Neo Kwanghai

[autumn trench]

Looks great, dude! And super realistic. What are your graphics settings/mods/LUT?

[twin sorrel]

Hyperrealistic. Looks like you are playing alreary with CS2.

[regal hollow]

Really loving that LUT and the build too!

[autumn birch]

Here are my graphic settings.

[autumn birch]

And some updates on recent progress.

[autumn birch]

Seems one picture left out not uploaded.

[autumn birch]

WIP metro station.

[sly bramble]

Now this is what I would call walk-ability! Astounding job in all these pictures!

[autumn birch]

Thanks for the kind words. I am trying to make something walkable, bicycle-friendly, and accessible.

[summer scroll]

😎 super cool

[autumn birch]

Recent progress on the underground bike garage.

[dull lantern]

imma steal that lmao

[solemn monolith]

what other mods did you use besides render it ?

[autumn birch]

Theme mixer 2, Relight. And I also use Reshade which is an external addon.

[solemn monolith]

Thanks !

[meager swift]

If you’re still using Theme Mixer 2 it would be reasonable to upgrade to 2.5 for a stability boost

[autumn birch]

Thank you for the advice, will give it a go.

[sly bramble]

:)

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

School greenhouse mimicking.

[autumn birch]

Mods I used are only ~90. If you are really referring to mods but not assets, I could share the collection later. Others are assets, and some of the objects are Procedural Objects created in the game, which I could not share easily.

Street Plane Trees by pdelmo, along with Regular Bushes made by him as well. These are also the trees I am frequently using.

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

Then it might be difficult to share on this server because rules here do not allow sharing custom content links directly.

Community Commerce.

[chrome osprey]

Beautiful

[sly bramble]

Amazing 🤩

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

The map should be Eurobay on the workshop.

Some recent shots of previous builds in Neo Kwanghai.

[trim bolt]

sheeeesh

[burnt tulip]

omg this looks amazing

[autumn birch]

Children's playground is finally done.

[celest pollen]

Very nice work!

[red socket]

Which lut are you using?

[autumn birch]

Relight neutral that comes with Relight

[red socket]

Also which theme did you use? 😊😊

[red socket]

Oh Ty

Btw I am trying to transform my cutie to be like Asian style kinda hk shangai Tokio, that kind of cities. I see you are very experienced in detailing and I would like some advice. May I dm you?

[autumn birch]

Themes may need to check later, since it is a mix and I am sort of leave it there for months without changes.

[red socket]

Ok, not in a rush

[autumn birch]

Yes of course. But don't expect too much towards things like hands-on guides LOL.

[red socket]

No, I already have some experience

[autumn birch]

Detailing is a very objective creative process, maybe something I am obsessed with is not in your own flavour.
*subjective

[red socket]

Know how to do detailed stuff, just advice on assets things would fit well in different areas

Stuff like that

[red socket]

wich mod is the las image?

[autumn birch]

It is Reshade, a kind of general DX games filter add-ons.

[autumn birch]

I will give them a couple of months and see how they will do. No rush.

[autumn birch]

Maybe just close enough to another YouTube episode.

[sly bramble]

Looks absolutely lovely 💕

[fervent elk]

best build in the server

will we eventually be able to do this level of detail and walkabillity in cs2 with mods?

I just got the game a few days ago

[autumn birch]

Only time could tell though.

[uneven moon]

how do you...

do this?

also will you ever consider putting things like your metro station etc on the workshop

its amazing

[autumn birch]

I wish but it's a mix of POs and workshop props which could be difficult to share on workshop or allbuilds.org

[uneven moon]

ah ok

runs away and cries

[sly bramble]

never heard of that site before, really cool!

[wintry spear]

U can Export a PO selection. Then share that on Allbuilds.org when people try to place that PO item in-game there will be a file created which contains the links to the missing workshop items

Then they can sub to it and "simply" place it

[autumn birch]

There are POs with customized textures that I never shared.

[wintry spear]

Well you could upload the entire folder, if you wanted to. But I just wanted to point out its possible. Your choice to do it or not :)

[autumn birch]

Some recent screenshot of old and new works.

[uneven moon]

yummy

[rapid cloak]

Reminds me of the new districts of Chinese cities

👍

[autumn birch]

Again some recent updates for the station. The station has finally got its 1st major phase built.

[brisk field]

Wow! This is really insanely detailed! Great work!

[uneven moon]

i absolutely love it

[autumn birch]

Thank you all! I may have time to fix some minor bugs and will take more photo of this project after those fixes in the next two weeks.

[uneven moon]

its like drugs for the eyes

thank you

[autumn birch]

LOL the way you described it make me laughed. 🤣

[uneven moon]

lol

[autumn birch]

I withheld this WIP shot, intended to be published later. But your comment made me want to share it with you

This is what cims would see if they go up riding the escalator from the metro platform on the underground fourth floor.

[uneven moon]

omg... please tell me theres a lift 😳

[autumn birch]

Obviously there are lifts. They are on the right of the screenshots. They could send people from the -4 to the -1 or ground floor (right at the railway platform) directly.

But I love this kind of view, looking through the windows from the underground to the sky.

[uneven moon]

yeah, it feels like it give me vertigo (but in an awesmacking way not in a scary way)

[sly bramble]

i still can't believe how good this is!

[final dew]

Looks awesome the lighting is so good

[autumn birch]

Some short video clips of the central station.

[distant marsh]

amazing builds

may i ask what map are you playing on.?

