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你好 everyone and Welcome to the Whale's Christchurch ;D
The city was built in the Christchurch region, which was created by the NHP team and i have made some modification.
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yeah.. you see i just take advantage of the terrain of real world Christchurch, and the city in game, was totally depended on my willing.
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This project was probably started in Sep. 2008, when i just leart how to work out my custom plugins by LE.
and thanks to my laziness and lack of ideas, the construction of Christchurch comes slooooowly during these years.
but i always wanna share my best pics to everyone who loves this game, and can't wait to upload when i found a nice one in my city.
As the downtown area of whale's christchurch "Ellesmere" is nearly 80% complete and my chosen image hosting website deleted almost all my upload pics (a 100 days storage limited, not metioned in their policy), i want to get a new fresh start here and collect all my released pics together.
so i decide to start my MD.
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The first upload is a district named "Ellesmere" -- the heart of Whale's Christchurch, major habitation and commercial area of this city.
you may see some w2w buildings, small apartment blocks, parks, colleage and a railway system.
tip: all the pics you saw are the resized version. friends who saw my pics before would know, that i prefer huge size mosaics.
i will put the link of the original pic below the resize one, you can see more details from the original.
all the pieces of mosaics were captured at zoom 4, and the full resolution come up to thousands x thousands(the same level or even larger).
and because of my lack at lauguage, i can't give full description for each pic or city's history, or bad gramma makes words twist.
all you can do is see the photos, and ignore what i said %confuso
#1 will become the content for further developments and updating below, the city's pics were posted from 2#.
So let's begin the journey in the Christchurch, Ellesmere. and wish everybody just enjoy my pics.
Please be free to post your reply, if you like them, come up with suggestion, or criticism..
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so let's start at Christchurch's central railway station.
the central railway station was a heavy-rail terminal and a transfer metro station.
the platforms of station were underground and trains turnover through some tunnels.
the pic was captured in Sep. 2009, when the city's heavy-rail system have not been electrified yet.
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and a night shot, too.
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besides the central railway station, there is a elevated terminal. yeah.. i like its lovely yellow light.
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those old w2w buildings... late at night, no passerby, just disconsolate lights.
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hotel hilton near the rail station and the passenger port.
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another view of the elevated terminal. see the big guy at right side? it's Christchurch museum. you can pay a visit there to find the city's history.
but i haven't been there yet :-[
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old w2w buildings behind a office dom
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an "airscape" night shot of the area metioned before.
now it turned a daytime.
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a shot of railyard behind the central staion. you can see there was no electrization on the railway. but a year later, you'll find catenaries are set.
now this is today, and come back tomorrow.
thanks for your patience to see these pics, and if you like them, or any suggestion please post some words to let me know.
on schedule, tomorrow it will come up with some looong mosaics.
Awesome start, really fantastic!!! &apls &apls &apls
I am liking the look of this a lot...your commercial heart is really good! It just seems to work. Well done!
Really fantastic work here, Whale. I've seen tidbits of your work before in other threads, but now that you have a full blown MD, I can't wait to see some more pictures.
Great work here, my friend.
Ethan :)
Wow, this a simply amazing MD! &aplsIt looks fantastic! I hope this last a long time! I cant wait for more! :thumbsup:
,marsh :thumbsup:
This is great! I love Ellesmere! Where did you get the elevated rail station? It looks so cool!
-Jordan :thumbsup:
Whoa, fantastic start! I'll be keeping my eye on this one!
some reply first:
Quote from: Tomas Neto on May 23, 2010, 08:23:38 AM
Awesome start, really fantastic!!! &apls &apls &apls
Quote from: wallasey on May 23, 2010, 11:00:06 AM
I am liking the look of this a lot...your commercial heart is really good! It just seems to work. Well done!
Quote from: ecoba on May 23, 2010, 12:23:17 PM
Really fantastic work here, Whale. I've seen tidbits of your work before in other threads, but now that you have a full blown MD, I can't wait to see some more pictures.
Great work here, my friend.
Ethan :)
well thank you man~
@ecoba: yeah you're right, since i said at 1#, these pics once released in "show us your..." threads,
but now they're already not avaliable.
and you know, all those pics above were taken in 2009, and addon my poor photoshopping skill... so,... they look strange somehow..
those pics below will be much better i think :D
Quote from: marsh on May 23, 2010, 05:32:58 PM
Wow, this a simply amazing MD! &aplsIt looks fantastic! I hope this last a long time! I cant wait for more! :thumbsup:
,marsh :thumbsup:
Quote from: canyonjumper on May 23, 2010, 09:46:21 PM
This is great! I love Ellesmere! Where did you get the elevated rail station? It looks so cool!
