Darlington (WIP)
Entry 4: Darlington (WIP)
For the last couple of months I have been busy with SC4, now I'm winding that down and focusing on Cities Skylines. I rebuilt my plugins/assets folder and trimmed it greatly. Making gigantic cities is murder for my computer so instead I will be building towns and rural areas. Here is the town of Darlington, in this city tile I have spent the last several days focusing on urban development. Soon I will work on the agriculture and farms. Lastly I want to thank gatakos, a Simtropolis member, for inspiring me to pick up Cities Skylines again.
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The magic of building themes, an entire area of semi-detached buildings can be effortlessly laid down.
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The Network Extensions mod includes all kinds of new roads.
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Be that new one-way roads and highways...
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...and one tile roads. In the vanilla game the roads take up two tiles.
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Victorian housing, old but posh.
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Using the Network Skins mod I can choose the type of trees and lampposts that will appear on roads. Here are TPB's shady trees.
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Another cool mod of TPB's is the terrain theme mod. I can select a different terrain ingame!
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This game is nirvana for British users. So many British assets!
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Nearly all the time spent so far was laying down the RCI. In this stretch of avenue though I focused on the little details.
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Details such as this mini-park.
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The rocks are another one of TPB's creations.
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A good view to the south.
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I use the Roads United mod to improve the road textures.
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The best feature of this mod are the cosmetic parking bay demarcations.
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The complete overview. When finished the entire town will fit into the confines of this picture. I don't want to make a super large city, just something reasonably sized.
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Find the right colour correction and sunsets become magical.
Some time next week I will post another WIP entry, this time it will focus more on agriculture and the countryside surrounding Darlington.
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