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Dakota Falls

Thank you Cities Skylines Map Makers discord for nominating and making this the map of the year. I thank all the subscribers and players who showed love and played my map, this couldn't have been possible without all of you. All the support just motivates me to push myself further and make more maps. Thank you, everyone.

AMERICAN | FICTIONAL | REALISTIC | MASS TRANSIT

ONE CLICK COLLECTION


ABOUT THE MAP

What would Mississippi look like if it was to flow through Colorado? This fictional map is about that. If this place was in real life it would be somewhere in the Midwest. Mountains of Colorado, Mississippi inspired river. Many features on the river are inspired from Mississippi river around Minneapolis.


A LITTLE LORE

Named for the Ceresota Tribe who inhabited the land nearly a thousand miles south at the river's delta, the mighty Ceresota River has cut a large watery swath down North America for millions of years. Up in it's northern territory, the river narrows, forks and falls over a cluster of boulders that makes it unnavigable to ships but allows for an easy crossing for wildlife, and for people. Pounded into the landscape by the feet of mammoths and other migratory grazers, primitive highways descended from mountain passes toward the shallow rocky bed of the Ceresota. The funnelling of wildlife at this point made the spot a popular fishing and hunting campground for The Dakota Nation (for whom the falls are named) which had its permanent settlement farther south on the west bank of the river. (The Dakota also used this spot as a rite of passage for their young men. Every spring, young Dakota boys would attempt to walk across the shallow stretch of river. If the waters carried them off, the others would throw a rope and pull them back to shore before plunging over the falls, resigning them to another year of adolescence. A successful walk resulted in stepping foot on the western bank transformed into manhood.)

IMPORTANT

• Map consists of around 740,000 trees. Very important - Use Tree Control mod NOT Tree Anarchy Temporary fix otherwise trees will disappear. Its a mod problem not a map problem.
  
• Roads are placed closely at different heights so there would be texture glitching. It wont affect game just the looks. To remove this I recommend using ROTTERdam mod to overcome this.
  
• I have placed an electricity cube in the dam which provide lots of electricity. It is connected to the Start square by power lines.
  
• The networks used in the map have dependencies, its important that you absolutely subscribe to all the dependencies, otherwise it would cause problem.
  
• Map is definitely not for PC's that can't handle highly detailed maps with lots of required items.
  
• This is a Procedural heavy map. Mountains, waterfalls and many bridges are procedural objects.

CONNECTIONS

Road - 7 connections
Air - 4 connections
Ship- 1 connection
Rail - 3 connections

VISUALS

LUT - Relight2Natural from More Relight LUTs
Theme Mix - Custom theme mix
Render it! settings - provided in Theme mix collection
Relight - provided in screenshot in Dakota Falls - Theme mix
Hide it! - Hide shore effect or you will have dead trees
Daylight Classic - All to classic. I use it many don't. Its totally upto you.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all I'd like to thank me, for believing in me *Dr Dre music plays in the bg* Just kidding lol.

All my thanks to Uncle Ron for testing and providing invaluable suggestions, Ilcicci1983 for guiding me through the process of making mountains( after all he is the best mountain maker out there), AvoirRev for helping me decide preview image, Teddy Radko for his tutorial on building vanila asset bridges and lastly everyone on CS Map Makers discord.

This map was commissioned by reddfox. The lore behind this map is all by reddfox.

Let me know what you all think about this map in comments.

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