London-inspired City - Afleden

[obsidian frost]

I'll use this thread to upload any screenshots and show any updates of my city (I've included some of my favourite screenshots for this starting message)

[fiery nacelle]

Following this one too

Very nice stuff

[obsidian frost]

Thanks so much dude 😁

Spent a few hours this afternoon working on the rail infrastructure around Vinci Hill and Gove Hill (inspired by Herne Hill and Tulse Hill respectively). Of course, its completely undetailed at the moment

[vast rivet]

looks brilliant. where did you get the rainbow crossings?

[spare tartan]

Man, great city, so much character

[wide elm]

nice !

also I can't seem to find british trains by myself on the workshop... would you mind sharing links ?

[merry willow]

Good work !

[obsidian frost]

Thanks! For the rainbow crossings, I just used Procedural Objects on ploppable asphalt, and stretched it and changed the colour

[obsidian frost]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=490871140 (4-car) and https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709962664 (8-car) - Southern Class 377
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1966581574 - Thameslink Class 700

[obsidian frost]

A bit of progress on Vinci Hill (not very much tho, since I had to spend a while fixing a glitch...)

[obsidian frost]

Working on a railway viaduct...

[jolly patio]

Just came across your screenshots, I've also been building London but it's a more exact replication of the actual city

[fiery nacelle]

I thought the first image was from google earth at first...

[obsidian frost]

Wow, really incredible! Genuinely looks like a photograph 😁
How much of London have you built so far (and how much do you plan to?)

[jolly patio]

Currently the City and small patches of West London

No idea how much more to build since the savegame is lowkey laggy

[obsidian frost]

Been working on the area just south of Vinci Hill (the start of Croxted Road), I'm pretty happy with how its turning out

[boreal pike]

thats amazing

did you get the 22 bishopsgate asset off the workshop or did you make it yourself

[jolly patio]

22 Bishopsgate is available on the workshop

[boreal pike]

thanks for letting me know

[obsidian frost]

Loving building this area at the moment, lots of trees and greenery, with the Exhibition Park and Chatswood radio towers in the background

[fiery nacelle]

nice!

[heady kelp]

wow

[obsidian frost]

Spend a couple of hours this morning detailing the northbound tracks heading into Afleden Bridge Station. I'm pretty happy with how its turning out 😄

[jolly patio]

I like the detail!

Seems quite clean for a busy station in the UK though

[obsidian frost]

Thanks 😁
I probably should add a bit of dirt and grime tbh

[jolly patio]

A tiny suggestion

[steel flame]

looks amazing

[obsidian frost]

Thanks so much 👍

[obsidian frost]

Been working on the main concourse/entrance of Afleden Bridge Station today, redoing the clipped buildings into an actual open concourse

[obsidian frost]

Some more screenshots of Afleden Bridge Station.

[junior oak]

How’d you create the station?

[obsidian frost]

The platforms are station track networks from the railway collection, with platform networks (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1920747629) and shelter networks (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2105375780) added using network multitool's parallel feature, and the shelter networks stretched with node controller.
For the station building/concourse itself, I used PO on this station (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=589761657) for the canopy, with POed pillars for the borders. The glass is just some glass asset, can't remember what exactly, again POed to fit.
This concrete slab (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=589761657) is also super useful for the floors/walls/pillars etc, and really nice to just deform in PO. If you want more detail, or just for a specific part, just let me know 😄
Oh, and the viaduct/arches on the sides is this asset (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789372357)

[junior oak]

Great! Thanks for this, I’ve been looking to make a London inspired city and this’ll be a big help with the train station.

