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So I have decided to place my Simtropolis CJ -- My SC4 CJ Scrapbook -- onto SC4D, but I will rename it to the "My SC4 MD Scrapbook" as MD's are for SC4D. I'm going to start with one of my recently finished cities; Grethor. Grethor is a massive industrial city with an oil terminal, various nuclear power plants, an automobile plant and a couple of large railyards. Plus a lot more to!

From time to time I will post older entries from my Simtropolis CJ. Please also note that I'm going to be a bit lazy and copy all the annotations from my Simtropolis CJ into this MD to save some time. Lastly all pictures are pure, raw, unadulterated SC4. That means no photoshop and no lotting! It's mods, all mods! The whole purpose of the MD is pushing the limits of modded content: new combinations, lotting imitation and showcasing awesome fillers, buildings, MMPs and other features.

Enjoy!


Entry 1, Grethor: oil port, automobile plant, railyards and mosaics

Well Grethor is finally finished! I moved heaven and earth to accomplish this and Grethor is one of the most complicated cities I have ever built in SC4: MMP fields, massive industrial areas, extensive use of diagonal fillers plus T Wrecks industrial fillers, adding fillers to diagonal and FAR infrastructure, MMP forest scenery, car parks, lakes and a lot more.

In this detailed tour, for a detailed city, I will show you the northern part of Grethor where the oil port, automobile plant and railyards are located. Let's begin!!!


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The finished city!


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The automobile plant.


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The centre of the oil port/terminal.


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A car junkyard.


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Lately I have been messing around with MMPs to spruce up the woodland floor.


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An industrial site west of the automobile plant.


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And now for a closer look...


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I love pushing T Wrecks industrial fillers to the uttermost limit.


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Going back to the car junkyard. From here we move Eastwards and follow the railway.


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I worked out how to use SFBT's elevated highway fillers to fill in the space directly below an elevated curved avenue.


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Heading back to the oil terminal now.


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One of SFBT's lighthouses.


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We travel along these train tracks until we reach the railyards.


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Along the way to the railyards there are numerous freight stations.


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Two of three major railyards.


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The Rectangle Roundhouse. Best railway BAT out there IMO.


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Although the railyard is very amazing to!


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And now for two mosaics (to view in full size right click the pictures and click 'view image').

Oil terminal

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Railyards

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That's it for today. There is more to follow from Grethor!

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First off, remember to resize your picture, it's better for people who are still using smaller screens. Use this code:

[img width=1024]IMG URL[/img]

Now, that's an impressive city you've made there. At first I was a bit skeptical when I saw the overview, it looked a bit anarchic. But when I went through the closed up, I was filled with amazing pictures. The detail level is fantastic. Good work.

Looking forward to see more of your cities.  :thumbsup:

Well, I'm glad to see your MD expanding to this site! I've enjoyed reading all your entries over on Simtropolis, and I'm sure glad to see it here too! :)

The overview of the city is pretty awesome and your attention to detail is rather excellent indeed. Seems like another high quality MD to drool over!  :thumbsup: 

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art128: Thanks for that, I didn't realise you had to do that but I will resize my pictures from now on.

compdude787: Thank you.

vortext: Cheers! My favourite part of city building is filling in the gaps and sorting out the small things, which can sometimes turn into inspiration for larger things.


Entry 2: The Grethor Nuclear Reactor Complex

Moving towards the centre of Grethor there resides the nuclear reactor complex. This facility contains the most imposing structures which cast a shadow on the town...

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The primary reactor. This is an advanced molten salt reactor design: safe, efficient and with a high power output.


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These two very long buildings house the steam-propelled turbines which generate the electricity.


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All of that super-heated water hast to go somewhere...


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The site to the right contains two buildings specializing in metallurgical refinement. Some of the items produced are used as spare parts to repair the reactors.


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The transformer stations where the electricity's voltage is altered and the current sent far along the electricity pylons to other transformer sites in the region.


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The Three Diablo nuclear facility. Named after three prototype thorium-based reactors which use the more economical and cleaner Thorium-232 fuel. These reactors are not wired up to the electric grid and their chief function is primarily for research and Uranium-233 breeding/extraction.


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Advanced prototype or not, these are some ugly buildings!


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A small oil reservoir lies beneath the surrounding area.


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There are numerous scrapyards along these railways lines.


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The third railyard in Grethor.


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By using the curved fence pieces -- with ground textures on one side -- from Chrisadams3997 RRP Wooden Fences set, I found a curvy and symmetrical way of bordering FAR railway with fences/barriers. I also believe such fence pieces are one of their kind in that their transparent side is a curved shape.


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Straight, diagonal and FAR railway seamlessly merging together and diverging...


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Here I used diggis gravel-banked pond pieces to create these lakes.


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Mosaic: Grethor Nuclear Reactor Complex

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Note: This link below takes you to a larger picture which I decided not to show here because the steam from the cooling towers overlapped and made the top middle third look weird. The pictures are in line but the steam looks odd so I had to crop this picture.

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In the next entry we travel to East Grethor to look at some suburbs, a retail estate and MMP agriculture. Stay tuned and thanks for the comments!

Fantastic industrial update. Your use of FAR and FARR is brilliant.

Another very nice update! Always a good work on the industrial areas with all the fillers.

I like the idea to have a research facility for Thorium 232.

Excellent power plant and the surrounding industrial area are great too. Not quite sure what to think of the wavy fences around the far rails though, it's better than nothing I guess.  :D

Looking forward to the next entry!  :thumbsup:

This isn't exactly what I call scrap....

Great work! Full of details that meet reality. I'm feeling envious, but keep on scrutinizing the images for ideas and details. Nice, really nice....

Okay, you´ve hooked me!  $%Grinno$%

I like railways, and I like to see them in such a realistic look, as you show them here. This Oil harbor with the waiting tank wagons, here the first time I had the feeling, that a railyard made with the drawable network could look nice. And this nuclear power plant sourrounded by residentials - wow, I wouldn´t trust, I would look for a safe place on the next city tile...  $%Grinno$%

But nice work here, keep it on!

Great work  &apls   I really enjoy the different type of areas you show--I'm fairly sure this is the first time I've seen oil-producing areas like that or a car junkyard. Love the nuclear plant--the thorium research back story was a great touch too (though it seems to be scaled up pretty large for a research reactor :P ). I really liked the way your diagonals looked with the surrounding lots. I'd forgotten about those lots but feel like I should try using them again. Excellent start and I'm glad you decided to share this :)

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benedict: Thanks, I always love building large convoluted railway tracks.

art128: What is an SC4 industrial area with them fillers?

vortext: Would you prefer orthogonal fencing or orthogonal mixed with diagonal fencing for the railway fence?  :P

FrankU: Every Sunday I go to a skatepark in Redcar, in Northeast England, and to get there I go right through the centre of Teesside's industry. That's my inspiration for these industrial areas in Grethor, with a bit of inspiration derived from Koyaanisqatsi and U2's Stay.

carlfatal: A Sim's sense of NIMBY does not extend to a nuclear power plant looming over their back yard. God bless them!

noahclem: I spam those diagonal fillers like crazy when building cities. As for the thorium research back story, it just came to me (with a little help from Wikipedia to).


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During the last two weeks I was very busy working on the new city of Townshead and I forget about this MD, but not to worry I'll also show several preview pictures of Townshead to make up for my absence.

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Entry 3: East Grethor- suburbs, retail estates and MMP agriculture

Moving away from heavy industry now, East Grethor is greener, brighter and more lusher.

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I love seeing 5 by 5 apartment blocks develop.


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East Grethor's retail estate.


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5*5 apartment blocks are really awesome.


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The railways convergeth.


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T Wrecks IRM fillers are just as useful in non-industrial situations. Note: I just realised -- three months later -- that one of the walls is out of place!


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And now for a bit of agriculture.


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Moo! The cows say hello.


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In the next entry we travel to the centre of Grethor where large, rundown tower blocks await.


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Bonus

And now for some preview pictures of the city of Townshead. The city is almost complete, all I have to do is let the zones develop and fill in empty areas with flora.

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Lotted or not?


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One of my favourite movies is Bladerunner.


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Entry 4: Central Grethor- grungy tower blocks and ponds

The centre of Grethor features grungy tower blocks; what's left of a very run-down estate which has been renovated more than ten years ago. Thanks to anti-pollution laws and better air filters, the NIMBY factor associated with central Grethor has diminished and the area is increasingly being yuppified (even if it is several hundred metres away from a nuclear power plant).

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Drak Lake.


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Stovely Lake.


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Dimple Pond.


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The building with the vibrant red bricks and partial glass roof was once a flour mill, now it has been converted into flats.


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The Baltic, another converted flour mill, is the only former industrial building in Grethor to be turned into an arts museum. This BAT is based on the Baltic in Gateshead, a northern England city, which has a similar history and is one of the iconic buildings of Gateshead; along with the Sage.


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A sign of Grethor's rising affluence is this new convention centre which was recently built.


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In the next entry the west of Grethor is explored, which features stadiums and a lot of agriculture!

Fantastic! I really like the ponds&streams with paths around them.
(Please tell me you made lots with grass props on it for plopping those fields instead of MMPing it all by hand &idea)

Thanks Catalyst for your comment. To answer your question yes I MMPed many of the fields by hand.

Entry 5: Stokesley: rivers, ravines and waterfalls

Moving away from all of the urban grit and suburban sprawl of Grethor, we take a tour around Stokesley- an area with a few small villages and impressive scenery. This is the first city where I got really serious with rivers and waterfalls. Enjoy.

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In the next entry we explore more of Stokesley, including the mountain lakes and scree slopes...

Fantastic work!!!  &apls

Now that's a waterfall! The people next to the cliff put it nicely into perspective.  &apls

The grunge from previous update was very enjoyable in its own right, nice use of Diggis' water for the two lakes! :thumbsup:

Very nice update. I like the little details such as the dirt car park and the 'tourists' beside the waterfall.

Fantastic pictures and so much detail! I really like all the dirty industrial stuff and the space you put in a lot of your region.

I have to ask - where did you get the harbour wall and those interesting square asphalt fillers from?

Great work and looking forward to seeing more!
-nsa

You can update quicker than I can reply,

I missed about three....

They are all great!  &apls

Welcome to page 2! You need more reply around here.
The last couple updates were fantastic, I specially liked the elevated rail tracks.

I agree with Arthur's comment !!

I like your updates and I enjoy watching them, you share always a lot of good pictures, keep up the good work  :thumbsup:

Replies:

romualdillo: Thank you.

vortext: That was my first ever large waterfall and it was pretty fun to make. Also I love industrial grunge and diggis pond kits.

belfastsocrates: Stokesley was the first city tile were I applied MMP Sims, though small they can make huge visual impact.

newsimaddict: The sea wall is nbvc's riprap seawall- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26175-riprap-seawall/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26175-riprap-seawall/). The grunge concrete comes from both Paeng and Murmimk: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26425-paengs-grunge-concrete-set/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26425-paengs-grunge-concrete-set/) and http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27699-nightowls-diagonal-industrial-fillers-and-extenders/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27699-nightowls-diagonal-industrial-fillers-and-extenders/). These are must have items for grunge and hard-core industrial areas.

FrankU: The forums were a little quiet and I'm not sure. Anyway, thank you for your comment.

art128: Thank you. There is a lot more to come.

kelis: Cheers!

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Entry 6: Stokesley - Toral's Peak, Goatswater Lake and mountain paths.

This is one of my mountain entries, I'm going to make some more next year now that I know a lot more about MMPs. Anyway, I'll start this one off with a few pictures of the winding road which leads to the start of Stapler's Path, the main footpath which leads to Toral's Peak.

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Lower Stokesley.


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Upper Stokesley.


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Toral's Peak. A very old dormant volcano, tens of thousands of years ago a powerful eruption blew off the top third of this mountain. Successive ice ages proceeded to sculpt out the three sides of Toral's Peak. Each side once bore a corrie from where a glacier originated. Now the only remnants of the glaciation are two meltwater lakes.

However while Toral's Peak is not volcanically active, the magma chamber below still superheats the water. With the vent fully blocked the only release for the water, as it condenses higher up inside the mountain, is through one old fissure- the mountain's weak spot. During long periods of rain the waterfall rages, but during dry periods it can slow to barely a trickle. In essence this waterfall is more akin to a very large spring situated above a huge aquifer.


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Stapler's Path begins at Upper Stokesley.


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Goatswater lake, the ground below the water is rather porous and the water seeps below before evaporating when it reaches the magma chamber deep below. Sometimes, during periods of heavy rain, the lake can swell to twice its size and sometimes even spill over.


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Stapler's Path splits in two here, there is the North side and the South side. In this entry we will walk up the South side and go down the North side in one large loop.


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It is at higher altitudes where the Berner Oberland terrain mod and the ARDEN tree controller really begin to shine.


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The imposing West side of Toral's Peak.


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The North side...


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The ARDEN tree controller in action, it produces amazing results at high altitudes. Please note; I use the evergreen inland version.


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Travelling down the North side of Stapler's Path.


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The next entry, and final one of, Stokesley will feature marshland and scree slopes. Afterwards there will be several entries from my latest city- Townshead.

