Starting a New Capital City: How to Build A DOWNTOWN In Cities Skylines! Let's Play Coniferia EP21
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- We're continuing the brand new city in the Cities: Skylines Region of Coniferia! With Major Infrastructure being covered for now, it's finally time to start placing the very first buildings! I often find it very tricky to start building a Downtown, as it feels like a very important part of any city, and one which might define many future developments - so, I share my thought processes along the way and the things that I consider before I start picking and placing buildings.
We place down a mix of residential, commercial, and offices, getting a substantial part of the new city's downtown developed - before rounding up with a quick park in front of the Coniferia regional capitol!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
8:02 Using the tallest building of Pine Harbour to help define the (for now) maximum height of the new City
10:28 Changing up the bus hub as it's current location is too central
13:05 Changing some of the existing road layout of Downtown
14:12 Beginning the development of Downtown - with procedural objects usage to shape buildings to our liking - placing down residential, commercial and office towers, new and old!
39:11 Building the central park that cuts through Downtown and leads up to the regional capitol building
46:52 Recap of what we've built
49:02 Final cinematics of the highway traffic and developed Downtown
- What's the rationale behind this project:
What happens if a washed-up-used-to-be-RUclipsr gathers a bunch of "generic" looking assets (though mostly inspired by Australian / Canadian cityscapes) with the hopes of creating a Cities: Skylines region full of towns and cities that both look realistic and are inspired by Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, while at the same time don't really replicate any one particular style? No idea, let's find out.
Join me in this Cities: Skylines modded gameplay / let's play / timelapse series as we expand the region, and build new infrastructure, highways, public transit, industrial pockets, NIMBY-neighbourhoods, sprawling suburbs and bustling downtowns. And of course, use tress excessively to cover up any imperfections!
Q & A:
Do you have a MOD/Asset list?
- Not at this point in time.
Which map is this?
- Anahita Pass by Owl - although slightly modified
Which Theme and LUT are you using?
- Theme is Los Angeles by OWL, slightly mixed with Grass and Pavement textures from the NotSoRocky Hills theme by Khanador. LUT is Coastal by Ronyx69.
How do you place residential buildings so fast in suburbs/neighbourhoods?
- I use a tag-based trick with the Find It mod, I've made a tutorial here: • Build Cities The FASTE...
Which visual MODS do you use?
- Here's the full list of enabled visual mods (I don't know if some of these cancel out others): Relight, Render IT!, Ultimate Level of Detail, Clouds & Fog Toggler, Daylight Classic, Adaptive Prop Visibility Distance, Softer Shadows, Ultimate Eyecandy, ShadowStrengthAdjuster, Sharp Textures, Sun Shafts, AD Cloud Enabler, Shadow Distance Fix, 8K AD Clouds Pack 01.
Which graphic settings does your game run?
- Everything is set to high, 1440p resolution.
Hardware specs?
- 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF.
Music;
www.streambeats.com/
RUclips Audio Library
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As ALWAYS, I would greatly appreciate a thumbs up 👍if you enjoy the video, as well as a comment 🗯 sharing your thoughts, or to simply show appreciation!
In this episode we're placing the FIRST BUILDINGS, getting a BIG chunk of the New Capital City's Downtown developed - wooohoo! I also try my best to carefully explain my thought process when building a Downtown.. Sorry if it dragged out a bit 😅😅
Remember that there is a Q&A in the description for the most common questions! And if you just can't get enough of Coniferia, there's hundres of additional screenshots over at my Patreon 📸📸📸 www.patreon.com/infrastructurist
As always, thank you so much for the support - I hope you have a fantastic Sunday!
Much Love,
Infra 🥰
Ok!
You should make another underground parking complex under the train station because with the city growing there won’t be enough parking
I agree with this proposition
Yes I agree
hahah, people really loved that underground parking.. That is one fancy suggestion, we'll see what's possible 😜😀
Yeah the biggest feedback I had is similar to this. Just needing some sort of parking in general. Underground or aboveground garage is fine. Almost all major metropolitan areas will have one or the other.
In the hills behind the city, I think you should build some low density suburbs, maybe like Hollywood Hills or a similar place.
Another idea: have a railway line go through the city with multiple stations at important areas (population centres, tourist attractions, etc.), somewhat like a metro service (but with regular trains, of course). This would improve the accessibility of the city, decrease traffic, and also just look very quite unique.
Hi ThomasK_110 - great suggestion and a bit funny, I just wrote an answer to Ethan Cox's similar comment to yours, also referencing Hollywood Hills!
In the blocks between the train tracks and the water, in the new city, you should build an older warehouse district turned hipster neighborhood. The area along the tracks would've historically been very industrial.
