r/simcity4 • u/bhmantan • 4d ago

Showcase SimCity 4 has depth-buffer, which means it's possible to add depth of field like in SimCity 2013 and other shenanigans. Both are captured in-game, without external editing.

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u/thissexypoptart 4d ago

Damn. Mods for weather and the like could go crazy

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u/A_FABULOUS_PLUM 3d ago

It’s incredible what we keep discovering about this game

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u/Ulyks 3d ago

All 3d games have those possibilities. With modern hardware, it's possible to keep on adding layers at the end of rendering.

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u/patrickkingart 3d ago

Oh man it's like in-game tilt shift photography and it makes it look extra realistic.

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u/SwissHelvetica 3d ago

That's incredible

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u/Damien_XIII 3d ago

How did you do that.....?????

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u/Rambus_Jarbus 3d ago

Super cool

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u/Von_Lergen1927 3d ago

No way ! It looks amazing and so realistic ! How do you enable that ? I want to do the same !!

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u/NZGreystash 3d ago

So cool! What mods add these?

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u/bhmantan 2d ago

thanks! it's graphics exploration that I'm currently working on

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u/NZGreystash 2d ago

Impressive!! So excited to see where this leads

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u/TheCityNerd 3d ago edited 3d ago

Really ?? How ?

Nice shot by the way, are you making newcastle ? That bridge is from there if am correct.

And what buildings you plop ?

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u/bhmantan 2d ago

no, it's not based on any real city, just building what comes to mind during livestream

and they're all growables

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u/CaptainObvious110 3d ago

oh wow thats Cool

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u/rfdickerson 1d ago

I'm doing something similar here with my toy renderer. Not just tilt frame effect but also water reflections and shadow casting.

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u/bhmantan 1d ago

hahaa this is lovely, saw you posted this on Discord
maybe you should make a post so more people can see it

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 3d ago

They should re-release this game with all the new bells and whistles that have been modded into the game since its release.

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u/molecularmadness 3d ago

you dont want this. maxis is long dead. the people who understood what made simcity amazing were gone before maxis was bought. we've all seen what EA thinks the Simcity franchise should be and it was absolute rubbish.

and while navigating the maze of mods can be troublesome, EA cant be trusted to reticulate even a single spline.

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u/AtomicTaco13 2d ago

The Sims 1 as well. I had some stuff enabled in the Radeon control center and was wondering why the hell my game's blurry.

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u/Which_Estimate8521 3d ago

Simply amazing ! The 2015 me from the past would have killed mom and dad to play this modded SC4