Thanks for the great feedback on this tutorial! A few additional notes - since I was trying to keep the video as short and concise as possible: 1. The collection in the description of the video is complete and contains all of the visual mods you will need, including all necessary requirements of those mods. Do not subscribe to *any* additional mods that affect the visuals in the game. Mods such as Sharp textures, Clouds and Fog Toggler, Post Process FX v1.9.0, etc. are all either incompatible or included with these mods and may cause issues or the game to not load. 2. This includes the recommended mod dependencies of *Relight* - Do not subscribe to Ultimate Eye Candy and Shadow Strength Adjuster. 3. Pittsburgh is a hilly city, if your city is not - lower both your *Horizon Height setting* and *Fog Height* settings gradually in Fog Controller until you see the blue horizon right above your map and fog is at the desired level. 4. You may want to adjust Longitude and Latitude in Theme Mixer. Mine is set for a city in Midwestern/Rust-Belt region of the US. Look up the values to your desired region to adjust for extra realism. 5. Most Cubemaps on the workshop have an ideal Longtitude, Latitude, and time of day to make the sun light the cubemap and skybox correctly. To see the the ideal settings, check the workshop pictures for the cubemap you’ve downloaded on steam. I hope this tutorial was helpful for your city’s visuals and lighting! If you have any additional questions, feel free to comment them below.
*About point 3.. that was my problem in they beginning this blue line so a lower it too almost 20 and visibility very far. *point 4... I forgot in my san Diego build thanks for they tip.
Thanks for stopping by $2.20! I can’t even express how much of an inspiration your series’s have been on my cities and recent dive into content creation. I’m glad you found the tips helpful :)
I've never gone this deep into the graphics rabbit hole thus far, but this video gave me the inspiration to try it out. What a difference! Compatibility Report cringes a little with some of these mods, but it all works after the latest update. I also installed Relight without Ultimate Eyecandy, Shadow Strength Adjuster, and Ability to Read and it all works just fine.
Yes, thank you for the comment. Those recommended dependencies for Relight are all outdated so you did the correct thing not to add them. I tried to make the collection complete, so no other graphics mods should be added additionally. Compatibility report will say Relight is outdated as well, and it may be somewhat outdated, but I think it’s absolutely vital for achieving nice visuals!
@apd1004: Well, as you already had the ability to read, the "Ability to Read" dependency was superfluous, no? All jokes aside, the "Ability to Read" mod is an inside joke for mod makers that were tired of telling people to RTFM and just pointed out these users needed the "Ability to Read" using this "dependency"... REV0 even made 4 iterations: "Ability to read", "Ability to comprehend", "Ability to Use Translator", and the most pressing "Ability to Use Common Sense", for the hardcore PebCaK People...
@@thefreephilosopher7398 - Hehe... PEBCAK; it's been awhile since I worked in Best Buy tech services (18 years... holy crap) but we also used that term a LOT. LOL
Great job. I play vanilla-ish gameplay with 81 tyles mod, next to no workshop assets & lifestyle mods on an average pc. Following these tips has enhanced my in game enjoyment 1000%. I had previously stayed away from most of these visual mods for fear that my pc wouldn't be able to handle them & the sim together. Your video gave me the confidence to try them out.
Mine didn't really end up looking like your at all. It would be useful to show it start from a 'vanilla' look. Then for each setting showed show what it should look like at that point. Would make it easier to identify and what step it went wrong. I believe it may be due to the menus looking alot different now. Also the LUT will not apply from theme mixer, I had to do it in Render it.
Same. Mine looks like a hot mess. Super contrasty, blown out whites, pitch black shadows. If I select a LUT in Theme Mixer 2.5 it does nothing until I enable LUT in Render It - and that's the instant switch to looking horrible. Also what map theme is being used in Theme Mixer? Some look ok, others look like a nuclear wasteland.
realistic cities skylines graphics? what is this sorccery! Great video, many things have changed since pres's old graphics mod videos! Great work Matty!
This is insane! Not only do your videos (and cities) look great, but also you're kind enough to give us all a thorough tutorial. I'll definitely check if I have all the listed mods in my collection and tweak the settings as soon as I return to the game.
@@GaseousStranger I have tried my best but I am not 100% successful in achieving the desired result. Of course this will never work because LUT, map theme, clouds, are different for everyone and even the PC can't handle this for most people. I'm pretty close but the really crystal clear texture remains a problem. Thanks for the video anyway, will always try to achieve a nice result with tickling the settings.
