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Themistokles City Gallery: A Tropical Idea

Started by Themistokles, December 26, 2015, 02:01:22 AM

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compdude787

Wow, awesome city and shoreline!!! Great work. :thumbsup:
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kbieniu7

Very good! As I said, I really like the slope work, especially this curve near the railway station. And how you've fit a tram stop near the roundabout :p
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feyss

Awesome pictures. The train station looks very realistic and I also like your roundabout. Your transit map on your previous post also looks great :thumbsup:

Mandarin(a)

Oh, that beach is so small, I can't imagine being there during holiday season  :D
Great pictures!

art128

I just realized I really forgot to comment your MD despite having seen the update when it was released...

The map was interesting that's for sure. I've never seen such a map done before.

The way you mix different retaining walls, castle walls, seawalls altogether create a great effect in your city. The parking of the station is seriously impressive. And of course that roundabout is a masterpiece.
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wallasey

That roundabout looks fantastic...almost Shared Space for SC4!!

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noahclem

Beautiful work here! The way you work with slopes and this style of wall-to-wall and older bats is a source of inspiration for me. Love your use of prepo's lots and your vnaoned station re-lot  &apls

Themistokles

Thank you for all your comments! I really appreciate reading them. :) Thank you also for your suggestions, feedback and criticism.

Today we're finally going to climb the hill to the university, the big, modern-looking building lending St Edmea the flair (and sometimes also the boisterousness) of a university town. But first and foremost,


Quote from: vester on May 04, 2016, 06:02:27 AM
Really nice work.

Would love to see you work on the embankment. As its now, its a bit bare.

Love the area around the station and the roundabout.
Thank you! Enriching the embankments wasn't quite as easy as I had anticipated, and thus they're still in their original state of bareness. Since they are lots plopped with a slope underneath, any props or mmp's plopped onto them appear cut in half. The alternative is offset trees, of which there isn't very many (and would mean that I'd have to relot every of JENX's embankment lots, which are indeed quite numerous in the town :D). Anyway, thank you for the comment and the suggestion!

Quote from: Simmer2 on May 04, 2016, 08:37:19 AM
Fantastic work!!  &apls &apls
Many thanks! :)

Quote from: vortext on May 04, 2016, 09:12:14 AM
With these kind of quality updates I for one don't mind the wait!   :thumbsup:

Now, though I like the uniform texture throughout the city you might want to consider breaking it up here-and-there, if only because I don't think many parents will set their children loose in a playground with a concrete surface!  ;)

Also agreed the embankments could do with a little more attention, however, the mosaic proves there's plenty of detail elsewhere so I'm confident it's just a matter of time before they'll be up to par. Besides, the gorgeous rock shoreline and stunning little beach already make for excellent scenery!  &apls

Finally, I'd love to see an overview of the city some time, JENX' castle foundation offers me some reference in that regard though I'm still puzzling how it fits altogether with previous update.  :D

Thanks! Haha, I hope your words hold true, because this time there was a wait indeed! :D You're quite right about the pavement – a paved-over playground is indeed a horrendous thought. Various fractures and skull injuries come to mind. I'm glad you saved the children of St Edmea from this fate. Due to the playground itself being mmp'd but on three sides surrounded by lots with pavement texture I haven't broken up as much pavement as I would've liked to, but your comment inspired me to the design of the Bayerischer Platz, which I show in this update, where the sand takes a much bigger part of the surface.

I sneaked in an overview at the end of this update. :) Thank you for the comment!