-Jordan :thumbsup:
Quote from: Haljackey on May 23, 2010, 10:50:25 PM
Whoa, fantastic start! I'll be keeping my eye on this one!
yeah.. i hope the MD will last a long time. but i'm not quite sure about this july, that because i will graduate from my university and move forward to my job.
so i have no idea whether i get free to make some update at that time.
@jumper: well, you can get the elevated station with some other great stuff here (http://yaplog.jp/waldorf/category_11/). good luck my friend :thumbsup:
thanks alot for your replies :thumbsup: and wish you love these following pics :thumbsup:
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The photo was taken in Jan. 2010. and you can get a overview of ellesmere that time. full resolution is 5300x6860, i'm afraid the hosting website would refuse the request.
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do you like the shoreline?
someone said the beach seems from another world :D :D
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a statue of christchurch. mother russian? probable.. the season was winter.. leaves left on the groud..
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a birdview of R$ apartments, which located at the foot of the moutain.
A few of these shots seem quite familiar (picture competition ::)) But that's no problem since their quality is so high I'm quite simply staggered. Your other shots are also of a very high level. And, I don't know wether you've ever been to Europe, but it comes very close to a real European city.
Take care and I can't wait to see more!
Xander
PS: I'm actually quite glad you started an MD here.
I love the pictures.
Quote from: WC_EEND on May 24, 2010, 04:34:36 AM
A few of these shots seem quite familiar (picture competition ::)) But that's no problem since their quality is so high I'm quite simply staggered. Your other shots are also of a very high level. And, I don't know wether you've ever been to Europe, but it comes very close to a real European city.
Take care and I can't wait to see more!
Xander
PS: I'm actually quite glad you started an MD here.
thanks xander :thumbsup:
come back after dinner :D
yep, those pics were released and whale wanna thank you again that you still remember my pics far away from nowaday..
and among your words i read you had a little disappointment about those familiar.. nevermind
new photos come out right now :thumbsup:
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this one is a total overview of ellesmere. sorry for my poor PS skill, some tall buildings seemed toppling down :-[
well i just want to make a perspective effect, it looks well at first sight, but you cannot observe this one for a long time, cuz it lost so many details :thumbsdown:
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well this one.
you can see the tall building which i considered the city gov. edifice, and the city hall sit beside him.
stanples center? yeah you're right, the mayor is a LA Laker's fun and he wish the team can play a game at Christchurch with his locale team :D
well that's the first mosaic
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the second one~
you'll see lots of familiar stuff in old pics.
but feel new and fresh, isn't it?
cuz it's summer time :D
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the third one~
from the top down you can see the old Christchurch university, Christchurch central library and central plaza, the so called CBD area and some bridges.
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forth.
a small lake, an unique roundabout, and a railway system~
I just had dinner, and here are some more great pictures. I don't know why, but your Md always seems to inspire me to build cities in a way that had never crossed my mind before (like using that suspension bridge in that way). Also, those are some of the most realistic mosaics I've ever seen. Looking at those pictures, I can alsmost feel the atmosphere of a real city.
On a side note: instead of posting after yourself, you could also use the "edit" button.
take care
Xander
A W E S O M E ! ! ! &apls &apls &apls
UAU. Very, very nice work. Fantastic :thumbsup:
Quote from: WC_EEND on May 24, 2010, 07:55:14 AM
I just had dinner, and here are some more great pictures. I don't know why, but your Md always seems to inspire me to build cities in a way that had never crossed my mind before (like using that suspension bridge in that way). Also, those are some of the most realistic mosaics I've ever seen. Looking at those pictures, I can alsmost feel the atmosphere of a real city.
On a side note: instead of posting after yourself, you could also use the "edit" button.
take care
Xander
thanks again and i'm proud my pics could give your new originality :thumbsup:
unfortunately i have never been aboard, even in my dreams. but i like to travel by google earth :D a fast and inexpensive way :thumbsup:
i like Paris, for it's ideal appearance and virescence. so i'd like to make my christchurch like that, too.
Quote from: Tomas Neto on May 24, 2010, 07:55:53 AM
A W E S O M E ! ! ! &apls &apls &apls
T H A N K Y O U V E R Y M U C H ! ! ! :D :D :D
well there are still some more pics today,
so let's continue.
you'll feel hard to learn this:
all these 4 mosaics were cut in one pic. the one i made a total overview above. the full resolution of the biggest one is 10450x8716.
sorry i can't upload this, for no websites would apply this upload request.
i captured the screemshot at nealy all the airspace of ellesmere in zoom4 and put them together in photoshop.
but i'll say, the photoshopping was not the worst things i did during these days, but the capturing was.
you know.. i got an ati hd3470 graphic card in my notebook, and i wanna full rendered shadow when i print screem.
everyone knows that ati card fit unfriendly with the game,
so.. my game turned down to the PowerPoint, and nearly 15 seconds refresh a new frame.
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since those mosaics were pieces of a big one, i'm afraid some stuff would be cut such as plaza, park or railyards..
so i re-slice up again.
in this pic you'll figure out the buildings near the central station and railyard #1. the heavy rail system has electrization already.
i modified the Catenaries mod by plunder with some prop iid changes. special thanks
plunder and
smtfrank who help me with the technical issues.
so now you see these catenaries are rectilineal like elevated rail one. because in china we used to see these catenaries instead of a curved one..
and this one:
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focus on the "CBD" %confuso
though it just have 3 "skycrapers"
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i really like this roundabout.
the idea to create this came out oneday i was watching Paris in google earth with my friends.
and the small railyard #2, too.
besides the rail yard, there is a locomotive museum right there. french locomotives?? yeah.. there was a exhibition of French locomotive. do you know Alston?
and do not ask the question like this: how did you drive those locos into your museum??? %confuso %confuso %confuso
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Christchurch university and central labrary, plaza.
it would be a nice place for boys and girls fall in love with.. cuz there are too many trees.
and my friend pay a lot interest on the strange roundabout, he asked me:"i wonder how people come inside to the little plaza of the roundabout.."
i: "... ... ..."
and the finally pic today:
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hilton, intersection, passenger port, central station and some downtowm area.
wish you have fun with my pics, good night everyone :thumbsup:
new pics would come several days later %confuso
HOLY S***!
Amazing.This will probably my favorite MD. &apls
Awesome stuff! I like your CC and your roundabout ideas ;D
-Jordan :thumbsup:
Nihao fellow Chinese SC4 fan! :)
I live in China too, in Shanghai, and I just wanted to tell you that your city and the way you present it in your pics is just stunning! I also really like the contrast in your pics that really makes the buildings etc. really stand out and not just look like flat images.
You obviously take a lot of care and pride in the way you build your cities and the way you like to display them and that's what really sets your MD apart from a lot of others.
Well done and keep up the good work! Can't wait to see more! :thumbsup:
Mark
(British)
:o :o superbe &apls i'm late but i like very much the first pictures of your MD, your city is beautifull so far :thumbsup:
Donkey love W2W ;D
Just amazing work here, my friend. Ellesmere really is a beautiful city. :)
Ethan
This is amazing work here &apls &apls
,marsh :thumbsup:
Truly a masterpiece &apls
Wow, fantastic work once again!
Question: how did you get the asphalt highway texture to apply to your trumpet interchange in the last pic in your last update?
&apls Fantastic
well sorry my friends, i'm late for the comments.
and sorry again no new pics at this time ;D
replies:
@Neofita, canyonjumper, planetechef, T9Express, ecoba, marsh and Orange_o_,
thanks a lot my friends~ i'm so glad you love my pics and my city :P
@Panda_Power
thanks my friend~ and what a cute panda :D
so i guess you're a british now living/working in shanghai. it's a huge and ablare city isn't it :D
and i hope you already can speak chinese now :D
just like you said in your reply, i like those w2w buildings more than these edifices, but as you said, without them, the city would look flat.
@Haljackey,
hi there, i wanna thank you for your sharpe eyes, but i'd say sorry for disappoint you, that the old asphalt highway doesn't affect the nam interchanges you know, so the image you saw is a photoshop work. i'm sorry man :-[
but i do like the old asphalt mod's grey color and once i opened the old&new version of this mod and wanna see the contrast between them. and then i found it was beyond my power to make the old apply the new interchanges in the original way %confuso
so i had to turn to PS to make it happen :-[
Awesome work! Everything is so realistic and great-looking! The network layout is very nice as well. Can't wait for more pics!
Awesome work ! i like the seawalls and the sistem transport &apls &apls
You're certainly off to some awards ! As Ioan said everything looks so realistic my friend, nice work ! That last mosaic is really my favorite !
-Arthur. :thumbsup:
Where did you find that sidewalk texture? I can't find it :'(
Did you make angle bricks default base for all objects, instead of maxis white base texture? If so how did you do it? I wan't to learn. ?$%kar&%h
早上好 everyone :thumbsup:
whale's back again.
of couse comments come first %BUd%
Quote from: io_bg on May 27, 2010, 09:21:01 AM
Awesome work! Everything is so realistic and great-looking! The network layout is very nice as well. Can't wait for more pics!
Quote from: kelis on May 28, 2010, 06:30:00 AM
Awesome work ! i like the seawalls and the sistem transport &apls &apls
Quote from: art128 on May 28, 2010, 09:52:54 AM
You're certainly off to some awards ! As Ioan said everything looks so realistic my friend, nice work ! That last mosaic is really my favorite !
