Starting a Realistic Big City Downtown in Cities Skylines | Crystal Reef EP3
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2023
- Welcome to Crystal Reef County, Florida - our chosen spot for the start of a new realistic mega city in Cities Skylines! Come along as we attempt to build realistic cities and areas using only Vanilla Assets!
In this episode, we FINALLY establish the Downtown core of the City of San Leon, our first major establishment here in Crystal Reef County! We build up the majority of Downtown, adding in Skyscrapers and highrises, lots of mixed-density throughout such as low-density commercial buildings, medium-density offices, and everything in between! We also add a handful of placeholder parks to ensure we don't have to retrofit these later - and we wrap up with adding some very necessary city services: police and firefighting coverage as well as elementary schools! And of course - we make sure to adjust the budget according to the current needs of the city in an attempt at managing our financial situation as well as possible!
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All my Cities: Skylines Series playlists:
Crystal Reef County: • Cities Skylines - Crys...
Coniferia: • Sunny coastal town! - ...
The American Dream: • Cities: Skylines - The...
Project JAPAN: • Starting A Realistic J...
Building a realistic European/UK city (really old series!): • Starting A New City! -...
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- What's the rationale behind this project:
With Cities Skylines 2 coming sometime this year, the time feels right for an attempt at an all-Vanilla Assets build - this is something I have been contemplating for a bit and hinted at earlier.
Q & A:
Do you have a MOD/Asset list?
Step 1: Get the Skyve mod from Steam workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Step 2: Get the Crystal Reef MOD collection here: pixeldrain.com/u/NzF4Zz87
Step 3: Use Skyve profile feature to import the MOD collection.
Which map is this?
- Anhaven Keys by Sidai: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Which Theme and LUT are you using?
- Theme and LUT is Seychelles by Ronyx69
How do you place residential buildings so fast in suburbs/neighbourhoods?
- I use a tag-based trick with the Find It mod, I've made a tutorial here: • Build Cities The FASTE...
Which visual MODS do you use?
- Grab the MODs linked above - then open up Ultimate Eyecandy (Shift+U) and set Global Light Intensity to 5.27, and Ambient Light Intensity to 1.27.
Which graphic settings does your game run?
- Everything is set to high, 1440p resolution.
Hardware specs?
- 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF.
Music;
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Mods, LUT, Map theme, small guide to visuals and more in the description of the video!
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Hope you all have a fantastic Sunday
Infra
Your passive-agrressiveness on some aspects of Florida cracks me up so much lol
i live in florida and i crack up every time at his American accent lol
Great look to the city but you're forgetting something major; parking garages. Mid-sized Florida cities like this one love their parking garages. Keep it up!
Thanks a ton - good suggestion, we need garages! 😊
The interchange next to the downtown needs some work. Many of the major highway interchanges in south Florida are compact but gargantuan at the same time. The one here in San Leon is just too open. More elevated sections might make sense and a more thought out design that serves the two highways and main avenue equally. Loving the series man I don’t think I’ve seen a vanilla assets city done this good
Currently my favorite city skylines series! Loving what you’re able to do with vanilla assets!
Awesome to hear that colin, thank you!
This series is shaping up to be my favorite thing on CS UA-cam. I love that it's heavily modded and detail oriented yet vanilla. I'm getting so much inspiration. Keep up the good work and hope you post the save so we can all fly around your city!
The empty space near the entrance of the city should be a high school football stadium and high school complex you see that a lot in Tampa and Jacksonville
This episode made my whole weekend 😍 Going to enjoy every second of it
So glad to hear that rona 🥰🥰
It wouldn't be Florida without an amusement park, maybe on the coast using the park life dlc for this :)
Loving the series. You might want to enable the default European style in content manager to get access to few more assets, specifically a full set of services and perhaps some buildings that could match old Spanish styles as that liberal arts building. The hospital and High School of that set are especially usable in a non-European setting.
Bro it is quite amazing what vanilla assets there are available, especially whenever you have the opportunity to sort through them all instead of simply relying on the right asset to spawn in. I just recently starting playing on PC after years of only playing on console. There are assets I’ve never even seen before simply because they would never spawn in lol. Awesome build, this is going to be a good series. I may have mentioned it in times past but I love it when heavily modded players do these vanilla+ builds.
