Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

Dover White Modular Rocks 1K
6 Comments
Greyflame  [author] 18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:53pm 
@Avanya Awesome, thank you! I can tell at a glance that you ended up with much more natural colors for your cliffs, so they'll make a great benchmark for me to work from.

And that's good to hear, haha. I was worried I would start adding files and they'd all double up like asset nesting dolls.
Avanya 18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:36pm 
@Greyflame: Interesting! I might try the color map for stuff that doesn't get proper dark. Thanks for the tip! :D

Here's a link to the files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1anM1IFw3T_ZEFHl8HQ0CPJcDdARaJ4Aj

Updating a pack is actually not so bad! You just select the first in the pack and add all the files in the folder like you did when you uploaded the first time. So it's just the process of reimporting everything that is super annoying. :P
Greyflame  [author] 18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:16pm 
@Avanya: I started working on a dark set, and was having a similarly difficult time; it seems like the asset editor really butchers anything close to true black when compressing the textures. I got better results by using more neutral texture files, then adding a bit of extra darkness with the asset editor's color variations. The game seems to render those colors easier for some reason.

I was thinking of going back to these white ones and using the _c file to map the shadows rather than _d. Either way, having a look at your files would definitely help! My eyeballing can be pretty hit or miss, haha.

I'm just dreading the process of updating these on the workshop ._. Do you know if there's any way to update an asset pack all at once? Swapping out file by file sounds like a bad time xD
Avanya 18 Jan, 2020 @ 3:18am 
I found the white ones really hard to get right too. I ended up doing a blue layer overlayed and masked so it was mostly applied to the dark areas, which make them look more real. In real life shadows are more blue than black. I think I also lowered contrast a bunch. I can't remember all I did, but I have the files if you're curious. :)
Greyflame  [author] 17 Jan, 2020 @ 9:39pm 
@targa: This has definitely been the most difficult set of the bunch, including when I tried to apply the treatment to the vanilla rocks. I might take a second pass altogether at the Dover colors and see if I can get them looking more soft and natural.
targa 17 Jan, 2020 @ 9:34pm 
Too bright in my opinion.