San Siro

Coming Soon, I'm finishing part 1 now

Part 1

Ok so here is San Siro, well..... the embryotic version of San Siro as I have just built some of the sea walls and some of the major roads that will make up my capital city.



I'll start by highlighting one of the most developed (if you could say that) portions of the city Colina de la Fortaleza; or Fortress Hill.





This is where I plan to build my university as pre mentioned in K50's CJ. I am naming the university Universidad de la Colina de la Fortaleza, I recognize the fact that this is a mouth full so I will refer to it as UCF (not to be confused with the University of Central Florida). The University will provide the state funded education, as opposed to the Catholic University I will be placing some where else (TBD) in my capital city.



the last thing I would like to highlight photo wise is this little ditty which was.... fun..... to construct but I think it will look good especially when the tree's come in and I'm looking foward to how it looks with the buildings from the university up on the hill there. I'll also look forward to how it looks when I have finished the NAM work on the area which if you look closely in this picture and the previous 2 you will see I've begun.

Notes:
I recognize that I still had the grid turned on (why I forgot to shut it off I have no idea) in particularly the last picture I plan to rectify this for the next up-date.

I also notice that I am having a few display issues, mostly in my sea walls, this is likely due to the fact that I have not downloaded all the dependency's yet for the sea walls.... I just wanted to get this going first before I got everything cleaned up.

I plan to download some terain and water mods in the future I just wanted to show you guys how the city evolves from nothing into something.

Notes about realism:
I also recognize that the low lying land that will constitute my capital is un-realistic, as I will later explain with my back story the island is in the Caribbean ocean which is prone to hurricanes and other large storms... having a wall clearance of about 5 feet would spell disaster for a city. I plan to include more realistic storm surge protection at the entrance to those rivers from the sea.

I also know that the super strieght shorelines is un-realistic, it will be assumed that as the city prospered in it's up-bringing a large sum of money was spent on infrastructure improvements like sea walls and flattening ground in the area to better facilitate construction.

Finally I notice there is no fresh water supply on the city and in-order for there to be civilization there needs to be fresh water... I considered saying the rivers were freshwater but they have no source they all come from the ocean so this is unrealistic. I decided using the canal's I will be creative with geology and a spring system to explain a fresh water source in later updates.



Update 2: will include the construction of UCF and possibly the main cathedral on the island and a little bit of back story behind the founding of San Siro

I like the layout so far can't wait to see it developed

Yeah layout looks great, awesome work so far!

Thanks for your kind words, I too can't wait for the city to start taking shape but it's always hard to get that vision in your head down onto the screen it will be a fun challenge. The UCF update will come at the end of this week on Thursday or Friday depending on how busy my RL is in the later part of this week.

UCF
Universidad de la Colina de la Fortaleza



this week I finished work on Universidad de la Colina de la Fortaleza or UCF

Stats about UCF:
Full name: Universidad de la Colina de la Fortaleza
(Fortress Hill University)
Motto: Para consolidar mente, el cuerpo, y la nación
(To strengthen mind, body and nation)
Founded: 1883
Endowment: 13 Million USD
President: Dr. Javier F. Cevallos
Colleges:
Alicia Rey School of Business
Alejandro Rey School of Agriculture
Paulo Salo School of Education
National College of Liberal Arts

Undergraduates: 5,000
Graduates: 650
Athletic Scholarships: 200
Sports:
Mens & Womens Football (Soccer)
Mens & Womens Basketball
Mens & Womens Lacrosse
Softball
Baseball
Field Hockey
Mens & Womens Swimming/Diving
Mens & Womens Rowing
Mens & Womens Track and Field
Tennis*
American Football*

*offered as intermural non Scholarship sports
Campus: Urban
Colors: Navy Blue & Gold
Nickname: Hurricanes
Mascot: Cain the Goat

East Campus


Upper West quad:
Campus Health Center (Not visible due to the trees but it is next to the police station)
Campus Security (Maxis Police Station)
Canes' Village 3 suite styled dorms, co-ed by room include 2 bedrooms for 2-4 students and a common kitchen and living space reserved for Upperclassmen

Lower West quad:
Old Main (long academic building across from Canes' Village): Home of School of Business and Liberal Arts
UCF Water Tower (left of Old Main): Original water tower used by the fortress, out of use today provides a meeting point for students "Meet by the Tower" and is bathed in gold light after a UCF Football (Soccer) victory
The Quad- relaxation point for students and area where most events are held
Rey Hall (Right side of the quad)- Named after one of the founders of the school all female dorm building. Traditional Style dorms
San Siro Hall (bottom of the quad)- All male dorm building Traditional Style dorms
University Chapel (across the street from San Siro Hall)- Fully functioning chapel used for mass