Yep! And also downtown in the 1900 was not only where industries were but also where workers were living
Hi Tony - thanks for a great suggestion! It's one of the areas that I would like us to get developing within too long
I honestly love the way you merge and make the buildings fit into the space you have available. Getting there always looks a bit wonky but in the end those corners and streets with residential on top of commercial look so authentic and real. Very nice!
PS: The park looks amazing. 😮
Thanks a lot Duszh! You capture it REALLY well with the work "wonky". I sometimes find myself taking a look in the early stage of a build and thinking "What in all that is unholy am I doing.. This is so random." - but it really helps to just stick with it as it will -usually- turn out well in the end 😊
I think you should make the bus station (if still needed) as the bottom floor of a skyscraper complex. I've seen those before.
You should incorporate a “old town” somewhere near the downtown.
Absolutely! European type building, narrow street next to downtown would make a lot of sense for that
@@ghostangel828 maybe it could be that district that's next to the downtown between the rail line and the beach?
@@jemsyago7163 it makes sense as it's normally next to the old port also!
The city seems to have a bright future ahead. keep up the good work man 👍
I hope so - thanks a lot J.A rain! 😊
I think the park should have some kind of statue vs a gazebo. US capitals tend to have commemorative statues in their parks to honor historical state figures/movements. I know this isnt a US city but I think it applies internationally as well.
just wanted to take a second to tell you that i am really enjoying this series. and the reason i like your style so much is because you are not afraid to go into detail about your thought process and we get to see the process unfold rather than the over edited videos most CS make with the time lapses. we get to see first hand how you visualize the idea and we get to watch it unfold. 10/10 so far!
Seconded! It's reminiscent of the Strictoaster Cedar Valley days
@@colinfagan539 classic, and when fresh popcorn was around
YESSSS , I just discovered you and to be honest you really inspirared me to make my own design for a city in skyline. Thank you for inspiraring us and doing such good content. keep continuating doing great and hope to see more in the future (also ive watch all of your old video too) love your work!!!
I see that hill as a pottential candidate for a nature reserve & a cable car. Which heads into a national monument similar to christ the redemeer in rio de janeiro.
Wow. What a great episode. As always. Learned something again and it's a shame that the episode is over so quickly. Please continue exactly like this. Cheers.
I think multiple bridges into the new city would make sense to avoid too much traffic on one bridge.
Loving the series so far though!
Thanks a lot baba!
Hope it's okay I shorten your name 😂
I'm so glad your making videos after 3 years off your video's were amazing back then and now there even better keep up the good work!
Great episode my suggestion is building a hospital close to downtown
Yes, 15-20 floors highrise complex is a realistic downtown hospital
Hi Lil Botanik! That is a great suggestion and we will need a hospital close to downtown for sure. This city will need all of it's own services, just like Pine Harbour.
Great work man!! Giving me major Midwest city vibes!
A hip area with old industrial rail buildings turned into apartments right below the train tracks would be pretty cool and would explain why a town of this size has so many tracks going into it. And since this city will "rival" pine harbour I think some suburbs on the mainland right beneath the bridge would make sense.
Thirdward in Milwaukee or Logan Square in Chicago would be cool.
Really Loved the way you make/design your cities and also let audience involve in the city building process( taking votes etc). really really appreciate it!
From one content creator to another, well done 💯
I enjoy ur work. Thanks so much
I definitely feel the area either side of the capitol building park should have similar theme low rise historical buildings. Realistically, that area would have the administration buildings for the various government departments. You can take inspiration from Washington DC
I've been waiting for this whole day
Hope you feel I delivered Heroshi FF - thanks! 😊
Capital city name idea: "Callitris". Callitris is a type of conifer tree in the cypress family, and is native to Australia. It's commonly called a "cypress-pine".
Thank you for the suggestion Terry!! 😀 I got to get a vote going soon.. Otherwise I'll be mumbling "our capital city" 35 episodes in 😂😂😂😂
Thank you for explaining the process of building the downtown of the city. It makes a lot of sense. The place looks great too, I did expect there to be more parking lots.
If you're still considering names, my suggestion would be Foundation.
Really good episode
Thank you Squawk!
I think a plaza would look great on that block to the left of the Capitol building, maybe with a farmers market and some historic church across the street?
Great start! It is really starting to look like a decent, actually somewhat walkable city. I cannot wait for the next episode. Also just like you said, the bus hub should probably be right in front of the train station, so people dont have a hard time transfering to bus. A lot of cities have it like that. You could just add another bus only road next to the already existing one in front of the station, it would look really nice and be quite realistic. That wouldnt even make a huge gap in the skyline. I imagine it would make sense to have the city be quite dense, or make it look that it is building new skyscrapers, because it is pretty small, for how important it is.