The first word that is on my mind when I saw your pictures was: monumental. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F40f01b7e4ddd8334cc44ff78d241568d.gif&hash=2fdc3e02a342f0773a130c4fb79664c9448adfdb) Along major roads and long roads lead along the strictly separated areas. The whole looks very monumental and almost Bullying. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F0f9e812785cbfa1e89a9eff8d02f64bc.gif&hash=263ac227db17a9ccc65a3aac098567a78cba7f1d)Also, your landscaping is equally monumental.(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fec5f2347c641efcb7e30adfc88c7e5d4.gif&hash=2b64c5b16b75a7325c389d8433be6d51c4770c55)

With an excellent variety of pictures from urban to rural, Vizoria has shown us that he manages to create excellent landscapes. Now is the time to come and congratulate him for being selected in the OSITM of December!

On behalf of the SC4Devotion Of Special Interest This Month Committee, congratulations!

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Replies:

Dantes: I'm glad you like it!

art128: Thanks for the OSITM slot!

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Entry 7: All at sea

First of all I want to thank the OSITM committee for this monthly featured slot. I have a lot to show and publish- from new entries to a few of my favourite older ones from my Simtropolis CJ. Also this month I'm going to be working on a massive hydroelectric facility and you folks will be the first to see it.

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On my Simtropolis CJ I talked a bit about a building a seaport complex, it is a special project in a wish list of projects I want to complete in SC4. I have never really used custom seaports before but I figured I give it a go.

Anyway the seaport complex is part of the small town of Repoville. The seaport contains various industrial estates, factories, nuclear power plants, oilports, oil storage facilities, numerous docking facilities, warehouses and container areas. Let's start at the Southeast and explore this concrete behemoth.


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The inside area of the port is protected by the habour wall.


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The entire seaport was built upon reclaimed land. In at least 90% of this complex the facilities were built upon this reclaimed land.


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The nuclear power stations can be seen in the top of this picture. Amazing power plant BATs by the way!


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Here resides the Southern most tip of the complex. This is where smaller ships dock.


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It's always quieter at the very periphery of the seaport.


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I am loving those barges!


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Warehouse piers are so awesome.


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The reason why I used retaining walls is because I had to lower some areas more than others. All the areas containing piers or docking facilities lowered the ground. This made everything a lot more complicated, especially given that the height difference was a couple of meters.


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FrankU's Modular Warehouse Pack is a must-have for industrial areas, port areas and inner-city industrial estates. Incredibly versatile and they merge perfectly with T-Wreck's dirty industry fillers.


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To the South is Docklands Alpha and to the North is Docklands Beta. These docklands amount to nothing more than massive piers branching off from the lengthy East Docklands- to the right of the picture. Nearly half of the container ships dock here.


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A closer look at Docklands Alpha.


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jeronij's ploppable ships come in very handy here.


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Part of the fun was mixing and matching different sea fronts and seawalls to spice up the area. The bottom of the picture shows some of the seaport BATs from nbvc's Modular Docks which are useful docking areas for small to mid-sized ships.


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These grey container cranes are so beastly! They comprise part of nbvc's Modular Container Port. A great mod to start with for building ones very own custom seaport areas. The modular container port is designed to cater for the large ships and other nautical behemoths.


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The end of Dockland Alpha pier. I decided to use Pegasus' PEG CDK3 SP Row Warehouses to finish off the end of this super pier.


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And now moving back to the East Docklands we take a look at Repoville's nuclear power plants.


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These BATs are of course SOMY's recreation of the Fukushima nuclear plant. It's a damned shame what happened to that facility after the great Japanese earthquake of 2011.


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Travelling up North along the East Docklands we arrive at Repoville's oil terminal.


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A truck stop below the electricity pylons transmission cables.


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Welcome to the pipeline jungle.


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And of course a rail oil depot to ship off the refined oil throughout the region.


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Next time we take a tour around the inner port area and the town of Repoville. Also I will be posting entries once every two days.

edit: images weren't showing due to an extra http:// in front. Fixed now. Erik GM

Congratulations for being selected to OSITM!

Only the first image of your last update is showing for me.

I've really enjoyed catching up on the last updates. You do a great job with many different types of things and in many cases do things differently than I've seen done before. Reading your MD gives me all kinds of ideas for those reasons.

The natural scenes are great. Is that regular Berner-Oberland or have you modified it? And what water mod are you using in the first picture of the new update? Is that a Poseidon variant?

How were you able to get this rock effect?
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Keep up the great work  :thumbsup:

Congratulations on being OSITM!  &apls

And yoinks, that's an impressive seaport! You really have a good sense of scale for industrial areas! I'm already looking forward to the hydroelectric facility!  :thumbsup:

Fantastic work on the seaport, it does look great apart from a few things I don't really like: (but keep in mind, that's just my opinion)
-The harbor walls are a bit too close to the docks themselves. Also the opening is too narrow to allow correct navigation. Imagine all the work the container ships on the right terminal have to do in order to enter or leave the harbor. Also the oil docks need an harbor wall as well, as it seems to me to be the most critical area of the harbor.
-Not a fan of PEG stuff tbh, specially his blue cranes but hey, it's just a matter of taste.

All in all, it's a nice harbor. :)

Congrats on the OSITM  &apls

I have been lurking here last weaks and I really like your industrials areas. Keep it up :thumbsup:

Replies:

noahclem: Thanks! To answer all of your questions here goes: 1. I have not modified the Berner Oberland mod since I don't how to; 2. The water comes with the BO terrain mod; 3. You need dogfight's Plop Rocks to plaster the terrain with rocky outcrops, next use ionionion's OMCo Filling Gravel to cover up the empty space and to mask the floating appearance of the rocky outcrops, and then finally use Heblem's paths to patch it all together to give a rather grainy ground texture.

vortext: I pass by Teesside, an industrial area in the Northeast of England, every week so I guess that is my inspiration for these SC4 industrial areas of mine.

art128: Thanks for the comment. I'm not to worried about the harbour wall and the oil terminal has underwater pipes you see. Lastly PEG's CDK3 is the only substantial seaport content out there.

Kergelen: Thank you! Keep lurking some more.

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Entry 8: The Inner Harbour and Repoville

The Repoville tour continues!

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The inner harbour.


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Repoville to the North.


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Docklands Beta.


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Garbage scows!


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Further utilization of FrankU's modular warehouses.


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The Northern Docklands.


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The only passenger train station in Repoville.


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Electricity pylons are a must have for hard-core industrial areas.


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And now it's time for a quick gallop around Repoville itself.


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Repoville West.


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The South-eastern commercial quarter.


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For the town I didn't go for detail, instead I went for quick and easy design as the main focus was the seaport.


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But with so many prop packs the RCI covers the detail!


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The primary school.


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Using Paeng's grunge alleyways is good, adding in MMPs makes it awesome.


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The secondary school.


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Most of the seaport workers live in these small apartments.


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Another quick pass around the very north of the Docklands.


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This Thursday I show the final entry from Repoville. After that a brief return to Stokesley and then a lot of sight-seeing in Townshead.


Bonus

Here is my latest work experimenting with agriculture and MMPs.

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This was inspired by Fasan's amazing MD Krokanien, thus I'm going to go bonkers with farms and MMPs in the town of Ravensworth.

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p.s. In the last entry there was something I did wrong with the http image links. Hopefully in this entry I have sorted it out.

Fantastic pictures my friend !! I like so much that effect on the grass in the last couple of pictures, can you make a small tutorial or at least explain us how did you managed to get that result? It looks very cool.

:thumbsup:

I love the barges, too! --  The ones in the 7th pic on your 11/30 update. Do you recall where you got them? Thanks.

Great port.

Great work!! Your industrial areas are great!! I could stare at your pictures for hours!!

Although I strongly disagree with the harbor walls, It is your seaport and thus your decision. If you like it this way then it's fine. The most important thing about citybuilding is to create something that you like and not something that the viewers will like.

Good pictures of the harbor again. The power lines are indeed a good touch. Also great work with the town next to the seaport, Repoville looks good. :)

If this is, what comes out of a scrapbook, well then...  $%Grinno$%

What should I say than: fantastic work!  &apls

Replies:

kelis: I used xannepan's terrain paints/brushes from his JENX POSEIDON Water Effects mod, there are several varieties: grass, water, sand, pebble and rock. I used the grass terrain brush for the cow pasture. If there were far more HD terrain brushes available it would be possible to drastically cut back on the amount of MMPs used to create a lively and detailed landscape.

YouBet: I believe those barges come from one of Pegasus' CDK3 prop packs and/or CDK3 content. Not sure which though.

romauldillo: I always have a soft spot for industrial areas. Thanks for your comment.

art128: :P I admire your cheek.

carlfatal:  :thumbsup: The whole idea of the scrapbook is to post unedited SC4 pictures and push to the limits modded content without using the lot editor- for lots of visual appeal. There is no story or theme, just cities dotted all over various regions. My motto is as follows: no photoshop, no lot editor.

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Entry 9: The Repoville Finale

And here is the final entry coming from Repoville: some more harbours, piers and marinas to. Plus a couple of night shots, why not?

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By using ChrisAdams3997's RRP Wooden Fences, in particular the diagonal one with the grass texture, there arises this nifty trick to create smooth diagonal roads.


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This Saturday I want to show you some swamps and wetlands from Stokesley. After that its CBD time in the city of Townshead.

No words......
I had to swallow three gorgeous updates and I am now out of text lines....

Except one: thanks for promoting my modular warehouses.

Beautiful Pictures and you an integrated work! :thumbsup:
I like that very much.  &apls
MMP your work is amazing and stuff like that. Please keep it up!

Many greetings Fasan  ;)

Watching the fences around the residential areas, I wonder who's the most penned in - animal or human...  :-\

Just kidding, it looks really good. I especially like the way you mix trees, the railway, industry and then that gorgous-looking harbour. I don't usually feel tempted to go into port areas at night, but I might have to reconsider that.

It's really a pity this is the final update. I do hope you'll change your mind, though, and maybe start a new city or something, since I'm looking forward to seeing more! :popcorn: <-- have to love the new smileys!

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FrankU: Cheers! The port fillers wouldn't have been half as good without those warehouses of yours.

Fasan: :thumbsup: I'm looking forward to your future entries, you do amazing work!

Themistokles: Firstly this is NOT the final update! This is the last update coming from Repoville. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed these entries.

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Entry 10: The marshlands in Stokesley

Going back to Stokesley again and this time we take a trip around the area west of Toral's Peak.

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This area!


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For the stream I tried a softer, and greener, approach to the banks.


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As always the versatile Heblem paths can be used just about anywhere to paint in a pebbly surface.


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A small marshland. Inspired by numerous walks around the Pennines and the Howgills, I decided to give it my best shot at creating extensive marshes.


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Love the reeds, they almost look the same as the ones which grow in the Pennines and the Howgills, except the SC4 ones are of a darker green.


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The northern part of Bogee Lake.


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For some reason the water shifted several metres in four different ways with each respective view rotation. As such I had to make the shoreline wider.


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Another waterfall. With hindsight I wished I had used one of the Pegasus ones which are smaller...


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Here is another attempt at creating a scree slope.


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The end of the journey...

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Next entry will be an introduction to the city of Townshead- one of my latest cities.

Is that JRJ water you used for Bogee Lake? And if so, you did a great job! Somehow I never manage to make it look good for large stretches of water.  :thumbsup:

The marsh looks great too and reminded me to use those reeds more often, they're well suited for those kinds of wetlands indeed.

The creek looks great with the Heblem paths/pebbles and the vegetation.  The trails look pretty inviting too :thumbsup:

Loving the work around the river. The green banks are a nice idea.

Replies:

vortext: Cheers, and yes I used JRJ water for that lake.

c.p.: I go walking quite a lot around the Pennines and the Lake District of Northern England, so that is where I get my inspiration from with the mountain trails and MMP scenery.

art128: They also blend in perfectly with the green textures of the Berner Oberland terrain mod. Some time next year I'm going to return to MMP rivers and do an even better job with them.

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Entry 11: Introducing the city of Townshead.

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Let's start with a quick guide to the various areas of Townshead.

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One Castle Hill. Built upon the old Townshead, only a castle, a former manor, belonging to a previous royal dynasty, and the Sathrid monastery remain. Once a crumbling wasteland, the area was redeveloped twenty years ago with a precise architectural precision.


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The Townshead Grand Central Station. Part of Eastern Downtown.


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East Downtown. Dayana Stadium and its carparks take up much of the area.


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West Downtown.


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Ponteville, one of the more older sections of Townshead. Situated just north of both east and west downtown, the area received a boost from the construction of the Yaxley Tower- the prominent grey skyscraper rising up from the rows of apartments.


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West Townshead. Here two major motorways meet. The northbound one is the M13 and the westbound one is the Townshead Expressway.


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Lothoria. A small town shallowed up by the Townshead conurbation and part of West Townshead. Fine markets can be found here as well as a small hi-tech sector up north.


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The Government Quarter. Townshead was once the region's capital and thus housed the two houses of parliament: the commons and the lords. The commons occupied the large building in the centre right while the lords occupied the large building to the left; a former palace. Just south of the old house of commons is a new development; the Lotus Temple.


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City Centre. The heart of Townshead's CBD.


