Handplopped Organic City Blocks | Millau EP12

First inner city blocks of Millau. This is how I like to use vanilla assets to build high density European cities.

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Music
The music in this video is from the Official Mars in-game radio station.

Millau theme song is AI generated using Suno
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Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:47 – Talking starts
01:20 – Build timelapse
27:18 – Live play review
38:34 – Cinematics
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[Music] with oure foree for [Music] [Music] okay so let’s try making another video very short in very short amount of time I don’t think this will be possible but in that case it will just form as the basis for a future video but I have decided to start building towards the actual town of Mi so we’re going to try to fill this area here with a it’s a little bit small area but let’s let’s have it as a start anyway and it’s going to be our first actual city blocks so uh I’m excited to get get started on this hello and welcome I never introduced this episode uh because I actually recorded this so long ago like four weeks ago before I left for my summer inter summer internship I’ll talk about that in a little bit basically what’s happening today is that I put out a community post uh before I left as well and asked you guys like what you thought I should build next in Mo and you voted for a um like Den like we start with dener uh inner downtown or whatever inner downtown that sounds I don’t know if it’s inner downtown but like the more dense part we we we start working towards the city center anyway and um yeah I I just did it I just went ahead and did it I had some pictures of like testing out ideas beforehand so I was looking at them while doing it and it turned out really good anyway uh yeah I am also trying a new thing for once I’ve written down like all the things I want to potentially talk about during this episode in a uh in a Google Docs uh um format otherwise I usually use like a pen and pencil on like a note notebook uh analog physical notebook but that always gets super crowded and and I’m super afraid to like miss out on like the most important stuff so I’ve also found like when I’m making like longer episodes I really need to have some idea of what to talk about beforehand um I don’t write scripts that often anyway uh that just takes too much time and is too too much effort uh but anyway uh what we’re talking about what I was want to talk about today is I want to talk about uh as I’m doing these roads uh the summer internship I did um I’ve been gone four weeks or so a little bit more from uh home and from my PC so that’s why I haven’t been that active I guess uh as I said I did record this build before I left but I didn’t um I didn’t record the editing or like I didn’t record editing I didn’t edit I didn’t have a time I did did it like just the last night before before leaving so but um anyway this summer internship has been like super exciting and super interesting it’s basically at uh the government agency that is in charged of mapping and cadastral stuff like Border Lines and of properties and such uh in Sweden it’s called it’s a government agency called L matet uh which fits me very well I like Maps I’m a very very map centered person and uh it was huge fun and also very very um uh rewarding in terms of I learned so much um this is something I could definitely see myself doing as a as a full-time profession eventually um once I finish University for the second time but anyway uh that’s what I’ve been doing um yeah it’s a very old agency it has uh it’s relatively unique to Sweden it has a lot of history I think I think it was founded in the 1600s um and um I’ll if I remember I’ll try to show off some of the public available data that this agency shows up it’s there’s a map of the whole of Sweden with all the that basically shows pretty accurately all the property lines and and how complicated that stuff can be like throughout like hundreds of years of History so and it’s really fun to I wonder if you your countries have like similar if you’re not in Sweden V is if you’re in other countries like if you have any similar kind of service where you can see like Border Lines so um so clearly um borders between like uh individual properties that is and and real estate so anyway enough about that um uh I was hoping when I got back uh that I would have infinite amount of free time to to continue doing me but unfortunately there’s some personal reasons I’ll have to step back a little bit IEP back on my expectations that is uh I I won’t have infinite amount of time as I was hoping for but I’ll have a lot of time I’ll have a lot more time than I when I uh when I had before anyway uh I really don’t want to um I really don’t want to go back to how it was this uh this spring where I literally had no extra time for for doing the stuff I like like videos and and such so hopefully hopefully even even through uh autumn like this the fall when I go back to school again I’ll have more time for I’ll try to allocate more time for this because this is the stuff I like to do this is fun I need to complete this uh this project I really want to do that so anyway it’s probably about time I go back to talking about the build that we’re doing like you can see I have created a sort of Road layout a road layout that’s right now it’s a mix of pedestrian roads and and I guess car driving roads you can drive on with cars and park on uh this stuff changes back and forth a little bit but um I really I really recommend like doing a mix of them like especially if you have the plazas and promenad DLC the pom Gran what’s it called plazas and pom granuts as to says uh uh I think or is potatoes and pom gr I don’t know that DLC anyway is really nice I really like those roads and mixing them into the the like with other roads with with car with driving driving enabled roads um just creates VAR variety and um and also a bit of realism like try to think of like which roads would be like important for for Access with Vehicles driving through and which roads you can sort of air quotes sacrifice for pedestrian only and and bike only access um like for example like it could be a a busy commercial street that has been con converted to a pedestrian only road that that would work I think yeah so I don’t know if how how that’s going to H eventually if I’m going to decide doing this but I might have titled this video like terra cotta or something like that which is my way of saying like the talking about the Red Roofs these are the first proper like this is the first proper Red Roof District in Moor um like red tiles and I think terra cotta always or maybe thereus other kinds of red tiles but it’s a very uous uous uh feature of southern Europe honestly maybe Europe in general I I don’t know like these are you have these all across the world like Latin America of course as well and and uh and other places but for me it’s like it’s very Mediterranean in a way also and um that brings me to the point that these buildings are not very Mediterranean looking like this building style here does not fit I am very much aware these buildings do not fit the south of France kind of a theme that I think some of you might be expecting because of because of the location is basically in the south of France and and such um we would also want to have much smaller if we were building like a mi uh one to one build we would want to have much lower uh density much smaller buildings in general like this it’s just too big but uh this sort of fits into my idea of this being more like a pan European build like we’re taking we’re not we’re not limiting oursel to just France uh we’ll use French place names and like and such but we’re not limiting the build to just have French influences um there’s uh like the general asset styles are definitely much more central European or German I’ve been told and I I agree uh it would be much easier to make for example as a me poit funk like a Berlin build with the vanilla assets um but I still think like it works like the mixing of the mixing of styles can be made can be made done made made done in a good way so but just just so you know it’s not it’s not I know that this is not how South France looks like um there is no good way to I mean except using custom assets of a workshop of course but there’s no way good way with vanilla assets to make that make that style um I shouldn’t have said that somebody’s going to prove me wrong probably but uh this is my preferred way of doing it anyway uh what H should I say yeah I have some specific ideas for inspiration like that are not French anyway like I really have some Swiss and Austrian ideas like some some build ideas from the Alps uh funiculars and and cable cars and such and um and there’s just parts from other parts of France anyway like I want to make a university style build uh from what inspired by Grenoble in the French Alps as well and I as I was talking about before like maybe oh I wasn’t talking about before but I will talk about it because it’s written in my notes as to talk about um I might take some Swedish inspiration for some parts even so we’ll um we’ll see I I really like the idea of um of mixing this up and it’s a good way to sort of deal with the limitations we have in the vanilla assets anyway so um but still as I said names will be French as as long as as long as this project goes on the names will imply that this is a French build uh we’ll just have to stay stick stick the course with that one uh so if you have any suggestions for any place names like including this one here uh this build here this District uh please write them down and write them down like write them in the comments I’d love to hear them or read them I don’t um I’m not very good at French I’m doing like I’m doing like the basic dualingo thing but I’m I’m still not very good I’m I’m actually very bad in fact so any help is very much appreciated I know that some of the names I’ve made up on the spot like using translators and stuff like that have been very bad so um if you have ideas to fix those uh please help as well please help send help send French help uh anyway um yeah speaking about this District style I’m doing here I’m like I’m just placing down all the assets I’m trying to match the colors of the the roofs so one block has so it so basically it looks like more