5tudent_Loans this guy is a fuckin bitch. You didn’t learn shit either. All you learned how to do is copy and paste building onto the terrain. The real challenge is realistically developing a city from ground up. No click and paste bullshit.
The "Don't make it perfect" is something that I was taught in a 3D modeling class. A lot of buildings on the workshop look off for precisely that reason. They are just too perfect.
@@shenanigansprings4327 i am building the city of london 1:1 and it is nearly exactly 1 square mile. i have spent at least 8 hours and i have barely done 2 junctions...
@@SpahGaming Aww man, that’s the hard part of recreating a city isn’t it? I try to variate a little bit, I usually first place down the buildings and after that, when I’m feeling dor it, I will detail those blocks. That’s how I build faster.
I love it when you zoom in Tokyo. I think everyone knows that its insanely huge by now. Its famous for that - however, you never really *feel* its size for yourself unless you're at the top of Tokyo Skytree, sitting at the bar they have up there, and just looking at nothing but city in every direction...or looking at it on google maps, and just seeing how much land it stretches across.
I had always thought that if I looked at Google Earth or maps that I would spend to much time trying to make a city look like the real thing instead of my own. After hearing what you said though, that will make a huge difference in my builds.
As someone from the detroit area, I like how in the "roads go somewhere" bit you showed a google earth shot of detroit as an example. Not many know, but the main roads of detroit are called spokes on a wheel here because all the main roads out of detroit head directly to other large cities across the state. Grand river goes from detroit to lansing and then grand rapids for instance, and this came about long before highways, or even cars, came to be.
GLOBΛL If only you realized that he make all the cars in the parking lot straight, because we all know that at least one person parks crookedly and everyone has to adjust so that they don't damage their car.
Well, this is what I'm going to do to make my city better- Step 1: Buy a Computer that is not a potato Step 2: Make a Steam account Step 3: Actually buy the game Step 4: Actually do shit in game.
You know, the skyscraper originated in Chicago, so you might wanna try replicating that city!! That's closer to a city made from part NY & part LA, because it does have the huge buildings like NY, but it also has sprawling suburbs like LA.
After playing CS from day one, and playing all different styles from purely vanilla to building super detailed with 6.000+ Assets and 50 mods, I can give everybody, who wants to build realistically, two tips: 1. There is not that one realistic city. Check some - they all look different. Manhattan is planned and all 90 degree angles, while cities built into mountain slopes or at the coast look wild. 2. Just let it grow. Real cities, at least in Europe, mostly developed where roads came together and where markets were held. Just build a few houses. Build a few more. Build shops and industry. Plant a hotel. Make a new city district somewhere else, connect them. Expand roads, where traffic is. Make whole areas new. Build transportation. It all will come together, and the less you plan, the more realistic it will look.
I so agree about the last point - imperfection! Sometimes I like to break up careful patterns with a 'mistake' or a natural barrier that prevents a human scheme. Makes it feel more real and how cities (used to) be very limited by nature. Also one way I build more European (non American) cities is I like to start with the 'downtown' or where the old city would have been. Like with Paris, you have the Île de la Cité where the first settlement was created and it expanded outward. I like to figure out how an old settlement expanded outward so the most inner part is usually the most prestigious and old. American cities (esp on the West Coast) don't follow that rule as much with the rapid proliferation of surburbs when some cities were just beginning to expand
Pepe Cool that’s because European cities are all very old whilst most American cities were started from the Europeans who had modernity in mind as the US was seen as the new world
Haha funny thing, I play on a so low-end laptop, that I can't build using lots of mods and assets, so I use the default things the game offers, of course I use some mods(18) and assets(~25). Surprisingly it turns out quite realistic, mainly probably because I make small towns and even tho I play at 10fps with >55k population, I still love the way the town turns out to be.
