The Royal Gansbaai Kingdoms - The End; A New Revolution

[Albus of Garaway]

I can't get over your pictures! They are just...wow! I would absolutely love it if you posted a tutorial on how you do your the detailing for your creeks in rivers, because they look phenomenal.

Jason

[Evillions8]

My words arn't enough to explain how awesome that image is...

btw, can you release or send me the sand terrain which you use for your middle east cities because I don't have enough time for modding nor do I have any experience in modding.  It would be most grateful it you sent me the file, I really don't want my Middle East region crashing constantly cuz of flora. 

[rooker1]

 
Not sure what else to say.....but those last pics are amazing.
I too would love see a tutorial on how you do your shore lines.  Also where did you gets those flat rocks?

Robin 

[bat]

Great shots of these landscapes!!!

[Tomas Neto]

Wowwww...!!! Awesome, fantastic, amazing!!!   

[io_bg]

Fantastic landscapes! The reflections in the small lake are cool as well!

[marsh]

Replies:

peter007, ManuelR, penguin007, bat, Tomas Neto & io_bg: Thank you all! 

Evillions8: I will see. I don't want to really distribute it because it's not my textures. 

Albus of Garaway, rooker1 & Utvaw: Well I took the comments here and on ST & CSGf,(strangely large amount on this update ), and I hope you love this tutorial.   

Anyone who wanted the "flat rocks": See the link for "Flora Set by Sorchin" below. 

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Alright. There was a large amount of comments about it, so I finnally decided to do this. I hope you all appreciate it. 

This is NOT A TUTORIAL. This is simply showing a area being made, from start to finish.

Custom Content: -All the MM-plops that I use. 

JRJ Transparent Plopable Water
Transparent plopable water

Flora Set by Sorchin
This come with water which I use a lot, as well as rocks too.

HBS Ploppable Chihuahuan Desert Mod
I use these A LOT in my Wild West region.

GDV Mayor Mode Tropical Tree Set
GDV Mayor Mode Tropical Sea Set
Awesome stuff for tropical areas.

SimFox TreePack #2
I think everybody has these. 

Simfox's Chesnuts

PEG PPond Terrain Props Pack 1
Again, think everyone has these. Nice plopables PEG made.

RRP Pasture Flora ChrisAdamas3997
Nice pasture flora.

PEG MTP Mayor Menu Scrub Brush Mod
Maxis scrub for mayor mode.

HBS Tropical Flora Pack
Nice trees, as well as plopable sands which are really awesome.  The trees are a bit too green. I usually use them mostly for small areas.

HBS Ploppable Volcanic Rock Mod
HBS Ploppable Sandy Rock Mod
HBS Ploppable Mossy Rock Mod
HBS Ploppable Maxis Rock Mod
HBS Ploppable Gray Marble Rock Mod
HBS Ploppable Grassy Rock Mod
A bunch of rocks by Heblem.

nbvc - Grey Rocks

JRJ Plop a Garbage

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So today lets all build a river.  (terrains may vary )

I am building this river in a tough location. On the side of a mountain. Not much flat ground up hmere.

Lets run a street (hopefully you have a slope mod) up where we want the river. This will help make the terrain around the stream easier to make, and the water will look much nicer too because it is on ground only sloped in 1 direction. Where I am building mine, there is already a eroded, canyon, of sorts. So it seemed like a decent place to build it. (I am using a real-world based map.)



...ran it up almost the whole mountain...



Now. What water shall we use?
I am going to skip PEG's because it's too dark for what I envision.

Scorchin's water?



Love the color on this one.
Lets see jeronij's transparent water.



Nice, but lets see something first.
I tried out random plop-flora on each of them. jeronij's, being transparent, is above the ground some ways so that smaller things will appear under it.

In most cases I would use scorchin's water, but I think for this particular thing I will use the transparent water.



Although lets fix 1 thing. Lets use the 1/2 tile sized water rather than the full-tiled sized one. It will make a smoother shoreline.



Onto the flora.  ... kinda...

Rocks.
An important thing is to work with the terrain. You can easily cover up 100% of it and have JUST ploppable flora, but I don't like that.



And yes, I use many different MM-plopables. Even on areas this small.



Now for some small grass?

Here I just plopped some of heblem's grass from his tropical flora pack, and chrisadam's grass. (hard to see here)



Here I've added simfox's trees. I'm not going into immense detail for reasons. You should place this stuff on what you feel is right. Not randomly, and not uniform. There may be types of trees in one area, but not another. In real life the same types of trees are not everywhere.



You could although.... use this shortcut.... 

I've tried making a tree controller using simfox's trees. Not THAT divers, but it works for me because it works as a good filler for large expanses.
I've atached the file to the bottom of this post for anyone who is interested. 

You need simfox's tree pack as well as Heblem's Tropical Flora Pack. (Links at the top of the post.)



THIS however is not a large expanse of land. So let's continue using the MM plops and not a god mode brush.



Adding various flora along the shoreline.

You can see more then 1 type of flora that I add. There are actually a lot of different types of grass under & near heblem's desert flora.





Thats all for today.

Next update I will show the finished area and more. (It will look a lot better.)

,marsh


And for those interested,

Simfox's tree controller - Linkie
You need Simfox tree pack and the HBS Tropical Flora Pack.

[nbvc]

Great work with Lake Garcener and nice that you show us how you make your rivers.
Can you provide a link to Heblem's dirt? I can only find the rocks.

[marsh]

There part of the HBS Tropical Flora Pack (Which I did link. 

[kwakelaar]

I will just say 'wow' like the rest here, absolutely gorgeous detailing. And thanks for all the links to the different styles of plopables.

[io_bg]

Nice tutorial, I'm not really good at detailing but your pics will certainly help me get better

[Tomas Neto]

Very nice!!!

[bat]

Nice tutorial! And looking forward to the finished area...

[sumwonyuno]

The results look great!  The choice of ploppable rocks are a good combination.  SimFox's trees are really great to work with, and they do well for a dense canopy effect.

[kodlovag]

Wow. Just wow 
And thanks for the link to nbvc's rock. I somehow missed it.

[Battlecat]

Wow, that's a fantastic scene already!  And you're not even done the details yet, can't wait to see it finished.

[Evillions8]

You could ask Oragane for permission to release it, I'm sure he would.

As for your guidelines, OMG!!!    That really helps ALOT! 

[Skimbo]

The maling od this river is a instrictive tour, thanks for that

[marsh]

I am currently unsure about Gansbaai and The wild west right now. I am getting... bored with them. Honestly I don't know what to do. Work just is now excruciatingly slow. I plop 3 trees and then I get sick of it. I'm currently asking myself, what should I do? I'm thinking of maybe writing a story of some sorts. If anyone has any ideas, I am totally open.

For now I shall be taking a bit of a break. For me a break could just be a few weeks (I usually play SC4 everyday) but again, I am unsure. I'm just not able to find anything really exiting at the moment. Maybe writing a story can trigger my imagination.

Let me clearly state. This is not dead. I'm just taking some time off to brainstorm ideas.

,marsh

[RickD]

Don't worry, happens to me too from time to time. Sometimes I can't stop playing and have lots of great ideas, other times I have no inspiration at all.