[autumn birch]

It should be the Eurobay by Flint.

[distant marsh]

thank you :)

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

The first picture in your replied post has BR4 B+B in use. Others are all elevated ped path decorated with asphalt pieces painted in green or red, not bike dedicated lanes.

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

The green ones in the third and fifth are from the "Ploppable Asphalt +" by Ronyx69. These asphalt props are placed with IMT, not independently placed.
Those in the fourth picture are from the aforementioned Ronyx69's mod and "Surface Network" by neinnew, while being distorted using Procedural Object(Props) or Node Controller(Network).

[odd notch]

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[autumn birch]

Both IMT and PO can let you change the colour of props in a very intuitive way. Just look up for the advanced options in IMT for the prop line you created, and the bottom left of the context menu of PO when you selected the POed items.
For the network part, I cannot recall correctly that whether the neinnew's Surface Network can be painted by using Network Skins 2 or not. I have to check later.

[north grove]

I saw your station video on youtube; but the timelapse video you posted really showed the complexity of the structure inside.

I'm in love.

I especially love the glass cladding of the roof

in particular, if I may ask, what assets did you use for the roof and pillars?

[autumn birch]

For the roof, the part near the front/back facade is "Steel Frame" made by myself. The beam joining two sides, the iron pillars and the glass panels come from "Glass and Steel Awnings Prop Pack" by AmiPolizeiFunk which I love very much and used everywhere (including their POed forms).

The more boxed form pillars are POs using generated texture stored on my end. I plan to publish later since there was a few people asking for it elsewhere.

[north grove]

Glass and Steel Awnings Prop Pack by AmiPolizeiFunk
I'm surprised that I didn't recognize it. 👍

[autumn birch]

Because they are all POed and got modified.

[static acorn]

You only use MXAO ? Does it make a difference cause mine I don't see anything

I also probably have an older version as well

[autumn birch]

On my end, this happens because the game have multiple renders going on in the same time, and Reshade sometimes fails to get the correct one.
If you are using any mods that alter the actual render resolution of the game, like the dynamic resolution, you need to select the proper render window according to the resolution in the "Statistics" or some tab that shows a list of render windows and their respective tris and drawcall counts in the Reshade overlay menu.
By default, press Home key to call up the menu.

[static acorn]

so I need to switch a setting within Reshade if understand you explanations ?

[autumn birch]

Yes, and feel free to share screenshot of your settings here. I understand that the Reshade settings are sometimes difficult to deal with.

By the way, the MXAO only adds "shades" to the corners of the geometry within the screen space. If you already have mods that do in-game Ambient Occlusion, I think you can get similar "shades", albeit the outcome could be a bit lighter shades.

[static acorn]

Great I will remember to share my setting once I’m in game

[rigid zodiac]

is that a yodobashi?

[autumn birch]

Yes, it is a workshop version based on an imaginary city.

[autumn birch]

Polishing some of the details in the bicycle parking that were left unfinished.

[torn pendant]

can you show render it settings all of them

[tardy walrus]

wow love it!

[autumn birch]

Upgrading the rolling stock for tram lines and using up the space reserved for.

[autumn birch]

Yeah sure. I think I missed out the lighting - sky, and textures settings. Others are disabled by render it itself.

And every background lighting color not provided last time in theme mixer 2

[autumn birch]

Popping up more commercial space within the station.

[true ore]

hi bro do u have a list of the assets youre using?

i understand some are PO but after scouting the workshpp theres quite a few things i wasnt able to find thanks a lot!

[autumn birch]

I could upload my Skyve profile to load everything I subscribed if you wish.

But I still have some props that are yet to publish on workshop, and some paywalled buildings as well that I am not sure if the creators have also published on workshop.

[true ore]

yes that would be so helpful

if you could , that would be amazing!

[autumn birch]

Btw, a hint of this is try different keywords and search as many of them, one word at a time, as you can. I often find creators uploaded with unexpected naming.

[true ore]

great thanks a lot! looking forward to your skyve profile!!

[autumn birch]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NujC4yGFhf-pnkauY6BcJMJ6Rt7f-LB_/view?usp=sharing
Disclaimer:

1. Use with caution and your due diligence.
2. Will remove if any mods here requests.
3. There could have local assets/mods within the playset, so do check before using.
4. Because I don't have that much time to perform thorough checking on mods used in the playset, and my save being a very long time one, there are mods that are obsolete but I keep using for various reasons.

[true ore]

Thank you ever so much!!!

will definitrly use with everything you said in mind!

[autumn birch]

Playing a bit wilder than normal with CCE.

[autumn birch]

Recorded several footages simulating FPV recently.

[autumn birch]

Another bit of random shots within the city.

[torn pendant]

1st one is very close to look like it was taken irl
2nd less
3rd between irl and the architects' render but more towards render

[autumn birch]

Yeah, I always try to make it look like rl pics for outdoor shots. Indoor shots are somehow limited by how the game render things in close range and lighting, so I do wish to improve further but it does not always works.

[chrome osprey]

Fr it looked photorealistic for this game

[north grove]

srsly this is amazing

[torn pendant]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[autumn birch]

Thank you guys for the support.

Adding (one of) the control room(s) on the 2nd floor.

[blissful tinsel]

for a second I thought you where sending real world models 😭

This is really good

[torn pendant]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

can u show the tonemapper settings in Render it > Options > Post processing > Color grading (edit)

@autumn birch

[autumn birch]

I didn't activate color grading in render it.