Quote from: Kergelen on May 04, 2016, 10:53:52 AM
I like the combination between xannepan walls and tram-on-road, and the use of diferent walls in general.
Nice work on the close-ups and city details. I like the location of the playground also &apls

Thanks, glad you liked it! :) Only the best location for the children. ;)

Quote from: Vizoria on May 04, 2016, 02:30:53 PM
Yet more great pictures. You really are working them textures!
Thank you! I'm really happy the roundabout came out well, it was my first big texture work. ()stsfd()

Quote from: manga rivotra on May 04, 2016, 09:56:31 PM
You are a trully master with Xanepan wall and rocky MMP !  :o
Again, a very inspiring work, still full of details and great ideas !......and this roundabout................  &apls &apls &apls
Thanks! When you speak about mmp's, that means a lot. :)

Quote from: Akallan on May 05, 2016, 02:23:44 AM
I love, your cities are always very realistic and well planned. It is a pleasure to follow your page, the quality is still there! :thumbsup:
Thank you! In this update I took some inspiration from your mmp forests in Creek Neliah when I mmp'd the edge of the forest behind the university. :)

Quote from: compdude787 on May 05, 2016, 02:49:13 PM
Wow, awesome city and shoreline!!! Great work. :thumbsup:
Thanks a lot! :)

Quote from: kbieniu7 on May 06, 2016, 06:58:04 AM
Very good! As I said, I really like the slope work, especially this curve near the railway station. And how you've fit a tram stop near the roundabout :p
Thanks! Yes, I managed to squeeze it in there but it did require some unorthodox problem-solving... ;D

Quote from: Uzil on May 06, 2016, 05:53:55 PM
Really impressive !
Thanks a lot! I'm really happy to see you here, your MD was part of my staple reading diet when I was new to the community. :)

Quote from: korver on May 06, 2016, 06:37:15 PM
That roundabout..  ;D

Fantastic work so far!
Thank you! :)

Quote from: feyss on May 09, 2016, 06:21:20 AM
Awesome pictures. The train station looks very realistic and I also like your roundabout. Your transit map on your previous post also looks great :thumbsup:
Thanks!  :)

Quote from: Mandarin(a) on May 09, 2016, 09:59:38 AM
Oh, that beach is so small, I can't imagine being there during holiday season  :D
Great pictures!
Nope, me neither $%Grinno$% There is a (only slightly larger) beach outside St Edmea, also, just to relieve the pressure on the hot summer days. :D Thanks!

Quote from: art128 on June 07, 2016, 11:57:43 AM
I just realized I really forgot to comment your MD despite having seen the update when it was released...

The map was interesting that's for sure. I've never seen such a map done before.

The way you mix different retaining walls, castle walls, seawalls altogether create a great effect in your city. The parking of the station is seriously impressive. And of course that roundabout is a masterpiece.
That's a lot of compliments :o      :D Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Quote from: wallasey on June 18, 2016, 08:26:32 AM
That roundabout looks fantastic...almost Shared Space for SC4!!
Thank you! Yes, almost... At least a very well needed step in that direction! :)

Quote from: vinlabsc3k on June 21, 2016, 03:48:37 AM
Your MD is outstanding!! &apls &apls &apls
Thanks! :)

Quote from: noahclem on July 17, 2016, 01:37:37 PM
Beautiful work here! The way you work with slopes and this style of wall-to-wall and older bats is a source of inspiration for me. Love your use of prepo's lots and your vnaoned station re-lot  &apls
Thanks a lot! I came into custom content after most of these BATs had already been created, so almost all bats are of indefinite age (i.e. created before I knew there were any at all :D ). Glad you like it! :)


   VI: University of St Edmea
After having arrived to the railway station in St Edmea, as most newcomers to the city do, either by bus or by train, the many tourists do as tourists mostly do: They look where the locals go and trot along, at least as long as they seem to be going in the likely direction of the centre of town. In St Edmea this otherwise commonsensical behaviour is the cause of considerable confusion.

Having crossed the roundabout on the station square, most locals walk along the tram-laden road above which the big fortress towers. This is indeed a spectacular sight, one of many in the town, but having walked only a few metres, the newcomers will suddenly find themselves alone, abandoned by the locals whose lead they thought they were following. Most assume they have somehow seeped into the walls and this is the source of many a tourist legend, but it is indeed not as far from the truth as most outsiders presume.


1.

