Rural Renewal Project

[thundercrack83]

This is very creative and incredible! I love the tubes! Great work, as usual, my friend!

[Diggis]

Having them as a lot would still work for Pegs streams as you have to use the overhanging lot (originally designed for under elrail etc) and them plop the item on there.  The only thing is having it 4m up would look funny for those.

[EDGE4194]

 
wow chris- you continually amaze! Nice work 

[Chrisadams3997]

Thanks everyone, Barbyw's looking over the lots right now.  After they've been tested, if everything looks good they'll be uploaded.

That's a good idea by the way Diggis, though due to the games orthographic view point, you can't tell they are elevated.  It just means they won't be exactly centered in the same place in different rotations, but there is enough leeway on the edges of the lot so that it stays within the lots bounds.

Also you could just make a new lot with the tube props on the peg stream.

[jacqulina]

awesome work chris just what i need excellent ideas you have 

[CabraBuitre]

From what I gather, these would be mayor-mod ploppables (like trees).  Is it possible to release these as props too, so that lot builders could put them into their own lots as well?

[Chrisadams3997]

CabraBuitre:  Nope, they already are props.  As far as I know there'd be no way to place mayor mode ploppables on top of water, it'll sit on the bottom , so your request is already filled

Oh, and thanks Jacky

[Diggis]

Also you could just make a new lot with the tube props on the peg stream.

I thought you were doing mayor mode plops for the transparent water.  But a lot works for me.

[Andreas]

It's always the same, regardless where you are on the world: Give a group of men a case of cold beer, and at least 50% of them will be happy. Add one or more beautiful women, the percentage of satisfied men will go up to 90%. The rest, well, that's a completely different story...

Nice work on the floating folks, this is very original indeed! 

[DFire870]

Ooh, great work on the people floating in the inner tubes, reminds me a bit of the Comal River in New Braunfels (although, I think they made it illegal to drink alcohol while on the river now).

-- John

[dogfight]

Hello Chris: I'm glad I stopped by. You have some pretty cool stuff here. My favorites are the wildflowers and the farmers fences and road tiles. Very realistic. I'm looking forward to using these in my game..

[FrankU]

Chris,

Last two weeks I have been working on gathering a brand new set of plugins in order to start a new region. So I looked for fences, ploppable water (thanks Jeronij), farms, modds, props and plops and now I can throw half of my rural files away and fill my plugins folder with yours. The fences, gravelpaths, ditches and flora are beautiful indeed! Though in my country the paths would look more brownish: no rocks or stones, just mud (The Netherlands). But I can live perfectly with your coulourscheme.
I also see that the terrain texture is so meadowlike that plopped meadows (I made some myself, because they missed in the game) are not necessary. What terrain modd did you use?
Thanks for everything.

Is it not so that the waterlillies from Gizmo's waterflora float on the watersurface? I always thought so.....

[Chrisadams3997]

Andreas:  Aint it the truth .  Glad you like the idea.

Dfire:  Well, at least there's still the Gaupalupe, I can gaurantee you they haven't

Dogfight:  Thanks for coming by.

FrankU:  well, I've actually intended all along to make a set for the paths with a dirt base instead, just haven't done it yet.  It's not more than a days work though, just still working on other things.  It'll be set up (as I've planned it so far) so that you'll be able to pick one set or the other.
And the only water Gizmo's waterlillies will float on is the ploppable kind .

edit:  forgot you asked about the terrain mod, it's CP's Columbus Terrain Mod.

[Zaphod]

The Guapalupe river is so nice, especially for kakayayiking

[Chrisadams3997]

Zaphod:  Never been kayaking on the Gaudalupe yet.  I've canoed and kayaked a lot on several rivers in Mississippi however, and it's always fun.

Here's some lake water flora I've been playing with.  Some old stumps, very common in reservior lakes, as they are left from when the area was flooded.  Also some lillypads, on a more realistic scale than Gizmo's and rendered at 4.5 meters so that they appear to sit on top of shallow water(and Transparent Plobbable water.)  Notice how it drops down under the surface as I placed it into deeper water.  It might still get raised up a little more.





The Hunter's Lodge isn't mine, but the pier is.  Another lakeside project I'm tossing around ideas for.

[Badsim]

Wow Chris , each time you post something that's totally unseen ... Yeah , I've searched for this king of old stumps to use in that situation . Litlle things but so essential ... I agree about the scale of Gizmo's lillypads  but you're are looking like something else (maybe are they too numerous for that I'm using to see ). BTW , not in a bad way , my first reaction seeing the first picture was to watch at an impressionist painting .... that's turning to art .Truly .

[Tarkus]

I've been lurking on this thread, and I am most definitely impressed by what you've been producing here, Chris.   This is absolutely amazing stuff, and you are really adding to the game's abilities to recreate rural and natural environs.  Those most recent pics with the lake flora looked darn near like an RL pic--I had to do a double take.

-Alex (Tarkus)

[Zaphod]

looks snakey....maybe it's alright you havent made swimmer sims yet, I wouldnt want them to be dragged under by a mutant 18 foot water mocassin

but then I bet that is a good fishing spot

[Chrisadams3997]

Badsim:  Glad you like it.  I'm still playing around with those lillypads, as I kinda agree with you there, looks more like duck weed right now, if you know what that is.  I'm going to thin them out and increase the size just a bit.

On a side note, Monet did like painting water lillies, coincidence?

Tarkus:  Thanks, it means from someone who's contributed so much to the game.

Zaphod:  lol, haven't seen any snakes yet, but I'll let you know.

Here's one more little thing to add.  It's really a shame how many details get lost due to the scale, but I'm mostly pleased so far.  I've just got a couple of texturing things I want to tweak, then I'll make some lots like the floaters.

[BigSlark]

Your work is looking great, Chris. I'm extraordinarily impressed with the detail and quality of your models and textures.

Cheers,
Kevin