Yet to be named Midwestern city

[frank prawn]

does anyone have naming suggestions?

[viral meteor]

depresston

[frank prawn]

real

[opal burrow]

Danebury?

[frank prawn]

hm

maybe ill short it to danbury so it sounds less british

[high rivet]

Gary

[frank prawn]

wip

ill detail it more when i have time

[frank prawn]

sunken highway beign worked on

[frank prawn]

oop

[frank prawn]

a drive through the sunken hwy still worked on, notice the new combined lights both for the upper roads and the hwy

[bitter wagon]

Herman's Grove, Warsaw, Luthenberg, Calman, Upney, Rodwood, Celara, Aston.

[frank prawn]

these are some nice ideas

i actually live in a warsaw

[frank prawn]

yes

[gloomy stump]

jestes z polski?

[frank prawn]

Ta

[thin yacht]

City of freakbob

[frank prawn]

it's slowly coming together

i need to put more development of the interchange on hold until the grid is expanded

[frank prawn]

beautfiul view

[frank prawn]

got back to the game, placing buildings on the edges of the highway nw

[tribal shadow]

what roads and assets do you use damn

[frank prawn]

you can ask about a particular asset ill try to tell you if i remember

working on more spaghetti

[tribal shadow]

do you have any links I could look at? i mean it all looks great i just have no clue where to look on the workshop for more buildings, roads etc and more.

[frank prawn]

well i am subscribed to 4141 workshop items right now and i dont think its possible to give a link to my subscriptions

i usually browse the workshop for like 2 hours before i start a save

i have folloqed the worskop for like 7 years now, going through several generations of mods and assets helped me know what to use though

i use collections a lot, and i type american into the search bar to see where it takes me

oh wait i did make a collection eariler this ear

[tribal shadow]

yeah thought you might be

do you have specific roadways you use?

like a pack

[frank prawn]

what kind of city do you wanna build>

[tribal shadow]

to be fair im focusing on a small town sort of build. maybe a population of 13k

[frank prawn]

what country

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3149077061

this is a collection ive made that contains the mods i always use

and some basic buildings that will fit any american city, regardless if its northern, midwest or florida

so after i subscribe to these assets that i always use

i go looking for more buildings to fit this particular theme on the workshop

sometimes when i sub to an asset i also go and check out every upload from that creator too

ive also found that a lot of australian buildings would fit my city too as they dont look too different from american buildings

this applied to a lot of south American buildings too

and modern buildings from anywhere in the world are usually quite neutral and can be placed in any city

so that's some advice if you want to have lots of assets to choose from to have variety

[tribal shadow]

thank you for this

[tribal shadow]

Yeah i see a lot of assets i already have from certain creators

[frank prawn]

no problem glad i could help

[tribal shadow]

i forgot to ask, how do you get your game looking like that?

[frank prawn]

i use relight

theme mixer too, not only does it change the textures for better ones for your choice but it also modifies things such as sunlight

[frank prawn]

well daylight classic

sharp textures

[tribal shadow]

you got any vids to help? sorry if im being a nuisance ive never played with this stuff

[frank prawn]

sorry not really i just learnd throughout the years

though it does mostly amount to just installing these mods and thats it

you can tweak the settings a bit and choose themes but theres not that much to do

i can help you in dms with that

[frank prawn]

i like this capture

ive been working on this one area for a few days now

[frank prawn]

some more captures, work is going slow and right now im doing terra forming around the interchange, putting some last remaining lanes and picking more skyscrapers for downtown

[thin yacht]

please name it yeehaw

[blissful sky]

i have an actual name suggestion

but

before i give it

what are any major landforms in the surrounding area?

preferably water, but landforms will do

[frank prawn]

@blissful sky there's a river not too far from downtown

sorry for the late response I dont look here too often if I'm not actively playing

[blissful sky]

thats fine

whats the river called?

[frank prawn]

haven't named it

[blissful sky]

well i would call the town either the name of the river or the name of the river, including the word river

for example

mississippi

or

rocky river

[frank prawn]

huh

[blissful sky]

like how mississippi is on the mississippi river named after the river

or like

either that or find a last name

thats how most towns here are named

[frank prawn]

yeah alright

if you have some suggestions that could sound realistic for an american town this size i could use them

and for the river nearby

ill try to boot up the game in some time but it takes so much time to load and then build something meaningful idk how people find time for this

[thin yacht]

what about springville?

