AntigOne's Projects: Elsewhere.

Yan077 · January 09, 2011, 01:36:14 AM

Cedric and photoshopping ? I thought it was incompatible

I'm glad you consider it like an amusment... and to be honest, I'm jealous, it's very well done, and most of all original

And Montbrac.... OMG ! This french countryside is just wonderful, so much details, and the overview... stunning !!

Yann

Badsim · January 09, 2011, 01:46:24 AM

Thank you Yann , Andreas , Guillaume , Robin , bat & jafmo ...

Like I said , I do not intend to go further with photoshoping ...

Quote from: VeTram on January 08, 2011, 10:13:10 PM

...I have decided to read again from page1 as i have never managed to read all pages...but unfortunately there are many pics missing.....i still have a long way to go since nowpage....i am always trying to become a good Lotterer , and staying close to your threads and you with us , fill us with plenty of patience , enthusiasm , inspiration and learn....I will follow faithfully... Thank you

Thank you VeTram . I see your questions here & there ... unfortunately I'm already overwhelmed by my SC4 activities , I can't spend more time with you all on these forums than I'm already doing ...furthermore , english being not my native language , It takes me a lot of time ( many checks with various translation tools ... ) before to post something that I think understandable enough !

... About missing pictures , like I already said to Connor , I'll try to check that and repair , but Imageshack is hosting 2800 sc4 related pictures from me ( and several tens at Fileden ... )
Thank you to forgive me for something that could easily looks like disregard .

Quote from: Badsim on January 04, 2011, 05:41:01 AM

The essential is there , the LotEditing part is over , I just need to finish landscaping details ( and I'm not satisfied with the stream so I'll try to rework it ...) before to present you Montbrac's definitive set of pictures .

Well ... regarding the last event ( Ploppable seasonal trees) ... AntigOne itself looks like a dying dinosaur . And no SC4 storm is going to blow down our thousands of evergreen trees at our place ... Bye-bye Jeroni's « Caya Tomentosa » (s) , have loved you so much ...

So what ?

$:-\$

I've got seasonal ploppable items in my hand ...

$:-\$

But before the public release , would it be ... fair ... ?

$:-\$

No .

Well , on another side , having multiple and various tasks for some other peoples , that's with no doubt the most proper time to make a break ... Not too long I hope so , ( untill I see these spectacular items on the LEX ... ) just like a deep breathing before a new start .

Cédric.

Tomas Neto · January 09, 2011, 02:50:22 AM

Again you presents us a very beautiful rural area, Cédric!!! Awesome update!!!

Badsim · January 12, 2011, 08:11:59 AM

While I'm replacing MontBrac's trees ( the stream will be entirely re-done as well ... ) , I've started something else :

Gorges de La Sioule .

With new landscaping tools ; green water by Sorchin - http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=17099 and ploppable grey rocks by nbvc - http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=24793 , absolutely the best « wedding » available to have perfect riversides even at the closest zoom ...

The train automata is a french Corail by Girafe . Antoine has released several extra high quality train automatas ... this one is available here : http://www.toutsimcities.com/download/Ancien_Corail_1590.zip

Yann , a big thank you for the incredible inpiration your Corsica is .

Thanks for your visit .

Cédric.

Bill_Chen · January 12, 2011, 08:34:09 AM

Awesome!!!

This image is extremely high definition!!!!

ecoba · January 12, 2011, 08:44:36 AM

Incredible, Cédric !

This portion of AntigOne is beyond beautiful ! Fabulous !

Ethan

Connor · January 12, 2011, 08:48:53 AM

Fantastic work (as always)

Gorges de La Sioule looks like a beautiful place in real life, and you've made it look just as beautiful in game

Connor.

Silur · January 12, 2011, 08:56:11 AM

Excellent work

But what about some CS4 money for this ?

noahclem · January 12, 2011, 09:20:59 AM

Another beautiful update!