@@rwiggerts If you would like to join the discord, I’d be happy to try to help troubleshoot with you! I hope you’re able to get your graphics just right :)
@@GaseousStranger first of all thank you for your comment and secondly i don't use discord. I managed to get to 85% similarity as far as possible with my game. I have never been completely satisfied with Fog controller to obtain a pleasant result since it came out. So I'm going to remove that and see if it works without it. Since I use San Diego as a reference for my build, it has a different climate than Pittsburg, you may have seen my screens because I post it on the Facebook page of users CS. When I have some time again I will experiment with settings a bit more.
One should note that the type of monitor you use has a major impact on visuals overall. It might not turn out how you want it to if you are using lets say a TN Panel, that has very matte colors.
Hey Biffa! Thanks for stopping by, I’m glad you found the guide helpful, just as I’ve found countless videos of yours helpful :) I have a pretty beefy PC that I built completely around C:S, content creation, and most recently 3D modeling! GPU - RTX 3090 CPU - i9 10900k RAM - 64GB 3000MHz Memory (256 GB dedicated to page file) - 2TB Samsung 970 EVO plus Storage - 4TB Seagate Barracuda
@Gaseous Stranger thanks 😊 That's a beefy pc indeed! I'm due an upgrade and want to pick some parts that'll really help me push the CS graphics further than I can at the moment while recording too.
I definitely recommend looking at CPU’s with high single core clock speeds, that makes the biggest difference I believe in the performance of the simulation and reducing lag/stuttering. After that, of course fast RAM and an equally fast page file make a big difference as well. 64GB is the max that the game can take advantage of. For your page file, you can set the storage up to 4x of your RAM amount to load in additional assets beyond the limit of your RAM. The GPU was mostly to aid in video editing and now comes in handy for 3D modeling, but in C:S it’s completely unnecessary! I never really surpass more than 10-12gb of VRAM even while pushing the limits of every graphics mod in dense areas. I hope you enjoy the new parts you decide to pick up :)
Making some of these changes is already a vast improvement on the visuals ... I have been struggling with overly green and too-dark shadows for too long now.
you are a life saver... I've been hunting for mods like this but not knowing the names is cumbersome to say the least... I just hope my City comes out looking as good as yours
The easiest yet most thorough tutorial to follow so far. Thank you for all the work in this! Question though, at 2:54, "Classic Fog (Enable Cubemap)" is unchecked. On my side when its left unchecked, the sky is left pure blue with only some of the AD clouds in place. Shouldn't it be checked to enable use of the Cubemap Replacer? When I checked Classic Fog (Enable Cubemap), the entire sky populated with the cubemap I selected.
That setting is sometimes broken, thanks for bringing it to my attention and apologies for not mentioning that in the video. If checking the box creates the skybox as expected for you, go ahead and use that setting. In my save, it only works if I unselect the setting. Hope this helps to clear things up!
I just want to thank you, after seeing all the videos with realistic views, I can finally create something that looks and feels real. Again thank you for the pointers.
Just wanted to say thanks for this video! I thought my city was ugly… turns out it was just my mod settings. It’s like night and day and there are moments where I caught myself saying “wow” at parts of my city I’d seen dozens of times before
Love this video, your city looks absolutely beautiful. I have one problem tho: i have downloaded all the visual mods you have and set everything with precise numbers as you did in this video, except for the dinamic resolution (had to keep it at 150%, or max at 200 or I have too low fps), and my game doesn't really look like your. I gotta say that I got this game just a few days ago, played for just a few hours spent mostly struggling with the damn roundabout exits, built some houses etc, and that's almost basically it. After that I closed the game and looked for some mods to help me with the nodes, marking tools etc.. Well..All this is beside the point, but I've looked for some nice graphic mods too like in this video and I can't figure out why my game still looks bad. Now I've started a new city where I didn't build much, but I can already see, for example from the trees, that the graphic is still kinda grainy even after I've installed everything in your visual mod collection. Do you have any suggestion? My pc specs are: CPU - Intel I7-8700 GPU - RTX 2060 RAM - 16GB
As a *LONG* time user of Ultimate Eye Candy, it’s well worth the transition. On top of some moderate performance gains, you are able to achieve so much more visually with Render-it! I held on to Ultimate Eye Candy until just a few months ago because I could never get the settings right, it ruined my visuals and it was intimidating to start over. But after many hours of tweaks and adjustments, I was able to get the game looking better than ever before. Now hopefully this video provides a good starting point, so nobody else needs to spend hours in the settings :)
I was doing fine following along and copying settings with RenderIt until I got to Advanced - where your tab looks COMPLETELY different than mine. On my game, the 'Advanced' tab only has a place for keymap settings for profiles and nothing else?? (whereas your shows a large variety of additional settings) I only dl'd it a few days ago so I assume I got the most current version, but I will check again... Also (for anyone searching like I had to) , to get into the Relight options you need to click Shift + Alt + L Having said that, thank you very much for this video - it's always frustrated me that the game was so flat I sometimes couldn't tell when it was going up or down. Those days will be gone for good! (or at least until the mod providers abandon them.) :)
Oh hey, it's Pittsburgh! It looks way better in game than in real life imo. I have most of these mods but I haven't messed with their settings much. I'll have to give that another go.
@@SpahGaming He mentioned in another comment that he has an RTX3090 and Intel i9 10900k. I'll be trying this out ASAP as I have an RTX3090 also, and a laptop with an RTX3080ti. 😈😈😈
@@Quigomy i have an rx 6900xt, comperable to the 3090, and 5% slower, tops in any other game, but im only getting 20 fps, and at most 40 fps with all his mods and settings, in my city...
Wow, I flew over from the UK to visit Pittsburgh only six weeks ago, and its uncanny how closely you've nailed it! Wish I could zip back and have another pint in Satalio's pub overlooking the city from Mt. Washington, while watching videos of your build. :)
I was about to be driving down the stretch of highway in the thumbnail and could not believe my eyes. As someone who has seen that imagine in person hundreds of times, that is ultra realistic! love it!
Hey, this is a brilliant tutorial! Was wondering if you could do an updated version with the Relight and Daylight Classic settings converted to the Render It! mod?
Thanks for the video. I always get mixed feelings when I see these C:S realistic graphics video's. On one end they are really gorgeous, but every time when I try to copy it (even these precise settings as shown in the video) my result doesn't even come close to these realistic. I'm using the same theme's, mods etc, but it still just looks meh🤷♂ And Render It has changed so much and seem to keep certain settings "hostage" by now. In your and most video's around these awesome graphics settings from the 12 months all have the Vanilla Tonemapping and Vanilla Color Correction LUT settings not active, but when I do that on my end no LUT ever gets applied, nor does the Relight settings. And when I do activate it, the graphics still won't look as close as f.e. 4:43
Thanks for this, I've just copied your settings to use as a base to slightly tweak, other than the coordinates which are correct for my city. I don't get the clouds looking as good as yours, I must have another mod conflicting with it, coz I've been playing around trying to sort this for years. Will have to go through and workout which mods are conflicting tomorrow. Cheers
Make sure to not subscribe to any visual mods other than the ones mentioned in the video and included in the collection in the description (even the popular ones like Shadow strength adjuster, Cloud and fog toggler, etc) as they may introduce issues and conflicts
I had completely messed up my graphics with the neutral white and black in out stuff and other values and I am still so upset but this tutorial seems very promising and I am going to give it a shot. Thank you for making this tutorial. Feedback: Timestamps with the mod names in the video description would be great for navigating the video 🙂
Thank you for this! I really wanted to go back to this game after having to deal with Cities Skylines 2… I guess the next thing to do is to buy ALL of the DLCs
@@darklightning No, that mod is outdated now and replaced by render-it and play it. It will conflict with these mods and cause issues when used together with this set up
@@GaseousStranger ok thanks! Does any of the replacing mods have the feature to change daytime? At the moment, this is the sole reason I'm using ultimate eyecandy
Always had trouble understanding which mods to combine and how to set them up, this video cleared everything up and made my game look amazing like I always wanted to, big help thank you!
Great video, though the Render it! mod has been updated and doesn't match exactly to your video now. Any way you could show an updated video with how the mod works/looks?
With how often mods change, I can’t maintain an updated guide on them unfortunately. All settings shown in the video will translate over to the new mods well. However, I still currently use this same mod-list and it works great for me!
My wife and I just bought a new gaming rig, and I plugged your settings in to my game after I installed it, and it looks great! Thank you for this! Side question: what blend of trees do you use for your wooded areas?
I'll add a couple more things with your permission) Post process FX. Edit highlights of light areas of buildings... also adds its own touch of realism)
And it’s worth adding (although maybe I missed or didn’t hear ahah) that if you set the texture setting to a high level, then you need to take into account that big cities may not pull some PC builds... like mine)
Desperately trying the clouds to work as intended. At 2:54, the clouds didn't look like that when I turned off classic fog. I have HDRI Haven Pack, 8K clouds pack. The settings are pretty much the same except fog and horizon height.
