Rural Renewal Project

[Pat]

Chris those new textures and techniques are quit intrestring wow!!! cant wait to see where you go with it - pat   btw welcome to pg 9

[BigSlark]

Chris,

I love the barns. I was actually going to ask if they were part of the project.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Kevin

[Andreas]

Now those are some crummy barns. You should lower the saturation of the textures a bit, but the models look good.

[Toichus Maximus]

This whole project is epic; I've been waiting for underbrush flora for eons, and the rest of the stuff looks amazing as well!

[Fairlane500]

Holy cow, your work is brilliant! This is just the kind of work that will fit right into the regions I build, when I manage to get back into the game.
I'll definitely be looking to get it when that time comes.

[jacqulina]

cant wait to see more progress 

[LoneRanger]

Chris,

I had the pleasure to discover this threat just about 30 minutes ago and it's so amazing! 
Not just your work but also the help being offered by others. 

Now if you don't mind I'm gonna bump my head in an attempt to loose my short term memory so I can be this amazed again discovering this threat. 

[Chrisadams3997]

Ah, let me stick my head back in here for a moment.

Really appreciate all the comments everyone.  Andreas, I agree with you on several of the textures, of course they'll all be fine tuned as I make use of them.

RL pictures are still coming eventually, just trying to get other things out of the way.

Now in almost totally unrealated news, here's a little mini project that will actually get realeased in a short amount of time, that's right, something from me that doesn't require a month just to get it all organized, lol.  It isn't however utterly unrealated.  I was playing around with a new region I'd like to develope and in the process was playing around with some very rural and somewhat small rivers and streams and realized something missing.  No respectable river basin in the southern US(and I'm sure many other parts of the world) is without some entrepenurial individuals who rent out tubes, canoes, kayaks, and the likes for folks looking for yet another excuse to drink.  So here's what I came up with so far:





And note I've taken care of the finer points, as no float trip is complete without the requisite beverages, I've provided our floaters with ice chests as well :

[Filasimo]

wow you really go above and beyond in detail chris  great work on this mini project

[Diggis]

I love it.  Are they ploppable?  Can we plop then on dry land?  I have some Peg river that could use a floater (not that kind!  ) or two.

[Chrisadams3997]

Well, I've got to make two versions, one on water and one on land that I'll actually elevate so they'll sit on top of the new transparent ploppable water, but they'll work just as well on dry land or normal PW.  At present they are lot based(necessary to place them on water) so it'd take some additional work to make ploppables that would be placeable on Peg streams and such, but if I get time I might look into it.  Like I said though, it is a mini-project, so no gaurantees on going that in depth into it.  Still have rugby fields to do after all .

[Ennedi]

Chris, wchich beach teture did you use on these pictures?

[Heblem]

extremely amazing, this project its very creative, excellent work Chris you've got a new fan 

[Chrisadams3997]

Ennedi:  I'm pretty sure it's that both the beach and underwater textures(I was just about to look for these to edit them, too rocky for what I'm recreating) are the normal ones from cp's columbus mod.  Just don't quote me on that yet .

Heblem:  lol, flattered, though I'm hardly worthy.  If you could only see the models these are actually rendered from(and there's good reason I didn't show them ), but it's how it looks in game in the end that counts I guess .

[Orange Julius]

Hey, when my family goes tubing, we run with the rapids and don't drink!

[BigSlark]

Excellent! I recently floated down the Bogue Chitto River in South Mississippi with an extra tube for my beverages. 

I can't wait to play with these. 

Cheers,
Kevin

[capo]

I've been looking for things like these! I created a nice shoreline intended and with a lot of room for tourism.. I couldn't find great detail lots like these for at/close to the shore so I tried to create something myself and failed horribly! This saves me one big frustration so I owe you a big thank you!!!!

[Chrisadams3997]

Orange Julius:  Well, nobody said there can't be soft drinks in the cooler

BigSlark:  lol, we were there weekend before last, though attmitidly we rented kayaks(the open kind) instead of tubes.  Which just meant smaller ice chests

Capo:  I'm not sure if I'd call your efforts a failure, but these can't hurt .

[zero7]

Brilliant!  One of those little things that you don't realise is missing from the game until someone else creates it.   

[Gaston]

Chris,
    Avery kool little miny project indeed.

Hey, when my family goes tubing, we run with the rapids and don't drink!

    Niether do I ...    On rivers with rapids, that is.           Now I have been on a few float trips that we had that same cooler tube.     


---Gaston