For the big space up near the railroad you could make it a hospital/medical school complex to train the doctors of the city and others that come from around the world, making the city more diverse and increasing the customer base. I also think you should do a little monastery in the little waterfront park next to the medical clinic as an ode to the Spanish colonial past.
Love your attention to detail. and it does not come off as "pedantic" Very awesome work with the limited vanilla assets!
Great episode - in the coming episodes maybe you should focus on the waterfront blocks, in my opionion they should be rather dense. An urban square in the middle of downtown would also be nice.
You are gonna like next episode 😉
How you make it so easy to make a detailed city with vanilla assets is mad, keep it up bro your giving me loads of inspiration 👍
Thank you! 🎉
I honestly feel like the downtown needs a big stadium, I’d say the university’s DLC basketball arena would be a good fit.
The fact you got 59k people, including me, to watch an hour and a half of something you created is astounding. Congrats on your success man, well deserved.
Hurricane planning is very important in Florida as well as the rest of the east coast. Sunken highways are flooded highways in hurricane season. That’s probably why I find sunken highways so interesting, I grew up without them.
This is frickin' beautiful; I never would have expected any of this is possible just using vanilla assets. Really well done.
For the empty area near the highway interchange, I think a basketball arena is probably a better fit than an American football stadium just due to space concerns - the stadium itself might fit, but parking for the 5K-10K (or more!) fans that would show up on game day. A basketball arena would not only have a smaller footprint, but it would also generally have fewer seats, probably 2.5K-5K. Also, basketball arenas are more usable for non-basketball events, such as musicians' tours and other traveling shows or acting as a pseudo convention center until an actual convention space exists in Crystal Reef.
Thanks a lot mewr11 - I appreciate it!
And thank you for an awesome suggestion! 😍
I like the idea as an arena would make much more sense than a full fledged football stadium, but from a scale standpoint I think you’re a little off (since you mentioned parking), ….professional basketball/hockey arenas generally seat 15-20k in the US, with most D1 collegiate arenas more in the 8-15k range in terms of capacity. So we’re looking at a larger scale….shoot I went to a semi-pro basketball game in Puerto Rico that had 7-8k in attendance and the arena wasn’t even full. So even if San Leon maybe won’t have the highest level of professional sports, you’re still looking at accommodating parking for at the least 5k people, not the other way around.
An American football game of professional level NFL is attracting no less than 30K guests. That’s why most stadiums are built in the suburbs to accommodate the heaps of parking. Arenas such as hockey or basketball are more found in the downtown core, often utilizing underground or parking garage uses and public transit to surface lots likely farther away
@@Jk29689 yeah exactly. And it’s not that you can’t have an NFL stadium in a downtown core cuz it can be done even from an urbanist point of view but the reality is you still gotta understand there’s gonna be like you said 30-70k in attendance to accommodate every home Sunday. Sad reality is that most are driving to the game cuz of tailgating and etc lol
@@a_boat93 At this stage of the city's development, I'd imagine the arena would be in use for high school or D2 collegiate action, not upper tier D1 or professional arenas - I used Florida Tech's facilities as an estimator for facility sizes, as it's located about where Crystal Reef County is depicted in the intro.
Loving this series! The let's play style has been really engaging . Just wanna say don't forget you can up your taxes to 11/12% without consequence for some extra budgeting room
Lovely episode man. Can't wait to see how the downtown expands over time. You love to use the small parking and bouble it up, did you forget the update came with two new parking assets one is bigger, and there might be a parking garage I in vanilla I think. Additionally I think surface painter is vanilla enough mod you should implement a bunch more for the little detailing vanilla lets you do; you have the aperons but surface painter can let you do blops of dirt under bush, and lets you remove surfaces from edges of networks and can change the look of the terrain in so many little vanilla ways. You could make a golf course with just surface painter and some trees and paths.
Also you should try to do a youtube colab with Two Dollars, you two play the game my favorite out of all UA-camrs.
Thank you R5cents, I appreciate it - and good point regarding the bigger version of the parking lot as well as the garage, need to keep those in mind for bigger builds. I prefer trying to stitch together the smaller version here in the downtown core. As for surface painter my game for some reasons lags a lot when I enable it, 99 % GPU usage and 3 FPS and I have no idea why :-/
Oh, a collab between Infra and $2.20 would be glorious! They're in my top3 CS content creators, the remaining being Akruas!
I am in awe Infra. I am so glad you immediately went into this build with high and especially mixed used buildings, creating this authentic feel that you're known for.