@Pepe Cool Easier said than done when you are Finnish . We have small towns 200km apart from eachother. My 20k people town is literally houses next to a highway. All traffic connected straight to highway with simple trafficlight intersections 😂 www.elisanet.fi/miksuespoo/KaukaantieKartta1.jpg
Good advice. I think you get a more natural looking city when roads follow the land contours, and not everything is at right angles. Planning ahead helps. When you show the clips of your builds where you can see you have done a lot of road work, but, not built on it yet, is the best way to go. Expanding out with large sections, before filling them in, allows you to kind of see where things are going, and you can make alterations before you have buildings there. Bendy roads for the bendy people :p
Skibitth It's far from it, because he put all the cars in the parking lot straight in. No place in the world has such perfection. 2/10 Needs more flaws and errors, because that's what the real world is like.
I just "played" cities skylines for the first time. Well... I used it as a tool to better visualize the scope of a project we're doing in my city now. It was pretty easy to import real elevation data into the game, then overlay satellite imagery and with the blueprints for the project (a pretty large neighborhood we're gonna build over the next 20 years, with housing space for 50~100 thousand people), and then finally lay down in-game roads, buildings, vegetation and zoning on top of that. I have no complaints, this game was PERFECT for that purpose. if i did it with professional 3D modelling software it would take me at least a month of hard work to achieve what took me a day (including the learning curve for everything) with this. It's incredible, anything i want from the game, it's just a matter of googling it and download a mod someone has already made. Plus this has the huge benefit of running in real time, even though it looks a bit crude from up close. But that's not an issue in this case, i just wanted to get a better idea of the sizes and visualize what it might eventually be like. Kinda hard to do that by looking at a flat map with some vector doodling on top.
This looks SO good. I like to listen to City Skylines videos while I work just to zone out. I've begun noticing some huge channels making the most convoluted interchanges and highway networks that aren't at all realistic and then wonder why they have traffic problems. (Ex: a right-hand turn on a freeway to access a side road does not exist in real life.) It's now annoying to listen to their channels because of this. I am impressed with the forethought and reason you put into planning your cities!
I wouldn't say that the decision to change Springwood's theme from NY to LA is a bad one. After all, this is exactly what gives the city a UNIQUE feel, not just another copy/paste style!
How to make a realistic city/region: Step 0: get mods (but don't get too many) Step 1: shape a map to be as realistic as you can (landscape, use google maps/google earth, etc) Step 2: put in the major roads/highways to get the starting traffic onto the map Step 3: create small areas first, then grow them over time Step 4: add detail as you wish
Ohhh nooo, I wish you put some annotations of the locations on the google Images. Some cities look soo interesting, patters that i have never seen before, but i dont know where to find them in order to see more :(
+Seff2 here's a list in a rough order - Cape Town, Berlin, Paris, New York, London, la, Brooklyn, Tokyo, Hollywood, downtown la, Dubai, shanghai, Perth, port Los Angeles - hope that helps
Personally I like to let my cities grow naturally. I build a few cities and then I go in and edit different things about each city on my map and eventually they will develop their own little skylines and then from there they will blend into one another and they will develop a major city. I find that the best way to develop my cities and it gives them stories over time.
You don't need mods, you need custom assets. There are thousands on the workplace.. Just search for one thing and soon enough, you will accidentally download half the library ;P
You dont "need" mods, but if depending on how detailed you want it to be the mods depend. If you want a big city, download "81 tiles." "Move It" mod is good for copying. "Realistic Population" & "realsitic consumption" for realism. I recommend "Fine Road tool" and "Fine road anarchy" for better roads. And also Traffic Manager Presidents edition. If you like detailing(as 2dollars20 or other ytbers, I can recommend about 10 mods. If you want a better looking city, download LUT, map theme, "Classic Daylight" mods. More trees?" Unlimited trees mod" And also, you should download many assets. And also, "Network Extentions 2" for more roads, its better than the custom roads
I already liked your video and wrote this comment after 2 minutes, because you started your video greatly lovely! Always loved SimCIty 4 and love Cities: Skylines and i'm happy that we have the mods from the community to build realistic and beautiful dream cities in these games.
