Ok, so one day about two years ago I was at a job, looking at photos from Honolulu, observing the beaches, skyscrapers and roads, and it occured to me, how cool would it be to have a city covering a whole island in the middle of the ocean. When I came home that day, I sit in front of the computer, and started to creating an island coast border in AutoCAD. I made it managable size, that I could fill it with the streets and buildings in short time, so I could start expanding it soon. I didn't save separate files until here, so I can't show you how it all started. I can just say, that the first thing I constructed was this big castle-like building in the south peninsula. I imagined it like this middle age piece of real estate around which a village started to grow. I made this little piers at the very south of the island, and I imagined that this will boost construction of large mansions where rich people will come to the vacation with their yachts. After I filled this peninsula, I've decided that it will took more than a few piers to form a city, so I constructed a hotel resort on the left side on the beginning of the peninsula. Some people had to work in there, so they started to build houses northeast of the hotel. Those were first permanent citizens on the island. More resorts started to appear by the beach, south of these houses, and a service building (store, post office, etc.) was constructed east from the first hotel right across the street. Somewhere around then, I felt that I have to construct a yacht/boat port on the northwest side of an island, so I just began drawing lines, when this screenshot was taken.
I have to explain that these were the real beginnings, I would (as I did later) plan wider streets, room for cars, parking spaces and those kind of things, but still - it was a lot of fun for me to later revitalise the old town, while trying to keep historical buildings intact. But at this time, there weren't any cars on the island. I should also explain that a grey line marks the coastline and green line different properties (building blocks). Buildings are so far all white and mostly without a hatch, which just started to change in this phase. At this point island was a warm tropical resort with a few mansions and resorts on the south.
Ok, so one day about two years ago I was at a job, looking at photos from Honolulu, observing the beaches, skyscrapers and roads, and it occured to me, how cool would it be to have a city covering a whole island in the middle of the ocean. When I came home that day, I sit in front of the computer, and started to creating an island coast border in AutoCAD. I made it managable size, that I could fill it with the streets and buildings in short time, so I could start expanding it soon. I didn't save separate files until here, so I can't show you how it all started. I can just say, that the first thing I constructed was this big castle-like building in the south peninsula. I imagined it like this middle age piece of real estate around which a village started to grow. I made this little piers at the very south of the island, and I imagined that this will boost construction of large mansions where rich people will come to the vacation with their yachts. After I filled this peninsula, I've decided that it will took more than a few piers to form a city, so I constructed a hotel resort on the left side on the beginning of the peninsula. Some people had to work in there, so they started to build houses northeast of the hotel. Those were first permanent citizens on the island. More resorts started to appear by the beach, south of these houses, and a service building (store, post office, etc.) was constructed east from the first hotel right across the street. Somewhere around then, I felt that I have to construct a yacht/boat port on the northwest side of an island, so I just began drawing lines, when this screenshot was taken.
I have to explain that these were the real beginnings, I would (as I did later) plan wider streets, room for cars, parking spaces and those kind of things, but still - it was a lot of fun for me to later revitalise the old town, while trying to keep historical buildings intact. But at this time, there weren't any cars on the island. I should also explain that a grey line marks the coastline and green line different properties (building blocks). Buildings are so far all white and mostly without a hatch, which just started to change in this phase. At this point island was a warm tropical resort with a few mansions and resorts on the south.
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