Thanks for the great feedback on this tutorial! A few additional notes - since I was trying to keep the video as short and concise as possible:
1. The collection in the description of the video is complete and contains all of the visual mods you will need, including all necessary requirements of those mods. Do not subscribe to *any* additional mods that affect the visuals in the game. Mods such as Sharp textures, Clouds and Fog Toggler, Post Process FX v1.9.0, etc. are all either incompatible or included with these mods and may cause issues or the game to not load.
2. This includes the recommended mod dependencies of *Relight* - Do not subscribe to Ultimate Eye Candy and Shadow Strength Adjuster.
3. Pittsburgh is a hilly city, if your city is not - lower both your *Horizon Height setting* and *Fog Height* settings gradually in Fog Controller until you see the blue horizon right above your map and fog is at the desired level.
4. You may want to adjust Longitude and Latitude in Theme Mixer. Mine is set for a city in Midwestern/Rust-Belt region of the US. Look up the values to your desired region to adjust for extra realism.
5. Most Cubemaps on the workshop have an ideal Longtitude, Latitude, and time of day to make the sun light the cubemap and skybox correctly. To see the the ideal settings, check the workshop pictures for the cubemap you’ve downloaded on steam.
I hope this tutorial was helpful for your city’s visuals and lighting! If you have any additional questions, feel free to comment them below.
*About point 3.. that was my problem in they beginning this blue line so a lower it too almost 20 and visibility very far.
*point 4... I forgot in my san Diego build thanks for they tip.
I think you should pin this
@@neil.simmons Oops thanks! I thought I did 😅
sir can you share your pc rig details
@@GaseousStranger what map theme do you use?
This is fantastic! I picked up some great tips in here. Thank you!!
Glad to hear it was helpful CPP! 😄 Hope you have a Happy New Years
if even you find great tips here this must be amazing
It's great to see the C:SL creators and modders working together to make the game even better for everyone.
Honestly, if CityPlanner gives a good testimony, I need not look at other comments to know if this video is any good.
Great tips! Going to implement a lot of this. Your graphics look amazing
Thanks for stopping by $2.20! I can’t even express how much of an inspiration your series’s have been on my cities and recent dive into content creation. I’m glad you found the tips helpful :)
@@GaseousStranger oh thanks man! So glad to hear! I’m really enjoying your videos as well. Glad it’s reciprocated 😊
@@twodollarstwenty im subbed to you helllo!
@@twodollarstwentyHello
@@twodollarstwentyI’m Aussie too!
Your default settings might be just perfect for the autumn look I'm going for. Thanks for the guide!
Of course! Happy to help :)
my computer just ran away and hid
How the fuck did that happen
@@thimdoungpanya5461idk
Then I guess he can also run all these mods
I've never gone this deep into the graphics rabbit hole thus far, but this video gave me the inspiration to try it out. What a difference! Compatibility Report cringes a little with some of these mods, but it all works after the latest update. I also installed Relight without Ultimate Eyecandy, Shadow Strength Adjuster, and Ability to Read and it all works just fine.
Yes, thank you for the comment. Those recommended dependencies for Relight are all outdated so you did the correct thing not to add them. I tried to make the collection complete, so no other graphics mods should be added additionally. Compatibility report will say Relight is outdated as well, and it may be somewhat outdated, but I think it’s absolutely vital for achieving nice visuals!
@apd1004: Well, as you already had the ability to read, the "Ability to Read" dependency was superfluous, no?
All jokes aside, the "Ability to Read" mod is an inside joke for mod makers that were tired of telling people to RTFM and just pointed out these users needed the "Ability to Read" using this "dependency"... REV0 even made 4 iterations: "Ability to read", "Ability to comprehend", "Ability to Use Translator", and the most pressing "Ability to Use Common Sense", for the hardcore PebCaK People...
@@thefreephilosopher7398 - Hehe... PEBCAK; it's been awhile since I worked in Best Buy tech services (18 years... holy crap) but we also used that term a LOT. LOL
Great job. I play vanilla-ish gameplay with 81 tyles mod, next to no workshop assets & lifestyle mods on an average pc. Following these tips has enhanced my in game enjoyment 1000%. I had previously stayed away from most of these visual mods for fear that my pc wouldn't be able to handle them & the sim together. Your video gave me the confidence to try them out.
the video encouraged me to do it and my computer was too weak to run it and now cities skylines wont run 🤷♂️
I was getting 100 fps, now I get 25. Not sure what went wrong.