Watched a recent Two Dollars Twenty video in whick he mentions creating the illusion of size and scale in his cities. Would love if he made a video dedicated to explaining this. Its something lots of people struggle with. Keep up the good work.
*Had to pause it at **0:22** for a good minute to admire how Natural everything looks, I feel like Rockstar is creating Los Santos in 2020 here. Look at those dark green trees & cypress/candlestick trees look. omg.* Especially like the detail put into those backyards in the next frame.
Marble Mountain 100% the best build/series on TH-cam hopefully you keep Going lots you can build round the back of the mountain. small towns/airport Ect
I’ve never played this game, but this video makes me excited about building cities! I really want to play this game. It’s incredible how much detail you can put into the builds. It kind of makes me sad, in a way, because it’s like art that basically only the creator will get to enjoy.
LOSERDUDE on the workshop there is a super realistic map based on LA called owls Los Angeles and also there is probably way more California style buildings on the workshop :)
Los angeles is more beachy with an insane amount of stretching residential areas, often connecting multiple cities, So you'll find many different highrise areas. I think of Chicago as having more train systems, a massive downtown with high rises and next to a lake, so more boreal or so.
I have chosen to do a mix of both by making the harbor like LA and it’s a tropical city, but next to water like Chicago and the city is the size is like Chicago. Thanks for the tips guys!
Incredible cities. I'm just starting out in Skylines so your advice is so important at the moment. Really look forward to seeing more of your content. Keep it up!
Ah I miss playing city skylines.. My city is a mix between multiple places found on Google earth, and I actually made them fit nicely together! - Barcelona coast line (+the industrial harbor), merged together with Park Eduardo from Lisbon, and even a part from just outside New York! Looks so neat, even though im not conpletely done building the road network yet, but it still works nicely!!
European cities often have a much longer history with different priorities over their lifespan where US cities are all planned around the idea of being car centric. IMHO strongly planned US cities are quite soulless.
Thanks to this video, I went from it taking me 30 minutes to built an entire city to it taking me 8 hours to built a mile of a state road and a small chunk of highway, but it looks extremely realistic and really good.
Its always the little bits of detail which make your cities some of the best out there! Who knew a few cracks in the road would bring so much more atmosphere and feelings to a city.. :P
Those Are awesome cities. I’m still struggling to keep the city happy with power and water lol. And your building all these realistic cities. Very impressive.
Before i make a city i start with the main "several" entrances to reduce pressure on 1 entrance, and i make sure for traffic stuff, and do plans in my mind to keep the connection with ports and train stations, with the industrial and commercial area, then i build up the residental area which must be beside the commercial area so ppl buy stuff from their, after finishing roads i start placing service stuff according to needed, and i make an island far from ppl but connected to them which is where i put all the trash
i usually just make up a city cause i dont wanna copy anything but u gave me a good idea for finding out road layouts cause when i do them on my own they suck
man alive! the work that went into it... and the particular differences througout the continents. I am absolutely in awe. Is there any chance we can download some of your cities just to get inspired and study them?
Thank you! Unfortunately not. My cities rely on lots of mods and assets that have really particular settings. You’ll just have to enjoy them on TH-cam :)
If you can get historical satellite, the region around denver, particularly south down almost to castle rock has grown very dense in the last 40 years. It still is. If you can overlay the satellite over the years you can watch as each section grows.
![How to Create Realistic Zoning Districts in Cities Skylines [Tutorial for Beginners]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjjvpE5KCKs/mqdefault.jpg)
"I am not an expert on creating a realistic city" bullshit lol. Thanks, i learned alot
not an expert but an artist, there is a difference so he is correct!
That's what I thought when he said it, haha.
5tudent_Loans this guy is a fuckin bitch. You didn’t learn shit either. All you learned how to do is copy and paste building onto the terrain. The real challenge is realistically developing a city from ground up. No click and paste bullshit.
