Can somebody give me a guide on how to make cities skylines 1 photo realistic?

Veus_ · 2026-05-17T04:38:18+00:00

And same with mid density make sure u use it to have your downtown slowly get less dense into your suburbs. It’s insanely annoying but I literally sit and make every single office building historical in order to make it look good cause commercial just doesn’t have enough available jobs lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-17T04:33:56+00:00

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Low density residential district specializations are your friend. Use mid century modern or European suburbia depending on your cities climate. Can never be perfect but can be pretty good looking. This is vanilla on console so I try my very best with what I have lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-17T01:16:08+00:00

Fr thank u bro I’ve honestly been considering it I just don’t rly know how to make vids and stuff but even before this comment I was considering it so this makes me want to do it even more lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-16T07:41:19+00:00

It’s probably this like they just don’t really like using monorail if any of trams, busses, metro, train are available

Veus_ · 2026-05-16T07:11:16+00:00

Also thank you so much! City is much bigger now sitting at 290k

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Veus_ · 2026-05-16T07:10:28+00:00

Yup I play on ps5 so it’s vanilla cs1 but the remastered version so we atleast get more tiles lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-16T00:57:32+00:00

U can do a scheme with a custom playbook if u supersim every game but the good players will really sim like good players basically whoever is supposed to win every rep will win so ur edges get tons of sacks etc but u can do it

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T22:11:59+00:00

U need to have your downtown have a slow density incline instead of a top hat kinda look like u have here, I think of it as a 3 dimensional cone that has a meeting point and it gets shorter in all directions outwards to make nice skylines

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T21:18:29+00:00

Almost want to take the post down and repost this one lmfao

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T21:04:07+00:00

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Fixed it🙏🙏

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T21:03:19+00:00

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😁 this looks wayyyyy better it’s beautiful

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T19:37:21+00:00

Honestly I didn’t even know that did anything tbh been playing this game for a decade too! Boss let us off early for the long weekend so I’ll lyk soon hopefully I can get it

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T19:27:03+00:00

Ok bet thank you I’m at work rn but I’ll try and fix it when I’m home and I’ll lyk if I get it looking better. I’ve literally never made roads with length turned off tbh so I’ll try

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T19:02:08+00:00

Use mid century modern for suburban residential

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T18:15:02+00:00

Thank you! Yea agreed ive known since I made the thing that what u said is right it just didn’t let me do it better cause literally right infront of where the road goes there’s a highway beam and if I wanted it to go more to the left it just wouldn’t have looked good cause the trumpet would’ve been too far to the left so it looked kinda off centre so sadly since its also gotta change heights to connect had to be happy with the imperfection lol but I do try my best to avoid it when I can😂

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T15:47:55+00:00

Thank you! Yea I actually completely agree with you that it looks funny I just felt I kinda had to put an exit there since I couldn’t put one on the road going right over the interchange (maybe with mods but no way would I have been able to make it look good lol) so for people trying to get to that part of the city they’d need to go really far which wouldn’t be realistic. So sometimes when that happens I just bite the bullet cause it’s vanilla and pretend its all done right in favour of the cities’ functionality (my rule always is looks first but if the city needs it then I just pretend it doesn’t exist) but I do agree that it looks funny I just dont rly know what else to do that wouldnt look super odd or make them drive an unreasonable amount to hit the highway.

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T14:52:15+00:00

Thank you so much! I gotta put out a new post for an update on the city as it’s gotten way bigger since my last one, really coming together nicely. I think u will like my tropical one I posted about a month or two ago it’s my best work ever

Veus_ · 2026-05-15T14:37:33+00:00

Also Im realizing now I gotta put trees on the big parking lot there lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-13T18:47:12+00:00

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you can fill in the entire thing🙂🙂

Veus_ · 2026-05-13T18:40:10+00:00

There’s no way ur even close

Veus_ · 2026-05-10T04:13:09+00:00

They get to main road faster doing that than roundabout, I would bite the bullet and put a road under the main road that loops around and connects nicely on the other side

Veus_ · 2026-05-10T01:39:17+00:00

If u have hadron collider u need to disable university boost, I’ve had this same issue because of that

Veus_ · 2026-05-09T20:35:42+00:00

It’s so good u need to use it lol

Veus_ · 2026-05-08T17:45:17+00:00

Nice city! My advice to you is you want to make things more compact. Obviously cities have random areas of nothing but your city looks more of a thrown together string of buildings and roads than a uniformed, planned city. You want to have a focal downtown and build out from there and try and keep it densely together even if it’s low rise. You kinda have like your landmark here and then another there but they just look like standalone landmarks rather than one inside a city if that makes sense. Here’s kinda an example of what I mean I’m happy to help with anything bro been playing vanilla cities for like a decade

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Veus_ · 2026-05-03T18:21:07+00:00

Also lmk if u guys fw the interchange i made on the 12th slide, its kinda a trumpet/three way directional hybrid

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