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Crekkers. Located north of the CBD, Crekkers is another town gobbled up by the spread of Townshead. The inner-city highway still separates the two.


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Bethonith Park; found east of Chekkers.


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Polynomial Flats. A suburb in northeast Townshead and east of Bethonith Park.


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Nurdek Estate. Another former wasteland now turned prosperous. Nurdek Estate comprises Panther's Field (the stadium), the Artex museum and three small business complexes. The estate is just north of One Castle Hill.


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Xarit Green. The largest park in Townshead and a great place for residents of One Castle Hill to walk around.


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The Townshead Expressway cuts right through the centre of this city.

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And now for a look around East Downtown and the Grand Central Station.

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Townshead Grand Central Station.


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The multi-story carpark facilities for passengers of the train station and for the nearby shops and offices.


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The heart of East Downtown.


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One Castle Hill hospital. Though a bit west of One Castle Hill, this hospital caters for at least a hundred thousand people.


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Dayana Stadium. Named after one of the region's famous architects Dayana Golm; one of the few pioneering women architects in the region a hundred years ago.


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The extensive stadium carparks.


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One of the suburbs in South Townshead.


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A couple of shops are located in the north-east of the stadium complex.


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Dayana station. A train station build specifically for match days when tens of thousands of people swarm into the stadium complex. Even despite the Townshead Grand Central Station being a mere mile away!


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Going back to East Downtown.


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Enjoy the pictures.

I enjoyed them very much!!! Great pictures!!!  :thumbsup:

Well done providing ample parking space for the stadiums, something which is often neglected in SC4.  :thumbsup:

Also spotted a few building I didn't recognize, in particular the brown building with grey roof in the bottom of this picture (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img673/3895/f3Gwxj.jpg). I'm a sucker for BATs with large stairs in front and would greatly appreciate if you could tell me where to find it.

Finally I was wondering how cities are related geographically. Or to put it another way, do you play regionally as well? And if yes, I definitely want to see a region view some time! 

Hm, I'm not really the one who fancies space-gobbling car parks. ::) Solid work on the railways, though! And MMPs, of course, as always :P Keep it up!

Stunning skills on show here!

TTC

Replies:

romualdillo: Thank you!

vortext: Stadiums wouldn't be stadiums without their large carparks! Now the building you are talking about is prepo's Finnish Parliament House- (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.simtropolis.com%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2F12410-finnish-parliament-house%2F&hash=329acfc17b8fd27102a0d227868c420829f42a63). I found this building while going on a mega government building BAT download spree. Lastly, to answer your last question, I do play regionally to some degree but because the city tiles take so long to complete then it will be a very long time until I post region pictures.

Themistokles: I'm a real stickler for intricate railway lines! And MMPs to, especially plopping in woodland and green areas- my new found SC4 passion.

TheTeaCat: Cheers!

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Update 61: Townshead- The Government Quarter

It time to dive head first into the meat and potatoes of any large city- the central business district. Townshead contains one of the largest CBDs I built in SC4 and so we will start with-

The Government Quarter

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The region's former house of lords building.


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The Lotus Temple.


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The former house of commons building.


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The old architecture watched over by the new.


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A strip of filler tiles to expand the block containing the former house of commons.


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Bad-ass skyscrapers.


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cockatoo's impressive UN building BAT.


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The reflecto-blob doing its job.

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These skyscrapers dwarf Maxis tower blocks and skyscrapers.


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St. Cuthburt's church.


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A wall of steel, concrete and glass.


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The shiny grey skyscraper is one colossal R$$$ building, this is on001222's amazing Mahanakhon Condo BAT.


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A bit of green space north of the government quarter.


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The interchanges at night.


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Thanks for viewing.

Monumental again. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F9e380b9b751b4d8c42b8204b8564ef35.gif&hash=ae59dad6877cfc25035b6d85563a572a4783fac9)

First of all thank you Dantes for the comment!

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Entry 13: The Steel and Glass canyons of Townshead

With an entry title which paraphrases a little from U2's "The Hands That Built America" we head deeper into Townshead CBD.

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These special road passes are something I downloaded from BriPizza, I think traffic even uses the transition lanes. To find them look under the transport section of the BATs on Bripizza.


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I'm starting to really enjoy TULEPs and NWM!


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The reason I used so many MMPs for the woodland was to cut down on the props I was using when adding fillers. After the San Widge prop pox experience I decided to be more careful with the fillers I plopped in on mass. MMPs don't count as props.


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The city hall.


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Going ham on the roads.


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I think, I think, the row of four skyscrapers here is a BAT from Bixel but don't quote me on that. Nevertheless it's a fantastic design.


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Blade Runner!


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Because I had some dead space to fill in, why not add in a shopping mall?


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The Madison Square Garden was one of the first buildings I plopped in Townshead.


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For some reason this picture reminds me a lot of the Grid sequence in Koyaanisqatsi.

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Another update already?!  &hlp :bnn:

What a great selection of high rises! And those road passes are very neat.  :thumbsup:

Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware prepo had other BATs on the STEX as well. Got myself a new cathedral too!  ()stsfd()

Also, if you pay as much attention to the region as you do to the city tiles then I'm sure it'll make for one awesome region view eventually!

Amazing downtown you've there. I like the way you put some historic buildings among those modern sky scrapers.

Replies:

Vortext: Ha ha! I posted a day early, I must have lost track of the days!

odrzutowiec: Thanks! I like to mix the old and the new, something which every city has.


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Entry 14: Townshead's CBD

Here is the final part of the CBD tour. Enjoy!

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Congratulations on being OSITM - your work is stunning, so being featured is well-deserved.

Simply stunning, great work!!!!  &apls

Replies:

Benedict: Thanks a lot!

romualdillo: Cheers!

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Entry 15: Ponteville

I'm really tired this evening so I'll just be posting the pictures of Ponteville which is an inner-city district in Townshead. Enjoy them!

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Great views again!!  &apls

The images speak for themselves just fine!  :thumbsup:

Also, the placement of that one diagonal highrise is awesome!  &apls

Nice general views &apls

Quote from: vortext on December 17, 2014, 05:44:59 AM
Also, the placement of that one diagonal highrise is awesome!  &apls

I'm agree

I also like the tunel system and the small cement football area.

Good job on city plannings; lot of details and realism  ;)

Replies:

romualdillo: Thank you!

vortext: That diagonal skyscraper really struck me. I think it is Cockatoo's HK Yougfu House.

Kergelen: Thanks! In the next major city I build I want to make further use of highway tunnels because the entrances look so cool.

Girafe: Cheers!


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Entry 16: The Ravensworth Agricultural Experiments (WIP)


First of all there hasn't been an entry in a couple of days because I rediscovered Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and found out (again) just how addictive this game can be. So sorry about that delay.

Now, inspired by Fasan's Krokanien MD on SC4D -- which has the best agricultural, urban and natural areas I have ever seen -- I decided to return to agriculture and MMPs. Ravensworth is the testing ground for my experiments with MMPs and realistic agriculture- or as realistic as SC4 will allow. Also in this entry I will be sharing my results from these experiments and indicating useful mods which I used in the process. Let's take a look:

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The town of Ravensworth, the focus today will be the farmland West of the river.


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Thirlmere Lake.


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I had fun messing around with nbvc's tents.


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My first campsite.


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To disguise the roads on either side of the bridge I used the terrain brush from xannepan's Jenx Poseidon water mods to cover them up. I used the dry grass terrain brush in this picture.


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Dominating the picture are the SBFT vineyards created by Andreas.


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The ever versatile Heblem paths extend the route connecting the vineyard to the nearby road.


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What a pigsty of a field! To satisfy all of your sheep, pig and cow spawning needs go to the BSC LEX and look for jestarr's Mayor Mode Ploppable Livestock.


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A small horse ranch. The actual building is part of the Dutch override of Maxis farms created by FrankU. Very useful! These buildings also function if there's only one road or pedmall tile adjacent to it. Which comes in very handy for creating farms offset from the road.


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Another terrain brush from the Jenx Poseidon mod. This one is sand which can also emulate dry pasture land should one leave a little of the terrain showing.


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TS Power Poles, created by threestooges, are very MMP friendly.


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Pasture land for sheep farming.


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Using ChrisAdams3997's RRP pasture flora, here is one field with green rye grass and grass combined together. Throw in a little MMP dirt and the field is complete.


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And a field purely of clover. The dirt MMPs comes from ionionion's OMCo filling gravel.


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I also looked into river banks and the various MMP configurations. Here is the green rye grass and light dirt configuration.


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Girafe's trees are a must-have for creating deciduous and coniferous woodland.


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The stone walls created by the VIP Team (from Simtropolis) remind me so much of the ones in the Pennines and in Swaledale.


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More river bank reeds from the VIP Team.


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Framly's RFR Maize Set in action. A quick and easy filler for agricultural areas.


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A small village with a couple of tractor dealerships to keep the local economy ticking over.


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MMP carparks: the result when VIP Team MMP cars and Heblem gravel paths mix.


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One of the first farms I created in Ravensworth.

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And that's it for this agricultural excursion. Next time it is back to Townshead and the urban jungle.

Great update.

Congratulations on being OSITM.

That farm on the last image is just gorgeous, it blends so naturally with the ground texture. Your work on the shorelines is also outstanding, I especially like how that more ovovergrown shore transitions to the more sandy one. I think though,  that the pond would have been better with mmps, especially when you're so talented with them. :thumbsup: Now it'll be interesting to see how you bring this rural revival into town!

Wow, that's a great Job showing it here. I'm excited.  &apls
I love Landscapes.  :)

Merry Christmas, Fasan  ;)

Very interesting farmlands!

Excellent work with the rural areas, they look splendid. I like the camp near the lake.

Nice agricultural landscape.
I like the use of Poseidon Mod combined with flora and horses. Really well done &apls

Congratulations, your MD was number one on Ben's Top Ten for the week ending 1 January 2015 - Happy New Year!

Replies:

benedict: Thank you.

Themistokles: Perhaps one day I will return to Ravensworth and complete it.

Fasan: Thanks a lot! All the MMPs and farms were inspired by your amazing MD.

FrankU: Thanks!

art128: Thank you, I also enjoyed creating that campsite and mixing MMP tents with park ones.

Kergelen: The Poseidon Mod has incredible potential, I only wish it were expanded to include more ground textures: grassland, forest floors and meadows. It would allow me to cut down on the MMPs- especially the grass and flower ones.


Entry 17: City Snapshots

For the last two months I have been beavering away working on one last SC4 city, it will be the last one because I won't have time for SC4 come this September when I start teacher training. Now, Annuq is very nearly finished, once I have "painted" in a few more fields with MMPs then Annuq will be complete. In the meantime here are some snapshots from various areas of the city detailing showing the varied areas of Annuq.


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The start of the M134, one entrance onto the intercity highway in Annuq.


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In the heart of Downtown.


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A towering skyscraper rises out from its W2W city block.


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Shopping sprawl and suburban sprawl.


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Where thriving industry and wasteland meet.


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Farmers market.


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Supermarket!


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Ronley Green- a place for the wealthy middle-class and the rich to live in.


And now one super large mosaic from the city outskirts-

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-to the city centre.

Oh wow the mosaic is friggin' amazing!!  &apls

Nice work with the various blocks. The transition from farms to building is very well done.

 Very good update with a typically american atmosphere. I love the suburbs, and your wasteland are really realistic  &apls

Wonderful mosaic!  :thumbsup:

I particulary like your nature pictures - some of the best I´ve ever seen in SC4!  &apls

It shows how much effort you've put into it and it really does pay off -- in details, like the market stalls on the bottom left in the mosaic or the ave-2 that matches the parking lot perfectly, in all the city planning that must have gone into it, and in the sheer awesomeness of it all &apls

Replies:

vortext: Thanks a lot! It's the first proper urban to rural transition I have created in SC4. I could build great farms and great cities, but I never connected the two.

art128: Thank you. Every city block in Annuq has a different feel to it.

manga rivotra: Thanks for that, I figured the wasteland would be hit or miss depending on the quality of the garbage props.

carlfatal: You can thank Fasan and his amazing style for the pictures from Ravensworth, you see Ravensworth was once my testing ground for MMP laying and MMP field design. Does Fasan still update his MD?

Themistokles: Cheers! Annuq is definitely the most detailed and diverse city I have created.


Entry 18: The Annuq Oil Refinery

Now that Annuq is finished -- barring a few small things -- it's time to show you around this city. Let's start with the oil refinery.


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Ideally this would be the Northern part of Annuq if I were to actually regionally play. But I just don't have the time so instead I just focus on completing one single large city tile.


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The Annuq oil refinery- this is a small one in the region's oil distribution network.


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Oil from the nodding donkeys and the railway oil depot is taken to this refinery.


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Both refined and unrefined oil is stored at this railway oil depot.


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The railway oil depot.


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Blue Cherry Pond.


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A truck rest stop.


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Next time from Annuq-

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-more heavy industry.

Wow, nice.  I've probably downloaded most of the oil-related stuff from the STEX and LEX, but I've never used it.  It great to see it in-game :thumbsup:

Thank you c.p. for the comment- the LEX has the best oil BATs and LOTs.


