I do like that the 'footprint' of terrain adjustment is much more consistent with where the terrain will actually change. Still trying to learn CS1's awkward 'sort of far away from the footprint and also stretches more to the East than any other direction for no apparent reason', good to know I won't have to in 2. In a similar vein, glad to see the 'ridges' are also gone, they can look nice but they're really annoying, if I want ridges I'll make them, if I want flat I'll make flat, good to know I will be able to do that here. On the minus side, bit disappointed to see no improvements to the slope tool. It needs clear indicators of where you set the slope start/end while you're adjusting, and also the ability to 'lock' those placements if you ever want to release your mouse button in the middle of the process. Not the worst thing ever, but still feels like it will be as annoying to use as it was in CS1. Also kinda disappointed to see no totally new terrain adjustment tools at all. Even SimCity 4 had more. Definitely something mods can cover but I like to see vanilla doing as much as they possibly can.
Awesome thanks egg! Would be so good if they were able to allow you to select multiple trees when entering brush mode. Would make it similar to the forest brush tool in that regard
The tree thing is actually vanilla console functionality in CS1, although the toggling of removing specific/all vegetation is a new thing IIRC. Would be nice to be able to multi-select different tree types in the vegetation panel (I suspect an early mod for this...)
A problem I ran into was, after I widened a river I was no longer allowed to put a harbor on the coast because there was a "No Water" prompt. The game also does not turn the harbor towards the coast like it does with the "natural" coasts.
4000's series cards aren't having an issue, but don't expect to play in 4k on the current version. City Planner has a great video showcasing performance and many different setups
@@OVERCHARGEDEGG Agreed! I am not upgrading my current monitor so it will stay in 1440p. I hear it works best as it is. I hope the devs to optimize this game further for more people to experience this gem.
Still no erosion brush... meaning everything takes 10 times longer to not look man made. its just a brush with random noise that smooths out slowly as you hold the click down - how hard would it be to implement if SC4 could do it
I think the edge of the land is very ugly because of the sharp squares. It was in CS 1 too but i was hoping that it won't look like that in CS 2. Is this like a must have which they can't do nothing with?
I think it's a compromise between performance and visual quality. The ground might be voxel based, which is used sometimes for deforming/destructible terrain and objects, but at the end of the day everything in a game is just polygons, and the more refined something looks, the more polygons it needs to look that way and the more of a performance impact it's going to have because the game needs to compute all those extra polygons. I do wish we had a brush that would square off the edges though and remove the jaggedness. It's really noticeable on the cut and fill roads because the shadow renders based on the terrain rather than the edge of the retaining wall/road and looks super jagged and rough.
Accidentally ran the flatten terrain tool over a river and irreparably seem to have destroyed the entire city. Unless anyone has any specific river repair tutorial? It seems like the terraforming is intended for land use only and touching water with it is a big no-no.
I find terraforming extremely annoying... the terrain height differences on the map really mess with the map... I have spent hours and hours trying to even out differences etc. but there are always strange looking places left where buildings look ridiculous, slopes etc... idk I really really dislike it. You can't just naturally follow the terrain in how you build because the buildings and zones don't behave how they should... it's clear buildings have no idea what to do with the elevation differences
I'm still waiting for a forest brush that let's me sample the population trees under the brush to reproduce the brush that created the trees.
That feature will be in dlc for $5😂
@@alexanderlow919 Or you could learn to mod and add it later....
Besides brush size and strength I wish the elevation set by right clicking appeared in numbers along with other two values.
That would be useful!
So exciting to see what you can do in CS2. Now off to go see the build guide 2 👍
Pretty happy we aren’t giving up the forest brush removal functionality.
I do like that the 'footprint' of terrain adjustment is much more consistent with where the terrain will actually change. Still trying to learn CS1's awkward 'sort of far away from the footprint and also stretches more to the East than any other direction for no apparent reason', good to know I won't have to in 2. In a similar vein, glad to see the 'ridges' are also gone, they can look nice but they're really annoying, if I want ridges I'll make them, if I want flat I'll make flat, good to know I will be able to do that here.
On the minus side, bit disappointed to see no improvements to the slope tool. It needs clear indicators of where you set the slope start/end while you're adjusting, and also the ability to 'lock' those placements if you ever want to release your mouse button in the middle of the process. Not the worst thing ever, but still feels like it will be as annoying to use as it was in CS1.
