Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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Aug 10, 2019 @ 6:24pm
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Greenway

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Introduction

You know you're in deep when you make a map to take a break from the map you started to take a break from the map you started to take a break from the city you're supposed to be making videos for.

Anyway, this map just happened because I felt like making a sorta relaxed rural map. Inspired (and terrain mapped) from the American great plains, it's a simple, easygoing river valley with some gentle hills.

Features

* Realistic road and rail grades with custom interchanges.

* Selectively forested areas using pdelmo's low poly trees for a very GPU friendly map.

* Optimized for small towns or suburbs and intermediate to advanced players.

Recommendations

* The Industries DLC is only used for one bridge on the map, which I included without realizing it required the DLC. I decided to leave the bridge; if you don't have the DLC, it will be pretty easy to find and connect the missing bridge.

* This map isn't quite as flat as it looks. I preserved most of the heightmap, so there's a lot of subtle slopes. Flatten areas before detailing them if you need precision.

* I put down a lot more roads than I usually do on maps. To access or modify them all, I recommend 81 Tiles for this map. You'll need it along with Traffic Manager if you want to increase the road capacity, which is pretty low by default.

* Adaptive Prop Visibility Distance is required for the mountain grass to appear properly. If the performance impact of that mod concerns you, don't subscribe to it or the grasses.

* I'm using Daylight Classic, the Relight 2 Natural LUT, and the HDRI Haven Cubemap Pack. Other LUTs may give you a vibe you like better.

* I recommend using Hide It or No Radioactive Deserts to hide Shore Areas. My shore detailing conflicts with the default shore texture and looks bad.

* Tree LOD Fix, Random Tree Rotation, and Sharp Textures will all help the trees pop.
16 Comments
Alecthelm Sep 22, 2021 @ 5:37am 
and....back to the roots, started this one again, its like...when greenway was an little silent valley....you really did an great job to all CS gamers.
m4gic Jul 16, 2020 @ 10:37am 
This. Is. Amazing.
Rexeh Mar 14, 2020 @ 7:03pm 
A simple, tasteful map. Using this map for Central Asia themed city.
Spelzdinkel Nov 27, 2019 @ 12:20pm 
Hey Greyflame, thanks for this awesome map! one of the best maps I ve seen so far.

I have just one issue with it: I really like to use the day/night cycle so I dont go with the beauitful new Cubemaps you suggested. So the sky behind the map/terrain gets really dark and makes a very ugly dark blue / black line. Is there a way to tune the colour? Tested it with the cubemaps and it is gone....looked in the theme options but couldnt find a option to make this part of the sky brighter....
thanx anyway!

add: I fixed it by playing a little bit with the Relight Options and it was way better with some of the edge fog active and Enable Sky Tonemapping off in Relight!
srmacpherson Nov 24, 2019 @ 10:53am 
Beauty. Reminds me of a map I made for SimCity 4 of the area of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Back in 2003 or so. Handpainted in Photoshop based off an army map I had.
crotalidae75 Oct 26, 2019 @ 1:42pm 
This is a nice map, and one of the better valley ones, but I think the highways are too small/low capacity. Even with a small town of a population of about 2100, I still have terrible traffic along the highways... it's all dark red. I don't run into this problem very often, so soon in the game. I just think the highways need to be higher capacity.
Greyflame  [author] Oct 13, 2019 @ 9:59pm 
Thank you for the comments everyone!

@CoolCars291 - they are just for decoration. You could probably get them working using some mods, but I didn't want a bunch of traffic coming down the farm roads.
CoolCars291 Oct 12, 2019 @ 8:55pm 
Hey, so how do all the additional connections work? Are they just for decoration or something?
Jamming Jimmy Jones Oct 11, 2019 @ 2:37pm 
LOVE THIS MAP! In nearly 2000 hours of gameplay I have never enjoyed a map as much as this one. Well done!
Hendrik aka Lucky Pants Aug 25, 2019 @ 10:24am 
Hi Greyflame, your Map was reviewed by BonBonB on youtube in his What Map video.
You made a really nice looking valley map. Not often do valley maps look good, but you did it very well. I also like the traffic, and the way you leave the map open for the city builders decide what to do with parts of the map. Really lovely tree and bushes detailing.
I enjoyed watching the video, and I hope you enjoy the video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFZAxjjq0CQ