Tendring, a coastal Essex district, The British Region Reborn...

[Glowbal]

I wish I could see the pictures.. but it doesn't load for me. Every picture has a red cross.

[djvandrake]

Nice job on the effects.   

[BuildingUp]

I love the effects you use, but I adore the actual feeling you have here, very old style, very brilliant work. 

[tr0ub1es0me]

I wish I could see the pictures.. but it doesn't load for me. Every picture has a red cross.

I'm sorry, my host doesn't allow very high daily bandwidth usage for free accounts. You'll need to check back again. And I need to find a better host...

Nice job on the effects.   

I love the effects you use, but I adore the actual feeling you have here, very old style, very brilliant work. 

Thank you both. That is encouraging as I'm trying to use effects to the best of my ability, and create much more authenticness than I've ever managed to with the game before.


No update coming this weekend. I haven't got anything new to show just yet.

[Nardo69]

Nice start - I can almost feel the rain one me. For my taste the villages are a bit uniform - have you tried all the nice Gascooker buildings? I also would replace the church - it's a rather old BAT and there are quite some better alternatives by now, e.g.:

St. Barbara Church

Bosham Church

and some more - just have a look at the LEX

I do love what you did with these small walls and the farms. BTW any chance to see a railway line? 

About your host: There are quite some free host for pictures available (and your pics do load slowly according to their size!) The classic one is Imageshack, it does have some problems from time to time but also does work better than your host!

Take care


Bernhard 

[jmyers2043]

There must be a lot of fog in Tendering    Nice start. The stone walls must have taken a lot of time.

Good Luck with your Diary - Jim Myers

[tr0ub1es0me]

Nice start - I can almost feel the rain one me. For my taste the villages are a bit uniform - have you tried all the nice Gascooker buildings?

Thank you.  Yes, I have most of Gascooker's buildings already but I'm not using them in my plugins for this region yet. I agree, the villages could be perhaps too uniform, but I wanted to start off with the oldest buildings and work through the different eras so each area has more authenticity and is representative of its era. I also wanted these areas I'm starting with to have the most well-preserved historical districts as they grow into cities.

I don't have enough variety of Tudor buildings which is one of the main reasons it's very uniform-looking right now. However, over time some of the older buildings will be demolished to make way for the future while others will be preserved. So there shouldn't be quite so much repitition even within these existing areas as things start develop further.

Thanks for the feedback Bernhard!

I also would replace the church - it's a rather old BAT and there are quite some better alternatives by now, e.g.:

St. Barbara Church

Bosham Church

and some more - just have a look at the LEX

I do like that church personally so I will be keeping that one there. I also feel it well with the architecture that will be seen around that area of West Mersey at a later point. Thanks for the links though! I'd already downloaded Bosham Church recently as I downloaded most of mntoes's BATs. I've also downloaded St. Barbara Church now as that one will definitely fit in nicely somewhere.

I do love what you did with these small walls and the farms. BTW any chance to see a railway line? 

About your host: There are quite some free host for pictures available (and your pics do load slowly according to their size!) The classic one is Imageshack, it does have some problems from time to time but also does work better than your host!

There must be a lot of fog in Tendering    Nice start. The stone walls must have taken a lot of time.

It is painstaking work laying out all of those walls, but definitely worth it! Thanks guys.

Railway? There isn't any yet.  I'm hoping I can fit it in later as realistically as possible without too much headache. There is the potential for problems as I haven't considered where it's EXACT routes will likely be while I've been developing so far, which could make it hard to fit in without messing up any existing work. That is one of the challenges I will face though. What I am looking forward to developing Victorian areas because this is when many new train lines will be added and towns will grow significantly. I will also be making some entire new villages and towns pop up due to the coming of the railways, where it provides a commuter and freight belt.

Regarding my host: I've edited the previous updates and changed the links to Flickr where I'm now hosting the pictures as was suggested on another forum. Thankfully I only had three updates to edit. The only gripe I have is the unfriendly random URLs. I have to find out what they are from the Flickr account for each and every image, and copy and paste each time. I couldn't simply use Notepad or Word to "Replace" the first parts of the image URLs in the earlier updates, and I also can't change the last part of the URLs for each sucessive new image posted in future updates as I usually do with my own file naming system...

And now - time for the next update! 

[tr0ub1es0me]

Welcome to Tendring

A coastal district in the English county of Essex

Tendring is a district located on the north east peninsula in the Essex county of the United Kingdom. Essex was once the ancient Kingdom of the East Saxons, stretching from the southern coast of the North Sea on the east, to beyond London on the west. Today, Essex is much smaller, and is bordered to the west by North East London. This is not a recreation of Tendring, but is a fictional region based on the landscape of Tendring and parts of its neighbouring districts.


