re: seeing pictures in a post

[reble]

In the original post (Tutorial)   http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=11555.0 [EDIT]PHP session ID removed - Andreas[/EDIT] from Daeley. The following lines of text bellow makes reference to some pictures. But I don't see the pictures.

A large portion of water is blocking the edges of your city. Since SC4 doesn't allow you to drag a bridge we'll have to find another way to connect over water. Fortunately, with a few tricks, this is possible! Not just neighbor connections, but also diagonals and intersections!

Step 1: Download the file attached to this post and unzip it, but do NOT put the files in your plugins.

picture here

Step 2: The picture above. When you are sure your land topology is how you want it, save and exit the game. It will be slightly harder to do some landscaping later on.

Step 3: Put the file "zero sealevel.dat" into your plugins. This will remove the seawater so we can draw our network where there should have been water. Then, for each network you want to tackle, put the "xxx zeroslope.dat" into your plugins. They may conflict with other plugins (like slope mods) so make sure they load last by putting them in a folder starting with some z's, for example Plugins/zzz_temp.
When you enter the game again, the city looks like this:

picture here. I think there is a few more pictures missing

When we try to draw a network now, the game will keep it entirely flat instead of letting it follow the terrain.



For small heights the game will build retaining walls, for bigger heights, the game will build pylons.



To create a neighbor connection, first draw the network all the way to the edge...



... then draw again to the edge and you'll be offered the opportunity to create a neighbor connection.



You can also draw diagonals and some intersections.



Step 4: When you are happy with the results, Save & Exit and remove all the temporary files again from your plugins. When you return to the game, the water will be back and roads will behave normally again.

the final results

[Andreas]

You might have noticed that this thread is about seven years old now, and the pictures have been deleted from the webspace that daeley was using. Unfortunately, this happens all the time, even the most popular image hosters (such as ImageShack and Photobucket a few years ago) disappear or change their policies about free image hosting. Since daeley isn't an active user anymore since quite a while, it is unlikely that the problem can be fixed, unless someone else has a copy of those images.