My Cities: Skylines CJ Scrapbook -- The Night Cometh...

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Entry 1: Welcome to Tamboria

 

A new CJ for a new city builder. The truth is that Cities Skylines is the long awaited, possibly mythical, Simcity 5- the one which we all dreamed of for so long. Let's get the show on the road!

 

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Tamboria is a newly fledging town which is rapidly expanding thanks to its diligent mayor. This is my first ever CS city and it only took three hours to build- mind you I have been following lets plays extremely carefully so I know what kind of mistakes to avoid.

 

 

 

The South-west interchange and first access point to drive into Tamboria.

 

 

 

Moving a kilometre northwards and we come to the main interchange and second major access point for reaching Tamboria.

 

 

 

Crawley Interchange; an important artery in Tamboria's transport network.

 

 

 

Gromley Industrial District to the South.

 

 

 

Breathe in that lovely soot!

 

 

 

Accidents do happen...

 

 

 

 

The power of solar. Thank God there are no nights!

 

 

 

Ore mining. One day there will be a mod for massive strip mines and other heavy industry.

 

 

 

Putting the modded camera to use. It's easy to find on the Cities Skylines Steam Workshop as it is a very popular mod.

 

 

 

If you wondering where I got all the money from for upgrading the highways, well I cheated and used the unlimited money cheat plus the everything unlocked cheat.

 

 

 

I have got to say that the modded free roam camera is far more easier to use than the SC2013 one.

 

 

 

I love getting up close and personal with the camera. Just wait until the skyscrapers develop- there are going to be some mad pictures, I tell you, mad!

 

 

 

 

I really like this three-lane exit in Crawley Interchange.

 

 

 

 

 

The graphics aren't quite up to Simcity2013's quality and clarity, however in Cities Skylines favour the darker, dirtier and grittier textures are actually an improvement and give CS that edge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never shy away from gridded cities- curved grids look beastly.

 

 

 

Community gardens.

 

 

 

 

My favourite part of Tamboria is the farmland.

 

 

 

Zone some roads with farms and then add modded parks which resemble fields. Right now there are two textures and styles for fields but that will only increase with time. Still it is a massive visual improvement from usual CS farms.

 

 

 

 

Pigs (Three Different Ones).

 

 

 

Great clouds by the way! They look photo-realistic.

 

 

 

 

I wonder if weather mods are possible for those clouds are awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

And now for some (close up) / (ground level) pictures of the highways.

 

 

 

The highway walls remind me of that highway in the Matrix Reloaded.

 

 

 

It occurred to me that all roads could be lined with fences via upgrades. It would be something similar to highways with sound walls but instead there would be a variety of fences: wood, metal, brick, uniform, grated and so forth...

 

 

 

Finally the highways are amazing. My only niggle with them is the lack of longer merging lanes and more shallow exit and entrance angles.

 

 

 

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Stay tuned for the next update this Sunday evening- who knows how much Tamboria will have grown and changed!?!

  Edited September 26, 2015 by Ln X  

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wonderful pictures!

Really good to see your amazing cities now in C:S!

Keep it up!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Sweeeet!

 

Nice job with farms! First time I've seen them done well!

[89James89 1,169]

Really nice images here Ln X!

 

I really like the highway shots you've shown, especially the traffic level ones and your farms look cool (though some of the fields are a bit bright for my tastes).

 

Looking forward to seeing how you master this game like you did sc4.

 

Cheers

 

James

[TPB 563]

Nice. Very  nice, although I don't quite like those yellow-green tinted fields, but still awesome. I see your talents were easily translated into a new sandbox : )

[47ply 1,100]

looking good I so cant wait to see some more flora and ground texture modes come out but looks awesome so far

[iviaarten 534]

I like it. It's griddy, but not annoyingly so, it's actually pretty charming and realistic.

Too bad the farms came out looking neon yellow. Maybe try a different filter?

 

Looking forward to more updates.

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Replies:

 

JP Schriefer: Thanks a lot! Tamboria is going to be a massive city- 10 by 10 kilometers!