-Arthur. :thumbsup:
thanks a lot my friends :thumbsup:
yeah.. i'm trying to make these pics look real, and i'm so glad you noticed about that ;D
and the new pics come below right now~
Quote from: swashbuckler on May 29, 2010, 08:41:22 AM
Where did you find that sidewalk texture? I can't find it :'(
Did you make angle bricks default base for all objects, instead of maxis white base texture? If so how did you do it? I wan't to learn. ?$%kar&%h
well please stop crying my friend :) let's figure it out.
there must be not only one way to make it happen, but i just show my way.
you're right, this is angled bricks texture by Deadwoods, i just made some color change and rebuilt a .dat texture file with the instance ID range from 4da44600~4da44604. yes, the bsc parks texture's IID. ←this is the first step.
usually i'm used to open LE to modify those Lots with new base textures, and except that, i often add some extra props on the Lots, too. such as: porkissimo trees, etc.
i think you would already know how to change textures in LE. just remember if you wanna make your own texture, gave them a particular instance id and keep it in mind.
you'll quote it in your LE or in other development tools.
if you just wanna to change Lots' base texture without other modification, and you have the target texture's IID, that won't be necessary to open LE, an reader is avaliable.
open target Lot in ilive reader, and check exemplar file with "LotConfigPropertyLotObjectData". please notice the first HEX value, if it is "0x00000002", that means this object is a texture. we get total 13 different values in this data, and the last one is texture's IID. you can replace the texture iid value with the target one.
and i'm confused about how to differentiate the base texture and overlay texture by those value. so till now, i can modify texture this way only when this Lot doesn't contain an overlay texture..
i just made all lots' textures point to 4da44600, that comes the result as you all seen. and oneday, if i wanna change a new texture, simply create a new one with the iid above, and all city's textures would change at once.
and if you want to unite all game base textures in one, except Lots' textures, you should also build your own sidewalk textures. you can learn from released sidewalk mods such as SMP sidewalk Mod.
would those words help you? %confuso %confuso
Quote from: mong0ose on May 29, 2010, 09:50:57 AM
It is realistic as if it sees the photograph and it looks better your that is careful.
So, affection feels in city ;D
Also, there are a lot of points that diagonal space practical use excels and learns in your picture. &apls
I will refer to this thing. ;D
well it is a little difficult to catch your words at once. but i assumably understand finally :thumbsup:
thanks a lot :thumbsup:
your signature is oriental and just like home :thumbsup:
after the comments, new pics come out below. do you like night pieces? well they're not "night" actually :-[ :-[
i don't know whether the game renders shadow at the night sight. but i turned it off for an easier capture operation.
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railway system, elevated rail, roundabout, little lake and etc. please ignore the polish office, which is a dark night model.
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a big Carrefour, college and dormitory complex, labrary, museum, and the so called CBD again.
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stations, central area and shoreline...
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interchange, and the statue.
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staple centre, city hall, gov edifice and a small port.
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the central area of Ellesmere
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sorry for this huge one!
the skydrive refused to make a Thumbnail, just a pic logo which contains a cyberlink to the original pic.
please just press the picture logo to continue.
i'm sorry about this too.
and this is the last pic today~~
wish you love them :party: :party:
&apls &apls &apls Beautiful
Whale keep going please $%Grinno$%
well
Too slow to build is your problem. :P
I definitely love it. Outstanding work, Whale! &apls &apls
thanks you all for your replies so quickly :thumbsup:
i'm glad you lovin them.
thank you Tiger, lazy fox and io_bg :thumbsup:
but now i facing a little problem down here:
just how to make up a Contents with table and cyberlink %confuso %confuso %confuso
You know what? When I see posts like your last one, I get a little upset with myself because you remind me that I can't really play the game.
Fantastic work. It took me almost an hour to go over those full resolution pics, which BTW I suggest everyone does. Absolutely breath taking!
As for the table of contents, it's rather easy.
Set up the table how you want it to look and I would suggest you do this in your first post.
Now if you click on the title of the post you wish to link you'll get a url in the address bar, copy this.
For example you last post is.....
http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=10924.msg328638#msg328638
If you wrap that with [url ][/url] (third button in the second row) you'll get a link to that post. (I added those spaces so it wouldn't hyperlink, take out the spaces)
If you do this [url =add link here]write a description here[/url] you'll get a link to that post that looks like this. (I added those spaces so it wouldn't hyperlink, take out the spaces)
your last post (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=10924.msg328638#msg328638)
I hope that made sense and helps you. If you have any more questions, feel free to PM myself or any other staff member.
Again....awesome update! &apls
Robin :thumbsup:
Wow, just amazing, my friend. You have created just a beautiful city, and it just shows me the possbilities this game has. :)
Ethan
Very cool, I like the use of the double height monorail (bullet train) through for a long span.
My only complaint is that the images are a bit too dark. If they were brighter we would be able to see come more colour and detail.
