Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

Building Themes
Sasquatch 26 Jun, 2022 @ 6:55pm
A thought for expanding theme control
First, thanks for this mod. It really does make my city look more like a real city now that I don't have the same buildings spawning in every neighborhood.

I don't know how feasible it is, but I wanted to share a thought for taking themes to the next logical level. There are mods that replace props and work is going on, I'm told, on improvements that would replace missing props. What these mods lack, however, is a way to control this process without manually going in and replacing everything building by building or replacing something on every similar building on the map. It would be fantastic if BT could communicate with these mods, like BOB or Network Skins, to control prop replacement on a per-district basis. So if I wanted all the houses in a particular neighborhood to have the same trashcan, I could do it with a theme instead of manually plopping a hundred trashcans or putting the same trashcan on every lot on the map. Same with streetlights, trees, other major props. It's great having different buildings in different neighborhoods. But the effect is diminished somewhat when all the streets and yards are lined with the same trees.

Like I said, don't know how feasible it is. And I'm not hoping for BT to become another prop-replacement tool. Just curious if it could communicate with another mod to filter the available options like it filters the buildings available for the game to spawn.