Kingdom of Nova Terra, Update 5.5: Hotel Regina

art128 · January 17, 2009, 01:21:17 AM

fantastic shot there Alan, excellent work on Angel falls !!

BTW, this is the 100th post of your MD, congratulations ! you will be moved into Best sellers !

Arthur.

Badsim · January 21, 2009, 07:24:33 AM

A lot of various and good works , Alan .

I'm always admiring when someone shows how that game , which wasn't made for , can produce so beautiful nature scenes ...

Your Angel Falls are breathtaking ! You should have posted real pictures about them ...
I didn't know anything about them in real world but you roused my curiosity and I've browsed internet since ... what an impressiveness !
The same about your work on them .

Cédric .

alan_vzla · January 23, 2009, 04:15:36 PM

Hi!
First of all: let me say thanks to all of you who made possible the moving of my MD to the Best Seller sections... Tough I must say that I'm a little sad: if 100 comments were so hard to get... imagine getting 400 comments more! But, it doesn't matter: it'll be a good experience.

Now for what you really care: Pictures...
Due to the King's birthday... The Royal House of Nova Terra: determined that a new picture should be released, so here is it:

Schulmanator · January 23, 2009, 07:31:48 PM

A nice cozy new neighborhood pic. And, happy birthday to the king!

Sciurus · January 24, 2009, 04:23:49 AM

Just beautiful suburb!

io_bg · January 24, 2009, 05:09:26 AM

Nice teaser. The photoshoping of the water is brilliant!

bat · January 24, 2009, 08:40:40 AM

Wonderful shot there! That part of your city is very nice...

alan_vzla · January 24, 2009, 02:33:36 PM

A new teaser, update will come soon... very soon

Sciurus · January 25, 2009, 02:44:46 AM

Beautiful, but if you could do a transit unable with the house with the street, it'll be better, and I think it'will be more beautiful, but it's just detail

dsrwhat316 · January 25, 2009, 06:32:13 AM

I love the photoshopping of the water in your previous teaser. Great work adapting c.p.'s houses; I'll have to use them more often now, thanks to you!

~ Dan

Simpson · January 25, 2009, 07:43:51 AM

Wow Alan

super teasers there.

tcx · January 26, 2009, 02:24:53 PM

great pics of Balnea, looks like a nice place to live.

alan_vzla · January 28, 2009, 02:47:41 PM

CabraBuitre: thanks!
io_bgthanks! well in the pics I prefered to write Nepal, but on the description of this location is specified it's geographycal situation
bat: thanks, glad you like it!
FrankU: thanks and don't worry, I didn't take it as an offense... we are indeed playing SimCity 4, but I was inspired on the E.A Games slogan "Challenge Everything"
mrtnrl: You visited it a lot on it's early days but then you forget about us

... don't worry, thanks for stopping by!
kbieinu7: thanks!
Schulmanator: Thanks, glad you liked the pictures! you can see my work here
Simpson:Happy you like it! and thanks for the congratulations!
Paroch: hi, welcome to the Kingdom of Nova Terra!! Thanks for those kind words! and hey: I'll be waiting for you!
Anarchy0029: hi Anarchy, first of all welcome to SC4D. I'm happy you find it "inspirational"... thanks!
tcx: Hi man! welcome to my MD, thanks for giving me those hopes... I really expect to make it up there but it's still a long road!
Art128: Thanks glad you like it!, and thanks foir being the 100^th poster! For that you might get some rewards from His Majesty! xD
Badsim: Wow Another first-poster! thanks for the comment, it sure means a lot coming from a person who has managed to transform SC4 into a whole new game! And well, to please you... here's some shots of the Angel Falls

Schulmanator: It sure it is! thanks for the congratulations!
Sciurus: thanks!
io_bg: it was very easy to do, I just followed Lilojame's tutorial
bat: thanks! happy you liked it!
Sciurus: Thanks for giving me the idea... I'll give it a try and put it on my LE thread
dsrwhat316: They're really very good BATs! thanks for stopping by!
Simpson: Thanks!
tcx: Lets see if you still think that after this pics:

KINGDOM OF NOVA TERRA, UPDATE #4
BALNEA

Balnea is a medium sized subur of aprox. 10000 inhabitants located on the west coast, It's the place where the Nunavut river flows into the ocean. The last of the 5 bridges that cross this river is built here. It houses the only highschool on the called: Ring cities, which is conformed by Monica Bay, Acacia, Aversa and Balnea. Now, lets go with the pics:

Balnea, is mainly a place to live, the home of the workers of the nearby towns, but yet it do houses some farms

As it is seen on both pictures, the Nunavut river separates Balnea into two bays, similar to what happens in Acacia. Also, you can see the change of elevation in both bays, why? this was caused by the erotion, when the Nunavut river was bigger (where the dinosaurs ruled the Earth), since that thime it has been slowly drying, it's said that in 500 years, there will be no Nunavut river

Notice the elevation change in both...

western...

and eastern basin

In all the pictures you can see that there is only one main road, that travels to all directions, but is only one; and it's called Via Victoria, it serves as a connection between Balnea and her neighbors

Here you can sse it going down to the basin

These are some closer looks to the basins

And to the suburbs...

Having a vast young population, Balnea has constructed some facilities for them, which include a baseball park previously showed and two other big facilities, which are

this soccer field, home of the Balnean Sharks

And the "Grand plain" park

This picture shows the NTB-nvut 05 (the code stands for Nova Terran Bridge - the particle names the river or lake that it's crossing, in this case the Nunavut river, and the number is used if there is more than one ridge crossing the forementioned water body), most commonly knowed as "The thing"

And to finish, here's a pic of all of those tired workers goming back home after a long day of work...

QUICKNOTE: some of you may have noticed that the "replies" banner has changed, this new one was made by CraigKingOfIreland, through his photoshop service... thanks a lot mate!

And, in this update I've extensively used photoshopping, mainly on the water, when I made it, it looked good to me, but afterwards I realized that it was just a bit too much... so, don't worry I will not play with it unless is strictly needed!

Thats all for today's update, I hope you like this one and... well I'll see you around
Alan

Schulmanator · January 28, 2009, 06:13:28 PM

A charming and delightful update - what a nice neighborhood you have here.

tcx · January 29, 2009, 07:16:54 AM

Another great update Alan,

I want to live in that yellow house next to the soccer field and see every game of Balnean Sharks just by looking out the window.

bat · January 31, 2009, 10:15:23 AM

Really nice update there! And the city looks beautiful! Wonderful work!

SC4D_Staff · February 01, 2009, 09:21:29 AM

Congratulations, alan_vzla!

The Staff

rooker1 · February 01, 2009, 05:16:52 PM

Congrats Alan,
A very well deserved move from a great MD.
I look forward to having a grerat month with you and your super pics that you always have for us.

Robin

Battlecat · February 02, 2009, 08:41:35 AM

Wow! Beautiful work all across the board. You've really managed to capture a wide variety of city styles in here! And the photoshopped water in the latest update looks amazing!

tcx · February 02, 2009, 09:02:59 AM

Congratulations Alan !!!!!

It's great to see that your MD is on this section. You deserved it.

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