Nice tips man, a lot of those settings in RenderIt don't really mean much to a lot, helpful to see how someone tweaks things :)
Hey thanks for stopping by OE! I appreciate the kind comment :)
Mine didn't really end up looking like your at all. It would be useful to show it start from a 'vanilla' look. Then for each setting showed show what it should look like at that point. Would make it easier to identify and what step it went wrong. I believe it may be due to the menus looking alot different now. Also the LUT will not apply from theme mixer, I had to do it in Render it.
Same here, especially my sky and clouds ended up looking nothing like in the video.
I had the same issue. Dynamic Resolution was the game changer. Once I cranked that up to 400%, I was 100% satisfied.
Same. Mine looks like a hot mess. Super contrasty, blown out whites, pitch black shadows. If I select a LUT in Theme Mixer 2.5 it does nothing until I enable LUT in Render It - and that's the instant switch to looking horrible. Also what map theme is being used in Theme Mixer? Some look ok, others look like a nuclear wasteland.
Sorry to hear that
@@DM-fe2bc 400% resolution = 100% satisfaction funny
Wow, I thought the intro was real life. It's crazy how photorealistic you can get this game to be.
Thank you 😄
@@GaseousStranger What theme are you using?
realistic cities skylines graphics? what is this sorccery! Great video, many things have changed since pres's old graphics mod videos! Great work Matty!
The real question is can the vanilla asset guy make an exception for some visual mods 😉 Thanks for stopping by Teddy! Glad you enjoyed the video
@@GaseousStranger ive been laying low on graphic mods recently, your video may just be what i needed to go back in there guns blazing ;)
This is insane! Not only do your videos (and cities) look great, but also you're kind enough to give us all a thorough tutorial.
I'll definitely check if I have all the listed mods in my collection and tweak the settings as soon as I return to the game.
Amazing Guide. I was able to succesfully apply the settings and got gorgeos results. Thanks a lot!
Thanks, your tutorial came just in time, as the recent update has reset my grafic settings
We have homework for the weekend. 👍🏼
You got this! Hope it helps 😄
@@GaseousStranger have them already in use only fine tunig is always a litte bit difficult.
@@GaseousStranger I have tried my best but I am not 100% successful in achieving the desired result. Of course this will never work because LUT, map theme, clouds, are different for everyone and even the PC can't handle this for most people. I'm pretty close but the really crystal clear texture remains a problem. Thanks for the video anyway, will always try to achieve a nice result with tickling the settings.
@@rwiggerts If you would like to join the discord, I’d be happy to try to help troubleshoot with you! I hope you’re able to get your graphics just right :)
@@GaseousStranger
first of all thank you for your comment and secondly i don't use discord. I managed to get to 85% similarity as far as possible with my game. I have never been completely satisfied with Fog controller to obtain a pleasant result since it came out. So I'm going to remove that and see if it works without it. Since I use San Diego as a reference for my build, it has a different climate than Pittsburg, you may have seen my screens because I post it on the Facebook page of users CS. When I have some time again I will experiment with settings a bit more.
Wow as a Pittsburgher and city building game fan, I am in complete awe of your Pittsburgh. So cool to see our fair city recreated here so exactly.
Same, I am stunned! The opening shot of the video is my drive into work every morning and I had to do a double take
Here we go
It just needs more traffic 😆
Thank you! I always wonder how people make their cities skylines look good, Thank you for the tutorial!
One should note that the type of monitor you use has a major impact on visuals overall. It might not turn out how you want it to if you are using lets say a TN Panel, that has very matte colors.
Thank you so much for making this! I really like how mine turned out. Have a nice day
Theme Mixer alone does quite good job; if color correction is set to relightavarage
Thank you so much, usually these how to videos are unsensically long and stretched out, this is perfect
Thank You So much :) I really Loved Your Graphics. Your tutorial was straight on point easy to understand and implement for me too :D
Very helpful info, thanks. What's your pc spec out of interest?
Hey Biffa! Thanks for stopping by, I’m glad you found the guide helpful, just as I’ve found countless videos of yours helpful :)
I have a pretty beefy PC that I built completely around C:S, content creation, and most recently 3D modeling!