It's nice to see your work with a different set of tools. Both the rocks and water look great, though the water is a little depressing for most of what I choose to create. It makes me think "cloudy day" but there are certainly plenty of those in RL

pvarcoe · January 12, 2011, 09:23:45 AM

Wow, that is the best stream gorge detailing I've ever seen.
The rock and shale look great.
I am not a huge fan of the water color, but the ripple texture in it is very realistic.
Beautiful work Cedric, thanks for sharing with us!

rooker1 · January 12, 2011, 09:34:31 AM

Cedric, Cedric....Cedric.
Is there anything when it comes to SC4 that you are not a "Master" at?
You pain stakingly worked in LE and put together incredible cities for us and now you are making absolutely beautiful country/rural scenes!!

I love it all!

Robin

vnaoned · January 12, 2011, 09:37:39 AM

Beside water's colour I must admit that I'm a fan of what you've accomplished here... just great!
really stunning the level of reality is (as could say a little green man). The force as to be with you.

Girafe · January 12, 2011, 11:19:16 AM

Amazing pictures Cedric

It allows me to watch how looks like the trees. I am a little disappointed with them. Indeed the pines are too dark according to me however I can't make them brighter

.

Moreover it seems that the maples on the right side are darker than on the left side, I think it's due to the stages, you surely put smaller stages subconsciously. I don't know what to think about this...

Anyway these landscapes are just awesome.

Sciurus · January 12, 2011, 11:22:04 AM

UNBELIEVABLE!

Guillaume

Framly · January 12, 2011, 05:59:42 PM

Whoaaa..my eyes hurts (AWESOME!)

RickD · January 13, 2011, 02:14:13 AM

Looking ... closing eyes and breathing three times ... looking again ... no, sorry, still can't believe it.

silentbreaker · January 13, 2011, 02:59:25 AM

Awesome level of detail

I really like the first SC4 image with the bridge

Badsim · January 13, 2011, 05:06:45 AM

I agree , Sorchin's green water is too green ... and the blue one is too blue as well . Jeroni's transparent waters may be perfectly proper in most of the cases , but I dislike the way that , due to their LODs , we can't control that much the final look of our riversides ...

So let me experiment something .

This is latest Pegasus pond , coming with photo realistic Base Textures :

From there , I've created a test Lot «Water » , this one is a single tile one :

And on that second 2 tiles one , I've added something we'll speak about later ; driftwoods props from the latest MJB prop pack ...

Now , let me bring that experiment in game .

Before landscaping :

After landscaping :

The purpose of that experiment is of course to show you all that we need new ploppable waters using photo realistic textures . Being not a BATer , I'm not able to create this myself . But I hope to convince someone else to do so .

About driftwoods props , I love them so much that I've decided to learn how to make Mayor Mod ploppable items with them . I may request some help , but I want to do the job . Currently , I'm studing David's (Dedgren) tutorials but I have to confess that , mainly due to english language , I'm for the time being unable to understand the process enough to repeat it ... I'm just wondering if there's a simpler way to do that with PIM-X ? Time for me to learn the use that tool , I guess ...

Suggestions are welcome .

Antoine , you shouldn't worry that much about your trees by looking at my pictures as I use to add a light effect with PaintShopPro :

Otherwise , I don't touch to any other parameters like saturation , contrast ... trust me , Antoine , there're perfect !

Thank you for your enthusiast comments . Back to work , I'll see you later ...

Cédric.

Nardo69 · January 13, 2011, 07:57:41 AM

Interesting work and approach.

And I definitely agree that there's a need in better, at least more up to date water where Up to date means close to callagrafx' canals.

Coming from a different point "Der Gammler" on the simforum has started another approach to new ploppable water (I wasn't completely innocent on that ...

).

I really do look forward to lay my ol' mouse finger on both of them ...

Take care . and don't forget to make backups!

Bernhard

mightygoose · January 13, 2011, 08:12:28 AM

thats shiny.