I went to the Everglades in 2021, it was an airboat tour close to Miami that also had an alligator zoo, once you entered the everglades you felt very secluded and you could find alligators within the first five min, it was a really cool experience and the everglades were very unique from the other environments in Florida
@@vomm It really depends. Alligators, mostly, are non-aggressive. However, they do get a bit more confrontational during mating season… and some people feed them, which makes them more comfortable around humans (which can only lead to disaster). The rule of thumb is to treat any freshwater body here in Florida (pond, lake, river, whatever) as if it has gators in it and act accordingly.
My parents used to live in Fort Lauderdale, and have a vacation home in Orlando, so we spent a good amount of time driving across the Everglades and swamplands. The funniest thing used to be the GPS… you’d turn North on Highway 27 and the Garmin would say “Drive 185 miles and then turn right”.
As a native Floridian who grew up 20 miles north of Miami, I'm loving this. The Florida Keys and Everglades are some of the prettiest scenery around. And for that town nestled into the Everglades/Cypress forest area, check out Everglades City for some inspiration! A little town on the west coast of the Everglades which I think would be a great source of ideas! Keep up the great work!
If your thinking about building on the keys soon, use pastel colors for a lot of the buildings, especially in the Key West island. A lot of the buildings down there are plaster as well, at least from my experience. Another thing is that theres no buildings taller than a palm tree, I've been told that's a rule down there. Its basically Americas slice of the Caribbean (aside from Puerto Rico of course)
I'm convinced that you don't actually understand how wildly impressive this map is, Two Dubs. I mean, your work is intimidating and inspirational at the same time, Keep it up!!
I live 250 miles from it in Tampa, FL, the Everglades gives people a chance to experience real Florida wilderness, the stars out there are just stunning at night and the wild life there is so cool… the Everglades is in my opinion the most unique national park in the US
Lived in Miami for most of my childhood, and visited the Everglades often. Most people don’t realize that the entire thing is a huge, slow moving river! It’s so ecologically diverse and so beautiful. Thanks for building it and educating everyone about how amazing it is!
Something that you could incorporate is maybe one or two little towns near the border of the everglades, a good example is this small town called Everglades city (its not that big lol). my idea would to have it at a simple intersection of two highways (if you even have that in the area) Just an idea though love the series so far!
I don't have much experience in the Everglades, but I do live in Florida, and across the board you really nail the aesthetic. I'm beyond hyped to continue watching this entire series.
As someone who grew up in south Florida and visited the everglades a lot this is so impressive, the detail work to make it look realistic is awesome! An Idea for one of the cities/towns in or around the everglades could take inspiration from the Miccosukee reservation on US Highway 41 (around 25.761863, -80.796353), or something similar to the high development of Marco Island west of the everglades
There's a much easier way to do fences along highways now. Draw a line with Intersection Marking Tool, change the line type to "Prop" and select a fence to use. Enjoy :)
Looks fantastic. I went to Miami for the first time in May earlier this year. The colorful buildings really stood out to me. When we went on our kayak tour of Biscayne Bay, the tour guide explained how mangroves grow. They have little pea pod shaped seeds that bob in the water until they touch sand, and take root. Once the tree is semi established, the tide flows around the tree and more sand collects around the root system. Thus making more pods able to touch and and take root. We came across a few random lone mangroves in the middle of the shallow bay. Maybe add a few to your coast line when you get to that part of the map. Everything looks awesome, man. Keep it up :)
I live in Miami and work at Homestead General Aviation Airport. The Everglades is my jobs backyard. Last weekend I biked from the entrance of the park to a decommissioned missile base in the Glades. Anything you want to know I will be happy to help you. Thank you for making this series.
I've lived near the everglades my whole life. Only ever been to the couple of areas that have nature trails back in high school. We went at night one time and they have these lifted walkways and at the end of one we shined our flashlights into the void and saw dozens of alligator (or crocodile) eyes reflecting back at us. Amazing build!