GPU - RTX 3090
CPU - i9 10900k
RAM - 64GB 3000MHz
Memory (256 GB dedicated to page file) - 2TB Samsung 970 EVO plus
Storage - 4TB Seagate Barracuda
@Gaseous Stranger thanks 😊 That's a beefy pc indeed! I'm due an upgrade and want to pick some parts that'll really help me push the CS graphics further than I can at the moment while recording too.
I definitely recommend looking at CPU’s with high single core clock speeds, that makes the biggest difference I believe in the performance of the simulation and reducing lag/stuttering. After that, of course fast RAM and an equally fast page file make a big difference as well. 64GB is the max that the game can take advantage of. For your page file, you can set the storage up to 4x of your RAM amount to load in additional assets beyond the limit of your RAM.
The GPU was mostly to aid in video editing and now comes in handy for 3D modeling, but in C:S it’s completely unnecessary! I never really surpass more than 10-12gb of VRAM even while pushing the limits of every graphics mod in dense areas. I hope you enjoy the new parts you decide to pick up :)
@Gaseous Stranger thanks for the help, off to pick some parts! 😁👍
Making some of these changes is already a vast improvement on the visuals ... I have been struggling with overly green and too-dark shadows for too long now.
you are a life saver... I've been hunting for mods like this but not knowing the names is cumbersome to say the least... I just hope my City comes out looking as good as yours
This is great. Would love the mods you use for more realistic/real world building and cars too
The easiest yet most thorough tutorial to follow so far. Thank you for all the work in this!
Question though, at 2:54, "Classic Fog (Enable Cubemap)" is unchecked. On my side when its left unchecked, the sky is left pure blue with only some of the AD clouds in place. Shouldn't it be checked to enable use of the Cubemap Replacer? When I checked Classic Fog (Enable Cubemap), the entire sky populated with the cubemap I selected.
That setting is sometimes broken, thanks for bringing it to my attention and apologies for not mentioning that in the video. If checking the box creates the skybox as expected for you, go ahead and use that setting. In my save, it only works if I unselect the setting. Hope this helps to clear things up!
@2:20, the Curtis Building from Evansville, IN. Nice.
Amazing work! Glad to see the video got the attention it deserves!
Thank you Will!
ALREADY 2023 I LOVE IT. HAPPY NEW YEAR GASEOUS STRANGER!
Great work, thank you for this tutorial video! It's probably the best one on YT!
Thank you! 😄
Hey man, thanks for a great put together tutorial, easy to understand and clearly, precise explained.
Happy to help! Thank you!
I just want to thank you, after seeing all the videos with realistic views, I can finally create something that looks and feels real. Again thank you for the pointers.
Happy to help! The mods have gone through a few changes since this released but the settings should all translate over well
Thank you for this video I’ve been trying to figure out how to download mods for months and this was super helpful👍
Happy to help! 😄
Just wanted to say thanks for this video! I thought my city was ugly… turns out it was just my mod settings. It’s like night and day and there are moments where I caught myself saying “wow” at parts of my city I’d seen dozens of times before
Gorgeous city man!! Looks great to see it replicated so well! I don’t come to the city often but about an hour on the turnpike and I’m there ❤️
1:00 Render it
1:59 Relight
3:20 Cloud
4:31 ULOD
3:43
4:23
4:47
2:05 Theme mixer
2:24 (205)
2:47 (Fog) (Succeed)
3:00
1:38 Render it
Great video. I also like the background jazz song.
Love this video, your city looks absolutely beautiful.
I have one problem tho: i have downloaded all the visual mods you have and set everything with precise numbers as you did in this video, except for the dinamic resolution (had to keep it at 150%, or max at 200 or I have too low fps), and my game doesn't really look like your.
I gotta say that I got this game just a few days ago, played for just a few hours spent mostly struggling with the damn roundabout exits, built some houses etc, and that's almost basically it. After that I closed the game and looked for some mods to help me with the nodes, marking tools etc.. Well..All this is beside the point, but I've looked for some nice graphic mods too like in this video and I can't figure out why my game still looks bad. Now I've started a new city where I didn't build much, but I can already see, for example from the trees, that the graphic is still kinda grainy even after I've installed everything in your visual mod collection.
Do you have any suggestion?
My pc specs are:
CPU - Intel I7-8700
GPU - RTX 2060
RAM - 16GB
Only person who could convince me to switch to render it! Thanks for the great vid
As a *LONG* time user of Ultimate Eye Candy, it’s well worth the transition. On top of some moderate performance gains, you are able to achieve so much more visually with Render-it!