Update 4: Chesterfield Town - Principal riverside settlement with remnants of Roman Britain





Welcome to Chesterfield Town...





...built on the site of the ancient Roman fort of Castrumagus.





Chesterfield Castle.





Castle Park.





Castle Park.





Holmbank Promenade.





Holmbank.





River Holm.





Holmbank Boatyard.





Holmbank Boatyard.

[Tomas Neto]

You created a perfect atmosphere in this update!!! Great work!!! 

[djvandrake]

   Fantastic.  I really like your waterfront, that came together very well. 

[threeswept]

Very cute and quaint. I like it a lot! Reminds me of model villages...like Port Sunlight and Bournville. Great job!

[Battlecat]

Nice job on that waterfront!  Looks great!

[BarbarossaS]

Really awesome update!  I'd love to take a walk in castle park 

-Stijn-

[gottago]

Truly superb attention to detail. A bit too perfectly bucolic for my taste--the Tudors didn't really care for straight lines--but I read you're planning to (re-) build over time, which is a great idea and I look forward to seeing what those industrious Victorian sims do to this idyll.

[tr0ub1es0me]

Just a quick response here:

Truly superb attention to detail. A bit too perfectly bucolic for my taste--the Tudors didn't really care for straight lines--but I read you're planning to (re-) build over time, which is a great idea and I look forward to seeing what those industrious Victorian sims do to this idyll.

You're absolutely right there. I'd love to be able to re-create some of the best preserved Tudor areas I've ever seen in the UK with the irregular layouts and narrow streets. The problem is that I have no diagonal Tudor buildings at all which highly limits what I can do with them. Of course, I could have made the layout less rectangular, I suppose, but doing that in the past has often prevented me adding a lot of attention to the details which is something I'm really trying to "improve" further from all my previous regions/CJs. On that note, it is good to hear that you enjoyed the attention to detail as that is where I'm trying to work hardest so it is encouraging to have some feedback on that.

[tr0ub1es0me]

  Fantastic.  I really like your waterfront, that came together very well. 

Nice job on that waterfront!  Looks great!

Thank you both. Looking back at my previous attempts using WFKs in my previous region, I wasn't happy with the overall look and felt a lack of realism. I spent a lot of time on the waterfront here trying to get it 'just right'. I'm glad you both like it.

There is another WFK feature in West Mersey that I've created (yet to be shown) - and I spent quite a bit of time there too. I demolished and recreated West Mersey's waterfront from scratch aswell because the first attempt just didn't quite cut it...

Very cute and quaint. I like it a lot! Reminds me of model villages...like Port Sunlight and Bournville. Great job!

Wow, thanks a lot! At first I had misinterpreted your post as I thought you meant a miniature model village (which seemed a nice comparison)! After a quick wiki search tonight on Port Sunlight and Bournville I found out what you actually meant. And it's still a nice comparison.

Really awesome update!  I'd love to take a walk in castle park 

Thanks Stijn. The park and castle will always remain a tranquil heritage site immersed within the town of Chesterfield as it grows over time.


Cheers for your comments everyone else! Update 5 is on its way...

[tr0ub1es0me]

Welcome to Tendring

A coastal district in the English county of Essex

Tendring is a district located on the north east peninsula in the Essex county of the United Kingdom. Essex was once the ancient Kingdom of the East Saxons, stretching from the southern coast of the North Sea on the east, to beyond London on the west. Today, Essex is much smaller, and is bordered to the west by North East London. This is not a recreation of Tendring, but is a fictional region based on the landscape of Tendring and parts of its neighbouring districts.


Update 5: Chesterfield Town - Futher sights from around town





Eastgate Street.





Northgate Street & Church Street.





Water Lane.





Ramparts Farm, Water Lane.





St. James's Lane.





Churnwood Road.





St. Helena's Corner.





St. Helena's Church.





Suffolk Bridge.





Chesterfield Market.





The market traders close their stalls for the night...





...while riverside workers leave Holmbank and head from home.





Light showers begin to fall as boats on the river return to their docks.





Chesterfield Town.





Chesterfield Town.

[joelyboy911]

What a lovely little village. Your pictures are amazing.

[djvandrake]

Very nicely done.  So realistic and a nice job on the effects. 

[woodb3kmaster]

How lovely! You've really done a great job on that waterfront. Your custom lotting is also terrific.

Please do share your method for Photoshopping rain into your images. I learned a method online, but it produces much heavier rain. I'd love to have the kind of light rain you use.