[frank prawn]

it's a good idea but i think it's quite a common name in cs

started work on stripmall thing and surroundings

[blissful sky]

the midwest was primarily italian and german immigrants, so that could influence the name

but it really depends when the city was founded

if its the western midwest it likely has more of a french influence though

unless its the northwest midwest

so if its the eastern midwest id suggest something more english like pennburg, charlesville, howeburg, or clintonsburg

if its the western midwest probably something to do with the word "louis" or some other french name

[frank prawn]

right

i often come to the states to cincinnati where my family lives and i like the name but it's hard to think of something similar

[snow mirage]

what about haven city

[blissful sky]

cincinnati was named after the roman guy cincinnatus so perhaps cicero or longini or something

its so hard to name a city its like "well that doesnt sound like a real city name"

it was definently easier when cities were new

[frank prawn]

yeah that is true

working on some dining in downtown, blending some joints into existing buildings

[frank prawn]

placed a marriott and a parking, which is connected to several buildings nearby including the marriott via skybridges

[frank prawn]

continuing the sunken stretch of highway

[little rivet]

There are some aspects where i want to play Cs1 but the game always crashes idk why.

And the graphics are ugly.

[frank prawn]

you find cs2 graphics to be better looking than cs1 modded graphics?

[little rivet]

Bro Vanilla

[frank prawn]

oh

i wasn't sure since you commented it on my thread

[little rivet]

Cs1 you first have to get good graphic mods and sid there for like hours.

[frank prawn]

i didn't have that experience

all i did was install like 10 mods and enable a lut

[little rivet]

But i did and my Game still looks bad

[frank prawn]

do you use color corrections?

[little rivet]

?

[frank prawn]

LUT

do you use it

[little rivet]

No.

[frank prawn]

its one of the basic things, maybe why your game looks bad

[little rivet]

@frank prawn What Graphic mods are you using?

[frank prawn]

all that i could get my hands on really, I can't check my PC now but I'll try to list some from the top of my head

lumina, relight LUTs, theme mixer, detail, sharp textures, clouds and fog toggler

tree control also

[blissful sky]

can we get satellite view

[frank prawn]

as in view from above or what?

[blissful sky]

yes

[frank prawn]

of which part of the city

[cerulean solar]

Where did you get the highway signs from

[frank prawn]

ghost raider on steam workshop

he also made gantries

[cerulean solar]

The truss gantries?

[frank prawn]

my issue with them is that they are just plain colors and white on the back, spences signs are weathered and more realistic looking but there's like 5 times less variety with them

[frank prawn]

the things i mounted the signs on

i also use thatevans gantry networks which you can't see on this picture

[cerulean solar]

O cool

I'm having a hard time finding his page

[blissful sky]

the whole thing

[frank prawn]

ill do that but when i have most of downtown built

there's just lots of holes in the city and empty areas right now so it won't look nice

[blissful sky]

oh aight

[frank prawn]

im at a standstill right now

30 minutes to load the game and either its a crash or every building and network is gone

[frank prawn]

i loaded the game

working on other tunnel exits now

a question for everyone

Would you be interested in first person drive videos from the city at some point?

probably not anytime soon as the city is too small but in the future maybe

[frank prawn]

making the tunnel longer

[gentle spoke]

Gary, Arizona ☠️

[high rivet]

So true

[cloud stirrup]

Great looking City and Highway System @frank prawn Can I know on what map you are playing?

[frank prawn]

thank you

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3198481396

this is the map

[cloud stirrup]

Thank you bro. Keep up the good work.

[frank prawn]

custom night lighting

also working on big office block

[frank prawn]

some more construction coming

[boreal lintel]

what a beutifal town

for the name you could go for davenport, branson, st berlin, adams hill etc

[frank prawn]

replaced some of the signs with some better looking ones that have normal maps and the back side modelled

worked on the terrain side of the other entrance to the tunnel

[frank prawn]

booted up the game first time in a while

[safe nova]

Thats amazing

[frank prawn]

glad you liked it

[blissful sky]

glad this is back

[frank prawn]

I couldn't load the game for over a month but i managed to yesterday so it's back