I held on to Ultimate Eye Candy until just a few months ago because I could never get the settings right, it ruined my visuals and it was intimidating to start over. But after many hours of tweaks and adjustments, I was able to get the game looking better than ever before. Now hopefully this video provides a good starting point, so nobody else needs to spend hours in the settings :)
That is so photorealistic, that's amazing ! 🤩 And I have a question for "Render It!", just what is the hotkey ? 😅
There is a button that looks like a dice that will open it :)
I was doing fine following along and copying settings with RenderIt until I got to Advanced - where your tab looks COMPLETELY different than mine. On my game, the 'Advanced' tab only has a place for keymap settings for profiles and nothing else?? (whereas your shows a large variety of additional settings) I only dl'd it a few days ago so I assume I got the most current version, but I will check again...
Also (for anyone searching like I had to) , to get into the Relight options you need to click Shift + Alt + L
Having said that, thank you very much for this video - it's always frustrated me that the game was so flat I sometimes couldn't tell when it was going up or down. Those days will be gone for good! (or at least until the mod providers abandon them.) :)
Oh hey, it's Pittsburgh! It looks way better in game than in real life imo. I have most of these mods but I haven't messed with their settings much. I'll have to give that another go.
Haha thank you! Hope the settings help :)
bro the intersection at 4:05 I recognized immediately... this pittsburgh replica is incredible!
Thinking about returning to the game after 2 years absence, and this video is a great place to start! Thank you!
Your recreation of da 'Burgh is amazing.
I wonder how powerful your rig must be to load such beautiful graphics!
I think its a 4090, not sure though
@@SpahGaming He mentioned in another comment that he has an RTX3090 and Intel i9 10900k.
I'll be trying this out ASAP as I have an RTX3090 also, and a laptop with an RTX3080ti. 😈😈😈
@@Quigomy i have an rx 6900xt, comperable to the 3090, and 5% slower, tops in any other game, but im only getting 20 fps, and at most 40 fps with all his mods and settings, in my city...
@@SpahGaming RAM is also a big factor, some people use 32 or even 64 GB of ram with these kind of cities
@@remcoland i have 64
it is always a pleasure! thanks so much for sharing
Wow, I flew over from the UK to visit Pittsburgh only six weeks ago, and its uncanny how closely you've nailed it! Wish I could zip back and have another pint in Satalio's pub overlooking the city from Mt. Washington, while watching videos of your build. :)
Thank you! Mount Washington episode will be coming shortly, most likely this spring :)
I was about to be driving down the stretch of highway in the thumbnail and could not believe my eyes. As someone who has seen that imagine in person hundreds of times, that is ultra realistic! love it!
Great tutorial. Very useful and helped me simplify my graphics “workflow.” I understand a lot more about how these mods work with each other.
Glad it helped!
Hey, this is a brilliant tutorial!
Was wondering if you could do an updated version with the Relight and Daylight Classic settings converted to the Render It! mod?
Yea half of these mods are red in compatibility report.. Dynamic resolution not working anymore.
Amazing, very useful!
Thanks! Glad I could help
Thanks for the video. I always get mixed feelings when I see these C:S realistic graphics video's. On one end they are really gorgeous, but every time when I try to copy it (even these precise settings as shown in the video) my result doesn't even come close to these realistic. I'm using the same theme's, mods etc, but it still just looks meh🤷♂
And Render It has changed so much and seem to keep certain settings "hostage" by now.
In your and most video's around these awesome graphics settings from the 12 months all have the Vanilla Tonemapping and Vanilla Color Correction LUT settings not active, but when I do that on my end no LUT ever gets applied, nor does the Relight settings. And when I do activate it, the graphics still won't look as close as f.e. 4:43
I feel your pain, I am getting the same thing.
I´m guessing half or more of the look is due to the assets he's using.
Thank you so much, amazing tweaks!
Thanks for this, I've just copied your settings to use as a base to slightly tweak, other than the coordinates which are correct for my city.
I don't get the clouds looking as good as yours, I must have another mod conflicting with it, coz I've been playing around trying to sort this for years.
Will have to go through and workout which mods are conflicting tomorrow.
Cheers
Make sure to not subscribe to any visual mods other than the ones mentioned in the video and included in the collection in the description (even the popular ones like Shadow strength adjuster, Cloud and fog toggler, etc) as they may introduce issues and conflicts
I just got into CS and so glad I found your mod lists... This is going to blow my mind from base vanilla game...
0:40 - so the video ends for me... Nice
You actually did a good job and I’m on 14 secs in i though it was real, I was like “wait is this real or the game” good work 💗
Hope skylines 2 gets these mods too.
That game is ugly
this guide was super helpful, thank you!
Glad it helped!
this just doesnt work
I had completely messed up my graphics with the neutral white and black in out stuff and other values and I am still so upset but this tutorial seems very promising and I am going to give it a shot.
Thank you for making this tutorial.
Feedback: Timestamps with the mod names in the video description would be great for navigating the video 🙂
Great video, gonna use these in game soon.
Thank you for this! I really wanted to go back to this game after having to deal with Cities Skylines 2… I guess the next thing to do is to buy ALL of the DLCs
the settings at 1:42 only matter if you really turn on vanilla bloom etc
The Best video about CitiSkyline I have found over the internet.
This is the video I needed. Thank you very much :)
Of course! Happy to help :)
Chef's Kiss! It's the video I've been waiting for!
Thank you so much for making this great guide!
Thanks for this!! this is Awesome!!
Thank you , you saved my patience to this game
This is the best visual mod guide so far.
Great video, very helpful, thank you!
Very helpful, will definitely implement your tips!
Glad to hear :)
@@GaseousStranger By the way, what about your ultimate eyecandy settings? Aren't you using the mod at all?
@@darklightning No, that mod is outdated now and replaced by render-it and play it. It will conflict with these mods and cause issues when used together with this set up
@@GaseousStranger ok thanks! Does any of the replacing mods have the feature to change daytime? At the moment, this is the sole reason I'm using ultimate eyecandy
@@darklightning Yes, that mod is play-it :)
Great tips!!! Just what I have been looking for in my game!!
Happy to help! :)
It worked like a charm!! Thank you very much. 👍
Glad to hear!
Wasn’t expecting my hometown to appear in a Cities Skylines video.
Great video! Thank you for sharing this tips.
Wow ! Thanks for the vidéo That's all I needed to enjoy playing this game again !
Happy to help :)
I am from Pittsburgh and that looks amazing wow
Very nice video. I'm so excited to play with these changes. Speaking of excitement, The new trailer Cities Skylines 2 🤩
This is a very helpful video.Thanks for sharing.
This game has been so much more enjoyable with these settings, damn. Thanks man.
That’s great to hear! Just happy to help 😄
I just ordered a gaming laptop and I CANT wait to use these 😩
When i apply your color grading settings and disable vanilla tonnemapping, it all goes super dark with crazy blooming
Bro you did my home city justice! Looks just like the BURGH!!!
Always had trouble understanding which mods to combine and how to set them up, this video cleared everything up and made my game look amazing like I always wanted to, big help thank you!
Glad I could help!
Great video, though the Render it! mod has been updated and doesn't match exactly to your video now. Any way you could show an updated video with how the mod works/looks?
With how often mods change, I can’t maintain an updated guide on them unfortunately. All settings shown in the video will translate over to the new mods well. However, I still currently use this same mod-list and it works great for me!
My wife and I just bought a new gaming rig, and I plugged your settings in to my game after I installed it, and it looks great! Thank you for this!
Side question: what blend of trees do you use for your wooded areas?
I'll add a couple more things with your permission) Post process FX. Edit highlights of light areas of buildings... also adds its own touch of realism)
And it’s worth adding (although maybe I missed or didn’t hear ahah) that if you set the texture setting to a high level, then you need to take into account that big cities may not pull some PC builds... like mine)
Great video ... just wondering what theme you use in this demo?
Thanks I use SCT-Homecoming :)
Desperately trying the clouds to work as intended. At 2:54, the clouds didn't look like that when I turned off classic fog. I have HDRI Haven Pack, 8K clouds pack. The settings are pretty much the same except fog and horizon height.
It’s absolutely beautiful I’m in shock It looks so real 🤤
Great tutorial. One question what in your opinion are some of best assets do you use for the roads and buildings. Thank you!
3:13 In options I don't have ,,cedar bridge" any suggestion??
This is a great tutorial!
00:20
Gaseous Stranger: No need to worry
Me: :)
My pc: Boy if only you knew how much you need to worry...
Me: :(
Thank you so much for this video! My game looks a million times better now.
Damn! Your Tuts are awesome - simple to the point no BS, thank You ;)
Bro nice work even in 2024! Imagine C:S creators made those graphic settings in vanilla game... this would be so good. Thanks! 😊