@@coltraindontworryboutit9990 Im sure you cant build what he builds
coltrain Dontworryboutit I’m sure you can’t build a city, either. Hmm... Irony, I smell
You forgot the most important tip. Have a crazy good computer.
Or ps4
I hope you guys are joking? You can't build anything close to this on PS4.
@Ravensfan4life you cannot do mod in console smh
And a lot of time
My basic HP laptop runs this game pretty well with over 1100 assets, I have really detailed cities too.
The "Don't make it perfect" is something that I was taught in a 3D modeling class. A lot of buildings on the workshop look off for precisely that reason. They are just too perfect.
Jonathan Langlois there are really cool rundown assets in the workshop
Indeed. I've got enough to keep me busy for a while.
I bet that is related to the Uncanny Valley effect.
I have the same problem with fake plants. They always look 100% healthy and green, which just ruins the illusion for me.
I could mistake 10:52 for a shot of an actual city.
Ikr. My jaw dropped when I saw that and now I can't close it.
ur saying that it isn't... an actual city???
Looks like Los Santos in GTA 5
It really looks like some big city, kinda like LA
imagine it actually is an actual city
“How to build a realistic city”
Step 1: Spend 10 hours on a square mile
That’s literally me
@@shenanigansprings4327 i am building the city of london 1:1 and it is nearly exactly 1 square mile. i have spent at least 8 hours and i have barely done 2 junctions...
@@SpahGaming Hey that’s nice! I’m recreating Dallas 1:1!
@@dylanwagemans7718 That was 3 weeks ago, i have sunk at least 80 hours in by now and have just completed another "block"
@@SpahGaming Aww man, that’s the hard part of recreating a city isn’t it? I try to variate a little bit, I usually first place down the buildings and after that, when I’m feeling dor it, I will detail those blocks. That’s how I build faster.
I love it when you zoom in Tokyo. I think everyone knows that its insanely huge by now. Its famous for that - however, you never really *feel* its size for yourself unless you're at the top of Tokyo Skytree, sitting at the bar they have up there, and just looking at nothing but city in every direction...or looking at it on google maps, and just seeing how much land it stretches across.
Does it really stretch beyond the horizon?
@@hazri8758 yes, beyond the eyes can see. you can even see mt. Fuji to the southwest. it’s beautiful
I had always thought that if I looked at Google Earth or maps that I would spend to much time trying to make a city look like the real thing instead of my own. After hearing what you said though, that will make a huge difference in my builds.
' I'm not an expert' - expert
What a good comment bruh
As someone from the detroit area, I like how in the "roads go somewhere" bit you showed a google earth shot of detroit as an example. Not many know, but the main roads of detroit are called spokes on a wheel here because all the main roads out of detroit head directly to other large cities across the state. Grand river goes from detroit to lansing and then grand rapids for instance, and this came about long before highways, or even cars, came to be.
Don’t even have small roads. Can’t have shit in Detroit
@@smartfella13 what?
I went a bit overboard with the mic effects on this one - It'll be super pretty in the next vid I promise
mkay
How about a tutorial for using mods next time?!!
+Tiramisu Corleone noted! I'll be making some more of these
You got yourself a new subscriber!
no you went overboard in explaining the word "planning" in as many ways and as long as you could. this vid should've been 3 minutes long tops.
Holy sh*t, that looks *so good!!!* :O
GLOBΛL If only you realized that he make all the cars in the parking lot straight, because we all know that at least one person parks crookedly and everyone has to adjust so that they don't damage their car.
Du bist aber auch echt überall :D
Fluffy MCMuffin Tja, dann ist mein Name ja gar nicht so unpassend :P
Toby Mouz Yes, I did
IKR
Well, this is what I'm going to do to make my city better-
Step 1: Buy a Computer that is not a potato
Step 2: Make a Steam account
Step 3: Actually buy the game
Step 4: Actually do shit in game.
Jason Grace yeah hacked version is kinda boring without the mods and assets
You forgot step 5: get a bunch of mods to complete it.
there is a place called skymods :)
Jason Grace I bought the game but my computer is not too potent so the game it’s a little lagged
M O D S
I found this really helpful, and the C:S community needs more people like you, willing to give tips that are actually helpful.