Nice job Infra, even after a pretty long break, you still manage to build beautiful cities! :)
Thanks a lot Pajik, happy you like it! And a great suggestion about the additional bus road. In fact, I have reached out to the creator of the train station a few days ago, in hopes of getting the asset for the bus shelter that they used for the train station.
Thanks again 😊
Quality build! Love it 🤩
Thank you! 😁
I think you could find a lot of inspiration from the North Sydney area. The suburbs in those areas would translate quite well into this new city. Great video.
Would be nice to have one or two little buildings with the same architectural style than the capitol (let say a public library and a Court for exemple) as a « reminiscence » of the past. Hard to imagine that they only built such a building without anything else at the same period.
Great great job anyway 👍
The park is really nice, and I feel like you've nailed mixing old and new, taller and shorter buildings together. I'm excited to see the first trains come here in later episodes. A connection to Tagfiled would be extremely cool !
Definitely keep some green space in the park with less trees/planters. People need an open place to assemble, especially in front of a state capitol building.
one of those new pedestrian roads from the DLC would be lovely to connect those two large avenues in the park in front of the capitol.
Amazing job :)
Great videos ❤️
Nice!
You should add some sort of marina or something like a pier with a amusement park on it or something by the water. It just looks so empty and since theres already a harbor over at pine harbor i dont think thats needed in the capital
That's so beautiful😍. But maybe just one building of around 65 meters (I dont know what's in ft😂) in the Downtown would have been more beautiful because it would have dominated the City...
Sorry for mistakes, I'm French😭
It would be interesting to see a port somewhere in the city, as that would be a good reason on why the city had become so big as it is, maybe it could be next to that industrial-turned hipster district that one of the commenters had suggested? But that would mean losing that nice looking beach...
Cities often didn't make the right decisions in the past regarding pedestrian access to the shore so it would be realistic in a way haha
Now that the buildings are incredibly tall it would be nice if you could swap the train station out for the original one, The current train station seems too modern especially for a city that is pretending to exist for at least a century. Other than that I love the work you’re doing and this is such a great project
Suggestion: with this being the capital city you would assume it’s an older city and the residents are very diverse. With that being said I think having like 5-6 churches of different denominations and demographics would make the city feel more historic I know it’s over kill, but I live in a small city with 20,000 residents and we have like 8 churches in a 3 mile radius lol
i think a tram or light rail line would make sense in this city! if the capital building into the north and the central station is to the east (if that makes sense), it would make sense to run it from east to west parallel to the hills. it could even use a downtown tunnel and take advantage of one of the metro stations in the central station hub!
Honestly didn't have a clue about the "Distort Option" in PO and I'm destorying my entire project and starting again just to use this to fit building in perfectly.
Pinecone Island would be a cool name... Like the next generation of pines starts from a pinecone. Newer and better. And there would be a rivalry between the harbor and the island.. Sports teams, industry, etc
街全体のレイアウトが素敵ですね！
ありがとうございます！😊
AMAZING
Thanks a lot Reno Flex! 😊
Would love to see a city service part where you show laying out the PD,FD, Hospital. I think it would be interesting to see where you place them.
And Another suggestion is to make the Highway/Expressway elevated rather than the sunken it will look amazing as it is in the mountainous region. you can take reference from the Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway. and also if you can consider making the Railway line with in total of 6 platforms rather than with 4 Platforms (4 Platforms are terminal for the capital city bound trains terminating here and 2 Platforms for the further going railway line). So what my idea for the railway line is to make one another railway platform along with the current station as that line is going further into the city and crossing it on the other hand and entering into the underwater tunnel and get onto the other island as you mentioned( for the highway) in the last video you made while you were letting us know the planning of the further side on the island on right side from the capital building. Thanks.
I think you should go San Francisco style towards the hills because it will give a good medium density without towering over the city and townhouse style buildings will also not take up too much space when land is valuable.
Amazing city!
Thank you Maurice!
Hello Infrastructurist, As per my imagination I would like to suggest you some of the ideas like that you can reconsider the planning of the heights of the building in the downtown area as the main governor's/capital building is placed a bit further down the avenue from the harborfront/beachfront. as the tall buildings are covering the view from both the point of views(from beachfront and from the governor's building too). I suggest to make the lower height building's or touristy places infront of the Capital building's avenue that are going towards the beachfront/harborfront or maybe re-positioning of the Capital building to the higher place on the mountain from where the capital building can have the view of the whole city just like the museum in the Los Angeles have or even take inspiration from the India's RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN & RAISINA HILLS Layout till the INDIA Gate( A stretch of 1KM). because this looks a bit odd(personal opinion) as the tall buildings has covered the view of both the harborfront and the capital building.
