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Using Photoediting to Enhance Ingame Pictures

Apr 01, 2012 - 10:45 PM | 10000000000000 in SC4 Reference

For those of us who enjoy showing what we have accomplished in CJs or in the Forums, I thought it may be a good idea to form a tutorial. I am no professional at photoediting, but after much experience, I have gained a decent amount of knowledge that I thought would be a good idea to share incase you are new to the concept. You don't have to be an expert either to understand this tutorial. If you find that this is hard to follow, PM me and I'll do my best to help you out. Just remember though...

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How to Use Demand Mods Wisely

Oct 20, 2011 - 09:37 PM | Lot Creator in SC4 Tutorials

A work and investigation by myself A number of people pass though the HD (help desk) door and ask about links to demand mods and stuff related to demand mods. But what do they actually do? How do you use something like a ID boost to fix up a city? Th...

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Installing a Region Downloaded from the STEX

Mar 30, 2011 - 08:58 PM | MallowTheCloud in Mapping and Terraforming

Original Author: MallowTheCloud Rewrite: Vandy If you are interested in contributing to the OmniMaps section of the Simtropolis Omnibus, please PM OmniMaps. The original information for this article was written by MallowTheCloud and all credit goes...

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Demand, Desirability, and Abandonment

Apr 03, 2006 - 10:33 PM | Dirktator in SC4 Reference

Understanding Demand, Desirability and Abandonment or "What the heck do they want, how do I give it to them, and why did they leave!?" In SimCity 4, demand is your sims’ desire for certain buildings, not so much for certain zones. Zoning will satisfy...

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Make a bigger difference TREES!

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:13 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Most of you should know this by now that lots accept a little more than one would expect. You got someone riding your hiney about planting more trees. Plant em in people's yards, industrial lots, parks, etc...

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Mega income from toll booths

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:15 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Toll booths are quite possibly the most unbalanced thing in SC4K. For a modest fee, you can get 20 cents per month for every car or bus passenger that travels through the toll. This can be abused to make m...

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Ways to increase environmental rating, and convert to high-tech industrys

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:21 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Achieving such results as the title suggests is actually relatively simple, just plaster your city with trees. It's relatively inexpensive for what it does and will do all three things mentioned in the titl...

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Nightlighting in GMAX for objects and windows.

May 03, 2011 - 06:52 PM | Timmystwin in BAT/Lot Editor Tutorials

This is slightly more advanced than the other one, and requires iLives reader (HERE) and basic knowledge of it to do it quickly. Possible for a complete novice, just a little confusing. A basic understanding of GMAX is also needed, but i doubt nightli...

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How to use train stations effectively

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:20 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com If your trains don't appear when you place them, then you must be doing something wrong, right? Wrong. You just placed the stations in the wrong areas. See Simcity 4 is very realistic in the sense that if y...

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SimCity 4 traffic Layouts

Mar 03, 2012 - 11:08 AM | Adooxx in SC4 Tutorials

Adoxx's Traffic Tutorial Hi guys, I'm running some tutorials on YouTube and got some questions to go deeper into my latest tutorial. I'm going to show how I make my layouts, metro connections, highways, .. in a way they are used at fullest. I prefer...

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Building a more realistic highway interchange...

Mar 24, 2012 - 04:26 PM | rewright in SC4 Tutorials

To build this interchange you will need the NAM and a slope mod. I use BRF_TunnelAndSlopeMod-bJERONI.

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