My game: Stop placing so many props
Me: No.
My game: Fine. I’ll lag then
Love that two Texas icons have made it into your city, Reunion Tower and of course, HEB :)
0:50 It’s Cape Town. Now it gets some recognition for having a good layout
Holy crap! those cities are soooooo good... well made... soooo realistic...
I really want an action video game based in this city. It's so beautiful and full of character. Just wish it was right hand drive. 👌
+Renato Lopez if only!
In America, we drive on the left.
GTA V
Tristan Causer Nah. Seat driver on the left while driving on the right lane.
Renato Lopez I've dreamed this., Maybe a system that "reads" the C:S city and rebuild on GTA V.
You know, the skyscraper originated in Chicago, so you might wanna try replicating that city!! That's closer to a city made from part NY & part LA, because it does have the huge buildings like NY, but it also has sprawling suburbs like LA.
After playing CS from day one, and playing all different styles from purely vanilla to building super detailed with 6.000+ Assets and 50 mods, I can give everybody, who wants to build realistically, two tips: 1. There is not that one realistic city. Check some - they all look different. Manhattan is planned and all 90 degree angles, while cities built into mountain slopes or at the coast look wild. 2. Just let it grow. Real cities, at least in Europe, mostly developed where roads came together and where markets were held. Just build a few houses. Build a few more. Build shops and industry. Plant a hotel. Make a new city district somewhere else, connect them. Expand roads, where traffic is. Make whole areas new. Build transportation. It all will come together, and the less you plan, the more realistic it will look.
I so agree about the last point - imperfection! Sometimes I like to break up careful patterns with a 'mistake' or a natural barrier that prevents a human scheme. Makes it feel more real and how cities (used to) be very limited by nature.
Also one way I build more European (non American) cities is I like to start with the 'downtown' or where the old city would have been. Like with Paris, you have the Île de la Cité where the first settlement was created and it expanded outward. I like to figure out how an old settlement expanded outward so the most inner part is usually the most prestigious and old. American cities (esp on the West Coast) don't follow that rule as much with the rapid proliferation of surburbs when some cities were just beginning to expand
+the11thdoktor I love your comment about breaking up a pattern with a mistake. I'm curious to see what you do!
the11thdoktor n
Pepe Cool that’s because European cities are all very old whilst most American cities were started from the Europeans who had modernity in mind as the US was seen as the new world
Haha funny thing, I play on a so low-end laptop, that I can't build using lots of mods and assets, so I use the default things the game offers, of course I use some mods(18) and assets(~25). Surprisingly it turns out quite realistic, mainly probably because I make small towns and even tho I play at 10fps with >55k population, I still love the way the town turns out to be.
In a shortcut, if you don't have mods there is no way to build a realistic city
You probably live in a shit city if everyone uses one lane and don’t know what yield is
Pepe Cool Wrong. You need mods to add detail and make it look like a real City.
Ian Miles Chungus “OP is wrong *proceeds to agree with OP*”
@Pepe Cool Easier said than done when you are Finnish .
We have small towns 200km apart from eachother.
My 20k people town is literally houses next to a highway. All traffic connected straight to highway with simple trafficlight intersections 😂
www.elisanet.fi/miksuespoo/KaukaantieKartta1.jpg
True. Just getting people to properly use roundabouts takes mods.
Good advice. I think you get a more natural looking city when roads follow the land contours, and not everything is at right angles. Planning ahead helps. When you show the clips of your builds where you can see you have done a lot of road work, but, not built on it yet, is the best way to go. Expanding out with large sections, before filling them in, allows you to kind of see where things are going, and you can make alterations before you have buildings there. Bendy roads for the bendy people :p
+FilterHQ you've got some really good points that I didn't mention and I'll definitely take them on board :)
Perfectly done!
