Urban Gardens

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Tired of square parks? Then this set is for you! Not only does it offer five different park-layouts, it gives you additional pieces to shape your parks in many different ways. At first plop the gardens look – well, green ... just wait for spring :-) and the explosion of bright and happy colors!

Parks

  • 7x5 – The Three Pavillions
  • 5x1 – Ancient Temple Ruins
  • 3x2 – Bronze Vases with Palms
  • 3x2 – Small Pavillion with Japanese Trees
  • 3x1 – European-style Fountain

These lots have various entrance-/exit-slots to connect either wide or narrow paths.

Paths

  • 1x1 straight fancy – uncluttered, and with pretty lampposts
  • 1x1 straight w/flowerbeds, benches, parklights etc.
  • 1x2 straight
  • 1x3 straight (three sizes for more variety and faster plopping)
  • 1x1 tee
  • 1x1 curve
  • 1x1 cross
  • 1x1 path-end
  • 1x1 narrow-to-wide-path transition

This last piece helps to create some open spaces and to integrate the actual park-modules in such a way that their shape is totally obscured. Actually you could make a module even appear to go 'around the corner'... Play around with it, you'll find it to be quite versatile!

Fillers

  • 1x1 filler with random trees (rotate for even more randomness)
  • 1x1 base texture with random crowds
     

Properties

Every lot has the usual park-benefits. The park-pieces cost a small monthly fee, the path-pieces are maintenance free (no monthly cost). They are located in the 'Parks'-menue and have custom icons.

Dependencies

The orientation-arrows during plopping come from:
* BSC_ParkFeatures.dat
(usually included in any BSC-Park)

Install

Just move the files into the 'Plugins' directory under My Documents/Sim city 4.

Uninstall

Simply bulldoze any of these lots in your cities, then remove the file(s) from the plugin directory.

Usage

Just plop these lots wherever you deem appropriate ;-)
All pieces are in separate files, so you can delete any you do not wish to use.

Disclaimer

As with all things from the internet, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I tested the lots and they work fine for me. No one but you is to be held responsible if your computer is subject to termination of any kind. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to join the simpeg forums.

Credits

Thanks to all who make resources available!
The whole Simpeg-community for help, thoughts and good spirits.