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Classic Mossy Modular Rocks 1K
   
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Classic Mossy Modular Rocks 1K

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Water Friendly Rocks
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Description


Introduction

This is a pack of 26 unique rock models. These are huge assets suitable for covering mountains and creating cliff faces.

These were originally modeled by IceKazim. I licensed them through CGTrader, reduced the tri count on most of them, created even smaller LODs, and recolored the textures to match existing rock assets. I put a ton of work into optimizing and configuring these for modern Skylines standards.

Having done several maps for this game, rocks have always been my biggest creative bottleneck. This project is an attempt to address my landscaping needs once and for all. Hopefully, they'll address yours as well :)

Classic Grey

Classic Grey is my name for the coloration of the vanilla rocks. I've left the vanilla textures in this set (mostly) unaltered, and did my best to match it for the workshop models. As a darker grey with a fair bit of green, it works particularly well for wetter biomes.

Springwood Moss

This pack comes with green moss color-matched to the Springwood grass texture.

Features

- Most of these rocks don't conform to terrain, so they can be raised and lowered with Move It to reside within or above the terrain as you wish. This allows you to ignore slopes entirely and build completely vertical or overhanging cliff faces.

- Most of these rocks have rendered bottoms, meaning you can hang them in the air. This increases their tri count, but provides a lot of flexibility. You can even build rendered caves!

- Every one of these is water friendly. No water glitching.

- I've balanced the LODs to look good from a distance without being unreasonably heavy.

Use

- You'll need some sort of anarchy to place these on dry land. I recommend using Fine Road Anarchy 2 with anarchy active (CTRL A), which allows you to place these anywhere you want.

- I *think* you can find these in your road menu, because they're configured as road pillars for ... reasons. I'm bad at Mod Tools, okay? Just use Find It to pull them up.

- These require a bit more patience to use than traditional, terrain snapping rock assets, since by default they float in the air. Use Move It to nudge them into place.

- If you want to push the illusion even further, load them into the asset editor and place your choice of trees and bushes on top of them. Overhanging trees! In theory, this might work with the tree snapping mod as well, but I've never gotten that mod to work for me so I can't confirm.

Technical

- Main model tri counts: 360 - 7860

- LOD tri counts: 180 - 1178

- LOD texture size: 256 px

1K Textures

This version uses 1K textures for most of the models (and 2K textures for the 4 terrain conforming models). These will look a bit blurry close up, but should look fine as background pieces. If you have the RAM to spare and you're looking for something a bit sharper, there's a 2K version in the collection above.
3 Comments
Greyflame  [author] 9 Aug, 2020 @ 3:42pm 
I'm hoping to do some lighter weight rocks in the future too. I'm not quite sure when I'll get around to those but ... hopefully sometime before Cities Skylines 2, haha.
Greyflame  [author] 9 Aug, 2020 @ 3:41pm 
Thank you @Silchuki14 :D

I'm not too keen on uploading them individually just because there's so many of them and I'm trying to avoid making my workshop too difficult to navigate; steam workshop is already such a pain to browse >_<

However, I believe LSM has a feature that allows you to blacklist assets, which will prevent them from loading in. Alternatively, you can create local copies of the ones you use, or even upload individual ones yourself (I won't mind) and then unsub the main pack. Hopefully one of those will work for you!
Silchuki14 9 Aug, 2020 @ 6:29am 
@greyflame Would you be open to release the rocks individually? Or am I paranoid about each rock pack set being MB heavy (I don't know at which extend LSM shared texture help here). I'd love to sub to other rock packs of yours, but know I won't use all of them. Also, I'm already maxing out my hardwares...

Awesome work, I use most of your trees as well! :D