Great video...i just wish the streets didn't have to be so wide. Go to most neighborhoods in France, Italy, etc, and the streets are sooo much more narrow and compact than even this, which is a huge part of what makes those places so beautiful. And what about places like Santorini? Or the Blue City in Morocco? We should be able to essentially make outdoor hallways to fill our neighborhoods.
Right. The game should have been called American Skylines. Street sizes are just hilarious and there is no way you can design or re-create an European city with. Don't let me even get started talking about scales of other assets... it's completely fucked up.
@@petjuh1985 I tried everything but gave up on the game. The relations of sizes in this game are so fucked up that it's hard to keep using the game. After 180 hours with it, I am just done. The base game is such a mess, it was only enjoyable with mods right from the beginning but still, the metric or relations in the game can't even be fixed with mods. So, I'm waiting another 10 years for a better city simulator. This is not my game.
Usually (atleast in Germany) the train station is right next to the old city and not sperated even a little bit, as that growth came from industrialization and that train station being there. Very good tutorial/guide Edit: some larger cities also have renaissance era expansion around the old city and then another layer of former walls from a 16/1700s star fort next to which you can place the train station and around it further expansion
Thanks for this tutorial, it is quite useful, in Mexico there are many cities, particularly the most historic, with similar distributions, in some cases with Spanish and French influences, with a quite varied architecture,
Yes it really depends on the age, I've been to Mexico and the older colonial towns and cities have this vibe, however the Spanish themselves were innovators of grid structures for street layout and that is seen in older Latin American cities.
I love these little how to videos, I love the game but have trouble creating connections with the highways. A video on how to start your city would be so appreciated! Thx for the awesome game!
Thank you Titan! I started my first European city last year and I hope to get it developed sometime around this Christmas? Much more work than an American city but so worth it.
Nice one :D I appreciate this as an untraveled American. I can pick up some things from google maps, but it really helps to have to have some things pointed out, and the reasoning behind them. I don't think it would have occurred to me, for example, that a European train station would be built on a secondary industrialized district.
Even for Europeans it's useful to learn about the principles behind the layout of different parts of cities. As shown in the video, when making an old town it can be useful to mark out important areas such as marketplaces, squares and churches first, then link those streets up with main roads and fill in the gaps. There is a lot more variety of road layouts in European cities as they change a lot throughout history. Some outer areas of the city might be more familiar to Americans, the main difference is that usually large highways dont enter very far into the city itself and tend to encircle it.
Amsterdam started out as a small core, then they dug a canal around the city, expanded, and build the next canal around it etc. They needed the canals so the boats could reach the warehouses.
If the small towns that have gotten swallowed up in the urban sprawl have a railway station you will tend to find a lot of 19th century residential buildings the newly available transportation allowed people to commute to work especially more middle class residents that could afford the premium of paying the train fares in order to escape the smog of the industrial revolution in the heart of the city.
As a Swede who lives in Stockholm these kinds of cities just have my heart in its clutches. They are so beautiful and the architecture is magnificent. I absolutely hate the grids and shit like that they have in America.
Don't forget to include tenement buildings randomly wherever a bomb hit during WWII as well as modern architecture in inner city areas that were previoulsy industrial or empty. Plus of course narrow one-way roads.
Exactly, the context is very important. If it's a German city or really any city that was affected by the world wars it's good mix up the ages of buildings in the core even more. Whereas some cities were relatively untouched. Other events can include fires or other destruction of buildings which might warrant the inclusion of newer structures.
That is essentially what larger European cities are, but with much less of a planned out grid structure. Its more like series of partial grids based on the main roads leading to the highways or other cities.
It would be really helpful if you put a list of mods in the description. I want to use the mod at 0:32 which seemingly lets you put traffic lights on any point of the road.
@@Jeff_the_Hobo but that doesn't work, at least for me. It works if I switch to a six lane without decoration, because the width of the sidewalk changes, but not between grass and trees
We normally do, but since this tutorial was more informational rather than actually going through the process of building - we left them out. If you watch our other tutorial videos you'll see links to the mods that they use!
Hey I've downladed both collections and I am usign loading screen mod and it tells me some broken assets adn stuff. Should I worry? I've tried downloading all of them and it just makes teh game run at 2-3 fps. If I just ignore it will it be ok? Or will some assets be missing parts or something? Edit: Also are they RICO?
Great video but i play the game ons ps4 and i realy love to see a pack with more churches for my city centre, historical buildings and a building style.