buildings are connected uh than the small like 4×4 uh largest block size I think that’s a great way to make these districts look better and that’s why I’m trying to match the roof colors so that the Red Roof colors go together and create like larger complexes in a way like complexes of uh buildings it it creates the illusion of buildings not having a square footprint anyway um I think it does that pretty well um and this kind of District I I think there’s going to be quite a few of them this is not the only District of his style and I also realized they take quite a long time to make not as not as much as they could have but it it quickly becomes repetitive like you can you can tell I haven’t talked like I’ve hardly talked anything about the build uh in this video yet like it becomes pretty repetitive I don’t think I can talk over much more of these builds I’m I’m thinking like what what the options are for for doing these these types of these types of builds I guess like or and making them into videos specifically like one option could be to stream it like like have a mastodon 12 hour stream or something where we just go through and a 12 hours and granted I I get that much free time in a cons in a continuous um space I guess but um like longer streams where we just build expand this stuff I could do that either on YouTube or or twitch I know that on YouTube PR you you guys are probably going to appreciate more of the YouTube uh stream but it’s an option anyway uh I could also do it off uh how do you say it off off recording like outside of uh recording and uh then just um what was my point with that off recording and uh and do a recap instead like just talk about the stuff I see or like the stuff you have built that’s another option um let me know what you think anyway like if you have any ideas any opinions um I I’m definitely going to have to make a dedicated video at least one dedicated video of the downtown or like the old town let’s say like the adjacent District to this one where we’ll have uh we’ll probably use the cathedral maybe we’ll try to make like custom Cathedrals and stuff like that later on but that’s it’s a future project but uh like the old town like maybe even a wall City like make some Aqueduct maybe maybe have some really old um archaeological stuff like maybe there’s an old Roman amphithe theater or something who knows um so many ideas uh so so that build will definitely be recorded so don’t worry don’t worry that I’m saying I won’t I won’t show that uh that might be even several videos like with smaller details like just adding on to the existing build we have so um as I said I had some ideas for Swedish inspiration also maybe uh a few months ago I visited the island of gotland with my brother and uh and gotland has this old uh this the sort of city center the the main city of gotland is called VP and it’s an old htic uh Trading Post like a very important city back in the day in the Middle Ages and it has a uh intact ring City wall like a a wall that goes all around the city and it’s a UNESCO heritage heritage site because of it so uh that’s it was a very cool experience I haven’t visited I visited the island before but I never really visited the city or the town and the wall so it was a really inspiring moment like we could try to do something like an old like the remnants of an old city wall around the old town in in this uh build as well we could use like the vanilla castle walls and like do some some places where it sort of clips into the buildings if that makes any sense because that stuff we saw uh in in VP um very inspired about about that and I don’t know if I said Aqueduct it’s Aqueduct Aqueduct would would be cool as well um uh just guard towers and like these um uh gateways like there’s a there’s a large Gateway Towers um toll I think they’re called like tolling yeah City Gates I guess that’s that’s what they would be called in English um anyway I I have a lot of ideas for that and also really want really looking forward to that build but I don’t know when when that build will be maybe it will be the next one I haven’t recorded the next build yet so I still have a few other builds uh in the poll that I put up I did list like a few other Alternatives like there’s a military base and an airport up at the plateau uh and also I did think I listed the main train station or the sort of the as opposed to the T GV the highspeed train station the air quotes normal train station for regional trains so uh but as I said also there’s also a university I want to do that I could do that in in uh relatively soon anyway I think doesn’t have to wait for a lot of other things to be completed yeah I’m I’m very excited about this and also I also want to sort of mix it up so going into the city or like into the town and then going to the outskirts and like into more room Ral rural areas and mixing it up with the builds like maybe maybe we’ll have an episode with just Farms like making trying to make trying our best to make Vineyards and and such um just so many ideas I have as long list uh long document of ideas to do and like maybe like just a truck rest stop on the highway that’s another weird small little thing or like uh creating old goic goic sites GOC like from