a new ballpark for the A's at a waterfront location closer to downtown Oakland. The Coliseum was formerly home to the NFL's Oakland Raiders before they relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. The Coliseum is also located next to the arena formerly known as Oracle Arena. Oracle Arena was home to the NBA's Golden State Warriors prior to their move to new facilities in San Francisco. The Warriors won several NBA championships in this building. Both the Coliseum and the Arena area are served by the Coliseum BART station (BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit) and pictured top right. From here, commuters can catch BART trains to San Francisco, San Jose, the Oakland Airport, Berkeley or other suburban destinations throughout the Bay Area. The freeway pictured at the bottom is Interstate 880 which connects Oakland and San Jose to the south. Rush hour traffic on this freeway is an absolute nightmare due to the amount of commuters and truck traffic coming to/from the Port of Oakland. West of Oakland and across the Bay Bridge is San Francisco, California. One of America's most recognized cities, San Francisco is home to Golden Gate Park, pictured below. Contrary to the name, the park is not located directly adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge, but rather, a few miles south. Similar to Central Park in New York, it provides respite from the urban hustle and bustle. It is also home to the De Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences (which features an aquarium, a bio-dome and one of the largest green roofs in the country), and the Golden Gate Park Japanese Gardens which are pictured below. Next, we return to Los Angeles. In the hills above downtown LA and adjacent to Elysian Park is Dodger Stadium, home to the 2020 MLB Champion LA Dodgers! Although the ballpark is similar in age to the Oakland Coliseum previously seen, Dodger Stadium retains much of its "retro-charm" and has preserved outfield views of the surrounding hillsides. Finally, we visit Downtown Los Angeles, home to the tallest building on the US West Coast (by spire), Wilshire Grand, on a rare rainy day in LA. Thanks for visiting! You can also follow my CJ's and other content on Instagram.
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Apparently, there is a solution to San Francisco's housing crisis besides upzoning historic neighborhoods. I just learned that most shipping has moved to the east bay, leaving San Francisco's industrial ports (its entire southeast area) underutilized. If these ports are not completely eliminated, then they can at least be concentrated in Hunter's Point, leaving everywhere north of there ripe for redevelopment just like Miami Beach's new luxury highrise residential district.
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SIM-ple Jack's Maps of the Macabre Macabre Map-Lake Herman 12 Medium Tiles, 0 Small Tiles Editable grayscale included. Made from scratch, pre-transitted(for select maps) cities or regions of the most notorious locations of the world. Be afraid...be very afraid! To Use: Unpack, place in Regions folder, play. Raised lines reference streets, roads and highways. Refer to enclosed maps if you're unsure which is which. Simply level and place roads as you go. No extra terrain-ing required, unless you want it. Use any non-elevation altering terrain texture or water mod. Stand alone or import into larger regions. Preview Pic Texture: NHP Palm Springs California (v1.0) https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1200 About: The first murders widely attributed to the Zodiac Killer were the shootings of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road, just inside Benicia city limits. The couple were on their first date and planned to attend a Christmas concert at Hogan High School about three blocks from Jensen's home. The couple instead visited a friend before stopping at a local restaurant and then driving out on Lake Herman Road. At about 10:15 p.m., Faraday parked his mother's Rambler in a gravel turnout, which was a well-known lovers' lane. Shortly after 11:00 p.m., their bodies were found by Stella Borges, who lived nearby. The Solano County Sheriff's Department investigated the crime but no leads developed. Utilizing available forensic data, Robert Graysmith postulated that another car pulled into the turnout, just prior to 11:00 pm and parked beside the couple. The killer apparently exited the second car and walked toward the Rambler, possibly ordering the couple out of the Rambler. Jensen appeared to have exited the car first, yet when Faraday was halfway out, the killer apparently shot him in the head. The killer then shot Jensen five times in the back as she fled; her body was found 28 feet from the car. The killer then drove off.- 2 Reviews
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SimFrancisco Chronicle - And the first letter from the SimZiac!!
