My SC4 "Lunar Exploration" Mod works.

daTS

So guys, as some of you may know, I've up and moved to Arizona from Texas (after like 15 years). With it came a renewed love for SimCity 4. A few of us SC4 modders and BATters (Building Architect Tool users) have come together to start a complete conversion to making it from a City Builder to a Lunar Colony building game Smile

I started this little project after seeing some screenshots for Anno 2205 (which looks AMAZING)

I'll be posting some of my work here, just to get some outside opinions and ideas Smile

PS: The descriptions are with each picture comment. Smile

EmergencyServicesIdea.png

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This is the Emergency Services dispatch center (acts as a Fire Station). Not quite finished, and I don't have a day shot for it yet since the textures in the back aren't mapped correctly. The day shot will reveal much more work on the displacement and bum

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R$-HDDAY-DETAIL.jpg

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Detail shot. I got a little happy with the displacement and bump maps :P

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R$-HDNITE.jpg

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Night shot of the living module

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R$-HDDAY.jpg

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This is an HD shot (closest zoom) of a "low wealth" lunar living module. :) [DAY SHOT]

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RatsInTheWalls · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:22 am Post subject:

Looking good. Some nice stuff, I like the moody lighting and the holographic signs.

Also, moonbase requires this.

When will we see some animated version? Can't wait to see that.

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looks nice and well detailed.

EmergencyServicesIdea.png Description wrote:

The day shot will reveal much more work on the displacement and bum

when the long image comment is cut off at just the right place Smile

Looking forward to see the displaced bum in day light. Laughing

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:42 am Post subject:

Is this similar to the SimCity Mars mod for SC4?

daTS · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:20 pm Post subject:

RITW: SC4 has very limited animation ability. A majority of these will not be animated in any way.

LKO: You can see my displaced bum any day <3

Dutchy: It will, when it's done. The SIMMARS mod is, frankly, very old. The 3D models are primitive and the textures and menu are pretty bland. the SC4 community has made leaps and bounds the past three or so years in the relative beauty and complexity of everything Smile

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daTS · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:04 pm Post subject:

Double Post! I need some opinions. I have two types of heavy cargo rail ideas. One, the maglev will be much easier to implement into the game, but it's not quite as interesting as the second. Concept two is a suspended rail type, which is much more interesting, but will be much harder to implement into the game. Is the looks worth the difficulty?

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Team Black · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:18 pm Post subject:

cool!

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:54 pm Post subject:

What would be the difficulty to add the suspended rail type?

daTS · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:42 pm Post subject:

Well after some research, it turns out the suspended rail type isn't possible right now. It may be in the future by adapting some code and changing the graphics of the Monorail, but for now, the Maglev will be the way to go.

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Banshee · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:52 am Post subject:

I'm not surprised to see someone who already led a terrain expansion project here to move to Sim City Wink

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Do you want a forum for your project here?

daTS · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:30 am Post subject:

Hahah Banshee, I'd be quite honored, but this is primarily a C&C Forum. I'm not sure how much traffic this would get, but I'll definitely take it! Very Happy

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Team Black · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:51 pm Post subject:

You should do it Anthony. It'll give PPM a little diversity

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:55 am Post subject:

Yea, PPM definitely needs more diversity, specially after all the effort we are seeing from EA regarding the Command & Conquer franchise in its 20th anniversary (translation: no effort at all).

Please, PM me the forum organization from Lunar Exploration and the description for the main forum and all subforums.