I think a great idea would be to add tiny bits of life into your towns, like a broken down car on the side of the road, or a bouncy castle outside someone’s house, suggesting a birthday party
I’m from Tampa Bay and I’ve visited the Everglades before. Such an incredible place, you really captured it’s whole vibe/ look in sunset city! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
lived near the everglades for a little. Driving on some of those long straight roads all alone was such an experience ill never forget. Dont really appriciate the beauty until youre out there alone. One of the few places in north america where there is no light polution. Great video!
I live in homestead Florida and the Everglades is massive, I went through all the small rural towns in the Everglades and I saw many trees with Spanish moss on them, and icon of the American south, but also there is lots of exotic fruit plantations through the Everglades and a massive Cuban and Cardibean population here that makes up the majority of people here
This is really impressive. Wish there was some Cities Skylines map exporter to some games, like shooters (Squad, PUBG, Arma) or strategy games (Age of Empires 4, WARNO), so that CS players’ art would be reused in other games. I mean, not just satisfaction by playing CS, but also making a useful map that could be played in other games.
Hello! I was born and raised in Miami since 1989 and just wanted to say you captured the Everglades beautifully. In case you didn't know, the Everglades are also known as the 'River of Grass' due to the discreet waterways and those tree islands. Also, Lake Okeechobee normally feeds the Everglades but due to engineering, hurricanes, and developments, the waterflow has been reversed to flow north.
15:47, this should be one of those failed thriving surburbs, take inspiration from North Port and Lehigh Acres. Add finished homes and empty lots. Or make it like Homestead
dude you are a genius. taking map building to the next level just so you can make a city and the area surrounding it more realistic. I dont think anybody else is putting in this sort of work
I live close to the everglades, it’s pretty much what you’d expect towards the outskirts of a city. Horse ranches, lots of land, and farms. There’s some attractions at the everglades too. I went on an airboat ride down in Miami and they took us around the place and then we saw an alligator enclosure after we got off. Theres also campgrounds too. I don’t know much more but I can’t wait to see how this turns out!
As someone who grew up in the south (Louisiana), I agree that the bald cypress tree on Steam workshop is PHENOMENAL and looks incredibly realistic. You should also incorporate wild patches of Southern Live Oak Trees (the workshop has one with Spanish moss!), maybe build an area modeled after Oak Alley Plantation at some point? Awesome map! 😎
I used to live right by the everglades. When my home was built it was the furtherest development to the west at the time. We used to have alligators visiting our lake all the time.
I live right next to the Everglades, I’ve been on airboats through the park plenty of times. I’ve gotta say, you recreated the vibe as best as I can imagine in cities skylines. Only thing you’re missing is the alligators you see every 2-3 minutes out there.
Another thing, most, if not all of the water in the Everglades is brackish water, a mix or fresh and salt water, this creates a very dark water the further inland you go, not sure if you can recreate this in C:S but thought it’d be a worthy suggestion.
Eventually when it gets to the point to do detail work (and if someone who has been or lives in Florida hasnt already said this) it be cool to add on the highways and interstates billboard ads and on backroads boat docks for airboat tours. Just something cool to add in once in the detailing phase.
For whatever reason, the way you made these swamplands look reminds me a lot of the second half of the Swamp level from Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros. Brawl along with the various swamp regions in Just Cause 2 and that's a good thing since those are my favorite areas from both games. The general vibe of how this turned out looks absolutely spectacular. Swamplands in general are a very interesting biome to work in. Watching this video also makes me want to go back and play Cities Skylines and work on something similar to this!
Bro this is awesome! I grew up in Naples, right outside the everglades. We used to take trips to different places like Rookery bay, and Everglades National Park. Fun times man. The airboat rides are awesome! Friend alligator is pretty awesome as well haha!
By the way, pine trees are SUPER common everywhere around florida, probably the most common type of tree Central florida has a lot of open flat land, cow farm lands, surronded by pine trees and other foliage
Looks great! I think it's great if you make a deserted highway in the wetlands. Deserted roads that nature has taken back and pillars where a bridge used to run.