NoviceRedux posted a topic in SC4 City Journals
Hi y'all, NoviceRedux here, taking advantage of my "coronunemployment" to rediscover my love of SC4D, which I played religiously in middle school and high school. After messing around with a few fictional cities, I decided to take the plunge, and accomplish a goal I've had for nearly a decade: build a realistic-ish San Francisco. The result: SimFrancisco. For expediency's sake, I've gone with the SC4D default San Francisco map, and am merely trying to resize/proportionally map out the actual city to fit within this slightly-off map. I'm dividing the city into regions and grouping neighborhoods together as necessary. So far pretty happy with the results. Before the photos, a few quick notes on my SimFrancisco: I am using cheats like no tomorrow -- I've been playing this game since middle school. I'm comfortable with my skill level so the focus here is instead on achieving a sort of realism, not on petty concerns like water, garbage, electricity or money I am relying on some of the AMAZING user-made plugins -- special shoutout to Mattb325 and also to all who've participating in the BAT project, which I think is a genuinely epic accomplishment by the SimCity fan community. In FiDi-Embarcadero, for instance, you'll notice the Transamerica Pyramid, the Salesforce Tower, and several other beautiful user-made buildings Due to privacy concerns, my region map will not show city names to avoid showing mayor names Now for the good part! Attached photos: 1. Presidio & Richmond area 2. Sunset / Golden Gate Park area, with Lake Merced in southern section 3. Daly City 4. Financial District & Embarcadero 5. Pacifica & Linda Mar 6. REGIONAL MAP - Work in progress 7. REGIONAL TRANSIT MAP - Work in progress As a final note, I'm striving towards realism, so constructive comments re building locations, city configurations, etc. are welcome! ---------------------- NOTE FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD, SIMFRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Today we received a letter from a man claiming to be the SimZiac, who police believe is responsible for a string of catnappings and minor arsons throughout the SimBay Area. Below, the cryptic catnapper's message can be read in its entirety. We warn you, elements of the letter are graphic [but like, not really]. We at the SimFrancisco Chronicle strive to provide our readers with the city's and the nation's news according to the highest possible journalistic standards. If you believe you may know the identity of the SimZiac, we urge you to contact the authorities with any information you may have. Sincerely, Editorial Board SimFrancisco Chronicle- 5 Replies
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Style: High Tech File content: Functional Landmark with 7,000 CO$$$_Dark Nite Version Notice: 1.- The model presented here is an interpretation of the author. The measurements and size may vary from the original. 2.- The models are not exact replicas of the original building. 3.- This is a work of exploration and experimentation that Diego Del Llano wanted to share with the community of Simtropolis. If some of this work does not satisfy you, you have the option of not download this file. 4.-Diego Del Llano appreciates your understanding and wishes you to enjoy this project to the fullest. 5.- Acknowledgments and all the credits to the original authors of this building.- 2 Comments
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Hotel located in San Francisco, California. Style: Postmodern File content: Functional Landmark with 4,000 CS$$$_Dark Nite Version Notice: 1.- The model presented here is an interpretation of the author. The measurements and size may vary from the original. 2.- The models are not exact replicas of the original building. 3.- This is a work of exploration and experimentation that Diego Del Llano wanted to share with the community of Simtropolis. If some of this work does not satisfy you, you have the option of not download this file. 4.-Diego Del Llano appreciates your understanding and wishes you to enjoy this project to the fullest. 5.- Acknowledgments and all the credits to the original authors of this building.- 2 Comments
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555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story 779 ft (237 m) skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the fourth tallest building in the city, the largest by floor area, and a focal point of the Financial District. Completed in 1969, the tower was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the completion of the Transamerica Pyramid in 1972, and the world headquarters of Bank of America until the 1998 merger with NationsBank, when the company moved its headquarters to the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. File content: Functional Landmark with 4,500 CO$$$_Dark Nite Version Notice: 1.- The model presented here is an interpretation of the author. The measurements and size may vary from the original. 2.- The models are not exact replicas of the original building. 3.- This is a work of exploration and experimentation that Diego Del Llano wanted to share with the community of Simtropolis. If some of this work does not satisfy you, you have the option of not download this file. 4.-Diego Del Llano appreciates your understanding and wishes you to enjoy this project to the fullest. 5.- Acknowledgments and all the credits to the original authors of this building. -
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One Front Street, also known as Shaklee Terraces, is an office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 164 m (538 ft), 38-floor tower was completed in 1979. The composition of the façade closely resembles that of the Shell Building by Emil Fahrenkamp, which was built in Berlin in 1931. The Shaklee Corporation was once headquartered in the tower until the company moved to Pleasanton, California in 2000. In 1999-2001 Scient Corporation, a dot-com era consulting firm, had its head office on the upper floors of the building, prior to its move to Market Street. File content: Functional Landmark with 3,800 CO$$$_Dark Nite Version MAXIS NITE VERSION SOON: WAIT FOR IT. Notice: 1.- The model presented here is an interpretation of the author. The measurements and size may vary from the original. 2.- The models are not exact replicas of the original building. 3.- This is a work of exploration and experimentation that Diego Del Llano wanted to share with the community of Simtropolis. If some of this work does not satisfy you, you have the option of not downloading this file. 4.-Diego Del Llano appreciates your understanding and wishes you to enjoy this project to the fullest. 5.- Acknowledgments and all the credits to the original authors of this building.- 1 Comment
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The Transamerica Pyramid at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, is a 48-story postmodern building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. Its height will be surpassed by Salesforce Tower, currently under construction.The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company's logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at 853 ft (260 m), on completion in 1972 it was the eighth tallest building in the world. This file Includes: Functional Landmark with 4,000 CO$$$ Jobs To install: Unzip the folder inside and dragg it on C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Plugins- 5 Comments
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Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, by Mattb325. --------------------------------------- Inspired by the recent SC3000 uploads, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), San Francisco is a non-profit organisation and holds an internationally recognised collection of modern and contemporary art, and was the first museum on the US West Coast devoted solely to 20th Century art. The present building was designed by Mario Botta in the late 1980s and the building - as depicted here in SC4 - was completed in 1995. It was recently given a large extension in 2009, but I have not modelled that part of the building. This building acts as a Museum and sits on a 4x4 lot providing 315 highly desirable civic jobs and gives a large educational boost across a wide radius. It is found in the Education Menu. --------------------------------------- STATS MUSEUM: Lot size : 4x4 Growth Stage: Ploppable only; Plop Cost: § 22,250 Bulldoze Cost: §31,110 Wealth: §§ Jobs/Demand: § 43; §§ 195; §§§ 77 Catalogue Capacity: 310 Pollution: 7 (Air)/ 4 (Water)/ 3 (Garbage ) Pollution Radius: 3/4/0 Coverage Radius: 8,360 Capacity: 98,500 EQ Boost: 40 Power Consumed: 13 Mwh Water Consumed: 48 Gal/Month Occupant Group: Civic; Museum Cost: §900 --------------------------------------- NOTE ABOUT DARK NITE vs MAXIS NITE: This download contains TWO model files; one for dark nite users (and other night-time darkening mods, such as Gizmos night-mod) and one for the standard Maxis nite. You must keep only one file - depending on which version you use. If you are unsure whether you have a night-darkening mod installed, then choose the Maxis night version. Regardless of which file you choose to keep, make sure you DO NOT delete the Lot File! If you use the dark nite version, you will need a dark nite mod. --------------------------------------- DEPENDENCIES: There are no external dependencies for this lot. --------------------------------------- To install, simply unzip the contents of this file into your plugins folder.- 5 Comments