from like basically Way Way Back like the asteris and Obelix kind of goals so yeah there’s just so many ideas I don’t remember all because it’s a very long document I have but it feels really good like getting some of the ideas like uh checked off like the tgv last episode was like such a huge uh uh relief to just ah I did something I I I made the list slightly shorter so I’m excited to just keep keep on doing that now uh yes I I yeah I should also say like the the idea of um I don’t know the idea of the VP htic uh W City inspiration anyway that would also fit very well into the pan European pivot if you will of Mo uh where we will basically that will open up like for us to use any inspiration from any anywhere in Europe basically uh if we do it in a consistent and a any a sustainable way that is it’s still definitely mainly inspired by by by Mo and uh this this part of France but yeah um I should also talk a little bit about the tram routs the tram routs are currently like kind of I don’t know about the tram rout um there’s this tram we created that goes to where the train station will be uh eventually and um and through the industrial area for one I don’t think I don’t I’m not sure if a tram route will go as far maybe it will end at the industrial area in the future uh and I’m not sure it should go up that Avenue towards the train station because it creates this very very wide separation between the the modern the more modern mid density area so I’m yeah I’ve been struggling with the tram lines like where to where to um place them for the longest time like even when I wasn’t building anything in me or I was just worrying about where to put the tram line so I don’t know maybe the best solution is to keep them as where we are right now and um eventually uh get around to moving them if if I need to move them later so those are just like a few ideas um yeah I definitely want to have or definitely I don’t want to it definitely but I have this idea that I want to have two tram lines and I want to connect with tgv station somehow it would make sense perfect sense to connect it with tram I would also want to connect uh the uh the the the university uh across the river so and maybe some of a larger suburb so I guess we’ll see what happens with that um I’ve also had like uh I’m I’m I’m a person of many second thoughts I’ve also had second thoughts on the location of the train station I think the TD station that is I do think it’s going to stay in place for now but uh I might eventually play around with some different locations for it I think the line is pretty good in set in stone but uh the station might I might play around with some different areas for that but that’s that’s for the future it’s definitely fine enough for now uh I also do realize that I I need to I need to credit some people for some some great help I got in in the in the tgv episode so uh I’ve written this down uh yes yes yes um so basically I got great help uh yumbo shrimp cycling uh like made a great comment about like uh 4 km radius uh is good enough for 300 km/ hour two kilometer radius is good for 160 to 200 and stuff like that and with highs speed rail can go up to a 4% grade because trains are very powerful and relatively light uh that’s that’s a great comment and it helped me a lot and also made me realize maybe my maybe my tgv uh radiuses are not super great the grading the grade is is decent but uh the radius of a of a turns that is might have to be a little bit bigger in some cases one of the turns is less than 2 km it’s the one close to the station coming into the station though so it’s not horrible but yeah uh I also used a the rail speed creaser mod uh to increase the tdv speed through tunnels and that actually worked um I think it’s because the tunnels are only a uh what’s it called um there’s only like vanilla tunnel segments you can’t get the special highspeed rail tunnel uh from the bridges and Pierce uh highspeed rail tracks it doesn’t give you extra speed so you need need a mod for the tunnels to to increase the speed also and that was a suggestion by NIS towns um that’s great suggestion uh thank you so much uh I also got a suggestion that I haven’t acted on yet that I’m really I really want to try it it’s banking the tgv curves um that’s a suggestion by Jeffrey deig kig conning sorry and uh oh that’s Jeffrey the king oh I see like in the Game of Thrones okay great username um yeah so this suggestion is really cool like banking the curves you can do that with node controller um it will take a lot of time and a lot of tweaking uh so maybe I’ll try it eventually I I I definitely want to try it anyway but um that would just look sick if if if the curves are banked and the the train sort of Follow That banking if it works o so great yeah I don’t have all that much more to talk about in this build uh which is worrying because I have almost double the length of footage but you know what I can change the speed and do some stuff I can just talk about the build also that’s another option um so I have decided to put a small live play at the end I haven’t recorded I don’t know what it’s going to be about but I’ll show some of the tricks like in real time that I’m doing here to create this so it’s going to