Please have an episodes talking the industries, have a farmlands, oil fields and ores with some mega factories region
What a wonderful city ! Sorry to Pine Harbour but I think I will prefer this city 🤭
Also don't forget to build services such as hospital, fire & police stations, schools, maybe university ?
Would love to see a promenade by the sea in the downtown
"... you'll have to convert to freedom units on your own" THAT is the moment I clicked the subscribe button.
FREEDOM units! Lol, only for temperature though.
I wish America would convert to the metric system. EXCEPT, temperature. 100f sounds hot, 40c does not. 🤣
Btw, still loving this series. I said last time that this new city is giving me Wellington vibes. The houses surrounding downtown Wellington are quite hilly (at least according to Google Earth). I'd love to see that incorporated here!
Haha - only for temperature!
Really happy you're still enjoying this Meesa. We're JUST getting started! 😀
Yeah but water boils at 100c. That's hot.
@@EvilDevil64
Ugh, I know. And 0 is actually 0.
But still. I like my Farenheit.
36:11 what road was used to upgrade the little pavement road? Its perfect for parking lots and industry yards
I'm having trouble with Procedural Objects, when I click on the button to convert an asset to PO,it doesn't work. when I click the PO option on move it mod, the other options disappear for some reason. any solutions?
I love that you call us customary units "freedom units" lol
Hi, new viewer here. I really enjoyed what you've done, but I may have a suggestion if you won't mind. I get that you don't want any building to stick out, but I think it would be cool to have one building stick out slightly just to have a centrepiece in your downtown. Maybe a slender building that's 65-75 metres tall?
Hi Vojta - a big welcome to the channel and community! 😀 That is a great suggestion - and actually something I considered when building the Downtown Core. I think I refrained from it due to fears of it sticking out, or clearly making the city much more prominent than the City of Pine Harbour.
With that said, it's clear that in this capital city, land is costly, so developers are incentivized to build up - which means that as Pine Harbour and the capital city grows, we will definitely see some investors come forth with plans for buildings above 55+ meters - and the range you suggest (65-75) is a really good start when that time comes.
Thank you for the suggestion 👍
What mod are you using for all the high buildings? Are they vanilla or not?
Hi Infra are you planing to do a series with budget, milestones and zoning ?
Hi Lord Daddie - that is a great question. I have thought a few times, that it would be fun to do an actual vanilla.. or maybe "slightly" modded series - where we focus on budget, milestones, zoning and all the other simulation stuff. I haven't thought too much about it though - and I don't know if people would even like to see that on my channel 😊😊
don't forget about the services as well😂😂
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The railroad is taking up alot of good real-estate.have it go underground.thats how it is near me in manhattan
I agree, or at least sunken
If he is gonna keep it like that though he should add buildings in front of the dead end tracks to hide them
I also agree with an underground station. Could be like a Grand Central Station in NYC asset type. Would look great downtown.
Would love low density homes throughout the hills
Hi Ethan - you and me both. Could be cool with some small pockets of hollywood-hills vibes. Where rich people go to look at a sea of lights 😊
And thank you for more than 5 years of subscription, amazing!
08:02 Don’t apologize for using meters! The world knows it’s superior 😉
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Why don't you do more speed build, I think I can see the progress better and then I can say more about it.
You build a nice city. :D
This is a really nice downtown, but I do have to ask, is it possible to build a downtown in Cities: Skylines without a large freeway nearby. I've noticed that most cities in the game that many creators build have large highways running through their cities, like many NA cities or some kind of Dubai monstrosity. Is it possible to build city centers that feel more natural and walkable?
I'm pretty sure highways aren't a requirement at all for city centers, many cities in Europe don't have highways going through their city centers at all, as the highways are usually outside of the city I believe. And they also look pretty bustling. I think Akruas' Asturis is a great example of a massive city center not having a highway go through it, as instead a massive train line runs through it.
where u from ? look nice :)
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I don't want to be that guy but I think that, at least in what was built this episode, there is not nearly enough parking available
Where I'm from, parking downtown is mostly street parking or an underground parking lot accessible through buildings. Very rarely there are carparks.
Danglish :D
Make a collection I'll pay you I swear to god i will outsource workshop browsing for so much money it's insane
my units will be free and nonsensical.
That's the spirit Sarah 😎🇺🇸
downtown is nice, but I dont think the style of the central park fits. It is too symmetrical/regular, kinda soviet style, however downtown is more mixed. It would look better with irregular placement of trees, bushes. Bus terminal near the train station would look good. But I think the park definitely doesnt fit.
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I think you should call the island "Gran Island". Sort of sounds like grand, men du ved, gran i stedet for Pine like Pine Harbor. Also your train asset has included bus stops, no need for the other terminal.