Also kinda disappointed to see no totally new terrain adjustment tools at all. Even SimCity 4 had more. Definitely something mods can cover but I like to see vanilla doing as much as they possibly can.
Nice to see the greening come in when using the soften tool. 1.x more days til launch!
Only a few hours away from launch! That was two good topics hit at the start - road tools and landscaping.
Thanks. New to CS and I thought I'm going crazy using the tools. When you see it it is super simple. Thank you for the tutorial video!!
Happy to help!
Thank you! As a new player I greatly appreciate this, super helpful.
Life saver. I played the game thinking ( Terraforming ) how hard could it be...... now im here
thank you, I missed that little box on the tree remover too. it was really buggering me.
Awesome thanks egg! Would be so good if they were able to allow you to select multiple trees when entering brush mode. Would make it similar to the forest brush tool in that regard
Prop line tool!
Needed!
The tree thing is actually vanilla console functionality in CS1, although the toggling of removing specific/all vegetation is a new thing IIRC. Would be nice to be able to multi-select different tree types in the vegetation panel (I suspect an early mod for this...)
Brilliant. Thanks man!
No problem!
I was making my first city and accidentally brushed the terrain up, right click isn't working, what do I do??
A problem I ran into was, after I widened a river I was no longer allowed to put a harbor on the coast because there was a "No Water" prompt. The game also does not turn the harbor towards the coast like it does with the "natural" coasts.
2:51 I noticed that the cut&fill road has weird shadow. I thought it was because of my 980ti. But it seems like it happened to you too.
It's the shadow of the terrain underneath,hoping it will be patched
With the slope tool, do you have to right-click then hold and then left-click and hold?
Right click sets the height, then left click and drag from whatever you want to slope up to that height
I think it could be easy to forget that mods gave us many of these functions in CS1, not the base game
Hey egg! I’m planning to upgrade my system a few months after release, do you think 5700x cpu and 4070ti would do well?
4000's series cards aren't having an issue, but don't expect to play in 4k on the current version. City Planner has a great video showcasing performance and many different setups
@@OVERCHARGEDEGG Agreed! I am not upgrading my current monitor so it will stay in 1440p. I hear it works best as it is. I hope the devs to optimize this game further for more people to experience this gem.
This is really helpful the game needs to do better with explaining how to use them because i didnt know about right clicking to set the height at all
Still no erosion brush... meaning everything takes 10 times longer to not look man made. its just a brush with random noise that smooths out slowly as you hold the click down - how hard would it be to implement if SC4 could do it
Thx bro❤
can you build roads on terraformed bodies of water?
I think the edge of the land is very ugly because of the sharp squares. It was in CS 1 too but i was hoping that it won't look like that in CS 2. Is this like a must have which they can't do nothing with?
I think it's a compromise between performance and visual quality. The ground might be voxel based, which is used sometimes for deforming/destructible terrain and objects, but at the end of the day everything in a game is just polygons, and the more refined something looks, the more polygons it needs to look that way and the more of a performance impact it's going to have because the game needs to compute all those extra polygons.
I do wish we had a brush that would square off the edges though and remove the jaggedness. It's really noticeable on the cut and fill roads because the shadow renders based on the terrain rather than the edge of the retaining wall/road and looks super jagged and rough.
@@Khotetsu I knew what you wrote in the first half and i was trying to say what you wrote in the second so we are on the same page
I tried terraforming in cities skylines 2 and it was broken when I clicked the terrain just went down and it was like a square please help
Yes same here. Any updates on this?? Or is it broken again?
@@sofiarxxx7263 still is I am so happy I'm not alone
anyone know if their is a water filling feature like last game? I thought i saw it in a trailer but i could be wrong.
Accidentally ran the flatten terrain tool over a river and irreparably seem to have destroyed the entire city. Unless anyone has any specific river repair tutorial? It seems like the terraforming is intended for land use only and touching water with it is a big no-no.
how to flatten land please help me
this is gonna sound dumb but im still trying to figure out how to add trees to my roads 😅
There is a much better use of level terrain tool - it doubles fps while you hold it 😂
I find terraforming extremely annoying... the terrain height differences on the map really mess with the map... I have spent hours and hours trying to even out differences etc. but there are always strange looking places left where buildings look ridiculous, slopes etc... idk I really really dislike it. You can't just naturally follow the terrain in how you build because the buildings and zones don't behave how they should... it's clear buildings have no idea what to do with the elevation differences