Show us your Downtown/CBD

[Nevermore2797 112]

Well, I'm finally back after the long hiatus on playing Cities Skylines due to RAM issues. With a new RAM, I can now play properly for now.  

Anyway, I really want to reboot the old city of Lexington......

Singing in the Rain.........

Downtown, Lexington (New Version, still WiP)

 

[Judazzz 1,936]

Downtown, seen from Incarceration Island  

[Darf 1,439]

I do like your colors, my only gripe with ifdisabling tonemapping is, that specularized roofs go completely white and lack any detail of the specular.

Here's my latest city I've been working on, inspired by Chicago with a similar downtown. Second shot is with tonemapping disabled.

 

 

 

 

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

Here's Downtown Los Caldros

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[Judazzz 1,936]

I've been playing around with First Person Camera's 'isometric' view (just discovered it a few days ago), and I have to admit it looks pretty good (it's always refreshing to see your city from a different perspective). Unfortunately the isometric pov causes lots of issues with world holes along sloped roads (not much to do about that), and it is also too wide for the LOD Toggler to show all assets in 'normal' mode, causing lots of buildings to be shown in their low-res incarnations, but I guess it's also to protect my laptop from blowing up  

 

[Prosper Merime 128]

Fantastic view!

15 minutes ago, Judazzz said:

and it is also too wide for the LOD Toggler to show all assets in 'normal' mode, causing lots of buildings to be shown in their low-res incarnations

So I don't dabble in this a feature.

[hbn 244]

Looking great Judazzz. If Skylines had slight more graphical detail for doing shots like that, I'd've sworn blind that it's a real birds eye photo city.

[Judazzz 1,936]

7 hours ago, hbn said:

Looking great Judazzz. If Skylines had slight more graphical detail for doing shots like that, I'd've sworn blind that it's a real birds eye photo city.

But it is! I just took it with my pre-historic 1.2MPixel camera without zoom  

@Prosper Merime - I normally don't use this feature either, except every once in a while to take some screenshots. But the many LOD's and other graphical glitches are pretty rough on the eyes indeed, plus navigating the map becomes pretty much impossible - so it's for show only.

 

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

On 6/30/2016 at 3:17 AM, Judazzz said:

I've been playing around with First Person Camera's 'isometric' view (just discovered it a few days ago), and I have to admit it looks pretty good (it's always refreshing to see your city from a different perspective). Unfortunately the isometric pov causes lots of issues with world holes along sloped roads (not much to do about that), and it is also too wide for the LOD Toggler to show all assets in 'normal' mode, causing lots of buildings to be shown in their low-res incarnations, but I guess it's also to protect my laptop from blowing up  

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I love this! I love this so much! I've got a monster of a PC so I wonder how good this would look on my PC... if I could get CSL to work

Also, I want your bridges. You got workshop links?

[Judazzz 1,936]

2 hours ago, SAVAGExPHOENIX said:

I love this! I love this so much! I've got a monster of a PC so I wonder how good this would look on my PC... if I could get CSL to work

Also, I want your bridges. You got workshop links?

The bridges can be found here.
I'm pretty sure it will look great on your computer if you have good specs, but even those good specs won't be able to fix the issue with world holes (like those blue lines under roads) or the fact that most buildings will be shown as a LOD rather than the fully detailed model. But despite those shortcomings the isometric perspective still looks fantastic, though.

[Abrams 1,744]

How do you disable UI in isometric mode?I can't 

[Judazzz 1,936]

2 hours ago, Abrams124 said:

How do you disable UI in isometric mode?I can't 

It does so automatically. There's a setting in the mod's option panel that allows you to hide the UI, but I'm not sure if I ever touched it - doesn't hurt trying, though  

[Abrams 1,744]

20 minutes ago, Judazzz said:

It does so automatically. There's a setting in the mod's option panel that allows you to hide the UI, but I'm not sure if I ever touched it - doesn't hurt trying, though  

I have that enabled but it didn't disable when enabling isometric mode.

Instead i had to use f11 to disable the UI manually.

[Amethysterical 7]

Downtown Velder:

Seikansho

(Shibuya, Shanjuki, Minato, Misatoshi combined, they are wards(ku)

There are a few buildings you recognize, please state them below,(thanks the authors of them <3 they're amazing)

-isactuallysearchingforCSversionofTheGherkinfromLondonandNON-RicoShinjukuBuildingsplease-

 

In short, it's the Downtown Velder

and Behind the WTC's, there's the Umeda Sky Building.

If you're tricky enough,  you can see the Eiffel Tower and the Shard <3

[Amethysterical 7]

But I think remaking my city. I need that Gherking so much 

[gbw2k14 32]

Downtown Hope Bay

[Matthias King 348]

What's that building in the foreground? And the one like it behind it off to the right?

[Supernia 17]

On 6/23/2016 at 2:13 AM, Nevermore2797 said:

Well, I'm finally back after the long hiatus on playing Cities Skylines due to RAM issues. With a new RAM, I can now play properly for now.  

Anyway, I really want to reboot the old city of Lexington......

Singing in the Rain.........

Downtown, Lexington (New Version, still WiP)

 

If only you could recreate Lexington, Kentucky.

[Nevermore2797 112]

On 7/26/2016 at 9:46 PM, Supernia said:

If only you could recreate Lexington, Kentucky.

This Lexington is not the real life Lexington.  

I just can't think of a city name......

[Willink 13]

New project, amalgamation of a few different northeast cities so far:

 

[Matthias King 348]

Foul ball.

It looks good, but there's a tree right in the middle of your baseball field. I don't think that's regulation.

[Extrenix 132]

Judazz, how did you get the "isometric view" with the FPS mod ?

I can't seem to find it.

unless I got the wrong mod..

[Judazzz 1,936]

18 hours ago, Extrenix said:

Judazz, how did you get the "isometric view" with the FPS mod ?

I can't seem to find it.

unless I got the wrong mod..

I think it's an option of this one.

[kingleno 197]

Part of my downtown entertainment district. I'm pretty terrible at actually planning and making my cities look nice overall. 

[jmsepe 2,039]

Looking at the pictures, CSL has vastly changed from the day it was released. Downtowns looks more realistic now. 

[Judazzz 1,936]

4 hours ago, jmsepe said:

Looking at the pictures, CSL has vastly changed from the day it was released. Downtowns looks more realistic now. 

It most definitely has. Every time I see those magnificent screenshots here or on Reddit it makes me wonder what CO thinks of them: would they've ever imagined or dreamed that the level of realism that can be achieved now was possible in the first place?

[Xascul 7]

I have been lurking about here and there and have been meaning to post pictures of what I was working on from SimCity 4, but never had anything super great to share, but now I have!  Here's are a a few pictures (day and night) for my CBD and promenade in the city I'm currently working on.

[Flamme266 7]

Those are downtowns from three of my favorite cities that I've made, enjoy

[countkrzysztof 160]

Here are a couple shots of the CBD in my latest city, Volantis. It's not finished and it still needs a fair bit of detailing, but this is the first city I really feel comfortable sharing. 

[Judazzz 1,936]

It's pretty tempting to start plopping skyscrapers like crazy for a downtown area, but so far I've been able to resist the urge, resulting in what has to be the most modest downtown I've built so far: