Eagle Island

[rooker1]

Congratulations on the move to SITM.



Robin 

[mightygoose]

that mosaic is by far the single best mosaic i have ever ever ever ever seen....

you surely sold your soul for that mosaic....

[Jmouse]

Congratulations on your promotion, Cockatoo.
I'm glad to see your many skills have earned you a place in the spotlight.

Until next time...
Joan

[paroch]

I haven't dropped by for a while, so first up, congrats on the award of OSITM - very well deserved.

Your updates are just stunning.  It's hard for me to pick anything out in particular as they all look so great.  But I'll try anyway

The Regal theatre at night is my fave.

And I also love the very top of that last mosaic, the beach behind the wooded area is just DIVINE

You've set yourself such a high standard I'm interested to see what you will do that's extra special this month

[Cockatoo-210893]

•UPDATE FOUR  SC4D Exclusive: Eagle Island Floods  2nd FEBRUARY 2008•
Oh my god! Special Interest This Month! What can I say... 
I've decided to make a special update just for SC4D, showing something I made just for a laugh today using the rain mod on Franklin Sound Inlet and some Hurricane/ Flood type photo effects that I kinda made up as I went along... anyways enjoy! Note that sunken railways and highways mixed with the rain mod became creative new ways to make canals!















And yea, the following update will be the fourth part of the Satellite CBD updates.

Replies:
iamgoingtoeatyou:  Hey thanks for stopping in Hotdogs! Well it's great to get feedback like that, and I'm thrilled that you like my mosaic, seems as you are the king of them.

TopCliff:  Thanks again TopCliff! Real good to hear. I'm actually not sure who made that library, but you're right, it's a fantastic BAT! And I will try and keep it coming!

thundercrack83:  Oh, well thanks Dustin! Really great to hear something like that, you know you've done something right when other people say that you're stuff makes them want to play SC4 all night, and I'm sure you'd be able to match my cities if you really wanted to. Thanks for stopping by!

beskhu3epnm:  Yea, well that's what the Photoshoping is all about really. Trying to create an atmosphere of all more realism and it's good that you find it easy to return to this MD! Thanks very much for your nice comments and come again!

jmyers2043:  Thanks, good to hear that you liked the scrap yard! I was really surprised at how well I think it turned out, mostly because of the extremely realistic lots that people have made over the years. Thanks for stopping by.

Mpol:  Well thanks MATE! Inspiring eh? Well that's fantastic to hear. Have fun building your city and thanks for stopping by.

Berethor:  Hey thanks, real glad that you liked the mosaic.

bat:  Thanks again Bat! Thank you for your nice comments and real glad that you liked my mosaic.

Pat Riot:  Yea, on fire alright, I think it's about to explode or something going by the colour of those flames! And as for that effect that you keep asking about...
Your reply from ST that you missed:
patriots_1228: The glow, I actually made that using the Soft Focus effect, it adds halo's of light around bright spots on image and adds a glowing effect to night images and a foggy effect to day time ones.
And real glad that Eagle Island has made it onto your top 5 too, that's a real big complement!

marcszar:  Hey thanks! Really glad you like the Photoshoping, considering what I've seen in some of your pics! Hehe, and who would like to be mah personal SC4D Body Guard? Thanks for your nice comments mate.

tooheys:  Hey thanks again! That's all really good to hear. As for what water mod I'm using, it's just one of Pegasus' ones off the STEX (His most popular one that everybody seems to use.) The only problem with it is that at shallow depths, it's extremely transparent and if you use BAT's that float on the surface, it can seem as if they are floating on air.

Krio:  Okay, I will consider what you have said, you're probably right about the bumping highway. Glad that you liked the fire though, hope to see you nit pick through this update too and see what you don't like so I can improve! Thanks for stopping by.

Mpol:  No, it's actually just like that normally, like I explained to tooheys. Although I think the Photoshoping did enhance it a little by changing the colour to sunset ones.

kimcar:  Okay, thanks for commenting. There are a few things I'm not quite sure I understand in your post, but it's great to hear that you like my Photoshoping. Thanks for taking the time to look through the updates!

Jmouse:  Oh thanks, great to hear. I'm really glad that you like the mosaic and the dump... yes, I guess the garbage has to go somewhere and I'M NOT building one of those evil Maxis landfills in my city. Thanks for taking the time to look through the update!

