How to Build a Realistic European City in Cities Skylines 2
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- Full step-by-step journey of the development of our first European build in Cities Skylines 2, attempting to create a high-detail realistic European/Scandinavian fishing town, nestled in between beautiful mountains, fjords, and forests. We build a fishing port, industrial sites, a historic center, and cozy row-house-lined streets - but also add a scenic restaurant at the end of the peninsula and a mountain cabin on top of the nearest mountain, both with stunning views!
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Map;
- Windy Fjords
Mods;
- BepInExPack 5.4.2100
- HookUI 0.3.9
- LineToolLite 1.3.4
- ExtendedRoadUpgrades 1.3.2
- UnifiedIconLibrary 1.0.7
- TreeController 1.1.3
- Anarchy 1.3.1
- ExtraLandscapingTools 0.2.1
- NoUniqueBuildings 0.2.0
- PloppableRICO 1.0.1
- WaterFeatures 1.0.0
- BetterBulldozer 1.0.0
- ELT_SurfaceExtension 0.1.0
- Gooee 0.0.6
- FindStuff 0.0.8
- MapTextureReplacer 2.0.0
Settings;
- Everything is set to high except Level of Detail which is set to Medium, 1440p resolution.
Hardware specs;
- 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF.
Music;
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This was fun - and these have to be the BEST cinematics I have ever created! If you've got any suggestions for other builds, inspired by places throughout the world, let me know in the comments down below 📢⬇ - as I plan to do more of these in the future! 🌍
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Infrastructurist ❤
I'd love to see a video inspired by other areas of North America. A rust belt city build with influences from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, etc would be cool!
@@mitchellnagy6667 I agree. From a Cincinnatian
Love watching your builds!!! Like that you’re really diving into DevMode to release the creativity of your build!!! Really looking forward to this series!!
The shot with the northern light was pretty kino
amazing cinematics and awesome work, thank you very much! Keep doing please, it is always a pleasure to see your videos and work.
When the regions pack comes out, you should revisit this map and create a network of these small towns.
This is what I have been hoping to do with the game. I'm from a place like this, so it would be very fun to be able to build something like that in CS:2.
I AM BLOWN AWAY! 😍 The build turned out incredibly well and showcases how much potential the game has. You are truly bringing out the best of the game and its current mods
Thank you Ro, much appreciated 😊
Its kinda weird the word build can mean way different things, depending on the circumstance and context.
languages do be weird like that huh @@TopatTom
It's such a shame that CS2 is so utterly determined to simulate a suburb of Denver and absolutely nothing else.
It’s the same with so many games. Why do so many take the US as a model infrastructure and architecture wise. There are some nice historic buildings but apart from that most houses look either all the same or are way to big mansions with very complex roofs sitting on too much land… it’s super boring. The sims original in game homes are all horrible, the appliances are all American, no variation for other countries. As a German I for example think that fridges that aren’t built in and have normal Kitchen fronts look really horrible. Here you usually only find separate fridges in student or low income houses or in basements. And cities skylines 1 has only ugly commercial buildings and densely population buildings are all skyscrapers. There is nothing really in between single family houses and skyscrapers, no diversity. Ilove mods and assets. With them cities can have much more variety. I build for looks and love using the 1st person camera mod to drive through my own towns 🙈
It's sad too, considering that CO is from Finland.
24:49 I think you should add pedestrian paths to have some sort of narrow wharf, because it looks kinda rough as it is.
I think it should be a quay path around the buildings
@@citieman He could also just surface paint the non-road side of the quay with a concrete surface - I do this a lot, it's a decent compromise that covers some of the shonkiness of the edge otherwise.
I never thought I would watch a Cities Skyline video and end up with this level of homesickness. This looks so Norwegian! The fjord, mountains and how the industry is all connected with the ocean. Even the detail at the mountain top and of course the northern light at the end... Spot on!
The Part in the Cinematics with the Northern Lights and the Music is a 10/10 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
I Love Norwegian Towns in the small Fjords. Your Build Looks awesome with the Vanilla Game Assets
Looks great! Two things:
1. You really hit the nail on the head about the zoning and asset. I tried to build on this map before mods were out and it's so restrictive when all of the city facilities are so damn big.
2. I hope you keep this build going and expand further out in the region. 🙂
Been waiting all week for another great CSII post. Your so creative despite the limitations. Please keep going with this series and expand on public transport! ❤
Having tinkered a lot with the industrial zoning, i can say that the 2x2 lots are the only ones that doesnt spawn any smoke stacks. For the rest of them it all depends on what company that moves into the building. They can also spawn smoke stacks later on if a company moves out and a new one moves in.
I have been able to create custom non polluting industrial zones with the RICO mod and merging 2x2 lots with warehouses and such as well as making custom storage yards.
Your walk-throughs are well thought out and Amazing! The cinematic at the end brings it altogether. Thanks for sharing, I can only hope to emulate what you do in the future.
Omg hype!! The coincidence is wild, since my home is a scandinavian port city too lmao. Super excited to see what you do with it!
