Introduction: Frankton and Harrien
Hello! Here is Golden County!
I've been making a county in Cities Skylines for a while now. I had some pictures posted on another city Journal for an older city, but I've now started making a whole separate journal to document the construction of this place. Come and join!
First of all, I also want to say that I am making a building theme for the game too. I want to make some kind of city on the map which has a more European style. The problem with the in-game European buildings is that the corner buildings only work on 90 degree angles. That's fine if you're making a completely grid city, but once you start having other angles, it can mess things up, and corners will look very unrealistic. I found this guy on the Steam Workshop called axel.kiebooms. He has some ploppable buildings that go on non-90-degree corners. I thought that it was a genius idea, but the themes he has (although amazing!) aren't the kind of themes I had in mind for my city. That's when I decided to make my own building theme. Something that was completely flexible and could work on all kinds of roads. It would have zoned buildings, corner buildings for other angles, and even freely ploppable buildings for maximum freedom. I don't know if anyone knows what I'm talking about, but it is something that you will see develop over time, I guess.
Anyway, here are the first two buildings in the theme. I'm not a very experienced modeler, so I guess we'll see where this goes...
I've been looking around for the right theme for my city. I've decided on making a theme that's based around Oslo. I've basically been looking on Google Earth, and copying buildings I see there. A lot of the buildings are more simple than something like Paris, for example, and I'm not a very experienced modeler. It's a good start, I guess!
I know the building looks a bit bright, but I've changed the textures a bit, they're fine in-game.
This is my second one. It's more recent, and it was also my first try with alpha mapping for railings (basically making some parts of faces invisible to save tris). You can see the railings there below the roof, I think they turned out pretty good.
I also tried this thing with the windows out. Looks pretty cool.
This is also the LOD. I have one for the other building but I don't have pictures. You can see that the LOD also works at night.
I also want to thank everyone who made this guide. It really helps me with the quality and optimization of my assets, so thank you for the guide! I want to thank TempleofDoom who made this asset creation guide on Youtube. Without these videos, I would have no clue at all in what to do! I also want to thank axel.kiebooms for giving me the idea for this in the first place!
Anyway. That's it for that. Here is my actual region in game. Enjoy!
So this is Frankton and Harrien. Harrien is the small town on the top of the picture, Frankton is the bigger unfinished town.
PREPARE FOR AN OVERLOAD OF PICTURES
Right between Harrien and the river are some farms.
There's some construction work going on for the road as it's a bit bumpy.
Near Harrien are these greenhouses. There are also some apartments by the roundabout there. You can see the morning rush hour traffic piling up on the roundabout. (The Rush Hour mod is amazing!)
This is Harrien itself! You can see how I put backyards in between houses. I think they give a much more realistic look and feel compared with trees.
Past Harrien are more farms.
Moving back down closer to Harrien, guess what, more farms!
Some construction for something new!
We've now reached this industrial and recycling area.
Looking around the industry are even more farms!
Now we come into Frankton. You can also see some WIP stuff on the left. I don't exactly know what it's going to end up as. A lot of stuff here is unfinished, so if it doesn't look finished, it probably isn't. I'm not going to show every part of the town, just the areas I think are worth showing for now.
This is Frankton's High School.
Here's a playground and some appartments by a nearby fire station.
This is downtown Frankton. Lots of traffic as people are still going to work in the morning rush hour.
Here is the newer part of Frankton. It's got the newer offices and shops.
And here is the unfinished area. I don't know how much it's going to stay like this. Even though parts of it are foggy, I want to include details to those parts for consistency.
And that's it! Sorry for the overload of pictures. I just wanted to make sure every part was shown.
Hope you enjoyed!
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