Dotted along the buildings facing the left side of the street are small passageways of the kind that in the lands south of the Alps go under the name of sotoporteghi. These small passages lead to an inner courtyard, from which a stair rises to the Bayerischer Platz, or Bavarian Square, but which because of this myth is more commonly known as Verschwundenplatz, or "Gone!" place. This is, in short, a short-cut to the university and the university part of town, the goal of most disappearing locals – and Bayrischer Platz is where most people go to buy the latest local magazines.


2.

Bayrischer Platz is the home of the St Edmea press. The big, almost brutalist brown structure towering above it is the headquarters of the local newspaper, constructed when the paper and its national ambitions were at their zenith. Compared to many other smaller newspapers it is still faring reasonably well, but its own predictions concerning its future outreach have been forced to acquire more realistic proportions, and with them also its office space. Today, only two of the building's vast floors are occupied by journalistic activities, the rest being rented to local upstart businesses.


3.

The university is perched on the highest cliff in St Edmea, with breathtaking views on all sides. It is on par or, according to some sources, a few decimetres higher than the castle itself, for many signifying the higher standing of the modern, enlightened St Edmea over its defensive and sometimes violent past.


4.

Divided into one big lecture hall – rather spectacular with its glass roof – and one wing filled with laboratories and smaller rooms for researchers, with a few interspersed smaller lecture rooms, the university is very small, filling only one building. It specialises in alpine ecology, and has therefore been able to attract both students and researchers from the whole world, that is, despite its humble size.

Along the south side of the university building, the one facing directly towards the steep edge, runs narrow terraces, crammed during lunchtime. From here one has one of the best views in the whole of St Edmea, seeing the big roundabout and the old rail yard, and beyond it the Jagdhafen and the sea.


5.

Passing by we see a veteran steam train, that operates on the old railway up into the Alps. Popular among tourists it is the gem of the St Edmea Steam Train Association, der St Edmea Dampfzugverein, that keeps this rolling piece of history operating.


6.

Taking the stairs down and we're soon back on the Bayrischer Platz and shortly thereafter on the station square, where we began our walk – this time hopefully somewhat less confused as to where the locals disappear. ;)

Before we finish, I want to show you, as requested, an overview over the parts of St Edmea that we've covered as yet. (Water bug... ()testing() :D )

7.

And... that was it for this time. Next update, where we'll stroll down into the port and among the more modern apartment towers (well, they aren't that big, only big for St Edmea ;) ) and eventually leave St Edmea to hit the road again, onwards to new adventures. But that's for next time.

As always, your comments, thoughts, feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated. Bis dann, see you around! :bye:
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Wow, wow wow.
I love that overview, what water mod are you using? It looks great!
I love the selection of buildings, and the transport infrastructure; it's so well integrated.
And your MMP work is just exquisite, not only in the classic vegetation area, but also in all of the paths and detail - everything is just so detailed!
Keep it all up! :)

Krasner

I especially like your custom lots, they are stunning  :o
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Akallan

Oh my god ... :shocked2:

It's amazing the work that is done! michae95l very well summarized the situation, and I find that the heights of transitions are excellent (especially in the first frame).
Your custom lots are great too! Strongly next update! :popcorn: &apls
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feyss

Oh, I missed this last update.

Amazing work here. I really like the layout and the MMP work  :thumbsup:

Vizoria

The roundabout in the first picture is fabulous! Great work. I can't believe I missed this entry.

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manga rivotra

Excellent work with MMP !  :o
I love the way you play with the landscape : the slopes are very gentle and natural, specialy the rail line on the last mosaic which fit perfectly with the hill.
Another great update !  &apls &apls &apls

Simmer2

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kbieniu7

Haven't commented there...

You do a great job with adding such single places and squares, each with each own character. Like a creating small, but very lively maquette. And the overall look is excellent! No grid on a rocky hillside  :thumbsup:
Thank you for visiting Kolbrów, and for being for last ten years!