Terraforming Teton

[Livin in Sim]

Phil, this is really quite unusual and interesting.  How sad to see the flooded part of town going...going...gone.  I've read in threads on stagnation in a Simcity, that sometimes a disaster or downturn of events can end the period and spur the sims on to growth.  A real life town in our area had a horrible flood in the seventies in which over 200 people died.  The town marshalled it's resources, pulled together and rebuilt with help from the government.  Their perserverance paid off and now the town is very much viable and growing.  I hope this will be the case with New Orleans as well, and I also think of the solidarity of New York after 9/11.  Thanks for a thought provoking update, and I can't wait to see the ski area.

--Liv

[NikNik]

Wow,Phil 9 pages of sheer joy and amazement. The story is very compelling and very possible. When living in The Netherlands I get reminded of the danger of flooding constantly. In fact my basement floods when there is too much rain (a matter of damage draining that will be fixed next week).

The flooding pics are great. I was amazed at the flooded road, but then the story began about the neighbourhood slowly being flooded. Amazing,let's hope this will never come true anywhere around the world.

That mayor house looks gerat.

Nik-Nik

[petercintn]

More great stuff, Phil. (Hope you don't mind me calling you Phil)  Compelling story, great shots and original work.  What more could you ask for.  I don't know, but I'm asking for more

[sebes]

I read through your last pages in this MD and looked at your fabulous pictures with joy, and, living 2 meters below sea-level, with lots of interest in your story about the flooding Jackson....

As follow up I moved my PC to the third floor of my house to safe my plugin-folder 

[pvarcoe]

Update 12.5 - Teton Pass Preview



A new update is coming soon. A transportation network overview will be presented.
It will detail the state of the regions road and highway network at the time of the reconnection, by rail to the outside world.

One portion of that network is highway 22 and it's route through the mountains up to Teton pass.
Here's a preview of that pass (my first attepmt at a mosaic).







The communnications tower sits at the top of the pass.
A climb of over 1200 meters.

Thanks to all for checking out Teton!

[beskhu3epnm]

I don't know why, but all of the sudden I feel like driving.

This MD is a legend in my books. Awesome, Phil... just awesome.

[thundercrack83]

Great preview! I can't wait to learn more about the transportation network!

[Badsim]

This view is breathtaking ... perfect , just perfect .You're the one which motivate me the most to progress on natural scenes , I'm still so far from your mastery ...
I suppose that the Olympic Tree Controler isn't sufficient to obtain this result , you also use different mayor tree mods to complement it ?
What a beauty ... I'm jealous . And not only a bit . 

[Nikopol]

The pass is drop-dead gorgeous 
I try to do a pass several times......but nothing is comparable with your skills 

[NikNik]

Superb pass!

Good addition of the parking spaces -for all you viewers around have a look at the breathtaking view-
The snow almost hits the road, almost. very nice!

Great stuff.

Nik-Nik

[bat]

The Teton Pass is looking fantastic! Great work!

[meinhosen]

Breathtaking!  Superb!  ....  hmm, I need to get a thesaurus to find more synonyms...  I love it.

[rooker1]

Very nice windy road through the beautiful mountains.  I love it.  Great mosaic.

[petercintn]

Wonderful!  Thanks for the inspiration. 

[Rayden]

Beautiful winding road, it blends very well within the scenery not carving it very much, resembling that way reality.

[sebes]

Breathtaking.

The tranquility that shows of these pictures, the wonderful trees, the snowline and parkings spots to take a pass-photo.. all shows so much of your dedication and affection... I am starting to cry now and shut op

[Darmok]

Phil that last pic of the winding road to the communication tower on the mountain top!

WOW!   

Breathtaking my friend!

I'd love to ride this one on my ol' Intruder....

[jeronij]

Excellent and very inspiring picture 

[dedgren]

That's a beautifully scaled road to the top of the pass, Phil.  Far too often (and I am among the guilty) folks will compress an elevation gain like that into a small space by using unrealistically steep grades.  At 7-8%, which is about the steepest sustained mountain pass grade on U.S. highways, your roughly 1,000 meter elevation change (assuming game water level at 250 meters and using your figure of 1,220 meters as the highest point on the road) would take about 13 or 14 kilometers (about eight miles) of road.  I'd be interested in knowing how long a road you actually have there.

Great work!


David

[rooker1]

I second dedgren request.  That sounds interesting.  It does look very realistic and some kind of formula would be helpful I think.