*I love your channel*
Thanks! :D
Skibitth It's far from it, because he put all the cars in the parking lot straight in. No place in the world has such perfection. 2/10 Needs more flaws and errors, because that's what the real world is like.
Skibitth motlsqwiei
Skibitth how do i get this software & is it like computer aided design??
I just "played" cities skylines for the first time. Well... I used it as a tool to better visualize the scope of a project we're doing in my city now. It was pretty easy to import real elevation data into the game, then overlay satellite imagery and with the blueprints for the project (a pretty large neighborhood we're gonna build over the next 20 years, with housing space for 50~100 thousand people), and then finally lay down in-game roads, buildings, vegetation and zoning on top of that.
I have no complaints, this game was PERFECT for that purpose. if i did it with professional 3D modelling software it would take me at least a month of hard work to achieve what took me a day (including the learning curve for everything) with this. It's incredible, anything i want from the game, it's just a matter of googling it and download a mod someone has already made. Plus this has the huge benefit of running in real time, even though it looks a bit crude from up close. But that's not an issue in this case, i just wanted to get a better idea of the sizes and visualize what it might eventually be like. Kinda hard to do that by looking at a flat map with some vector doodling on top.
5:50 view gives off the New York vibe.
9:55. What's the Two Whales Diner from Life is Strange doing in the city? hahaha
4:29 The ambulance in the background, the one behind the parking, where the hell is it going?
It's saving someone in the hotel hall
This looks SO good. I like to listen to City Skylines videos while I work just to zone out. I've begun noticing some huge channels making the most convoluted interchanges and highway networks that aren't at all realistic and then wonder why they have traffic problems. (Ex: a right-hand turn on a freeway to access a side road does not exist in real life.) It's now annoying to listen to their channels because of this. I am impressed with the forethought and reason you put into planning your cities!
“I am not an expert on building realistic cities”
*proceeds to build very detailed and intricate cityscape with ease*
Another amazing way to improve at building cities is just to look at your videos and see what you do to make it look so good.
I wouldn't say that the decision to change Springwood's theme from NY to LA is a bad one. After all, this is exactly what gives the city a UNIQUE feel, not just another copy/paste style!
+Michael Goncharov cheers!
How to make a realistic city/region:
Step 0: get mods (but don't get too many)
Step 1: shape a map to be as realistic as you can (landscape, use google maps/google earth, etc)
Step 2: put in the major roads/highways to get the starting traffic onto the map
Step 3: create small areas first, then grow them over time
Step 4: add detail as you wish
Although I don’t build cities with mods, but this video still helps me
+Oaadles 70 thanks Tone!
Oaadles 70 how can you play it without mods😂
Um when you have a shitty computer
Oaadles 70 you are missing out on alot.
@@juliuserikbunda3946 or when you play on console
10:45 seeing that super familiar central/eastern-european train next to those palm trees cracked me up
Ohhh nooo, I wish you put some annotations of the locations on the google Images. Some cities look soo interesting, patters that i have never seen before, but i dont know where to find them in order to see more :(
+Seff2 here's a list in a rough order - Cape Town, Berlin, Paris, New York, London, la, Brooklyn, Tokyo, Hollywood, downtown la, Dubai, shanghai, Perth, port Los Angeles - hope that helps
Holy sht, I recognized every one right :D I defintely play too much Cities. Need a new Station or Plaza Layout? Google Earth... ;) It helps a lot
Personally I like to let my cities grow naturally. I build a few cities and then I go in and edit different things about each city on my map and eventually they will develop their own little skylines and then from there they will blend into one another and they will develop a major city. I find that the best way to develop my cities and it gives them stories over time.
Wow your mic is amazing. It sounds like radio quality, and I watch a TON of YT. Reminds me of Armin Van Buuren's - A State of Trance show lol.
2:38 - Hollywood Bowl, gotta love it.
What mods do you recommend for a newbie builder?
I want to build a hilly, lake town in European style, but in vanilla it's no bueno :(
You don't need mods, you need custom assets. There are thousands on the workplace.. Just search for one thing and soon enough, you will accidentally download half the library ;P
You dont "need" mods, but if depending on how detailed you want it to be the mods depend.