Amazing..........Simply amazing........... :shocked2:
Thanks for reply fighter_jingyu. I will try to make sidewalk with angle bricks, but I am really a noob and I don't know nothing about LE or Ilive Reader. ()what()
Btw this is one of my favorite MD. &apls
I really love it, once more lovely work, although, as Haljackey stated, some of the pictures are a bit too dark. but other than that they're just magnificent &apls &apls
Xander
This is honestly the best W2W development I've ever seen.
This is almost TOO realistic. AWESOME work!
well comments only today ;D
thanks to you all for your enthusiasm :thumbsup:
Quote from: rooker1 on June 01, 2010, 04:36:24 AM
You know what? When I see posts like your last one, I get a little upset with myself because you remind me that I can't really play the game.
Fantastic work. It took me almost an hour to go over those full resolution pics, which BTW I suggest everyone does. Absolutely breath taking!
As for the table of contents, it's rather easy.
Again....awesome update! &apls
Robin :thumbsup:
come on my friend~
thanks robin, and thank you for the introductions as well!
during these days, as the release of Cities XL and its company finally broke down, i strongly believe that our old Simcity 4 would never die.
i love this game as everyone here does &bis&
since we have so many outstanding plugin-makers and development teams who uninterruptedly bring us exciting stuff for years.
so i wanna thank YOU for your devotion, the plugins creators, the SC4D and you staff members who make our cities a better place~
well.. and i always think the PS effects make up most of my pics..and if i take off those color levels, color balance and pic layers effects, the pic would look the same as others. i mean, maybe just those a little PS skill and the larger size make the pics difference.
Quote from: ecoba on June 01, 2010, 05:42:26 AM
Wow, just amazing, my friend. You have created just a beautiful city, and it just shows me the possbilities this game has. :)
Ethan
Quote from: Haljackey on June 01, 2010, 07:35:57 AM
Very cool, I like the use of the double height monorail (bullet train) through for a long span.
My only complaint is that the images are a bit too dark. If they were brighter we would be able to see come more colour and detail.
Quote from: WC_EEND on June 01, 2010, 11:38:33 AM
I really love it, once more lovely work, although, as Haljackey stated, some of the pictures are a bit too dark. but other than that they're just magnificent &apls &apls
Xander
well thanks for comments my friends :D
well... as you said, i also feel it's a little too dark to see details..
but when talking with one of my friends, he said: "is that a night sight? i think it just a little darker than your daylight. can i say it's a sunset?"
so.. i had to keep the color level, and abandon to make them brighter..
Quote from: swashbuckler on June 01, 2010, 10:12:59 AM
Thanks for reply fighter_jingyu. I will try to make sidewalk with angle bricks, but I am really a noob and I don't know nothing about LE or Ilive Reader. ()what()
Btw this is one of my favorite MD. &apls
i'm glad you understood my looog words :D or not %confuso
thanks for selection my MD as one of your favorite ;D
btw: if you wanna make custom sidewalks, reader or SC4Tools are basic tools which you have to make use of.
Quote from: graesloek on June 01, 2010, 11:56:17 AM
This is honestly the best W2W development I've ever seen.
This is almost TOO realistic. AWESOME work!
thanks my friend :thumbsup: i'll try my best to make it lasts a long time.
new pics....... well.. maybe come period of time later..
cuz i'm now under graduate, these days would be a little busy.
sorry about that ???
Wow, that's a really good CJ :)
Those mosaics are simply outstanding! Great work here. &apls &apls &apls
,marsh :thumbsup:
Keep going, whale ;D
Renne
Great MD. &apls
It really take a SC whiz and genius to come up with something like what you did in your last update. Those are some of the best pictures I have ever seen taken in-game, and the work with photoshop just enhances them. Simply stunning.
Can you please upload your pictures somewhere else, I can't see them :'(
yeah.. come for comments today "$Deal"$
@Skimbo; marsh; Bobbi; nbvc; nedalezz;
thanks a lot my friends :thumbsup:
and sorry no new pics this time as i had said above.
and special thank to nedalezz for your special words :thumbsup: but it seems overpraised anyway. thank you ;D
Quote from: CrossSide on June 07, 2010, 04:39:41 PM
Can you please upload your pictures somewhere else, I can't see them :'(
well i wonder you cannot see all the pictures or just the last full resolution one?
so far i know the last full resolution picture's link broke down somehow.
let me guess, it caused by the pic's extreme huge size, and the Skydrive modified the dynamic link from the old one.
so the my last solution about this is to provide the address of original preview page below the last pic.
and you can press the picture logo to see the original full size pic.
Quotesay some about the default picture logo:
due to the huge size of the last pic again, the skydrive refused to make a Thumbnail, just display a default pic logo which contains a cyberlink to the original pic.
please just press the picture logo to continue.
and if as you said my friend, you cannot see all the pics..
i wanna ask, anyone else can't see my pics right there?
if so, i'l consider changing a host website.
but, would you please nominate me some other websites which meet some requirements?
cuz i got no other ways except Skydrive.live.com that i'm using now.
the skydrive.live.com is hosted in Microsoft Co. US and i think that everyone can visit directly and take advantage of there service.
below are the little requirements:
*accept huge size pictures and not self-resize (just like photobucket.com).