Entry 19: Heavy Industry in North-East Annuq

Smokestacks, warehouses and more concrete than you can shake a stick with. The Betax Complex is just North East of Annuq's oil refinery and contains a mixture of manufacturing and resource processing industries.


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Batex Complex.


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Batex coal-fired power station.


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A few shops and retail outlets besides Batex Complex.


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A small water treatment plant.


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The start of Canary Docks.


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The South corner of Canary Docks.


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The remains of a levelled food processing plant complex.


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A few structures still remain though.


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The site is mainly used as dumping ground.


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Blue Cherry pond to the right.


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Towards the top is the decimated remains of a carpark.


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For this Sunday there will be a lot of shopping malls, office complexes and expansive retail areas in the next entry.

The last pictures that you have showed are very good and realistic. I love specially the rail oil depot and the overview of the batex complex.  :thumbsup:

Always a pleasure to stop in and admire your work. The level of realism is superb and rather rewarding to see. Truly magnificent.

Fantastic Update!  &apls

I love that empty site of the former food processing plant with all the rubbish. It lloks like cut out from google earth.

And yes I see, you´re using some of Fasan´s techniques. To your question: Fasan is still active, but as long as I know, his RL doesn´t give hm time enough to present more gems. But I am sure, he will be back as soon as possible. I mean, he is a really devoted player...  ;)

Great to see a new update here  :bnn:  Love the details of the countryside and city and the seemless transition from one to the other in the previous update. Highways look great and your work with industrial areas is outstanding  :o

Replies:

manga rivotra: Thanks a lot, the railway oil depot is one of my favourite railway station BATs.

belfastsocrates: Thanks, with Annuq I used more mods and techniques to improve the realism, in particular rsc204's NAM terrain grass mod -- the one with the Euro textures -- and the Sudden Valley base texture replacements to better integrate the city with the terrain mod.

carlfatal: That is a nice compliment, also I am glad to hear that Fasan will eventually be coming back.

noahclem: Thank you, I nearly always do my best work with industrial areas.

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Entry 20: A Trip to the Mall

South-east Annuq has many shopping malls and this area's motto is simple- shop until you drop. So let us say hello to shopping nirvana.

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The crown jewel is undoubtedly the Halsure Shopping Complex.


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Heblem outdid himself with the HBS Mall del Sur.


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Without consulting the readme it is a real challenge simply assembling the mall in the correct configuration.


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Another challenge is connecting the numerous transit enabled entrance points to the cities road network.


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This mall has at least ten entrance points.


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It would be one thing to simply add a perimeter of road around the entire BAT.


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However some trees and filler space adds a lot more to the mall.


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Deja Vu- a shop where you buy the same thing over and over again.


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No shopping area worth its salt does not have an IKEA store. Of course the real IKEA stores are at least ten times larger than this one.


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I added in a MAVE-2 entrance, unfortunately one cannot add in NWM entrances without at least one tile between the LOT and the road.


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Roughly, in the centre top left, there is the Bastvell Police Station, before there were all of these malls there was the village of Bastvell.


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Bastvall was quickly gobbled up by Annuq and only some of the village buildings remain- as clusters of holiday homes.


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One could not shop without logistics and distribution.


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Callor's Avenue- to the left and right are a great many number of carparks.


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A more broader view of Callor's Avenue.


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I still could not resist a bit of W2W.


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Kingsley Court is home to many small and medium sized companies.


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Where possible I added in proper entrances for the larger stalls which had car parking.


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At the top you can see a small sliver of the military airbase.


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Bosovo- a store for various paraphernalia which shall not be disclosed.


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I love how Project Symphony highway so snugly fits into avenue intersections.


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The car park is for employees who work in the offices of Stokesley Court. And yes, the buildings in Kingsley Court and Stokesley Court are identical.


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Mention must be made of KingOfSimCity's (from Simtropolis) relots, he has created amazing office complexes.

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Next time-

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-middle class suburbia.

Excellent work  &apls  You have quite the selection of big box stores and manage to fill other spaces around them with such natural fitting low density shops. Heblem's mall is excellently done and the AVE2 usage seems more at home here around the shops than I've ever seen it. I agree that an accurately-sized Ikea would be really nice. Whatever kind of paraphernalia that is it's in a pretty big store  :D

This activity area is very well done. Everything is present from small to medium sized company buildings, to the giant mall of Overconsumption, this is brilliant. The Ikea store reminds me of the several smaller Ikeas we have here surrounding Paris. 
You couldn't resist the W2W strip and it is highly justified. It fits perfectly with its surrounding.

I am already eager to see what you have next for us, those medium wealth housing estates seems promising. :)

Hi, I was long gone here.

Of course I will continue to build back to my country Krokanien, but I had my first time to take a break.
She was simply necessary, after my father had died in May.
Currently I am working on Clemont on and test the new ways of "der Gammler".

Now, to your wonderful pictures and great design.  &apls
The landscape and the handling of the MMPs is you very well. So what I like simple.
Your industry is consistent and with many details. Now, the new railroad tracks do not really like me. Since even small differences can still be seen, which are simply ugly.

A wonderful design and I look forward to the next pictures.  :thumbsup:

many greetings Fasan  ;)

I'm very sorry Fasan!!

The massive commercial area looks incredible!!!  It's not exactly my preferred urban model, but you've reproduced it perfectly to the smallest detail!!

good job  ;)

What should I say now? The most realistic horror I can think of? The biggest dream of every shopoholic comes true here, and I am only happy to live in an area, where the biggest mall is like small ikea on your pictures (and I don´t go there for anything).  $%Grinno$%

Some of Heblem´s BATs are confusing, not only his mall, but you really mastered this piece of commercial destruction. I only miss some information signs, where to get a massive credit... And if I look to the rest of the former village: I think we need lots with houses for sale, and slums for all the people, who become poor while the owners of the malls get richer and richer...  ;)

Replies:

noahclem: Thanks, the AVE2 route popped into my head as I worked out to integrate that particular store to Annuq's road network. As for the store with the paraphernalia, well they mostly sell inflatable dolls... Ahem.

art128: Yep that's the idea- cover the commercial sprawl basis, so thanks for that!

Fasan: It's good to hear from you again! Sorry to hear about your father; take that break from your MD. When you are ready then it will be good to see new entries since you have incredible style and taste. Thanks for the compliments about the industry and MMPs, those are two areas I put the most amount of effort into.

romualdillo: Thanks. I like to work upon areas I don't like to build: shopping areas, parks and so forth, and then integrate them with city areas I am good at creating such as industry, downtowns and railway networks.

Girafe: Cheers!

carlfatal: You have my sympathies.


Entry 21: Middle-class suburbia

Not much to say here except for this- enjoy the pictures of numerous apartment complexes, flats, green spaces and bicycle lanes with a few quirks thrown in to.


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This Sunday I show to you something different- W2W areas with mixed commercial/industrial. Enjoy and have a good weekend.

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About your "shopping nirvana" update, you did a great loting job especially with car parks and not forgetting to reproduce spaces for deliveries.
The middle-class subburbia is very well too and the cycleways are a nice touch.
In each of your 2 updates you have a very realistic approach and it's always a pleasure to watch  :thumbsup:

After all that shopping - I hope I can still pay my rent...  :P

But again I am totally impressed. Particulary I love this small park with the huts and the pond in the middle.
And this L shaped two older buildings, seems, they were the first here. Must have been a very nice place to live before developing...  :D

But nonetheless another fantastic update! I am not able to build such a realistic scenery.  &apls &apls

Impressive housing estates. Even when there's diagonal, it seems the blocks follow them smoothly, it's perfect.  The mix between American and European blocks is well done.

Replies:

manga rivotra: Thank you. However I have never done any lotting in my life, I have downloaded quite a few relots though!

carlfatal: Thanks a lot, I often spend quite a bit of time finding the right landmark or the right building to plop in.

art128: Thanks for the comment!


Entry 22: The Commercial/Industrial Mix

I must admit that a significant part of this entry is really an advertisement for T Wrecks (from Simtropolis) amazing IRM mod and his various expansions of it. So enjoy some more industrial grunginess!


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Today we travel to West Annuq to see various industrial estates and retail centres.


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The industrial estates.


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And the retail centres.


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I created a large part of these industrial estates with T Wrecks IRM W2W buildings/mod.


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Combined with his IRM extension sets and the result is sprawling industrial estates.


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But not all of the IRM W2W buildings are strictly W2W regarding the BATs. The LOTs are W2W though.


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Black Hole Waste Management. What transpires beneath an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that.


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With some time and patience one can create rather elaborate IRM layouts.


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Mix it with some grungy commercial and everything fits together rather well.


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Last, but not least, add in some MMP cars, trucks and Sims to make the parking areas come to life.


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rsc204's MMP Pack Vol1 comes in super handy for placing MMP trucks, trains and carriages in orthogonal, diagonal and FAR configurations.


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It occurred to me to double up the wall parking pieces from T Wrecks IRM extension sets.


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This is one hell of an old school factory.


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The Bastvell Shopping District.


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The Bastvell Shopping District has a higher proportion of shops to cater for wealthier clientele.


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I just love plopping down rows of T Wrecks IRM W2W brick warehouses.


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I am really getting the hang of fusing cycle lanes with car parks and roads.


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Yet more relots from nos.17 (from Simtropolis). You've done great with these.


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A JENX fire station, created by the incredibly versatile xannepan.


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And to the left are Il Tonkso's W2W offices.


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Il Tonkso's offices are great because they work in nearly any context: UK, European, American and even Japanese/Asian- I have seen from crop up in Oriental CJs.


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In the very middle is Lakeside Place, this is a relot done by KingOfSimCity (from Simtropolis), and what a relot it is.


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I love relots simply because I have never used the LE, plus I don't have the time to learn or use the LE.


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The car parks are a little tight though in Lakeside Place!


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And for the next entry-

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A right mish-mash of the suburban, the urban, the low-rise and the high-rise plus there are other goodies to.

Incredible work!  &apls

Wonderful update again!  &apls

To be honest, I also thought, that you were lotting some part by yourself. On the other hand, your comment says a lot about the quality of lots in these days, although someone needs passion and a good eye for sceneries to create these scenes. A lot alone doesn´t do anything, that is, what I often have to face in my game...  $%Grinno$%

And TWrecks IRM - YEAH, I simply love it, and your pictures show very well how perfect this set is made. I really hope, that looking into these pictures here can improve my experiences with the IRM.  :thumbsup:

Also I like, how you use some good old maxis buildings as well!  :)

BTW, I have one download question. pic 23, the corner buildings with this "mamia´s" shop?

Keep the great work on!

Excellent work as always, and even more so, I think, given that you achieve this without the LE! And also, thanks for pointing out where the lots come from -- now I've downloaded a ton of ill tonkso's offices. :D A question: On the last picture, how did you get Sudden Valley textures on Paeng's parks?

Indeed, relots are very useful when you don't want to bother with the LE. However for the IRM I find that I often have to go in the LE to add a piece or two to the set.
You've certainly showcased very well the different BATs and relots done over the years. JENX fire station fits quite nicely in this area.

I think you really have a gift for choosing and placing building and lot in the best way possible, as your pictures are always very realistic. :)
Everything fits perfectly to the point that everything seems to have been relot  &apls
I never played with the IRM mod, but now I want  :D . I think it is not possible to make it better advertisement.
A superb update again !  :thumbsup:

I second everything manga rivotra said.

Great city building :thumbsup:

You make me want to go scavenge the STEX for relots :D

We've just passed the 100th replies mark, congratulations on making it to the best sellers! :)

Replies:

FrankU: Cheers!

Themistokles: I believe that has something to do with rsc204's Euro NAM textures mod- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30159-mgb-terrain-grass-nam-euro-textures-version/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30159-mgb-terrain-grass-nam-euro-textures-version/). Don't quote me on that though.

art128: Thank you, a lot of my SC4 cities are like that: a selection of mods from the very old to the very new.

manga rivotra: Thanks! I do have a knack for placing things in SC4 and that's how I approach this game- why lot when you can use the mods at ones disposal.

c.p.:  :thumbsup: And scavenge those relots!

art128: Wahey!


Entry 23: Northeast Annuq

This entry has a little bit of everything: skyscrapers, offices blocks, suburbs, suburban sprawl, diagonal buildings, shopping malls and other quirks as well.


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The area featured in today's update.


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Various W2W blocks.


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I had to scour all over the STEX, LEX and PLEX for W2W BATs to get some good variety and variation.


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One of the older areas of Annuq that has not been knocked down- well not largely so.


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I like the 135 degree angled, arcing blue building in the centre.


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Infilling the diagonal W2W areas is important to. I used Paeng's pedmall plaza tiles to achieve a nice diagonal effect with the lights and benches to the centre left.


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A rather large and leafy shopping mall.


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This is one MEGA lot.


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The Place, a building directly adjacent to the Shard, in London, in real life.


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Right in the centre is my favourite W2W city block.


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For some reason I thought it would be nice to plop in a row of Halifax BATs.


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Though small, I think they are a nice break from the taller buildings.


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The city block in the centre is one part commercial to the left and one part residential to the right.


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A jumbled mess of community gardens plus a small gardening centre.


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This city block was made wider so as to incorporate space for parking, well it was cheaper than adding in another underground carpark.


