Show us your Downtowns & CBD's!

[jacqulina]

wonderfull downtown excellent work

[meinhosen]

dudy and masochist, I'm envious.  In that respect, I guess it's time to show off a bit. 

I'm going to take pride in the fact that I've yet to share any of this city's pics before... and that I'm happy to unveil it here.

[bat]

Great work, meinhosen!!!


Here is an animation from my CJ at Simtropolis:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/4/347058/Capporth%20City_Animations/CC%20UPDATE%2006/CCU06.swf

[TheTeaCat]

 Meinhosen

Lovely job you've done there. 



Edit:


A few pics of the small but growing town center of Killumney.
hope you like





My goodness look at the time
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Nope tis time for Tea 
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[bat]

Great work, TheTeaCat!

[Alek King of SC4]

meinhosen those pics are great it looks very NY nice BAT selection

[jeronij]

Hi to all,

bat, the problem with the embebed flash has been solved, as you may notice  . What about a nice tutorial about how to make those incredible animations  ?¿

meinhosen, your pics do have something...not sure what, but the city looks excellent. Probably is the buildings you use, as Alek mentioned. Great job 

TTC, nothing against your building style, but against Maxis palms.... I hate them  !!!, there is a mod somewhere that removes them .... .  As a construtive criticism I would suggest you to build the different zones far from each other, specially the dirty industry. Try to copy what you see in real life, in you CJ. Of course, the game has tons of limitations, but you dont usually see R$$$  near dirty industries like in some of your pics  .

[TheTeaCat]

Jeronij

Thanks for your comments, they are always appreciated.

I agree about the palms they are going to go, its just a matter of time to get all the bits I had on my pc before the crash.

And it is helpful little remiders like yours that I realise what it was that was bugging me about those pics.


I'll put your Latte           just there. 

I agree in general about the different zones being further apart, but in some parts of Ireland and the UK you do find nowadays, due to lack of space that both mix together but slowly the industry is forced out to be relaced by very expensive appartments or shopping complexes.

I see a lot of this around where I live so in a way I am reflecting RL.

I am still terraforming the region I am presently working on but sometimes the urge to play takes over. Also a lot of these pics are me making sure the stuff in the plugins have all their respective dependencies.

And at the same time I'm putting in the main roads etc. Most of these zones will be drastically changed when I start building properly on the region


TTC

[Alfred.Jones]

Great work everyone!! These looks amazing, keep it up

[bat]

bat, the problem with the embebed flash has been solved, as you may notice  . What about a nice tutorial about how to make those incredible animations  ?¿

If I have enough time (perhaps in the winter holidays), I could make some tutorials for the animations...

Yes I see it is solved, thanks!!

[emilin]

So much good stuff around here! Ah, well, here's my contribution. There's no traffic in this pic, because I haven't turn the game time on yet. This area is still in development:

[TheTeaCat]

Very clean and tidy.

Thats a great way to show off that building in the centre. Nice open space to view it.
Looking forward to more

[bat]

Looks great, emilin!!

[Alfred.Jones]

Great work Emilin Keep it up

[Masochist]

Aiya!  I've been lurking too much, and I haven't commented on anyone's pictures yet, or said thanks for the comments I got for mine  !  I'm sorry...but this'll be a long comment, I guarantee:

Everyone: Thanks for your comments on my pictures!  It's very much appreciated, and a lot of the inspiration I have for posting more (and therefore going into SC4 and actually creating more to post...).

mjig_dudy: Nice culture clash you've made, there (with the Hong Kong buildings and the London Skyscraper peeking out from behind)...it looks good together!  I like the picture as a whole, because that water is kind of mysterious (because you don't see it), but you can look out over it.  Nice!

meinhosen: Awesome looking downtown!  I agree with AK, that's a very nice selection of BAT's you've decided to show, especially since I'm a big fan of JaWood's work.  And all the pictures are crisp and detailed, so it looks even better.  Nice bit of PS'ing you've done by adding that rain, as well!

bat: I'm jealous, because I can't make animations!  Your's looks great, though!  Good timing, too; it gives us time to take in each picture.  And about the pictures, I really like that park from the first and last pics (I'm assuming they're the same one), and that parking lot from the third picture would satiate even aaronperry from ST.  Good work, I hope to see more of those some day!

TheTeaCat: Nice looking area!  Those diagonal buildings surrounding the road look great, and in fact I think they'd make a good centerpiece for the area, you know?  And I wish I knew how to use roundabouts effectively in my cities, but I don't, because I live in America, and no one in America really knows how to use roundabouts...(...that was a joke...).  But you use them well.  Good job!  (P. S., nice suburbs, there...)

emilin: I don't think I've ever seen that centerpiece building before, it's very interesting.  I love those Sunken Malls, just because they add another visible dimension to cities.  I also like that mall next to the seashore.  I'd love to see a wider shot of this area, because it looks fanastic from what I see.  Nice work!


(Geez, that felt like it should be in the "Rate One Image" thread at ST...that's usually how my posts there look).  So I should post here a lot more often than I do, but I do look at every single picture, and I really like what I see!  Not that that means much, but it's just good to know that there is a lot of talent here.  Keep 'em coming, please (although I really can't do that much...)!

[bat]

Thanks for the great comment (@ all)!

[emilin]

The centerpiece building is just Maxis Gugenheim landmark, but I like it anyway.

[NikNik]

Some of the Maxis stuff is not bad so we do not have to frown upon it.
This is a great way of showing the quality of that Maxis buidling. I like that one Emilin.

Nik-Nik

[TheTeaCat]

I usually hide the landmark buildings using a mod to clear the ingame menus and forget just how good some of Maxis stuff is.
I just didn't recognise it

But you display it in a great way

a few pics of a small cbd still under development.






Hope you like

[Alfred.Jones]

That looks great TheTeaCat! Nice use of Marrast's walls, it makes it look awesome Keep it up