*not auto delete files for xxx days limitation(www.toofiles.com).
well.. sorry to trouble you my friends, but choose a good image hosting site is relly a difficult problem for us chinese guy.
i used to upload pic to imageshack.us, but we cannot visit there and see pics linked from the site years long for some well-known reasons.
and i'm pessimistic about my country's unblock.
so... it's really drive me mad to choose one :'( :'(
and sorry for the political words in this comment :)
You could use casimages.com - its a French website, so you would need to use Google Translate (unless you know French), It has unlimited upload size, and if you register an account it keeps the images forever.
Would a French site pose any problems for access in China? I'm sorry you have so many troubles. &mmm
Quote from: joelyboy911 on June 09, 2010, 12:50:57 AM
You could use casimages.com - its a French website, so you would need to use Google Translate (unless you know French), It has unlimited upload size, and if you register an account it keeps the images forever.
Would a French site pose any problems for access in China? I'm sorry you have so many troubles. &mmm
I'd hate to burst your bubble, but a free account at casimages has a limit of 250MB, and you have a maximum of 5MB per image.
To Whale: I'm really sorry that you're having trouble finding image hosting
Quote from: joelyboy911 on June 09, 2010, 12:50:57 AM
You could use casimages.com - its a French website, so you would need to use Google Translate (unless you know French), It has unlimited upload size, and if you register an account it keeps the images forever.
Would a French site pose any problems for access in China? I'm sorry you have so many troubles. &mmm
Even with an account ( a free one eh ) This site deleted almost all my pictures, so I wouldn't give it..
Oh, my mistake. Casimages has served me well thus far (alongside Photobucket), and I've never tried uploading something bigger than 5MB - that's a very large image. :P
thanks for your comments so quickly :thumbsup:
yeah.. you have noticed that almost all my original size pics are bigger than 5MB :-[
so if i dismissal imageshack, i get no choice but skydrive this one.
and may i ask, you all can see those pics in page 1,2 and 3?
if so, i will remain my choice now, and post personal msg to CrossSide.
else when i was told new hosting site. i'll make a move.
thanks my friends again :thumbsup:
you're so kind :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quotewell i wonder you cannot see all the pictures or just the last full resolution one?
so far i know the last full resolution picture's link broke down somehow.
let me guess, it caused by the pic's extreme huge size, and the Skydrive modified the dynamic link from the old one.
so the my last solution about this is to provide the address of original preview page below the last pic.
and you can press the picture logo to see the original full size pic.
I don't know why I can't see them. My browser cannot direct me to the site, at all the pictures. Maybe it's just my browser, because it does more weird things the last few days :(
I'm very sorry that you're having hosting problems here, Whale. However, my friend, I can see all of your pictures fine.
Hope that you can get this sorted out soon, and like Joel said its a shame that you are having so many problems.
Ethan :)
I'm at school now and finally can see your pictures, and their wonderfull!! What a detail and what a work it must have been. As a railroad lover I must congratulate you as this is one of the first MD's in here were I see realistic railroad without too many sharp curves etc. Fantastic!
I also see you are using many w2w buildings. I try do build a city with them myself too, so my question for you is do you plop them or do you grow them? Thanks!
Cross.
About your last update, I only have one word : WOW :o
Yann :thumbsup:
Its the best MD ever in my life. keep going whale &apls &apls &apls
jingyu's city is beautiful
I like it~ :thumbsup:
Awesome, these images are almost real.
Well~ Long time no see everybody &bis& &bis&
Whale's back for a while :D
those days i was busy strugling with my graduation and updating my Notebook to Win7..
fortunately the game still works in the new system and guess what, my ati graphic card performs quite well :thumbsup:
now i can full render shadows and it goes smoothly :thumbsup:
but i must say sorry for no progress these day, cuz i was working on other stuff.. and now i get a little time to capture pics on my old town :)
4 "new" pics for the old Ellesmere in another visual angle~
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if you cannot see those pics or the link takes you nowhere, please let me know :-[
and to Arthur:
sorry, but the ports are not ready yet. The ports in the city thumbnail you saw, were just the thumbnail indeed, i had removed them, and considering to make a upgrade.
but here i say, those new stuff will come soon. Yeah i'm also tired about Ellesmere's pics.. all the things are there, i just change some angles from N to W and to S%confuso
anyway, wish you love them :thumbsup: i don't know whether i have time in the next few weeks.
enjoy :thumbsup:
Whale~
I LOVE IT, yet again!
You must have every diagonal lot in your plugins. :o The city is very well laid out and I can't really think of anything that would add any more realism.
