Thank you this will go perfect with my downtown core

@Stringer Bell my question was how to increase the resoliution thru my game settings

@POKOLO87 that's such a bizarre question. The quality of the videos are not "really bad," the quality is limited by keeping the diffuse map at a reasonable size (4K), it's about striking a balance between having a reasonably lightweight asset and acceptable quality video and long-ish runtime (1 minute instead of like 5 seconds). Do you wonder why your game is filled with buildings where the texture is "pixelated?" or why the citizens don't look like real people? Just completely bizarre.

How do I make these billboards less pixelated, currently the quality of the videos on them are really bad. Do I increase the texture quality of the game or what?

I am making NYC and these are perfect for Times Square. I love em

Thank you for making this asset !

OMG I understand what you are talking about and yeah that seems very clever and oh so complicated. Thanks!

@Jimbo_WestCoast Thanks for your support. For the diffuse map you need to map out the frames like a "cascading map" --> look at the screenshots above, where I typed the name of the billboard on top of what looks like a wallpaper --> the wallpaper is actually the diffuse map. So instead of a single film strip where the "frame" moves from top to bottom, you have a rectangular map where the "frame" moves simultaneously from top to bottom and also left to right, that way you can squeeze in more frames. It is a huge pain in the butt if you PM me I can share more. The dimensions also cannot be perfect (10x10), it needs to be slightly off so the game knows to skip to the next line (e.g. 10x9). I can't remember exactly how I did it but that's the gist.

I love these, I use them alot. I also make alot of animated video billboards too. I think your textures are 4K and each video has around 500 frames? How do you squeeze so many frames into one file? For example I have made the famous "geisha" sign from Bladerunner using an 8192X256px diffuse with 64 frames of 128px each. I don't see how you can have 500 frames in a 4K diffuse texture??? Thanks

Thanks for your reply and the good news is I have successfully inserted the script and the billboard is now functional :D ! Thank you for your wonderful asset !

There's a script you need to insert via modtools when you have the asset opened in Asset Editor. Maybe you can add me and I can PM the script to you.

Would you mind telling me what I should do to make the modified billboard functional? I have dumped one of your animated billboards through modtools and I have modified the diffuse (the png file). Until this moment, everything works fine and I can see it works perfectly in the asset editor. However, after I tried to save the asset, when I try to open it again in the asset editor or to place it in the game, the animation won't play. I think I need to do something during or before saving the asset in the asset editor, in order to make it functional. May you give me a helping hand? Thanks, mate!

@Stringer Bell For some reason i pageup/pagedown just doesnt work on props for me so ive just been using PO

@SpoiledEggs II Yes, as per metromidium you can use PO but then you lose the illumination. Have you tried using Move It? Just select the billboard and press Page Up and Page Down. That has always worked for me.

@SpoiledEggs II you can use procedural objects to move them into the air

I can't get move it or any of the standard mods to move these vertical and into the air. Anyone got any idea what's going on?

Unfortunately I can't use many of those in my virtual Tokyo because there's too much English text. The Japanese can only understand "good" and "happy" and "sunshine" although not in a sentence.

How did you made this mod? I want to make my own animated billboards as well!

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Wow! It’s very cool, the force has improved

WOW! SO COOL

These are a ton of fun and really high quality. Thanks so much for your efforts.

@Ronny Berliner I have no idea what you are talking about -- "category within the city"? But feel free to add me and I can maybe help you solve this via private chat

No... I want to know in which category within the city I can find them to be able to place them.

..."They can be found by searching for the following keywords in Content Manager, Find It!, RICO, etc and in-game in the Park category under the prop tab:"

After downloading where I find the billboards, I can't find it anywhere...

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i only take your shops and the modpackage which is distributed with the game and the greencities , since years now, but that one....you did top yopurself! wonderfull and thx for sharing! and the Size....were in 2k21, RAm and SSD are easy to get.

So i'm not gonna lie when i subscribed to this i really wasn't expecting much maybe a flash of a logo or something, how wrong i was. these assets are fantastic,yes in my game they were slightly laggy when the video played but i'm putting this down to my pc not the assets as the video quality was perfect. amazing job and really brought a touch of realism to my city i would recommend getting these all day long 11/10

@Stringer_Bell Thanks for the fast response! I didn't think many others knew about/used that one. Thanks for confirming the video issue wasn't just me (I've since lost the mod due to enabling auto-updates). Does the still image rotating feature still work? I might try digging up an old drive to look for the mod.
Regardless, at this point, having your mod for videos is more than I could have asked for. And as for my still needs, I can always go back to making them in-editor one by one.

Last thing, RE future suggestions: more ads like the Paul Smith one to complement your excellent flagship stores, especially the luxury fashion ones (e.g., Givency, Prada, Chanel).

@Premier Yes! I still use that mod and have those billboards all over my city, but like you've pointed out it only works with png stills and not movies anymore. I think by the time I found it the video functionality was already gone as in it only gives you an error when you try to play videos (I followed all the steps on the same link). I have been trying to reach the author without success. It would be so amazing if we can just drop movie files into a folder like with the still images, that way you can have randomized video instead of the same prop always playing the same video at the same location.

This is awesome! Re: making our own, that would be even more amazing. Way back, there was a mod that allowed customized animation with both videos (ogv format) or still images that rotated. It was developed for use on some existing billboard mods and a drive in movie screen. You didn't even have to "bake it" in the editor: there was a subfolder in the C:S folder you could drop the png and ogv files into. Media was selected through an in-game interface. It worked great until an update broke the video functionality - eventually the entire mod was pulled.

Re: smaller size: not sure if the ogv route was a size/quality trade-off, but IIRC I was able to keep my custom conversions relatively small at reasonable quality. If it helps, explanations about that are here:
http://www.citiesmods.com/billboard-animator/

More on the background:
https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/71926-movies-on-billboards/

@nardo @Rolando yeah it's a little more complicated than a billboard showing only a still image as it requires mapping out all the frames into a sort of square matrix (24 rows x 31 columns in this case = 744 frames) in order to gain more real estate (the game will not be able to read a map that is, say, 744 rows x 1 column, even though the number of pixels is exactly the same), and since it is not a single "strip" of frames, you need to map them in a weird way so it sort of runs along the diagonal. It's a pain in the butt but feel free to reach out to me via chat if you wish to talk more about it.

Hey! i want to make an asset pack similar to this one but with ads from Cyberpunk 2077. Could u kinda explain what steps were involved to create these short vids. I dumped it and its something ive never seen before.. Thanks! have a nice day!

love these, well done, would you be willing to share the files so we can make our own ones?

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I like it!

Works and looks great!

@cthielcc That is also a good option. It depends on people's preference, really.

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These are some nice billboards. However, the Nike ad is a bit controversial.

Ew, 21st century stuff. ;) Not for me, but looks awesome!

And I agree, packs are better than spamming the workshop.

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