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Police suspect that the shack in the bottom left of this picture is a meth lab, this mayor though has convinced the police otherwise. It is hard being mayor and deity at the same time.


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One of the major highways which cuts straight through Annuq.


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Moving northwards now and we come to the forested border between Annuq and the oil refinery.


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I always make sure that shops with carparks are actually connected to the road.


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This hi-rise is an outlier, but it is one beautiful outlier.


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The secret to W2W areas is decent alleyways.


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Moving northwards now and away from the higher density areas.


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Crossing American, European and Japanese apartments works in a strange way.


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Japanese apartments. And, to save the inevitable questions which always come from navigating through Asian SC4 websites, this building can be found on this webpage- http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/somy000/ (http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/somy000/). It is one of somy's creations.


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nofunk's Milwaukee apartments- the two story houses. GREAT housing fillers because they always tend to spawn on the 1 by 3 residential zones and they come in lots of different combinations and five different colours.


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One of the things I recently enjoyed creating in SC4 were graveyards.


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Paeng's modular graveyard set in full display here. Thank God I downloaded it several months ago before the PLEX closed.


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rsc204's road grass texture mod showing its magic. Combined with the Sudden Valley terrain mod's base texture replacement, now the terrain will show up in the grassy areas of the roads. Here is the link for the Euro version- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30159-mgb-terrain-grass-nam-euro-textures-version/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30159-mgb-terrain-grass-nam-euro-textures-version/). This mod is a genuine game changer because it subtly changes the look of the game but on a massive scale.


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One last overview.


And for next time-

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-canals and industry.

Excellent work as always. &apls
I particularly like distant views 1 and 40 and also closer districts views 2, 3 and 13. Superb atmosphere and great choice of buildings  :thumbsup:

Splendid showcase once more. The diagonal parts are well done, something which is actually not that easy to manage. :)

You have your own style but it is quite nice. Keep doing the same  :thumbsup:

It looks really good!! The first image is stunning!!  &apls But it's the second one which I like the most. I don't know why, but it really caught my eye!!   ;)

A really stunning update!  &apls

I don´t know, wich picture I like most, - there are too much of them. But I definately like your mix of US an European architecture. Everything looks so "naturally" grown together, as if there would have been no other choice. At least the Parisian corner building and the Place des Vosges seem to have their origin here. Wonderful!

And I know, I have to come back and look at it again.  :popcorn:

Keep it up, I am just a fan.  :thumbsup:

I have no words. So many different building styles. And it fits together! Sophisticated, yet randomly built. Great skill! I love looking at each picture with a lot of time. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fe03820ca109c4c698e0ec09bd238a35e.gif&hash=efaf62d8571d582729d35e4b4b2a85754f3e7279)

outstanding  &apls

Replies:

manga rivotra: Thank you, so much time is spent scrolling up and down the landmarks menu and the building plop menu.

art128: Thanks, it's been a while since I last returned to Annuq and I have to admit the area is rather diverse.

kelis: I reckon my own rule of not using the lot editor contributes heavily to my style.

romualdillo: There definitely is something about two W2W city blocks in that second picture.

carlfatal: I love to mix and match, that is the magic of the heavily modded SC4.

Dantes: Cheers!

Unconstean: Thank you!


One Small Taster

So even though I had the time RL was too distracting, anyway there is still more to show from Annuq and over the last two days I have been finishing off the farms and countryside in the north-west part of the city tile. Here is a taster of what I have been working on.

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This Saturday I will post the entry about the canals and the industry, the one I teased about a few months ago in the last update. Finally have a good weekend.

Entry 24: North of the Canal

A whole ton of pictures ranging from canals, port areas, garbage dumps, rail depots and the great grungy concrete jungle in Annuq. Enjoy!


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The canal vastly widens as it links to a major river, close to the sea and hidden somewhere in the city tile to the right, which is very close to an estuary.


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Loving the barges. Found here- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1815 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1815).


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A brewery.


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Warehouses and car parks.


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Using T Wrecks IRM I merged these warehouses together to create a bigger structure.


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I always border my railways with trees and fences to really separate the railways from the rest of the cities infrastructure.


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What you can't do with lots you can do with MMPs.


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This village is very much a community for all the workers who have jobs nearby in the surrounding industry.


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Garbage scows!


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Even industrial areas can have pretty waterfronts and pathways.


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One thing I would like to realise emphasise about RL industrial areas is the amount of green space they have, it's not all concrete and wasteland between the factories and storage areas.


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NAM 32 RRW is great fun to use, I look forward to getting my mits on NAM 33 RRW because with flex tracks there will be wealth tiles- yay!


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Which is why RRW really forced me to change my industrial style because there are no wealth tiles with the NAM I use.


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Even more waste disposal docks.


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A very (for industrial) pretty coal wharf. Found here- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1653 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1653).


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Industry is not always big factories and railyards, there are warehouses and truck stops to.


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FrankU's warehouse pack in action- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/22968-modular-warehouse-pack/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/22968-modular-warehouse-pack/).


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Two railways diverging FAR style.


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When placing two transit-enabled railway depots there is always a one-tile gap between the two depots. Adding a street makes that one-tile gap stand out a lot less, but be careful of the transit-enabled CTD caused by an unsteady hand.


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Search the WorkingMan Productions website for this freight station, the style is awfully similar to WMP's style.


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A bit of large docklands.


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Though Simgoober's canals only come in orthogonal, diagonal and tight curved corners one can still get some classy design from them.


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In parts of Annuq's industrial areas I eased up on the density of buildings, and fillers, to just let the terrain breathe and show itself.


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The factory with the large smokestack is the Kocioł Regeneracyjny oil power plant- http://www.simcitypolska.pl/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=198 (http://www.simcitypolska.pl/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=198).


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This Tuesday stay tuned for more canals, industry and wasteland.

Nice to see another update!  :thumbsup:

Great work with the canals, and the mmp-ing is on point as per usual!  &apls &apls

Nice work with the industry, it all fits together nicely. :)

Great stuff as always, the sense of scale is always something I admire in your cities. I dread to think of the size of your plugins folder though.

Quote from: Themistokles on August 25, 2015, 11:44:50 PM
A question: On the last picture, how did you get Sudden Valley textures on Paeng's parks?

Indeed that's my TGN mod.

Great industrial area as allways!

looking forward to the rural area. The teaser looks interesting

Replies

vortext: Thank you very much, good to hear that from an MMP master like yourself.

art128: Industry has been my favourite SC4 area for the last two years, I guess that is why I go the extra mile when building industrial areas.

mgb204: 7GB of plugins, and thanks for the sense of scale comment!

Kergelen: The rural area will be the last update(s) from Annuq, give it two weeks, there is still plenty more of Annuq to show, and then I will post them.

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Entry 25: South of the Canal

And now it is time to see the south of the canal. As a bonus there are a whole ton of links and suggestions to look up on the STEX, LEX and other sites regarding content I use to create these industrial areas. Most of the links/content you will be familiar with but there are a few ones which aren't the usual suspects.


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The area to be viewed today is the southern part of the canal.


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The barges can be found here- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1815 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1815).


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Railyards above and cement works at the bottom left.


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I found the cement works on the Simcity Polska site- http://www.simcitypolska.pl/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=195 (http://www.simcitypolska.pl/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=195).


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Parked freight trains are an industrial essential, check out fantozzi's Real Freightyard on the STEX for some useful freight train lots.


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The canals are Simgoober's and I utilised a lot of canal buildings which had Simgoober-canal style.


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A comprehensive list of canal buildings can be found by typing in "canal" or "canal buildings" in the BSC LEX search.


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Using the RRW, and the lack of wealth tiles that come with it, forced me to change my approach towards railways.


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Prim's Island, the small L-shaped island in the centre of the canal.


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Laying down all of the railways was a bit of a nightmare because I just had to add in every industrial building which came with railway transit enabled lots.


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The Chelsea Mills Grain Elevator, both the canal and non-canal versions totally rock and are a sizeable addition to any industrial area. The grain hopper trucks remind me of the ones in Transport Tycoon. Found here- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1367 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1367).


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Nearly all of the brown-bricked industrial buildings are jestarr creations found on the LEX.


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Moving southwards and we come to some fields and wasteland.


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This site used to be the location of a ketchup manufacturing plant.


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The site had two buildings, the smaller one, with the smaller concrete footprint, was a storage facility for finished ketchup bottles. Now it just stores rubbish, the detritus of fly-tipping and some gravel mounds.


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The larger site contained the processing plant which created the ketchup. It is said the company went out of business after relabelling its ketchup bottles to catsup. This confused the hell out of customers.


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In the centre is a managed woodland.


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Currently half of this woodland is going to be chopped down.


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Check out nbvc's logging set, this is where nearly all of the fallen trees, machinery and lumber piles come from. In fact just download all of nbvc's content: marinas, rocks, lumber, seawalls, MMPs, garbage facilities, markets, aquatic creatures, boats, tents, oil terminals, docks and bikes. This guy has a knack for creating all the content that is somehow missing in SC4.


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The pine trees are girafe's conifers- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2698 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2698). girafe- lord of the flora.


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A useful tree filler is Pegasus' random woods- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/4526-peg-random-woods-v206/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/4526-peg-random-woods-v206/), it is an oldy but get a Maxis tree replacer and it starts to look pretty darn good. Prim Island is filled to the brim with these tree fillers.


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The carpark in the centre right uses T Wrecks IRM (Industrial Revolution Mod) manufacturing filler set, in general T Wrecks IRM and IRM W2W are two incredible contributions to modded industrial areas. Here is the link to one of T Wrecks IRM addon mods to get you started, http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28298-industrial-revolution-mod-i-m-filler-set-1/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28298-industrial-revolution-mod-i-m-filler-set-1/). I cannot emphasise enough that industrial areas would not be the same without these filler sets, and while you are at it check out his 5 by 5 housing lots.


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For that fine MMP grass check out chrisadams3997's RRP Pasture Flora- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1886). His fences, MMP paths and sports fields are also on the LEX and highly useful.


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It may sound counter-intuitive yet industrial areas have a lot of green areas, even industrial settlements like for instance Teesside. Just use google maps, type in "teesside sembcorp utilities uk" and zoom out to see the satellite view of Teesside's industrial areas, the number of green areas between the industry is quite astonishing.


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The little patches of dirt are ionionion's OMCo filling gravel, a very useful MMP! http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/25709-omco-filling-gravel/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/25709-omco-filling-gravel/). It can tie together so many different situations: fields, forests, grassland, wasteland and all sorts.


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The south of this industrial area is dotted with quite a few warehouses.


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For some useful diagonal fillers I highly recommend NightOwls Diagonal Industrial Fillers and Extenders, by murimk, on the STEX.


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For more useful diagonal fillers SFBT's diagonal fillers are a must have- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1197 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1197).


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MMP fields are my latest SC4 obsession. Also see that dirt track going under the bridge? Heblem's paths- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29426-franku-heblem-sand-addon/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29426-franku-heblem-sand-addon/). Good for river banks, paths, farms, car parks, woodland, construction sites and a whole ton of other things.


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And a campsite because why not?


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Because even though it's in the middle of the city...


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... a bit of nature is always nice.


And to round it off here is a mosaic going across a large section of Annuq.

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To sum up old does go well with the new!

Great pictures  :thumbsup: I especially like the rail network.

Such a great city wow thanks for sharing !!!!

I don't able to believe that is a game which same as I played  $%Grinno$%
I have only one word 'Wondeful !!'  &apls  &apls  &apls

Great work with the various aspect of the industrial zone. The mosaic is splendid.

Did you remove the Base Texture on your Paengs Parks? Looks different

Really fantastic work, the final mosaic is superb.

I like the former factory site as well, that's a nice touch and I don't think I've seen that before.

I seem to have missed so many wonderful updates!
Amazing work here &apls &apls &apls

Oh dear. Dude, you're producing a lot of amazing pictures so detailed and in such quantity that is just impossible to fit them in mind and analyze. You'd better slow down a bit :D

The most what I like, it's the former ketchup factory. For the mmp-ing made to create a wasteland and for its story :D

Agreed, it looks amazing, i love his Grass Textures (http://imageshack.com/a/img909/5204/ynXxsU.jpg) when he makes Flora Lots, maybe he could share them, i dont have any.

Replies:

feyss: Thank you very much!

JoelST: Thank you!

MAS71: Agreed! SC4 has changed so very, very much.

art128: Thanks. The ruined areas and the lumber scene was something new for me, but I figured I had to do something to break up the industrial areas.

Mikey Knox: I use the Sudden Valley terrain mod and selected the replace base textures option. Additionally I downloaded mdg204's Terrain Grass NAM - Euro Textures Version mod. This replaces more base textures. As for those grass textures, well that is actually MMP work. So I have no files to share, and I never will because I do not use the Lot Editor.

belfastsocrates: I'm certain someone here or elsewhere has created an abandoned, levelled factory site. Still it was hard work getting the garbage MMPs right.

Gugu3: Cheers!

kbieniu7: Thank you, I'm glad someone picked up on the Simpsons joke about Monty Burns and his confusion over ketchup and catsup.


Entry 26: Downtown in Annuq

Today I will show to you Annuq's downtown which comprises W2W blocks plus masses of concrete, steel and glass.