Always a pleasure to stop by your MD......thanks my friend, thanks.
Robin &apls
I don't actually know what to say to be honest, I am that impressed &apls &apls :o
Xander
Welcome back, Whale ! It's great to see Christchurch back, your W2W never ceases to impress me, it's just gorgeous ! :)
Ethan
Amazing city, i like the effects &apls &apls &apls
This is such a gorgeous city. Impressive! &apls
Awesome stuff Whale!
-Jordan :thumbsup:
Great work!
What a superb looking MD! You've built some wonderfully detailed urban scenes here!
Wow, this is great!!! Your parks, the university, the W2W, the apartments, I love it! Can't wait to see even more from you.
Just great again :)
Stunning... :o
I'm gonna be engrossed in these for a long while.
WOW, This MD is amazing, the quality of the cities are amazing &apls
superb whale :thumbsup:
and i agree with lazy fox,your only shortcoming is too slow to post ;D
just keep on buliding this amazing city :thumbsup:;just keep on stunning :)
Dear Whale,
On behaf of the rest of us, please stop building cities and posting them here. Your awesome city building skills and ability to make pictures that would make Jesus cry is making us look bad.
Love, the rest of us regular city builders in the shadow of your great city building skills
Heh, the previous post was meant to be sarcastic. :P Please continue on! Today is my first time seeing this, and I am amazed. :o
Oh. my. freaking. god.
*speechless* &smrt &smrt &smrt &smrt
Super update! :thumbsup:
Renne
Astounding. &apls &apls
It takes a lot to shut me up but my word what amazing skills you have,
both in city building and photoshopping. ( gee wish I could do half as good as you :D)
I had to make many cuppa's while looking at all the detail in the full res pics &apls
I will definitely be back for more :thumbsup:
Derry
well, whale's back again %BUd%
first i wana thank you for the comments $%Grinno$% those warmly words make me so happy &bis&
and i want to pologize for my disappear these days..
i moved to beijing from my hometown and started my first job. everything surround me is new and i have to get things done. so, you can say i was extremely busy last days and got no time for our game.
Fortunately, today i get a break and finished ONE pic of ellesmere. i'd like to take a night shot too, but time limited. so i'll bring it to you later ;D
so let's cut the crap and start.
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this time not only bring you a semi resolution picture, but also a lossness bmp file with full resolution! the size is 5585x10557.
you know the bmp image is zipable. and i deside to use 7-zip to make a extreme high level zip file. the package is .7z and you need a 7-zip or winrar(3.9x or newer) to unpack. the minimum recommended memory size to unzip this file is 258MB.
please click HERE (http://cid-c9252b83b7672ed0.office.live.com/self.aspx/Christchurch%20BMP-Zipped%20Files/2010-07-31.7z) to get the download page
and press the file logo or press "下载" to download. the package is about 37MB.
and if you have any problems about the downloading, please let me know. the host website is SKYDRIVE - a microsoft live product, so i think everyone including we chinese can use their service freely.
love~
whale.
Fantastic mosaic.
&apls
Robin :thumbsup:
Jupp, like rooker said, fantastic!
Your last mosaic is absolutely stunning and shows just why you deserve a spot in OSITM :thumbsup:
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Congratulations from myself and The SC4d Staff
Dave
thats an amazing mosaic ... and congrats on the OSITM, well deserved
Congrats for beeing part of the OSITM!
Congratulation, whale. And on the OSITM!
Renne
With my extremly egotistical view of myself being that im the manliest man on earth and i never cry at ANYTHING, youve made my cry tears of joy looking at your works of art.
Congrats on OSITM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls &apls
Congrats on the OSITM. Your pics are breathtaking. &apls
Congratulations on your OSTIM! Brilliant work as always, I really love the way your region looks!
I'm speechless... fantastic mosaic, and congrats on your OSITM &apls
On top of OSITM, at the end of the month your MD will now be in Best Sellers. Well done :thumbsup:
Dave
Congratulations on OSITM and the move to the Best Sellers, my friend ! You truly have an amazing MD. :)
Ethan
Very good as usual. Congrats on OSITM! Make good use of it...I can't wait to see more.
