Inspirational cities

[mikael]

Do you know of any good forum with pictures of showcase cities?

I am looking for ideas, clever trafficsolutions, beatyful designs and districts.

Something like builders diary and builders comments on points of interest would be nice to.

I am now trying to build a beatyful and realistic city that I would like to live in myself. But somehow I end up creating a squaregrid/american city that gets repetative, ugly and boring.
I need some good inspiration.

If you got some bit of your city that you are happy about, I would very much like to see a pic of it ! :)

Thank You for the help! :)

[Mansen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMehp3DD_gg

Here's a series of videos based around a Dutch city - which is very common in modern Europe. If you can stand the pace at which he runs the video, you can definitely take a lot of design and efficiency clues from it.

[mikael]

Originally posted by Mansen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMehp3DD_gg

Here's a series of videos based around a Dutch city - which is very common in modern Europe. If you can stand the pace at which he runs the video, you can definitely take a lot of design and efficiency clues from it.

Thank you very much! :)
Ja, speedbuilding is no problem. I be happy to check it out! :)

[Rexxyboy]

Check out these guys below arguably the best city builders on youtube and its always very inspiring to me:

Yuttho - Sci-Fi fantasy backstories to city building, his concepts and building methods are incredible, really thinks out of the box, very creative and immersed, about 20 videos.

SkyeStorme - Building London, Building Manhattan and Building Aquitania.
Very entertaining and inspiring series, Aquitania is more futuristic, Skye gives lots of tips as well.
Over 100 videos.

Fluxtrance - modern sprawling European and American type cities with huge attention to detail and aesthetics. His road building and traffic solving skills are just as sublime and inspiring, my favourite of the three. Around 70 Videos.

These guys were Sim City Ninja's before Skylines came along.

[mikael]

Originally posted by Rexxyboy:

Check out these guys below arguably the best city builders on youtube and its always very inspiring to me:

Yuttho - Sci-Fi fantasy backstories to city building, his concepts and building methods are incredible, really thinks out of the box, very creative and immersed, about 20 videos.

SkyeStorme - Building London, Building Manhattan and Building Aquitania.
Very entertaining and inspiring series, Aquitania is more futuristic, Skye gives lots of tips as well.
Over 100 videos.

Fluxtrance - modern sprawling European and American type cities with huge attention to detail and aesthetics. His road building and traffic solving skills are just as sublime and inspiring, my favourite of the three. Around 70 Videos.

These guys were Sim City Ninja's before Skylines came along.

This will keep me busy for awhile (about 200 clips), thank you so much! :)

I mostley struggle with turning the grids into more curved and fluid districts.

Do you have any favorite design that you have developed?

[Rexxyboy]

Not really a favourite design. I've been getting various maps and just going for it! I find myself doing the same thing in most of my cities, I'm building Melbourne, Australia at the moment, using a map overlay mod that Skye used on his London series. My next one i want to think outside the box a bit more with design. Fluxburgh is an AWESOME Series. Its a Pre-After dark so some game mechanics may not be relevant now, but traffic and design still very current and great. I just watched Skystorme's Aquitania Finale, pretty cool city.

[Seed5050]

watch the cities skyline series from skystorme.hes a genius in city building.even his sim city 2013 series are stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyestormeGaming

other very passionated CS builder is fluxtrance.he got more than 70 cities skyline vids,some with amazing timelaps

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUWlZZoYZS1IotzB9ytWeg

[mikael]

Originally posted by Rexxyboy:

Not really a favourite design. I've been getting various maps and just going for it! I find myself doing the same thing in most of my cities, I'm building Melbourne, Australia at the moment, using a map overlay mod that Skye used on his London series. My next one i want to think outside the box a bit more with design. Fluxburgh is an AWESOME Series. Its a Pre-After dark so some game mechanics may not be relevant now, but traffic and design still very current and great. I just watched Skystorme's Aquitania Finale, pretty cool city.

They are insanely talented! When I saw this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZmKRioptw&index=62&list=PL6HueNQcC6ndahrATkfw_qFx6x47LqWiR

...I was amazed!
I´ve been looking for the mods that i think he uses.

Now then you have started with your Melbourne projekt, I wonder what more mods you are using when it comes to terraforming and vegetation?

I will check out the finale :)

[mikael]

Originally posted by Seed5050:

watch the cities skyline series from skystorme.hes a genius in city building.even his sim city 2013 series are stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyestormeGaming

other very passionated CS builder is fluxtrance.he got more than 70 cities skyline vids,some with amazing timelaps

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUWlZZoYZS1IotzB9ytWeg

Fluxtrance ´s brain seems to work in an amazingly artistic way. I haven´t yet figured out how he plan his work. It seems very complex. Waaaay above my skill level and grasp of estetics.
It is like watching som great artist painting.

Very inspirering ! :)

[NoirMoutton]

Also worth taking a look at youtube posts by Atys, Keralis & Konrad Filip Korzen, alos check out google for the Venus Project, unbuilt cities, ghost cities, inspirational cities, future cities for inspiration. Downloading city plans/maps can also provide inspiration

[grapplehoeker]

Might as well plug my own shamelessly lol ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467670923

[Answulf]

Definitely check out Strictoaster. He is a real life designer and approaches games that way - lots of emphasis on asthetics and attention to detail. In addition to Let's Plays and live streams, he also has a design tutorial series:

https://youtu.be/4EStpT6myyk

[Answulf]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Might as well plug my own shamelessly lol ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467670923

Very cool grapplehoeker! Quite futuristic...

[Phoenix C64]

i'd like to see any of those youtubers play on hardmode and with infinite money disabled...

[Rexxyboy]

Originally posted by mikaelm1974:

Originally posted by Rexxyboy:

Not really a favourite design. I've been getting various maps and just going for it! I find myself doing the same thing in most of my cities, I'm building Melbourne, Australia at the moment, using a map overlay mod that Skye used on his London series. My next one i want to think outside the box a bit more with design. Fluxburgh is an AWESOME Series. Its a Pre-After dark so some game mechanics may not be relevant now, but traffic and design still very current and great. I just watched Skystorme's Aquitania Finale, pretty cool city.

They are insanely talented! When I saw this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZmKRioptw&index=62&list=PL6HueNQcC6ndahrATkfw_qFx6x47LqWiR

...I was amazed!
I´ve been looking for the mods that i think he uses.

Now then you have started with your Melbourne projekt, I wonder what more mods you are using when it comes to terraforming and vegetation?

I will check out the finale :)

This MOD is great for terraforming. Since Snowfall, the undo (ctrl-z) doesn't work anymore, but its still great. I would suggest practicing with it in a test city to get the hang of it, took me a while. As per Flux's suggestion in his new Rhinestone island series, i (we) no longer use Traffic ++ or Traffic Manager because when your city gets big, its too taxking on the game mechanics so you can only use Speed 1 and not 3 anymore, so its not worth it. If you can get great logistics with road and rail, you don't need thos mods anyway.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502750307&searchtext=terrain+tools

[Phoenix C64]

i have seen some streamers with a mod that allowed something like the map editor, but in a live city.

they were plopping banks n stuff all over the place and there is one thing i wanted, but i forgot to ask the name of the mod.

what i wanted: some sort of filler or brush, to fill in gaps with concrete or walking path or something like that.

imagine i make 2x 6lane roads next each other, with a space between for a bicicly or pedestrian path. there's always some ugly bits, more so if the road has curves.

i saw a streamer who just filled those spots with a 4x4 brush that painted concrete or something like that.

anyone knows what mod that might be?