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So I am doing some relots. How do you all like them?

matias93: thank you very much! So I made a test with the steps of the stairs and I got 26,5m to the tower. When testing with the men on the front measuring 1,65m I got 25,5. So I decided the real thing is about 25m. Also, it's known the building's bricks were reddish, so this part is fine SimCoug: thank you! I think this station may look good in your CJ since it has a historic look I'll export the model in HD and SD. The modelling part is almost done now - I'm studying how the windows really looked - and I think this building is very fun to do. BTW there's also a little European station on the JP's infinite projects backstage

Yo, Guys and Gals -- I AM IN NEED OF OPINIONS AND SUGGESTIONS -- Here are three pictures of a small stretch of shoreline landscaping. I'm trying out a new style -- going for that "rocky" look on this part. Let me know what you think -- PLEASE! # 01 # 02 # 03

Well, you certainly did ... "win" ... on that one. A sneak preview of the start for my next recreation:

Right now I only have little time, and I'm not able to write new mods. But I want to share my knowlege about Cities: Skylines mod development with you! Mod Development Tutorials

I feel a bit rusty but I really enjoyed it.

A tiny insignificant village next to a tiny insignificant highway:

MAXIMUS: Double Decker Monorail Designed for Cities Skylines. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931642259

Well, the work has finally started on the Service Station Mega Pack. Union 76 HESS Valvoline

Replies: raynev1: Thanks and yep, plenty of room, at least 100 large tiles DavidDhetzel: Thanks and yep, always looking for good BAT's so thankyou, picked them all up (or at least I will eventually) kschmidt: Thanks and I completely agree that it has to be slow burn for the development. Not sure what sort of time period this is really based in as I've got a bit of a mix of buildings from several different time periods so it doesn't really have a fixed date in time. I do however hope to indicate some sort of change of style as we slowly grow and develop. Entry 5: Meandering Marshes So, last time we left off we were taking a look at the regions most famous pair of farmers. Well today.... has absolutely nothing to do with them so lets just get on with it shall we starting off with this exciting news that the entire area around Harrignton is now full of people, livestock and various crops (quite why we need so many different ones I don't know but nevermind). Anyway here's how it looks complete with a map of the area with all the place names, so you can be even more confused when trying to figure out where we are as I've named every small settlement! Right, so now that's out of the way, lets get on with the real content of this entry and for that, we need to start in Rilby, taking a look at its lovely ferry connection over to the nearby large town of Naplan. (Rilby is on the right for anyone who's confused by the map above or just didn't bother clicking the spoiler button). So now, we throw the lovely ferry connection out of the window and instead, decide that we need our car to travel around the several hundred metres of area that is remotely of any interest in Naplan. Thankfully for us, the ever expanding Harrignton surroundings have joined the two towns by a long, muddy, impassable for several months of the year and dangerous for the rest road that skirts some local swamp land (and by skirt I mean pretty much ploughs into it). Anyway, lets start by heading northwards out of Rilby and into the ever present farmland. Continuing north, we bypass Berrin Woods and head through the small villages of Droton and Meryat (in that order). Thankfully Droton is kind enough to give you some indication as to weather or not its a good idea to try the rest of the drive seeing as they pretty much built it in the swampy land surrounding the waterways. Then, we make a turn to the left through Bontin and in between some larger farms where the ground is actually, pretty serviceable as a road, and into Trowdin where we start to head south again and back into, well, mud. Apparently though, this area seems to appeal to people as the two towns we just past are pretty large when compared to most of the places in Harrington. Then, we head back into the boggy marshland that surrounds this wood and down towards Naplan. As you can see there's a lot of smaller farms along this track with several of the regions smallest settlements in the form of Manton and Woodbury. And, just to prove how small a settlement that these are here is Manton where you could literally blink and miss it (seriously I nearly did while concentrating on not slipping off this track). Finally, we end up in Naplan where I park up get ready to do some shopping done, only to find that its about to get dark and there's some clouds blowing in, so decide to just start heading back instead. Screw it, I'm taking the ferry next time! ~-~ Meanwhile, in other news we saw our first factories being built in the region to actually do something with the huge amount of stuff we grow. Predicatably, these have sprung up near Henburn because, why not just add more pollution to the area. Anyway thats the end of this entry. No region view as not a hell of a lot has changed to be honest just the usual little bit of spread, so..... Till next time!

Looks like google earth !!

I thought this was a real photo for a minute.

You might also see the phrase "grade separation" to describe high-speed rail tracks that are elevated or otherwise isolated from their surroundings so that pedestrians can't walk on them and cars never drive across them (cars pass over or under instead).

Hey guys! I come back with another custom build! This time is an old wooden train bridge Hope you will enjoy it! Cheers!

Started work on a modern office building. Just a little progress so far.

I almost called them @kingleno slums, but I figured that'd be rude...

Here is a scene I figured I would share . Shhh. Don't tell , I left the grid on .

Cool images everyone . A lot of inspiration in this thread . @Dreadnought I think that looks very nice . With so many mmp sands , rocks and vegetation . The sky's the limit . Here is something I've been working on . Bulldoze , zone and repeat . Many , many times . Some mmp's and I think I can call it done .

Wow, you were quick on the reply. I wound up going thru the calendar part, selecting another date cause the triangle thinger was giving the same error and now I'm getting files again. (I had deleted my post, but I put it back since you replied to it.) Edit: All C done. Total is now 2,153 buildings with 100% success so far.

I think I got similar messages when I was trying last year, sometimes coming back later and trying again works, other times tho it appears they are lost for good .... still without the wayback all of them would be gone

I believe that part could spark some philosophical debate. Perhaps that is one particular self imposed goal rather than the one and only goal of the game.

I am building a metropolis too. 8x8 large tiles. Only I am using GIGS of mods and a natural growth historical approach, so mine isnt really a "Fast and furious" way to reach over 1,000,000, but i'm planning on definetely more than that. Also the mods I use are mostly realism oriented, buildings, fixes, NAM, CAM, MMPs... My advice to Stellaris and everyone if I can contribute is, whatever playing style or goal, to ENJOY THE GAME. If you bought it and joined this forum maybe you like it a little bit, so why rush into building megalopolis with trillion people in it and a vast ocean of skyscrapers when you can enjoy taking your time to shape the scenario? I see SC4 as a train set model or a diorama or whatever you call them. People spend months working on single trees and grains of sands to make a little hill. It takes patience, yes, and after hours you look at it and it doesnt evoke anything other than frustration. But then you compare pictures a week later and your jaw drops and you feel fuzzy inside. I checked my own pictures of the first post of my journal and compared them with the ones i took the last few days and... oh my god! These couple of months have really been worth it. I can start to feel the city alive, breathing, talking, asking me. It's not about the numbers. It's about the feel. Stellaris88 you repeatedly said that SC4 cities look ugly and that you don't want to spoil your city with mods. Ok. To advice you I can say that you might try to avoid the "grid" and I mean trying to avoid to make neighbourhoods that look like a grid, like an infinite picture of suburb LA or Manhattan. On paper they look really boring, but of course in real life they have a variety of skyscrapers and monuments and the roads themselves have several different functions and styles, from alleys to massive avenues to expressways to urban interstates. Try first to adopt a non-flat map. Terrain is the NUMBER ONE factor in the uglyness department. My first metropolis project was a DIY flatmap and no matter how creative I was with NAM RHW and NWM avenues it just look stale. Browse the internet and find a good map that fits your taste, one with hills and woods, or maybe a bay. A mountain pass. A coastal map. Make your own (although more patience needed). My metropolis named Branny i took the map from the internet, it's the estuary of a big river in a bay. Really sparked my imagination. There are hills although not very pronounced and there is just a hint of a mountain range in the southwest. I adopted a mediterranean climate overhaul and downloaded lots of MMPs and refined my painter skills (ahahah). Even without laying a single road or building the map is already beautiful to look at. You can do this without mods. Just get a good map that doesnt look boring or ugly and spend some time giving it character BEFORE you lay roads. When you get to start building, dont just lay endless grids or RCI. Use a little bit of common sense and place things where they have a function. Use your imagination. Cities look good if they are realistic. A endless ocean of industry in a grid just looks like a copy and paste effort. Invent. Maybe over there has been opened a coal mine. Put a rail line close to it and connect it to an industry park somewhere else and build a coal power plant. Build also a warehouse and leave space for coal deposits so trains can unload and go back to the mine. You build a port? Then terraform the land around it to ease naval traffic and to build naval docks and shipyards. Connect everything with rail. Make a rail siding with several tracks and warehouses around it. These kind of things give life to the aestathics of the city, makes it look more believable. With or without mods. Obviously there are mods that add buldings, MMPs, puzzle pieces and kits, all sorts of things you can use to embellish or give character or to add functionality. But all of this can be done without mods. I used to. Just remember that the main factor in uglyness is the "grid". Hope it helps!

Thanks a lot. @RRetail has helped me a lot. It actually not very hard after you get a hold of things. I have many idea, and if you have some let me know. Im planing on doing 1 or more lot with each Relot. Thanks, Evan

I'm glad you have started to learn this. You seem to have a lot of ideas from your requests. I would suggest you take it at a slow pace and try to learn from the more experienced lotters here to be sure you're doing the best work possible. I'm sure that's your goal. Doing lots as fast as you can just to upload isn't going to be a successful path. Please take your time and get proper feedback from your friends here...it's really going to help you become an expert. Cheers, tiger

Released... http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931900112

Is this a coincidence? I tweeted this a couple hours ago. Although my video won't be about modding specifically, just about running scripts and changing some values for testing probably, for complete beginners. So it still could be useful since browsing mod tools and making temporary scripts is how I get mod ideas. My vote was for the written one, since then you could explain the process of making a mod from scratch, depends how inexperienced your target audience is. The problem I see with some tutorials in any field is that some things are not explained and it's "just do this because I said so". I guess there are people who want that but I'm not betting on those actually getting anywhere with modding. If people understand why the code is what it is, it's more likely they can apply this knowledge to their own modding ideas.

Yep. That's it exactly. Sample from real life: Basically that says that all portions of all walls must be above ground level to be counted in the above-grade living area. (The next paragraph there let's us break that rule for bi-level and tri-level style homes because the market reaction is that since the lower levels are partially above grade and the quality of finish is commensurate with the other levels the buyers and sellers themselves do not consider the lower level as a basement.)

Back with just a few homes in the Vining area - the desert town around the interstate exit with access to the mountains. There's a tire shop a bit further out of town towards the landfill and directly opposite of the scrapyard: On the edge of town there are the best properties with an unobstructed view of the Sierras: And this guy likes classic cars...

Thanks a lot @Judazzz! Finally finished the generic tree pack! 6 trees for when you just want to fill an area with some random relatively young trees. They range between 330 and 880 tris, which isn't that low-poly considering they aren't that big - but they should get the job done. At least it paves the way for later projects (haven't forgotten the linden tree @AmiPolizeiFunk!) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931378862

Small pier area for small town. A nice place for local people to spend some time and also serves as break point for rarely coming tourists. There is a bus stop close to this location but I suggest you to walk next to river to get here if you have time

Update. I got one of the very first burger kings on here a re-lot. I had a hard time with parking and the drive thru but I made it. I placed it next to the Lowes Foods to show that this is also a Prop a Lot relot.

Looking at what you want to do, I think you want to make a custom prop family for use with SHK's props, which is reasonably easy to achieve. Start by working out exactly which props you want to appear on your lots and collecting the prop exemplars for them in a new DAT. Then in reader highlight them all, right click and select "Generate new group and instance", which will give them all new unique IDs. You might want to edit the prop names at this point, to differentiate them in the lot editor. Now just replace the current Building/Prop family with one of the unique id's assigned to you. You might want to use multiple families that do different things. Also you should note that the ones used by SHK are in timed groups, so the cars change throughout a day. Although if the plan is simply to remake the SHK groupings so that the flash cars aren't part of them, you don't need to concern yourself with this overly.

There is now a button called Toggle Underground Bulldozing. It was added during the 1.7 update.

Sure,tell that to Korver,LN X and Michael...