The Inlet, City Building Contest

While you are working/building (I like to call it creating), try lowering the settings in "Video" , and in "Advanced" settings lower the "Traffic Density", "Texture quality" as well as the "Details display distance" settings.
Then raise the settings again for admiring your work or capturing screenshots.

 

One other thing, if you are using a camera mod, try switching back to the game's default camera, just until you need those better view angles.

 

Talking about camera mod, it does not work on XXL for me, but the default camera is decent enough so I'm fine with that. Here's my progress: an aerial view and a sight I've recently discovered.

 

That Versailles-ish park looks interesting! Can't wait to the full display of it!

 

I've done some researches on landscaping, to try to not fuck up the garden, still far from finish though

 

so...new pic

 

@XOUSTE , skip that Notre-Dame project in the background. You will not have the time to finish it, and it would look like a foreign element within the screenshots.

Also, pay attention to the distance between highways/expressways and the old town. In Europe, you do have at least a small park area between the highways and the old medieval town. For example, look at Nuremberg:
There you have some kind of wall plus a moat that are situated between the medieval houses and the expressway:

I hope you find a way to look at the image
Of course, you have some narrow and some wide streets within the medieval town, too. But as said, the expressways run along the borders of the old town walls, and there is some greenery plus walls between houses and expressways.

Besides that, it looks quite scenic

@IcyHot : wonderful countryside college!
What about some greenhouses to test out new ways of planting?
Buildings - Ploppable greenhouses

 

Thanks for your suggestions and they are really helpful.for now i have been working on some other places,so i didn't pay much attention on the district that i have finished (not totally). You're right about placing a park between highways and old town,its the same in China. and this is what i have been thinking about.But this city is way too large for my little poor laptop and the game crashing was really annoying. Anyway i don't have to worry about finishing projects as long as i can post at least 10 pics of this city ^^

 

There's a lot of content Xouste. Be careful with the tone though, a bit unnatural and way too gloomy for this shot.

 

thanks,i will try my best to improve my PS skill ^^

 

I wish I had time to do more with this
As it stands, the downtown is mostly done but I won't have a chance to do much else with it

 

Well, with some good screenshots, you will be able to cover the empty areas for sure
Awesome work with RHM as always, and I do not need to tell you that it looks ultra-realistic

 

Wow, too beautiful, America!

 

aitortilla01 just released a new mod pack that's perfect for Istanbul/Arabianesque cities such as yours. Check it out Buildings - Arab Pack

 

One hint: make sure that 1) your entries will not be overseen within the Submissions' Thread, and that 2) your images will load fast enough.

I would recommend to have two images as a header, and to put the rest into spoilers. Also, you can work with the comment tools to change e.g. the size of the name of your city within the thread.

For people who still want to use megascreenshots, , I would recommend to save them as JPEG-data and use for instance JPEG Optimizer - Compress and Resize Your Digital Photos to reduce/compress the file size (resizing is not necessary). But nonetheless, you should NOT use too many megascreenshots, I would say one megascreenshot with reduced filze size at most.

 

Thanks for the reminder, the pack's right on time for me really.

 

I am creating a city in The Inlet map but I don't think I can win this. Just for fun. Anyway, pictures below! It is still under construction. But i will be making a airport and large harbor when this hit 100,000.

Spoiler: Pictures

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Btw, nice entry @IcyHot ! I do like especially the way you placed the farms on the hill, that looks very natural
Also, your "suburbs" have been decorated with a lot of embellishment stuff to give it a more realistic look.
I do miss some power lines, but I know very well that they are hard to place.

 

Sorry guys,In order to make it looks real, i try my best to place the buildings one by one,now with the population grows ,this game keep crashing,over and over again.its really annoying and i felt tired...badly tired...i dont wanna finish this city anymore.