Your Cities- Post Some Photos Here!

Thank you! It has been quite hard to place all the different grid patterns next to each other and then connecting them without making it look too planned

 

Your city of Kent has been quite an idol for American-style CXXL cities Kent and some city by streptojomeini (but the photos have gone -.-).

And so far, I have not placed the McDonald's, but I will. My idea is to place it next to a highway entrance a bit outside of downtown. Another iddea was to place the McDonald's after I released the CJ (which will take some months), and then add photos within an update

 

By the way, here's another view of the inner-city junction. @Project_Oz, you're right, the pillars do not always stay away from the asphalt, but they are all apart from any road area. Also, you may see from the image that it was hard to place all the brdiges within the area such that they look smooth

 

Well, that's actually a fair point you have there. Don't get me wrong, I know I have been a sting in the asses of some members out here. I know how I pushed people to improve even small stuff - don't ask @Kitsunebi about all the lengthy messages I sent him, and don't ask @Inan about my reviews And in parts, I felt I had the right to do so - at least at the time. As you mentioned, there have been images of many different cities by myself, and as you may have recognized, I have experimented a lot. I guess I have been the first one to build an eye-candy airplane taxiway bridge over a road, for example. Not to mention all my experiments with custom-made tunnels and circles So, I have seen almost anything one can do with the game's mechanics and the mods added.

To be fair, I always pushed myself to the limit, too. You know, when a plant that I had placed did not fit with the other plants around, I was really disappointed by myself For example, I placed circular roads first and then put plants onto the circle such that they fit nicely

On the other hand, I have changed over time. I try to see the bigger image, and I do not care that much about small carelessness in way that I did before. It's not a laissez-faire mentality, I think I am still kind of 'pushy', but I am far away from nitpicking every little thing If folks reinvent the wheel, the will get five stars. If other folks 'only' apply common techniques but still create something very good, they will get five stars as well.

So, if you want to take over the 'role', feel free to do so And concerning the given situation: Well, I will see what I can do about it. On the one hand, it feels challenging, on the other hand, the pillar is still away from the road area, so it's actually nothing I really care about anymore

 

@Project_Oz, don't get me wrong, you have all the rights to bother me with the little flaws you notice! It may depend on my mood whether I will change something or not And I personally think that it is better to make a cut at certain point. It is not always helpful to be a perfectionist, and it can cost you a lot -.-

And regarding that dry dock: I took parts of the idea from CrackerJack Also, airports can be as fascinating as large railway networks. You just have to be even more patient, because it is harder to correct mistakes made.

Regarding the tunnels, there are several ways, and it depends on what you want to achieve, and on the game version. All my custom-made tunnels were made in 45 degrees angles (trying to not be a perfectionist), that may not be as helpful. For XXL, I have a solution at hand that would also work for round roads.

For Platinum: Just from the top of my head: Take a 10m wide road and place it how you want. Then use the option to make it a no collision road (Changes - Small Collision Box Mod ). In this case, only the center of the road has a collision part.
Then take the 15m wide bridge of aitortilla01's bridge pack and place it above the 10m road such that the curvature aligns, and such that at one edge of the road, the pillars of the bridge are close by.
Transportation - Aitortilla01's Bridge Pack

That would just be a first experiment. You would need to add embellishment to make the bridge parts vanish. For really round pillars, there is no XL mod that I recall so far...

Maybe we need to beg @Drazicdesign to add a mod for XL and XXL that adds a concrete 'roof' structure to make custom-made tunnels

 

Well, a road under a whole fortress seems like a huge project, not sure if my ideas work there.

If you play with French roads, you can use e.g. DrazicDesign's mod (see Drazicdesign Project ) to place 10m and 15m wide roads without fundaments, this will help in most cases.

The idea is to first lay out the roads on the common ground (the roads on the same level as the buildings. Do it such that the tunnels will run in a 45 degrees angle. I recommend to use lex' OWP water plaza mod to ensure that the tunnel roads are placed 6 to 7m below the surface (which is still less than what you need for an in-game tunnel). Maybe test it first. You can go 7m deep by first applying the 5m plaza, put the blue dot there, then another 2m plaza.

Reserve some area such that you can easily place the beginning and the end of the tunnel roads.

Then you should place no/small collision buildings such that their collision part will not interfere with the tunnel part. You may need auxiliary roads there.

Delete all the roads that run over the planned tunnel. Place the tunnel roads, change them to roads without lights (mod by Trolca or within Drazic's new American roads), place some flat plaza, place the tunnel pieces, and then place the roads without fundaments where the surface roads have been before (the ones you deleted).

By the way, I improved "it"

 

Well, I could add some photos if I find the will to create some kind of tutorial

The buildings can be found here:
Industry - Industrial Estate Building | XLNation - Cities XXL
Seems to work only for XXL, though.

And this part of the intersection is thought as the end of a highway, so no paths allowed

 

I will probably do that, but rather for the other side of the junction. Where you marked the grey paths, the terrain moves up quite steep, that's too bad for smooth ped paths -.-

 

By the way, here the waste incinerator. No overview, don't want to spoil the port area more, although I'm inclined
It shows that the new plazas by @Drazicdesign can be used for all types of areas within a city

 

Here is the link (works for XL):
20.1 MB file on MEGA
BUT: I once changed the collision box of the railroad (nothing else). I just looked up the files and changed it back to the original values, but please first check if the railroad crossings (Schienenübergänge) work correctly! Also, all credits to Monty and Altiris!

If the railroad does not work correctly, then maybe we ask @Drazicdesign, he should have the original file as well