MY GOD those cinematics look sooooo good!! you are always so creative and make any city look real and alive. wish there was a new vid of you every day
Absolutely breathtaking cinematics, this is hands down my favourite CS:II build to date. Bravo, sir. I'd definitely say return to this build or something similar when more assets come our way; this already feels vastly different to other's cities and has that functional coziness I only hope to achieve.
Really well done build. Very inspiring. Ive been loving the new surface painting feature in combination with the invisible pedestrian path. It really lets you fill in those in between places and actually fill them with life!
You should add a fire station. I live in germany, and we have a volunteer fire station in almost every village
Interesting! While most service buildings just feel too large for this type of build, the fire station actually isn't all that bad!
Ahhh man, this has been the map I've been working on. I wanted to use it to focus on style and shape of infrastructure and development level by forcing limited space and I've enjoyed it so much I was hoping I'd see someone else give it a crack. Love seeing what you did with the same spaces I've been working in. Great work as always.
Thank you! 😊
So, soooo great !
Such a great reminder of what you could do in CSl1, especially the little map with the European village. Ploppable is just a must use ! Clearly !
Can't wait for the next stuff you'll cook for us !
You should definetly consider using the water treatment plant as an asset for fishing industri. The asset itself reminds me alot of norwegian fish processing facilities, and i think it could be a great addition to the fishing docks.
Love the mini-build format. Keep them coming. And amazing cinematics at the end. Great work 👌
This is incredible and the cinematics are beautifully done. Thank you!!
It feels like the cinematics at the was definetely on another level ! Don't get, they are usually already impressive, but this one, I had the chills ! Keep up the amazing job you're doing !
Absolutely stunning!! would love to see more of this map!!
thank you for the list of mods - very much appreciated. looking forward to tonight, can't wait to use quays.
king of detailing. 🖤
The cinematics looks absolutely unreal!
A fantastic build, you managed to achieve a great European look with very little to work with, also I absolutely love the cabin on the top of the mountain, excellent.😊
I love the cinematics in the end, combined with the music added it gives me goosebumps
Rlly love ur content
Dude this is spectacular. You definitely have a knack when it comes to detailing in this game.
Wow i absolutely loved this. It came out beautifully
You're videos are always amazing, keep up the good work. I thoroughly enjoy the way you design the cities. I can't wait to use these ideas for my cities... When it comes to console.
Awesome work you did on CS2 and very inspiring.
It's really nice to finally see something DIFFERENT in CS2. Your builds never disappoint
Getting better with each content release. Cheers.
Beautiful! :) Yes, you show it can be done!
This was great, gave me a lot of inspiration to my build 👍
Fantastic look!
Well done :)
Great looking build! Thanks!!
You are the King of Cities Skylines. Another banger of a video. At this point I only watch your CS2 content as you're the one who can make push this game to its limits and be creative with your builds.
A European city? Yes please! Can't wait when you get your hands on the region packs!❤
yes i have been waiting for a scandinavian city i love this episode
Looks beautifull, impressive cinematics
Another great video thank you
Amazing BGM on the end! Nice job!
Epic cinematics. Much respect!
This really made me want to take another trip around Europe. It's epic!
Amazing, you've nailed the Nordic aesthetic in the city and cinematics
it's amazing what even the simple texture replacer mod brings to the game, after only that it already looked so much better
Ahh Yes!😃
This feels like home! BRAVO❤
Amazing work, especially considering all the current limitations!!!
That peninsula restaurant is something i’d love to be able to visit in real life. You did a great job!
Very NICE!👍🏼
I really recommend when doing small villages, adding one of each essential thing from Irl. This town needs 1 church near the centre, one small graveyard with trees. 1 town hall/council place which will have a meeting hall and probably 2 people for government stuff. A primary school, a secondary school, with sports hall. 1 clinic (small doctors surgery), 1 police+fire compound. And one path at least into a natural setting.
If you positioned those 6 buildings you’ve basically framed the area, and those are the ideal 6 things to download a unique asset at have them set the vibe for the area.
Dude those cinematics gave me chills
"Um, I think it's going to be difficult to shoot the cinematics.."
* Then absolutely nails it *
That was a great start! I'm looking forward to seeing where this build is going.
Greetings from Aalborg 🇩🇰👋
Thanks Thomas, I appreciate it!
#9000
Those final cinematic have to be some of the best around!
Maybe you could add a plaza with a market or a few little cute restaurants to make it more touristic
Completely in love with the look you have managed to achieve. I am starting to lose my fear of working with the terrain instead of flattening everything.
Amazing build, great use of the resources we have (assets). You've given me some great inspiration for a build I'm working on - the "Pokémon" Kanto region, you're build would make a great Pallet Town 😁👌👍
Those cinematics were 🔥
As a frenchy who's grew up in a small village i always wanted to recreate this kind of spirit. But i always failed. I see so many potential with this mods (didn't play since launch so sad...). Takes long time to build but the idea to place manually some buildings makes me very happy.
And your small town is mindblowing btw
Nice!
To get even better cliffs and waterbeds and such you could peak for inspiration at Sully working on his Snowdonia series.