be much more I guess uh uh what’s the word uh and educating educational it’s going to be much more useful for for uh uh like sort of showcasing the stuff I’m doing here by the way if you watched the uh the Network multitool tutorial video let me know what you thought about that one uh I didn’t spend too much time making that either but uh I feel like it was a very good uh good introduction to the the mod or something like that I don’t know uh I enjoy making those videos as well let me know if that’s like something you also like to see sometimes I I feel like a lot of these old mods still have a lot of uh there’s a lot of stuff you can learn about them including me I I learned some things in the comments myself from that video so it’s like this sort of back and forth educational discussion is is really fruitful still even even though the mods are old and the game is old and such but yeah so speaking about new and old stuff uh City skylines 2 just got a bunch of new really interesting updates uh that are making me kind of want to play that game a bit more as well even though City skall one is always my happy place my my favorite game probably still by far um I’m still thinking about it like there’s a lot of cool stuff to do in City Skylands 2o I still haven’t made a map for example so let me me know what you think about those ideas and uh yeah I will see you in the live play in just a little little little little bit like a few more seconds hello and welcome back and uh let’s look at what we built today so basically I in the time lapse I showed most of these buildings getting constructed or built but I have since completed the build with some nice Parks like here and parking lots like here using techniques that I’ve showed many times before and I don’t want to get too repetitive about it but let’s have a quick look at some techniques I used for this build specifically the first thing is go going to be uh the colors like using colors uh I did talk a little bit about how I try to match the colors of the roofs by default but there is also an element of uh like you can actually use mods to recolor these so for example this building is obviously supposed to be kind of connected to this one and maybe even this one so I would use the color slider here which is from one of the recoloring mods I don’t have a name of it right now but uh I’m sure you can find it on the workshop I can slide it to value that I think fits this one well I can copy it I can go over to this guy here and paste it oh it didn’t actually work because it didn’t copy it properly okay it was 32 uh that should work okay now it works so this is something you can do if you want to like match your like make your build just sort of match the surroundings a bit better like this one here doesn’t change the the color of the roof it changes the color of the facade instead which means you can kind of you don’t have to get discouraged by that you can use it to try to match this facade instead like like make it a little bit redder redder something like that of course this one doesn’t really match but that’s fine so that’s one great trick when building the European builds like this like wall to- wall buildings um like this this row here would look absolutely horrible if they were all different colors it looks decent because they are the same color just going to lower it down a little bit so that the door doesn’t clip the ground as much yeah there we go so another thing I’ve done to these buildings is I have gone in and used Bob quite extensively uh Bob or beautify our builds is the mod that um lets you basically remove props and such from buildings so for example let’s take this building as an example you can see it has parabas facing this direction and then on the other building it’s facing the complete and opposite direction this kind of stuff bugs me a lot there’s no in there’s inconsistency here um I play a lot of Kerbal Space Program or used to at least and this has taught me about orbital orbital mechanics uh you would align your Parabola uh towards a Yost stationary satellite to the South this because this is a northern hemisphere it would be pointing towards I mean I guess if if that is the South all your parabolas would basically pointing at the same point like somewhere here because you would have a satellite out here basically following uh the rotation of the earth at a fixed altitude or uh distance above the Earth like 37,000 km or something like that so to have parabas you can’t have par parabas pointing North that wouldn’t make any sense any satellites you would have up in this direction would be traveling around and moving across the sky the geostationary satellites would be fixed however so to to get rid of that I I go in and use Bob and and and uh find the satellite and I just remove it from this building and then I do it for the next type of building like this one here you could probably remove them all together but I I don’t want to be so uh drastic about it uh these other 10 tenas can stay because they are unid like omnidirectional I should say or at least very comparatively Omni omnidirectional um yeah and the same thing goes with solar uh solar arrays I don’t like solar arrays that point in all directions at