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For this Monday there will be an entry featuring Annuq's city centre.

Entry 27: Annuq's city centre (east)

It's time for CBDs and all of that stuff. So here goes.


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Technically Annuq's city centre is somewhere in the city tile to the south- which is where the highway going to the right leads. But for this city tile here is the city "centre".


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And the area featured today.


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Let's zoom in on some of the important transit buildings.


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Stoffley Station. Stoffley is a town which was cobbled up by Annuq, everything to the right of the railway track is Stoffley.


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The market stalls are out in force on Teppers Street.


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The Balrourk Shopping mall is the imposing building in the picture's centre, it is perfectly positioned given how close it is to Stoffley Station.


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As an added bonus the Balrourk shopping mall has a reasonably large bus terminus with numerous entrances to the subways below.


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The Gaumont Showcase Complex. Annuq's most popular cinema.


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NYBT W2W tower blocks are too beautiful.


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Sadly I have not found a satisfactory way of removing Maxis palm trees, so I resort to pausing the game and clicking the streets with the road tool to return the palms to their small state.


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Not all areas of the city centre are gleaming, as always T Wrecks industrial car parks bring the concrete jungle to life.


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This is probably my favourite area of the city centre. It's got to be something about the petrol station, church, construction site, avenue and square W2W block all coming together.


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The turquoise windowed skyscraper is Monty Quincy's Tower. Born in Annuq, Monty Quincy is the cities richest billionaire with an international business empire stretching from pharmaceuticals, agriculture and telecommunications.


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All of these skyscrapers and office blocks need so much parking. Most of the car parks are underground, a few though poke above the subterranean layers.


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N-Tertain; a large multimedia company which dispenses services in TV, film, radio and advertisements.


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Moving much closer to the centre...


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When I was building the city centre I tried to make great use of the available mid-rise buildings- really large, chunky, wide, fat ones.


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KeyBank- one of the region's most popular banks. With it's motto "greed is good" it is little wonder it provides many hundreds of billions of credit which pours into the redhot housing markets, construction industries and automobile financing.


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The Rockefeller Centre, because in any world, real or SC4, this building looks so cool.


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One last overview of the east of the city centre.


A preview of the agricultural areas in Annuq.

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This Friday we travel to Stokesley- one of the suburbs of Annuq.

Nice photos! How come you wait a while before posting updates here on SC4 Devotion? I always post updates to my CJ/MD all at once, so all sites are up-to-date within a day of each other.

amazing city, can't wait to see the farm areas

Nice city! :)
What is that big train station/terminius?

Quote from: compdude787 on December 15, 2015, 05:02:12 PM
Nice photos! How come you wait a while before posting updates here on SC4 Devotion? I always post updates to my CJ/MD all at once, so all sites are up-to-date within a day of each other.

To be really honest I'm a bit lazy and sometimes there are things in RL which can really put me off posting CJ/MD entries. Sometimes I post updates back-to-back so on both sites the entries are up-to-date within a day of each other. However I have plans of mixing new entries up across the sites and also posting more exclusive entries to SC4D.

Replies:

compdude787: Thanks for the comment, as for your question- well I've been a bit lazy.

Unconstantean: Thanks! The farm areas will be a Christmas present.

Tyberius06: Thanks, and here is the link for that bus terminal- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29110-paengs-regional-bus-terminal/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29110-paengs-regional-bus-terminal/).


Entry 28: Stoffley

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Part of Stoffley, a town which has been gobbled up by Annuq.


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The northwest part of Stoffley has various ponds and sports fields.


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Loving the street curves and curved intersections.


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Burkley Pond.


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The greenhouse was once part of an allotment which got levelled to make way for shops and parking. One owner of the allotment land didn't sell up, a few years and a few court cases later and this anamoly remain standing.


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Stoffley is also an industrial town to.


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Petrol stations and shopping malls.


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To the right is Greffer's Pond.


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Car parks and loading bays.


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Some lots have street-sized sections which perfectly align to the draggable streets. It takes some trickery, involving creating truncated intersections, to create these faux intersections.


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Flounder's Roundabout.


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W2W low-rise commercial, one of my favourite things to create in SC4.


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Stoffley District Hospital.


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The Stoffley District Hospital serves the needs of 300000 residents.


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Just north of Stoffley District Hospital is Tarrey's Park.


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It's all about the car-parking.


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The railway line divides Stoffley from Annuq's city centre.


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Stoffley Station. The main part of the structure and its premises lies inside Stoffley.


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Good railway placement 101- really, really make them cut through a city.


And for this Monday-

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The west half of Annuq's city centre.

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And here is a preview of a special project I am working on.


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So I was figuring out how to make the sides of the dam look good.


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Then it struck me- add in MMP rocks and boulders.


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A closer-up inspection of the MMP work.


This dam is intended to be done just before the new year- a new year's present if you will.

Nice update! Can't wait to see what the dam will end up looking like!

Wanna see that dam too :thumbsup:

Well, that's a... dozens of magnificient pictures! I love how the railroad and avenues goes trough the city with curves and diagonal and FAR sections! Theese are my favourite shots:

http://i.imgur.com/DDzDsuk.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img911/9284/nnrCm3.jpg

They looks so realistic, from the further distance!

I see the dam. Seems to be a made of concrete, so filling the edges with rocks is indeed the best way to hide them.
What do you plan to put on that "shelf" below? A power plant? I would move it a bit closer to the dam, the culvert seems to be a bit too long, than i's needed. Do you plan to make a spillway over there?
I'm asking, cause I'm really interested in dams (that was a part of my studies ;) ) both in RL and SC and hope you will make a nice one! :)

Very realistic looking city.  It has the look of a lot of older U.S. industrial cities that were once very prosperous but are now struggling a bit.  There's a lot to like, but I especially like the industrial areas. :thumbsup:

Replies:

compdude787: Thank you!

Gugu3: And you will see it, before the New Year.

kbieniu7: Thanks a lot for your comment. As for your questions about the dam, well it is a hydroelectric dam and that culvert is where the power generators are- below in the raised up mound. The turbines are below the level of the water downstream of the dam, thus the water comes rushing down and hits the turbines at full speed. A bit further downstream is a series of substations and electricity pylons.

c.p.: Thank you very much! That is the look I was going for in Annuq.


Entry 29: Annuq's City Centre (West)

And now for the west part of Annuq's city centre.


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Bonus:

And a small preview of the city tile where the dam is.

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Here is a small land bridge, there will be a river running underneath it.


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A camping site.


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Part of the Faverdale Bypass. This road runs on top of the dam and upstream along the Faverdale Valley.


I will have this city tile done just before New Year. Expect lots of farmland, hiking routes and other interesting features.

Some amazing city building - I really love that curved el-highway. But all of the details in the city-scape are just brilliant!!!!  &apls

Just spend a good half hour going over the recent updates and I honestly don't know how to describe the sheer awesomeness! Or to put it in other words, I'm in awe! &apls &apls

As for the pesky palms; have you tried this mod yet (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=620)? Alternatively, c.p. has made palm replacements, here  (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=646) and here (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=645).

The dam and scree slope are impressive, too, looking forward to see it complete.  :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup: The area with the red brick apartment complexes looks especially realistic. Looking forward to seeing the wilderness :)

So many details and amazing overviews. I love the way you combine so many and diferent custom content. &apls &apls
Delecto's area looks wonderful.

Loking forward to see the dam!

Do you use a replacement mod for the street-parking, correct? With girafe cars?

I repeat mattb325 - I love the curvy highways and the road layout in the city. Guess it's quite congested during rush hours! And all this details - parks, markets, little squares - excellent. About the bonus, what I see there, you do it very well! I'm sure you will do it great! :)

Replies:

mattb325: Thank you!

vortext: Thanks for the linked mods, but I have tried all of them and they don't work on SAM networks or OWR networks. I'm glad you are enjoying the recent entries.

Themistokles: Thanks! I added them in to break up the repetition of 5*5 mid-rise American apartment blocks.

Kergelen: I love to mix and match the new and old. Also I don't use a replacement mod for street parking.

kbieniu7: Thanks, I love to infill the areas with little details where possible. Finally the dam is complete.


Entry 30- The Countryside

This ain't a Christmas entry, I don't celebrate Christmas, but here at last is the agriculture from Annuq. I hope you enjoy it.


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Without a doubt this is my favourite area of Annuq.


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In this part I'm going to show the northern half of the farmland.

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I use terrain brushes to add another terrain texture on top of the current terrain. The JENX Poseidon mod is a real game-changer strictly because of its terrain brushes, I really wish there were more terrain brushes available. HD terrain textures are so good they make a lot of MMPs redundant in some areas.


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Moving away from cattle grazing land...


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MMP fields may take some time to create, but the organic look of them is second to none.


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This is why I hardly use crop fillers because they look too orthogonal and grid-like.


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One only needs two different flora MMPs mixed together to get some impressive visuals.


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I reckon there are hundreds of different MMP combinations using just two MMPs, I have not really explored mixing three or more flora MMPs together.


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A flora MMP on its own looks a bit insubstantial, add in another suitable flora MMP and this thickens the look.


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The M134 highway. This connects up with a massive interchange and the M134 merges into the M4.


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FAR highway is cool.


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A field of dull pink.


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The stone walls are a VIP creation- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26807-vip-aubracwallmmp/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26807-vip-aubracwallmmp/). They look very similar to stone walls in the Pennines.


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The stone walls are both ploppable and MMP.


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A field of green.


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Believe it or not coniferous forests can exist in hot, drier environments, the Canary Islands is one example of this. So that's why there are coniferous trees next to more arid areas in this section of the countryside.


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North of Annuq the environment becomes more arid, not exactly desert but still rather dry.


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A took a picture in this area and it ended up in the Simtropolis best picture hall of fame.


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A pond provides much needed water to these willow trees.


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Moving eastwards now towards the M134/M4 interchange.


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The M134 starts to split up.


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The M134/M4 interchange.


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With the NAM 34 I could have built a two-laned flex-fly pass which would have been far more convenient!


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A Christmas Bonus

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The hydroelectric dam is complete. I will post more pictures of it once I have completed work on the city tile.


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Another cattle pasture.


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Different MMP field variations, I am also working with an allotment set to.


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Also I'm trying to blend industry into a more rural setting.

Awesome new entry!

As I already said somewhere else, I like how your rural area looks natural. I also like the power line  :)

Seeing your pictures, my first impression is those MMP must be a lot of legwork... in the end its really pay off by creating pretty realistic scenes!  &apls Also that FAR RHW looks really break the game 4-way grid system, very nice! :thumbsup:

Replies:

compdude787: Thank you very much!

feyss: Thanks, the MMPs are the best way of creating organic looking farmland.

Nanami: Cheers! And yes the MMPs do take a lot of time, but creating MMP fields is rather relaxing.


Entry 31: A Video Montage

The Simtropolis version of this CJ/MD is now two years old, so I put together a montage video of various pictures from those two years set to Cliff Martinez's suburb soundtrack for the movie Traffic. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/v/4kDrC32rm7A

This Thursday I will post another update from Annuq with more farmland and countryside.

This is how you embed YouTube videos on this site:
[flash=800,500]https://www.youtube.com/v/4kDrC32rm7A[/flash]

Note that I got rid of the /watch?v= part and changed it to /v/. Doing this is essential to get a YouTube video to show up properly on this site.

But anyway, that's a nice slideshow of all the photos of your cities! I really liked seeing all of them.

Quote from: compdude787 on December 28, 2015, 09:24:17 AM
This is how you embed YouTube videos on this site:

Code Select Expand

[flash=800,500]https://www.youtube.com/v/4kDrC32rm7A[/flash]

Note that I got rid of the /watch?v= part and changed it to /v/. Doing this is essential to get a YouTube video to show up properly on this site.

But anyway, that's a nice slideshow of all the photos of your cities! I really liked seeing all of them.

Thanks compdude787 for the help!

Nice :thumbsup: and the soundtrack really brought forth the grimy feel of the city.

Replies:

compdude787: I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Themistokles: Thank you! I needed something rough and relentless, in the music, to emphasise that grimy feeling.


Entry 32- Agriculture and the Village of Orksley

Continuing with the agricultural entries, here is another one from Annuq. Enjoy!


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This entry focuses on the farmland south of the M134.


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The tour begins at this farm and shall end here to.


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The road to the farm can get a little muddy at times.


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FrankU's greenhouses in action.


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The track forms a hairpin so that the tractor can turn around without having to go upon the field.


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South of all the farmland is some medium-sized manufacturing plants.


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Oxide's Steel Fabrication Works.


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A small camping site just north of the village of Orksley.


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This interchange on the M134 is one of the main entrances to Orksley.


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And here is the village of Orksley. Bound by the railway, the fields and the M134.


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The Orksley farmer's market.


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I extended the farmer's carpark with some MMPs.


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Tapper's Pond.


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A sports field for American football.


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The Orksley Tavern and Haurice's Greenery. Haurice's Greenery sells fresh food produce.


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This field is unruly so send in the pigs. A pig will devour through anything organic, hence the expression as greedy as a pig.


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And here are the fields East of Orksley.


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Fields which the busy M4 motorway passes right by.


