In order to being able to correctly place all the aspects of the city onto the game map we need of course. First we need a height map, also called digital elevation model (DEM) with sufficient resolution and quality. In order to create the base map onto which our city is to be built, certain data is needed. Maybe you can model one city district of them? Neither do such cities fit on the game map (without scaling them down significantly), nor would I expect today's graphics cards to handle such number of buildings.
If you intend to model complete Los Angeles, Paris, Moskow or Peking, however, you better drop this idea. But when accepting compromises every city can serve as an original. Also medieval cities with only narrow roads and alleys pose an additional challenge as we will see. If your city consists of buildings which aren't anything like any buildings from the game, addons or at least some workshop assets it will be too huge an effort to create the custom buildings needed.
Steep slopes might impose additional challenges, as does the absence of at least a medium sized river. ~17x17km) can be modeled, but with more or less compromises regarding how true to nature the result will be. I believe almost every city which fits the game map (max. Note that I intend to refine or extend the guide as I get more experience, learn about better tools/mods and workflows, but by now it can be considered complete and tested for those parts it contains.įirst of all you might wonder if your town of choice is a good choice, if it is easy or possible at all to re-create it in Cities: Skylines. Regarding the creation of custom buildings a basic knowledge of Trimble SketchUp is advantageous as this guide will not cover the complete usage of this software but only some basics and aspects specific for creating CS assets. Also basic image editing skills and knowledge is assumed. how to enable them) and the Steam workshop, which provides mods and much more required content for this game.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the game and the game mechanics itself, familiar with the basics of mods (i.e. I will also tell which mods I have used for each step, note pitfalls and give tips for best results.
For this it covers topics such as getting the necessary data, preparing the map, creating custom buildings (assets) and filling the city map with content. This guide aims at power users which want to not just play the game but have their own "real" city rebuilt with it.
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