The PSSO (With The Port of Ossic)

[Shadow Assassin]

Very nice. It's a great mix of concrete and greenery. I quite like the canals in the industrial areas.

[rooker1]

Super update and great mosaics.  Your city looks very well planned and very realistic.  You won't catch me missing one of your updates.   



Robin   

[SIMplMn9]

Man.. what I would give to figure out how you do it.. my first attempt at a CJ on ST kinda looked like crap.. and Now with that entire region gone... I need to recreate it all... hopefully for here...

[Krio]

Another "red" MD eh  atleast it's not another monarchy

But, mosaics were good but seen before. But your appoarach on socialist state is so far most realistic what I've seen, looks like Estonia. Can I call this PSSO or what?

[iamgoingtoeatyou]

woah, excellent update owen! it looks like a very east-european/grittish neighborhood! really liked the buildings you chose, especially the w2w houses! nice job!

[Emperor Stormont]

How wonderful. I'm not a huge fan of socialist CJ's, but I do love them when they are done so well.

The use of images both in game and RL are fantastic and of course the W2W work is stunning and just works so well.

Overall a fantastic set of updates and I shall return to Odeschyna..........I hope there will be Vodka next time. 

[Yoman]

Replies for the People

Seb (Xiziz) - Glad you liked your update

Seahawkfan - Thank you, took quite awhile to get it to grow properly.

Daniel (Shadow Assassin) - Well glad you had a good reason to comment Glad you liked my mix.

Rooker1 - If I catch you you shall be tried before a court of the people and shot Nah jk, glad you liked it

Simplmn9 - Its all in the plugin choice and knowing it, build your plugins to your style, know how big their zones are, and they should grow if you cheat and use super-demand like me Oh and also one last major bit, patience to bulldoze what grows that you don't, wait long enough under the right conditions and what you want will grow.

Bengt - Yes, muhahaha another "Red" one Your comment means quite alot here as I know your blunt and honest, and therefore am glad you think its quite realistic, and yes using PSSO is just fine.

Daniel (iamgoingtoeatyou) - I love those w2w houses, and look below

Belfastuniguy - Thanks.

This Update Dedicated to Daniel (Iamgoingtoeatyou)

For being a good friend and helping with the custom maps & graphics.

Today I will show a suburban area of Odessa as I continue to work on the innards of the city. After this update I'm kind of out of my already done areas (though the last one I did in two days ) I could post an update on farms using Seb's (Xiziz) great PSing methods, but that would be kindof boring since it would be much the same as his great update. Currently Seb and I are working on an extensive collection of personal 3d models including a wide range of Soviet Military Equipment, among the collection however are a two new ship models (a tanker larger than SOMYs (though not quite as detailed) and a common cargo ship). We've also added a few port cranes modeled on the ones in Odessa and the ones over the dry dock in Nikolayev, Ukraine. A Kiev Class Aircraft Carrying Cruiser might appear very soon in game also .

But for now onto the update!

In this Suburban District located west of Odessa most work in the factories on the outer belt of the city. There are roughly 300 people in each small apartment and over 1000 in the tenements living in the Workers Paradise that is Odeschyna. Most commute to work via the commuter train lines and the extensive bus network of Odessa. Recently many Ukrainian nationals looking for work and residence have immigrated to the Workers Paradise and now live in the suburbs of Odessa.

Apologies for the large size of this second mosaic to those on slow connections. However in it we can see the local train stations, a few suburban buildings, and at the left of the image, a heliport for an Mi-24 Hind Helicopter of the Odeschynian Air Defense Force, the same heliport is also visable (slightly better) in the first mosaic towards the bottom.

Once again I'm sorry to those operating on a slow connection, hopefully the first mosaic kept you entertained while the second one loaded. I'll try to make them smaller next time

[Krio]

Again, it looks realistic with symmetry and you have "the right buildings" for residentals BUT two IMO you have two mistakes: the glass corner-office building in the middle of first mosaic. It's corner is facing wrong direction and it dosen't look good. Other one is that where are children's playgrounds? Communist parties think that children are the most valuable asset of the future and so far it's important to keep "future" in shape. If you look pictures of old soviet residental blocks or Chinese blocks, you see swings and carousels in them. But otherwise your lots are good, I assume that you made them because my lots for those buildings are different, IF I remember right..

[SIMplMn9]

Well, until I replace the factory equipment in this PC with better, more cutomer hardware.. I'm not going to be playing SC4 anytime soon..

Thank for the suggestion though.. and superb update!

[Filasimo]

great MD you got there yoman! i like that copter in one of your pics reminds me of those Desert Strike games on the sega 

[szymcar]

Great atmosphere!! You always impress me! I hope you show more photos of this great ghettos next time !!

[M4346]

Ah, now this is a great start you got off to here Owen!   

I love the way everything fits, matches and how smooth the transitions between the LOTs are. That deserves a mention and an applause!  I've always been a sucker for perfection, and you my friend, achieve it no doubt! 

Now if only I'll get off my butt and get La République Impériale d'Eleutheria up and running... 

Anyway! Not to detract too much of the attention of this amazing MD! Good luck with your endeavours here! 

-M-

[sEAhAwk fAn121]

wow! everything fits in sooo prefectly! i wish i had city building skillz like that 

[bat]

Fantastic two new mosaics of your city! Great work!

[iamgoingtoeatyou]

thanks owen i really liked the update, very nice suburban area and i like picking out all the small details! your city building excellent

[mjig_dudy]

This is looking really excellent! You have been doing some extensive re-lotting, am i right?
In my eyes, it is perfect, I'll be sure to visit again 

[Xiziz]

Hind heliport allways needed to keep those lazy people dragging the entire system down in check.

Great pictures, in particular the second Mozaic, love those tenantments, only objection i have would be the two lowermost tenantments in the second mozaic, there fasing the opposite direction of the others. Normall in these kind of areas(i would take RL photos of some of stockholms areas if i wasnt scared shitless going their with my 7000SEK camera) all the balconies face the same direction, or same two directions, or three even, but normally they dont face north at all, and tend to face soulth, soulth-west, soulth-east. this is to catch the most of the sun on the balconies, those facing north would be in shadow for almost the entire day, the entire year.

Just a small detail though, and there are allways exceptions

[sebes]

These are some absolute great pictures! The socialist atmosphere is very well catched in those. And in addition, Odessa is clearly the labourers paradise: so many private cars parked along the streets indicate a prosperous economy my friend! I think I even spotted some Porsches and Cabrios 

[Dark_Jedi06]

How utterly depressing...though the colors make the destitute conditions less noticeable. Definitely a Worker's "Paradise".

Keep up the good work Owen!

[rooker1]

Ugly.........depressing..........low income.  I love it.  Great work on the mosaics  Do you know where there is a tutorial on how to do mosaics.  I still don't know how.     How close to work are all these people and how do they get there?  Great use of the Somy lots, they are so nice.  But the others, where did you get them?  I don't recognize them.  Are they from SFBT?



Robin