Masochist:  WOW! That's probably the best comment I've ever bloody got!
Haha, you can't ban me from the photo contest... lol! I have to warp this up quickly and I'd love to sit here and write a big thank you reply to you for that excellent comment, but I have to get this out, so I'll just say this. That really gave me the motivation to get up today and pump out this update, especially after seeing where this got moved to overnight. Thanks a million.

NASCAR_Guy:  Wow, Chicago eh? I wouldn't have guessed that, but thanks anyway and I'm real glad that you find it realistic!

thundercrack83:  Oh my God! THANKYOU THUNDERCRACK! I never imagined that I'd win something like this so soon... how long have I been active on here for...

rooker1: Wow, thanks so much.

mightygoose:  Hehe, if the Corel corporation can be counted as the devil, and buying a rather expensive version of Paint Shop Pro counts as selling your soul, then yes. Real glad you liked it, great to get comments like that.

Jmouse:  Oh well thanks a lot! I take that as a real complement.

paroch:  Hey thanks so much. Great to hear so much back about that mosaic too, I really have to make more of them. Hope to see you back soon... for this special month, at least for this MD anyway!

[sebes]

It's my first time here (prooving the OSITM is one of the best inventions ever). You are building a great city, and your pictures are made very nice too. The floods are just amazing   

[tooheys]

The SES are busy enough as it is (well in NSW anyway), and now you spring this upon them 

Nice effects, although the stadium must have watertight doors 

That is one hell of a flood, some of the buildings must be sitting in 30-40ft of water, global warming sucks 

Seriously though, the flood effect with the accompanying downpour looks great.  Will have to try that in a few of
my cities to see what happens.

Well done, and congrats on move to OSITM. This MD is certainly a pleasure to follow.

Cheers

Dave

PS: If you haven't noticed by now, I like to have a bit of fun, if I ever cause any offence, please let me know.

[bat]

Congrats on your OSITM-award!

And beautiful pictures there of your great city! Wonderful update!

[freedo50]

Hey, This is my first time here (don't you just love OSITM) and I'm sure it won't be my last! The photoshopping here is just absolutely mind-blowing. I love the water ripples in that last pic.

Fred

EDIT: About the poll, I can't see a way to delete it, it might be admins only?

[Jmouse]

Those are some impressive PhotoShopping skills you have there, Cockatoo. I especially like the first photo.
Also I'm wondering which wall set you're using in the last two pics.

Until next time...
Joan

[Yoman]

Im no expert, but it looks like you need a really big pump 

[mightygoose]

very nice flooding.... only on simcity forums will you ever hear that.....

great update.

[Pat Riot]

thanks. I stopped checking ST once you posted it here

The flooding is fantastic, once again spectacular photoshopping. The last one looks great, i can't tell what you did, although im guessing you used the ripple effect somewhere.

[Godzillaman]

I'd say something but let me snap my jaw back in...

...there...That's insane! Looks amazingly believable!

But...why just an sc4d exclusive?

[Masochist]

LOL...very quick comment this time, but your update reminded me of Highway 59 in Houston after a tropical storm hit it:



You're right...that's a very efficient way to make a canal!
Seriously amazing pictures !  Maybe you could divulge the photoshopping secrets of that water on the last picture, eh ?

[Zaphod]

Awesome flood!

any debris, brush, and other rubbish floating around on the waves!  Gr

and the floating piles of fire ants....especially the floating piles of fire ants.

...the ones that tried to attack me when I was swimming somewhere a flood had happened earlier...long story

[Cockatoo-210893]

Awesome flood!

and the floating piles of fire ants....especially the floating piles of fire ants.

...the ones that tried to attack me when I was swimming somewhere a flood had happened earlier...long story

This was the first thing that sprang to mind when reading your comment...



Swimming in floods is dangerous? What? 

[mattb325]

Love the flooding (fits in very well with all of QLD and NSW in Australia at the moment) - you've certainly mastered photoshopping, and it certainly gives a whole new meaning to sunken highways 

[Zaphod]

lol. just to clear it up it was in a lake recently after a flood upriver had come down and subsided...

[NASCAR_Guy]

You weeren't in Northern Indian in december wehre you



of course not you live in Texas