Jeronij's Urban Residential Canals

[jeronij]

Hello dear SC4 Devotion members,
Your outstanding behaviour in this site is allowing me to BAT again, so I want to say you THANKS for being such a great community   ¡¡¡

And to demonstrate how grateful I am , I decided to BAT a new series of Canals, I know, I know, there are some already... , which are designed to fit better in template/warm regions. I will call this one Mediterranean Urban Residential Canals.

This is the initial design for the main straight piece. It takes 1x3 tiles. Some changes are being done after these pics, but they are not greatly noticeable in the final render.







And now, some ingame pics after the first render.

 





I have decided to remove the water flora and make the water less transparent. Anyway, in the game these details are mostly lost   .


I would appreciate your suggestions to improve this one, before I start to make the other pieces. I am opened to other textures, so feel free to post yours if you want to do so.

[Masochist]

Wow, those look good, jeronij!  They remind me of the washes and aqueducts of desert cities in the western US (like in Las Vegas...I had to walk across a deep wash every day to get to school, and it didn't look anywhere near that nice).  But what exactly happens as it meets that street?  Does it go under?

[Fledder200]

whaaaaaa those look amazing!!!! what can i say?? i love them!!!!
altough i'm not a big fan of the palm tree...but that is maybe becouse i don't like palm trees in general ( in c4), but if you are going to have a warm region city..then this is it!!!

[rooker1]

This looks amazing.   I can see a great use for this.  Very unique in the style. 
 
And thank you for such a great place a where we all can become such a great community.

[Fred_Ginger]

Jeronij the look really good except the water looks awfully dirty to me, when I think of 'Mediterranean' light blue water comes to my mind - is that just me?

[Cali]

those look awesome jeronij, but to actually recreate a western us style canal wash, is it possible to make a seperate set without palm trees?. also, maybe instead of the walls, how bout a chain link fence? and who knows maybe a puddle here and there?-just a suggestion, not to be damning criticsm. love them

[Gaston]

Jeronij,
    I first want to say this is a fantastic canal.    Unlike the rest of the posters, they remind me more of Ft. Lauderdale Florida than the western US, but then I have never been out there.   LOL
    A couple of things I would suggest you look at (IMHO): 

• I agree with Fledder200 in that I am not a huge palm tree fan.   That being said; I do like the particular ones you chose.
• I love the look of the water but I think it need to be a bit deeper looking.
• The aquatic plants could be a bit darker in color.    More like the slimy stuff that grows along the edges of canals.
• The fences are great.   They could be just a tiny bit taller / more pronounced.   They seem to get lost.
• You might look at using your fantastic rural walls (warm) in the creation of the "bridges" for this.

    These of course are just suggestions.   And I am embarrassed  to even hint that there might be even the slightest flaw in your fabulous creation.   I love it and would jump at the chance to use it in one of my cities. 


---Gaston

[jacqulina]

awesome work this really is fantastic work

[jeronij]

Hello and thanks to all for the comments and suggestions 

I am taking notes.....

I will make some changes and post some pics asap. Your feedback is what makes the difference ( even if I dont plan to apply all of your suggestions  )

Masochist, this is the main straight piece, and the ingame pics are a test. Of course, once I have the textures and overall look I want , I will start making more pieces 

[Naryanna]

Oh dear mother of god (didnt want to curse around, so...) this looks sooo fanthastic!  Excelent work! I guess I will definetly need to start and play with mediterranean things just so that will have a chance to use this baby of yours.

[DebussyMan]

Wow Jeroni, those look amazing!
BTW, seems like you're using BAT4max, if so, have you rendered them with the catmull-rom antialiasing? they look a bit fuzzy, but could be just the far zoom.

[jeronij]

Hello and thanks again,

it seems it will take some time/work to finish these 

DM, yes, I noticed a different render quality this time, probably because I clicked somewhere involuntarily  .... I will have to check that. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction 

[Badsim]

Hi jeronij ,

I'm highly interested by this , that recalls me so much the river "Têt" in Perpignan the nearest town from my home . Here a small picture ....
My only suggestions are about the water texture ( Actually it  looks like a dry canal even if you can see that the color on RL picture is the same than your) , and about palm trees ... I 'm just hoping they'll be not included in the model but as props ... You know I can't resist to modify anything with LE .... the problem with them is that they quickly look repetitive ...
I hope to make constuctive criticisms cause I really want to use this in future !

[bat]

These canals are looking beautiful!

^{(but one question are these taxi or bus-places from your streetside mod? {prefer to the last picture near the canals})}

[joelevan]

You know...in that picture that Badsim posted there are flowerbeds. Would you be willing to try that instead of the palm trees? I am not a fan of palm trees in SC4 either. 

Joel

[jeronij]

OK, I have made some changes, and I have tried with three different water textures. I please you to tell me which one do you like the best 





I plan to make some variations from the main piece, with different flora, and put them into a family to give variety to the lomg straight lines. Once we decide which water texture to use, I will start to make some more pieces 

EDIT: bat, yes 

[metasmurf]

I vote for the blueish one, but you could do 2 versions just as you did with the rural walls set. Anyway, great work on this. I'm sure it will turn out great. 

[joelevan]

I like the blue one, however the brown one is what it looks like here in Arizona! 

[greenbelt]

 
is it possible to match the water colour to either PEGs or SGs canals?

[Gaston]

Well Jeronij,
   Since you asked...   
     I think they are all good but a bit too opaque.   They should be a slight bit more transparent.     The brown is way too "muddy" looking for my tastes.    The "greenish" one looks very artificial looking to me.   It doesn't look natural at all.   Of the three the blue one looks the best but, I think it is still a bit too blue and not transparent enough.   Remember you asked.  LOL

    One suggestion for these would be to include diagonal pieces.    I am having a hard time right now with SG's canals not having diagonal stuff.


---Gaston