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Vendaval

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Third time's the charm? Vendaval is another Pacific Northwest inspired map following the aesthetic cues of Gonti Bay and Cannon Cape, but implementing performance considerations I developed for Spud Falls. I also took a bit more of a Californian lead for this map, but it's designed to fit anywhere from Seattle to San Francisco.

Vendaval features a long cape linked to another landmass by a massive six kilometer span of bsquicklehausen's masterful bay bridge. You'll have a modest mix of flat land and hills to work with, but the vast majority of the map is water to allow for denser tree placement without exceeding the vanilla tree limit. This map should be entirely playable by vanilla rules, but may not be appropriate for the largest cities.

I'll likely use this map in a city build on my channel.


* Hand tossed spagetti. No plopped interchanges.

* Low poly trees by pdelmo with a splash of detailed pines and spruces.

* Hand crafted topography with plausible elevations and erosion. No terrain party.

* 4 highway connections, 2 maritime connections, 2 plane connections, 1 rail connection.

* No props. This means it doesn't require Adaptive Prop Visibility, which is one of the worst framerate offenders.


* The Industries DLC is only used for one bridge on the map, which I included without realizing it required the DLC. I decided to leave the bridge; if you don't have the DLC, it will be pretty easy to find and connect the missing bridge.

* I'm using Daylight Classic and the Springwood LUT. Other LUTs may give you a vibe you like better, but Springwood is a good neutral I think.

* I recommend using Hide It or No Radioactive Deserts to hide Shore Areas. My shore detailing conflicts with the default shore texture and looks bad.

* Tree LOD Fix and Random Tree Rotation are strongly recommended.

* I used every trick at my disposal to get roads to behave, but I know and you know that the traffic AI in this game is terrible. The highways will deliver much higher capacity if you do some work with Traffic Manager; I strongly recommend overriding the lane connections to prevent the stupid node weaving. They'll work without it, but you might get some congestion. Dynamic lane selection provides better lane utilization over the bridge.

* This isn't a great map for vanilla heavy industry because I used the resources for painting, but there's a bunch hidden under the water if you really want to work for them. Or you can just import them.