Lower East quad:
Rey Library (lowest building)- Named after founders of the school, fully functional library including meeting rooms, study quads, and a full computer lab and a cafe to provide refreshments and nourishment to studying students
The Barracks- Nickname to the 4 identical co-ed traditional dorms on lower east was the site of the military barracks in the fort
The SUB- Student Union Building, home of the cafeteria, commuter lounge, and multiple conference rooms and administration offices

Upper East quad:
Old University Field: Home of UCF athletics from 1883-1959 was replaced by University Stadium in 1960. Home to Lacrosse and Field Hockey events.
University Pool: Open Air pool used by swim team and open to students when practice is not going on, open daily only closed in case of thunder and lightning
University Center (white building next to University Pool): A fully functioning gym with weight room, basketball courts, and climbing wall. Home and Away Locker rooms for University field. State of the Art sports medicine facilities, and a smoothie shop. Rooms for coaches to study film and have meetings are also in this building.
University Courts (not visible due to tree's next to pool): 2 tennis courts open to the students, Tennis is not a scholarship sport at UCF
Salo Building: (only academic building on Upper East) Home of the Salo College of Education

West Campus


University Stadium: Home to UCF Football (Soccer), and Track and Field. Football (Soccer) will typically draw a sell out crowd of 5,000 people.
Aaron Hill Place: Home to UCF Basketball, a 2,000 Seat Arena includes locker rooms for not only Basketball home and away but separate locker rooms home and away for Football. Has many of the same facility's as University Center on East campus, including meeting rooms, film rooms, weight rooms, and a state of the art sports medicine facility. Named after former Governor of San Tomoso and UCF Alum
Nicolasa Hernandez Field: Softball field seating for 1,000 people rarely ever filled to capacity. Home and Away Locker room's under the stands
Javier Mogal Field: Baseball field, 2,000 person seating capacity often sold out, Home and Away Locker room's under the stands

Next week:
The Cathedral, the Capital, and the canals

Looks great I love that University well done

Looks very realistic.

I like the way it's set up, nice use of the apartments as dorms, reminds me of Arizona State a bit

Canuck- thanks

Max- well that's the goal isn't it?

K50- *looks up Arizona State University on google..... sees a bunch of hot half to fully naked chicks...* I'm taking that as a compliment


So this isn't really an update more a few questions and a change in my earlier update

First:



I have changed the stadiums for baseball and softball on the UCF campus, the reason for this will be explained in my next update

Second
As part of this update I'm building an elevated rail system using the elevated rail seen below which comes with the NAM


I like this El- Rail and I'd like to use it on my island but I'm having one minor problem with it. When building an intersection like the one shown below that is on the maxis ground rail. I can't find a way to make a fork in the rail like the one shown below.


This causes me some problems because it forces me to make intersections like this:


which is fine and well and all.... but it's bulky and takes up more space than I would like.

Any suggestions?

Emperador gran dios wrote:K50- *looks up Arizona State University on google..... sees a bunch of hot half to fully naked chicks...* I'm taking that as a compliment

It's the number one party school in the USA can you tell?

About your problem, thats pretty strange, it appears there isn't a Y-interchange thing on elevated rail for what I can see... although it looks pretty unrealistic, if you want to do turns, I would use the wide curves. It is tough to build around, but it looks much better (remember that in the real world the rails came before the roads too )

(and UConn is the second 1 week a year.... I have friends who go there they tell me the spring weekend is F'D UP!)

Well the wide curves I did consider using where the rail curved but stayed strieght but I scrapped it in favor of a smaller curve because the rail sort of mirrors that outside road shown in the first picture of update one. Unlike in real life the roads came first for me.

I guess I'll just have to deal with the strange curves like that I only have 2 so it's not that big of a deal.

On a semi related note anyone know of specific stations to go with this or will any El-rail station do?

Elevated Rail (subway/glr elevated rail) uses Elevated Rail stations. The Rail Viaduct (what you use) can't use those stations unfortunately.

I have seen only three rail viaduct stations. One I can't find the link to, but it fits in a "grimy" low-wealth setting, one is a bit quaint-ish, CLICKY, the last one, my recommendation is these Japanese ones from BriPizza's website (CLICKY). Bripizza is by far the best transport BAT'er in my opinion, one reason it because they "overhang" so you can drag absolutely anything you want through them

Hope that helps!

interesting I like the nicer one it works

Big update coming tonight

-St. Mary's College
-Trinity Cathedral
-National Stadium
-San Siro local El-Rail system



EDIT: Hey guys I'm having trouble with my internet right now the uploader is not working right so I'm going to have to post this tomorrow afternoon sorry to keep you waiting