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The thing with MMPs is the freedom to use them. Why just have a simple fence bordering a field when instead there can be a row of trees?


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Moving northwards now.


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A farmer inspects his flock of sheep.


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Which takes us back to the farm. The tour is complete.


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The next entry will be up this Saturday, enjoy the New Year!

How time consuming it must be to plop those fields of MMP's! It pays off though; the differences in terrain color look amazing from a distance, well done  &apls

Your landscape work is awesome! Great work  :thumbsup:

Lovely pictures.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I definitively see few of them as strong candidate for the pictures competition  ;)

Fields are looking really good as always. The amount of variation in the field textures together with the added details like the stones in the pigs' field bringt the landscape to life :thumbsup:

Youre nature is stunnig! All the flora you use - trees, bushes and grass fits toghether perfectly! I like especially the semi-dry terrain.

The developement (including highways) blends with pasture areas and fields very well. You're good at it! Great job!

By the way, may I ask, where did you get those greenhouses from?  ::)

That is such a beautiful application of MMPs. Have you ever thought of recording your sessions and publish them? I'd love to see you do your magic! Or maybe some tutorials?  ;)

Awesome rural-suburban scenes! looks very good indeed!

I missed some great updates.....
Your work with the MMP, especially for agricultural areas is very original and transcribed perfectly intensive farming,
in a very realistic way.  :thumbsup:

Replies:

Catalyst: It takes at least ten times as long, but the organic look is well worth it.

Dantes: Thank you very much!

Girafe: Thanks, also I never really thought about that. I will consider it for a later date- submitting some of these pictures to the best picture competition.

Themistokles: Thanks a lot!

kbieniu7: It took a long time but I am very pleased with the results, practice makes perfect with MMPs. The greenhouses are FrankU's- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27456-franku-dutch-farm-fields/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27456-franku-dutch-farm-fields/).

FlyHigh: I don't have any plans for recording, I may have plans for publishing a couple of tutorials.

Nanami: Thank you!

manga rivotra: I'm glad you like it! MMP farms are the best, incredibly time-consuming but well worth it.


Entry 33: WIP of Faverdale

As promised here is the next entry, the first pictures are the most recent ones of Faverdale, the rest are several days older. A few of the pictures you may already have seen, regardless this entry gathers together all the WIP and teaser pictures. Anyway enjoy a variety of countryside, farms and rural scenes!


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Developing Faverdale has been a lot of fun as I try new rural/agricultural toys. Now for this Monday it will be another entry from Annuq: suburbs, stadiums and Stax.

what a nice countryside - looks promissing :)

Fantastic, truly a master of MMP

I love the cattle holding area, that's magnificent!

Wish I had the patience to do such extensive mmp-ing. The cattle ranch is pretty awesome indeed but #9 is my favorite pic by far. The allotments, rail overpass and electric poles make it such a charming scene. Great work!  &apls

Yeah, indeed, no 7 and 9 has repeated  :P Number 2 is my favourite, you've manage to make a nicely looking wide river with those particular MMP water set (I had problems to make a river with them, that is wider than 1 tile)  :thumbsup:  However, the left bank covered with stone slabs on the first screen looks a bit artificial to me... I'm not sure if it's supposed to be natural or man-made layer?

And thank you for the link  :)

What an update !! Your skills with MMP...I have no words for that. I love the farm, it looks very realistic, great job !!

Replies:

Framley: Thank you.

belfastsocrates: Thanks! The cattle holding area came about because I wanted to break up the never-ending amount of fields.

vortext: I must admit that number 9 is my favourite picture of that entry, it hast to be something about the appearance of those two fields. I'm glad you liked it.

kbieniu7: The trickiest part of creating MMP rivers are the river banks. I went for a very minimal approach and largely eschewed the rocky/marshy approach that many players go for. Now that method works great for small, upper course rivers, but not for ones further downstream. As for the stone slabs they are a natural layer- limestone pavement.

kelis: Cheers! The MMPs take a lot of time, but the final result is always worth it.


Entry 34: Welcome to Faverdale

The city tile of Faverdale has lots of countryside, a couple of settlements, swathes of farmland, a reservoir and other interesting features to. This entry quickly goes over the highlights before focusing on one particular area. Let's begin.


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Faverdale; everything which lies in the river Faver's catchment area.


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The river Faver runs through the Slomler Valley.


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Bassenthwaite reservoir.


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Bassenthwaite lake. On the east shore is situated the village of Grasmere.


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West of Bassenthwaite reservoir is the village of Embleton.


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About two miles south of Bassenthwaite reservoir is the small town of Threlkeld.


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Esk Pike. The eastern most pike to a chain of mountains which stretches westwards (leftwards).


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The Augill Fortress. Once an important fort many hundreds of years ago, built upon Augill Crag, it became a village and today a tourist attraction.


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Faverdale has many scenic roads. Be that the A66, an important trunk road through Faverdale.


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Or the much lesser used B5289.


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Another section of the B5289.


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There are numerous country lanes for the farmers to access their fields.


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This patchy, narrow rural lane is the only means of road access to get to the Augill Fortress.


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The focus of the entry is upon the east of Threlkeld.


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A grain mill to the centre right.


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Except for the harvest season, the silos are fill of grain, not local to the area, and other feed for livestock. The grain is imported via the railway which runs through Threlkeld.


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A row of housing for farm workers. The housing is full in the harvest season with temporary labour, in other times it may be leased to penny-pinching tourists wishing to stay in Threlkeld and who don't care much for the noisy surroundings.


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A gathering area for livestock. In this case a whole bunch of pigs are rounded up so as to eventually be turned into... pork cutlets.


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All garbage from Threlkeld and other nearby settlements is dumped here at this garbage depot.


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The garbage depot operates seven days of the week but only from 9am to 5pm. It is a noisy process shifting and compacting trash.


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Another picture of the gathering area.


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South of the grain mill there lies more fields.


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One of two petrol stations in Threlkeld.


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The petrol station is of course Bipin's petrol stations- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30878-bipins-gas-stations/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30878-bipins-gas-stations/). God bless Bipin and his grungy creations.


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Another look at those fields south of the grain mill.


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All fields were created with MMPs.


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To the west of the grain mill is the small River Derwent.


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It snakes around and in places travels through tunnels running below Threlkeld.


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The River Derwent is a tributary of the River Faver. Here the Derwent merges with the Faver.


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In the next entry the centre of Faverdale is explored.


Though time-consuming, I really do enjoy this predominantly MMP approach to creating areas, MMPs really do give the player artistic freedom to create so many unique scenes both rural and urban.

Well, you're doing a very good work with all those fields, forests, flora and rivers, It's really splendind. I swear, it is!
Photo no 8 is my favourite shot. I really looks...real! Good terrain shape - a moderate slope, covered with forest on the top. Even better man-made part - the castle is perfectly located and the paths are well-laid.

The river looks natural, good curves, banks and bed that change in few places - for example layers of mud on inner cornes. All the effects, that can be spotted in real rivers.
What I like too, is the fact, that you're thinking about the catchement - you do not concetrate on only one river, but make tributaries, appropiate terrain shape, a dam and a lake. That's what I try to do in my region and what adds a big kick of realism to SimCity for me  :)

What can I add - in my opinion you should use more smooth curves ond RHW, roads and streets, to make it even better :)

As always, your updates are quite amazing!

Your Plugin Folder must be exploding  ;D

Awesome! You're really good at choosing the right lot for the right place... and those fields are works of art &apls

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kbieniu7: Thank you very much! I put in a lot of effort creating Faverdale, additionally I terraformed the terrain to create the general features I wanted. For the road in the wilderness, the B5289, I used a SAM gravel road and realised I couldn't drag smooth curves. Unfortunately I forgot about the smooth curves which I could have plopped in, this I will remedy, so thanks for pointing that out.

compdude787: Cheers!

Mikey Knox: It is exploding, last I checked my (uncompressed and non-datpacked) plugins folder was 7.7GB.

Themistokles: Thank you! With the MMP fields each one is different, even if I used the same combination of MMPs for some fields they still look subtly different thanks to the organic nature of MMPs. Also I can grid-bust with MMPs so this creates whole new possibilities which I am still exploring.


Entry 35: Threlkeld

The tour of Threlkeld continues, today I show you the town's centre. This a highly detailed town, despite its small size, and I have packed in a lot!


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The area being toured today.


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About top right, and to the left of the petrol station, is the town hall.


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Threlkeld station.


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The next couple of pictures look at the meandering River Derwent which runs through, and in places under, Threlkeld.


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To the right is the Esper Trust care homes- the large lot with the snaking diagonal roads.


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It is actually a gated community for the elderly.


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A bike manufacturer in the centre right. Also adjacent to this building is a small locally run petrol station. The petrol station is one amazing diagonal filler lot!


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A bicycle training course.


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At the top is the Threlkeld Marsh.


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Though the lake is abundant, due to the marshy areas the name Threlkeld Marsh arose due to the locals calling it so.


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The populus trees look amazing, so I decided to create alternating columns of them.


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The populus trees come from the VIP Rural Pack on Simtropolis.


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A picture taken from Garforth, another city I am working on. This city is a testing ground for all the new mods I downloaded over the last several weeks.

Another portion of birlliant photos! Your MMP is great, especially around water. The poplars looks very well indeed.
I really like, how you think about the function of every facility in this well-laid town  :thumbsup:

Your MD is the epitome of putting custom content to good use! The way you blend in that large (Japanese? WMP?) gated community lot is brilliant, and the farm fields. . oh my goodness the farm fields.  &apls

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kbieniu7: Thank you very much! I did pay some thought to the power utilities of Threlkeld. So I built two substations which originate from the hydroelectric dam and end up in the town.

vortext: The more custom content I download the more options I have, that's how I keep this MD fresh. I'm glad you're enjoying it. That gated community is a WMP lot.


Entry 36: Esk Wood Holiday Camp and West Threlkeld

In this entry we start to venture outside of Threlkeld and a bit to the west. Enjoy more highly detailed and MMP laden goodness!


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The west of Threlkeld.


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A small community garden resides in the centre of the picture.


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Allotments.


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The pedestrian bridge over the railway is part of the WorkingMan Productions allotment set.


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A community vineyard.


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The terraces are council housing.


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The western most extent of Threlkeld contains a small industrial estate.


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Using Bipin's roundabouts.


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I love placing in big factories.


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This T-junction comprises part of the main route from the A66 into Threlkeld.


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Panning westwards now.


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Greenhouses and a petrol station.


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Here are some fields west of the industrial estate.


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The Esk Wood Holiday Camp.


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This holiday camp is placed at the foot of Esk Pike.


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There is a functioning farm and the main building is a small hotel to cater for a limited number of tourists.


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This track commences the start of the southern approach to Esk Pike.


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The entrance to the holiday camp.


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And a mosaic because I am feeling generous today.


Thank you for the comments, they really keep me going and keep me inspired to try out new things with SC4. As for the next entry I will post it this Thursday.

You'd better slow down a litte, I just need some time for my vocabulary to renew :P Awesome as well, so detailed town. Crosswalks, parking spaces, bike paths, gardens, small estates... speechless. Your industrial is indeed great-laid. I love the top of the mosaic with this silo and its sourrounding facilities making a one lot placed in the middle of farm fields.

However, is that railline ending right here? I think you should extend it further ;) or at least bulid a station with some railyars. What is more, I don't think, if there would be so traffic to have two track line for such town, even with the industry?

At the end, let me ask, where did you get those paths and tents from screen 26?

Wow, it looks like you've had a lot of great ideas and have really packed this city with them.  Really impressive  &apls

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! What strikes me most (apart from the splendid micromanagement of course) is how realistically laid out the town and surrounding countryside is. Everything flows logically into each other... and I've seen car manufacturers and car vendors in MD's, but never before a bicycle manufacturer :bnn: &apls :thumbsup: ()stsfd() :D

Great! The vegetation and the fields are really realistic. What are the paths that you often used in fields and meadows?

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kbieniu7: Thanks, I'm glad you are really enjoying these entries. I think you have a point about the two track line being a one track line, but then the warehouse's railway line would not fit in. Although I could do a STR to DTR transition, but that might look a little odd. Now the paths are Heblem paths- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29426-franku-heblem-sand-addon/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29426-franku-heblem-sand-addon/), and the tents are of nbvc's- http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27417-tents/ (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27417-tents/).

c.p.: Cheers! I definitely had new ideas to implement in Faverdale, one thing is for certain I love creating rural areas.

Themistokles:  :thumbsup: You can thank paeng for the bicycle manufacturing lots.

Akallan: Thank you! The paths are Heblem paths- see my comment to kbieniu7 for the link.


Entry 37: The Augill Fortress and the Limestone Quarry

First off I'm going to say that I am not exactly pleased with the final result of the limestone quarry, I was using ionionion's limestone quarry BATs and these are tricky to integrate into the terrain. Still I gave it my best shot.

The 1st half of the entry starts with an abandoned limestone quarry which has suffered numerous landslides after dozens of years of disuse, the 2nd half focuses on the Augill Fortress. Finally there is the mother of all mosaics which covers a rather large area of Augill Forest.


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The Augill Fortress and the limestone quarry reside in the Augill Forest.


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The abandoned limestone quarry has been a tourist attraction for many years.