Do i need buy some dlc for evropen city or its in base game? Please i really need this information can someone tell me? Bcs I live in Czech republic and i really want to build prague or our brothes slovakia and their beutifull city called Bratislava
It depends, a lot of urban cores are more structured than people think, they are just structured for walking as that was the only real mode of transportation for most people historically. However for larger cities the actual old town only represents a very small section of the urban development and many towns can be incorporated into the metropolitan area. So dotting your main roads with the remnants of historic town centres is a good idea.
Something happened to my saved city. When it loads in, its just black screen. But I can see the buttons. At the save game screen its just a white picture. Can somebody help me?
Very true, however in most instances people aren't commuting through the old town and traffic typically doesn't pass through a city to get to another as the highways bypass the city entirely.
Videos like this one give me severe OCD.... overlapping texture here, buildings shoved into others there and so on.... might make a realistic impression if you're flying over the city, but fuck does it look shitty when zoomed in. The game is just not designed to create realistic looking cities. The scale of objects is funky, the street assets are designed for American cities but not for European ones. The game would have needed the name American Skylines, not Cities Skylines. I gave it a ton of tries, but you simply can not recreate European cities with it unless you don't care about the things I said first, oberlapping textures and buildings that are shoved into each other.
Europe has no unique layout or style. Its not a ubity. Look up the cities of Athens, Madrid and Moscow. What you show is one of many layouts of continental europe as the european style. For me its a discrace and offence. My city has nothing to do with ... vienna. Your statement can be seen provocativ political.
@@urielseuthes7484 Snowflake is a 2010s derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are over-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. Wikipedia
@@urielseuthes7484 You are offended by a cities: skylines video, snowflakes are people that get easily offended, by things like video games, which makes you a snowflake. It really isnt that difficult to work out.
What's your favorite European city?
Zielona Góra, Poland
Zurich, switerland
Paris
Amsterdam, dense nice and clean
Heidelberg, Germany
Great video...i just wish the streets didn't have to be so wide. Go to most neighborhoods in France, Italy, etc, and the streets are sooo much more narrow and compact than even this, which is a huge part of what makes those places so beautiful. And what about places like Santorini? Or the Blue City in Morocco? We should be able to essentially make outdoor hallways to fill our neighborhoods.
Right. The game should have been called American Skylines. Street sizes are just hilarious and there is no way you can design or re-create an European city with. Don't let me even get started talking about scales of other assets... it's completely fucked up.
Dennis X just use the pedestrian streets and move it mod to make the streets a lot narrower.
@@petjuh1985 I tried everything but gave up on the game. The relations of sizes in this game are so fucked up that it's hard to keep using the game. After 180 hours with it, I am just done. The base game is such a mess, it was only enjoyable with mods right from the beginning but still, the metric or relations in the game can't even be fixed with mods. So, I'm waiting another 10 years for a better city simulator. This is not my game.
Dennis X thats to bad! I used 1750 hours to master it a bit ;-)
Just head down to steam workshop and look for european style streets
Fantastic editing 👍
hi biffa i subbed
I would love to see a guide on how to build an Asian city like Tokyo, Hong Kong or Singapore
Just look at JP city tutorials (they're even in Japanese!)
I really wanna thank CO and all mod/asset creators for everything ❤️ makes cities skylines so much more dynamic and fun!
Usually (atleast in Germany) the train station is right next to the old city and not sperated even a little bit, as that growth came from industrialization and that train station being there. Very good tutorial/guide
Edit: some larger cities also have renaissance era expansion around the old city and then another layer of former walls from a 16/1700s star fort next to which you can place the train station and around it further expansion
How to build a european city: 1. Make Spaghetti roads
2. Activate european buildings
3. Churches n fking castles everywhere
Based
Amsterdam is basically cartographic porn tbh
Pretty much
Until you get out of the historic part
@@TheDutchMitchell then it's just weed
@@SamsungS23Ultr all of Amsterdam is
What
Ay, it's my boy Titan!
Titan seriously is the best European city builders in the community, its a shame really he deserves so much more subscribers than he has.
Great tutorial! Well done Titan.
Thanks for this tutorial, it is quite useful, in Mexico there are many cities, particularly the most historic, with similar distributions, in some cases with Spanish and French influences, with a quite varied architecture,
Yes it really depends on the age, I've been to Mexico and the older colonial towns and cities have this vibe, however the Spanish themselves were innovators of grid structures for street layout and that is seen in older Latin American cities.
