Lightweight metrics bar mod for Cities: Skylines. It adds a compact, draggable overlay that shows service capacity vs. usage with color-coded indicators on the in-game UI.
Additionally, it might be a great CSL modding entry point as I tried to build it with clean code standards.
This is my first game modding project from scratch. I hope you find it useful.
Workshop item is available here.
Enjoy!
Mod supports all basic service metrics available in the base Cities: Skylines game.
- Electricity
- Water
- Heating
- Sewage
- Garbage
- Incineration
- Healthcare
- Childcare
- Senior Care
- Crematorium
- Cemetery
- Education
- Elementary
- High School
- University
- Library
- Fire Department
- Police Department
At the moment, there are no plans on handling metrics available in DLCs.
- Load hook:
Extensions/LoadingExtension.cs - Manager component:
Behaviours/Manager.cs - UI:
UI/Window.cs - Metrics calculation:
Services/MetricsService.cs
Modding CSL requires .NET Framework 3.5 and references the Cities: Skylines managed assemblies directly from a local install.
The project has an automated post-build event that copies the latest build to the Cities: Skylines mods directory.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Addons\Mods\$(SolutionName)
More information about building the mod is available here.
Check credits for documentation references and other cool modders which codebases gave me a lot of information.
Other modders whose codebases were helpful while building this mod:
- keallu's CSL-WatchIt mod
- rob-williams CityVitalsWatchMod
Thanks for your great work and for indirectly helping this project!
Documentation references and other sources:
- Cities: Skylines in-game sprite and API references
- Paradox's developer guide → it ain't much but it's honest work!
- Modding basics → if you want to mod CSL, start from here
- CSL resources → base for all icons in the mod
- Icons and visual assets: https://www.flaticon.com