Is there a mod for touring your city.

[shyskillz]

Tourist mode

Is there a way you can walk or get into a car and veiw the city in First Person Mode. you know....like looking at your city in real time thru a Sims eyes.
would anyone else like such a feature?

[Mailman653]

That would be cool, though when the camera gets close to buildings they go transparent, so if your in a car, won't everything around you be transparent too?

[Azeem]

Simply setting the camera in "free mode" has the same effect for me already.

[shyskillz]

I see what you mean Azeem but what i'm picturing is something like SimCity 2000 for the PS. I don't know if anyone here have played that game but they had a feature that allowed you to use a car and drive around your city. It was fun and i think they can do the same here too. Picture the way it's done in Trillville. If this can be done then i'm surly missing out

[Akodis]

Only if it runs without making things any worse for those of us on limited hardware.

[PantherX]

Only if it runs without making things any worse for those of us on limited hardware.

Sorry Akodis, I would not want the devs worrying about minimum spec machines. If they start doing that the progression will stop or at least slow drastically.

I think this feature would be cool to look at once in a while. Actually it should take it easier on your video card due to less items rendered while your sitting in this car. I don't think it will ease up your processing because you still need to calculate all the pathing of the sims.

I will admit that I am lucky enough to be able to purchase some really good hardware lately so I get to enjoy all the effects and full anti-aliasing that SCS has to offer. It's truly sweet to watch all the animations and effects as the sun is moving into different phases. Slow Motion = :eek:

[Akodis]

How about just being able to walk around the city at ground level while it is paused, so sim paths don't need to be calculated while personally wandering?

It would also prevent circumambulations from being interrupted by fires, random disasters, and rogue shutdowns that might require immediate attention.

Even the free camera setting screenshots I've seen don't quite get a sims-eye view. It's too high over the ground, and nearby buildings may be transparent. It would be nice to take a shot from a sidewalk next to a building, including the wall of that building as one looks down the street.

[smjjames]

only problem though is that you can only zoom so far in. Someone did make a zoom mod for zooming out I think, so maybe someone can make one that zooms in? Would have to be careful so that the camera or the game doesn't freak out after you reach a certain zoom in point.

The building transparency might be hardcoded though, so we'd have to ask Mike or one of the other TM guys about that part of it.

[shyskillz]

I saw the zoom mod but didn't DL it. If that mod will allow me to ride around the city as a passenger in a cab then thats what i want. Real Time Touring on foot or in vehicles. Imagine viewing a rouge Sim shut down a building or a mugger getting arrested as you drive/walk by. If there were Super Heros it would be even more awesome

[shyskillz]

it'll be cool if you (as the tourist) can use a camcorder to record footage and save it. you never know what you might see in a big city. =)

[Primetime01969]

I uploaded a mod that allows for zoom in all the way to the ground (and you can tilt the camera to look back up too!).

[shyskillz]

great,i'll look into it^^.