The New Road Builder Mod is Wild | Cities Skylines 2
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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EDIT: Credit to Trejak and Bad Peanut as collaborators of the Road Builder mod!
I don't even need to watch the full video to know this mod is enough to get me back into the game!
Great mod Two dollars will make New Dimesburg a better city
Evem with all the problems the game has? I just dont get it...
@@aturchomicz821what problems?
i'm about to try the mod tonight on my PC too see how detailed & good it is.
@@aturchomicz821 Still an excellent city painter.
19:30 I definitely care about those little details, and I actually think MOST of us do! It’s the ability to do what you’re doing and make those tiny adjustments that really makes the city come to life
Entirely right
At Vermont St and Olive St, you can make a “super node” by temporarily building a roundabout over the highway, connecting all your road segments into the roundabout, and then carefully deleting ONLY the roundabout. You then end up with a completely joined up multi-road super node.
That’s a very smart idea I’ll give that a go
@@twodollarstwenty Also maybe try adding a median instead of a railing to the sides of the roads. it would atleast look like there is something instead of the road edge.
i think there's an easier way to do this with moveit, you should be able to extend the end nodes of one crossing to where the other one should be and connect the rest of the roads up
19:30 Yes I absolutely care about that sort of thing! Its what makes you unique, its also a big reason why I watch your videos is for the inspiration and creativity.
That was a brilliant engineering project, loved the attention to detail and persistence ❤
Oh my god, even the first minute of the video blew me away! As soon as custom assets will be available for this game, my social life will disappear cause I'll care only about this game :D :D
Infrastructure building is pretty much the thing I care about most in CS so yeah, this episode and figuring this stuff out's been super entertaining. Also, there's a clipping surface that might help in ExtraDetailingTools.
Oh good idea I’ll try the clipping surface!
I love how even the above ground roads feel like they’re integrated into the suburban landscape rather than just an expressway surrounded by unused land
You should get the mod 'All Aboard!' I had a similar problem to what you seem to be experiencing. That mod was a game changer. Buses, trains, trams, etc., now leave at regular intervals and do not stand around waiting for a bug-stuck Cim to get onboard.
YES I REALLY DO CARE ABOUT THIS UNDERGROUND ROAD PROJECT! Something like this is very rare and with the new epic mod this is so entertaining to watch so yeah its worth the effort!
@twodollarstwenty 22:00 There is a method to create a supernode. It would stretch the intersection. You would have to redraw the surface level and put a temporary roundabout up top. Forget all of the steps but it's the best solution I think.
Create a T junction. Add a roundabout. Connect all the roads to the roundabout. Delete the roundabout. Supernode.
Came here to say this. City Planner Plays has used supernodes too
Amazing I’ll look into it. I love the name supernode
@@twodollarstwenty Watch Infrastructurist, he is a pro at that!
CO and paradox is going to hate this mod, they wont be able to sell new road types as DLC with this mod existing.
Truth but I also see a universe where possibly get this mod into base game if they were wise. With all that said, if they actively hate this mod, it might be safe to say that the game will die outright given the fact CS2 needs this mod
they're still gonna be able to sell new road upgrades as dlc tho, and this mod wouldn't work as a workaround around that. for example bike lanes, when they add bikes to the game. although i really hope bikes are a free update and not a DLC
“Good point! This mod is outstanding. Nice to see two dollars struggling sometimes 😵💫. I have very much respect for the CS creators; they are so inspiring!”
@@mrgangsterb0y Bikes could be added as part of a Mass Transport or Green Cities expansion. I hope it's free too, but looking back at the old game, it will probably be a DLC feature.
Selling road types is insane. That’s like SIMS 4 EA LEVELS of greed.
This mod is a gamechanger-making realistic roads is going to be a piece of cake now! For example…painted medians? Easy, just put a shoulder in the middle and paint markings with netlanes!
Want a massive stroad? Make a highway but bi-directional and create turning lane segment presets to easily make good intersections!
Want a one lane each direction median seperated road? Easy. Not to mention throwing in and integrating your transit networks and other infrastructure so seamlessly. Where to put that subway track I wonder… ah yes of course! Side of the road should do.
Can't wait for the mod! Might finally be able to get a little bit more control over my traffic, as it is an absolute catastrophe!
22:05 you need to connect the nodes. It looks and works way better. Remove half, place a roundabout, drag thru the roads (using anarchy). This creates one super node. Then, delete the round-about. This converts it back to a super-node traffic-light intersection.
Stunning. 😮 And from the collaboration, it appears that the Big Guns were all in on it. Magnificent! 👏
6:40 Awwww, I love the simcity 2013 music, fills me with such nostalgia!
Send the savegame top Biffa to fix your traffic :P would be a good episode.
Also the entire underground highwaything started nice and simple and then .......
I would find an eventual "let the pros deal with the mess" colab with biffa VERY fun, but biffa might not want to due to the possibility of screwing up twenty's detailing and such, maybe something of a "How I'd fix it" video from biffa then twenty applies the fixes himself? would make for a two video back and fourth colab rather than a single video, which is better for youtube engagement stuff
For your traffic situation, I like the mod Cim Route Highlighter. It is not exactly like the tool from CS2 but it can help sometimes. It also is shows you the buildings that cims came from and going to, and if you click on a building it will show you every path coming to or leaving and again the building at the other end of the path. It shows where your university students are coming from, for example.
Seeing all that traffic crawling out from under the tunnel looks so cool. Reminds me of some of the highways in Chicago
When adding (bus) lanes to a road you need to check the intersections at both ends. Some of the lanes don’t allow turning left or right. It’s why cars still use the bus lane.
Awesome mod, and great video!! Yes, we definitely come here for these little details you make. Keep it up. 😀
Very neat! For those fences at the end you can go back to using the fence/wall "pieces" as they are just props and so can be placed wherever. That clipping from the horizontal pillars is a particularly cool side-effect, and very well utilised. The mod is Top Bonkers!
Ah man, everything looks great mate! And for the record: I really, really, enjoy your attention to detail so concerning your question about the clipping; please pay such attention as you did!😊
Nooo this video was so short! Keep up the good detail bro!
the highway detailing is soooo good! you make it look easy and honestly its close to CS1 detailing in terms of just throwing down tunnels and elevated sections wherever you want. I'm predicting Tokyo style road builds with mods by next year at this rate
You can make complex junctions work by changing it to a big roundabout and then delete the roundabout. It creates a sort of ‘supernode’, connecting all the roads together.
22:00 i would put slim buildings (only props because it obviously won't zone there) on the part above the highway where it widens and we can still see the grass. A dense city would use every bit of space so it could make sense
This mod is amazing and it has so much potential! Also I love your level of detail, it's why most of us are here watching ;)
3700x Buddies, you are a man of culture, respect
You convinced me in the first three seconds of the video. This is amazing.
I love how detailed your cities are!
Mod we're still missing: the Slope Tool! Even out all those bumpy roads.
And it'd be great if sunken & elevated lanes became part of the Road Builder Mod.
Great road work. When it comes to protecting the above highway roads, you should be able to put a fence there with the line tool. There's a residential fence which is concrete and bars which I think would look great there. Also, I have an idea for your struggle that you have got going. Double also, if you put a roundabout on the Vermont Street intersection - connect all the nodes - and then delete the roundabout you will have fixed that issue.
23:30 Maybe add a shoulder or median to give some space betwee road and highway below.
I thought the same. A concrete barrier would most likely be the IRL solution here.
19:32 yes love this stuff. If you go look at interstate 5 in downtown Seattle there’s sections like this!
The intersection at 8:04 looks like it has stop signs which make the buses have to wait for every single pedestrian that wants to cross. I think a traffic light would be both more realistic and function better, where I live there are almost always traffic lights near bus stops.
I am not sure if you are aware of this, but in the tree controller mod, you can set it to always have Spring Colors. Don’t know if you mind the autumn colors, but just wanted to tell it to you anyway. Great vid as always!
Oh I didn’t know that! I’m changing for sure!
@@tomasb704 it also has a setting to use the dead tree visual in winter for deciduous trees so that they will go orange for fall and drop the leaves in winter then green in spring. I'm constantly amazed by the mod creators and the things this game is capable of!
You should make a subway because New York City has a big subway system.
I've been waiting to do roads like this since SimCity 2013 promised something similar early in its development. This really is the way. I'm excited to see mods this powerful coming out in (imo) the early days of the game. I stepped away for a while to focus on other projects while the game settles down, but it's hard not to get excited about this. Thank you for showing what it's capable, and always happy to see what you do with your cities!
I’m excited to see what assets you bring to the game! Your pine tree and rock packs in CSL1 are still my favourite assets brought to the game
To connect the nodes that are close together, remove one (likely the one that was to the right when you were talking about it) and place a large roundabout on the other. The roundabout having a larger footprint will allow you to reconnect the other roads while keeping them straight. You can remove the roundabout after to have a larger standard node that can be governed by a single traffic light.
Wow I feel like I can finally do more with my cities with this AHHH this is definitely what I need. Thanks for the video!!
21:38 You can try to draw the nodes from one single joining point to create the intersection and THEN redraw the roads to be off to the side as you have them right now. I’ve used this consistently and it should work!
That mod is just so cool, it's such a game changer for building exactly what you want.
Perhaps a ‘road with a sidewalk section’ might solve the issue of fencing over the exposed tunnel sections.
The fence/barrier might attach to the sidewalk?
Great vid.
Looks great! New mod is awesome! Now that you removed sidewalks next to rail yard, you could remove those crosswalks too
Next time CS2 is on steam sale I’m gonna have to buy it. Seems like the good mods are coming out
that sunken highway is fucking cool your so close to getting it perfect!
love what you did with the highway, the intersection down thats barely visible. The small things make the great cities
I just think the roads up top should some sort of barriers
Looks like alot of fun. Can't wait to get my hands on it!
22:00 That interssection is screaming for a super node!
19:30 yes, i mean i do, keep it, it's just nice knowing and at times looking at this little details, makes it feel live and cared, 😄
The Sim City 4 music really tickled a nostalgia nerve :3
The mod is detailed & probably even a eye opener, basically i'm going to make w/ it tonight.
11:30 One thing that might help is keeping it 1 lane per side throughout so you don't have bottlenecks, especially before busy intersections
Yep, absolutely love mods like this!
I'd really love to see a video segment dedicated to redesigning the bus station by the main train station. A big issue there is the island bus stops requiring loads of pedestrian crossings causing buses to get stuck getting through. You could design a U shaped terminal instead with an outer lane for bus stops and an inner lane for overtaking.
You using the simcity soundtrack gave me heeps of goosebumps and nostalgia. 😢
- for the railings, maybe adding a very narrow sidewalk (0.5m) in roadbuilder would make it work?
- for the greenery, i think the bushes work, but trees on an overpass like that seems a bit much, imagine dealing with the roots!
babe, wake up two dollars video! 🤣
Sim City 2013 had such a good sound track out of most games I've played
i would want to see this city more often. binge watched all of the episodes.
I can't wait :D I'm even more eager for this mod than I ever was for the actual game 😅
Could change those above around ground segments to bridges. That way they should get railing, but won’t be able to place buildings on them. Also get the traffic mod, it really does help. 😊
Procedural road creation is something I wanted to see in the base-game for Cities Skylines 2. Massive thanks to the modder who has created this mod as it completely changes road building and allows much greater flexibility and variety. For example, in reality many suburban streets have a sidewalk, berm, parking and a traffic lane in each direction, wheras in base CS:2 you have to choose between parking or a berm. I also saw an Akruas video using the mod in OG Cities Skylines and same level of flexibility added to that game too. I do worry about ongoing support in the medium to long term, as this seems like a mod that would break your save until it is updated after a patch.
It’s something I never even considered and it’s pretty mind blowing seeing it in game. I am also worried about further game updates and save breaking but we’ll just have to cross that bridge when we get there
I would love to see a large university, (I can’t remember if one was built yet), or build a new area around one of the speciality buildings. I’d also continue using the abandoned rail as a walking/cycling path like the high line.
just the first 30 seconds got me hooked
Great use of the bus lanes and the new mod!!
For the Vermont Street intersection. Try turning it into a roundabout. Then connecting all the roads to that roundabout. Then delete the roundabout. The intersection should remain as a single node and all the roads will operate on their traffic lights together.
The sim city 2013 music was such a nice touch lol
Im really excited for Road Builder! HYPE!
23:40
You could try the mod that lets you turn any wall into a bridge/retaining wall, they add little walls/ railings to the side of roads
MoveIt realy needs a "smooth roads to", and "set to hieght" button.
@@munchaking1896 the beta version of move it has set to height and set to ground level. Quboid said he is working on the smooth slope now, and with the manipulation mode already in there he should be able to add it. 😊
maybeee you can also build a custom central station with the new Road Builder mod 👀
21:45 In City Skylines 2, we use supernode to merge the two intersections into one. You can find quite a lot of tutorial videos.
22:13 for this I am pretty sure you can use a roundabout to make a super node so it’s one traffic light for all that
Making diverging diamonds will be soooooo much more easy now if people wants to make them
More old buildings please more dense neighborhoods
The exit seen at 14:24 should be made into a supernode SPUI so there's only one traffic light to contend with and no queueing on the short bridge.
im really excited to finally make roads with pavement on one side and not both, and making alleyways with sidewalks for a nice suburban street of sorts
A couple of things you could do first the intersection you showed I would say to remove the cross walks I can’t think of more since most of my advice would be “one more lane bro” two I know you fully decorated the tunnel but I would use the floor marker tools or whatever they are called and have the beams more spread out so the land does not go up and down I haven’t tried it but I think it might work
I knew this was gonna be game changing
Damn, Cities Skylines 2 with SimCity theme. Best of two combined.
There's a lot to be said around optimising traffic but a specific problem in how you build cities is junctions too close together. The roads above the tunnel are a great example where there's not enough space for vehicles in the short bridge between them so you're limited to two cars through per change of the lights and any numbers above that are forced to queue up at the preceding junction. You can end up with one junction that forces queues at 2-3 others this way.
Cities seems to calculate the fastest route for a journey using road distance and the speed limits involved. The distance part of this applies to pedestrian routes so those long ramps and spirals up to foot bridges for crossings tend not to get used if there's any other way. They add too much extra distance to a journey. Ramps up to pedestrian bridges have to be kept nice and short and preferably up in the direction that the person is going anyway, if you want their usage to be maximised.
oh boy!! time to recreate houston with their horrifying highways!!
That absolutely awesome highway you created reminds me a lot of Wacker Drive, which is a double- and sometimes triple-decker road along Chicago's riverfront leading into Lakeshore Drive (the highway up and down Lake Michigan). The inside of the lower deck has some pretty visually awesome sections. I know this is intended to be based on the tri-state area, but looking at Chicago and some other major old American cities can't hurt, can it?
Finally some realistic traffic! the cities seem deserted at times
this mod is a gamechanger!!! I would pay for it
For the fences you can find some in findit then place and use move it to raise them higher
At the 19 minute mark - I agree that if you can't see it, it doesn't matter BUT it feels bad, even in my heavily modded CS1 that has a ton of things that manipulate the simulation and such - I still get that voice in the back of my head calling me a cheater if I knowingly set up something that really SHOULDN'T work. Cars driving through a wall, qualifies.
For the railing you could maybe use the prop fences and raise them. It would take a long time but It could work I think.
8:27 Didnt expect to hear music from little big planet, I LOVE THE MUSIC CHOICE
Finally i think i can make tram tracks without people walking on them
The tunnel part reminds me of the Tokyo Shuto Expressway. Maybe you can take a look at it for reference.
you can always create a supernode for the highway off ramp intersection
Some of the intersections have double pedestrian crossings, maybe remove some. Understand the flow of the traffic. Maybe restrict some turns (no left or right turns). Some intersections could have double lane for turns.
21:25 how about a double roundabout instead of traffic lights?
23:15 how about a small modern park in the middle, maybe with a statue, instead of just beams and trees.
Huh. I had this exact idea way back in 2007 already when the Urbs Urbis thing got started over on simtropolis.
23:45 you could try to use the fence objects and line tool because then you should be able to set the height
YES I care about all the little things creates a SUPER Coooool City