If you want a big city, download "81 tiles."
"Move It" mod is good for copying.
"Realistic Population" & "realsitic consumption" for realism.
I recommend "Fine Road tool" and "Fine road anarchy" for better roads.
And also Traffic Manager Presidents edition.
If you like detailing(as 2dollars20 or other ytbers, I can recommend about 10 mods.
If you want a better looking city, download LUT, map theme, "Classic Daylight" mods.
More trees?" Unlimited trees mod"
And also, you should download many assets. And also, "Network Extentions 2" for more roads, its better than the custom roads
영준김 also, I recommend "More terraforming tools" and "surface painter" for terraforming.
And also, metro overhaul if you will use Metro/trains
This is my mod list atm, take a look:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1154119187
But it is focused on US-citys.
The part about making neighbourhoods unique is just so true! Lots of cities in reality fail to accomplish that.
1:22 you just made a Chicago style city
I already liked your video and wrote this comment after 2 minutes, because you started your video greatly lovely! Always loved SimCIty 4 and love Cities: Skylines and i'm happy that we have the mods from the community to build realistic and beautiful dream cities in these games.
"some cities don't have train lines" Never seen a city without train line O.O
Since I am building an realistic city too here on YT , this was quite helpful - thanks
imo realism achieved by micromanagement doesn't count. it's like hardcoding output to be correct
this isn't directly about the video just that it isn't terribly impressive to manually place lots of single objects
I know what you mean, I want realistic thru normal game play, not painting pot holes, bushes, and buildings manually
That's not really possible through normal gameplay. The base game doesn't have/need those details. Play Sc4 I guess
Watched a recent Two Dollars Twenty video in whick he mentions creating the illusion of size and scale in his cities. Would love if he made a video dedicated to explaining this. Its something lots of people struggle with. Keep up the good work.
Has American Roads
*Drives on left side*
_Okay_
Yep, that's how he improved it
*Had to pause it at **0:22** for a good minute to admire how Natural everything looks, I feel like Rockstar is creating Los Santos in 2020 here. Look at those dark green trees & cypress/candlestick trees look. omg.* Especially like the detail put into those backyards in the next frame.
Do not forget you are limited by the game itselfe and the computer you use to play the game ;)
Nice to know I’m not the only freak who thinks about history of my city and where it is in the world, it gives me hope...
Thank you I know how to build a realistic city.
Marble Mountain 100% the best build/series on TH-cam hopefully you keep Going lots you can build round the back of the mountain. small towns/airport Ect
9:56 -Two Whales Diner. LIS?
I’ve never played this game, but this video makes me excited about building cities! I really want to play this game. It’s incredible how much detail you can put into the builds. It kind of makes me sad, in a way, because it’s like art that basically only the creator will get to enjoy.
I’m really stuck whether I should do a Los Angeles or Chicago themed city. I’d be happy with either, so what do you guys think I should do?
Chicago, dude. easy to expand, easy public transport layout. simply beautiful.
LOSERDUDE on the workshop there is a super realistic map based on LA called owls Los Angeles and also there is probably way more California style buildings on the workshop :)
Chicago 100%
Los angeles is more beachy with an insane amount of stretching residential areas, often connecting multiple cities, So you'll find many different highrise areas. I think of Chicago as having more train systems, a massive downtown with high rises and next to a lake, so more boreal or so.
I have chosen to do a mix of both by making the harbor like LA and it’s a tropical city, but next to water like Chicago and the city is the size is like Chicago. Thanks for the tips guys!
Incredible cities. I'm just starting out in Skylines so your advice is so important at the moment. Really look forward to seeing more of your content. Keep it up!
Can you please do a European Version?
Ah I miss playing city skylines.. My city is a mix between multiple places found on Google earth, and I actually made them fit nicely together! - Barcelona coast line (+the industrial harbor), merged together with Park Eduardo from Lisbon, and even a part from just outside New York! Looks so neat, even though im not conpletely done building the road network yet, but it still works nicely!!