Your MD is always fantastic!!! Congrats on OSITM and welcome to the Best Sellers!!! &apls &apls &apls
wow~ wow~
i'm soooooo impressed by all the words from you my dear friends ()flower() ()flower()
thanks soooooooo much to you all &bis& &bis&
and thanks the moderators who ever helped me taking care of my thread as well &bis& &bis&
you know, when i read those comments such as "looking towards further pics", "can't wait for more", etc. i always feel sorry about the quantity of my pics.
i definitely know that i have less pics than all the other MDs. and these days in each new updates just one or no more than three pics released, terribly sorry about that.
i wanna share all the corners of my city, every detail. but as i have said at the top, the city began at sep. 2008, and when i decide to post pics here, it's 2010 and the ellesmere is already 80% percents ready, but it got totally covered by only serveral mosiacs %confuso %confuso... so things gonna be twist.. i have to build my city quicker than ever, and try to make some differences.
but you know i'm no longer a student but a guy who is stuggling between work and life :'( :'( everyday is in rush and time doesn't allow me to play it much.
so... i just try to, um... make a balance. just hard working on my job, and try my best to make as many upgrades as i could.
maybe later i would come to sc4d rare, but i'll try to bring some new pics everytime when i return. i won't let it down. i promise this i promise this%BUd% %BUd%
so sorry about low quantity of pictures again :P and sorry for once promised that i will make a content at top of this thread, but till now i don't get one ()testing()
i shall make it happen...someday :D
well... everytime i try to explain something, i usually make a speeh :D :D :D
anyway, thank all my friends, you accepted christchurch, you love it, and you bring christchurch to the ositm. christchurch cannot reach such an honor without your support.
whale. with love :thumbsup:
oh, btw, anyone who download the .7z file? the skydrive doesn't have a counter but i wanna know whether this file is unzipable in your computer.
one of my friends told me that he failed to unzip this file by winrar 3.90, but oh, he said it's ok in 7-zip 9.15 beta. so if you also have problem unzip the pack, please visit www.7-zip.org (http://www.7-zip.org) and download 7zip 9.15 b or newer version.
Wow, for someone who just broke into the OSITM category, your doing an awful lot of apologizing fighter_jingyu! And it couldn't be more unnecessary. Your pics speak for themselves. We would want to see more of your work even if you were showing 20 pics per update. You have consistently provided superb quality, and that's more than good enough for me. If you really want to make your updates more robust, might I suggest giving us some closer shots from areas already covered in the mosaics. I'm in love with some of your shots, and would love to get some perspective of the intricate detail that went into this fantastic city.
I can't wait to see your new creations as well. ;D
I have to agree with cubby420, the mosaics are fantastic but there is no reason why you can't show some close ups from within the mosaic area. It would be great to see you cities at close range. With the effort you have obviously put in, they will certainly stand up to scrutiny :thumbsup:
Regardless, can't wait for the next update.
Dave
:o :o :o this mosaic is oustanding, love the darkness of your pics, well done &apls
Your OSITM is what made me look at you work and what can I say? - it's absouletly amazing. I particually like the picture on the opening page of the city with the perspective effect. ;D
These are fantastic looking images from your city, and really no need for all the apologies. We all have a life outside this site (although we might want to forget about that sometimes), and it is quite understandable you don't have time to post 20 pictures each update.
You are putting so much detail into each picture giving us much to drool over. :)
&idea hi guys~ long time no see :P
thanks for those comments above :D
and... tell you what, whale is now at a rural place surrounded by rice field.. so i can hardly get online and say something :D
but as promised, a large pic will post right here. so let's take a look~
and next time, when i start a new district, such as seaport or airport or sth, i will use regular size. but not this time :-[
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and this time bring you the zipped bmp too :)
please press here (http://cid-c9252b83b7672ed0.office.live.com/self.aspx/Christchurch%20BMP-Zipped%20Files/2010-08-28.7z)to unzip.
enjoy :thumbsup:
whale with love~
Waow, it's so waow!! I have no words to descrive it. Congrats &apls
Guillaume :thumbsup:
Amazing Work as always. You said a post ago that you are worried aboult the quantity of your pics. DONT worry. The amazing quality of your pics makes up for it 10-fold. This is one of the most amazing MD's I've ever seen. If you want to show more areas, show some pictures closer in, like at zoom 2. Mabey see some small detailed areas of your city? I dont know just trying to help. :P
Anyways dont stop. This looks amazing and I hope you can show us more soon.
,marsh :thumbsup:
P.S. Remember, Quality is better than quanity. ;)
One word. Amazing.
Your friend,
Jordan :thumbsup:
Fantastic! Love the colors of the lighting in that shot!
That's a beautiful image at night! Fantastic work on it... :thumbsup:
well hi everyone, i heard about the earthquake in New Zealand by listen to the news, and what make me sad is the epicenter is just located near Christchurch, the city which gave my region a name. i'm now very worried about the people there. all i can do is pray, i wish all the people there can ride out the disaster and rebuild their hometown :thumbsup:
god bless you :)
whale~
When I saw that news, the first thing that popped into my head was your MD for whatever reason. Well wishes and hopeful thoughts to all effected by this disaster.
I know it is very tragic and your last update was great i really liked it
:'( :'(
really sorry to hear the bad news again, this is so unfair why the tragedy hit this beautiful city twice?
May god bless Christchurch and people can overcome the disaster.
I don't know whether i can still make any update, but my MD is growing. i would update some, if it's convenient.
Whale~
I hope you make persistent efforts
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