I live in Weston, FL so basically right on the edge of the Everglades. I've spent a lot of time in the national park as well as just the overall Everglades area and big cypress park. Great job on the map. You should check out Everglades city and maybe build that town out.
When I was a kid I lived in Florida just a bit north of the Everglades. I used to daydream about like, going out to a key and having a little house on it lol
Even with the clear blue water it looks insane. I just hope they do make another game and add in some features that would help this type of build a lot more and ofc optimizing asset uses.
I grew up in and around the Everglades all my life. Went to school at the Miccosukee tribal school for a few years. Def excited for this series and you’re doing a great job so far 👌 you should take a look at Everglades city for that small town glades inspiration. Also just along Tamiami trail (8th street into Miami) in general 🤓 keep up the great work!!
Live near the everglades, took a field trip in 2007 and it was an awesome experience Florida is beautiful with the beach and waterways, but theres a part of florida that is kind of unknown with the springs and natural rivers Look up turtle creek palm bay, or old photos of Sebastian River from the 1900’s
Hey 2.20, most of Florida's rivers are spring fed, you should take a look at Florida springs and try to recreate some. They're the ones with the clear water
my family and i went to the everglades in 2019 and drove trough a dirt road in the middle of it and saw few alligators as well as some beautiful nature
15:45 I would look into copying Everglades City or Immolakee, FL. The trouble with Imolakee though is it's not surrounded by the Everglades but rather truck farms where they grow vegetables and illegal immigrants live in these really run-down trailer parks.
I vacationed in Florida a lot when I was a kid. I We visited the everglades a few times. I was always so spooked by alligators and the potential for alligators that I couldn't really appreciate the wetlands as anything other than mega danger zone, haha. My favorite part of Florida was the keys, they'll be in the series somehow, right?
I always wanted to do something like this with the game just make a national park Yellowstone even no home just roads as a native Miamian / Floridian you did amazing .
I went to the Everglades in 2021, it was an airboat tour close to Miami that also had an alligator zoo, once you entered the everglades you felt very secluded and you could find alligators within the first five min, it was a really cool experience and the everglades were very unique from the other environments in Florida
I think I did the same tour haha. I concur it was amazing.
Are alligators dangerous?
@@vomm Gators do not attack humans unless provoked. Crocodiles are the dangerous and croc attacks are much more frequent than shark attacks
@@vomm It really depends. Alligators, mostly, are non-aggressive. However, they do get a bit more confrontational during mating season… and some people feed them, which makes them more comfortable around humans (which can only lead to disaster). The rule of thumb is to treat any freshwater body here in Florida (pond, lake, river, whatever) as if it has gators in it and act accordingly.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn I always think the opposite when thinking of those sneaky water lizards lol
My parents used to live in Fort Lauderdale, and have a vacation home in Orlando, so we spent a good amount of time driving across the Everglades and swamplands. The funniest thing used to be the GPS… you’d turn North on Highway 27 and the Garmin would say “Drive 185 miles and then turn right”.
One of the best natural environments I've seen done in CSL. This type of natural detail reminds me of Sichuan Province.
As a native Floridian who grew up 20 miles north of Miami, I'm loving this. The Florida Keys and Everglades are some of the prettiest scenery around. And for that town nestled into the Everglades/Cypress forest area, check out Everglades City for some inspiration! A little town on the west coast of the Everglades which I think would be a great source of ideas! Keep up the great work!
If your thinking about building on the keys soon, use pastel colors for a lot of the buildings, especially in the Key West island. A lot of the buildings down there are plaster as well, at least from my experience. Another thing is that theres no buildings taller than a palm tree, I've been told that's a rule down there. Its basically Americas slice of the Caribbean (aside from Puerto Rico of course)
They have short buildings because anything taller than 3 stories needs a elevator
I'm convinced that you don't actually understand how wildly impressive this map is, Two Dubs. I mean, your work is intimidating and inspirational at the same time, Keep it up!!
