For example, the 2000-asset package done by the current CSUR code should have taken several years to be created manually. By leveraging procedural content generation and automatic asset packaging, the consistency of quality in assets and efficiency can be improved at an unprecedented scale.
Originally, all game assets in CSUE/CSUR were modeled and textured manually with hundreds of hours spent on creating 3D models and packaging them using the Asset Editor interface of the game. This allows all road markings to be modeled in each module and greatly increases the realism of road infrastructure in Cities: Skylines. The key idea of these asset packs was to make different combinations of ramps and lane transitions into draggable road segment modules instead of treating them as intersections as in the base game.
A highlight among such efforts was the original CSUE/ CSUR road asset packs created by AmamIya. This has motivated enthusiastic Cities: Skylines players to add details to roads in their city builds using community-contributed assets and mods. Nevertheless, due to performance optimization and balancing the depth of multiple aspects of city simulation, roads in the base game of Cities: Skylines are created in a relatively simplistic manner, omitting all markings at highway ramps and lane transitions (i,e., addition or reduction of a lane). Roads are one of the most important types of urban infrastructure and plays a key role in almost any city-building game. Cities: Skylines is also one of the games with the largest amount of community contents on the Steam Workshop.
Another critical reason why Cities: Skylines has enjoyed such popularity is that it provides extensive support for community-contributed game assets and mods (plug-in code libraries). In the past 5 years, Cities: Skylines has almost dominated the city-building genre on the PC platform by providing outstanding features and engaging gameplay with more than 11 million copies sold on PC and console platforms. The game handles the stretching and bending of meshes in each piece of road segment. The CSUR code generates straight pieces of roads and imports them into Unity prefabs, and then the player uses the in-game UI to build road structures.
Complete API documentation and model/texture specification for procedual generation will follow soon.Īn example road interchange built by the developer in Cities:Skylines with CSUR. The CSUR Official Website is also under construction. Cities: Skylines Urban Road (CSUR) is a fully modular road asset framework for Cities: Skylines created by procedural content generation and asset packaging.ĬSUR has been released onto the Steam Workshop.
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