 

Haljackey: Thanks for the comment. I'm going to go on the asset editor and see if there are any other textures to use for fields. Searching the CS workshop may yield something useful to.

 

89James89: I've already made the CS simulation my beech, the real challenge -- and the real fun -- is working on style.

 

TPB: Cheers! This sandbox is truly mindblowing!

 

47ply: Same here. I've already seen a couple of new assets uploaded on the CS workshop, one of those were goalposts!

 

iviarrten: The filters improve the neon yellow fields' appearance somewhat, also I am using the Fall Colour Correction filter which really suits the tropical feel of Tamboria.

 

 

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Entry 2: CBD Teaser!

 

I have been feverishly growing Tamboria and by golly playing this game is one hell of a drug! While I was roaming around the city in the free roam camera mode I took some pictures of the CBD. Enjoy!

 

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A full entry will be coming this Sunday (today)!

[iviaarten 534]

Very nice can't wait to unlock all the goodies after looking at those pictures.

[lance10ca 25]

 

Really nice images here Ln X!

 

I really like the highway shots you've shown, especially the traffic level ones and your farms look cool (though some of the fields are a bit bright for my tastes).

 

Looking forward to seeing how you master this game like you did sc4.

 

Cheers

 

James

 

 

Heh. Never seen canola in flower? It's even brighter than that yellow. Mix it up with a field of iridescent blue from flax and it could be home in July.

[mutton noir 170]

Nice work, some great pictures that really seem to capture the spirit of your new city. I look forward to your next post.

[Mymyjp 1,052]

Excellent work as always LnX!

[89James89 1,169]

Although massive CBD's aren't really my thing. The picture with the statue in it looks lovely and well composed.

 

Cheers

 

James

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iviaarten: Thanks, and those goodies are well worth it!

 

lance10ca: Thank you for the tip.

 

mutton noir: Cheers!

 

Mymyjp: You haven't seen anything yet!

 

89James89: In SC4 massive CBD's were not my favourite feature. However in CS the modded camera can take some startling and numbing views of the CBD interior, thus making CBD a lot more interesting to make.

 

 

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Entry 3: Tamboria's CBD

 

Tamboria has been growing at an incredible pace and the city feels mind-numbingly large. From this-

 

 

To this-

 

 

 

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Let's delve straight in!

 

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The CBD.

 

 

 

The Colossal Order HQ is my favourite skyscraper. We need more of these chunky buildings!

 

 

 

 

 

A whole bunch of residential tower blocks.

 

 

 

The modded free roam camera is great for getting foreground pictures framed with buildings.

 

 

 

Since you can cover every conceivable angle with this angle, then the whole matter of taking pictures turns into an art form.

 

 

 

The expo centre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photographer looks upwards...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mega mall.

 

 

 

 

Remember that tilt shift is your friend when taking pictures. Especially with faraway objects and buildings- it compensates for the resolution limitations.

 

 

 

 

I am loving the statues- both vanilla and custom!

 

 

 

 

The museum of fine arts.

 

 

 

Down on the streets there are all kinds of nooks and crannies.

 

 

 

An old man with a walking stick! That is so awesome.

 

 

 

The statue of industry.

 

 

 

And now for some pictures outside of the CBD.

 

 

 

The observatory.

 

 

 

 

This suburb is my favourite area of Tamboria.

 

 

 

 

Great Dun Fells- the name of my favourite suburb.

 

 

 

 

A brief look at the tree farms and lumber yards.

 

 

 

Utilising some industrial fillers.

 

 

 

This Russian church is very beautiful.

 

 

 

We're back in East Tamboria- the site of the first entry in this CJ.

 

 

 

An updated view, facing West, from the farms. The observatory in the distance is about 6.5km (~4 miles) away.

 

 

 

And we end this entry with the glorious sunset.

 

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For the next week I will be posting an entry a day since this city is so large, and it is only going to get larger!

 

 

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wow, why so beautiful *____*

You're doing the best images from C:S.

[iviaarten 534]

wow, you really have a knack for working with the camera. Some amazing pictures here.