I live 250 miles from it in Tampa, FL, the Everglades gives people a chance to experience real Florida wilderness, the stars out there are just stunning at night and the wild life there is so cool… the Everglades is in my opinion the most unique national park in the US
Lived in Miami for most of my childhood, and visited the Everglades often. Most people don’t realize that the entire thing is a huge, slow moving river! It’s so ecologically diverse and so beautiful. Thanks for building it and educating everyone about how amazing it is!
Something that you could incorporate is maybe one or two little towns near the border of the everglades, a good example is this small town called Everglades city (its not that big lol). my idea would to have it at a simple intersection of two highways (if you even have that in the area) Just an idea though love the series so far!
I don't have much experience in the Everglades, but I do live in Florida, and across the board you really nail the aesthetic. I'm beyond hyped to continue watching this entire series.
I’m sorry for your loss
I’m sorry. That sucks
i've driven through the everglades numerous times, and i must say, you have nailed the aesthetic
I think this is my favorite episode you've ever done. This is absolutely sick.
As someone who grew up in south Florida and visited the everglades a lot this is so impressive, the detail work to make it look realistic is awesome! An Idea for one of the cities/towns in or around the everglades could take inspiration from the Miccosukee reservation on US Highway 41 (around 25.761863, -80.796353), or something similar to the high development of Marco Island west of the everglades
There's a much easier way to do fences along highways now. Draw a line with Intersection Marking Tool, change the line type to "Prop" and select a fence to use. Enjoy :)
I've lived in Florida for 24 years and I've had the privilege of living next to the everglades for most of those. This is such a dope representation!
Looks fantastic. I went to Miami for the first time in May earlier this year. The colorful buildings really stood out to me. When we went on our kayak tour of Biscayne Bay, the tour guide explained how mangroves grow. They have little pea pod shaped seeds that bob in the water until they touch sand, and take root. Once the tree is semi established, the tide flows around the tree and more sand collects around the root system. Thus making more pods able to touch and and take root.
We came across a few random lone mangroves in the middle of the shallow bay. Maybe add a few to your coast line when you get to that part of the map. Everything looks awesome, man. Keep it up :)
I live in Miami and work at Homestead General Aviation Airport. The Everglades is my jobs backyard. Last weekend I biked from the entrance of the park to a decommissioned missile base in the Glades. Anything you want to know I will be happy to help you. Thank you for making this series.
I've lived near the everglades my whole life. Only ever been to the couple of areas that have nature trails back in high school. We went at night one time and they have these lifted walkways and at the end of one we shined our flashlights into the void and saw dozens of alligator (or crocodile) eyes reflecting back at us. Amazing build!
Thanks for sharing! Id love to visit this place
I live in Florida and you absolutely nailed it man!
Clearly one of the best natural surroundings I've seen in Cities Skylines. The details are well done.
I live less than an hour from the Everglades, the level of detail you've put into this map is insane! Keep up the great work!
I think a great idea would be to add tiny bits of life into your towns, like a broken down car on the side of the road, or a bouncy castle outside someone’s house, suggesting a birthday party
I’m from Tampa Bay and I’ve visited the Everglades before. Such an incredible place, you really captured it’s whole vibe/ look in sunset city! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
lived near the everglades for a little. Driving on some of those long straight roads all alone was such an experience ill never forget. Dont really appriciate the beauty until youre out there alone. One of the few places in north america where there is no light polution. Great video!
I live in homestead Florida and the Everglades is massive, I went through all the small rural towns in the Everglades and I saw many trees with Spanish moss on them, and icon of the American south, but also there is lots of exotic fruit plantations through the Everglades and a massive Cuban and Cardibean population here that makes up the majority of people here
This is really impressive. Wish there was some Cities Skylines map exporter to some games, like shooters (Squad, PUBG, Arma) or strategy games (Age of Empires 4, WARNO), so that CS players’ art would be reused in other games. I mean, not just satisfaction by playing CS, but also making a useful map that could be played in other games.
Love the environmental/map making videos!
when you transitioned from the real Everglades to in-game and it took me a couple seconds to register it...I'd say that's a win!
Nature detailing is on point man, great stuff. Love that oil texture
Hello! I was born and raised in Miami since 1989 and just wanted to say you captured the Everglades beautifully. In case you didn't know, the Everglades are also known as the 'River of Grass' due to the discreet waterways and those tree islands. Also, Lake Okeechobee normally feeds the Everglades but due to engineering, hurricanes, and developments, the waterflow has been reversed to flow north.
15:47, this should be one of those failed thriving surburbs, take inspiration from North Port and Lehigh Acres. Add finished homes and empty lots.
Or make it like Homestead
dude you are a genius. taking map building to the next level just so you can make a city and the area surrounding it more realistic. I dont think anybody else is putting in this sort of work
Beautiful landscapes, this map is one I'm inclined to play on, looking great.
I live close to the everglades, it’s pretty much what you’d expect towards the outskirts of a city. Horse ranches, lots of land, and farms. There’s some attractions at the everglades too. I went on an airboat ride down in Miami and they took us around the place and then we saw an alligator enclosure after we got off. Theres also campgrounds too. I don’t know much more but I can’t wait to see how this turns out!
As someone who grew up in the south (Louisiana), I agree that the bald cypress tree on Steam workshop is PHENOMENAL and looks incredibly realistic. You should also incorporate wild patches of Southern Live Oak Trees (the workshop has one with Spanish moss!), maybe build an area modeled after Oak Alley Plantation at some point? Awesome map! 😎
Agreed! I haven’t heard of that spot I’ll check it out
I used to live right by the everglades. When my home was built it was the furtherest development to the west at the time. We used to have alligators visiting our lake all the time.
Wow! That’s nuts
I live right next to the Everglades, I’ve been on airboats through the park plenty of times. I’ve gotta say, you recreated the vibe as best as I can imagine in cities skylines. Only thing you’re missing is the alligators you see every 2-3 minutes out there.
Another thing, most, if not all of the water in the Everglades is brackish water, a mix or fresh and salt water, this creates a very dark water the further inland you go, not sure if you can recreate this in C:S but thought it’d be a worthy suggestion.
Eventually when it gets to the point to do detail work (and if someone who has been or lives in Florida hasnt already said this) it be cool to add on the highways and interstates billboard ads and on backroads boat docks for airboat tours. Just something cool to add in once in the detailing phase.
For whatever reason, the way you made these swamplands look reminds me a lot of the second half of the Swamp level from Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros. Brawl along with the various swamp regions in Just Cause 2 and that's a good thing since those are my favorite areas from both games. The general vibe of how this turned out looks absolutely spectacular. Swamplands in general are a very interesting biome to work in.
Watching this video also makes me want to go back and play Cities Skylines and work on something similar to this!
Wow! That was such an amazing work. Can't wait until you start working on the city.
Bro this is awesome! I grew up in Naples, right outside the everglades. We used to take trips to different places like Rookery bay, and Everglades National Park. Fun times man. The airboat rides are awesome! Friend alligator is pretty awesome as well haha!
Airboat assets would be perfect for this!
I live in broward county about 25 miles north of Miami this is very well done and I’m exited for this series
Ive been to the everglades it's pretty cool :D
My favourite geographic location are wetlands, so this video was just great. Love the work.
I could never have this amount creativity within a game that forces you to use a certain style a face value
By the way, pine trees are SUPER common everywhere around florida, probably the most common type of tree
Central florida has a lot of open flat land, cow farm lands, surronded by pine trees and other foliage
Looks great! I think it's great if you make a deserted highway in the wetlands. Deserted roads that nature has taken back and pillars where a bridge used to run.
I live in Weston, FL so basically right on the edge of the Everglades. I've spent a lot of time in the national park as well as just the overall Everglades area and big cypress park. Great job on the map. You should check out Everglades city and maybe build that town out.
This looks fantastic. I think it was well worth the time spent, but the final call on that comes up to you.
9:19 The "tree islands" are called Hammocks. Relatively higher sand bars that are held together by the hardwood trees.