Thank you so much Duszh ❤
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Absolutely loving this series - putting vanilla assets to good use
Thank you!
It's crazy how you built it! Like it😊
It would be awesome to see you build a danish themed city in the future, theres some nice assets and shops based on denmark so yea would love to see that!
Fantastic series! I love it! Florida does have a regional rail, The Brightline, that is expanding fast. Florida also has a very well respected educational system. Charter schools and private schools have created a lot of competition for the public schools forcing them to improve. One of the top states for education. I would suggest building several massive high schools with big sports infrastructure
Thank you! and that is very interesting - I need to do more research. 😊
@@Infrastructurist Also, the Brightline currently connects Miami to all the northern suburbs, then all the way up to Orlando International Airport and downtown Orlando, with an extension currently being built to downtown Tampa Bay. I think there are currently 6 stations with six more being built. The trains only go 125 miles an hour, or 200 kilometers an hour, but not bad
@@Infrastructurist Maybe the 13th station should be built in Crystal Reef county ;-) on the shoreline suburb, with a city rail line connecting the Brightline station via a bridge to the island and downtown. I wonder if there are any Brightline assets. The trains are beautiful, Siemens I believe. And the station in Fort Lauderdale is really cool and a perfect size for the county.
Goes to show that a true master doesn't need custom assets to make a realistic, believeable city. GG!
if you want, building a city loosely based around st. augistine could be really interesting. it's in a different county in florida, but it's a very historical city and i think your building skills could be really interesting there.
I agree the map is laid out like Flagler county st Augustine area I live in Florida 😅
A beautiful city, which would be a big challenge due to the limitations in vanilla assets 😄
@@Infrastructurist very true.
MASSIVE episode, Infra and a lovely build. You squeeze the vanilla assets like a lemon, I could watch it for hours! Also, can't wait to see what you'll be able to achieve with Cites 2!
As for the empty space, I don't know how realistic would it be but I'd fill it with medium density residential and make it a little bit rougher type of area. But I also liked someone's suggestion to put a basketball arena there!
Thanks a ton Danon, I appreciate all your support!
Thats a great idea as well you've got there - lots of possibilities!
I am very happy that I found your channel. Love this series and I really like your playstyle and commentary. Cool project to watch for waiting for CS2 and get some inspiration as well :-)
Hi Limoras - thank you for the kind comment and welcome onboard! We're all sitting in the grand CS2 waiting room at the moment ☺😂
Drinking game, do a shot everytime Infrastructurist says "ever so slightly"
lol
This is an actual insane level of detail
More more more! Hour long episodes.. 2 hours… 3 hours!!! More!!! 😎🤙🏻
On the empty lot between the downtown and the Highway you could add an abandoned Factory for the time being with the idea that it will later be replaced by an Arena
I’ve enjoyed watching your series, I look forward to more episodes!
Nice episode!!
I was thinking that you could place some of the services inside of larger buildings to hide them. I guess a police station or health care facility would also make sense to be incorporated into larger buildings.
Would be cool to give the 2nd main road (under the highway) a more stroad kind of look, and I reckon maybe a road construction somewhere? I’m a big fan of that. Great episode btw, love your way of thinking when building a downtown!
yep, always construction in florida
This is a great build, I’ve worked across south Fl for the last 10 years. This downtown has big Coral Gables vibes. I would encourage you to look up some inspo from there.
I'm new to this game and your videos helping me a lot, thank you!
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Ah yes, my favorite court style sport, baseball
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Would love some lofi music, if you're into it, for the just music section. Great episode!
Gotta leave a comment for the algorithm so more people can see this amazing video 😃👍
It is stunningly amazing what you can do in a vanilla setup. I'm amazed and thrilled for future episodes :-)
I think a stadium nestled in near the highway would be a perfect fit. Maybe start with a huge building site? (if that is achievable in vannilla...) Alternatively, you could try for an old industrial estate, maybe refurbished for residential living (also, not quite sure how well that ist working in vanilla, although Avanyas industrial assets might help...).
Anyway, keep up your amazing work and your increadibly inspiring creativity. Love your content!
Thanks a ton Kira, I appreciate it - I am really surprised just how interesting this is with this restriction!
And thank you for the input regarding the empty lot! ☺
1,5 hours? Is it the holiday season yet? Thank you!😉
Incredible and inspiring!