How to build a realistic city? Copy you
JESUS STEPPDANCING CHRIST u are seriously inspiring o.o my cities never looked this real
Planning it- American cities
Winging it-European cities
European cities often have a much longer history with different priorities over their lifespan where US cities are all planned around the idea of being car centric. IMHO strongly planned US cities are quite soulless.
This definitely helps me with my Project: Fabenport creation.
I have a good tip, mix everything together. Don’t just create separate districts for separate classes (Residential, etc.)
I thought I was looking at 3D mode in google earth! This is beautiful!
3:21 that skyline looks wonderful😍
Oh my word at 01:52 - Find a theme, first city is Cape Town!! My home town!. Love it!
In many ways we may work very differently, but in more ways, our approach is exactly the same! Love this video....
Thanks for the tip. I live in Adelaide, Australia and it was the only city in Australia that was planed before it was built
For building cities set in the past, looking at old plat maps and road layouts of cities really helps. Go have a look through some web archives!
Thanks to this video, I went from it taking me 30 minutes to built an entire city to it taking me 8 hours to built a mile of a state road and a small chunk of highway, but it looks extremely realistic and really good.
Its always the little bits of detail which make your cities some of the best out there! Who knew a few cracks in the road would bring so much more atmosphere and feelings to a city.. :P
I have only just realized how detailed this game is!
Those Are awesome cities. I’m still struggling to keep the city happy with power and water lol. And your building all these realistic cities. Very impressive.
5:43 7-11 Open 24 hours- Closes at 9pm BWAHAHA . Great job, by the way!! City looks so real.
Before i make a city i start with the main "several" entrances to reduce pressure on 1 entrance, and i make sure for traffic stuff, and do plans in my mind to keep the connection with ports and train stations, with the industrial and commercial area, then i build up the residental area which must be beside the commercial area so ppl buy stuff from their, after finishing roads i start placing service stuff according to needed, and i make an island far from ppl but connected to them which is where i put all the trash
Your Los Santos is incredible. Two thumbs up.
That's Los Angeles and not Los Santos
So close to 1M..!
Hey! Thumbs up from Cape Town! Recognized it immediately in the vid.
i usually just make up a city cause i dont wanna copy anything but u gave me a good idea for finding out road layouts cause when i do them on my own they suck
Finally a perfectionist brotha, I'm not alone in this world :,^
Holy shit man, your cities are so beautiful... I wish I could thing out the city in cities skylines in the way you do. Mad skills, bro.
Jesus Christ it’s so realistic that I thought that the thumbnail was a real picture and was clickbait! Way to prove me wrong!
Loved the drone style footage!
Really helpful information too
man alive! the work that went into it... and the particular differences througout the continents. I am absolutely in awe. Is there any chance we can download some of your cities just to get inspired and study them?
Thank you! Unfortunately not. My cities rely on lots of mods and assets that have really particular settings. You’ll just have to enjoy them on TH-cam :)
Really helpful vid with some real advice. I would love to see more vids like this 220
Oh my gosh, beautiful builds
Thank you. Just bought this game and this was helpful.
You are an expert, This is AMAZING!
Amazing! Looks like a city you'll find in GTA
Stumbled upon this by accident. I'm excited to start watching your gameplay. Subscribed! 😄
+wawa welcome aboard!
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Nicely done video! I am thinking about getting into this myself, this was a great place to start!
Thank you for giving me so many more ideas for my city’s just by this video
honestly thought the thumbnail was an actual city. then the video played and my mind was blown.
Omg. You are so good at building.
Thank you.
Also helpful for Tropico.
If you can get historical satellite, the region around denver, particularly south down almost to castle rock has grown very dense in the last 40 years. It still is. If you can overlay the satellite over the years you can watch as each section grows.
Very high quality!! amazing channel, definitely subscribing
+Samuel Carter thank you!