Vanilla Asset Review – Cities: Skylines

1) Name this asset: Villa de Botch

2) Rating (number between 0 and 10):

• Architecture & Proportions: 8 (4 considering the rotation :P)
• Colour (with vanilla colour variations): 8
• Colour (improved textures/colour variations): 9
• Illumination: 3
• Model & Texture Quality: 9
• Decoration (props & trees): 6
• Overall Rating: 8

3) Stat Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Zone Type (RCIO): R
• Wealth Level ($, $$, $$$): $$
• Density ([1 rural] – [10 megacity]): 1-3
• Household & Workplace Count: 1
• Ideal lot size (with garden/parking, 1x1 – 16x8): 3x4 - 5x8

4) Style Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Commonness ([1 rare, unique] – [10 widespread, large accumulations]): 9
• Construction date (1800 – 2100): 1930s-1970s
• Continent or Region: North America
• Architecture Style (if known): -

5) Suggestions for improvement: One of the better assest for sure, but as you said, looks like someone read the blueprints the wrong way. And, once again, street side lamp posts. Who thought this was necessary? The illumination has the same problem as one of the other assets we reviewed earlier, one third of the windows light up while the rest doesn't. This must have been constructed by drunkards!

Ikr, the illumination maps are really bad. Some houses have these small tiles windows, and every tile lights up at a different time -_-

I still think that it is a minor issue (at least for low-density). The only thing I'm going to do is remove those street lights.

The lot needs to be expanded one tile wider and have the left entrance given a pavement driveway+walkway (easy to draw pavement instead of grass or ruins) and a tall, dense cedar hedge at the left-most side. The illumination map is a mess, like most defaults. However, this could be made to look good with my suggested improvements. The only reason to rotate the building would be to increase privacy but that requires tall, dense hedges.

2) Rating (number between 0 and 10):

• Architecture & Proportions: 7
• Colour (with vanilla colour variations): 6
• Colour (improved textures/colour variations): 7
• Illumination: 4
• Model & Texture Quality: 6
• Decoration (props & trees): 5
• Overall Rating: 6

3) Stat Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Zone Type (RCIO): R
• Wealth Level ($, $$, $$$): $$
• Density ([1 rural] – [10 megacity]): 4
• Household & Workplace Count: 1-2
• Ideal lot size (with garden/parking, 1x1 – 16x8): 4x4, 4x5, 4x6

4) Style Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Commonness ([1 rare, unique] – [10 widespread, large accumulations]): 7
• Construction date (1800 – 2100): -
• Continent or Region: Could work in Europe too
• Architecture Style (if known): -

5) Suggestions for improvement:

Like others have said, the illumination needs fixing (I hadn't even noticed this before now). I'd give it a paved driveway and a fence or hedge near the road like OcramsRzr suggested. That would make the rotation make a bit of sense. Kill the lamp posts and give it some garden.

Very nice! Could you make these assets ploppable and organize them as a set on the Workshop so they're easy to find?

1) Name this asset: Suburban American Homes

2) Rating (number between 0 and 10):

• Architecture & Proportions: 10
• Colour (with vanilla colour variations): 8
• Colour (improved textures/colour variations): 10
• Illumination: 10
• Model & Texture Quality: 10
• Decoration (props & trees): 10
• Overall Rating: 9 (I'm not just giving you a nice rating, this is really fantastic)

3) Stat Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Zone Type (RCIO): Residential
• Wealth Level ($, $$, $$$): $$
• Density ([1 rural] – [10 megacity]): 7
• Household & Workplace Count: 1 family
• Ideal lot size (with garden/parking, 1x1 – 16x8): ??? I'm really not good at this, you're the architect! maybe 4 by 5?

4) Style Classification (you can specify one or multiple values):

• Commonness ([1 rare, unique] – [10 widespread, large accumulations]): 7
• Construction date (1800 – 2100): 1970
• Continent or Region: North America
• Architecture Style (if known): American

5) Suggestions for improvement:

I really like these homes.  I would suggest adding a tree, but there are lots of assets on the workshop with too many trees.  The trees in CSL are really quite nice, and I like how they're animated, they sway back and forth in gameplay, but I think many developers use the trees as replacements for better architecture, or even props.  The vanilla parks, for example, are ALL trees. What's the point of the asset?  I can plop trees there myself, you know? Anywhoo, these are great homes.  Better without the trees, and also could you please make them ploppable?

On 23.3.2016 at 3:31 PM, Fearlessmayor said:

could you please make them ploppable?

You can plop them with the search box mod, I think. Just search for "L3 3x4 detached01".