Thank you! 😊
Definitely deserves a sub
Wow. Just wow
I feel like people hate on the vanilla assets too much, there are some really nice one's out there, with the repaint mod you can make them look really good when you get them out of the default ugly colours they generate.
love the skyline
please make some first person driving videos of all the cities that you made 😊😊
Let's gooOOOOOOOooooo
I love your vids man keep it up!! ❤❤
beautiful city
Downtown San Leon would look good if it were similar to Niagara downtown. small but happening, near the water and in north america.
You have the right approach with these mixed blocks and the 15 minutes cities^^ but your cities are way too car centric. I know, I know, Murica…but maybe, just maybe, with city skylines 2 you can try another approach…
great video with lots of ideas for building! But what do you use to place props everywhere, I can't see the prop & tree anarchy mod... I'm currently getting error messages and crashes with the mod and would like to use a different one...
Hi I think that you should change the train station and make it a bigger project. It looks kinda weird with a good looking train station with such a little parking place... I dont know, mabby your planning it for the future. But if your not planing for it, I would love to see a good loking train station.
Well most people really won't use the train station as the city is car centric
@@cooldude_nextdoor ye I know but Its for the appearance. I looks wierd like that.
It is such a nice asset, but I think the scale of the red tile roofed government building is far too large
I think it's fine because as the city become larger and grows the size isn't gonna seem so big
@tesla-fan5136 I get what you mean, but I mean more so each floor is about twice as tall as each floor on the surrounding apartments which isn't so bad because obviously older buildings generally had taller ceilings but it just seems a bit too far off to me. I am being nitpicky though to be fair.
nice!
nice video
Infra set your taxes to 12% :D
Oh, good tip! And citizens wont get mad? Is 12% the "magic boundary" :D?
@@Infrastructuristyes 12% is the boundary where citizens won’t get mad at taxes
If this town is the county seat it needs more buildings for the governance... Things like a court house... etc
Could u do video where u Will show ur graphics settings?
this guy using an American accent and joking about Florida stereotypes is the only thing keeping my hopes up in this hell state 😂😂😂
Good series but the super serious cyberpunk city tour is silly not in a bad way but it feels tonally dissonant
I hope u make egyptian style city one day
Or Saudi Arabian 😊🇸🇦
@@lilrestart they both r beautiful
@@AndrewTota I agree! 🇪🇬 ♥️ 🇸🇦
What mod is this that you can find and place buildings one by one?
its posipble to use promenades road without use pedestrian area marking ??
Even though it looks cool, the hill/ridge/bluff west of the highway would not be something you would ever see in Florida as I think Florida has next to no topography and is very flat. Also add more lanes to the highway cause it’s not American enough.
Use realistic population, it will make number of residents much more realistic
Tearing down old buildings? Nah bro, hurricanes and tsunamis do that for us. The oldest town we had was swallowed by a hurricane. It's roads are still there but the buildings are gone.
Ah, that makes sense - thanks Natasha! 😊
You are amazingly creative! Can't wait to see more.
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I have a question:
Why do you never place houses/Buildings on the outside of your streets?
You are practically wasting half of your zoning squares on every street that "encircles" a neighborhood.
The plots of land between the street and the beach would be the most valuables in the city.
feels a little compact for my taste
Thanks for the feedback Mickilennial! Is it the overall downtown you're thinking about? ☺
@@Infrastructurist Yeah more or less. Downtowns are a bit more dense and I don't know how to explain it but it feels like a mini-downtown at best to me. Still good stuff, but I feel like it ends right as it gets started.
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Amazing work but is so sad to see a city car dominated like this.
Maybe I find it strange but being from Europe is not usual to see cities like this.
Most cities in America are car centric and since this city is based of off one in Florida I guess that's why it isn't as walkable
Florida is extreeeemley unwalkable. not only is it crazy hot and sunny here, people drive like maniacs. even if you can bear the heat, the anxiety of cars zipping past you will quickly change your mind.
rotate the hotel
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better crawl in height to where as most youtubers have either very flat skylines or a supertall building that stands out to much a good example in verde beach by cityplannerplays.
This is cities skylines vanilla
Names it in Spanish and then pronounces it in a Monegasque accent😂
I just can't get it right 😂😂😂
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i guess you overlap to much the buildings
Ikr, my OCD just couldn't take it
You talk way too much