I love these little how to videos, I love the game but have trouble creating connections with the highways. A video on how to start your city would be so appreciated! Thx for the awesome game!
Waiting for a Medieval European City mod.
Thank you Titan! I started my first European city last year and I hope to get it developed sometime around this Christmas? Much more work than an American city but so worth it.
Nice one :D I appreciate this as an untraveled American. I can pick up some things from google maps, but it really helps to have to have some things pointed out, and the reasoning behind them. I don't think it would have occurred to me, for example, that a European train station would be built on a secondary industrialized district.
Even for Europeans it's useful to learn about the principles behind the layout of different parts of cities. As shown in the video, when making an old town it can be useful to mark out important areas such as marketplaces, squares and churches first, then link those streets up with main roads and fill in the gaps. There is a lot more variety of road layouts in European cities as they change a lot throughout history. Some outer areas of the city might be more familiar to Americans, the main difference is that usually large highways dont enter very far into the city itself and tend to encircle it.
Amsterdam started out as a small core, then they dug a canal around the city, expanded, and build the next canal around it etc. They needed the canals so the boats could reach the warehouses.
Love these videos from you guys, and i hope to see some of the "essential" mods getting implemented into the vanilla game one day!
Prague, Czech Republic
Apollo ew
AAAAAAH IM SO HAPPY 0:07 Thats the Munsterkerk in the city of Roermond!! my howetown.
This is an excellent video. Maybe it could've been a bit longer describing architectural styles
Paradox please add some mods to the console version too. I want to build beautiful great cities too.
Never gonna happen.
If the small towns that have gotten swallowed up in the urban sprawl have a railway station you will tend to find a lot of 19th century residential buildings the newly available transportation allowed people to commute to work especially more middle class residents that could afford the premium of paying the train fares in order to escape the smog of the industrial revolution in the heart of the city.
Super Video Titan!
Ahh Vienna
In that case you would really like Madrid, is basically Vienna but monuments (palaces, cathedrals etc.) are much bigger and insane
Love your build Titan.. So nice :)
Thanks for giving Warsaw a mention!!
Fulxtrance come back when ?
Please add more architecture types to the console edition of the games to make more realistic European cities etc.
As a Swede who lives in Stockholm these kinds of cities just have my heart in its clutches. They are so beautiful and the architecture is magnificent. I absolutely hate the grids and shit like that they have in America.
Don't forget to include tenement buildings randomly wherever a bomb hit during WWII as well as modern architecture in inner city areas that were previoulsy industrial or empty. Plus of course narrow one-way roads.
Exactly, the context is very important. If it's a German city or really any city that was affected by the world wars it's good mix up the ages of buildings in the core even more. Whereas some cities were relatively untouched. Other events can include fires or other destruction of buildings which might warrant the inclusion of newer structures.
This is a really well made video.
It’s so depressing we don’t get the vanilla assets to really make this work that well
Nice video! Wanted to make some historical European style inner city with a more modern, American style city surrounding it.
That is essentially what larger European cities are, but with much less of a planned out grid structure. Its more like series of partial grids based on the main roads leading to the highways or other cities.
The rule of thumb I always apply:
American cities: grid-shaped
European cities: star-shaped
Great video. Thank you!
It would be really helpful if you put a list of mods in the description. I want to use the mod at 0:32 which seemingly lets you put traffic lights on any point of the road.
It's the Crossings mod, an old that's still very useful !
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=427258853
@@Jeff_the_Hobo but that doesn't work, at least for me. It works if I switch to a six lane without decoration, because the width of the sidewalk changes, but not between grass and trees
We normally do, but since this tutorial was more informational rather than actually going through the process of building - we left them out. If you watch our other tutorial videos you'll see links to the mods that they use!
european cities all start with big churches...i hope paradox will release some for the ps4
Most European cities like have also a modern center with skyscrapers and other modern looking buildings.
yo paradox is ballin bro.......showcasing all the cs players owsome
Koblenz?
It looks very central European/German. Not typical western European: UK, Netherlands
I think you could have add some blocks of prefabricated houses like from the 70's or something.
Hey I've downladed both collections and I am usign loading screen mod and it tells me some broken assets adn stuff. Should I worry? I've tried downloading all of them and it just makes teh game run at 2-3 fps. If I just ignore it will it be ok? Or will some assets be missing parts or something?
Edit: Also are they RICO?
