Need help with custom district styles

[Poltergeist]

Hello friends,

I'm a new player and dipped my toe into the modding waters today. I found a ton of pretty custom district styles but I can't seem to get them working.
I subscribed to them on the workshop and also to all the necessary other mods/assets that are required. I also made sure to have the DLS's they require as well.
Now, when making a district it does show me the different styles and I can pick them all but the houses built in the district zone are random out of all styles I have.

I'm not sure what I did wrong, I saw there was a new update a few days ago so maybe the assets are not compatible any longer? But it does give me single houses, they just mix up randomly.
I'd appreciate any help or link with guidelines.

Greetings!

[MaxFX]

First, make sure you have this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466158459&searchtext=style

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With this mod you can select which buildings are part of a certain style.

Getting a nice style with a nice variety of buildings is quite the challenge.

If you want a building that matches each size and level availlable you'll need about 80 different buildings. (16 different sizes x 5 levels). And then they all need to meet the style (modern, suburban, american, european, old, modern, etc) and category (low-density vs high density, residential vs commercial vs specializations such as eco houses)

If the style doesn't include any level 1 buildings it will not work. Because growables begin at level 1 and get upgraded when land value and education goes up. So no level 1 buildings, means nothing will grow in your zoned area. The mod linked above has a 'cloning' option in it, with it you could clone a level 2 building and create a level 1 building with it. But this option is still experimental I believe, and if something goes wrong you'll lose these buildings.

I've given it a try recently, but became quite annoyed with it tbh. It's a LOT of work finding the right buildings on the Workshop that meat each criteria. Good luck!

[Poltergeist]

I have seen that in some mods it said "replaces level 4 buildings", so I already guessed that maybe some levels doen't have any custom graphics but for most mods there isn't any info text about it at all.

I will try this mod. I picked like 10 different district styles and thought it was maybe too mcuh at once too, but it does put in the buildings every once in a while.

I also now found a guildeline for beginners. On top it says "do never subscribe to all things in a pack because of performance" but further down it says "U have to subscribe to all items in the style to actually make them work" I have subscribed to them and have no performance issues yet. I will try this mod today and will see to make it work. I have this one mod thing that was required for something and you can place every single building with it. It will be more work since I have to place every building on my own but at least I can pick what house I want I guess.

Thank you for your answer, much appreciated!