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345 California Center is a 48-story office tower in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 1986, the 211.8 m (695 ft) tower is the third-tallest in the city after the Transamerica Pyramid and 555 California Street if the spires are included. It was originally proposed to be 30 m (98 ft) taller. 345 California is in the middle of a block with historic buildings on each of the four corners. Initially planned as condominiums, the top 11 floors of the building are the Loews Regency San Francisco hotel, located in twin towers set at 45-degree angles to the rest of the building. Several glass skybridges offer views of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Loews Regency has the street address 222 Sansome, with a different entrance. FONT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/345_California_Center This file Includes: Functional Landmark with 3,200 CO$$$ Jobs To install this Unzip the folder inside and dragg it on C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Plugins- 11 Reviews
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I present: My San Francisco CIty Journal! I've been slowly (very slowly) working on it for months now and feel like a CJ seemed appropriate at this point. I started using Norris' map on the Steam Workshop as a base map and thanks to numerous mods I've been able to slowly work on it, improving infrastructure, transport and terrain. I mostly improved the road networks, adding (and deleting) transport lines, and matching as closely as I could to its real life counterparts. After I got most of that done, I started working on landmarks and neighborhoods, most notably Lombard St. Aerial view of downtown with the Transamerica Pyramid and 55th California building visible. Some pictures of recognizable landmarks in SF. Lombard Street with an unzoned Telegraph Hill and downtown in the background... Looking west.
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So guys I have changed the map for the city of San Francisco to the a smaller version of the actual San Francisco Peninsula... And we have our new Bay Bridge...which is a four-lane RHW bridge connecting downtown San Francisco to Oakland...
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well even though my computer screen is cracked and I cant see anything I am still going to be able to post updates and photos from San Francisco. I have hooked my broken laptop up to my smart tv via usb cable...and I am still able to play SC4
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http://time.com/3973416/soda-warnings-san-francisco/ The government should have no business telling you what you can and can't eat or drink, nor should they have to warn you of the obvious.
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I've downloaded and installed the DBE (dated 12-Sep-2011). I have NAM 32 and the RHW that came with it (highways up to 10S whose dat files are dated between 2-Feb and 2-June 2013). Water disappears as expected, but roads and highways fail utterly. I start on perfectly god-mode level terrain and then drag into the abyss, but no matter what network type I try, it dives down the cliff until it generates a red streak with a "failed to smooth terrain" bubble (or builds a road/avenue/freeway on the bottom of an empty SF Bay). Nothing I tried would generate any pylons in any direction. Obviously I've done something wrong, but I'm not sure what. I tried setting aside my entire plugins folder and running with only the NAM and the DBE, but I got the same behavior. I've hunted for threads on this, but the mod seems to work for everyone but me. Is the RHW stuff in NAM 32 the wrong version (or incomplete)? Does anyone know the actual filenames I need to see in my NAM folder? Could the DBE from 2011 have been obsolesced by NAM 32? I guess my confusion comes from trying to use 2013's available downloads to satisfy dependencies described in 2011. PS: I'm building on parts of a life-sized San Francisco region. In an ideal world, I would build a double-deck (5 lanes each way) highway suspension bridge from Pier 24 to Yerba Buena Island, maybe 100 map cells away. Using a canonical diagonal, I can make my neighbor connection on the island and still hit Pier 3, an acceptable distance north of historical. I just need a bridge. Am I doomed to kludging E-W and N-S bridges via a god-mode artificial island for the neighbor connection?
