New Project: Thresher Island

I had a major project going that I liked a lot. The population was getting close to 1 million when it crashed. I didn't have it saved manually, and I didn't have many decent photos of it. Lesson learned. I'm going to rebuild it, but it's a big project. So for some more immediate gratification, I began a small city on Wake Island by the Funky Monk. It's turning out rather nicely. Here's a few shots. Only the first one has any edits to it; I'm not that far along yet.

A friend of mine asked me for a tutorial on how to make the flag. Not sure if there's any interest at XLN?

 

Heh heh heh. LOL. I was going to put it in your thread, but thought I might have too many pictures. I'm hoping it's a good thing that it looks like my style ...

 

Thanks for your critique, kipate. I can see what you're talking about. The fountain is elevated. It was a pain in the butt to do, and frankly, I think the results don't warrant the work it took. One problem is that only 1 or 2 plazas will "crawl" up the side of the wall to form the tiers.





The 2nd problem is that the fountain's shadows are intended for it to be elevated - just don't come off that great.

As for the Tokyo tower - didn't notice the problem there before. No buildings face the roundabout because of traffic issues, and I think I'll leave it like that.



The three different landmark styles grouped together was intentional - cultural mash-up sort of idea. I'll give that some more thought.

Maybe it makes more sense in context of the rest of the city:



And of course, maybe not. I wanted the streets to flow fluidly between circular references - the pavilion, the tower, the plaza. That doesn't excuse the odd mix of buildings close to the tower, though. I'll definitely consider some options there.

One new problem that is effecting me a lot is a problem with no-collision buildings. I played for a long time with only one no-collision mod, I forget the name. It did not give high tech, warehouse, industrial no-collision options. Then after some discussion in other threads, I decided to add back two that I had long ago abandoned - qwerty's and elmo's, to see what worked better. Now I must have buildings in this city effected by each different mod, and NO non-collision buildings will snap to the road. I don't often align streets with game parallels. I've got a mess in that regard, I'm afraid.

 

I've tried to find them all - haven't been able to. There must be one lurking around somewhere ... I can remove elmo's mod, no problem, but taking qwerty's out again makes the game crash.

 

Well, gave up the search. Just couldn't play the city like this. Went in and deleted all buildings that looked like no-collision ( 1/2 the population!) but I still couldn't find the culprit. I did find that the mod in question wasn't qwerty's (sorry, qwerty) but the old "ultimate..." mod. Thresher's saved game must also have a building that's dependent on the mod where building don't snap, so that's no use. So I guess I have 2 cities to rebuild. See you later.