[mb1.0.2 193]

Wow. Totally inspiring. I'm assuming some of those structures in your CBD are mods? They don't seem to fit the "style" of the in-game assets. Either way, it's a gorgeous city with an awesome CBD. Love the observatory, as well. Lookin' forward to lots more.

[Mymyjp 1,052]

Love the chose of buildings LnX. And that shot where you see the mountain in the background is really awesome.

 

Excellent job!

[packersfan 666]

Are you going to continue playing SC4?  I'm debating whether to pick this up as another game to play...SC4 is more about the style and art now, but I'm still tied to it.  Cool start.  I''m not in love with the look yet.

What I mean is that this looks like fun to play...but I'd love to have a little more realism in terms of scale.

[RipRap 4,400]

Wow, the stuff you put in this CJ is amazing!

[Azurespecter 506]

That suburb on the steep hillside going up to the Observatory... just WOW!

[TekindusT 3,809]

I can never get enough tiltshift when taking pics of my cities! Great job!

[watercitymadero 805]

So cool

[coolwiththecool2 827]

#Tiltshiftoverload

This is already better than your SC4 equivalent of this cj

[Vitoraju 675]

The city and the CJ is as beautiful as the previous CJ "My SC4 CJ Scrapbook", congratulations!  *----*

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JPSchriefer: I attribute that to the game plus the modded camera.

 

iviaarten: The modded camera allows for more tilt shift, that's the trick you see.

 

mb1.0.2: Thanks a lot! There is a lot more coming, both from Tamboria and from future cities to.

 

Mymyjp: Thank you.

 

packersfan: My SC4 CJ is on hiatus for the time being, Cities Skylines has now become my new obsession. Also with a camera filter plus the modded camera with tilt shift the game looks a lot more nicer.

 

Tonraq: I have only just scratched the surface. The next city is going to reside in a custom made map and I'm going focus a lot more on the road layouts, parks plus fillers.

 

Azurespectre: I'm glad you like it, the inspiration came from GTA V with the Vinewood Hills area.

 

TekindusT: Tiltshift makes mega sense in this game, especially since it is a 3D city simulator.

 

CDM Madero:

 

coolwiththecool2: That's good to hear.

 

Vitor13: Thank you. I wanted to make the transition from my previous CJ to this one as smooth as possible.

 

 

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Entry 4: Lumber Yards

 

Thanks a lot for the comments, I am glad you appreciate the quality because with this game I can approach each picture as if it were a potential painting. The camera is my brush and today's medium is lumber yards. Take a deep breathe and smell that bark aroma and the tang of sawdust.

 

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Lumber Sands is the area in question. It's called that due to the tree farms in the woodland and the beaches nearby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at all of that lumber being carried away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are some brilliant statues in the Steam Workshop for CS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Styhead Park.

 

 

 

 

The Botanical Gardens.

 

 

 

Minimizing intersections on major avenues is the best way of reducing traffic jams.

 

 

 

Carparks. Now that I have a mod which fixes the park bug which destroys commercial demand, I can plop in parks to my hearts content. With this issue fixed I wonder if there is a mod to vastly increase the number of tourists going to parks because the more tourists go to carparks, which are technically parks in the game, then more parked cars will appear.

 

 

 

 

The Eastern part of Styhead Park.

 

 

 

Moving towards the centre now.

 

 

 

And a lookout tower in the South-western corner of Styhead Park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A courthouse.

 

 

 

And a T34 tank in lieu of a statue upon the plinth.

 

 

 

An elementary school fenced off. Can't have the little tykes running across the grounds and onto roads flooded with timber lorries you see.

 

 

 

 

The "satellite" shot of Tamboria.

 

[feyss 1,981]

Ahahaha I like the Talos statue.

 

Nice city by the way. It seems to grow fast.

[Vitoraju 675]

Urban planning is realistic, the landscapes are beautiful, and the city is well-structured, good job!      

[jesper107 113]

Good job mate! In the picture with the lookout tower (the one with a red house next to it), I was wondering what park you are using with the small colorful details?

 

Cheers!

[89James89 1,169]

Love the look of this especially that shot of the factories with the city skyline in the background. Also that fenced school just looks really nice in that setting.

 

Well done.

 

James