When I was a kid I lived in Florida just a bit north of the Everglades. I used to daydream about like, going out to a key and having a little house on it lol
I love this series
Even with the clear blue water it looks insane. I just hope they do make another game and add in some features that would help this type of build a lot more and ofc optimizing asset uses.
Extremely talented keep up the good work
Amazing how you made this! So impressive! Great video!
Can't wait to see more of this!
this is a huge nature detailing, two twenty. I enjoyed it!
the amount of detail. WOW
Oh boy! This map is so perfect it doesn't need to be altered...
I grew up in and around the Everglades all my life. Went to school at the Miccosukee tribal school for a few years. Def excited for this series and you’re doing a great job so far 👌 you should take a look at Everglades city for that small town glades inspiration. Also just along Tamiami trail (8th street into Miami) in general 🤓 keep up the great work!!
I will! Thanks so much!
Live near the everglades, took a field trip in 2007 and it was an awesome experience
Florida is beautiful with the beach and waterways, but theres a part of florida that is kind of unknown with the springs and natural rivers
Look up turtle creek palm bay, or old photos of Sebastian River from the 1900’s
loving this series keep it up
Looking awesome!
I live like 10 min away from Everglades im so happy your making this. Is there a place i can download the map?
I’m madly impressed
It looks so real, recommend watching this in full resolution
damn bro it's like you're making a painting and city skylines is your brush
Hey 2.20, most of Florida's rivers are spring fed, you should take a look at Florida springs and try to recreate some. They're the ones with the clear water
i think you are playing Cities: Landscaping. great job!
Let’s go, new cities skylines video
good video and i'm living in France , because I'm french and I love your content , so I can't help you with this area
I just watched a documentary on this 2 days ago this is awesome
That is amazing it looks like a Fotograph
my family and i went to the everglades in 2019 and drove trough a dirt road in the middle of it and saw few alligators as well as some beautiful nature
Ive been on I-75 on the Everglades going from Tampa, FL to Davie, FL
Great vid. You should give some of the small beaches a little life, so people have a reason to go there . Give it a feeling.
I think the town In the everglades should be called Rhodes based on RDR2 as they are very similar in location.
I went to the Everglades in 2018 super fun we went on a boat ride around it that lasted about an hour it was so cool and we saw a lot of alligators.
15:45 I would look into copying Everglades City or Immolakee, FL. The trouble with Imolakee though is it's not surrounded by the Everglades but rather truck farms where they grow vegetables and illegal immigrants live in these really run-down trailer parks.
Can’t wait fly around this map
It would be dope if you got a custom fishing boat asset that looks like a fan boat and sent it through the everglades
i love seeing my back yard being recreated in the game
I vacationed in Florida a lot when I was a kid. I
We visited the everglades a few times. I was always so spooked by alligators and the potential for alligators that I couldn't really appreciate the wetlands as anything other than mega danger zone, haha. My favorite part of Florida was the keys, they'll be in the series somehow, right?
I always wanted to do something like this with the game just make a national park Yellowstone even no home just roads as a native Miamian / Floridian you did amazing .
Hey! What are the map themes that you use? I'm especially looking for the one with the nice textured ground.
Some island name ideas: Brenan Bluff/Island, Addleman Island, Sherman Island. Hope these fit the theme.
I think it needs alligators, hopefully someone's made them on the workshop hahaha
Just wow.
This is cool
I would like to visit the Everglades a lot, but I've never been there despite living in the state my whole life lol.
Compared to one living in the spin-stations around Neptune, im living near the Everglades.
I’d like to see an airboat tour and some bird and gator markers
I think you might be the Bob Ross of Cities
This would be such a good videogame map. FarCry vibes
*This week in Sunset City:* two dollars twenty touches grass
Gorgeous just amazing looking
Do you know when the map will be released. Cant wait to play on it. Really love the series
Ow wooow, looks amazing. Is the plan to ever release this on the Workshop?
Yep it’ll be out next month
PLEASE do a music venue/campground base on Spirit of the Suwannee in North Florida. Best place in the state
You should build the great smokey mountains its the most visited national park in America