[obsidian frost]

I've been working on Afleden Bridge Station for the past month or so for Gaseous Stranger's discord competition (I've posted screenshots in #cs1-gallery), but now that that's over, I've been back to working on the Exhibition Park to Afleden Bridge line. Started work on West Chatswood today

[jolly patio]

Wait wheres this competition

[obsidian frost]

It was in Gaseous Stranger's discord (its linked in his youtube video descriptions). The competition's ended now tho

[obsidian frost]

It's been a while (I've been kinda busy and trying to sort out graphics settings with render it etc to replace ultimate eyecandy), but I'm finally back working on Afleden. Here's a plan view of the railway junction I've been working on (based on the approach into London Bridge by Millwall). And I've also added the walkie talkie building to make it a bit more obviously London-inspired

The rail infrastructure took so long, it involved lots of nodeless single 1-way tracks merging with double 2-way track, and the real-life area I'm taking inspiration from is pretty complicated

Here's a few screenshots, I'm pretty happy with the views 😄

[azure vale]

Woah dude this is crazy cool and I actually just started a London inspired build recently

I would say I'm pretty good at the game heavily modded but there's a lot I would love to talk to you about and ask you

[hearty spear]

Where Is some lu 1995 or 1996 or S7 Stock

Or lu 1973 And 2009 And Central line train

[obsidian frost]

I live in south london, so I'm mainly focusing south of the river, so there's not much to build (yet) in terms of London Underground. I've got s-stock and 1996 stock trains downloaded from the workshop for when I build areas I'll need them for though

[obsidian frost]

Thanks for the compliment 😄 I'd be more than happy if you wanna dm me about anything in particular

[azure vale]

I had some ram arrive yesterday and I'm having issues loading the game so I'll hit you up when I can access everything and talk to you properly

Oh right and good morning

[pastel oar]

hey, whats that building asset?

[pastel oar]

lovely, is that station actually functional?

[obsidian frost]

Yeah, all the stations I build are fully functional

[pastel oar]

what assets are you using to make it functional?

[obsidian frost]

I used station track from the RAILWAY collection (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1574858399 I used this one, but any of the tracks from the collection should have station track) (it has to be ground mode, and then raised with move it). Then, I connected it with a path (start it in the centre of the station track at 0m height, then drag it away and have it raised. Then drag it elevated to the road you're connecting it to, and lower it to 0m again so it connects). Then, I upgraded the path to an invisible path (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2040776504)

I also used these decorative platform networks (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1920747629) with network multitool's parallel feature, but this isn't necessary for functionality. Hope that helps

[jagged snow]

ah doing the Bermondsey dive under

[obsidian frost]

Yep, detailing it is the next task

[jagged snow]

alot of graffiti then

[obsidian frost]

My local line is the one that goes through South Bermondsey, so I haven't really gone through it before so I didnt know about that, Ill bear it in mind 😄

[jagged snow]

Yeah I'm kent lines so we basically go through every line of it except out to Bermondsey

[obsidian frost]

Ahh alright

[wide elm]

I've always tried to find these info, thanks for sharing !

[obsidian frost]

No problem 👍 Feel free to dm if there are any problems

[pastel oar]

ohhh

thanks a lot

[jolly patio]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2601387550&searchtext=Poland+

[pastel oar]

thanks

[obsidian frost]

More progress on the Bermondsey Dive-under. I still gotta detail a bit tho (although the game now takes 30 mins to load and 5 mins to save...)

[jagged snow]

If you wanna be detail heavy add some caging / chain link fencing in those arches and add abit of graffitit

[heady kelp]

build the lords cricket stadium

[jagged snow]

Could do and build up regents park aswell

[azure vale]

are you still making this

[obsidian frost]

Nah, I'm taking a break, at least for a while. I've just started another city, I'll post some screenshots soon in a new post.
The first reason is that the framerate and loading times are just not very fun
The second reason is that while it's great to build something with proper scale, I'm wanting to do something with a bit more creativity and scaled-down to make it feel like I'm achieving more with what I build.

[azure vale]

Do you want to give me the .CRP and see what I can do with it 😉 I've been doing a lot of tfl and stratfordy stuff

I've got bare London assets and have been learning new skills

[wild plinth]

HOlY MOLY IT LOOKS EXACTLY HOW IT DOES ( i live a few miles away)

[wild plinth]

which station is that in real life

[obsidian frost]

West Norwood

[wild plinth]

Nice

[robust umbra]

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[azure vale]

I miss this thread 😢