How to build a windy road.

[jeronij]

Hello to all,

I was remembering old times reading Sculpting Columbia River, and I found some pics that may be considered some sort of tutorial, so I decided to post it here, hoping that it will be useful for somebody.

The "instructions" are quite short, so, feel free to ask if you are in doubt  !!!

This is my first serious attempt to make a mountain road in SC4.  I will post it in 10 pics and few words. I only have to say that I think the result is not too bad. I´ll have to improve my skills on building this kind of roads, but I also think that this one deserves an update.

Here we go:

22.1 First layout.




22.2 Minor adjustments. Some more curved curves



22.3 Some retaining walls, of course.



22.4 A better (IMMO) perspective.



22.5 The area is ready to develop.



22.6 Low density residential developments starts...



22.7 Zoom 1



22.8 Zoom 2



22.9 Zoom 3



22.10 And finally a view from CR Port Area



I apologize for the old pics, but the idea is the same right now

[wouanagaine]

thx jeronij.

Actually I think the whole SCR pics would make the best tutorial ever !

[jacqulina]

very nice thankyou

[goin2chicago]

very cool totorial. i've never really thought about doing anything like this and i think it'll be fun to try it out when the time comes.

[bat]

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you!

[TheTeaCat]

Great stuff you've done.

Personally i would leave out the walls and leave bare rock especially if going for a mountain road- well that what they did where i grew up. Still it looks great once the houses appeared.

[kimcar]

   Cool tutorial . Thanks for sharing .

[Alfred.Jones]

Awesome work Jeronij!! Even though they are old images they still look fantastic

[rayced]

This tutorial is just great, as usually are yours Jeronij.
I have a little request: can you make a tutorial about building on slopes correctly? I mean how to build on slopes maintainig a smooth profile of the buildings (without the basement coming out from terrain).

[Alfred.Jones]

Welcome to SC4 Devotion Rayced

Is this what you are looking for?

[rayced]

Welcome to SC4 Devotion Rayced

Is this what you are looking for?

Thank you for the welcome. The tutorial you are suggesting me is not what i mean with my question: that one (and is a good tutorial) is for terraforming a slope, but even doing a slope like that i have some problems when zoning it, as i wrote in last post, to have the buildings resulting gently sloped as the terrain. I saw many pics of cities made by Jeronij and i can't obtain the same results.

[jeronij]

Thank you for the welcome. The tutorial you are suggesting me is not what i mean with my question: that one (and is a good tutorial) is for terraforming a slope, but even doing a slope like that i have some problems when zoning it, as i wrote in last post, to have the buildings resulting gently sloped as the terrain. I saw many pics of cities made by Jeronij and i can't obtain the same results.

Hi, I note the task in my tasks list  . I´ll try to make a tutorial and post is here somewhere. Anyway, I can say you that you should dominate the other referenced tutorial as this terraforming will also be needed 

I´ll keep you informed !!!

[rayced]

Gracias Jeronij!!
I'll upload some pics to explain well what i mean.

[vab423]

This is a nice tutorial - short and sweet.  And like they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words.
Thanks for reposting; although I enjoyed SCR very much, I gave up reading it because it was so long (I have a very short attention span) and the pages took forever to load.

@rayced, someone (I think Spa) posted a great tutorial on ST on building on slopes -- check the Omnibus section over there; it's called "working with hills" (I think).

[rooker1]

Great idea for a mountainous region.  Thank for the tutorial and great pictures.