This is next level 🔥
Id love to see some more episodes like this.
AMAZING.
Amazing content. Even with the game's fair share of bugs, you've made it work so well! thank you very much!!
Thank you - I appreciate it!
Add a lot of tunnels they are very common in Norway, and farming in the valleys
I'd add a couple of pedestrian crossings to the road with all the low density residential
amazing!
Turned out incredible! Quick idea for the warehouses on the docks, on the backside you could add a little more of a slope down into the sea and add some rocks nd bushes as you did with the breakwater (crazy word, the translated dutch version is 'wave-breaker':) to give it more a natural look.
I agree with the points you mentioned at the beginning. The zoning, the more I think about it, is such a letdown. They had the opportunity to do something truly groundbreaking for this 'next-gen' city builder, but they stuck to the same old rigid grid. Not sure if you ever played Cities XL(XXL), that game at least came with a tool for filler parks and plazas so that you don't have so many empty areas.
As for the European building theme, I, too, do not find it particularly European-looking. Being from Europe, I know each country has many different styles of architecture, so that might be a bit difficult to implement, but what they've gone for is far too generic in my opinion.
This should be a series!
It’s amazing how you show the limits of the game and at the same time go over these limits immediately. Great build and as a European, I feel right at home ❤
add
1.a fire tower lookout behind the restraut ..looking onto the town..and a pathway going up to the tower.
2. a light house on the mountain behind where the first vlog logs assets were placed.
3. communication mast (tower) covering the town.
Really nice to see a authentic build like this. Since nordic cities are always trying to work with the limits of terrain, you should look to include following things in mext videos:
- many pockets of high residential right off the highway
- reclaiming land from water to add new residential areas
- tunnels through the fjords to connect many small towns to the city creating a network of towns, often the cities have big mountains in the middle of them.
- specialized industry very far from city itself
- towns going up the cliffs with many hairpin turns
- bigger cities are often built deeper into the bays to provide natural breakwater and wind coverage while being connected with regional ferries
Best regards, a scandinavian
This will be a great series! Just an idea: Try to build something like a TV transmitter in the mountains, it would add the realistic vibe to the city!
Very nice. With all the limitations this game has, you succeeded in building a nice European village. And the servicebuildings are way large in this game. A policeoffice or doctorscabinet in a village like this is usually situated in a simple townhouse in Europe. So hope they will provide smaller buildings for this
Wow this is beautiful, sir
Thank you!
this was really nice to watch.
I really liked how much detail you added to every zone.
The only problem I see is with the long road with the low density residence buildings it doesn’t seem like a realistic way to approach a long road like that, I mainly see lower residence buildings in minor roads and not in the main roads in which traffic can be very fast and loud
This city feels like it was a historical place for ship building with all these trees available. Should have a shipyard till today maybe give a try with a dry dock. Escpecially since there are ship models available now. Would also love to see some sail and private ships in the marina
Incredible, amazing, beautiful… everything…
Cool and Good job, in Norway you highway would most likely not have street lights. At least the more rural ones around the fjords.
Great cinematics! We need some ploppable mountain climbers!
Love it. Would be cool to use the sloped boulders around the edge of the buildings along the dock so it looks like the land won’t erode from under them.
You can delete smokestacks from buildings. What you do is open devmode, go to simulation, check enable debugging. Then you can select the smokestack prop within the building. Then go to UI Bindings>action set>delete. Voila, no more smokestack. This is really only viable with plopped buildings because if it levels up, the smokestack will come back if the higher level building also has a smokestack.
I feel like that barn on top of the mountain would be more realistic to be slightly lower, and have a role of a stopover for anyone attempting to conquer the mountain. I feel like actual mountain tops are usually protected from building stuff on them.
Cool video
Awesome build. Interested in how you implement the city service buildings with so little room.
Those cinematics…. Holy Moly!!! Can you please do a tutorial on how you create your cinematics❤
insanely gorgeous
Fun fact: one of the level 5 EU row housing models has the finnish flag on it
Great start! :) Do you think it's possible to include some more "eyelevel" shots in the cinematic segment? Since the usual perspective during the built is the top down view anyways, I'm always more interested in how the residents see their town :)
very good! remember a bit Lofoten with the Fjǫll in Nordland but t highway that connect with t village should be a road, some normal in Norðvegr (Norway) say it because (how i say after) seems with the Fjǫll from Lofoten archipelago.
Great Video and love the series. Whats the name of the music used in the end cinematic?
Please more on this map like this!!😊
That texture change makes a huge difference.
Best build in the CS2 yet, very happy with the result and keep going please, maybe implement schools and public transport like basic European cities have❤️✌️
Reminds me of those small towns on the fjords in norway
in the end we just want to live in peace and harmony and that's what this city looks like
- Ahh man as a Techno-head i always appreciate the music in your videos ❤🔥 But especially this one in the last timelapse at 35:24 made me trip 😆😁😎
- Although I still would like to see you pausing the game less :(
- HOLY The Cinematics are a MASTERPIECE !
Love it