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Once again, just remember to click on photos to enlarge. Hey Y'all. Back with another update. Today we're gonna take a look at "The Town" aka Oakland, CA. The jewel of the East Bay. Here we can see downtown and Lake Merritt, the heart and soul of Oaktown and where Oaklanders go to play. The Bay Bridge brings people into Oakland, and terminates in industrial West Oakland. There are a lot of superfund sites here and it is very polluted. The BART comes up above ground in West Oakland, the black community that lives here historically lacked the political voice to get the rail line put underground, so above it went, doing a lot of damage to local businesses. Here we have a shot of the West Oakland BART station. The neighborhood has a lot of historic Victorian homes, many of which are run-down and have become a haven for the area's punk rockers and artists. Jack London once lived in this neighborhood and in the 1940's the neighborhood became known as the "Harlem of the West" with an influx of African Americans looking for shipbuilding jobs during world war 2. The Temescal District in North Oakland is home to the Town's hipster population. Historically, it was an Italian-American community and more recently, Ethiopians and Koreans have been moving in as well. It is known for it's mom and pop shops and friendly, village-like character. Emeryville is a small, formerly industrial city next to Oakland that has been redeveloped into a pro-business bubble in the notoriously anti big-business Bay Area. Old factories are being converted into offices, or just being torn down and replaced with condominiums. Downtown Oakland. Oscar Grant Plaza in front of City Hall was the site of the Occupy protests that ended in a controversial violent eviction. Montclair is the wealthiest area of Oakland. Up in the hills, it houses mutlimillion dollar mansions. In 1991, big portions of the area were burnt down in the Oakland Hills firestorm, but have since been rebuilt. Fruitvale in East Oakland is home to the City's Latino population. It also was the site of the 2009 murder of Oscar Grant by BART police, which led to protests and riots across the city. Deep East Oakland is notorious for its late night sideshows. Where people go dumb and hyphy while doing wild tricks in their cars in intersections. Often, things get a little too wild and end in violence. Former mayor Jerry Brown tried to crack down on sideshows, but the Town likes to do what it do, and the movement continues. Sequoyah in the East Oakland hills is home to Oakland's black professionals. Overlooking the poverty of the Deep East's flatlands, it is proof that Oakland is a dynamic city of contrasts.
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NOTE: Just click on the pics to expand. Thanks! The SF Bay Area. Here we see San Francisco and Oakland. The pollution from the Port of Oakland is clearly visible. I've veered a little bit from absolute reality, but I think I've done a good job of creating a realistic SF. Downtown San Francisco. Every day, thousands of people take the BART here to come to work. Here we see the Bank of America Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid, symbols of the skyline. The SOMA district of San Francisco. Home to the SF Giants and UCSF's Mission Bay Campus, as well as numerous tech startups. The gritty industrial Mission Bay district resembles the SOMA of yesteryear, though there are talks of cleaning it up and bringing in more high-tech jobs. Alcatraz Island. The island was returned to the Native Americans, who have turned it into an environmental education center. The Western Addition has historically been the heart and soul of San Francisco's African-American community. The district is rapidly gentrifying and while people are fixing up previously run-down Victorians, black people are being pushed out of the nieghborhood, or into its vast tracts of public housing. The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District. And here we have the good ol' Golden Gate Bridge Little Beirut in the Richmond District. The neighborhood has seen some tensions as the Shiite Muslim and Maronite Christian communities rub shoulders and their respective places of worship nearly overlap eachother, rekindling old memories of the Civil war from which they fled. Historic Victorian housing in the Mission District, home to SF's Latino community and it's hipsters. Like most of the city, it is rapidly gentrifying, and many of its residents are moving to Oakland. The tony Seacliff neighborhood is home to some of the City's most notable residents. Robin Williams has a home here. Golden Gate Park. Let's play ball! Gritty Little Tonga in the southwest part of the City is home to working-class Pacific Islanders who found the neighborhood's worker bungalows to remind them of home. SF has one of the largest Pacific Islander populations in the mainland USA. The Mount Sutro radio tower in the Twin Peaks neighborhood can be seen from anywhere in the City and is used by locals as a way of gauging where one is at any given time. Potrero Hill is traditionally working-class, but as dirty industries give way to high-tech, a rapid gentrification is imminent. Time will tell.
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