once I think that’s dumb so here’s another one satellite I thought I got rid of all these already but there’s always more satellites to find uh yeah and I do the same with solar panels and it just makes the roofs look much cleaner in general uh that’s a huge it makes it for a huge Improvement anyway uh here’s another satellite and remove there we go yes so that’s good uh I did talk a little bit about the parking lots I’ve done many parking lots like these before it’s basically using that parking lot network uh from the train station CCP and adding or like uh reducing the thickness of it to like 82 stretching it to 82% of its uh full stretch and then just putting one of these parking lot buildings in its place and matching it it’s the same technique we’ve been using like over here for example uh I have also uh had to use another trick because you can see in this neighborhood here it’s going crazy with the traffic and it’s traffic to these parking lots and the basketball courts I now it’s just the basketball courts so I don’t think it’s re reset yet but oh yeah I never actually saved this apparently okay so the reason why there’s so many tourists here is that this basketball court has a high tourist appeal and maybe it should have but I don’t want it to have this much like there’s just too many Camper vans trying to get to this basketball court so I usually just remove these values alt together this is the mod I think I think it’s called like customize it I believe that adds this option to change buildings like that in game some may call it a sheet I’m only using it I’m only using it for uh I’d say for the greater good like see all these guys are going to the basketball court and they’re not actually parking we’re just going back and forth like swarming the streets so hopefully now now this will clear up eventually um that’s another thing I did go ahead and create this cute little Park here there’s another parking lot with a nice little KAC um just sneaking things in like this into uh in between like in weird shaped blocks that are hard to put buildings in I think is going to do a huge difference uh I didn’t really talk about it but I did use this department store as a sort of transition to the more this would probably be more of a commercial center of a city I I’d imagine there’s like a larger shopping center like maybe we’ll do a custom Shopping Center in this in this block or this area here later on so it’s a transition to a more commercial center we have a music Club here also put one of the hotels the small hotel which fits very nicely into this um into the citycape here but weird with the overly pink trees we might use Bob to remove them or replace them we can actually do that also so let’s just do that uh these are going to be under the tree flower tree and let’s replace these with the maybe the green tree and the sugar maple is goto for for me um and I think that’s going to work out yeah it works decently even though it’s pretty close to this building so just fits into a little bit more of a style we’ve got going so far so yeah I’ve also plopped down a few buildings temporarily like you see the bus depot crematorium a power plant uh the tram Depot this will not be the tram Depot eventually this will be the train station area area there’s a hospital I think the hospital will be around here but it’s temporary for now and the cathedral uh I think we might use this Cathedral it’s just it’s just a very good and decent asset I think but I would also want to make more custom churches kind of like how we did back in episode seven I want to say it was back in rayon in the starting Village so more stuff like that uh the idea is that this area here will be much more historic much more older Old Town uh might have a city wall like an old city wall kind of like the the one in VP I was talking about but we’ll see eventually it’s all going to sort of pan out in some way um it’s not going to be I don’t want to overdo it too much with it either but um there this is definitely going to be the historic city center part and more commercial stuff train station eventually this part here might see more of this or even some start like some lower density suburbs yeah lower density like maybe more maybe more of this kind of density but some row houses maybe we’ll try to try to get that in here um over on this side I’ve said it I think before I want to do the university it’s going to be a much more modern development I want to do lots of green spaces as well eventually like some proper parks and cemeteries and and campsites and all that stuff but yeah this is where we are at the at the moment as of today today now uh I’m going to leave you guys for uh for the rest of the day you can do whatever you want uh you’re free I’m going to prepare the city for or the the the vict a little bit for the Bas Bas bastil day the the sort of national holiday Independence Day of France so maybe there there will be another short video this week orot next week yeah it’s probably going to be this week yeah but anyway uh if you liked this video and want to see the other the next Parts growing up also the airport military base um yeah subscribe follow um up vote like and I will see you guys next time in MO bye [Music]