This new mod or new pack (i don't know) is there also for xbox edition??? Please I want those buildings for xbox....i love those😭
You can't get mods for xbox, only PC I'm afraid
this is so helpful!
How do you get the buildings to look like yours in the video? Is it a specific theme?
The only thing i think you forget to say is that european city’s are build around water
Almost all cities are built around a river or water source.
NO PANEL HOUSES?! HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (p.s: actually loving this so far)
what roads should we use ? I don't find it anywhere
Great video but i play the game ons ps4 and i realy love to see a pack with more churches for my city centre, historical buildings and a building style.
How do you make the Open squares?
@@NewsFlashStudios Thank you for the answer. Just 7 months later...
So.. I downloaded all of the mods,. But I can't place them with my RICO? I ask for someone to maybe answer.. I've been wanting to do this for awhile.
Do i need buy some dlc for evropen city or its in base game? Please i really need this information can someone tell me?
Bcs I live in Czech republic and i really want to build prague or our brothes slovakia and their beutifull city called Bratislava
The ideas of that buildings have to be squares and everything is based on roads and cars is very non-European
It depends, a lot of urban cores are more structured than people think, they are just structured for walking as that was the only real mode of transportation for most people historically. However for larger cities the actual old town only represents a very small section of the urban development and many towns can be incorporated into the metropolitan area. So dotting your main roads with the remnants of historic town centres is a good idea.
Is there a list of mods, You using here?
Can we please have a tutorial for other kinds of cities, too? Maybe some Asian or African ones, please?
Wtf your residential buildings are so beutiful.I also want i thoosee
What’s there to Dislike?! my God. Must be them Aliens.
Could you Guys from city skylines please ad more old buildings churches on the x box
Lisboa, Portugal
My pc is a potato I have like p fps on C:S
Halo Titan!!
Something happened to my saved city. When it loads in, its just black screen. But I can see the buttons. At the save game screen its just a white picture. Can somebody help me?
@@semmelsamu i dont have any graphics mod (is the more beautification counts as a graphics mod?) :(
@@semmelsamu i didnt tried other saves, but i will
@@semmelsamu it is doing the same again. I dont want to save it because i know that i wont be able to load it. Rip 3 hours of work
Sehr schön)
Music Credits, please ?
More Tutorials for Console
lovely
Vanilla version please
Step 1: NO HIGHWAYS NEAR THE CENTRE
What about "cardo et decumanus"? You can find them in many european cities
Wrocław, Poland
This is only beautifull until you open the traffic menu.
Very true, however in most instances people aren't commuting through the old town and traffic typically doesn't pass through a city to get to another as the highways bypass the city entirely.
Me encantaría que hubieran mods de estilo de casas
Si los hay
Map name ?
I want to get in this game but the user interface are tooooooooooooo sucks
Videos like this one give me severe OCD.... overlapping texture here, buildings shoved into others there and so on.... might make a realistic impression if you're flying over the city, but fuck does it look shitty when zoomed in. The game is just not designed to create realistic looking cities. The scale of objects is funky, the street assets are designed for American cities but not for European ones. The game would have needed the name American Skylines, not Cities Skylines. I gave it a ton of tries, but you simply can not recreate European cities with it unless you don't care about the things I said first, oberlapping textures and buildings that are shoved into each other.
You can use the distort function of the procedural objects mod to prevent the buildings from overlapping
0:22 Johanniskirche @magdeburg
Viva la Unión Europea 🇪🇺💙💛💙🇪🇺
Viva brexst 🇬🇧
@@spessato brexin🇪🇺‼️
🤮🤮🤮🤮
Hamburg germany.
First
german accent
"Most European cities are older than Asian cities" Lol sure bud, its not like Asia created the idea of building a city or anything
Europe has no unique layout or style. Its not a ubity. Look up the cities of Athens, Madrid and Moscow. What you show is one of many layouts of continental europe as the european style. For me its a discrace and offence. My city has nothing to do with ... vienna. Your statement can be seen provocativ political.
Only if you are a snowflake.
What?
@@urielseuthes7484 Snowflake is a 2010s derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are over-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. Wikipedia
Well, thanx for the term. I dont thik this has anything to do with my comment. If something is unclear i am happy to clarify.
@@urielseuthes7484 You are offended by a cities: skylines video, snowflakes are people that get easily offended, by things like video games, which makes you a snowflake. It really isnt that difficult to work out.
This is so clean dude!