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The Augill Fortress is built upon a crag which bulges up in the south of the Augill Forest.


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The fortress, turned town, turned honey pot location


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Though the fortress is a tourist attraction an order of Christian monks live here.


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The carpark for the tourists.


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This country dirt track leads to the B5289.


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Like any country road it can be a real squeeze for two cars!


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This monster of a mosaic took me at least an hour to put together. Assembled from 31 pictures, I decided to create this to give a better sense of the paths which wind around the Augill Forest and how the quarry and fortress link up.

This is absolutely incredible! You're doing amazing work, woth great attention to detail and realism! :thumbsup:

I, being a stickler for it myself, also love the attention to smooth transition and blending of LOT textures to terrain textures!

I'm definitely keeping an eye on this one!

Outstanding!!  &apls &apls

Wow, amazing update!!

Gorgeous! You've made quite good to bled the castle into trees. Good parking made of MMP and excellent flora work with the grass in open areas! Limestone quarry is well-made, a really nice idea adding something more to the area with great final effect.  :)

But what I find the best is... the forest. Just simply - how you place trees, what kind of them you choose and how you lay down paths. With gentle, but visible, terrain shape it's almost like a real terrain all in 1:1 scale! Truly, it's one of my most favourite views, I've seen in Sc4!  &apls

Absolutely fantastic work my friend; your use of MMPs and thoughtful lotting is an inspiration. Likewise, thank you for using so many of my BATs, I really appreciate seeing that!  :thumbsup:

It's always amazing to watch if you're doing! The quarry is a great idea! The only drawback, which is not your fault, it is these fir trees around the castle, which does not fit with the rest of the vegetation ...

... But you are forgiven because it is very beautiful, this insprire me a lot! :thumbsup:

Thank you for the link! :)

Amazed on the way you use the MMP's! Continue with your great CJ!  :thumbsup:

Replies:

M4346: Thank you very much!

Simmer2: Cheers! I'll be using some of your railside lots for a new, and rather grungy, city that I will be working on.

compdude787: Thank you.

kbieniu7: The castle trees are part of the BAT so it was a wee bit tricky blending the fortress in. The Augill Forest is simply created with the Arden Tree controller. The rolling hills differentiate the flora and are a testament to the brilliance of the Arden Tree controller. The forest paths are Heblem paths and can be found on Simtropolis.

Bipin: Thanks, I take inspiration from you given that amazing grungy, MMP style you so often deploy in your cities.

Akallan: Thanks for the praise for the quarry, I wasn't too sure about the interior but I did know that I had framed it right- sealing if off with barb wire and making it a tourist attraction. The trees next to the castle are part of the BAT, so yeah it's tricky.

e_vivas: MMPs are art, art is limitless. At any rate with enough MMPs one can do some serious grid-busting.


Entry 38: The River Faver- B5289 Bridge and Double Meander

This entry starts on the eastern-most point of the River Faver, in the city tile, and goes steadily upstream. Along the way we shall pass by various features in, and beyond, the river. So enjoy another very rural entry!


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A vineyard.


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The B5289 bridge over the River Faver.


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Another vineyard.


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The double meander.


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Bonus:

A teaser picture from another city I have completed Garforth.

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Wow, that river just looks awesome! And I really like the suspension bridge over it.

Oh well it seems I missed an update here...   :-[

That river work must taking a lot of efforts to done. gonna love it!  :o

Always so beautiful! :thumbsup:

You're a gridbreaker! Really awesome, all the details, roads, routes, paths, tree rows... especially this picture:
http://imageshack.com/a/img907/2016/3ZzT32.jpg

And I think, I recognized tje bridge, you've shown in once... but without river ;)

But, you know...Smooth SAM curves would look nicely here...  ::)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img907/3351/Hpa0gy.jpg

Replies:

compdude787: Thank you!

Nanami: It does take some time making it pretty, but the actual RFR MMPs are rather quick to lay down.

Akallan: Cheers!

kbieniu7: Oh yeah! And yes I did tease the bridge minus the river, as for some smooth SAM curves I was happy with a more sharper angle in that area. Don't ask me why!


Entry 39: The River Faver- Augill Farm and River Rapids

The journey up the River Faver continues!


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The area being explored today.


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The second set of rapids downstream of the dam.


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Time to explore some fields south of the rapids.


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Augill Farm.


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And now for some pictures of the fields to the south and east of Augill Farm.


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A spot for fisherman.


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The first set of rapids downstream of the dam.


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A small section of limestone pavement in the top of the picture.


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The next entry will be posted this Friday, it will continue on the tour of the River Faver.

Lovely riverine landscape! And pictures 13 and 16 are works of art :D They really showcase the power of massMMP!

A true master piece  &apls &apls

Amazing updates! Takes a while to digest everything here; I may return later with some more remarks.

Please keep going :)


Cheers
Willy

Wow :o  I love the river shots in 31-36.  For a second I almost felt like I was actually there.  Also, I love the pens in 22 and 23.  Is that a lot, or MMPs, or a combination of both?

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My favourite picture, haha :D I thought about saying, that you should show it in the Picture Competition, but after a while I've spotted you've already done that with the similiar one :D

I love, how you lay down dirt paths. The rapids in the picture 5 seem a bit edgy, but I have the same with this water MMP set. Anyway, looking for more and more and more of this upstream journey!

Lovely river and fields!That rapids bit is a touch of class :thumbsup:

Replies:

Themistokles: Thank you!

Simmer2:  :thumbsup:

Swordmaster: Thanks, and I am still going, I have recently completed one city, Garforth, and I am already starting work on another one- Erinberg.

c.p.: The barbed wire fence is a paeng SPAM addon, the cows and dirt are MMPs.

kbieniu7: The rapids are always tricky to use, it's best to hide as much as them as possible with rocks.

Gugu3: Thank you! The RFR rapid water spawns awkward pieces so it takes a lot of rocks to make them look alright.


Entry 40: The River Faver- Crop Circle and Campsite

The journey up the River Faver continues, in this part the flood plains start to shrink the closer we get to the dam.


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Today's portion of the River Faver journey.


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The crop circle.


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Now it was probably the farmer doing some drunken prank... But really aliens.


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Marshland.


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The stone wall is not so much for the safety of walkers as it is for the herds of sheep which once roamed down this track many dozens of years ago.


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The campsite. The track originates from Augill Farm.


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For the river immediately upstream and downstream of Bassenthwaite Reservoir, I decided to use Diggis pond pieces for a smoother look. As such I picked the RFR river water because the water texture transition is less abrupt.


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In the next part of the River Faver journey we will come to the Bassenthwaite Reservoir, that's coming this Tuesday.


Bonus:

FA industry, a picture taken from Erinsberg, another city I am developing.

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Aliens?!  ()lurker()  $%Grinno$% 

Nice work incorporating the FAR building!  :thumbsup:

Fantastic work with river, rapids, meanders and MMP dirt paths &apls &apls

I like the use of FAR building.

Edit: I just see update 34. The overviews are amazing too. Requires a lot of time to create nice landscape and overviews and at the same time work in details as you do. Congrats! :)

Really great work :thumbsup: You've been very creative with the mmps along the riverbanks, and they look awesome, too!

Fantastic rural scenes!! I think they're among the most realistic ones I've seen!  &apls

That looks awesome! I like the crop circles and the campground. I'm really looking forward to seeing the dam.

I absolutely love your work! It is spectacular!   &apls

I can't wait to see more of the urban areas!

Nice job with the camp site and as usual the flora!


Cheers
Willy

Jaw-dropping.  The way you make the riverside gets better and better every update. The crop circle is a nice additon. Just waiting to see a TV team somewhere around  ;D The camping side looks cool. Well-detailed. Especially this small dirt parking lot with cars standing in a row. You think about everything  :thumbsup:

Replies:

vortext: Dem aliens and their anal probing...

Kergelen: Thank you!

Themistokles: Thanks!

romualdillo: Cheers!

compdude787: I've done a crop circle before about two years ago, this time though I found an MMP which had a cropped version of the crop, so that would make the crop circle look more realistic.

M4346: After Faverdale there is the city of Garforth, my latest urban area which I have finished.

Swordmaster: Thank you!

kbieniu7: You know that is a good point- a TV team, where are the MMPs for a TV team? Thanks for the comment.


Entry 41: Bassenthwaite Reservoir

At last we come to the dam, the Bassenthwaite Reservoir holds back Thirlmere lake while ensuring enough water flows downstream along the River Faver.


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North of Bassenthwaite Reservoir is Thirlmere Lake.


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Let's take a look at the substation downstream of Bassenthwaite Reservoir.


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A pedestrian land bridge for hikers who walk along both sides of the River Faver.


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The River Faver is very wide immediately downstream from the dam.


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A small crag of rock pushes up above the river.


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The east slopes along the Bassenthwaite Reservoir.


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Another small island in the middle of the River Faver.


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This and the next five pictures focus on the eastern slopes running past the Bassenthwaite Reservoir.


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Scree slopes.


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The A66 winds it way around to the West before swinging back to travel directly across the top of Bassenthwaite Reservoir.


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Directly in front (south of) the dam are some additional facilities. The small building to the right is the main means of access to the power turbine room which is underground.


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A dredging unit in the middle of the picture, a few times over the year pumps are lowered into the River Faver to suck up material from the river bed.


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A culvert to the right to allow the River Faver to flow. Below these utilities are underground power cables which connect up to the substation a few hundred meters away to the right.


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And finally a mosaic of the area and the A66 climbing section.


This Friday I will post the final entry for the River Faver- Thirlmere Lake.

Great pictures !!!  &apls &apls &apls

Love it all, but I took about 14 hours getting through it (during modding breaks ;D). You put in such wonderful details in your scenes that I think you should spread it out over a few updates, and save some work for when you don't have anything to show. I hope you don't mind me voicing my opinion on that :)

It's all beautiful, though. :thumbsup:


Cheers
Willy

Awesome!!

Great shots... as always! ;)

Unfortunately I don't know any TV team props or plops :(

Really good work around the dam. Good sloping, the crown made of seawalls, using rocks to hide the sew with the terrain, embakements and all this small facility covering the culverts and turbines. Itself is really well-made, condidering in-game technique. However, as somebody, whose field of university studies was hydrotechnics, I really wish, it's easier to make the important devices more easily in SimCity :D I mean, the spillway (I really need to finish my model...), which is an urgently necessary device - during the flood times, it takes the majority of all water going trough - the culvers and covered pipelines just don't have enough capacity. The rate of flows taken into designing process are estimated basing on historical measurements and statistics. During designing rate of flow (which might be a value, that occurs once a 100, 500 or even more years, depending on the structure) it have to carry 80% of all water.

But, really, treat my words just like "did-you-know". SimCity is just a game... sometimes limited. The art, is to make it the best within possible means, what you actually do great ;)

Ah, but you know, we talked about it. Maybe some more smoooooth curves...? :D

Nice dam project... (generating lots of green energy! ()stsfd()) I especially like the way you've used MGB's bridges. But wherefrom are those power poles?

Oh wow! Feels like I just watched a documentary  &apls &apls

One thing, if I may, that dam needs an outflow pipe/s to simulate water discharge and I believe the PEG dam had that mod as a separate lot.
Also look in the water stream lots by BSC, there are a couple in there you could probably adapt/mod to use on that beautiful dam you made.

Awesome details all around  :thumbsup:

Very nice indeed! &apls

Awesome update! I love seeing your work! This is definitely one of my favourite MDs! :thumbsup:

Replies:

juguesal: Thank you!

Swordmaster: I prefer larger updates and I don't like teasing things out, it would make these CJ entries more repetitive. I would rather go with fewer, but more distinctive, entries than more of them. Besides showing a complete city tile takes about 4 to 6 weeks, in that time, when I am on a roll, I complete another city tile. Other times I take a break of a few weeks or even months.

compdude787: Thanks!

kbieniu7: I was more concerned with making the spillway visually work, actual BATs or LOTs would be a big help though! As for those smooth curves, well I kind of forgot about them because I really liked the look of the guard rails on the RHW-2.

Themistokles: Thank you! Now those power poles were created by threestooges- http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2344 (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2344).

Simmer2: I will definitely consider those items if I ever build a second dam, thanks a lot for the comment.

Gugu3: Thank you!

M4346: Cheers! I have some more good stuff coming up with the city of Garforth, I had some real fun experimenting with urban design.


Entry 42: Thirlmere Lake

The tour going upstream along the River Faver ends with this entry- a look at Thirlmere Lake.


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Thirlmere Lake.


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The lake is artificial due to the River Faver backing up behind the dam, it stretches northwards, and westwards, for many miles.


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Let's start on the western shore of Thirlmere Lake.


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The retaining wall and rocks were inspired by the (upstream) side of Cow Green Reservoir.


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The footpath/track runs parallel to the western shores of Thirlmere Lake.


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A small holiday cabin.


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And now for the eastern side of Thirlmere Lake.


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Here lies my favourite stretch of the A66.


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It's something about the trees on the right hand side.


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A camping park.


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The village of Grasmere.


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A small lakeside promenade.


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The A66 travels on northwards.


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Travelling down the River Faver and the Slomler Valley.

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And so concludes the tour of the River Faver.