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This design was originally going to be in the NE Quest For The Best contest(Any of you remember that contest from way back in the day? I believe it was the 2nd or third one to take place.) but it never ended up getting finished. Recently I've decided to try an finish it, although there are no guarantees. The whole idea is to have a small Spanish like village on this hill and have the mine train ride be inside the hill.


Here is the Queue and the open air station.


This is the part I need help with. I am not sure what to build here. I think I am going to redo the hill to make it less of a temple and more of a hill like place. Any ideas? I also might expand outward and have more terrain built but for now everything is in more of a big I shape.

Hmm, interesting, i like it.

I think you have a nice atmosphere going on around the station, i think i sat looking at that screen for about five minutes taking the details in.

if you're going for a hill look then i would do as you say. Make the terrain less like a temple, and more even. I would keep the basic elevation changes, because i think they could work well, but it looks like some very tidy work.

Nice to see you working on this project again.
The first screen is simply amazing, perfect atmosphere!

Maybe you can do both things with the hill.
On the front side you could built a temple and on the back side you could built a more "hill like place" with waterfalls etc.

Edited by Faceman, 14 January 2007 - 03:44 PM.

maybe a spanish mission on the hillside?
or one of these type of things- http://www.kurtknoll...brahilh3125.jpg

maybe a spanish mission on the hillside?
or one of these type of things- http://www.kurtknoll...brahilh3125.jpg

That is a nice picture. I'll definitely have to look at that when I work on this.

I'm not sure how many updates there will be for this. I'll try to get another one soon though, its just going slow at the moment due to lack of ideas but that is why I am working on this again so I can get my spark for Rct 2 back and make more parks.

the colors are a bit wild, but the architecture is great.

I think your archy looks great.

One question though, why are you trying to come up with something to fit the land? Why not make the land fit whatever you come up with...

And if you are going to put a SPanish Village on the side of a hill, I would suggest you have the hill back up to one of the corners of your map, because IMO the atmosphere is such that you wouldn't want to have to make all 4 sides of the hill

Edited by ride_exchanger, 22 January 2007 - 05:30 PM.

i remember this one yes... glad to see it again...

what a queue line! reminds me of universal,actually

I love this! It's only the queue and it looks this good. I can't wait to see the rest.

this is pretty mediocre. it really seems to me like he just put down random 2x2 architecture where he saw fit, all of which looking almost completely identical. then, he placed down so really poor foliage choices at random to try to pass off as spanish. i mean, there's those absolutely hideous cyad bushes, jungle bushes, weeping willows, bullrushes, ferns and those temperate (or whatever) bushes. it's all too random.
in addition to that, there's the occasional treasure chest thrown in there.

the second screen is a little better because it's a little less reliant on the 2x2 architecture, but the same things still stand.