Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Streets and sidewalks
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Newmoon
Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:31 pm
#1
The thing I hate about player cities is the lack of landscaping ...the mayor or assigned architect should be able to lower and rase the land sorta like Populous to make truly beatutiful cities or outpost .....allow sidewalks , Fortifying walls Streets ...imagine the possibilities!
neofghtr816
Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:10 pm
#2
/applaud
yay! ive been thinking about stuff like that for almost a year. like bridges to go over the trenches....fences around your property...so much stuff 
Syrius_Windrunner
Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:09 pm
#4
Otoem wrote:
Have you seen StarWars? Where is there a street with sidewalks?
Where was there a city built straight onto the mud and grass with no paving? 
nah only joking - not trying to flame 
I think it'd be good if we could get some form of roads or paving, like you see in the NPC cities.. it would really add to the look and feel of the cities.. especially on corellia!
Figu
Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:17 pm
#5
umm naboo coresunt *cant spell* coriella *not in the movies but they had sidewalks* CLOUD CITY kimon those where sidewalked
Jaeder
Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:11 am
#6
Indeed, the mayor should be allowed to at least clear an area of the player city of debris and ponds (see the swampy lowlands of Rori for a good example of bad landscaping) so that the townspeople may institute a better designed cityscape. Also there should be city walls available to be set up around cities.
Obo_alCan
Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:46 pm
#7
I don't know how hard it would be to do, but I'd at least like to see the terrain of the ground in the city changed to something more city like.
for example, I was messing around with the texture files and did this...
Player City Paved 1
Player City Paved 2
for example, I was messing around with the texture files and did this...
Player City Paved 1
Player City Paved 2
Artistan
Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:51 pm
#8
Very nice....did you change ground texture to city texture or what?
Gom_Kuub
Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:14 pm
#9
maybe after a city on Naboo has become a metropilis, something like the Theed Arch could be added over city entrances, and equivilants to the other planets like a more stony arch for Tatooinecities, and an industrial arch for Correlia
like a more stony arch for Tatooinecities, and an industrial arch for Correlia-Gom
Message Edited by Gom_Kuub on 01-31-2005 08:15 PM
Dubolom
Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:40 pm
#10
Gom_Kuub wrote:
maybe after a city on Naboo has become a metropilis, something like the Theed Arch could be added over city entrances, and equivilants to the other planets
-Gom
Message Edited by Gom_Kuub on 01-31-2005 08:15 PM
... or a force field like around high-tech camps to prevent hostile creatures and NPCs from entering cities.
Dubolom
Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:03 am
#11
Newmoon wrote:
The thing I hate about player cities is the lack of landscaping ...the mayor or assigned architect should be able to lower and rase the land sorta like Populous to make truly beatutiful cities or outpost .....allow sidewalks , Fortifying walls Streets ...imagine the possibilities!
Actually, I think land should be flattened automatically for the appropriate radius of the city when you place a city hall ... this is already implemented for camps, should be easy to apply to city halls. Another thing city hall placement can do automaticaly is cover the entire radius of the city with Coronet-like "pavement". And when you place a house that pavement is removed from under the house just like grass and trees are removed now.
Message Edited by Dubolom on 01-31-2005 03:05 PM
sashimiforme
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:09 am
#12
Dubolom wrote:
Newmoon wrote:
The thing I hate about player cities is the lack of landscaping ...the mayor or assigned architect should be able to lower and rase the land sorta like Populous to make truly beatutiful cities or outpost .....allow sidewalks , Fortifying walls Streets ...imagine the possibilities!
Actually, I think land should be flattened automatically for the appropriate radius of the city when you place a city hall ... this is already implemented for camps, should be easy to apply to city halls. Another thing city hall placement can do automaticaly is cover the entire radius of the city with Coronet-like "pavement". And when you place a house that pavement is removed from under the house just like grass and trees are removed now.
Message Edited by Dubolom on 01-31-2005 03:05 PM
Completely agree. Theres two little hills smack dabin the middle of my city that I cant put anything on. lol annoys the crap outa me. And we have a few gardens that look like they're being eaten by the ground. lol maybe I should plop some camps down.
Obo_alCan
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:46 am
#13
Artistan wrote:Very nice....did you change ground texture to city texture or what?
Yes, just switched the texture files.
The problem I see would be how to dynamically alter the texture based on what is on top of it. I'm trying to remember, but I don't think any current dynamic spawn does that.
I'd have to look a bit closer at the files that assign the textures to the terrain to see how hard it would be.
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