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[Whitefang Greytail 45]

I should upload the final images as an update fo my last area view.
Not the prettiest city ever (Avanya's is lot prettier), but it was an effort to max the population (940k, but hit the citizen unit limit)

 

[Fox 1,444]

On 01/07/2016 at 10:56 PM, Avanya said:

Damn you guys have some great shots here! Best place to come for inspiration for sure  

I've got a suburban area that came out really nice, so I figured I'd share. Lots of custom buildings, custom European theme and lots of mods to make it look this good!  After some getting used to CS having lots of space to work (unlike SimCity2013) with I've managed to allow myself to leave open green areas like the park here and it just looks much better. The rest of my city still needs work, but this side of the river is close to finished. ^^

 

I love how every thing flows so smoothly, from the river Quays, to the high rise buildings and the roads, really gorgeous and certainly inspiring.

[Judazzz 1,936]

A aerials few I took last weekend - night lights, disabled tonemapping and maximum fog are a match made in heaven:

[Abrams 1,744]

Here's mine!

[UnkleS27 24]

An aerial view of my current project and a comparison image of the city that I based it off of.

City its based off of, Cumberland Maryland.

[cs_k3 284]

It's coming along slowly. 160k+. Just finished up the port area along with some highways and islands.

[gfvsims 169]

Wow! That's one of the most realistic layouts I've seen yet, @cs_k3! Nicely done.

[Judazzz 1,936]

On 7/31/2016 at 7:34 AM, cs_k3 said:

It's coming along slowly. 160k+. Just finished up the port area along with some highways and islands.

Gorgeous!
What map is it that you use? I'm thinking about starting a new city (or an entire area rather) inspired by the Ohio River valley, so I'm looking for a map that has a nice river valley, with room for a small handful of small cities, surrounded by rolling hills, an optional seaboard (for a Cleveland-like main city) - this one checks a lot of the right boxes.

[cs_k3 284]

@Judazzz @gfv1974 Thanks for the kind words! The map is: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=670806933

It's a very well made map. Depending on what you want to do, you may need to make some changes (the river has some waterfalls in it, and I had to add a ship route for the river, and the river is a little skinny at places) but the rolling hills are amazing, the detailing is spectacular, and it's a wonderful mix of challenging but accessible terrain to build on. Hope this helps!

[Judazzz 1,936]

@cs_k3 - thank you very much for the link, that maps looks incredible indeed (too bad it doesn't use Mr_Maison's trees instead of the vanilla ones). I couldn't find it in the description or comments, but what biome does it use (most suitable for my plants would be a temperate one - obviously I can change that with a mod, but still...)
You may be right about having to customize a few things here and there, but I don't mind that: I'm pretty lousy at terra-forming, but I'm nonetheless confident minor cosmetic changes should be within range of my limited skill set.
I'll probably give the terrain theme a wide berth however: Rust Belt and coral reef blue waters don't really mix that well  

[Larma 25]

My city, with a population of about 30k

[Supernia 17]

17 hours ago, Larma said:

My city, with a population of about 30k

The lack of size makes the city look much smaller, yet the towers make it look much larger.

[Larma 25]

6 hours ago, Supernia said:

The lack of size makes the city look much smaller, yet the towers make it look much larger.

I agree. the problem is my crap computer that can barely handle 9 tiles.

[gfvsims 169]

I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to work on this map. I'm itching to start on a new one with either a British or more rural American theme. Anyway, here's what Franklin currently looks like from above. The suburbs have only recently started to spread out from the downtown area.

[Ecania 6]

Heya

Im working on a new map,  very detailed and elevated with mountains and a valley where the olive and orange trees grow, tried my best to make it beatiful.

It is not finished yet, but soon.

Tried to upload pictures, but I got a message that say max sixe 4 mb and filesize on picture are 500kb

Oh well here is a link to my  picture gallery at steam http://steamcommunity.com/id/ecania/screenshots   Please take a look

Ecania

[Lost Gecko 481]

@Ecania It looks really nice! What I personnally do to post pictures is convert them to jpg and reduce their size a bit but as there's a total limit (100MB?) on how much you can post on this forum the best solution is probably to use imgur or something, which I might look into.

[Ecania 6]

Thank you Lost_gecko I will upload pictures to imgur, and probably make a new post in " what Im working on" later on, its a ton of hours put down on  this map.

[Judazzz 1,936]

New map, new area view \o/

Still need to tweak the highway asphalt color, but at least they're easily recognizable now

 

[Darf 1,439]

It's stuff like this that keeps C:S alive. If you compare this to the screenshots posted a year ago, it's amazing how far we've come in a year. I just hope the simulation aspect will get a boost aswell.

[OwiHH 240]

On 15.8.2016 at 0:50 PM, Darf said:

It's stuff like this that keeps C:S alive. If you compare this to the screenshots posted a year ago, it's amazing how far we've come in a year. I just hope the simulation aspect will get a boost aswell.

ya men, we have millions of buildings, vehicles, props on workshop a few good mods for roadcustomsation and enhanced tools for public transports.

There is so much room what you coult add into it almost unlimited space for micromanagments or enhancment for simulation stuff.

The problem at moment i see is that everyone can throw in something and release it at workshop. Like mods for windsimulation, firespreading, firefighting, enhanced citzien livecycles, real population and all this little pieces. In the future we need something like a mainmod that can eat all this little pieces and put them together in main category mods to have them work good together without getting to much errors or incompability. Modders allready work on it somehow like Networkskins, Rushhour, Trafficmods and we`ve seen i on SC4 - soon or later they will come together and work together ( some allready do).

 

Im pretty happy with CS it is a great Citysimulation/builder and we waited so long for a good one after SC4

[Judazzz 1,936]

Little update:

[hbn 244]

It might be obvious to everyone but I like doing nighttime satellite shots. Pretty lights. And why does this forum keep duplicating my images every time?

Be laying out the area for that space between to the left of the airport and doing the seaport next.

 

As an added bonus, have too, a cimtographer map of the city. The city always looks better when it's a map XD

 

  Edited August 24, 2016 by hbn  
another pic added

[Robban040 1,091]

Here's a two from my latest city:

[Evil Weasel 88]

Area view, industrial outskirts in foreground.

[Celast 77]

the overview of New Springfield. I ve been focusing on the bigger picture, but after finishing the suburbs. Im going back and trying to get the detailing right.

 

[poshbakerloo 186]

On 22/08/2016 at 10:05 PM, hbn said:

It might be obvious to everyone but I like doing nighttime satellite shots. Pretty lights. And why does this forum keep duplicating my images every time?

Be laying out the area for that space between to the left of the airport and doing the seaport next.

 

As an added bonus, have too, a cimtographer map of the city. The city always looks better when it's a map XD

 

When ever I try cimtographer, I just get gaps along the road which makes it unusable for me. Like loads of spaces missing.

[waway625 72]

[Ltw 401]

Started with a new city and since winter is coming I thought I take a shot at those Snowfall maps.

 

[Linoa06 1,374]

Coming soon in Cathnoquey

[Judazzz 1,936]

On 8/22/2016 at 9:33 PM, Judazzz said:

Little update:

Two months later: